Sorry but I have no choice but to ask everyone to stop using it immediately

When I load the hood houses still have familles. I have even checked back to C drive folder and the characters fold is empty, so I'll be damned where the game is pulling them from to create the characters. To be honest I haven't checked if it's adding townies too but I assume so since the character folder has quite a few files. I might just give up on that hood.

Gawd, it's time to jump thru these hoops again?   
I'm kind of glad Maxis is ending Sims 2 with Free Time.  I'm tempted just to leave the FT neighborhood separate but I did have a question about my Bluewater Village.
It's working fine with all my other neighborhoods so probably I should just leave well enough alone.  Alas....

I did not merge any new shopping districts when I merged my neighborhoods (I put Veronaville, Strangetown and Riverblossom Hills as alternate Downtowns and they worked fine).

My question is that I noticed my Bluewater Village is listed as Suburb03 and I have a Suburb01 and Suburb02 (neither of these have pictures with them).  Suburb03 is the one with the picture so that's how I know that's my active shopping district.
OK, why would my game list my active Bluewater Village as number 3?  Shouldn't it have been #1?
When I was thinking about merging the FT neighborhood as a second Shopping District I went and created an empty neighborhood there in the shopping districts and checked and saw the game called that one Suburb05 (?)  with its appropriate picture but it also threw in a Suburb04 (with no picture).

Why would it do that?  Can I delete Suburbs01, 02 and 04 and rename 03 to 01 and 05 to 02?

Fighting a losing battle, there, Tarlia. We've told her before.

I've had a terrible run of twins births lately. It happened three times in the same family (with two different women) then in one CAS-created family then in an older family twice.

I give UP. My previous computer ( a PowerMac) was a terror for the twins plague. This one, a modest dual-core MacPro started off OK but now seems to have caught Twin Plague Syndrome.

Until a fix is out you'll have to either avoid the aspiration rewards with the the sims that have Pleasure Seeker as secondary, or change their secondary to another one for the time being. 


Poor Sanjay Ramaswami is being put through his paces tonight (he's the elder permaplat I've been using to try and reproduce a couple of things). 
Changed his aspiration to Knowledge, gave no secondary and he died of old age leaving a Knowledge urnstone. 
Rezzed him and gave him a secondary aspiration of grilled cheese - he died of old age leaving a Romance plat urnstone. 
Rezzed him - changed Primary Asp to Family, Secondary to Knowledge - he died of old age and left a fortune plat urnstone (WTF?!)
Rezzed him - Kept primary as Family - changed Secondary to Popularity - he left a Romance plat urnstone.  This is seriously screwed. 

I'm going to have to switch to the other folder with JMs FT mods in and retest this. 

So I just did a "complete" test with a new neighborhood and everything is a-okay.  I spawned with boolprop 30 townies and then they were used as the sims on the hobby lots - no unusual NPCs like postman or anything. No crashes, no bugs, no glitches. 

Can anyone tell me, does this empty template actually work? Since IAmTheRad has no time to test it? I want to play on my custom hood so bad!

Potential problem with the empty templates...

While the game will generate a NPC to be the 'hobby' head, and the lots are in the game, the game makes a NPC a member of that club.

In riverblossom where I did some testing (since Rose is most likely always going to be nature enthusastic), I put her into the lot, where the head, and two NPCs showed up. A pizza delivery man, and an exterminator.

If I knew how to, I'd make a 'reverse' stealth hood, which only removes the playable families so I wouldn't need to go with the DELETED path, since if they were burninated to begin with, it wouldn't change the game.

I used the new QA of SimPE that was released today.

Note: Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT delete the lots in the neighbourhood folder.

This is an empty template, maybe has some garbage files in it. It might be able to be cleaned better than I can do this.

And again, do NOT delete the lots. I can't stress this enough

Go ahead and delete all the characters, the thumbnails.

You may think that you need to delete the lots folder, but those are needed by the game. The game will use those lots for the special hobby lots that you need a membership card to get into. The game most likely cannot create them on it's own, much unlike the secret society lots.

Both attachments are exactly the same. Just a bug in the forum makes it show two of the same.

You want a clean stealth neighbourhood, or an empty one?

Cleaning Pets addons is easier: Backup your neighborhood, let Pets install, save the most-recently-generated SuburbXXX file, keep that, restore backup, add this file.

Normally, yes. Sex is determined at birth. But I recall reading somewhere that Brandi's was somehow scripted. Of course, this was way back when, when it was still widely thought that cookies resulted in twins, and I don't recall who posted that bit. My memory isn't that long. I also never played her myself....I did play Pleasantview for about a month when the game first came out, but with Chuck and Saish Test (based off my family from Sims1).

The reason she is pregnant with boys is because EAxis coded it that way, for boys (I believe for twins as well). It's basically the only precoded birth in the game. It  has nothing to do with the fact that she is self-inseminated. Logically, if a girl were self-inseminated, she would only have girls as there is no Y chromosome to donate. 'Cause, ya know, that's possible right now.

I'm having a similar problem when using the debug NPC and townie maker-

When I tell it to "make vacation sim," it doesn't list any of the sims on the lot- only the current townies and NPCs (including the ideal plant sim, social workers, etc).