Ha!  Pescado should make a mod so that unlucky sims can get their arm stuck in the mailbox.

We really do need a list of all the things that can cause potential BFBVFS.

I am sick and tired of having to post things like this, just because we have no simple list of what not to do.

Well, is it? I want to make more room in Bluewater by compacting the lots with space between them.

I have a functioning business with the food stands.

Never had this problem.

Well, if everyone had that attitude, we would have McCain for president.

No matter how small, any action changes the future.

I don't care if Jordi likes pudding! Shut up!

Have you tried lowering the resolution. I had trouble playing on highest resolution even if I lowered all graphical settings.

With the second highest, I can maximize all graphical settings.

My suggestion is to lower the resolution until the lag disappears.

You're telling me. Have you seen the floor borders? They are pink and yellow!

I do not use BRY, or any of the hacks in the Macrotastics family.

I faintly remember reading something about  ghosts not appearing unless you go to the graveyard before sundown. Is this true?

Edit: Fixed! Apparently you do have to arrive before sundown, which utterly sucks for my vampire sim. Also look for Parrotland coming to a telephone operator near you!

No matter how many times I go to my new cemetery, no ghosts ever come out. I really want Claire to see her father's ghost, and I've gone to the lot about ten times.

Anyway, are the ghosts broken, or am I really unlucky?

Thank You! This won't cause BFBVFS, will it?

Either way I backed up my neighborhood before changing anything.

P.S. I have the Debugger, but only put it in my downloads if I have an issue already in the game, because it's just so ugly and fits in with nothing.

I didn't realize until just now that I never installed the traditional marriage hack. Today my lesbian couple got married. Now instead of being Claire Greenwood, we now have Claire Do, which just sounds wrong.

Can I edit names with SimPE or something?

I am very anal about these small details, I know.

Speaking or deformed large noses, does the trick for getting parts of sims faces huge in TS2 still work in 3? If so, post a pic.

I feel much better knowing I am not alone in this decision. The Sims 3 seems to have no appeal value whatsoever, and yet some people are willing to start all over again with this piece of shit.

Maybe in 2013 when The Sims 4 comes out, EAxis may actually start making sense again. May being the operative word.

Edit: I just realized what Pescado wrote. I look forward to future episodes of Awesomeland.

How many of you are sticking with The Sims 2? How many have come back to The Sims 2? Post here if you have not moved on to 3.

Marhis is right. Predictability is very boring. Half of the fun of TS2 was getting sims into, and out of ridiculous situations.

Besides, I have never 'played the car' before.

Man! That is worse than when my daughter named her Sims 2 family's twins "Baby Lugnut", and "Baby Nutlug"

I recently arr'ed a copy of Spore Galactic Adventures, and I would give it about an 7.5 out of 10. It is fun, but can be annoying sometimes.

The Good

- Surprisingly, all the EAxis adventures are really fun. Also, they can be witty at times. For example, there was a museum in one adventure that had a sword in a stone encased inside one of the displays. Here is what it said "The corpse of King Rocky the Rock. As you can see the implement that caused his death is still impaled in his lower abdomen..." (Take note that Rocky the Rock came with the Sims 2 Bon Voyage.)

- They put really good collision protection in this game. If you plop down a building with an arch, you can walk through the arch.

- The adventure creator, while easy to use is also complex. You can adjust anything, and while it has a complexity meter, I managed to place over 100 objects before it even showed any complexity. Also anything you can do with hot keys in the building editor can be applied to the buildings in the adventure creator. I am just scraping he tip of the iceberg in my review too.

- The textures have been updated to look nicer, and actually like inside the editor. Unfortunately, this only applies to civilization, and space stage if looking really close to your buildings, or vehicles.

- Adventures are nicely incorporated into space stage. You can either look for an adventure planet labeled with a flag, or ask a civilization for a mission. You can still get the Base Game missions, but if you do, just turn them down, and find another civilization to ask.

- There are hundreds of special effects, from DNA holograms, to mushroom clouds. As well as some catchy music.

- Finally, according to the site, it requires the disk to run, which could mean they removed SecuRom from this game as well.


The Bad

- There are only a handful of EAxis made missions. While they are good, they leave you craving more. Unless you are willing to turn on CC, you can't get more. (I ended up braking down, and doing this.) Not even the robot chicken made ones. Which isn't much of a loss, since the one I played was supremely stupid.

- While the adventure creator itself is complex, you have a limit of at most 24 actions your character can do in a single adventure. This can be used well, but most of the time is not, making for short adventures. Also the actions you can take are a bit limited. But the limits aren't horridly restricting if you know what you are doing.

- Creating an adventure is very time consuming.

- There is currently a glitch that occasionally gets you stuck inside an object if you run into it too fast. If this happens, just hit the beam up button, and retry the adventure. Frustrating, but the only obvious bug I have seen.

- You can't make giant adventures in one piece, due to restrictions in the lack of a save button during an adventure. However, at least you can pause for a meal or break.

- You can't beam down to non adventure planets, but what would you do there anyway?

- Make sure to put the tag "gaprop" on your props. I once ran into my character's sidekick's Empire, because I forgot to label him with this tag.

In conclusion, if you don't like creating things, this is not the game for you. If you do, you will have a ton of fun with the editor. It does have that one large glitch, but hopefully without any other big ones, EAxis may be able to fix this one with a patch. They clearly were trying to give the public something they wanted, and while some aspects could have been more fleshed out, I would say this EP is equivalent to The Sims 2 OFB. If the base game wasn't worth paying for, this may actually be worth it.

I hate how reputation changes so fast. I don't want to install this hack because of the reputation building, however I am desperate for the skill and enthusiasm building. Can you make an alternate version?

I only forced errors to try and stop the gifts. I got an error after she dropped off each gift. I don't know why I can't find which one though. I am going to try to delete her in buy mode, and see if that stops anything.

Edit: It stopped it, thank goodness! Having a little bonus was good, but I actually wanted her to be able to leave her apartment.

Oops, wrong log.

Try this one.

Too........many................items..........can't...........................breathe!

My sim went on an outing with her apartment neighbor, and then a date in the same afternoon. Now, when she came home, the sim pulled about 50 gifts out of her sack. Then after a while, the sack disappeared, and so she started pulling them out of some sort of wormhole near her vaginal areas. I saved and went to neighborhood view wondering if that would stop it, but it didn't. The sea of items is still coming!


Here is my error log.

I miss him so much, even though he was so evil.

Glad to see I'm not alone in sticking with TS2.

To tell the truth, from what I've seen, most of the graphics are worse than The Sims 2. Even the Plumbobs were better in 2!