I have the same ADD issue with playing the sims as you do. The second generation rarely makes it to college before I get bored and delete the whole thing. I've vowed not to let myself do that with my shiny new MATY hood (Gen 2 is still all toddlers/babies/unborn except for the very first babies born, who have just aged up to child, so I don't know if I'm going to keep my vow or not).

For gender preference, I randomize with the ACR adjuster (I adjust the gay/bi percentages according to the gender balance of the 'hood). I plan let them pretty much choose partners for themselves. Like nekonoai, if a sim rolls the get engaged/get married to want, they get engaged/married, unless a couple gets pregnant, then it's a shotgun wedding for them.  

CC isn't the problem, because the game works fine now with the Downloads and Saved Sims folders in and the N0001 folder out, and worked fine from the time I last put CC in until this morning. I don't know what happened, but something in the N001 folder is causing it.

Nope. I haven't used SimPE in months; I'm always afraid I'll screw something up.

Tried that. Didn't work. I've discovered that it's only one of the neighborhoods that's causing the crash. Unfortunately it's the one that I've played the most, but at least everything else is okay (other than my lots and houses bin, which I lost due to my own stupidity), and I can play now.

I woke up this morning, logged in on the computer that has the Sims 2 installed on it, ended superfluous background tasks, double clicked on the shortcut, and waited for the game to load. As the game was loading the lovely "Application has crashed. Application will now terminate." message popped up. I deleted the groups.cache file and tried again. Again, it crashed. I took out my downloads folder and tried yet again. It still crashed. Then I tried with my SavedSims folder taken out (I've got some crappy recolor I made when I was messing around with BodyShop the other day in there and figured it may have been borked somehow.). Still crashed. I took out the whole Sims 2 folder out to let the game regenerate it, and then it loaded. I exited, deleted the 'hoods that came with the game and put my hoods and downloads back in. Started it up, and it crashed again.

What do I do now? I am I going to end up loosing my 'hoods and having to start from scratch? Does this sound like a problem that may be due to SecureROM (I'm infested. I got it with Sims 2 Deluxe and never removed it because I didn't want to mess the registry if it wasn't causing problems.)?

I've also tested it and it works just fine. I was messing around and trying to marry toddlers does result in an error. Trying to marry babies results in the baby being magically pulled to the arc, and the action falls out of que.

Shaved Eyebrows from MTS2



Apparently this was this person's first edit, and it really isn't crappy quality, but it still bodes the question: WHY?!?

If you could think of a reasons you'd want them, find 'em here http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250266