Did you try the Stuck Object Remover?

I read somewhere around here that it IS indeed a feature of the updated hack.

That's all the info I have though. 

Yeah, me too.

A nest underwater?  What the hell?  That's really strange.  I thought the nests during creature phase were always in the same general locations on each planet.  Guess not.

I GOOOOOOOGLED, and found this:

http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=303621#post303621

See if any of that applies to you.  I'm pretty sure this is an archived thread, so maybe not.

Ah, yes.  This is the type of "cue" with which I am familiar, in my super-high paying acting job  [/bizarro world speech].

Grammar aside, I have to pipe up and say I've also experienced the "gonna go fishing" queue where a pond USED to be.

But then, I don't always play on FLAT lots, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.

Why don't you take her clothes shopping and plan her outfits?  Is that not working?

Are you shift-clicking the newspaper in debug mode?  I'm asking because this apparently has been broken for some time.

As for slower game play, I've actually read that people are experiencing the opposite.

I think the whole reason behind this EULA is they are covering their asses for taking your creations and putting them in other peoples' games, which is what they've always said they'd be doing.

I thought this wasn't possible.  Or at the least, it wasn't recommended. 


I'm curious about this as well.

I have thought about doing that, but it's nonsensical to me.  Have you ever seen what's in there?!   I didn't even know some of those symbols existed!

It's probably not something someone with little to no skill with computers (read: me) should do, but I wanted to try anyway.  Oh, well.  I'll live.

I, too, have all of these issues in my game.  I can't cancel out the "At School" icon at all.  They go all the way to their apartment to put it down on the desk (where they can't pick it back up--known issue, I know).
I've only had the piano jump bug a couple of times.  They just stop and stand up.  Usually, they'll autonomously go back to it.

I'm just glad other people are having gardening issues.  Phew!
I won't have a chance to play until this afternoon, but I'm going to take out the dailygardener.package and see if that helps at all.

Um...huh?

I realize I hog a lot of periods for my ellipses, but I honestly didn't really understand this post.  Which hacks do you have?  I got lost after "i have all EP and SP".

It seems this is only happening to binned (and/or premade, but I think just binned) apartments.  I don't remember if there was any "fix" for it, as the kids can theoretically just walk to school.  But, this was the issue, and you're not alone.  Sorry I can't give you more info than that.  Hopefully someone will chime in with more details.

I'm still trying to figure out my gardening issue.  Anyone?  Is this in anyway related to the dailygardener.package?  Is that preventing the landlord from gardening?  I suppose I'll take it out for now and test...just wondering.

Good idea.  I'll do that for now.

I used both boolprop cheats to get rid of spiral stairs and add an elevator (that apartment where the guy with the adopted teenager daughter).  I turned them off right after (and did not experience what the above poster is experiencing).

I've experienced a few weird things after, and I don't know if it's related to these cheats, so I'm asking:

The landlord won't garden, there's no option to make her, and there's no Gardener listed on the Service area of the phone.
Homework placed on a desk is inaccessible, so I have to go into Buy mode and move it to the floor.
I invited a Sim over.  She went up the elevator, looked at the snow outside the "window" (there was no window in that room), turned around and left.  I called her back when she left the lot and invited her back over and everything worked fine.

Are any of these things at all related to using the cheats?  I'm running AL;DC with a few hacks taken out.  I'm just at a loss about this stuff, especially the Gardener.  I would like at least THAT to work.

Is anyone else having Gardening issues on apartment lots?  I'm playing the guy with the adopted daughter in Belladonna Cove.  The landlord won't garden; there's not an option for it if I call her.  The Gardener doesn't show up under services, so I can't hire him/her either.

I have the AL;DC with a few hacks removed.

The only weird thing I did was change the zoning (yes, while they were living there) to get rid of the spiral stairs and build elevators.  I boolpropped back to "true" for both cheats right after.

Any ideas?

ETA:  I seem to remember this problem mentioned already, but homework placed on a desk (any desk, I've tried quite a few) is inaccessible after it's placed.  I have to go into Buy mode and move it to the floor.

This is a known issue.

Remove the separators.

I pre-ordered it last week like an idiot.  I'm working on a show right now where my first line is SIX pages long (roughly 15 minutes of me just talking to a guy under a sheet).  Then I have to memorize the REST of the play.  So I'll be owning Spore fairly soon, but I won't get to play it for at least a month!  Hopefully all the kinks will be worked out while it's sitting, unopened, on my desk.

Do you mean actually seeing or looking at the amount of character files?  Because I haven't seen more than two or three different townies while playing SEVERAL houses, but the character files just keep on growing and growing and growing.

I promise to shut-up after your reply to this.

You keep saying this, but people are complaining about hundreds of character files spawning in new hoods with no apartments, or in university neighborhoods.

I know you're not wrong (you're never wrong), but could you explain this for the non-awesome?  I mean, I'm personally curious, but I'm also getting weary of people ZOMG-ing over it.

Well, shoot.  I'm not sure what the problem is here then...I'm wondering if the phonehack is required to make the cell phone fix work.  I doubt it, as Pes didn't say so.  Sorry, I can't help you any further.  Maybe someone else will have an idea. 

This might sound like a stupid question, but I'm going to ask.  Are you putting it in Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads/Hacks (this is where is SHOULD go)?  I'm asking because Vista has a folder in Documents called Downloads, and that's not where it goes.  Sometimes I accidentally click on that and freak out because there's nothing Sims related in it.

Let us know.

Also, do you have CC enabled?  To enable, you have to start the game, enable CC, then close the game and restart for the change to take effect.

Let us know about this too.

I had the opposite happen.  In the middle of the night, my roomie got in the double bed with my Sim, even though he had his own bed.  It was weird because they're both men and not gay.  However, they were at Friends level, so no one got out of bed and bitched.

So, maybe you're ShareBeds is screwing it up. 

This is what EAxis should have done, the dumbasses.  I don't really care that I have ugly townies (I make "pretty" Sims, so I need some variety in the gene pool), but I hate that the game is creating MOAR character files for a feature that I haven't used or seen.  Where the hell ARE these new townies?  I can't get more than 2 or 3 people on the same community lot most of the time, and they're usually the SAME 2 or 3 people!