The LTW variety hack and JM's Uni-unlock one seem to be completely compatible, though. I have both, and I'm getting loads of variety and ...just once so far...Uni-wants.

Agreed. Otherwise, it's just a craptastic texture. That's the norm.

And I was just being argumenative for the sake of being a pain in the nether regions~!

Drat, the nippies are courtesy of a custom skin. They weren't present in game. I'm going to have to exorcise my downloads folder now...

This was the very most recent upload that greeted me at MTS2 just a moment ago. Caption reads "A Pink Top that I wear in Real Life almost every week". I seriously doubt this girl's judgement. Apparently it took her 6 hours to make, and I'm betting the majority was spent on those nipples.

Linky-poo: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=228561

Yes, I recently trashed my window & door custom content from anything but her items. La Fenetre, Waterfront, Belangie, and Helios are my staple windows and doors. I use the Long Island doors a bit, but not as much. Her plastic flowers and bushes are great as well, until you take the plunge and get the TwoJeff's "perfectplants" hack. It's a shame she's so loyal to TSR.

I haven't seen a fat mesh I've liked yet. Overall, they are too fat for me, and the hands sink into the hip area. Also, if you are going to go realistic, they need rolls. Speaking as an admittedly fat girl myself, the Maxis female fat is littler than I, but the fat meshes I've seen are much bigger than I am (and don't have large enough breasts). So I can't buy any sim I make of me.

I agree that they are slow, but you can't really complain when it's free. *shrug*

You either pay, maintain your morals, but wait until you have the money to pay....or....you get them there, wait 10 years to download them, sully your morals a bit, and play now. It's up to you.

Note to my own morality: I paid for mine and would never pirate an actual charge-for-use game. Ones that have gone free to promote later games like Oddworld: Abe's Exodus, which I also had purchased when I was a little one but trashed years ago, fine. Booty-diving, fine, as to me paysites are clearly against Maxis/EA's EULA. However...you want to pirate it, that's your deal. I'm not calling the cops.

Mangosims2 (http://mangosims2.free.fr/) is truly evil in that regard. Every set is chock full of decorative objects, and it can be next to impossible to know which are which until you find some random object six months ago (even if you do know a fair bit of French). How many empty vases do I need? Do I trully need a whole bunch of different sized sticks?

No, I do use the La Fenetre windows quite a bit, but these are the Waterfront windows I'm much fonder of. They come in a lot more color and size variances.

First set including tiny options: http://sims2.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/268771/
Second & 3rd sets including arches & doors: http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/358391,423385/

I believe all are included in the booty here (way down at the bottom): http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/booty/tsr/windkeeper/

I applaud your effort, but "bork" is not a MATY-only term. It's been recognized since at least 2001 according to the urban dictionary. (See: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bork). I feel your pain, though. I recently "made up" the title Sprog for my favorite 2nd cousin which tickled the crap out of her, only to find that it's been around since the beginning of time.

Edit: I still maintain that I coined the term "gank", as I started using it back in 1993, and hadn't heard it anywhere before.

There have to be walls. I have weather coming into a community lot top-floor restaurant despite their being "overhangs" (three walls, floor tile roof).

Yeah, that site is great. Really helped to design an unusual home for the big freaking family I'm apparently having next (grr LTW roll madness). Tip: Take a couple random screenshots in-game (one for each floor). I just took photos of the pre-construction lot for ease of locating. Then Alt-Tab to the desktop and open your image editor of choice. Copy the floorplan pics from the website and paste them on top of the screenshots you just took. Merge your layers and resave. Alt-Tab back into the game and viola! Pics of the floor plan are now available in-game, saving you endless Alt-Tab'ing and/or paper.

Adapted from this houseplan: http://www.architecturalhouseplans.com/home_plans/231

S'okay. Why Maxis chose to make the new neighborhood that shipped with the game anything other than the "normal" four seasons is beyond me. It's caused no end of confusion and loads of whiny freaked out brats on the BBS. Of course, they also made a borked family whose twin's parents are either two women or a woman and a dog dependant on where you drop them, so I guess it's not surprising.

Anything bigger than a 2x3 is a waste of space to me. You're going to want a second floor, anyways, if you have a big enough family to warrant the space. My current family started on a 1x2 lot which was absolutely perfect for two cats, two adults, and 2 kids. They even had a sizable flower garden and a small pool. Now, stupid progeny/heir&spouse want 6 grandkids and 6 kids respectively. I move the family each time the youngest generation becomes adults, so I'll have to do a 2x2 and I'm not pleased.

A regular flat floor should work. I've used that fix on a few of my lots, plus I'm rather fond of flat roofs. Are you making sure to put wall-to-wall-to-wall-to-wall floor tiles in between? Even one missed tile can wreak havoc.

I very very rarely use a downloaded home and haven't used the Maxis homes since the vanilla game, so house design is my forte. Just getting "decent" at yards.

Staples:
1. Yoga/workout room. On a larger lot, I'll usually place this in a separate structure with wall-to-wall windows. Since Seasons, I commonly add crops to the room, or a nice fruit tree smack in the middle. Add a chaise and a small shower closet for those post-workout stinks, and you're done.

2. Aspiration reward room. When I bother with them at all, that is. The bookcase goes in the livingroom, but everything else I typically arrange in either the basement or an attic.

3. Bathrooms. 1 every 2 sims on the lot, excepting pets. My kitties don't use the toilet so neither do my sims' kitties. That ratio usually allows for any morning hygeine needs without making anyone late or pissy.

Things I don't do:
1. Garages. If I have a car, I make a carport. I got an aversion to the garage doors before I knew a hack was available to keep sims from trying to enter through the garage, and haven't gotten over it. Plus, I rarely have cars on my lots despite the plethora of custom ones I could have.

2. Pets room. One exception was a challenge I did at TSR that required someone to have 10 pet friends. Other than her wolf buddy, she had two cats who went to town, ending in 9 cats in the house. Believe me, they needed their own room for the three litter boxes, two pet beds, 2 cat towers, and four food bowls. Plus, I was trying to keep them out from underfoot. Normally, I put the food bowl in the kitchen and the toy/scratch tower in the living room, beds in the kids' bedrooms. Otherwise, when you have two or more pets, they tend to keep to the same room and don't interact with the sims as much.

3. Huge spalike bathrooms. Why? Pee, wipe your butt, take a shower, and get on with your life. You are a sim. You don't even have to think for yourself because the Oversoul does it for you (and you bork it up when you do), so what kind of stress do you need to get away from?

Greet it. I'd turn off autonomy on your sims as well to provide maximum nibbly opportunities.

You only have that many custom plants? Noob*

*in case tone wasn't amply implied, I tease. I have, perhaps, 40 or so custom decorative plants, and more in build mode. I also have a heck of a time locating specific ones when making new homes, so eh.

Kept getting the error as well. It seemed to happen less when I deleted small groups. Program works great, but I'm now having an issue with my game not starting. I double click the icon, get a tiny blank error window with a red X button and that's it. I'm not sure it has anything to do with Delphy's utility because I tried taking out the downloads folder and it still happened. Plus, that's not the point at which it loads the custom content anyways. I vaguely remember this happening before, but it's been awhile.

Prolly that nasty EA Link. The thing borks sometimes.

Edit: Dun dun dun dun. Stupid Zaza, just had to delete the cigen and groups caches. Everything is lovely with the world again, and I'm 602 orphaned files lighter.

How established is this neighborhood? Is it a new one, or one you've been playing for years?

I don't play businesses a lot, but I had this happen with cleanbots placed on the floor. One would display the restock sign in the right place, the other was in the corner of the back yard. However, there was shelving behind it. Maybe it's just that the rear has to be accessible for some illogical reason?

Until/unless they fix this, don't visit either P.U.R.E. or Lulu Lounge. Both have unprotected hot tubs (4 in P.U.R.E.'s case). Visitors to community lots seem to be immune to both hot tub overheating and exercise overheating, which is good. One of my favorite custom lots has six hot tubs and a few treadmills.

I'd almost take the sheep bleat for this one. I see it also does the opposite...ID'ing orphan recolors. Considering the horror that my clothing catalogs are in, this is much appreciated. I just binned and cleaned approximately 70 hair styles and wasn't looking forward to sorting through all my clothing files.

Honestly, though, could you imagine making out with a water balloon? Talk about boring. I think the Sim lucked out.