AL adds the "jump rope" want though, doesn't it? My kids now want to do that all the time.

Okay, this month I will try, too. Feel free to point and laugh. I promise I'll learn :-)

Stratford Hall:

Front



Back



Patio



Floor plans





Music room



View from dining room through kitchen to toddler skilling area



Master bedroom




Features:
Bedrooms: 4 (2 with own bathroom, one with large dressing room)
Bathrooms: 5
Nursery with extra toddler skilling room
Kitchen, dining room, living room, music room, fitness/wellness room (hot tub)
Patio with barbecue (if you want sims to eat outside, remove flowers from table. During play testing I was annoyed that they'd ALWAYS eat outside and not in their dining room) and swimming pool
Fences (repel wildlife), "one-desk"
Fishable pond, fruit trees, greenhouse

Requires: everything (all EP/SPs) except M&G

Can be found here: http://www.4shared.com/file/75035837/c223b9f1/Stratford_Hall.html

I think if you turn "controlpets on", the cat can just use the death creator from the boolprop cheat. I've done that before with a borked dog and it worked.

Well, she sure has a point there :-)

All pets that I have in the entertainment career can no longer get promoted! They will return with the carpool and cause an error immediately. Hitting cancel doesn't do anything and hitting reset makes them get out of the car as normal - but without their rightfully earned money and/or a promotion. When they have not yet learned the command neccessary for promotion, they return from work without the error and get paid normally. The problem occurs also without hacks.
Help, please? (Error log attached)

EDIT: Yes, that was it Happy the dog is now a happy Understudy and the Burb family has some much needed extra money for their newest spawn.

I did, but they still cause want-tree errors related to the two dog which were absorbed by the game. And they keep getting blank want slots which annoys me and makes me afraid that the lot will just get worse and explode.

My game seems to do this, too. It does not save any newly created sims/servos/pets on the lot when I exit and save at the same time. Also, it will not save age transitions completely. I had kids who looked like toddlers but could go to school etc. When I save manually, this has not happened. Is my game going splodie, is it AL or just a stupid random glitch which I have to deal with?
(Also: this ruined my legacy family because the puppies weren't saved and now everybody has corrupt memories. Is there a way to safe the family or should I just start over with a new family?)

Would it be possible for (awesome) modders to create completely new ltw´s like reaching the top of one of the uni-careers?

I did a short test with this version and so far it seems like the error is gone.
Thank you for updating!

Well, the file said it´s been changed April 3rd which means it should probably be the new version.
I´ll re-download anyway and test it. May take some time though, I haven´t tried to reproduce an error before 
Thanks for your quick answer by the way.

Edited: I tried again and the error still occurs. This has happened in 3 different CAS-Families after their first children transitioned from toddler to children.

I think I have encountered a little conflict or problem with this hack.
In my game it causes a jump bug when sims want to use the phone.
It might be a conflict, I´m clueless, but maybe the you can find out something
from the error log.


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Thank you for the link, I think it really matches with the error log.
I´ll try again to find the hack. It must have been hiding in some downloaded house.

edited to add... found the hack, removed it, problem is gone.

935 MB. I cleaned out before OFB but then missed lots of stuff and put most of it back in.
The game loads in about 3 Minutes (from putting in the disk until entering a lot) and I guess that´s still okay. It has to be anyway. I´m not taking out anything.

I encountered a jump bug today and boolprop gave me the "too many iterations"-message.
From the error log (I´ll try to attach it) I would guess that I somehow got some kind of private school hack into my game.
Could someone more awesome than me confirm this and does someone know what hack this could be? I didn´t find anything with clean installer yet but I´m still checking.

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I´ve read your entire post.
I have had some of your thoughts before, but I guess they won´t ever make me stop playing. I´m probably way to addicted.
Lately, I noticed that the way I play the game changes a lot. Sometimes I´ll spent a months with downloading and building and than I´ll go back to my legacy family for a week just to decide to start over with pleasantview the next week. It seems, I can´t stay focussed.

That´s interesting, I ended up with the Sim Surgery Solution as well. I´ve had
them all in one neighborhood since nightlife.
But I just think it´s a real pain to do... there should be something easier. I guess moving them on one lot would help but it turned out thirty or more sims were too much for my computer to deal with.

I have tried many, many ways to combine the three maxis hood. This one as well.
But it does create quite some broken memories and duplicate characters.
Actually, I haven´t found a way to have all the maxis characters meet each other without
these issues.
If someone did, please tell.

This is really awesome, thank you!
You made my sims very happy!

I never thought about the time it changes...
that could explain a lot of strange things I´ve seen as so far I thought
one period would be the time between one opening and the next or
something like that (stupid me).
I´ll have to do some investigation in various shops. And maybe I need the guide will help.

well, considering that I spent more than what I earned, shouldn´t it be negative?
All the bars are green and I would think they need to be red. I really earned 500 and certainly not 6500 (no one went to work and there were only like 3 customers buying teddy bears, that cannot).

I think my game has some math issues as well.
It stated that my expenses were 6000 $ and that I earned 500 $. Totally fine, it was my first day at the shop. But, it says the cash flow is + 6500, which is so not true!

I don´t know about the mailbox thing but as for streetparking:
If you built a lot with streetparking before you installed ofb everything will be fine.
At least it is in my game. I was able to use the car and place a new car on the already
existing driveway. But the game refuses to let me put any other driveways. It turns them appropriately but when I want to place them (moveobjects on, of course) it tells me that "building limit is exceeded" (I don´t have an english game and don´t know if I translated that right).

Actually, I found a german page saying that "community lots vanishing from the game" is one
of the serious OFB-Bugs. Obviously, there are loads of people there and on the BBS experiencing this and they claim that even Maxis admitted  it´s happening. Maxis (hilarious) advise is to back up the lot in the catalog (however, that´s not gonna help with all the stock you lose, the business rank and so on). So far, it seems to happen randomly. Guess we´ll have to wait for someone like JM to figure out what causes it.

I know I´m really late with this, but I could need help mounting, too.
Is there anyone who could send me the tutorial *whine*?

Well, that would work too.
I can´t create custom content (I lack a lot of patience), but maybe someone who reads this desperate cry for help could get us a small and pretty sculpture that´s worth 6000 and a cute little chess board for 7000?