Well, I have no fish either (tried everything), and after viewing so many threads on it I have found only one thing that seems to be common - nVidia video cards, regardless of drivers, type, etc. At least that is what I have noticed. Perhaps if all fish seers and non-fishseers posted their make/model we might figure this out?

nVidia GeForce FX5500 256mb 8x AGP

Would a poll like this be easier?

Nvidia
()fish
()no fish

ATI
()fish
()no fish

Actually, it did break - which is why you get error logs stating that the error is the communitly lot populator (ie the townie generator v2.0). This is why this tutorial was put here in the first place. The 'random' pics are explained in the first post of this thread.

I never suggested, moving sims in houses to the lot bin, Ness was wondering if it happened, if you read up a bit, I was curious, I tested it out to see what would happen. Ness never suggested it either. As a matter of fact, in the quote you quoted, Ness says it is a BAD thing, and I did not feel the need to repeat that it is a bad thing.

Hehe, don't worry about it. It happens in real life too when I am in uniform.

Glad it is working out finally, and yes 98 files is the norm...in the other ones you have the pre-made students in the sim bin and the greek houses added to that.

thanks, jsalemi! I was just looking for this last night.

So far I have been getting a new downtownie for every sim I add to downtown, and a new one whenever a new downtown lot is visited for the first time. I also have 2 paper delivery teens in the base hood, and a new one in downtown. So far the only adult townie made is the bartender. The rest are teens. This will be interesting to see what happens once there are 10 non-npc teens in each hood. I am at 7 total right now.

  shhh! it's a secret! Only those who find their way to my profile know that *rocks out*

Ok, I did notice the one on the lot load, but I never made more than one lot for when I was figuring this out so I didn't know that it was one per lot. I wonder if it will create a downtownie for every downtown residential lot load? I make a lot of sims live downtown. Have you checked that? I will pay attention when I make my next custom hood.

No problem

Did you check the date and time of file creation? That should tell you which are the new ones, and they will all have been created at the same time. Just sort by date.

If it was Sim State University you made, it creates 113 character files, Academie Le Tour makes 100, but I don't know about La Fiesta Tech. The thing is, you can't delete the uni hood you make until you make another one, and doing that will create an additional 50 character files. So if you do want to delete it, then make the new hood first, then delete it. Then go delete all the character files.

I have not found a minumum number as of yet. I usually make between 25 and 30 for each. I am going to be building a new custom hood soon, and post the results in my thread.

Well, that got me curious so I checked just now, and DAC does not do anything to the sims in the lot bin.

You don't have to create all the townies, you can just create one at a time with the tree. I am not clear yet as to how many will generate on their own, or how many you have to have before they will stop regenerating. I have not tested this. Uni hoods are much different, and will generate new dormies for each dorm, though if you move a student out of a dorm and move another one in to any dorm, it will make use of the existing dormies as well as generate more if needed to fill up a dorm with more rooms than the previous. You can use noregen hacks to prevent this. I have never used them, so I can't tell you specifically which ones to use or how they work.

Yeah, I think I may change the title...which may help some since it works for all EPs, though apparently DAC is broken in OFB. I have never used it myself other than for testing purposes, I always delete character files from the folder instead. Good luck with your new hood, and welcome to MATY

Really? I wonder if just deleting the character files does the same. That is my preference, and so far I have not noticed any weirdness in LTW - even in hoods I have had for a very long time. I never used DAC until the question about it not working came up, and I still don't use it for my own personal hoods. The only LTW weirdness I have noticed also effects the aspiration, and there again, it is only of NPCs that I have moved into my sims' homes, and there again, only if I change their aspiration with the orb....and they have to not be the selected sim. Then they simply revert back to their old aspiration and LTW if they have gone to sleep and awakened while not selected on the same sim day/night that they used the orb.

Did that make any sense at all?

I was wondering that myself, and I thought perhaps it was related to the Sims 1 thing that had tattoos - Urbz?

The 7th thread down in the Peasantry section is a tutorial specifically for this.  Might search the site a bit before you start asking for help on something

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=4090.0

No, that will cause the same problem, which leads me to beleive that the problem is the number or character files deleted at once when it comes to custom hoods, and possibly with the Maxis pre-mades as well, since they have more character files than a new hood, though I am convinced that a lot of that has to do with the pre-arranged scenarios in various families (they are much different and cause errors with the same hacks that don't cause errors with the exact same setup, minus the pre-existing storyline). This is speculation, but it is the only thing that has made sense to me so far. One at a time seems to be the only way at this time. I am slowly working on creating a bunch of custom cc-free townies, as well as bug-free Maxis neighborhoods that are empty. This is taking a long time, however, as I am doing many other things at the same time

MTS2 is working for me

Cool glad you got it figured out. Yes, the throwing up thing is not my favorite thing about the game.

I agree, Targa's stairs make sim life much easier. No more complaining about someone else on the stairs - unless they get stupid and stand on them or hang out on them.

I make all my lots based on what the sims I am moving in will be doing there. Most are one story, and I generally have one more bathroom than bedroom - especially since OFB ,since it starts every sim with a low bladder. I keep my hallways 2 squares wide, and keep  at least one 6x8 square area open somewhere in the house so they have room for pillow fights and kicky bag without complaining as often. Also, If I have a back door, I will fence off the back part of the house so no one tries to ring the bell on the back door, or ring the front bell, and then walk around to the back door, causing an annoying game of cat and mouse. Almost all of my residential lots are 2x3 and smaller, and I have very few complaining sims. I will post a link of one of my floorplans to give you an idea. I like functional houses more than anything.

OK, here is one, it is actually a test house, but the floorplan is great. Enclosing the kitchen/dining area would not be a problem for your sims.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/necrobabe/Screenshothouse.jpg

And here is one of my 3 story houses
fl.1: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/necrobabe/house2.jpg
fl 2: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/necrobabe/house3.jpg
fl 3: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/necrobabe/snapshot_9119110c_114f0fa6.jpg

Hopefully, between all of us you will come up with something that works for you

Perhaps you have the toilet from the Grand Trianon Collection at MTS2? It looks like the expensive Maxis toilet, only it has no base. That has the option to throw up. The only other mod I know of that enables that is the one that was mentioned by Squinge, which is specifically for that.

is he stuck in "tidy"?

The only reliable way I have found to do it is when your business is closed and your employees are there. Calling them in and taking care of that before opening seems to work the best.

I haven't had that happen yet, but I did get one that had a fear of being caught cheating by her dead husband - that was weird.