call me a noob, but what does  BFBVFS stand for? I'm seeing it everywhere lately. 

is pqi memory any good? or cheaply made?

sounds like a screwed up mesh or a non-awesome hack.

could you just use the objects.package from pets without pets installed, or would that mess up the interactions with said objects?

[knows nothing about game coding and is non awesome]

Thanks for that. I'm gonna back up that file and then try doing this. ^_^

Dang.  Why must there be so many of them?

Is it possible to delete the hordes of Maxis made sims that come up in CAS? I'd like to just have my created/downloaded sims show up in there, and get rid of all the rest. Are there character files somewhere that can be dumped to get all these ugly losers out of my sim bins?

Well holy crap. I stopped using that tool for the same reason. Should have RTFM! Now I know. And knowing is half the battle!

Heh. I'm going thru the fun of spring cleaning now, when one day I discovered I had 17gigs of CC and my game wasn't loaded after an hour. Normally it takes 20 minutes, and I don't care about waiting, cause I usually tell it to load and go start dinner or something equally mundane.

I took all the folders out of my downloads folder, and am going through each section seperately. I've been working on HAIR since sunday.

I tried using the orphaned mesh thing in Simpe, but it took so damn long to run and didn't really help much, so I abandoned it. I still wish there was a smallish program that would load or at least show a picture of what things look like in game, for fast deleting. But I don't mind going through and deleting everything in chunks. It just takes awhile. I had over 3500 files in the hair folder alone. about 6000 in clothes, which is my next step. I don't even want to THINK about the objects and recolors folders, because i KNOW they're off the hook.

I really need to stop being a CC whore.

For defaults, I tend to use Enayla. For other, I use Enayla & Oepu. I tend to like realistic skins.

I never had any problems. As for patching, just rename the old exe, so you can use it later if needed. I only do it mostly cause I never have the space to keep an image on my hard drive just for a game. *shrug*

I don't know what code it would alter other than "don't look for the bloody cd everytime you load!" I don't get the cd image version, just the fixed executable.

But whatever works for you! \/

If you want to not use the cd, why not just get a no cd crack? I like to keep my game discs from scratching, so I always use one. game copy world has them. just go there and search.

I do not condone the downloading of the game, since I buy them, but I don't see why you should need the f'n cd to play the game. They have no cds for all the sims games thru pets. It's just a new icon for the actual game exe. Then you'll need to make new shortcuts, and use em. If you can't find them, PM me and I'll send em to you or whatever. ^_^

My cousin had these little [flushable?] rings for toilet target practice. I only discovered them because the kid didn't learn how to flush after peeing and i didn't look before I sat down.... "WTF? Kate, I'm peeing colored rings!!!" XD

I was just gonna say that. ^_^ Yeah, I think the MOST time consuming part is having to flip back to where you left off. When you have like 200 pages of hairs to go through and it keeps going back to page 1 every stinkin time, it gets kinda draining.

Using bodyshop is just as bad as loading the game for me. It loads about as slow, plus, the lack of animation. I like to be able to tell limp hair from animated. But yeah, this will probably never happen. But I don't see how it can be done for objects, and yet not for heads/bodies.

I've been going through and organizing and deleting ugly/broken items too. What I would REALLY kill for is a program out of game that would load hair and clothing so I could view em as they look IN GAME without loading the game, so I could delete them faster. Is there a plugin for simpe or something? I've been deleting hair IN GAME for the past two weeks [started with about 2500 files in my HAIR folder], and it's just rediculous. I want to play, not spend a million years just deleting ugly stuff.

I must be in a constant state of ovulation.  I don't mind the pretty boy look. in boys and teens. But I'd really like to see creators try and make more rugged guys. Whenever I see one of those up, I immediately grab it, regardless of him being ugly or not. You gotta have a little ugly in the genepool to make life interesting.

I pretty much hook my toddlers up with their own room consisting of: toddler sleep blanket, magic potty, bottomless bottle, xylophone, bunny head and shape sorter. maybe a teddy bear for when they aren't in the mood to skill.

I really need to stop neglecting the toddlers, maybe that's why they turn into such bratty kids.

But honestly, the social worker hack is a godsend, because I tend to have large families and if one child screws up, and the rest are really good students, etc... they all suffer, and that's not right. Sometimes I want to mess up a child on purpose to see what happens with their personality.

I had this happen!!!

delete the icon you have on your desktop or whatever, and create a new shortcut icon from the actual EXE in C:/program files/ea games/sims 2 pets/ts bin

It loaded after I did that. Weirdest thing. If that doesn't work. Try turning off/snoozing your virus protection.

the two most important hacks to me: No Homework, and No Social Worker. Work fine with pets. I can't remember who made those. 

I also use inge's bottomless bottle. Lifesaver! That and the Magic Potty. {tho I only use that for toilet training, I like them to crawl around while toddlers, it's more cute}

Sweet. Thanks a lot!

I was thinking about creating folders for my CC, and was wondering what was and wasn't "safe" to put into folders, how the folders should be named, etc.

I'd be grateful for any suggestions. ^_^

o.O

Why not go buy it yourself? It's not very expensive if you just buy the pack.

Or did I not understand you properly?

I did read the manual. I must've missed that section. I'll go look for the flavor pack. thanks guys.

Hey guys. Does anyone know when miscarriages started to happen in game? I never used to encounter them, and then recently during my "breeding experiment" a chick had 3 of them in a row. I didn't notice her needs being low or anything either. She then went on to have a baby, and then during her next pregnancy she DIED. WTF? [pregnant ghosts are messed up, yo!]

I think the only hacks I have are inteenimator and the trips/quads hack from here.

Is it part of the game, or one of the hacks having fun with me? It's annoying. 

I also think that changing into a random outfit after a bath would be a good thing. But let me take the idea one step further to address what someone said about random ugly outfits... The person could only wear clothes contained in the family dresser bin. So they'd still have to buy clothes etc, but didn't wear the same thing every day.