Most of my regular families don't run home businesses, but the Temple of Holy Cats runs one. Customers are charged an hourly fee to use a bubble blower and pet cats. I use the No Unauthorized Persons thingie to keep "customers" out of my sims' living areas. If you start at a low price and up it gradually, tickets sell themselves.  And there's no reason to ever close!

Actually, I don't think this one looks so bad in the previews.  I had it downloaded at one point.  Its true awfulness is only apparent when you try to use it in your actual game, and it explodes out of its allotted space.  I hate shit that goes through walls.

The poop-feeding duck is officially my favorite download evar.

There are ways to improve their chances.  Certain hacks that take the edge off the stupidity, extra fridges so they don't run out of food, sprinklers over the stove, good house design.  Actually, I think there's a challenge based around this, isn't there?

Yes, but if they just lived perfect lives doing all the right things all the time without you then they wouldn't be much of a game, would they?

I haven't seen the CAS thing either, but I had a case of sinking pets that seemed to be caused by a custom pets-enabled bed.  Just another thing you might look out for.

I don't know if I want MORE or LESS deaths, but I would like some changes in the methods of death, I guess.  A lot of things just seem so weirdly unbalanced; it's apparently very easy to die of hyperthermia in Seasons, but totally impossible to freeze to death.  It's relatively easy to be scared to death on a lot with multiple ghosts, but practically impossible to die of plague.  I don't have a huge problem with how it works, but if I were making the game, I'd tweak this stuff.

With Pets, I believe the total number of sims formally allowed to live on a lot is ten (ten total, with no more than eight humans or six pets).

ETA: Although you said this was a Greek lot, which can't have pets in any case, and would thus still be limited to eight. I need to get some sleep. 

I think I found this one's long-lost brother. From Forwardmotion on TSR:

That one SaraMK posted looks straight out of Dr. Seuss. Sim-Whoville, anyone?

This may be just me, but way back, I experienced random download deletions when downloads were set to read/write. This was way back when I only had the base game, and it was the Mac version, so it's probably an old and irrelevant weird bug. But I still set everything to read only. The memory of the disappearing phonehack haunts me.

I tried to edit the post about seventeen times to fix the link, but it wouldn't. I'm stupid and suck. 

While I haven't had the problem of pets being unable to reach food, I have repeatedly had cats get stuck in between a bowl and the wall.  Not even my real cats are this dumb.

There was a thread about it a while back, with pictures --

Here we are.

You froze a penguin? Sounds like a hell of a cold snap.

Does anyone know if a mod has been made anywhere, by anyone, to enable Sims to take a user-directed solo Romantic picture with the photobooth? I know visitors will sometimes do it autonomously, so the option must be in there somewhere. This seems like such a little thing, but I'd like some more variety in my booth photos.

Currently being discussed at the Plant Sims Thread 

Those bottom ones from Sapphire Sims look like the Sim was a unicorn who ran into a doorframe.

Well, maybe if you were writing a story about Sims caught in a terrible windstorm....

Looking for ugly hair at Vitasims is like looking for fish in the ocean.

(at least that one is free...)


Those two are pay. 

But my favorite is from Sims Connection (also pay):

Lust. PURE LUST!

(Edited for pic server being down.)

When I first looked at the shorts that "bleed" over onto the legs, I figured they were supposed to look like that -- like they had elastic at the bottoms, you know?  had some like that when I was about four 

Really? Why did I think there was a way in the Windows version? I must be hallucinating again.

Thanks, simsbaby and Marhis, for the tip -- I guess I figured if the "switch to next application" was disabled, then "hide" would be too. The things you learn.

Just checking for my own peace of mind -- am I wrong in thinking this is fixed in Pets? (I got Pets and OFB at the same time, and have never experienced this bug)

Is this the bug wherein BodyShop exported all texture files in a Project at half-size (256 instead of 512)? Again, I could be wrong, but I *think* this is fixed in Pets -- at least, I haven't had to resize all my .bmps since.
I still had to tweak my config file to get BodyShop to import anything without making it disgustingly blurry, though.


On the other hand, the Mac version doesn't include a way to switch between windowed and full-screen mode on the fly (unless this, too, was fixed in Pets and I didn't notice!), or to switch to another application while in full-screen mode (command-tab is disabled  ).

Stupid question alert -- does the skins' being geneticised also mean that townies and/or NPCs may spawn with these skintones? It sounds like no, but I just wanted to make sure.

I'll also mention that I'm running on a Mac, and I've had up to 3GB of downloads before without hitting the limit.  This may be low for some people, but it isn't as though you're only allowed three. 

My main "advantage" to running on Mac is just that it happens to be the computer I have and the OS I was running when TS2 came out.  And that's just a matter of personal preference.  I was tired of general Mac vs. Windows debates a decade ago, and I don't think they're really all that  useful to Sims players, or anyone.

A general FAQ for Mac Sim players might be a thing of value, though.  Additionally, I have an old version of WooHoo (the one that was posted at MTS2 before it got yanked) I'd be willing to upload or send to anyone who wants one, if it's no longer available at the maker's site.  I heard there were problems with the "backup" function or something, but it seems to work fine just to install .Sims2Pack files, or look at .packages to figure out what they are.

I don't see a lot of stuff that fits my playstyle, but the bank stuff and other hacks on that site are full of interesting ideas. I laughed pretty hard at the "wearable by all ages" diapers. For the VERY dedicated skill builder!