The creator (or rather updater) of the hack replied yesterday but he doesn't have the game yet and doesn't know when he will get it.     It was one of my favorite mods.  I can't go back to the nanny now, I just can't!

 

I love you, Kralore!!  I put my hacks back in the game and the lot loaded without problem!  I'm going to test all of them to make sure but it looks like that was the problem.  I'm going to set up a shrine in your honor, thanks so much! 

Now, I just have to figure out which hack it was...

I only play the one hood which has all of my custom characters.  I just started another one from scratch and everything is fine which makes me thing that somehow my wonderful Veronaville got buggered and is dead.   My only last hope is that this a problem that can be fixed by the patch as other people are having the same issues.  

I rue the day I ever clicked on the "Proceed to checkout" button on Amazon.com. 

My problem is a lot more severe than that.  I uninstalled Pets and put a backup of my neighborhood in the game and the same thing happened.  I just played the game a few days ago before installing Pets with no problems at all.  So now even with OfB, my lots still crash. 

I can't load any lots in my custom neighborhood.  It's not really a custom neighborhood but I've removed all the Sims that used to live in it and populated it with my own Sims.

I just installed Pets, all went fine.  I loaded Pleasantview and played around with the Pleasants.  Then I closed out and put in my own neighborhood and tried to load a lot and it crashed.  I've run the neighborhood through CPI and there are no irregularities.  I don't know what it is.  I've used a backup neighborhood to see if the same thing happened and it did.

Worst off, there's no error log.  Well there is one but the .txt file is empty and the other file is a .mdmp file, whatever that is.

So I pretty much cannot play my game unless I'm going to start completely from scratch which would suck ass and make me very mad.

edited: I uninstalled and reinstalled and the same thing happened but this time there was an error log (attached).

The sledgehammer tool is a waste of time.  DeleteAllWalls Half-walls Objects Fences rock, though.  I got rid of an entire furnished house on a lot in under a minute.  That's probably the best Build Mode related feature added.

No one, they are taken away by Animal Control.

ETA: The animals then go into the adoption pool so you can have whoever you want to inherit them adopt them.

I do that too.  I feel weird giving names to animals (in real life, that is) so I just call my cat, Kitty or Kitty Baby.  I had a rabbit as a kid and I just called it Bunny (that was mostly because I was stupid and did not know there was a difference between the two).

http://forums.sims2community.com/showthread.php?t=27344 there's a pretty comprehensive list on Sims 2 Community forums of what does and doesn't work.  The inTeen is out though that's not much of a surprise.  So is Squinge pregnant Sims wear everyday    That makes me not even want to install the ep...

I would go there.  Apparently all custom careers, majors and foods don't work.  But I still have my custom careers in the game and it's been fine, everything else from the list, I removed.

Oh good, I didn't know that.  I missed one day and don't want to have to go back to my bakery to get the amount back up again.  What is this option called?  I've never seen it before?

As far as I know, the texture file still remains on the lot so long as it's still uninhabited so you could go into the lot files, export the .png files and then import them to your new lot, replacing your preplaced dummy photos/canvases.

Huh, really.  Thank you!  I will download and fine-tune accordingly.

I need to get rid of my twins.  I've had 5 twin births in a row and it's driving me crazy!  I don't know if they've been secretly eating cheesecake when I'm not controlling them or there's some sort of glitch in my game but it's beyond ridiculous now.  Especially when I've instituted a one-child policy for my families. 

Anyone know of a good no twins hack or at least one that reduces the chance of twins to something like 1%?

They didn't shoot up to green but I had a problem for a while where a Uni Sim of mine would get his motives stuck.  I just used boolProp and reset him and his needs were dynamic again.  Try a reset or use the Sim Modder, which you can spawn with testingCheats on and make your Sim's motives dynamic again.

Huh, that is interesting.  Thanks for the in-depth explanation.

I'll have to test it out.  I'm mostly interested in sibling rivalry.  I currently have a Sim child who hates his little sister just for her very existence.  It's quite cute to watch him tease her.  I will have to see what happens when both parents shower her with love and kisses and ignore him.

Thanks, I will download and see if it changes anything.  I just have a Sim who was robbed for a second time in a different house and she's still furious so hopefully, she won't become bff with her burgular.

Well that just adds to the mystery, now doesn't it?

I assume that it's a burgular problem because as of late, I've had a string of robberies and it's only happened with the burgulars.  The new mayor of Veronaville cut the VVPD's budget and I'm getting robbed in almost every house...okay 3 but that's 3 more than I've been robbed in months!

Anyway, my Sims become furious with the burgular getting an instant -100/-100 relationship with him/her and then when the furious state wears off, the relationship score turns to the positive integer.  Meaning that a -89/-80 score turns into 89/80 and one hug away from becoming best friends with the person who violated and traumatized you, not to mention the bitch that stole a dress rack from your home boutique which is IRREPLACEABLE.   

The last time I was robbed, I don't think NL had come out yet so I don't know if this is a NL glitch or an OfB glitch.

I'm interested as to know what decides the instant infant relationships in a household once a new Sim is born.  The mother always has the highest relationship with the child (or children in the case of twins) and that is understandable but then what decides why Grandma has a 33/20 STR/LTR with Jr. when Grandpa who was standing right there as well only has a 25/18.  And then why does the older child sometimes get an instant -10/3 relationship with their new sib? 

Is it based on personality?  Proximity to the child?

And in the case of twins, why does everyone in the household seem to favor one twin more than the other in terms of relationship score?

Will this work for the other skintones as well?

Whatever.  This is the Sims, not reality.  Her first time will be magical.    Don't hate on my Sim just because all of your first times sucked.     

And being a virgin doesn't make you a prude.  It makes you someone who has never had sexual intercourse, plain and simple.

Awww, noooo.  It'll be magical.   

The whole virgin bride thing was unintentional at first.  I realized about halfway through college that my Sim was still a virgin when a "Have Very First Woohoo" want popped up.  I was pretty surprised because she was a Pleasure Sim with the 50 first date wants and I thought she had already woohooed with one of the neighbor boys but I guess she's a good girl.  I decided that I would have her work on her LTW and that her 50th first date would be with the man she would marry.  It was just this night and I found out that he's a Romance Sim and the first fear that rolled up was "Get Married to Jadyn (my Sim)".  It was their first date, he barely even knew her!

But since he's a Romance Sim that means he's experienced so I imagine their wedding should be satisfying.  And she's rich so at least he'll get a good memory from marrying her.

Oh good, I was hoping it would be that easy.  Thanks! 

Shaklin's bed isn't evil.  It was my fault for leaving it on autonomous during a party, that's never a good idea.  Unless it's one of those kinds of parties...

Is it possible to remove a first woohoo?  Not just the memory but the very existence of it so that the next time my Sim woohoos, that will be her first?

My Sim at some point in time unknowingly woohooed with some friggin dormie (my guess was that it was Shaklin's lovebed) and now all my plans for her to lose her virginity on her wedding night to her triple-lightning bolt dream man are dashed.   

Yeah that sounds pretty fubarific.  I just downloaded a bunch of contacts, which I'm actually quite enjoying.  I just have to go and change some of the turn-offs of a few Sims as I had set "full face makeup" as a turn-off for some good-looking townies.