Well, that blasted squeamish cowplant WON'T EAT CHILDREN!!! Believe me, I have tried. Stupid plant! Doesn't it realize that veal or lamb or caviar or sprouts or the young of any species is considered a delicacy? *grumble*

I developed a severe aversion to townie children back when I was playing Sims 2 for the first time (no expansions--this was before my computer fried and I was sim-less for a year). The grandchildren of my first sims were bringing home the same "children" that their elders had played with. "Puck Everlasting" is only fun for a little while. I want a clock to start ticking the first time a child sim is initialized (i.e., appears on a lot anywhere and interacts with a playable sim) and every game day of play with that known sim ages the NPC an equal amount. I suppose that's another thing the game engine isn't capable of doing, but it sure would be a lovely hack if anyone can manage it.

Thanks. Silly, I suppose, but I was looking forward to seeing how the new babies would turn out.

Is there a "delete obnoxious townies" option anywhere that can be implemented before starting play?

Checking my other neighborhoods, I realize I'm at critical meltdown. It's almost pretty...I have never before appreciated Maestro Pescado's description so much as I do right now, as I watch my game blaze up, lot but lot, and merge into a glorious conflagration while I sit here, as if from space, and try and rescue what little I can. I have reached a state of peaceful, fatalistic acceptance of the inevitable.

All I need to know now is where the house bin folder is located so I can pull it to my desktop, along with saved sims, collections, and downloads, and whether I need to uninstall and then reinstall everything just to be safe.

Oh, and if I kill off all the characters per the cheat code, does that get rid of the default families as well? Because I don't want that to happen.

Anyway, this is getting more philosophical than practical. I'm resigned to having to reinstall my game (AGAIN!) but would like to preserve certain houses, even knowing I'll have to recreate the families. Can I just send them to the bin and then move that to the desktop while reinstalling? Where is that folder located? Do I need to do a clean uninstall/reinstall to make sure the problems are eliminated?

The flames are spreading...

And those are the sims to generate in CAS. Do you remember the gorgeous Afghanistani girl with the incredible green eyes on the cover of the National Geographic back in the 80's? Certainly exceptions exist, but they are just that--exceptions. I think that NPCs should represent the--perhaps stereotypical--average.

Cloning would be fine except what I'm worried about is reintroducing problems. I don't want to inadvertently preserve the corrupt code that's causing the meltdown. But is it safe to just send the houses to the bin?

One more thought. I tried Halle's TS2 Enhancer until the trial period expired (I was thinking about buying it--I loved his stuff in Sims 1) to change several characters. However, I didn't alter either of the characters throwing errors. Still, could that have had any impact?

And while I'm asking questions, I hate the genetics, especially how Maxis has set trait dominance and periodicity in random generation. I know the formula I'd like to implement, but have no clue how to do it: dark skin can only have black hair and brown eyes, medium skin can only have black or brown hair and brown eyes, tan skin can have any hair color, brown, grey or green eyes, light skin can have any hair or eye color. If I want a sim that diverges from real world average genetic phenotypes, I'll do it in CAS. Is there a way to change that?

Also, while I'm starting fresh, is there a way to eliminate alien skin and eyes entirely? The standard default tan skin and brown eyes would be great.

Oh, bother. And sigh. And whimper.

OK, how can I cut my losses? I have a couple of houses I worked very hard on that I love. Can I preserve them? How can I restart just one neighborhood without  the other neighborhoods going up in smoke? Also, how can I get rid of the obnoxious townie children before initiating? (The other ones I don't mind AS much, but those creepy ancient children and teens bother me a lot! Actually, is there a safe hack out there that forces all the townies to age and eventually die?)

I assume this will also reset my university and downtown areas?

Paladin's program detected four possible conflicts:

CBOY_nudist_naked_emitter.package
noshockforoutgoing.package

CBOY_nudist.package
poolhack.package

CBOY_nudist.package
poolhack.package

CBOY_nudist.package
poolhack.package

But I thought they wer designed to work together?

Arrrgh! Another Undefined Transition error, this time on Circe Beaker. This family has been moved, changed and played a lot--no new game code causing this one. She recently had a baby, the household now consists of her, Loki, and their newborn son; Nervous (renamed Ash) and his wife, Kirsten; and Erin, Loki's sister. They have moved into a new house, I altered the faces of Loki and Ash using the Cosmetic Surgery reward, and Circe has a cowplant so that she was able to drink Bella Goth (once of her most persistent aspirations after Bella beat the crap out of her). She and Loki are both wearing custom hair, but nothing shows up in Clean Installer as red-lined except the hacks from this site, Risky WooHoo, and LizzLoves no-privacy.

Outside of game I'm running AVG Free edition virus software. Since we're on broadband and networked, I really can't shut that down. What is corrupting my files? Where do I go to look, and what am I looking for?

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I already had moved them all out and tried to move them back in...it didn't work. I have successfully moved Pascal and Lazlo in with Jenny, and they are functioning just fine--apparently the sim, not the house, lot or family, is corrupt. I put down a small empty lot and tried to move Vidcund in there. The problem continues. I'd rather delete the file entirely than reinstall at this point--they are my least-played family and I have invested hours into the neighborhood. I have attached the error message generated in the new lot, although to my inexperienced eyes, I don't see much difference with the first one.

But is there any way I can fix it? I removed all my downloads and checked--the problem persists unabated. (Since virtually all the hacks I use are from, or appoved by, this site, I really didn't think it was caused by user content.) So far I've tried evicting the family and moving the other two brothers in with their sister, to isolate the culprit. That way I was able to generate a slightly different Undefined Transition error message and get a glimpse of either a fat or pregnant sim.

I don't have any zombie or servo skins. I've switched defaults for the paradise sim skins and I've used several Allan ABQ skins as custom. That's it. Moreover, Vidcund isn't pregnant. As soon as I loaded the Curious house I deleted every telescope and razed the stupid viewing platform. He was never abducted.

What is an undefined transition error, and why is it destroying my family? I went to load the Curious family and got the repeat-to-paralysis cancel-retry-delete message saying there was an Undefined Transition error. The original log is attached. I don't even know where to begin to look to fix this one. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.