Ok, just bare with me.  My sim Orlando was abducted and half an hour later his partner Posie went into labour with twins.  Anyway, I really wanted two girls so I quit to the neighbourhood without saving and re-entered the lot.  After the abduction I had set up a command for Posie to look through the telescope (she needs logic for work) and upon re-entering the lot I get the abduction cut-scene for Posie   However a couple of sim minutes later Posie reappears by the mail box.

Is this a glitch?  Actually should it be possible for a sim to get abducted whilst another sim is with the aliens?  Posie seems fine and Orlando has come back safely.  Anybody else had this happen to them?

I have a guinea pig that I keep in the lounge.  He's very spoiled and loves watching tv!  He has a great personality and can tell the difference between my partner and I walking around the house.  The minute I take one step on the landing he is squeaking for attention.  The lazy thing much prefers me to hold his cucumber and spinach leaves instead of holding them himself.  Oh and he doesn't like men very much and has a habit of growling and head butting them when let out

Lol.  My poor sim got a bashing purely for participating in karaoke

Can anybody interact with Mrs Crumplebottom?  Whenever my sim tries to speak with her the actions are dropped from the queue.  I don't know if this is a bug or by design

Thanks very much

Here's a screenshot of mine.  Notice the lips no longer fit the box.

You're welcome to use Posie sim if you would like?  However I created custom eyeshadow, blush, red/brown hair, and pale skin for her.  Here's a snapshot

Do you use SimPE Vecki?  You can export your current sim into Body Shop so that you can have many Vecki sims in your game   I would guess the answer to other question is yes, put the custom content back in the game and the eyes will show once again.  I haven't tried it myself but since the individual Sim DNA and the character file is still referencing the custom content I can't see why it wouldn't show up.  Normally hair, eyes etc revert to what they have been cloned from hence them having brown eyes.

Quick Tutorial using SimPE (Classic GUI):

Start SimPE, Select Neighborhood Browser from the Plugins tab.
Select the neighbourhood that you want e.g Pleasantview then click open.
Select Sims Surgery from the Plugins tab.
Select the sim, then use, then export. In the ‘Export CAS sim' box click on save and finally close down SimPE.

Your bottleneck is indeed your video card however I believe the article is trying to imply that once you get past a certain point, the bottleneck shifts to the processor hence the two high spec graphics cards showing little difference   As you rightly mention, replacing the video card for a high end card in a system with a 1 GHz processor would be a waste however I have seen people do just this on the BBS.  Of course they then wonder why their game experience has not dramatically improved.

I believe Striker is referring to the special NPCs e.g. postman, pizza delivery person and such like.  These characters should bring §1,000 when they move in however the cash is never added to the household funds.  Regular townies bring in varying amounts of cash without problems.

That's a well known Uni issue.  I have to get my sims to move out of their current home, then add them to the dorm using combine households in neighbourhood view

Hmm that's entirely different to the details found here

The link was taken from filippinokidd's thread here

Interesting you should say that.  MTS2 back in March had a post which said you needed to install both patches otherwise the install would fail.  If I remember rightly, the second patch release seemed to be the same as the first but with some Asia specific fixes however these days only one patch is available for download

I second that.  Installing the patch before installing Uni caused quite a few problems for some people.  I haven't seen it personally but it is better to be safe

lol Hook   I'm afraid I can't get on either. The last time it happened the site was down for around 12 hours.  No doubt it will be back by the time the kids are out of school.

*Edit* They have since updated the BBS message.  It now says "We are either experiencing technical difficulties with the BBS or the system was unable to resolve which BBS to display. Problems resolving the BBS can be due to a misconfiguration or perhaps the wrong BBS identifier was passed. Please check back later." on a plain white background

Downloads: \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
BodyShop Sims: \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SavedSims
Houses in the House Bin: \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\LotCatalog

Unfortunately I do not have Nightlife so I cannot answer the last questions.  If you want a decorated house and not the family, I tend to export the lot to file (gets saved in \My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\PackagedLots) then reimport using the Sims2Pack Clean Installer.  This way you can install the furnished house without the family by clicking on the house symbol in the top right hand corner and selecting install

lol.  Inge does your patch just stop the need for watering the plants or does it also stop the bees and butterflies from arriving?  I do like my butterflies

No worries, thanks for that info.  I might ask Joan as she uses a variety of plants and probably knows about them

Thanks jenwarren and HatedMaxoid   I can confirm that sims can walk over plants to water other plants however I haven't looked to see if gardeners can step on the plants.  Its not a big deal however it was something I noticed when I started playing the Pleasant family.

Talking about problems surrounding diagonal walls and floors, does the new code also fix the problems with placing plants?  Below is a snapshot of the Pleasant family home.  As you can see the two corner plants are dead.  Neither my sims or the gardener can water these plants however they can mange to dispose of them.  This happens with all homes of this design.

I know the children that were already in the game when I installed the Uni EP were randomly given lifetime wants however they do not usually appear until they transition to teen.

Sometimes the want can be fulfilled after several children have graduated however with other sims it never happens.  I'm afraid I cannot be specific as it is just temperamental.  At the time I didn't have any recoloured objects however I did have the MaxoidMonkey objects from the official site and the following hacks.

amnesiafix
antibabylecture
captainhero
collegeclock
computerchatfix
deathfix
fratfix
handheldfix
hugginghack
marriage-postmortum
moveoutbugfix
nocheeringhack
nocorruptdeath
noroutefail
ONE School Bus Dialog
runtoclass

I believe two are from twojeffs, the rest are Pescado's.

Ancient Sim one of my Broke twins (either Aidan or Avery, I'd have to check ) achieved the "20 Best Friends" lifetime want during his college years.  He actually made the last best friend from a phone call and the want was achieved.  Presumably as the sim that is using the phone is on his own lot, the problems that you mention do not occur.  Unless it is an intermittent bug

You're welcome  However I must say my last cheerleader was engaged to a YA sim with a 100/100 relationship and attended the graduation party.  She didn't graduate with Dustin Broke though.  Thankfully Beau was in College at the time and invited Anna to move in.  I then had to play the College years, let her graduate then combine her with Dustin back in Pleasantview.  Should townie sims randomly graduate with player sims?  I'm a little curious as I have never seen this.

I haven't seen a date published Diala however there is this here.