OK - so the fact the button shows says there is a problem, but the fact that it reappears sometimes means it didn't get fixed because of time constraints.  Is that it?

I have an oldstyle PCI graphics card which is dealbreaker for Sims3 I believe.  So it's new PC time later this year.  Son half-promised to build me one out of his & his cousin's leftovers. 

Doesn't look like it.  I have two dogs in the family with different masters.  The relationship tab of sim description has the same boxes checked regardless of who is master.  If you start with the sims, they have 'known' and 'bff' checked for both sim to dog and dog to sim.  If you start from the dog's sim description, only 'known' is checked for sim to dog and dog to sim.   So it's consistently inconsistent.

There's no tick box for master on the dog's relationships panel.  It is identical to a normal sim panel.  That's the problem

not in the test game I'm using to build this werewolf household.  I'll add wfs to the hacks in that 'hood & try it again. 

I'm playing a werewolf family and the want slots are permanently full of wants and fears about being cured or curing the other family members.  There's an old thread about it sayiing it isn't fixable, but that was 2006.  Is that still true...  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6442.0.html

How do I change a dog's master?  I couldn't do it in SimPE.  The only relevant thing I can see in SimPE is the dog's memory "got a master".  I changed that, but the master icon is still on the wrong sim when I check in game.  Am I looking in the wrong place or is it just that SimPE isn't really set up to edit pets?  If the SimPE route is a bust, what do I have to do in game? 

lotpackager always includes recolours of any maxis item in the house even though you didn't use the recolours!  It has done since base game and I've been moaning about it that long.  It's how CC ends up on the exchange even though people didn't intend to put it there.  've been hoping since base game that someone would rewrite lotpackager to do something more sensible or give you an interactive menu so you could say what to put in the package.  You'll probably find my moans and rants about it if you search for lotpackager.

10,000 is not noteworthy?  there are two and several at 5,000.

Thanks for the list - I can cope with french.   It's the odds we need though!

And all this time I thought it was fixing buggy things as well as randomising.  well duh!

How about the gossip thing? Why doesn't the option disappear after it's been clicked once?

PS - my PC won't run sims3 & I'm not sure I want it either, so I'm hoping you're not giving up on Sims2

When you use the randomiser, you get a message saying the batbox is fixing or deleting things as it exits to the 'hood screen.  What is it doing?  Is it fixing problem on the lot or in the 'hood?  What is happening when you run it several times in succession and get more fixes the second time than the first?  Recent experience on a lot had 5,23,8,26,18 fixes (numbers not all exact btw).

I also notice that "delete gossip from dead" is still an available option after I've done it once.  It isn't an option that is always there, so I'd have thought one click should eliminate the problem.  (no dead sims on the lot, so it's not new gossip)

Thank you!  I obviously put the wrong things in the search box or I'd have found that thread myself.  He probably has the 5x influence perk as he owns a business and shares a house with a sim who has all the perks.  The fact that his influence bar is small probably had some effect too.  If it's a simple overflow not affecting other fields, I guess Pescado didn't feel moved to fix it.  Though it's definitely an annoyance if the sim affected really has to earn 15,536 influence points to get back to 0! 

It's a full game - all EPs and SPs.

Yup that's a minus; -15,536 influence points!  My servo Jeeves is still at 0 influence points days later, so it looks like the game has stored a negative rather than resetting to 0.  He doesn't have many friends, so his influence bar is not full size.  There's no error message and no error log.

Anyone seen anything like this before?  Any thoughts on whether it's a self-contained trivial problem or something messier?

I guess there isn't a guide out there then.  Nice to know there aren't any real biggies, but 4,500 is nothing to sneeze at.  Seems a shame to have so much info for sims and not for pets.

Is there a list of Pet chance cards out there anywhere?  I'm not finding one with google & the chance card thread in the armory is only sim careers.  In particular I need to know if pets get a big bonus chance card at the top of the showbiz career.  Memory is telling me they do, but I don't trust it!

Snooty has pet wages & I notice cats earn more than dogs!  Do pets get promotion bonuses btw?
http://www.snootysims.com/infoindex.php?id=petcareers

I'd like to know what is a good recommendation for someone with a low end PC.  I sometimes answer questions from new Simmers wanting to know which EPs they can add without having to upgrade their old PC.  I can say from experience that BV and Seasons increased the lagginess of my game at the time, but it doesn't seem as bad now as it did when I first got them.  Maybe I culled enough downloads to counteract some of the lag, or maybe a newer EP improved the code.  As this is a stickied thread, maybe someone techie could offer a recommendation for a low end PC.   

TSR hosts all my lots for me free of charge and people can find them to download.  From a very narrow perspective, that works well for me; it's much less effort than running my own website and dealing with downloaders &/or hackers.  They aren't charging me or anyone who downloads my lots.  I downloaded a lot of stuff from TSR free when I played Sims1 and also when I only had base game for Sims2.  I didn't feel guilty about wasting their bandwith; actually I didn't know what bandwidth was back then.  So when I had some lots I quite liked, I put them there - seemed like a fair exchange.  They're there forever now.  I like the challenges and challenge wizard too.  If I was starting over with my rather higher knowledge level, I still want someone else to host them. 

I guess I'm one of those people who always sees grey instead of black and white.   TSR provide a web hosting service and you could argue that they are charging for that as much as the downloads.  The amount - well that's a different story.

btw I'm on holiday now for a couple of weeks

I had a problem not being able to click on "more" a while back and as I remember it fixed itself eventually.  At that point I had a really laggy hood from trees on the terrain I'd used, tons of gossip etc etc.  I know I deleted trees, gossip, cleaned up with the lot debugger and checked all my hacks were up to date, but DK what fixed it - sorry.

is it a custom terrain from SC4 with zillions of trees on it?  I've had personal experience of huge lag from that... 

The thread I quoted says you can't satisfy the want like that. Are you then using ctrl-click to satisfy the want or does it roll normally?

Actually I can't - DK why not, but ctrl-click refused to work on that want.  It worked fine on the other 3, so I'm puzzled.  There was other weirdness at the time & I've yet to go back to the lot and see if deleting thumbnails & caches fixed all the problems.

What I'm really in the mood to do  is play a sim with a pet LTW and set them up as a pet supplier to all the would-be pet owners.  Killing 2 birds with one stone is always so satisfying.  I'd really like to know, before I start, whether it will work properly or whether there is more weirdness in there. Either way - I'd be interested in a hack if anyone is in the mood to make one.

Or you could upload a whole bunch of recolours........

Occasionally I like a little insanity.  It's less interesting and a little too easy if all the wants make sense.  I'll put it wfsanity back in again when the annoyance factor outweighs the amusement.  I mention it because I don't know if wfsanity does anything other than reduce the frequency of pet wants.

Another family member acquiring a pet wasn't what I meant by 6 or 7, but you make a good point.  I should have thought to ask that as well.   What I meant was the situation stomped by 'noautopetbuy' where you go to play a family and get the pop-up message "your sim has come home with a pet - do you want to keep it?".  I don't use 'noautopetbuy' - again those little surprises keep things interesting.  Every time you go to a pet shop, you risk adding pets to more households than the one you were playing. 

One year later - I've got another greek house with a vegetable garden and still can't use influence to get those pledges to weed and water them.  Is there a hack out there?  Surely I'm not the only one who wants to influence visitors to garden properly?

The list didn't include all the SPs.  Do you need the Christmas EPs to get christmas and new year parties?  Those are nice occasionally.   Then there's Family Fun Stuff which totally sucks in my opinion.  All the furniture & decor is dreadful.

Could we say anything about memory/disk space?  If your PC isn't that great, which EPs are really going to add to the lag?  I suspect Seasons is about the worst, but some awesome comment on that would be a great addition to the thread.

Bon Voyage is just beautiful!  It totally blew me away the first time I played the various destinations.  But, you need to keep changing lots to do it all and the load times become more and more annoying with every vacation.

I took out wfsanity and sims rolled a lot of "get pet" wants.  I like the idea, so I've locked them on at least 3 lots.  Now I discover that adopting a stray doesn't satisfy the wants.  Makes me want to strangle whoever wrote that code.  I found an old thread so it's a known problem.  That thread pointed out that moving in a CAS made pet doesn't work either.  So, being suspicious, I thought I'd ask "what does work?" before using my playables with pet LTWs to sell/give them pets.  1 and 2 obviously, but how about the others?

1. adopt a pet from the pet adoption service by phone
2. take the sim shopping to a community lot pet shop

3. be given a pet by another sim
4. buy a pet off another sim
5. take the sim shopping to an owned business
6. come home with a pet bought on a community lot while you were not controlling them 
7. come home with a pet sold to you on an OFB business lot while you were not controlling them
8. have a puppy/kitten born on the lot

any other options?

I tried satisfying the want by ctrl-clicking on it, but it refused to roll. wtf?  ctrl-click worked on the other 3 wants, but that one just wouldn't roll.  It's locked, but I think I unlocked it and tried too.  It was very bizarre!..... and very annoying! 

The old thread includes this post -
My elderly sim is broke too & adopting a stray was perfect...