The Maxis default animals aren't so bad, though. They're not like townies at all.

Just keep in mind, sometime, somewhere, a meeting with the top Maxoids had to be about adding this "feature".

I couldn't find enemies accumulate when I went looking for it

From who? Pescado might get it in time for next Christmas.

Try looking it up on Google, I'm sure something will pop up.  About this Hastur, never heard of him.  Looking in the online encyclopedia, it says he may be the High Priest Not to Be Described.

Is the cow an experienced battle veteran? If you routinely assault the cow, it will gain lots of combat experience from all the fighting. In addition to skills having an effect, combat experience provides a percentile bonus to it, so that a veteran of many battles will outperform even somebody with considerably more body skill.

Since NPCs are basically immortal, the cow may remember generations of fighting. As an ancient warrior, he will thus outperform his body skill. Also, when the cow fights the cheerleader and mascot, he will gain battle experience from that, too. You probably won't notice the effect if only the cheerleaders and mascots fight the cow, because both the mascot/cheerleader and the cow will gain combat experience simultaneously, only victories are more valuable than defeats. Thus, the cow will continue to lose more and more to the cheerleaders and mascots, but will be able to defeat your own sims, who are not seasoned warriors. Perhaps your sims need to gain more actual combat experience before taking on tough, veteran warriors like the mighty cow.

Jordi has a name pack out too, I'm using that next time I create some townies. MikeInside has a name generater program on his site on MTS2. Or there's the old hobbit name generator on the net, wonder if it's still there?

The best entertainment objects seem to be pinball games and the really expensive TVs.  With those the Fun recovers fairly quickly, and Sims gain social and relationship while using them with other Sims.  Unlike, say, the video game console.  The main drawback of both is that you can't queue any actions for when they're done, any other action at all cancels them.

In Uni, Mrs Crumplebottom is a Mortimer relative (sister or cousin, don't remember). Is it the same relation in NL?

And for people who live in safer areas of the world - it's not really their place to criticize, in many cases it's fate that placed them where exactly they are!