Hey, I had that happen. Stupid visitors I hadn't known were there snuck into the kitchen and ate them all. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I got coal. Then I saw the two townies in the hottub out back and it all became clear.

I've actually been forced to fix up some of my favorite eyes to get rid of the borders. Helaene seems to do all her eyes with them. I can't play without her eyes, but the borders do screw up some of the cinematics that I'm particularly fond of.

So... I agree with you. Down with eye-borders!

Yes. Such a shame the nice person went and uploaded it to his own website, where it lives to this very day. Shame, shame, shame, I say. There are such dirty, immoral, thieving scumbags in this world, it's downright frightening.

So the objects in question did not come out of a sim's inventory?

Did you use the floor elevation cheat code when building the house? This sometimes creates unusable tiles because somehow they become very slightly higher or lower than the rest of the floor. This is often seen in the fact that if you go up one storey, the transparent squares that show up around walls will be missing or look dashed instead of solid in the area that is affected.

You can go through the regular Object Listing instead of the silly calendar. Select Exchange from the top bar and choose Objects.

It does look very wrong on the family tree, doesn't it?

By the way, this is exactly why I made all the family trees. When you don't see everyone laid out on one page, it's very difficult to understand the relationships. The way the tree works, where you click one sim and it causes several others to vanish from view, makes it really hard to use as a tracker for actual family relationships.

For a second, I thought it was the mistetoe, but no, it's a potted plant.

She isn't actually on anyone's tree, since she isn't related to anyone living. She is a "lost" sim that most people don't even know about. It's only by browsing memories, character files, and screenshots, that you can piece together who she is and how she fits in. The clues are all there though.

I have too much time on my hands, don't I?

That's Glabe Curious, Glarn's first wife, who was left to raise the Singles alone after Glarn selfishly abandoned the family to pursue a relationship with Kitty. She didn't contribute to the genepool but she is part of the family history and in order to be complete I felt like she had to be included. She also serves the purpose of showing that Glarn was not married to Kitty when he had the Singles.

I had a family that adopted a million kids because I wanted to see just how bad they'd look. They got two Ratna's in a row. Ratna is almost as bad as Goopy. Almost.

Hey, do you suppose we are hurting the feelings of any real people named Goopy, with the way we all hate on Goopy? Or can we safely assume that anyone named Goopy has grown skin as thick as an elephant by now?

She isn't really there. The game doesn't update the family picture until they are loaded/saved. So it will continue showing the three of them until the game is given a reason to update the picture, such as by moving them into a lot.

Here's my Curious-Smith-Singles tree. This was the best that could be done under the circumstances.

Four families were really not enough to start a whole town with, if your intention was to have them interbreed and never add new blood.

If it were me I would continue breeding them just to see how messed up the tree can get. Other than that, your only option may be to add more sims to the neighborhood. Townies are just TOO ugly to use.


Lots and lots of cutting and pasting in Photoshop.

I do it for all my families and have done it for all the Maxis families. It does take a lot of time if the tree is complicated. You wouldn't believe what it took to get the Curious-Smith-Singles household sorted out into one tree.

You know, when Enhancer was released, some nice person over on MTS2 posted a crack that made it run forever in free trial mode. Moderators zapped it into oblivion mere moments later. Isn't that a damn shame?

I have stuff 5 subfolders deep and it all still works.

MaxoidTom's post http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=558.msg22151#msg22151

Yup, everything I have to say about that game is in that post. It's not that it isn't good, it just isn't what the ads and the company claim. My major problem is with replayability. There is no "free" or "sandbox" mode, and the game gives you zero reason to play it again after winning it. Multi-player mode might save this game, but as it is now, it just isn't worth the $.

The walls and floors don't count toward the 40 item count.

Oh yes, I'm passing on the misery this holiday season. I have about 30 games I'm giving away. Let them sit on someone else's shelf for a change.

Thanks!

I have a quick question.

I dug out my copy of SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, planning to give it to someone as a gift this Thanksgiving.

The case seems to have room for three CDs, but I only have two CDs in there (CD1 and CD2). Am I missing one, or is the case just weirdly made? If there is a third CD, was it just some bonus content that isn't necessary to run the game? I don't want to turn my room upside down looking for this thing if it's not necessary.

I have The Movies, but still haven't installed. I've been waiting to see some real-player reviews in case this turns out to be yet another B&W2. I played that for two days and have not felt any desire to lay a finger on it since. Good thing the holidays are coming up and I can get rid of it.

Couldn't this be done as a non-global object? Something like a stack of bills that is sent off in the mail, then the mail person delivers another piece of mail. If the baby isn't the father's, the cheating reaction gets triggered. Maybe it could be linked to whatever happens when a sim sees the spouse kissing another sim. This way the player decides when to use the object, so there is no need to check for marriage or alien births or anything. Besides, it makes more sense than having the father know by magic that the baby is not his.

You know what they say about "looks."


I wouldn't mind that, actually. The game gets boring pretty fast after an EP. Within a month it's all old and stale. I think the Holiday pack was just TOO themed and specific. There is basically only one way to play with the objects, so if you don't do holidays/seasons, then you are practically guaranteed not to like it. If they did something like a Child-themed pack, then at least that could be used all throughout the game. It can get tedious when you're downloading player-made content and you don't have everything ever released, but as long the creators document the base object used, it's the same as hunting for the custom mesh when downloading recolors.

Mine can make cookies without problems. But Santa is damn annoying, everyone runs to hug him for some reason. I like Father Time better. At least he explodes.

I found a glitch with the fireworks. The red ones suspended from the ceiling. Don Lothario lit them, got burned, and then got the little flame from the lighter permanently stuck a short distance in front of his hand. This did not go away after several showers, carpool, and a number of other things including a forced reset. I finally deleted him and reloaded the lot, and that fixed it.

Also, the fireworks last for ten seconds. Someone needs to mod that cone thing so that it lasts at least an hour. I wouldn't mind having a permanently lit one for decorative purposes. I bet it would look cool at night clubs as a centerpiece.

Oh, and my very first party ended with the XMas tree blowing up. Did it used to do that? I used it many times before (it's the free one from the Exchange) and it never caught fire until now. Although, I have some fire-modifying hacks, so it's possible one of them prevented it from catching fire. I took all hacks out to install the Pack, just in case.