Aha!  Thanks rainbow, I've been building rather than playing since I got the hack and had totally forgotten about it until I got into this new family. Silly me.

I used to get every family member "crying softly" whenever someone died, old age or not, but now they ignore it pretty much, only the nice sims crying. Maybe something to do with nocrybabies? (although that's for fighting and such). But I have noticed as well that my sims are ignoring when their housemates/relatives are growing up as well (unless there's cake!).

No, my dad did. My parents, being ex-hippies (well, my Mum still is, but yeah), were real John and Yoko fans. Of course, everyone thought it was an insult - since the pet was a female dog. Not intended that way!! 

Damn, mine is kinda boring - Yoko Hale.

I've been naming like most here - if the screenname can be split, it is; if not, their last name is Maty.

Hmm... I must've been confused because of the fighting aspect. There was definitely some oddness with babies and toddlers fighting, however, when Nightlife came out and I think it was hack related.

Edit: the only thing I can find is a post by Brynne with child/adult attacking. Sorry, LynnMar, it's definitely familiar. Maybe an old version of enemies accumulate? It was somehow related to the new fighting and furious system, I just wish I could remember!! 

IRIC, the babies and toddlers being able to attack older sims was due to the fightclub hack not being compatible with Nightlife. It was months ago that I read this, but it might be a good idea to check if fightclub is in your downloads folder.

Crimped pigtails! so cute!

It looks interesting... I hope the "create your own products" option doesn't get left on the cutting room floor. And that you're able to live and work on the same lot.

Wow.  I'm glad those pictures weren't deleted, they're fantastic! Heh, and is the girl's mother Dina? She looks exactly like Anastasia and Zara Goth (who recently passed away...) in my game.

Actually, you don't even need to exit. Simply click on buy mode, and they reappear. This happens to me a lot, both when building and sometimes when changing levels during play.

I copied Pleasantview - same reason, alternate reality. I copied the neighbourhood file and changed the numbers - but you also have to change all the numbers in the character files, the lot files (e.g. N001_User0000.package to N[number]) - basically check every file in the folder. It took me a while but I got into a rhythm after a bit. It was worth it - I resurrected all the dead spouses, and it's been a very different experience from the first time (when I was so incompetent Dina had aspiration failure every day, too many babies, and Mortimer died really early on... leaving Alexander with some harsh teenage years).

Heh, cool. Don Lothario definitely has some hot genes - all his children, no matter who their mother is, are beautiful. But especially the boys.  The hottest sim in my current Pleasantview is a descendant of Dina and Mortimer, Beau, Lilith and Dirk, and Don. His sister looks a bit odd (eyes too close together...) but he's a cutie! And I'm 20, and having slight crushes on computer game characters is completely normal!... yes. 

I've resurrected him, and he looks like Skip just as a teen.

Blonde one has to be Skip Broke. It looks just like him. I'll agree with idtaminger on the other two being Brandi and Don.

Your terrain and JadeElliot's decorations are fine by me. 

I'll volunteer as an incubator and storyteller - I can also contribute houses, say smaller ones for the less affluent area of the neighbourhood. I've got about five that were built in the game from "starter home" plans.

I would think that if they are freshly moved in, without playing the actual family or greeting the welcome wagon, they would know no one outside of their family and so wouldn't bring any unwanted sims along with them.

Also - when this was a neighbourhood swap I was interested but couldn't really get in on the action (due to slow modem), but now if it's just a one-off download I'd like to participate. Are there enough people already or are more participants welcome? And should the created sims we submit be singles or can we create more than one (like a family or group of friends living together) to submit?

I love those contacts. Though I prefer to create sims with the maxis eyecolours (to keep the genetics as they were intended - I don't like how all customs are dominant) they look so much more realistic with Lyran's contacts on. Of course, that also means all my sims have to have full face makeup or custom hair as a turn-on otherwise they're not attracted to neighbourhood sims. 

I'd definitely like it toned down slightly. I've only had the game for a week and a half (so I'm yet to experience fighting for no apparent reason), but I find it annoying how the furious state comes in for ANYTHING. Georgina Pleasant (who just broke up with her cheating husband, Trevor) went on a date with Leo Depiesse, and in the middle of dinner he said "I've gotta go" - fine, whatever. They both had pink hearts, so it had gone well. I had her scope the room since her mood was high and she found a downtownie she liked. So she asked him on a date, and from nowhere Leo appears (thought he had to get home, hmmm...) and starts slapping her and she gets a cheating memory. I've always wanted to see more of a normal jealousy system in the game - and, now that we have the dating system, I had expected that unless there was some level of serious emotion (red hearts) or commitment (engagement, marriage, joined union, going steady) between both sims they'd be a bit freer to do as they pleased. I've been waiting for a mod like that for the past year, and I hope someone makes it now that Nightlife has made the consequences that much more dire.

This is fantastic. Now there can actually be some variety in my neighbourhoods. Great work! 

I've had it in normal conversations between sims as well, since installing Nightlife. It freaked me and I wonder if the code has been modified and it's a fix that needs to be updated. Hopefully, as others have said, it's coming from something else instead.

Oh, so they're bored? Righto. Makes sense, but I expected it to be a bit like Hot Date, where other sims were on dates themselves, eating out, etc. The places I've been to have karaoke, dancefloors, but they don't dance or sing. I'll put in some poker tables since they seem obsessive about them.

Yep, they got out of the car before the freezing started. I did a reinstall as Zephyr suggested and it seems to be running smoothly now. Although everyone at community lots seems to prefer standing around like stunned mullets rather than actually interacting with each other, which is kinda boring. Lucky I always backup before an expansion pack!

I'm a bit confused by this. I just installed Nightlife and the patch, cleared out my downloads folder, and went to a lot. On the lot, the sims were fine. I've now sent them on their very first date in their new car to "Londoste" (because it sounded pretentious and they are very much so) - and the controls don't work. They aren't greyed out or anything, but clicking on them doesn't work. There was a bit of a lag at first, but it got better as the car drove up to the restaurant; but I'm unable to zoom in, unpause the game, etc. Has anyone else had this problem? Did I forget to remove something I should have?

I've never even seen it in a video store, otherwise my curiosity would've gotten the better of me. What can I say, Australian video stores suck!

Oh, so that's what that movie was about. I've never seen it, but I have childhood memories of it being advertised on my disney tapes. The ad kinda freaked me out, and I'm glad that as a computer-addicted six year old I never actually saw it!

Cool, thanks for that. I'm currently collecting hacks for when I get around to installing, and I'm sure it'll be extremely useful.


Yes, thanks for that! The hack works wonders; half my sims are cured already!