That is just...  MENTALLY RETARDED!

I like your version way better! 

Gah... 17 transactions... no wonder people hated my shops before. 

How many transactions should a Sim have to go through to hit Gold?  I pulled it off in my one-Sims home shop (Flower lady in Bluewater Village) in less than three Sim Days.  With hours of operation being 9am to 5pm or so.  And she was busy re-stocking (for the first two days, then she hired a peon townie teen) and doing Sales socials the entire itme.  Unless she started with an invisible head start, she flew through them.  The first badge only took between 3 to 7 transactions.  She got it her first afternoon of business.

Are you telling them to "take a break" or "send home for the day"?  "Take a break" means they will go autonomous for one sim hour (according to what I read in the guide) or so and fill their needs up.  When that hour is up, all you need to do is interact with them to break them out of whatever autonomous thing they are doing and they should get back to work.   If you "Send them home" or they leave the lot, they cannot return for 8 sim hours.

You can also just assign them a new task by clicking on them and they should hop to it. 

Interestingly enough (or not), the Tricou family always generates when you create a downtown, even if it's a custom downtown with no lots.  I discovered this when creating a blank neighborhood for myself.  It seems that they're a fixture in the character files for the downtown templates and will always be present.  Kinda annoying, actually, since it adds to your character file count without actually giving you any useful characters.

You all are making this way too complicated.  If you click on a tombstone at the community lot you can add it to your inventory.  You then click anywhere on the lot and "Place Tombstone Here".

I think you can then go into build mode and move it.

That would be nice... if the game actually indicated which sims were in which part of the neighborhood in any meaningful way.  Sadly, it doesn't.  There are three "families" of Townies.  One is the NPC townie pool, which includes ALL service NPCs from all portions of a neighborhood, one is the townies and dormies, and the third is more townies that were added with Nightlife, but not all of them as some wind up in your normal townie family and NPC pool.  Mr Big and Ms Diva wind up in the new famiily, but the Grand Vampires wind up in the normal Townie family, for example.  Well, correction, that's where they've wound up in all of my games so far.

You only want to do this on an empty neighborhood, but what you do is, while in the Neighborhood screen, open the cheat box and type "deleteallcharacters".

It will warn you that you're about to nuke your neighborhood into oblivion, but it will literally delete every single character.

Thanks for making this!  Now I can let the residents of Pleasantview go out at night without fear of having to call the Gypsy for some anti-vampire-medication. 

Of course, that couple who befriended all four of my Grand Vampires... they're stuck inside at sunrise from now on.   

Fightclub made fights do more than just a Body check.  It's not an infinite loop, but it may take a while.  Of course, a normal fight can as well.

The game should always pull Social Worker Abductees before creating random CAS uglies for adoption purposes.  Provided one is available for the appropriate age group, of course.

Nope.  You have it right.  The bow stays on for formal, but for PJ's, Undies, Swimwear, and Athletic wear it turns into a pony tail.  It makes sense considering the length of the bow.

What doesn't make sense is the "Countess" hair losing a foot and a half when changing outfits.

During the day, regardless of location, a SimVampire's needs decay at a slightly accellerated rate.  Adding windows to the mix ups the rate.  Going outside sends the rate skyward.  For point of reference, the standard decay would be a constant "one green arrow" of decay.  Window assisted decay is "two green arrows" of decay (if they're standing in the light patch from it you may even notice some smoke).  Going outside is like toasting a marshmellow after bathing in kerosene.  Otherwise known as "three green arrows" of decay.  All of it stops, obviously, when in a coffin.

Unless you create a retarded pathing system on a huge lot, any SimVampire should be able to get from their bed to a carpool at high noon without going up like the never-ending-bonfire.

See if you can resurrect one of them.  That might shut the rest of them up.  (I don't have any sims rich enough to buy that house yet.)

I'll be brave and say it would be really nice if we could get a version that only disallows it on Community lots.  If you invite them into your home, though, you're fair game.

Although, I'd be happy with the no-random bit.  It's worth the influence if you really wanna get bit.

No, he's just thinking about Memory markers that are sitting in his memory.  Either that or he is thinking of having children later (almost all Sims want to have children at some point).  Sims don't even realize they can change Aspirations, let alone try to give us clues about it.

I somehow think that's not supposed to hapen.  Did his Aspiration icon change in the Date panel in the upper right corner as well?

Sim Jealousy has never made sense.  I just wait for the Romance mod to get updated.  Until then, I just ignore it.   

A bad aspiration and a bad astro sign = bad chemistry (repellant) regardless of other features.  The fact they are married makes it Neuthral chemistry, since that's the lowest you can go and be "in love"

Dancing skill accumulates slower than it used to, so bust a move is harder to get to.  I think they also upped the relationship requirements to be able to do it.  This is why you think you're not getting your dance scholarships.  They're there, they just take time.

The game was officially released a week ago... most of those are pre-order titles...  Um.  Sorry, not buying it.  Cuz, ya know, it's also the ONLY SIMS GAME ON THERE and it's been available for pre-order for a few months.

So unless they're only counting games that shipped (judging by that list it's impossible) then I'd say it's doing pretty good.

One only needs hands to rip lips off.  Or pliers. 

if "intprop maxnumofvisitingsims" still works, just up that number. 

My laptop (3.0ghz machine) gives me about 12 to 15 sims on a downtown lot at a time.  My home pc (1.4 ghz machine) gives me about 6 to 8 on a lot.  This includes any Sims I take on my own and service NPCs.

Chemistry (and therefore, what the Gypsy gives you as your date) is not based solely on Turn-On's.  It is based on Sim Personality (similar personalities attract), Zodiac Signs (which partially nullifies the personality bit, but not really), Aspiration (which can be a HUGE factor), and then Turn Ons and Turn Offs.  It's very possible to match both turn on's, but have opposing Zodiac Signs/personalities/aspirations and therefore NOT be a compatible match.  It's even possible to be repelled by someone who has both of your turn on's (but it's not very likely unless they also have your turn off). 

That's your problem then.  If your influence bar is not completely empty or completely full (or nearly so), you will continue to get Influence wants rolling into your panel.  Of course, acting on them only serves to keep your influence bar less than completely full.  Ignore them.  Fill other wants.  Or turn on testing cheats and shift click the want to fulfill it and make it roll to something else.

Once you've installed a DT, you MUST have a DT in a neighborhood.  If you have multiple DT's, you can delete all but one of them.  This is because many special NPCs (such as downtownies) require a DT to function.