Ahh that could be it!  The initial startup of the game takes only about 3 minutes so when I start to load a neighborhood and it takes in excess of 20 minutes, I assumed it was freezing.     I think that's an incredibly long time.  I did manage to get Strangetown and Pleasantview to load, so you are probably right. 

Thanks for the heads up!

For some inexplicable (to me anyway) reason, my neighborhoods won't load.  The game loads beautifully, but when I try to enter any neighborhood, they go through the loading process and stall.  I deleted the neighborhood manager package, and still none will load, even in a vanilla game.  This is redunkulous!  Any ideas?

That was way too easy.  Thanks.

Great.  No more scratched disks - now I can has arrrrtificial ones!

Totally not interested in TSS - I never play teens except to get them through college, and I could care less how they're dressed.  K&B is okay, but not great.  I don't have Ikea yet, but from what was said here, it looks like that's the one to get.

I have objects that I've deleted where the thumbnails still exist, but the content does not.  The option to delete is not available, at least in buy mode (where the items are located).  How do you get rid of those?

You obviously haven't checked out the "wonderful" roof recolors available at just about any site there is.  Weird color options, I say.  I want different roof colours available on the same building.  Sort of like the individual roof slope, but with roof colors; but I only want that if someone is able to do a copper roof.  I would love to be able to have a copper roof over a small entry door or something.

Kazzandra, your castle-like edifice is loverly!  Modern design sometimes misses out on the officious nature of the government-type building required of  this challenge.  Castle away!

Cimaronna - I love the challenge arena.  I totally agree with Annan - could be a must for all future uploads.

Alex, the exterior is lovely and furnished!  Bonus.

Did you leave the moveObects command on?  Sometimes it'll crappify stuff if you don't make sue to turn it off.  Make sure you turn off any boolprop commands, also. That'll crappify stuff too.  I'm sure someone who's awesome will tell you better.

I would love to be able to have individual roof colors - especially if a copper roof were available.  I'm really not interested in those purple roofs...

Could someone direct me as to how this is done?  I am unawesome, but not stoopid.  I googled, came up with information on how to replace discs in the spine - not what I wanted to know.

I was going to do that, but thought that I should ask those in the know first...

I recently uninstalled and reinstalled Kitchen and Bath stuff because the content wasn't showing up in the game.  Then, I used the any game starter to create a new game with only the base game, NL & Seasons.  I wanted to put fireplaces in a home I made, and lo and behold, there were absolutely no fireplaces showing up in the anygame starter game.  So, I tried my regular game (Free Time), and looked in there.  The only fireplaces that were in that game were those from Pets and FT.  Also, there were no pool tables in the anygame starter game.  Where did my EA content go?  WTF?  Also, what do I do to restore my original content?

In my hometown we have a resident bearded lady who is apparently quite famous (for being the bearded lady). There's a group on facebook petitioning to get her on Big Brother.
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I rarely watch reality tv shows, but I would definitely stare at that one! 


Okay - ewww - very understandable reaction to that little tidbit of information.  Perhaps you could direct him to Jolrei's post as a "how to" guide.   Who knows, maybe the instructions of how to eat whilst having a beard is located on the beard website. 

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I'd probably be with Mrs. Jolrei on this one.  They can look super sexy.




That depends upon the nature of the beard.  If you consider stubble still beard, then the under the chin stubble can look quite cool.

mmmmm hmmm.  Understandable.    I love facial hair on men.  It can add (or detract) interest to their best features.  On women, it just confuses me and I stare. 

Nice job Annan!  It is very officious.  Emma's is nice, but I believe Khan is right, it does still look like a house.  I'm frustrated at the phail I had while trying to upload and post pictures, but even so, your imposter is even more imposterer than mine.  Great job!

Here's my ignorance, let me show you it!    

Okay, so I tried to use my own upload using FTP, well that's not working, so I'll try it another way. 

http://www.lebensim.com/staff/maurie/TempleofBacchus.rar

http://www.lebensim.com/staff/maurie/BacchustheDorm.rar

Ha!  Finally I did it!

   



Okay, try these:

http://www.lebensim.com/staff/maurie/TempleofBacchus.rar

http://www.lebensim.com/staff/maurie/BacchustheDorm.rar


Ohh Elf Puddle, I would never build such an edifice with cinderblocks!  'Tis the Marbelous something-or-other stuff.  It's supposed to be marble blocks - the closest thing resembling the ancient stones I could come up with using only Eaxis created content.  There are other's MUCH more applicable, but I tried to stay within the constraints of the contest.  Couldn't quite get that, but meh, I tried.

Thank you very much for fixing my pics.  I obviously still haven't figured it out yet.

I am going to attemp to submit my imposter.  It includes a main hall, in which the senatorians may argue deliberate; a library (for research of course!); a large kitchen and dining hall, and ample bathrooms.  ; 

Since I have little to no idea what the senate does here, (I've heard tell of "souping"), I've included areas in which the senatorians may skillinate and hobbinate.  There is also an excersize room, a tv viewing room, a spa with a sauna and a hot tub, and a swimming pool.  And because Pescado enjoys having them dance until they pee, I've included a dancing area for the Maty senate sims.  The Senate chambers are equiped with desks, computers, bookshelves and double beds.  Well, you never know when somesims' comfort gets too low or something!

Oh, there are two versions, one a regular residential and/or community and the next a dorm.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RN3U6MQ9
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WF1BAGTN

I've got the technological abilities of a gold fish; luckily I have some stick-to-itiveness!  Here's another go:   

Crikey!  Another try:  [/URL][/img]





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Maybe Matyians don't like image shack.  I think I've tried just about every combination of loading that exists.  Maybe someone could let me know what on earth I am doing wrong. 

I wanted to enter this challenge because I thought I had the perfect idea...  I built a replica of the Temple of Bacchus, complete with Senate chambers and all (goodness knows what goes on in there!).  I tried to keep it as true to the original as possible, size-wise anyway, so it is a HUGE lot, about 1.5 mb.  I guess that means I can't enter.  I thought that a building that celebrated the god of wine would accurately reflect the tomfoolery that may go on in the senate here.  Stupid standards!  Here's a pic [/URL][/img]  [/URL][/img]

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OTOH, it is nice to get a free computer to replace all those Monique computers that are now missing from my game.
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So that's why my Monique computers aren't working - the stupid "gift" computer?   I thought it was a hack conflict that wasn't being diagnosed with the detection utility.  Good to know (dl'ing the humble hack now).[

Just figured that out and came to retract my stupid statement.      I was busy updating and didn't install as I went.    Forgive my rashness and thanks for letting me know.

I keep getting the drasted 404 message when I try to download the skillinator.  Also, I must be blind because I can't find it on (in?) the list.

I haven't even really begun to play the game yet, so I don't know if this is a bug or not, but I believe there's something wonky with Veronaville.   It won't load.  All the other neighborhoods load easily (relatively speaking), even my custom ones.   It was a clean install, too.  I rarely play Veronaville, so not really too much of a loss, but I want the terrain on which to build a specific house.