The correct procedure is to:

1.) Donate to the Get JM Nightlife Fund.
2.) Wait for confirmation that Nightlife works
3.) Wait for a standalone university patch (optional but recommended)
4.) Buy nightlife

When left to their own devices kicky bags will reproduce, like the evil little things that they are.

The answer I think is obvious ... the kicky bag gets stuck, new kicky bag gets generated for new game, gets stuck. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

If you are saying that if you use the clear stuck kicky bags from the debugger, then have sims play kicky bag and cancel that action, and then clear stuck kicky bags again, and THEN it says always that it has fixed 3 objects, then the problem is most likely some internal thing where you need to kill 3 items to kill 1 stickybag.

FWIW, I've had the choking death on numerous occasions, both with and without hacks. I've never noticed any particular thing that may cause it, as some Sims have never been to a community lot (they generally tend to go maybe once in their lifetimes ... to meet new people). It got to one point with one game where I would load up the lot, and within 5 minutes of real time, she would die. After a couple of attempts, I managed to beat Grim, and she continued with her pregnancy. I think its probably a bug, but Maxi's probably define it as a feature...

This sounds like a driver issue. Best thing is to try booting with a minimal configuration (Motherboard, Memory, Processor and single Hard drive. You might need to use the Gfx card if you don't have an onboard graphics controller on your system.

If this fails to boot, its an issue with one of those 4 or 5 components.
If it does boot, its something else you have connected (printer, scanner, dvd-writer, Lan card etc). Put them back one at a time until problem re-occurs.

Software Testing:
Go into safe mode, Go into Device Manager, that can be accessed via Control Panel, System. Start disabling unnecessary stuff here. See if Windows will boot normally.

Hardware Testing:
Memory can be tested with a utility from www.memtest.org
The rest would need to be removed and tested individually.
Try going into the BIOS settings and disabled unnecessary items (such as sound card, onboard LAN, com ports, USB ports and so on)

Hey database

Do you have any other stuff that you have done? I am always interested in downloading more stuff.

The breaking toilets and showers really piss me off (haha) ... but the stove is another story ... it seems virtually indestructible. The last time mine went up in flames I had to get a new one.

I've also had issues with the bathroom controller on occasion if a sim is low in mechanical skill and takes their sweet time trying to unclog a toilet or fix a shower/bath. I get a spawn of "Be Used" icons in the queue. Generally the fix for this is to use the "Go Here" to somewhere outside the bathroom and cancel the "Be Used" icons like mad, and get another high-mechanical sim to fix the relevant item. Wish the toilet and bathroom stuff wouldn't break so damn often.

I run the technical department of a large IT company, my major studies at university were in business management and accounting, though I have lots of practical experience with personal computers. I was also very good at maths at school and university. So that means that I shouldn't really like the Sims.

I don't think its fair to put people in boxes unless
a) they fit and
b) you plan to torture them at some later stage.

The lot debugger is obviously more awesome than you...

Burninate the lot and see if that cures it.

From my personal experience banning somebody is a bad idea, going with the whole free speech idea (speech is free and you generally get what you pay for). If idiots and morons enjoy posting inane comments, they shouldn't be banned, they should be made fun of ... they will go away eventually. If intelligent people want to make valid points and criticise something, that is their right, let them do so, it only reflects badly on your own maturity for censoring intelligent criticism/complaints/suggestions etc.

You can tell its all going south when you get something like "Well if you don't like the way its run, then go somewhere else!"

But after all that ...fighting is fun though, but its frustrating to have a battle of wits with unarmed people

Go to your profile [Button at top] ... Go to notification options on the left hand side. Make sure these options are enabled:

1. Receive reply notification only for the first unread reply.
2. Turn notification on when you post or reply to a topic.

That should do the trick.

Actually ... that link would only work for Gali ... seeing as his/her user id is 30 (if you check his/her profile) ... *sigh* trying to be too clever there.

If you go to your notification options then you can set your notification options....

 

Welcome to your new home JM. Nobody paniced, everybody remained calm, and lot of people found the exit.