Hmm, I thought the 'ugly kid = good-looking adult' theory was true, too, until I finally collared that ugly little sod Chandler Platz and gre him up with the Insiminator. You guessed it, ugly as a kid, uglier than a hatful of arseholes as an adult..... 

Sort-of related question -

If my Sims pull out the kicky bag for a quick game and I cancel out the action, I end up with the stuck kicky bag thing. Not a problem, 'cause I have the Lot debugger. How come when I click on the 'Unstick Kicky Bags' or whatever it says, it tells me it's cleaned up (usually) 3 objects. Yet I clearly see my Sims only use ONE kicky bag per game. Where'd the other two kicky bags come from?

FLAMETHROWERS!!.... don't forget the flamethrowers!!!! 

No, I'm pretty sure when YA's graduate they can only go back to the neighbourhood they came from - the only way to move them into another 'hood would be to put them in the lot bin and manually move them over, which is A Very Bad Thing and will cause untold amounts of heartache and game wobbles, according to He Who Is More Awesome.

Thanks for clearing that up. Looks like I'm stuck with having to tutor the little brats still.... 

Does 'Learn To Study' have any longterm effect on my Sims, other than allowing them to complete their homework faster and fulfilling the 'Learn To Study' want? I always make sure each of my kids learns to study from an adult, which is sometimes a pain to organise when you have a busy household, so is it really necessary? Does it affect their studying in Uni, for example, or skillbuilding later on in life?

Tom Clancy's books are the worst for that, I think - great big huge bloated monsters where he goes into so much intricate detail about things.... it just puts me off wanting to read anymore sometimes...

I've heard of this choking death happening before, it only seems to affect pregnant Sims. There were reports about this happening months ago, when the game was still fairly new-ish, so I don't know that it's anything to do with your neighbourhood turning into a BFBVFS...

 
Friendly get-togethers at your place must be a total mindfuck.....
 

That happened to me with Jane Stacks, too!

She and Daniel Pleasant were bumping uglies whilst Mary Sue was at work, but once Mary Sue dropped off the perch, I figured, what the hell, I'll move Jane in with Daniel. She brought with her around 5 and half million Simoleons...

It's kind of a pain in the ass, actually, I mean, once you've updated the kitchen counters, and installed a new spa and some nice paintings, there's not really much else to do with it all. I ended up money ordering it to random Townies, and then killing them. Kind of felt bad about it to start with, you know, give some poor sod a few million big ones then drop a satellite on their head, but eh, what're you gonna do?

No answers here (surprise!) but just wanted to chip in and add that I've had the same problem, too - for me it happened in the Pleasant house, with no diagonal doors and no fridges other than Maxis one...... 

It does seem to right itself fairly quickly, though....

I think some Jewish players had issues with the pork-chop meal...

Hey, hold on a minute! Here I was, basking in the self-satisfied glow of being a Sagi, and laughing at the Scorpios, and then I click the bloody link and find out I am now ONE OF THEM!!! 

Hmm. Kinda makes sense, actually....

Thanks Liss - okay, so it's the unlinked character files that are bad, right?

Great-big-flaming-ball-visible-from-space bad, or just a bit inconvenient? I'm just a very inquisitive sort, that's all, and while I can accept JMP telling us NOT to do this (being how he is More Awesome etc.) I just would like to know WHY and WHAT IF?!! 

Right, let's just say that out of interest, I decide to take a Sim from, say, Strangetown - Nervous Subject, perhaps - and ship him across to Pleasantview to throw in with the Pleasants.

I know that this is a Bad Idea, because JMP said so, which is why this is strictly a hypothetical question. But what I'd like to know is, WHY? Why is it bad? What will happen, exactly? What levels of buggered-up-ness are we talking about here? Will it screw up one 'hood? Two? Trash my entire game? Destroy my hard-drive?

I need to know these things!

Also - another question, this time, not so hypothetical  .... if I move a house (empty, uninhabited, never even played before) from one 'hood to another, will this screw things up too?

Maybe that's where those flamethrowers will come in handy..?

I blame Maxis. Or boolprop.  Or both...

I've seen them quite often - yes, my Sims are that miserable....

Their aspiration determines what kind of response you get - e.g. Family Sims get the whole floursack baby thing, Popularity Sims talk to a cup on a stick.. I think?  Romance sims woo some mop thing, knowledge Sims talk to a ball, and the fortunes beg in the street. One of the funniest things I saw in the game was Dina Goth harrassing the school bus driver for money one day.....

But just WHY do nannies pee themselves? I mean, every other visitor to my Sims house can find (and more importantly, use) the toilet, how come the nanny can't? It doesn't make sense. 

Usually when my toddlers grow up, the little portrait of them (as children) on the control panel always shows them with their heads lolling on one side - they never actually appear like this in the game, only in their portrait. I always just put it down as being One Of Those Things.

Sorry, I wasn't much help, was I? 

Thank you, El Presidente - off to d/l now - although most of my lots already have weird crap happening at any given time of the (Sim)day, so nothing unusual there..... 

That was two and a half hours ago! 

I read something about some games having the time shown using the 24-hour system? Is this a setting or something I can change? I'm a (former) military brat, so grew up using the 24 hour clock system, but my game uses civvy time (I'm in Australia, so presumably we got the US version...?)

I'd much prefer to have 24 hour time.... any chance?

I'm pretty sure Superstar came after Unleashed - I remember because installing Unleashed was the last thing I ever did on my old 'puter - when SS came out, I was forced to buy a new one. The things you do for Sims.... 

Entirely plausible, I think, a couple of years from now after they've rehashed every EP they put out for TS1 - I can just see it now - ' TS2 Crap on a Cracker - Watch your Neighbourhood Implode - now with More Bugs, Less Patches and a brand new collection of Godawful Walls You'll Never Use"

Screw rivalry, I'm really going to need those flamethrowers by that time.