the first school I worked in there was a kid we were told had oppositional defiance disorder...  we never could exactly figure out what it was - his parents were not exactly forth-coming with information!

I hear you on the bridge-dumping - there's quite a few doctors that I'd love to do that to!  these days, I ask my friends who they see, and who's good before I even contemplate seeing any new GPs...  and once I find one, I stick with them - people think I'm strange for seeing a male doctor for pap smears, but it's important to me to have everything treated by the same person!

I hope you enjoyed your break, oddysey...  I'm taking a few days off sick at the moment, and even though I feel like crap, a couple of days away from work is doing wonders for my mental state!

Ness

ok, my sims are a little more discerning - I've only seen them do it to the ones who are fit...  but considering that the majority of my sims are fit, that's hardly any surprise...

it doesn't change the fact that I think it should only be romance sims who swoon - can someone with a little knowledge of how these things work please tell me if it's possible?

Ness


...  several days later...  hello?

can anyone tell me if this can be done, or am I just dreaming?

I'm sorry...  that idea doesn't wash with me...  I don't go swooning after strange men!

I see the age thing happening - I don't mind if my sims swoon at the sight of a hot-bodied elderly person - I just object to the fact that everyone does it!

The game obviously has checks to see if the person is fit - that part is fine - but there would also be the check to see if they are a romance sim - I figure it would just need to be tweaked so that it checks to see if I am a romance sim...

forgive my rather simplified ideas there - I haven't done any programming for about 10 years and even then it was fortran!  you've got to love that universities teach you up-to-date programming skills!

Ness

I've been thinking about the attraction thing with romance sims and it seems to be completely backwards like so many other maxis things...

why should all sims be magically attracted to a romance sim just because they happen to be a romance sim and are fit?  it seems to be that the romance sims want to woohoo with everything that moves, and it would make more sense for them to be doing the attraction thing at any fit sim who happens to be the right gender...  am I alone in thinking this?

is it possible to make a fix for this? - so that's it's the romance sims that go weak at the knees looking at everyone else that has a great body, not everyone else doing it at every odd romance sim that happens to walk past

Ness

I have it here too - great bars of colour that extend across the screen - can come off just about anything...

and saving makes it go away - the hotter my computer is, the worse it gets, but that's about all I've been able to determine with it...

Ness

I've also seen it go out and scan trucks/cars with the hack in - fortunately, I haven't had it vanish.  One time it was the maid, and there was plenty of time, the other time, I cancelled the scanning, and it all went back where it should.

Ness

reggikko!  that sounds so similar to my story...

about 6 years ago I got Barmah Forest Virus, which is a weird mosquito-borne virus we have here in Australia - it trashed my liver and I landed in hospital with severe pain one night and after heaps of tests they figured I had this virus - and that's what was causing the fatigue and pain - unfortunately, once the virus had gone dormant again (I was told I would have it for the rest of my life, and hopefully it would stay dormant) the fatigue and pain never stopped...  they labelled me with post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome and told me to rest (sole income earner working full time and rapidly running out of sick leave, not going to happen!)...  time went on, and the post-viral got dropped from the name, that's when we elected to do the tests

from there, fish oil capsules and an amino acid supplement had me improving, the sleep was another issue altogether and after becoming completely dependent on sleeping tablets for a while (not fun!), I started using SAMe (another serotonin building block) and the sleep issues were pretty much resolved.  At one point in time I was taking nearly 20 tablets a day with medications and supplements to try to manage my condition.

For a year or so, I did ok - the supplements were working and I had enough energy to function properly in my job (couldn't do much after a day at work, but I resembled a normal human being), vioxx (yes, I was on it for years!) managed the pain levels, and my GP happily kept prescribing it for me until he left the surgery - at which point so did I - all the other doctors would tell me there was nothing wrong with me, even when I had severe sinus infections...

new doctor, no longer happy to just prescribe vioxx, started running tests - I've been tested for them all, too - so many blood tests I've actually got scarring on the inside of my elbow!  all negative - and the virus I was told I would never be rid of has gone.  My rheumatologist is great - very blunt, and doesn't like me stuffing around with medications - took a year for him to convince me to take prednisone (which basically only happened when I could no longer walk) - now he's pushing the methotrexate line, which is pretty scary!  So now I've been labelled with serum-negative rheumatoid arthritis, which even the specialist admits is the label they apply when they haven't got the foggiest clue what the problem is!  He's not giving up, but seems to be thinking that we may never discover what it is, but we may be lucky enough to discover a treatment that works...

the SAMe stuff is great - pretty expensive, but it's worth it for the fact that I can now sleep, I'd certainly suggest looking into that one, and if you decide to go the fish oil, try to find a reflux-free one - otherwise, take it half way through a meal, and even though they don't say to do so, keep it in the fridge!

I hope you eventually find success in your treatment...  and getting back to the original topic of the thread, it's actually quite amazing how many chronically ill people you find playing the sims...

Ness

outgoing sims will go in whatever they are wearing at the time - the others will go as long as they are in some sort of every day clothing - casual outfits or exercise outfits are fine...  I've not tested formal wear, but it could be interesting to see if they go in that as well!

Ness

not necessarily...  the fish oil came out of some hideously expensive tests which analysed in minute detail just which fats were in my blood and which amino acids were in my urine - that way they could figure out what was going wrong in the body...

my CFS mainly affected me in cognitive ways (ever forgotten what you were saying quite literally in the middle of saying it?  looked at a class of kids you've taught for 18 months and suddenly not known a single name?) and emotional ways - basically I was a depressed and miserable wet rag who couldn't remember a darn thing and could hardly move during the day, but would lie awake all night and be completely unable to sleep... scary days!

the omega 3 fish oils are one of the building blocks of serotonin, supplement that and the body can then make it properly, slowly correcting the problem - without those tests (and the company is no longer in existence), it would be difficult to know which particular oil you may need - could be fish oil, could be evening primrose oil, I even heard of a case where it turned out to be palmitic acid (found in coconut milk)

I do hope you manage to find something that works for the fibromyalgia...  I know just how sucky it can be to have a condition that the medical world knows basically nothing about - no sooner did we get the CFS under control than a weird arthritic condition affecting every single joint in my body popped up - sort of responded, sort of didn't, no sign of what it actually is, so no idea of how to actually treat the thing!

Ness

right, I'm just not as awesome as JM...  however, I will not let anyone call me lazy, when for the last five years since I was diagnosed I've remained in full time employment!

the conditions I have may slow me down but I don't let them stop me in any way, except for perhaps the odd day here and there...

I've worked with kids who aspergers before - one of them (who we were told was inceredibly severe) actually progressed to the point where he could make jokes with us...  He would have finished school by now, sadly I moved on to another one and never did hear what became of him.

Ness

yeah, fish oil is pretty disgusting...  the capsules themselves have no taste, but they do tend to repeat on you, and believe me it is hard to think of much that is worse than burping fish all day!

I'm actually a little surprised that in the time I've been sleeping, nobody has come out yelling that there is no such thing as chronic fatigue syndrome...  it appears to be one of the least understood conditions, simply because it's not a condition itself but a blanket diagnostic name given to a whole bunch of symptoms that arise from metabolic disorders...

Ness

oooh!  please!?!?

Ness

fish oil...  *shudder*

I take it for chronic fatigue syndrome (the discussion on what that is can wait for another time), it works well there, but does stuff all for the arthritis that it is supposed to be good for that I also have...

Ness

the sims involved were born in the game - one of them has hooked up with a townie teen that was taken to college and grew up that way.

Bane~Child, I'm talking about the adoptive father - it was a baby that was generated for the adoption, not a child that had been removed from another family - somehow I've managed to avoid having that happen at all

do the memories have any significance?  if it's not going to hurt anything by having them there, than I'm not going to worry too much, I'm just a little worried that it could be a sign of something a little more serious that may attack later.

Ness

ok, this is affecting a couple of sims so far - for two of my sims each time they move house, their immediate family and themselves get a new memory of them graduating - the family I was just playing today it is particularly noticeable - the adopted baby has a memory of his father graduating!

Is this a problem?  I don't know just how significant it is - I was just checking to see if a toddler had been potty trained, and noticed it - I'm not normally worried about memories, but there is another family that appears to have similar things going on.

If it is a problem, how do I fix it?

Ness

Is that a characteristic of english people (from england), or just english speakers...   

Ness

perhaps that was a slightly dodgy way of putting it...

my mother (dutch) always told me that dutch was similar to both english and german, but english and german are not really similar at all...   I can get the meaning of more dutch than I can german - despite the fact that my mother and her family have not spoken dutch since she was 6 and I spent two years at school learning german...  I knew it wouldn't make sense when I originally posted, and I'm still not sure that it makes a lot of sense now.

Ness

my mother's family is dutch, and even though I only speak english, listening to dutch I can often catch the general gist of what is being said...  I may be about to be shouted at here, but I've been told that dutch is kind of a stepping stone between german and english - enough similarities between dutch and the other languages to figure it out, even though german to english is much harder...

Ness

the want rolled away because it was met - the grants they get when they return from exams count as money earned.

Ness

it looks like the latter option to me...

yes, really sad...

Ness

where do I find it?  I spent some time trying to search, but came up with nothing but vague references to things out there that could do it - and only broken links when they were given

Ness

ok, so it definitely can't be done at the moment...  is there a reliable hack to allow it that isn't going to cause my game to explode, or can one be made?

Ness

yes - they are terrible, but some are less terrible than others...  is there a way to make them have the less terrible ones instead?

I've never seen an option to plan maternity wear or buy other options...

Ness

is there any possible way to change which maternity outfit your sim gets lumbered with?  some of them are just downright ugly - I know we don't have to look at them for all that long, but it would be nice to have some say in what your sims are going to wear while pregnant...  possible, or are we stuck with what the game chooses?

Ness

it certainly would be good to know how the problem comes about...  I've still done the delete all characters thing here...  the only things I've done differently this time were that I generated new townies in the main neighourhood before I started my sims in uni...  Other people have tried to replicate the problem - and come up with nothing at all - at the moment it appears to be one of those random things that just happen

that and the fact that I originally added sim state, and then later decided that I'd really rather have academie le tour - sim state was attached during the character deletion - then I regenerated townies - then I attached academie and deleted sim state.  I've ended up with a completely empty neighbourhood, but a handful of maxis sims in uni - I think I can cope with that!

Ness