You're just jealous of my fabulous versatility.

*Screams like an enamoured school-girl* We love you, Jeff!! 

Well, I tried it out some. This is fantastic. Now my British-Vamp-Guy can fulfill that bite want with his living husband without the worry of vampirism! Plus, it adds days to the living boy and a relationship boost (Well, they're always at 100/100 anyway, but that's not the point)... Awesomeness. One less thing to worry about with my Knowledge-Vampire/Family-Living couple, whom I never planned to get together when I made them, mind you... They made the decision for me (Three bolts at first meeting!).... At least it makes for interesting family dynamics.

Old enough to have sex, but not old enough to drink. 

I'm 20.

This sounds really hot... I'm always so gun-shy with hacks that don't come from Pescado, TwoJeffs, or Inge. Took me forever to wholly trust TwoJeffs and Pescado. I already knew Inge's work quite well from the Sims1 community. This is far too tempting though.. That's what back-ups are for, right?

I have to agree with Pescado.. I don't get why people have so much trouble with the headmaster visit! It's easy. The only time I've failed is due to the no food points glitch (and I can usually pull through even then), oh and once before I realized they'll get stuck in the hottub if you have one (I hadn't saved in a while so I didn't want to reload, stupid me. But I was new to the game, ok?). As a test, I had Brandi Broke call the headmaster for Beau the day after he turned into a kid... I think she was on her second day of pregnancy, but I don't precisely remember the timing when you start that household for the first time. Anyway, I had her shmooze with him on the lawn a tiny bit, go serve mac & cheese, then sent her off to bed because she was about to pass out. Beau took care of the rest and got right in. I didn't change anything in their house. I didn't even buy Beau a bed, he slept with his mom (that sounds so wrong). I didn't bother to clean, I think there was homework on the lawn, the works. Now surely, if it can be done under those circumstances, it's insanely easy.

Address Bar! *smacks forehead* I couldn't remember that for the life of me, so thanks. Thanks for the compliments too of course. 

I have no clue why Angelfire hasn't updated that link yet.. I checked and rechecked my design to make sure I hadn't forgotten to change the link. Not so, it's undoubtedly their mistake.

Just enter http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/virtualdaydream/DylanTK_DefaultAlienLaverwinkle.rar into your website-broswer-window-thing (what the heck is it really called?) instead of clicking on the link. Angelfire doesn't allow direct linking, but if you put it in manually, you'll get right to it.

Bravo! I have no clue why the link hasn't updated yet.. Damn Angelfire. Apparently it's uploaded, just not updated. 

I have no mercy, nor any love for Romance sims. 

Before the game was actually released, I was expecting the Romance aspiration to be about ROMANCE, not insatiable lust... 

I'm a hopeless romantic (though my aspiration is Knowledge), so I was really hoping for sims that were true romantics.. Taking great pleasure in loving and pampering their significant other. But nooooo. They had to make the so-called Romance sims into slut-monsters. Maybe they call them Romance sims because Nymphomaniac was too risque.

My mom just brought it to my attention that Gali called me 'daughter', not 'son'... And I see she beat me to the correction... I was so busy scratching my head over the black hair aversion that I didn't even notice! No offense taken.. GloamingMerle is kinda... ahem. 

Oh wow, Andygal.. You tried the Save From Death thing with your Legacy family? I wouldn't have the guts to do that, considering the no reload rule. That takes some serious beans. I think I've killed a nanny or two, but then who hasn't (other than Gali, that is)? Nannies can make even the most docile of humans murderous.

Brynne, you SADIST! You should be ashamed of yourself, torturing poor little virtual people like that!   

I've killed some sims, but I had to do it quickly so they didn't have a chance to cry... like they do when you trap them in a fenced enclosure or something. I rarely kill sims though, honestly. Generally it's just for the 'Save From Death' points.. It's not cruel when they want it, right? Really, the only time I can't deal with their crying is when I'm a direct cause (like forcing sims to break-up). If they wet themselves, well... It was their own fault, now wasn't it? I always have copius amounts of bathrooms after all. Roaches? Get over it you Nancy!... You get the idea.

EDIT: Gosh, Gali.. She brags about me so much I thought everyone knew. 
By the way, why in the world don't you like black hair!? I can understand the paranormal aversion, but black hair? (I'm just teasing you, so you know.) Nearly every last sim of mine has either brown or black hair.

Oh, Gali. Coming from you that means a lot! 

Sometimes when my mom (Reggikko) and I discuss questionable plans for our sims (in the name of drama and intrigue), we like to joke and say things like: "Gali would die if she knew half of the things we do to our sims." Sad part is, we treat our sims really well in comparison to many people. Their lives are weird, yes, but not cruel. I can't remember the last time a sim of mine went into aspiration failure, for example. I can't stand to see them cry either! Oh my gosh... One time, I tried to break up two sims of mine... I ended up exiting the lot without saving so they could stay together, because I couldn't take the sobbing. 

I managed to upload the Laverwinkle Alien Skintone as a .rar... Now we just need to wait for angelfire to finish the job (it doesn't automatically update when you publish something new it seems). Keep a look out for that .rar file link.. Hopefully it won't take too long to show up.

http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/virtualdaydream/

Okay people, go download the VampirePaste (as I so lovingly call it)... I'll warn you guys ahead of time, the AlienLaverwinkle zip file is corrupt.. I'm working on it!

Ha. I just looked.. there's a 128KB cut-off point in the file attachment option.. Sorry guys.. I would have went for it too.. If I had gotten my lips ripped for it, at least it would have been for the greater good. 

My parents are leaving in a while, so I'll try to see if I can (use my mom's computer to) get a website started and upload my default replacements.

No no no no! No exchange! You can't make me do it!... *composes self* ahem...

It's about 11,200 KB... It's not actually a skintone, it's a full body tattoo. Compare this to my alien default skintone replacement, which is about 90,800 KB.

I didn't think we were allowed to upload that kind of thing here? I mean... There are no specific rules against it, but it seems a little... presumptuous.

Dylan here... to answer some questions.

How do I do it?: Pretty simple. I find the default game files using SimPE, extract them, create a brand new package file to throw the extracted stuff into, extract the images, edit them, import them, save.. It's pretty easy. If you don't change the filenames of the extracted files, it'll just effectively write over the defaults, while still being easy to get rid of.

Sharing: I've been going back and forth with this idea for a while, and finally decided that I would like to put my creations on the web. Kind of a scary notion if you're on the shy side like I am. I just don't know where I'll be putting them yet. I connect to the internet through my mom's computer, and the sucky firewall my Dad insists on (I use something else for my computer) won't allow me to publish a website from this computer. It's a no-prompt kind of firewall, taking matters into it's own hands without asking you what you want.    My firewall asks me what I want. Enough griping though.. I'll try to figure something out soon. I'm sure you'll hear my mom bursting with pride when I do. 

Notes: My replacement allows them to keep their original eyecolor, or use contacts (apparently) if you so please. I also fixed the alpha channel issue with teen female vamps.

I play with testingcheatsenabled true. Since I loathe the birthday cake, I direct someone to put the baby on the floor, then I shift-click on the baby and make them selectable (You have to choose 'make selectable' twice for it to work.). With the baby selected, choose grow-up and keep them selected while you wait for a birthday helper to toss them into toddlerhood. This method has never failed for me, whereas the autonomous 'help with birthday' and stupid cake have screwed up liberally in the past.

Worked like a charm for me too. I'm so relieved. I really didn't want to bulldoze Bob & Betty's house! 

Thanks a bunch, guys. I never would have guessed that would be the issue. Missing car portals, huh. Well, I found portal replacers and instructions on using them to fix this problem. Here's a link to the thread if anyone is interested:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=79045&highlight=car+portal

I'll let you know if it works.

I had this problem before, right around the time that the Varioussimmers fiasco started, so I'm guessing Pescado never saw it (It was in Jeff's area). Anyway, I got tired of waiting and just ditched the neighborhood. Now it's popping up again in another neighborhood..

Quick rundown of the scenario: Sim calls NPC (Not all lots are affected at once), when NPC is due to arrive I get bombarded by error messages.. Reset will not work, delete fixes the error-go-round unless it's the type of NPC that persistently re-spawns like the Nanny or.... Social Worker (that sucked, let me tell you.).. In the end, they never show up.

What I've tried: Remove otherworldly loiterers, AWOL Headmaster (figured it couldn't hurt), there was no option to remove stuck bills (which I've heard can fix other things).. Force error on random thing to reset. Inge's Teleporter Shrub to clear visitors... Nothing worked.

The only things that set these two neighborhoods apart from others in my game is that both had Townies and/or NPCs deleted... In the first neighborhood I used 'deleteallcharacters' for some fresh faces.. In this newly afflicted one, I deleted the townies only, as I assumed the error (in that other neighborhood) had been caused by the game trying to re-spawn NPCs specifically. I'm also using the no spawn townies in this new neighborhood.

Well, that may be so. If that's the case, that's fine by me, really.. It's nice to feel surprised by them for doing something that seems insightful.. Even if it's only coincedence, and I'm really just reading into their actions a bit too much. I like to amuse myself with a little magical thinking here and there in general, so applying that to the sims is no stretch for me. I will never envy people who see sims as nothing more than programming. Not saying that you feel that way, of course.. How would I know that for certain? But..... Considering you made a sim of yourself, I'd bet that you think of your sims as a tad bit more than coding. 

Kitten in glass... Hmmm... Reminds me of BonsaiKitten.com. I know that site is old news, but it still makes me snicker when I think about it..

I'm entering a little late in this discussion, aren't I? Oh, well.... You'd probably severely hate the challenge I came up with, Pescado. I can certainly imagine you cringing every single simday, hand twitching with the urge to set the foolish little sims right. Generally I just take in a deep breath, and find the hilarity in it. For the things I cannot get over, I remedy with your hacks. For all it's outlandish advertisement issues, and resulting unrealistic behaviour, I'm pleased to say that every once in a great while my sims still do surprise me. Or other people's sims for that matter... When my mom first began playing, she became very hooked on the Goth's (among certain others). She moved Cassandra into her own place. Mortimer came over, walked in, and Cassandra made a motion as if to say "Well, here it is.". He proceeded to come over the next two nights to check in on her. The reason it surprises me is because I had never seen nor heard of such a thing before. I suppose those odd instances are examples of how the game is ideally supposed to play out?