well while people are waiting for JMs "memory deletion for dummies" version of the Lot Debugger

I will mention that the "Memories editor enhancements for SimPe" plugin that is in Peasantry, works great! 

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2590.0


this feature in particular is very handy for us memory editing dummies

**Experimental** - backup your neighborhood before use!
The function "Fix Memories" will scan the neighborhood's memories and delete all memories
that don't have a valid owner or subject instance (the corrupt death memories are included in this category).
It will try to synchronize the subject instance with the memory's Sim ID.
Moreover, this will remove multiple consecutive 'spam' memories, such as "Had a family reunion", "Vermin!",
leaving only the first memory in a connected set.

*laughs* sims are only as boring as you let them be

The Oldies moved away (deleted)
The Burbs were moved into a nice home I built. Their daugher died from a falling object  and John and Jennifer are now broke up and John lives with Brandi and his bastard daughter and Brandi's son (the 3rd one)

I restarted recently because I wanted the genes from the maxis pre-mades (mine all end up looking alike) after discovering that most of the pre-made children/teens/toddlers were not actually the true children of their pre-made parents, they either died young or moved away (deleted) except for Brandi's 3rd boy (the Brandi-clone one) The pre-made familys are currently having true-born children.

Mortimer Goth, Cassandra and (now) Alexander are dead (he was handy for babysitting).  Bella lives in the new Goth manor, with her (and Dons) three beautiful daughters   

I redid Dina and Ninas house (which I did for every pre-made family) and after tweaking their personalitys with InSIM (why did Maxis make Nina a "very shy" Romance sim? I think even Daniel was very shy before I tweaked his personality and made him Knowledge) 

Anyway, I did put off really playing Nina and Dina until last night, Darren Dreamer needed a new wife and seemed interested in Nina so after inviting her over, I enjoyed having her move in - then get engaged - then get pregnant (Darren "tried for a baby") - then get married... I had Darren do all the asking so you could say she did have a chance to say "no"    (not that they ever do, which is kind of sad) hmmmm I wonder if she will lose her mind when she has the baby    She seems happy enough even though she still wants to woohoo with Don (was locked and I haven't unlocked it) I had fun playing her and Darren for a change and She is actually quite beautiful with a good make-over and nice hair)

Dina ended up with the large house all to herself and a want to "have a baby"     After a good make-over and new hair and getting a car alarm installed(buglar came while she was gone, she wasn't happy about that) I then sent her off to find a mate.  Don was at the Crypt (of course) but Dina didn't seem very interested (which is good since he has 3 kids with Bella already) (I then used InSIM to nix the crush hearts)
Well I decided to just watch and see who she seemed most interested in.
 
John Burb was there (3 bolts) and for once Brandi wasn't with him. Dina was very interested but John and brandi have 1 kid and are expecting another so I really didn't want Dina messing that relationship up. I noticed a downtownie(2 bolts) seemed very interested in Dina, kept giving her friendly hugs and wanting to talk to her and tell her jokes and stuff and she actually accepted the hugs. I felt she would have paid more attention to him if John wasn't there and if John didn't keep wanting to talk to her    Once Brandi showed up I had to really keep an eye on John!

Dina then wanted to do the "date thing" with the downtownie so I allowed it and they ended up with a dream date (both rolled wants for woohoo and woohoo in Dinas car, which they enjoyed)  I had Dina go home and go to work, she tried calling her downtownie the next day, he was working but after he got home he called up wanting to go downtown for another date. Well they had a great time and Dina ended up pregnant after some car woohoo so she asked him home with her and then asked him to move in. He then asked for her hand in marriage and shortly after they were married.

After that I quit playing for the night *had played for more then 8 hours*

now I could understand warning someone to "download at your own risk"  if a Lot or whatever is buggy or something but not because the files don't have proper names 

aliens in my game go from having the alien eye color as babys/toddlers/children to - those brown maxis eyes as teens, then back to alien eye color as adults (can't remember about YAs)

and I have default eye replacements     

I think the teen thing evens happens when I also have alien eye color replacements in, will be able to check that soon since Daniel Pleasant got abducted 

thank you kaarinah, I didn't know about using ctrl+V, I only tried right-clicking 

One day I will actually spend some time really learning how to use SimPE, for now though I usually manage to figure out how to do what I really want to do *laughs*  maybe later I will attempt getting rid of the extra grey hair although it dosen't really bother me much to have them there (I rarely even look in the elder hair bin)

heh, SimPE wouldn't let me copy&paste, I had to type them all out...so what am I doing wrong? it would make the next batch I end up doing go alittle faster although I can now type the damn things in my sleep 

Does it depend on which mode you start up in? I usually end up using the classic gui since its the first one my cursor gets to in my start menu *laughs*

*is just bin fixing* the rest is beyond my abilities atm 

Avie, Have you tried JMs Lot Debugger? it has a option for fixing the headmaster

hehehe I always get a laugh when I get emails about my ebay and paypal accounts, specially the ones that imply my accounts will be closed unless I go do whatever at the provided link....I don't have accounts with either one! (I never even open them, the subject tells me enough to guess the rest)


bluecat, if you enter the url manually, make sure you don't mistype it or you could end up at a phising site, they like to set up shop at urls that are close to the real sites url.

rainbow, I did check my hacks and it turned out that there was no conflict *laughs* 

Groom seems to work very oddly, I tested with a married couple and the wife usually had it available after one backrub, yet the husband usually had to do a backrub twice to get it to show up... wonder if it's a bug or feature that makes it work so oddly 



syberspunk, I love this hack! it works great and I so love seeing my sims apologize to another they have pissed off, without me telling them to 

cool, glad I remembered it 

as for your now bald son *nearly falls off her chair laughing* *cough* sorry ahhh...did they explain why he was suddenly bald? reminds of the time my daughter decided to give herself a haircut 

O another chapter to read Yay!



Thanks Emma! downloaded it and a bunch of her other free hair (and drooled over her newest members only hair *crys* ) I'll check mts2 for recolors later 
of course now I have more bin fixing to do *laughs*

sara_dippity, JMs "enemiesaccumulate" might do that, have you tried it?

(she is very pretty!)  I would like to know where to get it also, I really like it 

pre-orders get shipped on Feb 28, I believe

seemed like a typical chat,

some questions were repeated,
some questions were really stupid
very few good questions and answers

always makes me wonder what questions were asked that got nixed...

apparently woohooing in the elevators will be a bit risky (death wise) and knowing we will be able to hire our other sims is cool and I think I understood it right that we will be able to shop at home businesses.


Some of it sounds really good so I don't regret pre-ordering it from amazon.com

I use TwoJeffs  want hacks to kill the want spam for shrubs and stuff but I like the idea of your paintings and will check them for stuff my hacks don't cover 

Sims 2 Open For Business Chat transcripts

http://thesims2.ea.com/community/chat_01_19_06.php


MaxisDon (Jan 19, 2006 6:14:23 PM)
Robots can only be made, not purchased from the catalog. The robots are Hydrobot, Cleanboy, Sentrybot, and Servo.


MaxisHunter! (Jan 19, 2006 6:49:05 PM)
Pregnant women can now go to community lots for almost their entire pregnancy. Yay!

and we get a pet

MaxisHunter! (Jan 19, 2006 6:23:38 PM)
It's a pet brick, and you can teach it a trick!

I don't use Macrotastics (although I have tried it) because I use InSIM to play with their needs, they are hungry/tired etc... when I want them to be! *laughs*

They do pretty much what I want, when I want, for as long as I want     (pretty much = because I like free will on)

I like it set at 0.1 

I hope what Hegelian posted works for Talismana and others that only have the base game.

Thank you for this one and the dormie assignment fix! 

it's very annoying when they bitch about 1 computer thats in use when theres 5 others right there that aren't being used 

thanks ZZ 

I agree, Paysites are evil and SimPE is free and isn't that hard to use, specially when you can follow a tutorial with pictures like the one at mts2.


I certainly can't afford to pay for custom Sims 2 stuff/programs when I already have to save up the money for the EPs. At times it is reeeeeeeeeeeeeally tempting to pay for a month at a site like tsr to get some of the really nice hair I've been seeing lately but that would mean not getting that "insert current whatever" that my 12 year old daughter needs for school and she always needs something 

I just added a bunch to mine 

I asked myself why I keep typing them all out when I don't have to, granted some I don't use much but some I hardly use (like the dorm tools one) because I can't remember the exact spelling and/or don't feel like typing it *laughs*


I'm curious as to why Kingdom uses a "globalStartup.cheat" rather then the usual "userstartup.cheat", whats the difference? (other then where you stick the file)

thats one of Inges and it's one I'm very happy to have even if it dosen't stop the kids from asking to be read to. Usually I keep them all busy enough so the kids rarely get a chance to ask     
 


I perfer free will on...

I've had Uni since it came out and I have never made a zombie, have no plans to either...

same for Nightlife except I keep thinking about letting one of my sims become a vampire but still haven't done it 

I only had a couple aliens and they didn't live long, until I found out how to make default skintone replacements *just isn't wild about That shade of green* course I also have a better looking pollitech replacement. So although I don't currently have any aliens (recently restarted)  I have allowed some of my sims to have expensive telescopes so the chance is there.