Yes, I have seen them in action. I do, in fact, own a tank. And I've killed these things before. With a spear. They taste great. Kinda tough, chewy texture.

Yes, they're quite persistent. This kind of bloody-minded persistence can make then surprisingly predictable and easy to dispatch if you remain calm and do not panic.

I thought the entire point was NOT to have accidents.

Is the error fatal enough to break your game, or are there just no bills? It kinda doesn't make any sense to waste someone's time sending them a bill for $0, after all.

Well, what happens when you click that button? It doesn't notificate you?

Too late for that. I already am pretty deranged. Although having been born that way gives me a lot of experience in ironing out those issues.

Well, this should obviously be the final move. I mean, I can hardly become disgruntled with administrative policies here. Any moving done from here would involve moving the ENTIRE SITE, which wouldn't be quite as noticeable, since I now own all of the content and the domain independently of anyone else. That, and I have my own warped views on bureaucracy.

All Hacks comprises everything that has been released as a standalone hack. The Director's Cut comprises everything that I, the Director, personally use in my game. This includes a few obscure, unreleased extras, as befits any Director's Cut.

Couldn't you just click on the notificate button at the top of the thread?

Yes, well, you see, the rules on advertising paystuff here is that it'll cost you $9.95/month. We're the only ones who get to post paystuff here! It's my paysite! Not yours! Nyah!

You can advertise free stuff all you want, though. )

Actually, you're not quite omniscient, you're limited to the viewing range of your individual units. As for benevolent, well, that depends on whether you take the Soviet approach to psi-testing or not.

Yes, that's what it means, although most showers do not need to be placed against walls, there's a desk phone, and there are floor mirror options.

How amusing. I have something like that also. It's called a "cat".

I rather liked that seal, it seemed very you.

You may be interested in the LTW tweak, also. It makes LTWs make more sense relative to the sim in question.

Makes LTW, especially for careers, appropriate to the sim: A sim who has absolutely no interest in Crime is not suddenly going to want to become a Criminal. All career LTWs now have certain prerequisite interest and/or personality levels that must be met, or that career will never appear for the sim. The results should be fairly intuitive(Athletes like sports, Mayors like politics, Chefs like food, etc.). Careers are also not hard-locked to aspiration, and so Family sims should have greater variety in LTWs now: A sim's career want can cross aspirational boundaries if he has a relative who is at the top of the career track to emulate as a family tradition (I.E., all members of the Grunt family of appropriate interest may decide they'd like to join the military, regardless of aspiration). Because elders cannot normally take regular careers, once a sim is an elder, he will no longer roll career wants (other than his present career, if not maxed). A CAS elder will thus not be stuck with an impossible want. Similarly, "crazy" wants like "Marry off a million children", "Have a million grandchildren", "Graduate a million children from college", all carry sanity checks as well: An elder (female) will not be able to roll new children LTWs unless she already *HAS* the required number of children (since it would be impossible to get more!). Elder males can still have more children and are not limited in this way. However, a sanity check is also added for aging neighborhoods: If your neighborhood is already overpopulated, some of these will no longer appear because satisfying them would render your game unplayable and/or destroy your neighborhood files in a Big Fiery Ball That Is Visible From Space.


NL+: ltwvariety.zip
UNI: ltwvariety.zip

RTFM:
Greater LTW Variety & Sanity (v1b) for TS2NL p0 - TS2OFB p0
Made by: Flying Fish Systems (J. M. Pescado & Doctor Boris)

Special Thanks To:
Fairlight the Bitch

Congratulations to: Draklixa!

INSTRUCTIONS:
Place in your MYDOCU~1\EAGAME~1\THESIM~1\DOWNLO~1 directory.

FEATURES:
Lifetime wants for careers are no longer strictly aspirationally correlated,
and will instead vary by appropriate interests and personality. Career-wants
for varying careers may appear outside of aspirational boundaries due to
family influence, and sim personalities will match desired occupation. Crazier
lifetime wants (Marry Off 6 Children, Have 6 Grandchildren) will disappear in
neighborhoods of advanced age and therefore population to slow down Armageddon.

COMPATIBILITY:
Compatible with all FFS Hacks. For TS2NL - TS2PETSp0

SIDE EFFECTS:
May cause computer damage, incontinence, explosion of user's head, coma, death,
and/or halitosis.

WARNING:
Do not open, crush, dispose of in fire, put in backwards, short-circuit, or mix
with non-awesome hacks - may explode, leak, or catch fire, resulting in injury
and/or death.

Elephantine Pregnancy is unfortunately one of the major timescale distortions of TS2. Recalculating scales based on this tends to result in a greatly
extended adult ages (at 3 days = 9 RL months, the agespan of 24 to 60 drags out to 148 days).

Yes, and at such a ratio, your parents will be dead by the time you graduate in many cases.

The given ratio is a MAX, not a minimum. It is entirely possible to simply warp through Uni elapsing 0 neighborhood days for the entire giant mess. The alternative, using pregnancy as a guideline again, is a rough equivalency of 4 days to a year, which means that you will burn 16 days over the course of the entire Uni mess and probably be dead by the time your kids graduate. This is much too absurdly long.

And no, you don't have to play the entire Uni year one at a time: Some amount of asynchronity for sanity is tolerated, if this is the only child at Uni and no siblings are of close enough age that they'd enter Uni prior to graduation. In which case you can elapse up to 4 days of standard neighborhood time and still maintain sync, but then you get to play the entire 4 years of Uni in a single sitting! OH, THE PAIN!

Besides, the Secret Society doesn't take all that long, and isn't a requirement, and zombies aren't really a part of the Uni experience at all. You can hardly expect every sim to commit a few serial killings (and join the secret society: Wouldn't be very secret if everyone joined, now would it?). Just do the coursework, then slam the clock. It doesn't take that long if you're doing it in a rental house, quiet dorm....or an email, which is probably why you're asking, since if you want to de-sync your entire game on your own for the heck of it, well, that's not my problem.

Actually, it's not quite spelled out that explicitly: Uni is a little wiggy, so that time is alotted as a maximum, not a minimum. For time-sync, you can elapse no MORE than 1 day per Uni year, but you may opt to run none. This fudge factor is inserted because of the fact that you can shave days off the teen stage (which is technically too long) more or less arbitrarily.

Yes, I do believe your old avatar looked better. This new one looks like a werewolf.

The fire is kind of a placeholder. It also symbolizes burnination.

#grah, ghost.ircrebels.com

They certainly will. But I don't see a Civ 4. I don't have a Civ 4. Do you have it? Do you know anyone who has it? Sounds suspiciously like there doesn't seem to be a Civ 4. Maybe later. But right now, I see no Civ 4.

I don't pay attention to vaporware and propaganda. There is no Civ 4.

Yes, although my enthusiasm for Civ 3 is somewhat less. I personally felt it was kind of a low point in the series. So obviously, you got the Battleship vs. Phalanx reference, and how it applies to Sim-Fighting.

Err, well, I suppose so. The "secret chat room" is on the same place the old rentech.com chat room is, only the channel is now #grah instead of #rentech. And the Rentech channel was named Rentech by me, so don't read too much into it.

No, but I'm familiar with the stuff.