I haven't seen that image in months and now it's in every thread...making up for lost time, Pes?

Yes.  That irritated me to no end. 

What would you make as a spell?  Anything would be pretty useless, gamewise....I mean, I guess you could incorporate some of the voodoo stuff into the spells, but other than that, it's pretty much all covered...although I guess you could add things like "max a skillpoint" or "give a promotion" and the inverses...but..there's really not that much to do.

Found it last night..it seems to work fine.

For some reason this doesn't surprise me.

Guess I'll see if I can find something to approximate it.

Or rather, would it be possible to copy that into werewolf and witch?  I don't want my supernatural sims to age, but I don't want aging turned off for everyone...

So where do I find the function and how do I copy it into witch and werewolf stuffs?  (I'm not specifically asking "how do I copy" but rather, what do I need to make sure to  copy and what part links to what..)

This..this is good!  What do you call it?

Food?  It's marvelous!  I must find more of it!

Seeing as how I like to leave my sims on auto-hobbinate when I'm working with other sims, slower is better because it makes them appear to be doing something useful instead of sitting around waiting for me to poke them.

I'm fairly certain that "new planets" means "planets what aren't your home".

any atypicals we should know about?

Is it really an "install" limit or is it a "computer" limit?

i.e. Is there a server somewhere that ticks off a count each time the game installs or does it just track hardware profile a la Windows or iTunes?

I never run SimPE and the game at the same time, so unless SimPE has a hidden TSR, then no.

I think after further experimenting that choosing to save and quit or save and exit to hood is what causes this, because saving manually and then quitting seems to keep the cat around.

I cannot track this problem down at all.  It seems to work fine when I'm just testing, but as soon as I say "Ok, good, it's working" and start playing normally, it stops working.

That's some seriously fucked up code if hacks that have absolutely nothing to do with pets is affecting them.

I have a theory, but I haven't been able to test it yet...but I had one lot where the cat worked fine...I think if I summon and dismiss the cat, it'll force a save, but as I said, I haven't had a chance to test it.

I was about to pull my hacks when I saw that the one lot had actually worked...so I don't know what the hell is going on.


[edit] Also, re: tightpants: 

The cats worked fine back when I first installed AL and the only things I've changed since the last time they worked have been updates from the DC.  But again, every time previously that I used them, they were unsummoned (either by me or by motive failure) before I left or quit...and I only did it a couple times...but they did work.

I'll find the time to do some more testing and post the results.


[edit] Eureka!  My previous theory was wrong, but I found the solution.  I'd forgotten that I switched no reagent hacks a week or so ago.  "noreagentsdocumented" found here in the peasantry breaks the cats.  Treeag-NoStupidReagents found at MTS2 does not.

That's also why the cats started working...earlier today I switched them back out and then forgot I was going to test that because blahblahblahlifehappensblah...anyway, that's the scoop.

Annnnnnnnd, this morning it's not working again.  Also, when I loaded a new neighborhood, it loaded two magical worlds...I'm going to assume a corrupted install (there was weirdness going on when I installed anyway, but the game seemed to work, so I ignored it...) and reinstall.  I'll also load my hacks piecemeal once I get it running, just so I can purely rule out tightpants...but if the damn game is being this fickle on working or not, I don't really have a guaranteed way to test it...

OK, I know what is happening, but I don't know why or what causes it.  But the character files for the cats are not being saved, so when I try to resummon, they're linking to a nonexistent character.

I'm at a complete loss here...I have no idea what could be causing this and I don't know enough about SimPE to find out how the familiars are linked to the owners.

[edit] Here's some more error logs generated when I made Brandi Broke a witch and summoned a familiar, then immediately saved and exited to neighborhood and tried to reload the lot.

Before, I only mildly disliked EA...but lately it seems every time I turn around, EA is doing something else to treat their customers like shit.

Knowing they'll come is one thing.  That's just a natural extension of the life of a game that's been around for a while.  Officially announcing development one month after a game releases is just greedy and insulting.  That's basically admitting that you withheld features from the release version so you could make an expansion.

Well, as I said, it happened before on a completely different install of the game.  Whatever the problem is, it's a reoccuring issue.


Nah, everything else works fine.


Yeah, but summon your cat at home, save and quit while the cat is still out and then reload the game and see if the cat is still there.  As far as conflicting hacks...the only conflicts I have are the poolhack and vacationfixes from using the nudist hack.  Those have nothing to do with anything involving cats, afaik.


The spell animation fires, but the cat doesn't appear. 

No worries.  Hijacked threads don't bother me in the slightest.


Home lot, only one family because I'm only playing one, but both are witches, one good, one evil...neither cat can be summoned.

If I may re-hijack my own thread:

This is a legitimate problem now.  I summoned a cat, saved and exited and when I came back, the cat was gone and cannot be re-summoned.  This is on a completely new install.

I mean I went to a community lot, the cat showed up in the "Who's going with" list and just to see what would happen, I included the cat. 

I've reset the hood now, though, so...who knows.

I was at war with the Grox when I made the core run.  I just took a colony pack with me and stopped at every empty system along the way to drop a colony and heal/recharge, buy another colony and move on my way.

I tried to take the spectral cat with me to a comm lot and the game didn't like that at all.  After a crash, I reloaded and now the cat is gone completely..no memories of it or anything...and I can't resummon.

Any ideas?

[edit]Including error files that may or may not be related to the vanishing act, but they happened shortly before the crash.

[edit2] Oh, that's just fantastic.  The character file is missing.  I didn't delete it so I'm guessing some kind of save glitch....this means I have to reset the neighborhood, doesn't it?




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Are there any plans to provide support for the bookshelf/door/whateverthehellitis?  As it stands, the macros can't see route through them and don't even attempt to teleport so I have to keep manually teleporting or using the bookshelf.

And while it is a silly thing, I like the aesthetic of a hidden room for my witches and vampires and other such clandestine types.

Teleport is too a word, Google Chrome!

Except the Grox who won't know whether to love you because you're using planet busters or hate you because you're using it on them.