Truthfully when I first got the game back in February and then found the BBS, I was terrified of using "boolprop" after reading all the "boolprop ruined my game" threads. It wasn't until I found VS and then followed JM here that I began to have an understanding of what it actually was and what's it uses were. It annoys me that that kind of paranoia and misinformation is allowed to run rampant on the BBS...even more then the twincheats and Bella rumours.

Things I've learned from the BBS: That no matter how clearly I state a problem or question and say that I haven't any hacks, custom content or do not use *gasp* broolprop, these things will always be to blame for what the problem is, because I MUST have them installed and have used boolprop with wild abandonment. The game/EA/Maxis itself is never to blame for any problems that might creep up, it must be something I have done.

Well previous to installing the NL patch I was able to resurrect Skip Broke (although there isn't a tombstone/urn) and Michael Bachelor. I tried to resurrect Lyla Grunt after I installed the patch and General Buzz received the message from the Grim Ripper "I don't know why you are calling me, you don't know anyone who died,etc." I'm glad I got to resurrect some of the sims I could but I am disappointed that they "fixed" it with the patch.

At one point I thought it would be fun to create a kind of "foster home" for some of those poor kids in the adoption pool. I created a sim and then had her adopt 7 of them (4 toddlers, 3 children). The house drove me batty, pause, click, pause, click, rinse lather, repeat. Everyone's aspiration level was in the toilet, the original "foster mom" barely knew or had a relationship with most of the kids...what a nightmare. "Unfortunately" this was in my first custom neighborhood that I ended up having to delete due to constant bugginess so I never did see much progression in the house, too much work. 

That is absolutely freakin' hilarious Brynne (not to mention, a little creepy as well).

I was at work with msn for dial up (yay getting DSL next week!) connection when I tried the to get onto the survey first thing this morning and I kept getting the survey is full message as well. Maybe the BBS just hates us, Motoki.

Heck, I'll even use hacked objects to tailor some family's skills, jobs, etc., to be such that it looks like they've already been played for a bit of time and I'm really just picking up at a certain point.  After all, isn't that what the pre-made families really are?

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I do the same thing for some sims as far as skills go. For instance if I use CAS to make an elder, I think it's ridiculous that an older person wouldn't have at least one skill at cooking, cleaning, etc., By the time a person is older they surely would have accomplished some skills in life (at least I would hope so!), so I give them what I think is a reasonable amount of skills and then have them work on the rest.

Yeah, I didn't think it was a glitch either, I thought it was designed that way. I thought it was odd how when I had the Brokes move, she quit coming home with him and he hasn't rolled any wants involving her either. Mind you, that was even before I installed the patch. Maybe when they moved they entered the Witness Protection Program to hide from her, lol. I haven't played the Pleasants house yet though, so I don't know if she will end up bringing him home when and if, I do. Or maybe they fixed that too. I hope so because you know that if she brings him home, when I get back to his lot, he'll start rolling up wants about her. Damn kids!

My daughter and I play the game together and she did some things without asking me if it was ok...like deleting the Oldies, Mortimer Goth and the Calientes (she's only 12, what can I say? ) But she has created some characters that she's really attached to, so instead of resetting the neighborhood I decided last weekend to start a second account on my computer and play Pleasantview from scratch (and I got to add some "adult" content to it e.g. removed the censor patch, anatomical skins, etc.,).  I've resurrected Skip Broke, had him romance and remarry Brandi, then I motherloaded them and moved the whole family  into a nice townhouse....something interesting there, I found that when I moved them, Angela quit coming home with Dustin every damned day (pre NL patch). I am still looking for a nice girl for Dustin because for whatever irrational reason, I hate Angela, lol. I turned Mortimer Goth into an adult and had him marry Dina. I resurrected Michael Bachelor at the Caliente house and have plans for him and Nina. I did have Don and Cassandra get married, although I'm kind of regretting that now; I may have to remedy that situation. No plans for the Pleasants yet, I don't really like any of them but Lilith.
I'm like Ancient Sim though, what I would really like to do is just make up a neighborhood of my favorites like Nervous Subject, the Brokes and some CAS sims I have made in my custom neigborhood.

It said it was full for me as well, Motoki. Anyone have a list of what it asked? I am curious (and disappointed that I can't fill it out).




edited: because "fill" actually has two l's

I love Amazon, the majority of my Christmas shopping is done there (why hassle with cranky crowds and lines?). The book section of Amazon is almost impossible for me to resist....I'm trying though since my husband "commented" (nice way of saying he was totally bent) that Amazon packages show up at our house almost as often as the daily mail.

I also use 2 accounts to play the game, the first one is the one my (pre-teen) daughter and I share, the second is one that I play a more "adult" version of (censor patch removed, anatomical skins, etc.,) the game on. Anyhow, I downloaded the patch last night for the first account, installed it, ran it. I switched to the second account, downloaded the patch again but when I went to install it, it popped up a box saying that the patch had already been installed and was up to date.
So as Renatus said, the main file is the one that is updated and the other account takes it cue from that one. Which of course makes sense, after all I didn't reinstall everything when I created the second account, it just uses the main files from the first one. I had a very "d'oh" moment.

You know one thing about reading TS2 boards is that it is very reassuring to find out I am not the only one who shelled out a fair amount of money for a new computer just so I could play a computer game. I bought a new computer back in February and I'm already thinking I may need to upgrade the RAM and processor; very discouraging considering that I'm still making payments on the bloody thing. The sad part is that if my son or daughter had ever approached me about buying a new computer so that they could play a game, I would have thought they were insane (and extremely spoiled).

Thanks for the list, dizzy. I actually only downloaded Inteen so I could get rid of that false pregnancy, I couldn't think of any other way to do it (not being familiar with SimPe). I'll have to make sure I uninstall it when I get home from work tonight, hopefully it did do the trick.
Btw rainbow, thanks to your advice I was able to add want slots to a sim who recently lost 2 of his want slots (again!). 

After moving the entire family in and out of the original Specter house, then to another house, moving them in and out of that house, deleting the baby and Ophelia many times with no luck, Ophelia still showed up in maternity clothes, very pregnant.  I ended up downloading the Insiminator and the Inteenimator, I then selected Ophelia and "make me pregnant with" Johnny, after the lullaby played, I clicked on "end pregnancy". It seems to have worked. *crosses fingers*
I know I can rename the baby with Merola's painting and several other ways but I kind of like the name "Baby Girl Nigmos". 

What he said. 

Ok, I give...what Townie/NPC maker?


And who are the Tricous?

Please see at the end of my post that I don't have the nobabyharrassment hack installed.

Ok, I'm having a similar problem in Strangetown. Johnny and Opheilia were expecting a baby, everything was going fine until she gave birth. The cinematic (sp) started when she went into labor, then suddenly she "jumped" ( I don't know where she went, all I could see in the movie was the smaller plumbob of the baby and then the baby kind of floating in the air) after the cinematic ended, Opheilia went into the living room and started watching tv. I thought she looked like she was still doing the pregnancy waddle thing even though she was wearing her pre-pregnancy clothing. The baby was just laying on the floor in the bedroom where she went into labor and no one could interact with it. The name baby box never did come up and build/buy modes were greyed out, so I couldn't use moveobjects_on to move the baby or delete it. Stupid me, I SAVED and exited. When I went back in, same thing, build/buy modes greyed out and still can't interact with the baby. So I exited again, moved the family out of the house (by the way this is the original Spectre lot) then moved them back in. Now Opehila is in her maternity clothes,looking VERY pregnant holding the baby she just had and still no options to buy/build.
I moved them out again and into a new house. Buidl/buy modes are enabled but Opheila is still showing up pregnant, she's lost one of her want slots and Johnny has lost 2 of his. ( I had upgraded them using JM's lots debugger previously.) I have Uni and NL, I don't have the nobabyharrassment hack installed (although it's been driving me crazy not to have it) and I'm at a loss on how to fix this. Any ideas on how to make it so Opheila is not pregnant would be greatly appreciated

I haven't seen this mentioned but I may have overlooked it. Has anyone else had a sim's date end before it starts? I've had this happen twice. The first time it happened my sim was at home (in my custom neighborhood) and she paid the matchmaker for a blind date. Her date had no more then just landed out of the sky when a box popped up saying "uh, ok, thanks that wasn't too great" or something along those lines and the guy left. The second time was in Pleasantview, I had my teen sim call a boy she's going steady with and ask him to go downtown on a date. The taxi came and she went downtown. I saw both her and her boyfriend get out of the taxi and then that same box popped up about the date not being great and he left. I have some of JM's, Inge's and TwoJeff's hacks installed but nothing that hasn't been approved for NL. So I'm wondering if this is a bug anyone else has experienced?

I'm glad someone asked this question because I was wondering if I was somehow retarded not being able to figure this out. I have never had a sim actually go grocery shopping because pre-NL the community lots took forever to load so I always had them delievered. The downtown lots load much more quickly so the other day I decided to send a sim grocery shopping and could not for the life me figure out why I couldn't click on anything to buy; he ended up going back home and ordering groceries after all. I guess it's nice to know I'm not retarded and that it's not a "bug", it's a "feature".

I don't think it has anything to do with SimPe since I have never used it. I created a new family the other night, mom, 2 teen daughters and a teen son, the teenagers have the option to "flirt" with each other. I am quite perplexed (and kind of grossed out) as to how this could be.

Oh yes, I remember reading that also...I wonder what I have done to my game? 

hmmm...but before I installed NL, Brandi couldn't resurrect Skip with the Grim Reaper phone after I installed NL she could. I don't use Simpe because I don't feel confident messing with stuff I don't have the slightest clue how to use. Curiouser and curiouser.

Yes, I realize it has been discussed in TS2 but since the advent of NL many people have discussed how it is now possible to resurrect sims that were previously not available to be resurrected e.g. Skip Broke.