That was before I'd installed EPs...

The only time I've had the 'matrix' pattern was after deleting recolours, seems that deleting certain countertops will do that to the base that came with it. I just chalk it down to a poorly done rc and delete them both... would probably try a little harder to figure it out if it happened to a Sim though.

No, I'd installed the patch and tried to go back in to play. It crashed trying to load a house (that worked after Uni, pre-patch) I tried smaller lots that had also worked and it would load about half-bar, then crash again...

I decided to try the 'move Sims 2 folder' and let it respawn, but to no avail.
Using only Maxis hoods, I tried entering the Goth lot (first I saw)... crash. Tried smaller Broke lot - crashed. Tried taking a single sim from the bin and putting her on a new lot - crash. Tried CAS, tried an empty lot....

It gave me 1MB error logs, mostly that TS Audio log, which I looked up everywhere, though almost all discussion centered around incorrectly typed cheats (I don't use typed in cheats often and hadn't used it since installing Uni, so it wasn't that) and texture errors... can't find this, replacing with that... also a bunch of references to 'Grill Cheese and Pleasure Asp' which prompted me to check I had installed the Uni patch, not NL, (heh heh, no, I did not install the NL patch)

Actually, in my 'blue faced Sim' neighbourhood, something (!?) happened that most of my Sims lost their hair and eyebrows.
I hadn't deleted anything, so it was really bizarre to see all these bald browless people, and there was absolutely no way to put eyebrows back on them. I even tried to export them and make new copies, but the new copies will not 'take' eyebrows or hair either.
I blame it on custom eyebrows (though I hadn't deleted any) and try to avoid using them now, even though they're so much better than the Maxis.

I think I'll just skip the patch when I reinstall it, I only want to play for a week or two before adding Nightlife, so it should be ok unpatched til then (it was fine til I patched it)

I will add my stuff back slowly though... heh heh

(so... much.... stuff)

Darn, I was afraid of that.
I binned it first and made sure it worked before trying to make it 'family'. I pasted the 'string' (not code, heh heh) into the other colours and it disappeared. Then again, my game turned into a fiery ball shortly after, so who knows?

For the second part (sorry for such an incoherent post - too much coffee and no sleep )

What I'd like to do is have Melodie's hair replace the Maxis hairstyles so they will show for all age groups instead of 'in addition to'.
I'm not thrilled about Maxis hair but it looks cute on toddlers, don't want to fill my bins with excess Maxis teen/ya/adult elder stuff just to get it for them.

heh heh, my game has already blown up (not from this)

University worked great until I installed the Patch which turned it into a fiery ball. I couldn't even enter an empty lot in a newly generated game!?

Thread necromancy again, but this is a great thread and I have a couple more questions.

I've been using PE to bin hair and delete the unwanted ages but apparently I'm confused on the family part. I just can't seem to get it to work.

I tried copying the family code from the first hair to the others, (ie. Family code from Black Property Set copied to Red Property Set(s) and Hair Tone XML) as well as copying to either and not the other but the 're-familied' hair never shows up. Obviously I'm missing something...

Another question, is it possible to have hair that's not available for all ages point to a specific existing hair?

I downloaded Melodie9s hair from MTS (extracted from Maxis and converted for toddlers/children)  unfortunately, it puts duplicate copies in age groups that already have it. I can delete the dups, but I'd prefer to have it point to the same hair for the existing ages. (ie. shortcute as a toddler will transition throughout a life unless hair is changed somewhere in between)

Either that, or I'd like to make a default hair replacement so that every half decent Maxis hair is available to all ages, possibly over ambitious for someone who can't even get Families to work, but I'd rather do it all now and get it over with so I can just play.

Anyone else tried this without NL yet or shall I be the first to risk the Fiery ball of Incompatibility?
Just curious...

thank you so much!

you clearly do not suck

You mean you turn it off even if you don't have to change something in it?

 

I just don't get it, not only has my game been crashing non stop and generating tons of these error files (duplicate in tsaudio... 1M worth of blah blah in notepad) but I'm not even entering cheats.

I tried the old 'folder to desktop to generate new one' trick and it crashed again trying to load the first house in a default neighbourhood (completely bare newly generated game folder).

I just installed Uni a week or so ago and haven't even been able to play because it keeps crashing.

I seem to think this has only been happening since I installed the patch, which was a day or two after installing Uni... aargh.
Guess that means reinstallation after all

I just installed it recently as well, and though I'm enjoying it so far (between crashes) I'm really disappointed that YA's have teen voices. I find teen girls have the most irritating voices in the game and it bites to have to hear more of them. I like the new instruments and the cow mascots, but not so much as the cow plant.

Brynne, are you just there so you can take a break from breeding? heh heh

hmm, I tried playing Pleasantville when I installed University (recently) and though I'd heard such wonderful things about about it, I found the whole place pretty dull.
Just clicked on a random house, Dreamers, well, they certainly put me to sleep. Tried the infamous Brandi Broke next and decided to make her kids the first to try Uni. I moved in the red head Calliente to help with the bills but she was pretty useless (except she seemed to like the toddlers) Dustin and his kid brothers turned into hideous YA's and I experimented with the Plastic Surgery to make them more interesting. Guess I'm just not good with Maxis Sims.

Lot Clock? How is it that I've never heard of this magical thing and why can't I find it ?
Anyone?

It's on the official site:

Freewill/Hostel Challenge

the only Sims who'll really suffer are the Finance Sims and the really stupid ones.

Pegasys - you'll have testers, probably more than you want.


I also agree with the In Game Census, I think everything was mentioned, FN, LN, Household, Asp., Age, would be all I need, but I suppose I'll want the rest when I put in NL. Just adding my 'me too please'

There are times you're in the game and times you're not... I'd use both.

Agree, though I am a terrible control freak and am occasionally pleasantly surprised at what they do when left to their own devices.. I couldn't do it. I don't like 'watching' Sims do stupid things, I like telling them to do smart things and pretending they were going to anyway. heh heh

I did the Freewill Challenge (8 Sims with no controllable hours) and had to leave the room before I burninated them for being so stupid and annoying (accidents 2 squares from the huge unoccupied bathrooms) When I came back the next day (10-12 hours later) all were still alive, 4 had maxed at least 1 skill, 2 were platinum (knowledge/romance) and one had been abducted...

I do the same thing as you... well, not exactly, I flatten one 5x5 lot then move it around to flatten the rest.
There are a few neighbourhoods that are relatively flat though...
my game just kicked me out so I'll have to edit when I figure out which ones (I use 3 or 4 'flat' neighbourhoods)

I have one neighbourhood of uncontrolled spawning... 1 RomanceFamily pairing with around 30 kids, their breeding (Family) sons who have 4-12... A Family Sim with 16 kids who are doing their best to continue the tradition... Another Family Sim with 3 Romance sons... It's to the point where I had to introduce small families to intermingle them with.

With triplets and quads, it wouldn't be very difficult to get 100 kids off one Sim, particularly a male.

Good luck and keep us posted

I realize that 'smooth edges' is suppose to make the game look nicer, but I can't use it because it makes everything too blurry...
It could be that!? (in your display settings)

even if the parent just stepped one tile ahead of the fridge, that must be a fairly universal 'free spot'?

oops, sorry, apparently I didn't come back to this thread after posting.
I am using both, and have even deleted custom potties regardless of how adorable they are because this doesn't cover them and I can't bear to be without it.

but you can ignore me, I'm just on the base game and it really doesn't happen often (can't replicate it)

Not in the base game.

I just assumed the icon would still pop up in their queue and they would head off, but nothing comes up in their queue unless I send them to it. They'll happily skip work/school and not even know they've missed it.

Of course having the base game only also means I don't have a lot of the awesome hacks that may make that so.

My Sims do this too, but only since I downloaded enough hacks that it's one of the few autonomous actions they have left. Mostly neat sims, but they're all vulnerable to it.

What I do is put it in a corner with 4 walls around it (2 tile room) so they actually have to go into the room to realize the trash has one can in it. It's really reduced the annoyance of those stupid Sims taking out the trash every time they're idle (and dropping it in the centre of the room when you queue them to do something else)

I got that message when I tried Strangetown or whatever it's called.
I'd played the Spector home and moved out the girl, Olive died the next evening...for some reason I thought someone would inherit the value of the lot, but nope... just a message from Maxis...

I didn't feel admonished (I laughed)