There's both a Melody9 and a Melodie9 at MTS2.  Dunno whether it's one person with two user IDs or two different people.

I don't mind stuff being in two categories if it's appropriate.  Some swimsuit/underwaer, athletic/everyday, etc., make sense.  Even certain everyday/formal crossovers.  But some creators need to get a grip.

It might be more to the point to go under him.  He's sounding like the kind of manager who thinks he doesn't need to understand the technical bits because he has people for that.

I could have sworn I had a female headmaster once.  If I did, it was a long time ago, either pre-Uni or just after, and I don't have that neihborhood anymore to check.

It's fine-tuning, beta-testing if you like.  No one is perfect, to find every possible loophole, especially in a challenge this detailed.  Having some extra eyes go over the rules just makes it more interesting.  Most people are going to choose to play this specifically because they want something to make the game more difficult after getting bored with how easy "standard gameplay" is.

Yeah, maybe it would have been nice if Pinstar had said something like "This is a preliminary version--gimme feedback and after X amount of time I will update it to the final version."  But so what.  At least he is listening to the feedback and following up.  Most of the really good challenges evolve a little before they stabilize.   

Anyway, no one is looking over your shoulder, checking to see whether you are really following the rules.  Plenty of people play modified challenges to suit their own notion of what works.  It's not like anyone is judging the outcome.  Sure, if you are going to talk about your results, it's only honest to mention you used modified rules, but who knows, maybe some people will like your version better.

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Don't they get whichever is greater--20K or their accumulated wealth?

(It's been a while since I played pure Uni--now I just stuff their inventory with high-value loot so I can divide up shares the way I want.)

It drives me up the wall when they throw the damn bottle on the floor!

Maybe it's about not being able to hold two things at once.  Maybe it's a choice between throwing the bottle on the floor and throwing the baby on the floor.

I thought the premise was that only the local neighborhood was destroyed, because the founder was safe while at University? So anything at University can't have been affected.

Although, it does make a honkin' big loophole that ought to be plugged.

I think I read around here somewhere that is just another case of Maxis being sloppy--they updated how it works to include vampires, but forgot to change the text to say so.

I'm wondering if this is connected to how you don't get the Going to College cutscene if you move them into an already occupied place?  The times that has happened in my game I wasn't trying to satisfy a Sibling Goes to College want, so I didn't notice whether the older sibling got the memory.

Excellent idea, and quite detailed.  Maybe some of the sheeple will even understand it, if their faces get rubbed in it firmly enough.

It appears to have a max of 6 in any one dimension, but yes, the carpool issue is one of my concerns.

Has anyone Awesome looked at the Lot Expander http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=175884 for changing the size of a lot?  Is it safe? 

If you scroll down to post #28, there are downloadable 1x1 and 2x1 lots.

Edit:  I obviously suffered a mind fart on entering links

I usually adjust nannies down to 9 cooking points.  Not that that takes care of the many other nanny issues.

This won't help lechapeau's problem, but reading this thread got me thinking. 

I use an alternate Sims 2 folder for testing that has been stripped down to load fast.  I created a custom neighborhood, then deleted the three premade neighborhoods.  It has only a handfull of downloads, and minimal hacks.  But looking at it I think I could delete even more--is it safe to delete the Tutorial neighborhood folder? What about the contents of the LotCatalog folder, the SC4Terrains folder (would you need to leave in the one you are using for the custom n'hood?), and the premade pictures in the Storytelling folder?  With all that gone it wouldn't be much larger than the neighborhood folder alone.  (Umm, talking about deleting all that from a newly generated set of files, not from the main game files, of course.)

So I'm wondering whether that would be a safer way to do a round robin or shared neighborhood--passing a sims 2 folder, rather than just a neighborhood folder.  That way, a defined set of downloads and hacks would be included--obviously more than I have in my test setup, but still fewer than most of us have in our main game--as well as no problems with changing the neighborhood number.  I guess it would make the issue of everyone having the same EPs and patches more critical, though, because of hack compatibility.  The round robins I'm familiar with have been limited to 4 or 5 players anyway, so that doesn't seem like a such huge obstacle, but maybe it could be in some situations.

That's what jumped into my mind when I saw 32,500 or something close to it cited as a limit.  16 bits can represent values in the range 0 to 65535 unsigned.  But if it's a signed field, then you get something like -32767 to 32767.  (I may be 1 off at the extremes--it's been a lot of years since I had to know this stuff.)

Is the limit exactly 32,500?  Or is it more like 32,768?

Ummm, it's particularly appropriate when one is informed one has done something woolly-headed.   

Duh!  [slaps head]  I had problems installing the new version, and meant to re-download it later and try again, but I forgot.  [clicks Thanks button several times]

Either I'm doing something stupid (quite possible) or HomeCrafter doesn't actually change the price, anyway.  All I can get it to do is create a duplicate copy of the wall or floor which has the updated price.  Talk about cluttering up my Downloads folder...

I'm going to check out the WTF Editor mentioned upthread.

The thing that really makes sims stupid is their inability to remember what they were doing before they got interrupted.  I realize it could get out of hand with interruptions on top of interruptions on top of interruptions, but would it have been that hard to give them one level of recall?

Of course, if they had, I guess we would all be bitching about how sims couldn't remember two things.

I keep forgetting that I can put food in inventory now.  Sometimes I tell a not-very-hungry sim to eat just because a meal has been prepared that will go bad before he needs it.  Letting prepared food go to waste annoys me.  But the time inefficiency of each sim preparing one serving annoys me, too.

That's what I do, too.  In fact, even if I'm not quitting the lot, I routinely save early each morning just before they wake up.

Ah, that makes sense.

How does familyfunds handle multiple households with the same name?  The one time I really wanted to use it, I had four brothers at university in four different dorms.  I chickened out and didn't try.

Someone above posted a link to a page about how to get a really high score.  Well, I don't care as long as it's high enough, but the person who wrote that page sounds reasonably competent. 

However, they talked about getting the HM to go to the part of a room that had the best environment and said it didn't matter if there was clutter/mess in other parts of the room.  I thought the environment score applied to the whole room.  I thought the thing about putting a bright light next to an expensive painting and having the HM stand close was a sheeple myth. 

So which is true?  Can you get different environment scores in different areas of a room?  Does it depend on how big the room is, how far away the dirty area is from the good area?