You probably have TJ's teen-adult attraction mod? It's a standalone mod that can be used by itself (and doesn't, by itself, enable any romantic interactions) but iirc it was made to be used with mods (like ACR?) that rely on chemstry for some things, and I'm pretty sure one of the side effects is that teens and adults will now show up in each other's dating pool. I actually use it just because I want to know who is attracted to who cross-age (especially between teens and young adults), even though I usually don't have any mods in for romantic interactions.

At least HP is likely to actually do something about it if it's pointed out to her politely where she can see it -- unlike, say, Peggy.

I may give that a shot if I continue to have trouble; I've been focusing on other things (deleting stuff I can delete without having to have had everything in and sorted it all) and run into a few other blips that make my suspect that my downloads folder might just be, um, too big. (It is FRIGGING HUGE.)

Have you actually seen others somewhere? I've only seen the original.

Sounds good to me. I'm currently busy with going through stuff and deleting, and I sure hope it works. -.-

Which of course also means that picking up one of certain stuff packs on the cheap or by torrent would probably have the same result, but someone else will probably have to identify which pack(s) would do the trick.

I recently went on a downloading spree, and now my game is crashing when I go into Windows and Doors. Okay, so, first things first, make sure the problem is in the Objects directory -- take out everything BUT Objects, load game, CRASH! Put in everything but Objects, load game, no crash. Step two, remove everything but Objects for load time, put half of Objects folder into game. Load. No crash. Take that half out, put the other half in. No crash. WTF, says I. Okay, must be a conflict between two objects? But neither Clean Installer nor DDO found any duplicates related to walls, and removing the duplicates they did find didn't help (in fact I ran a Clean Installer check for duplicates before I even got started, but DDO found some additional ones).

So I started a more complex tactic, adding subfolders of Objects in two and three at a time until I got a crash. When I finally got the crash, then I tried loading the game with just the batch of directories I had just added in when I got the crash. No crash. Then, those directories + the two that are heaviest on windows and doors. No crash. Then, the new batch plus everything else I'd already had in there EXCEPT the two with the most windows and doors. STILL NO CRASH.

So, basically, I cannot isolate the cause of this crash to any specific place. I'm about to load up the game with all the stuff that I had NOT previously tested during the process described in the second paragraph in, and all the stuff I had tested already out, to see if it's maybe volume-related? (I do have way too many windows and doors. -.-) Any suggestions?

ETA: Put the other half of the stuff in, no crash.

ETA2: Yanked the largest (in KB size) directory of the batch that was reproducing the crash. Loaded the game. No crash. Put the directory back in, removed approximately 50% of content. Loaded the game. No crash. Took that half out, put the other half in. Loaded the game. No crash.

WTF.

ETA3: Oh, and yes, it is SPECIFICALLY Build Mode -> Windows and Doors that causes the issue, and it's just going into that category at all (which suggests it's actually... I think it's single-story doors that comes up at first?) that causes the crash.

When I had an actual problem item in decorative the game wouldn't crash until it tried to load the thumbnail for that specific item, and I was able to locate it because it happened to be an item that was actually /in/ my decorative folder, so a combination of seeing what price range I was at in the deco catalogue before the crash and using Sims 2 categorizor to spot subfolders with items that hadn't had thumbnails generated yet helped me find it without too much hassle.

Am currently going through and deleting unwanted items from a portion of total downloads, since the only theory I can come up with is that it's just, well, too much crap.

Thank you! I will see if I can find it. (Actually, now that I have thought on it, I can't remember which of two objects was the problem, so shall have to turn the shadows back on and check, and I'm fairly sure that I have other badly b0rked shadows as well -- the wall deco from the Sims Connection Chinese restaurant set comes to mind too -- but I certainly don't expect you to fix a zillion pieces of CC in addition to the shoddy work already in the game.)

Ahhh, that makes sense... it's a "leave that thing alone!" mod.

...will it work with custom objects that have new functions too? And how broad is the prohibition? Can you use it to say "nobody can use Easel A except Sim A, and nobody can use Easel B except Sim B" or... well, really I should just get it in the game and play with it, shouldn't I? (But I LIKE reading the friendly manual.)

I've bookmarked this, because I do appreciate the fixes, but I actually am likely to stick with playing with shadows off, as I have ever since I downloaded some gorgeous 'metal branch with leaves' type wall hanging that still had a full rectangular shadow left behind from the painting it was cloned from. (PHAIL. ...but it's pretty.) If I ever decide to ditch the thing and play with shadows on, I'll be installing this.

So, basically, this replaces 'no autonomous [whatever]' mods with in-game controls? (Something like the new Ingelogical system only with fewer files?) And the in-game controls will let you say 'NO KICKYBAG FOR YOU!' to the Sim you're controlling, or everyone, or everyone EXCEPT the Sim you're controlling, and so on? (Am I understanding this right?)

Will it work in Downloads? I can't be arsed to remember that I have things in a location outside of My Documents when I'm backing up TS2 stuff, so I very much prefer not to PUT anything outside of My Documents.

That was OFB, actually.

I guess I'd better keep watching this thread, since I've got a pile of stuff but I'm a little confused on whether I have the best possible version of everything. But it seems this is all definitely still a work in progress.

Also:


This contains a lot of individual files AND a 5MB+ SC_Hair_Outfits.package AND a 5MB+ SCSkins.package. Since the individual packages are clearly all recolors, I assume that at least one of those large packages contains all the meshes, but some more info on what's what would be peachy.

Something else castaways and natives might cook with: http://sumomo.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=289932&c=1

Sims2Wiki reports that Squinge had a 'vampires bite anyone' mod and it's at the Graveyard, obviously no idea whether it needs updating. Christianlov has one that makes Sims always accept a bite but don't know if it affects who can be bitten as I've not felt like messing with it.

Try reading this thread to see how Marhis did it for her neighborhood-wide sex change:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6843.0.html

Papercut: I'd be all in favor of that too. (And really, I'd live with the existing BFF functioning if only it were called something less, well, 12ish. BFFs ARE for 12s. (I am too old to have heard the term until I was long past too old to ever use it or have used it.) It's just that it's ALSO stupidly easy.)

geekgirl: Agreed. I know that personality does affect attraction, but that still doesn't make it possible for one to deliberately make a Sim attracted to high playfulness, for example -- except by deliberately either making them also very high playful (to trigger the 'similar personality' attractor) or picking a sign for that Sim that has strong attraction to a sign that's always high-playful, or other bass-ackwards methods.

Also, another (unrelated) thing it occurs to me I really want: a fix for the goddamn missing clothing tooltips in CAS.

It's already in the game and I tend to prefer modifying aspects of the game I don't like until they make more sense over nuking them outright, the existing best friend status is absurdly easy to achieve and BFF at least takes longer to get to, the concept of more tiers of friendship appeals to me (although it would be more appealing if it were made to have more significance, which is yet another set of changes), and I like the concept of the "inside joke" interaction too.

Actually, what would probably make more sense would be to also limit the number, either to 1 (a la marriage) or a very small number (i.e. 3) -- maybe even 3 for popularity Sims and 1 for everyone else -- which would tend to suggest also making it a status one has some control over (like marriage). But the more changes the less likely that anyone other than 'me after I spend months learning to mod' would ever give it a second thought.

A mod to make the BFF concept less stupid without eliminating it or consigning it to children/teens. Call it something else (possibly also involving a rename of 'Best Friends' in the deal -- turn BFF into Best Friend and Best Friend into Close Friend? I dunno -- or leave Best Friend as is and turn BFF into Lifetime Friend or something?), up the requirements to reach it (2 Sim days? Whut?), and it'd actually be reasonable.

(Possibly make it in two parts -- one along the lines of TJ's Same Sex Marriage mod or those mods that turn all references to Woohoo into sex instead that just changes the name of the damn thing, and one that ups the requirements.)

You're claiming that custom content that isn't Body Shop content is showing up, but you haven't mentioned any of it specifically. Downloaded houses ALWAYS show up -- what about downloaded furniture? Do you have any, and is it showing up?

Oh, I have plenty of ways to delete things without resorting to Clean Installer. And I didn't have any problems deleting those kinds of CC after Seasons -- a few weeks ago I added BV and FT in one go, plus all the stuff packs I didn't already have (Holiday, Celebrations, Teen Style, and Kitchen and Bath, iirc), and that's when it started. And yes, it's primarily all the stuff on the 4th section of CAS, although it also affects eye colors. Intentional and BV-related is possible, although since I was still following the community in general pretty closely as BV was coming out and people were adjusting, I'm surprised I didn't hear about it then if so.

I seem to spend more time downloading, deleting, and organizing than actually playing the game. -.- Anyway, I'm culling custom stuff again and CAS is being weird. Specifically, I can delete hair and clothing with no problems in it, but the trash button does not appear for eyes, makeup, possibly some other types of content. This is across the board for each content type -- I have not found any custom hair that was undeletable, for example, but don't have any eyes that will permit me to delete them either. Is this some sort of weird new EP/SP issue (as the sig says, I have everything released so far) or is it just me? Anyone seen the issue before to know what it is? None of the searches I tried (on the top level of the site) yielded any threads except one that didn't have anything related, and I'm tired of using Body Shop to delete the stuff instead.

I also patched with the first patch (got it off here, it had been pulled before I even installed FT) and had been unable to find another no-CD to update to in the first place. Seems to be fine, but I'll wait some on the second patch.

You might poke around on Sims Cave? I seem to recall nabbing a fixed mesh along with some recolors there (for a different Peggy style).