Haha, your stories are great!

All of your professors are elders? That's odd, mine are a mix of adults and elders. Or maybe I'm the odd one?

I've had sims lose perma-plat before. Angela Pleasant just moved into a sorority when I noticed she had gone out of platinum (fulfilled her "have 20 best friends" want whilst living in the dorms). A few minutes later, I heard the bup-bup-bup noise and she was back in perma-plat. I think Dirk Dreamer had the same thing happen when he moved into a frat house. Since the problem resolved itself, I didn't bother filing a bug report.

Oh, I hate that! And it's not just teens who will leave right after you greet them. I had several adults complain about it being "too late" in the middle of the day! Was that intended as well or is it a bug?

Thanks, I'll look into that.

My husband was looking into jewellery courses and ultimately decided against one university after seeing their previous students' portfolios. My favourite was the "instant bracelet"--a guy with his arm through the railing at a Tube station.

I want to burninate some townies from existence but they keep reappearing--not in game, just wasting space in the background (I foolishly used the "kill" option on the boolprop townie/NPC maker). SimPE shows them as deleted immediately after I remove them, yet they return the next time I load the tool. Any ideas? This has become such a pain in the arse that I think I'll just keep Goopy Gilscarbo and Co in the future and forget this tailor-made townie nonsense.

Same here. I'm also a perfectionist so I've reinstalled and/or restarted neighbourhoods from scratch at least 30 times since I bought the base game in September 2004. In fact, I did a reinstall for the NL patch just last week (Edit: I know it's not necessary but I do it anyway).

I think I started out creating me and my husband, got frustrated and moved on when I accidentally named our last child "Baby Boy" (before I figured out how to change names). Thereafter I mainly played and restarted Pleasantville, though I did enjoy a brief stint with Strangetown. I think I quit just as I had graduated all the player sims from La Fiesta Tech. Recently played a vampire for awhile but got bored because she didn't want children and you can only go clubbing so many times before it gets old. I kept wishing for a mod that would allow vampires to drain and kill their enemies.

Started again today with a new legacy family, deletedallcharacters and carefully selected/renamed new townies and NPCs. I'm trying to just go with the flow and enjoy myself because my last legacy family involved a script for the entire 10 generations, with the first 2 alone taking up five pages. Got boring and overwhelming because things would always deviate from the script and, well, we can't have that, can we? The last straw was when the vanishing memories bug showed up in the 2nd generation's uni-educated wife.

I think my play style sounds a lot like sagana's. I can easily clock in 8 hours a day, barring work, and mainly stick with one family the whole time (I really hate playing and aging other families to keep them in step with the main one). Then I get frustrated with, say, a lack of clothing options and go on a downloading spree for another 8 hours. I also tend to go on theme kicks--there was the Victorian England neighbourhood, the British-Asian neighbourhood, the ultra-hip gay neighbourhood, the hillbilly neighbourhood, etc. But I never stay with them long enough to fully enjoy the tons of work I intially put into them.

I also stay up really late during the first few days of play... Is it 2 am already?