You say nothing of how many houses/buildings you've got - a big number of these greatly impacts the total file size of the neighbourhood, much moreso than the number of sims, and therefore loading/saving times as well. Unless you have a crazy amount, though, 20 minutes is still way too much. How many sims do you have - are these 50+ families normal sized? Do you use much CC? (Normal CC shouldn't affect saving time, but various dubious hacks might do funny things.) Do your sims live on big lots with huge houses and lots of objects?

Pretty much a shot in the dark. I play a merge of all the EAxis neighbourhoods, which has 80-100 families, 650+ sims, and a whole lot of subhoods and buildings, and the saving time is never more than a minute or two, even on the biggest and most populated lots. My specs aren't too different from yours.

I'm fairly certain that at least one of them has to do with the amount of CC you have in your game, but don't quote me on that.

...Those are ingame objects, specifically witch reagents, and the shadows are definitely not supposed to look like that.

Do you get it with all/most objects or just these ones?

Without the neighbourhood file, I'm afraid your 'hood is lost. It's possible you can still extract the characters and lots with SimPE and use them to rebuild. The .reia file is unimportant, it's just the little video that plays when you pick a 'hood in the main menu.

I don't think it's a case of EAxis "bothering" to change the names, but more likely some sort of unintended side effect. I had a quick look at my randomly generated townies in SimPE, and the names are mostly the same in all languages. This could mean that they don't really have names in all the other languages, so perhaps the game rerandomizes them when an EP is installed in a different language, no matter what that language is?

With EAxis, anything is possible.

Either way, this is their doing and not the OP's.

Actually, I remember this happening to me long ago when I installed Pets (I only had the base game at the time). Several of my sims in my Pleasantview got renamed, random townie names which didn't always fit the gender. I don't think it was just former townies that were affected, though, but I don't think any of the original PV sims were. I don't think it's anything dangerous, just some sort of glitch, possibly related to EP changes. You could rename them in SimPE. Which EPs do you have installed?

I think that's just how the trees work in lot view. I also have everything on the maximum settings and still only see the trees that are close to the lot. I guess that the game might slow down too much if it had to render 500+ trees (which is not really an unreasonable number for a fully decorated 'hood)? Or maybe we both missed something.

Uh, maybe she's just not that into him?

You didn't get "verbally attacked" for asking a question, that only happened after you decided to get all huffy and insulted over an innocent (and funny) joke. If you'd just shut up and waited a bit longer, maybe you'd even gotten some help, but you had to go and ruin that for yourself. But by all means, keep crying over the injustice of it all. Surely, YOU have done NOTHING wrong!!!1

Yeah, I figured as much. It's one of those off-limits things.

It's safe to change, I do this to townie/NPC families all the time. The only one I've never touched is the 'Default' family, where object NPCs (Grim Reaper etc) and dead sims go.

To get your neighbourhoods back, simply delete the 'Neighborhoods' folder from your new TS2 folder, and replace it with the one from the old borked one. You don't need anything else.

Are you sure it didn't say 'green energy source'?

It's also really slow. The best method is to either know or find out which files are which CC, view them ingame/in BS, write down or otherwise keep track of which you don't want, and delete the files after you've shut down the program.

I'm glad to see you decided to ignore what I said earlier.


All of the programs Mootilda list only show you the textures, and the textures won't show you any problems with the meshes.

I googled 'sims 2 how to make meshes' for you and this was the first search result, although there were many more you might want to check out. This one suggests using Milkshape for mesh-creation (and therefore, you can assume you can also view them with it).

That said, it's entirely possible that even viewing the meshes won't help you see any problems with them, especially since you have no experience making them, and you'll just have to live with sorting through your CC ingame/ in Body Shop like the rest of us. The thing that you want - a convenient all-purpose CC preview program - does not exist. That's what Body Shop is for.

You might want to make things easier for yourself by sorting through your CC properly and NOT have a whole bunch of poorly named files. Clean installer helps you with this, if you use a lot of Sims2Packs. If you turn on debug mode ingame, you can also see the tags of the files in CAS, making it easier to delete the right ones. But all of this does require effort, and yes, it is slow and tedious, but that's how it is with this game. Sorry.

On second thought, you could probably find the some of problems in the meshes (textures would have nothing to do with this), but I have no experience whatsoever creating or editing meshes. There are tutorials on how to do so, though, and they should also tell you what programs you can use. I expect that gap problems and similar you might find, but clipping through sim's bodies and such I don't think you will see without testing them in the game, since that's an issue of the mesh combined with the animations.

You can view both meshes and textures with various programs, but I'm not sure it'll do you much good. It won't show the sim the way you see them ingame.

Start by not downloading anything by Peggy, though.

(Tumbleweed? MATY is very active. Even if there aren't many new TS2 threads, they usually get an answer if anyone has one.)

It is Pollination Technician.

Yeah, try without them. Custom replacements != vanilla game.

Hi there, and thanks for letting me know. I believe I got a report of this once before, but the Monty lot does work just fine in my game, and I know it does for others, too, I've seen their screenshots, etc. Therefore I don't really know what to tell you, except maybe test a fresh version of the uberhood in a game with no downloads, and see if the same thing happens?

Glad you're enjoying it, otherwise!

I'm going to be completely unhelpful and tell you that it's always worked perfectly in my game, even when I was playing pretty vanilla Seasons. It always sticks. Have you tried removing your downloads folder etc?

They're not. The separate neighbourhoods are just that - separate, base neighbourhoods. I've only cleaned them. They're subhoods only in the actual, merged uberhood.


But yeah, it does have Maxis playables. I'm not sure such a thing as what you're requesting actually exists. I'm a little curious about why you'd want it, too - the terrain itself is freely available in the game, and if for some reason you want the horrible houses in Desiderata Valley (though I really cannot imagine why), you could move out the playables, dump everything in the lot bin, and place the houses into a new, empty neighbourhood, using the DV terrain.

I'm not sure how "not having the CDs because they were arred" is a problem. How did you install them in the first place? Just do that again.

Anyway, short answer is no, long answer is... it's complicated. You could probably find out how to do such registry editing on the intarwebs, but unless you're very comfortable and well-versed in the art of editing the registry, it's not something I'd recommend trying.

Just reinstall. Arr some more if you have to, or something.

No.

That sounds like a problem with your game specifically and not one with the uberhood - you did just say you had the same problem with a custom hood. Landlords spawn just fine in my current in-play uberhood. You may want to check your downloads for conflicting or buggy hacks.

Also, you're welcome.