So far its still doing it. But I still have a couple more months worth of downloads to sift out since I'm taking them out a month at a time since thats how I organize what crap I put in there.

Well I'm a noob so I'm not sure what exactly I should be looking for( in reference to logs), but its a 100% chance of spinning each time I make a plant sim.

So far with all the sims I've made and downloaded and such it has only happened to my plant sims. And this is a new neighborhood I made just to use for the tsr challenges. So eh, I donno.

Uh....No they can't learn parenting....if thats what you mean.... >_>

And does it really bother you? I make my kids learn all they can so they can just focus on their job and making babies when they are adults. I just wish the children could learn parenting and could feed the babies...Hell my 5 year old niece could, my sim should be able to too. D:<

Somewhat off topic, but yeah. Why does that bother you?

I was wondering if anyone else is getting this problem. Apparently when ever I make a plant sim pretty soon after she starts spinning, uncontrolably(caution: is either not a word or spelled wrong), and becomes completely unusable. I think this only happens with plant sims, haven't tried it with male plant sims, and I'm pretty sure this started after I got AL, or possibly after FT. I'm not 100% sure since plant sims and farms lost my interst after I'd had seasons for a month or 2.

At the moment I'm trying the 50/50 crap but I dont have much time now adays to take some out, wait 30min+neiborhood/house load time, play it, and repeat. So I'm checking with you guys as i take out my first chunk.

Honestly, I would buy anything with the Retard-o-card on it twice or more. Just for awesome last minute gifts to people I think are stupid, and wont get it completely, and its an event where its customary I get some type of gift... Or get it on a baby T/onesie and hopefully they'll keep it long enough to look at it, read it, not do that shyt, and possibly pass it on to their kids.

Ditto. I missed it. Can I have one too? lol

Thanks for the help guys. I'm just gonna deal with it since simpe doesn't work all the well after I installed AL....

If they found the anwser for their question about it for AL, would the same problem most likely be solved the same way for up to freetime?

Ill tell her to look in the Armory and to get a log. (If she knows how.)

As a side note, I'm not afraid to ask you guys questions. She however is afraid you'll call her a n00b, point and laugh, and shun her for stupid questions. I'm just doing her a favor.

Edit: I looked in the Armory for something that hinted toward this problem but found nothing. It maybe that I simply wasn't looking hard enough but then agian it's not really MY problem. I'll just tell her to go through all of them and look.....

So my friend is getting a controller age error thingy whenever she is loading a lot she created, she hasn't tried doing anything for a premade lot so we're not sure if it shows for both. Has anyone gotten this error before?

I was wondering if anyone has a good way of organizing all the crap in their downloads folder. Or if someone knows of a program that will somewhat sort it for you. (Like all clothes, hacks, ect. in separate folders). I personally try to keep it to something short of downloads/-insert date I put in downloads folders-/clothes (or name of site)/ (then clothes). I thought that was a good way just in case I put something in there that almost implodes my game. I could just do it day by day instead of 50%, 50%, 50% ect.... But I'm also a very unorganized person so somethings end up in the wrong folder....

So what do you do?

I just got a KFA somthing or other  GeForce Series 8600 GT card....When I get home I'll post what it is.

I wouldn't trust anything official for sims, except patches perhaps and random cars from some deal they made with ford..... And also knowing maxis I'll be waiting a long time for the AL patch. Which I wont be playing that ep before it comes out. I have enough crap wrong with my computer and sims put together....

An accurate inheritance chart would be nice...I could play my game in a more scientific way....but I doubt anyone could find out those values? Besides the creators....right?

But I'm pretty certain that its the video card that's doing the spiky-ness but its a new card...and the one that comes in the computer wasn't better so I guess I'll just do some searches through the site to see how I went from bad to worse in so many ways.

Also, thanks @ theangelofdeath. I understand so much more now.

While I'm here asking questions and reading the tutorial. What does BFBVFS mean? I've searched the site for a definition or some sentence that explains more than something short of computer explody due to some known/unknown factor. And is there a thread that contains more commonly used accronims(sp)? It seems I just haven't lurked enough to catch most of them.

Also ocassionally, when a townie or certain dogs come on my lots they kinda...black out and spike in wierd directions. I'm thinking its just my computer fudging up, since I think this has only been happening since I got my new video card. I have other problems with Sims 2 shutting off/crashing my computer, and coming up with weird Direct 3d and other errors before and after the new video card, but one of my IT/gamer friends is trying to help me out there but he doesn't live close enough to come check out my computer in person. So I'm not sure if anyone here can help me with that too.

Thanks I will look through that and hopefully I'll figure out everything. If I don't I'll come back? I don't understand why my friends seem to think everyone on this site is more non-helpful and mean. Must be they aren't used to sims merged with the chans I guess...

How do I look at it through SimPE? I just got it once I reinstalled everything on my computer but I'm kinda scared to fudge up something while playing around with it. And I really wouldn't know where to look to open the families file in there unless I have to do the upload lot thing or.....Eh....I'm about to say fux this and hope it never happens again....But I'm stubborn so I have to know how now.... I kinda see their are some files with the SimPE but I don't have adobe up on my computer again but I'm thinking that's the format for the instruction manual or whatever it is. So I'll try reading that see if it'll tell me. But thanks again.

Well for the most part I understand the genetics aspect of it. (Which is the whole reason I play the game to test out different genetic possiblities between parents.) It just seems that looking at all of them, in side/front view they have the exact same nose(which is a bit wonky in some places specific to his face that the mother's face might fix...which I was hopping for), eye color(which i can deal with), same facial structure completely as their dad once they grow up(Even the girl they just had is showing the same signs, which makes her look like a japanese child tranny somewhat).  His azn face couldn't be completely dominate over her fat maxis face could it? Since i do so much "breeding" in game, something like this is just weird... But thanks for the help. Hopefully their grandkids will look different when other genes are mixed in. Or I'll just nuke the family. I love asians, but I have too many for the neighborhood to handle at the moment.

Well I kinda exploded my computer. So after installing everything (All eps to free time, no sps) and putting my extra old back up downloads folder in, (Which was missing lots of things to say the least.) I started playing one of my families not noticing until the 4th kid that all of them look like their dad (Which was cool, cause he was good looking but anoying)...exact clones... So i remembered like maybe a year or 2 ago there was a fix for this, but I don't remember where I got it, or the name of it. I was thinking it was from here since all awesome things come from here. Can anyone tell me what will fix the clone babies?

Also I'm a noob to actually posting here. So I may be in the wrong place....