Request, nay Demand! for a new FAQ
professorbutters:
Unofficial non-Awesome suggestion to add? "Messing with certain NPCs (i.e. Grim, Crumplebottom, etc) is a very bad idea; don't add them to your household, knock them up, etc."
That might seem obvious but I've seen some pix of an added pregnant Grim that curdled my blood--and what's worse, the poster actually *thanked* me for suggesting it, which I didn't. I think it was a misunderstanding of the use of the Tombstone or InSim's Grimpollination to get a playable preggers. . .but you'd be surprised how many people seem to think this is clever and cool.
PB
syberspunk:
SOoooo... how's the FAQ coming along?
Anybody? :P
Ste
Insanity Prelude:
Wait, changing first names is bad? And saving while a Sim's on the phone (which I know I've probably done at some point or another)?
... I'm f*cked then. :/
dizzy:
Quote from: Soylent Sim on 2007 June 04, 19:20:23
(If someone else could explain the details of binary searching and what hacks are most likely to cause problems, I'd be appreciative.)
A binary search simply involves moving half of your hacks. Here's a simplified specification:
1) Observe problem condition and make a note of it.
2) Quit the game.
3) Move half your hacks in the "My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2" folder to some other folder. This other folder should always be a new folder.
4) Restart the game.
5) If you observe the problem condition again, go to step 2.
6) If you do *not* observe the problem condition, quit the game and swap the location of the most current set of hack halves you moved. Then go to step 4 (or 3 if you feel confident in your file management skills).
7) Once you only one hack left in the game, make note of that hack and see FAQ about reporting bugs etc.
SaraMK:
Quote from: Insanity Prelude on 2007 June 23, 05:08:58
Wait, changing first names is bad? And saving while a Sim's on the phone (which I know I've probably done at some point or another)?
... I'm f*cked then. :/
According to Pescado, if you change first names in SimPE, it's not changed everywhere and some file somewhere will still have the old name. Changing last names in SimPE is fine. Changing first names using in-game tools like lot debugger, InSIM, etc., is fine. Lot debugger can also change last names.
Saving the lot and exiting while a sim is on a cell phone corrupts the lot and you'll never be able to enter it again. (Has Maxis ever even tried to fix this?)
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