As far as I can tell, nothing special happens when you get all the vacation memories filled.  Nothing at all.

Knowing EAxis, more than likely not   

From what I've seen, simply getting STR to 50 with one sim is enough to trigger the legend being given to all sims on the lot.  Nothing fancy, just simple socialising.

The first time it happened for me, I had one sim madly doing everything she could on the lot trying to figure out what to do.  One of my neglected sims simply sat and drank tea with him and hit 50STR really quickly.

No fancy bowing or tai chi needed at all.

I keep discovering little things that leave me most impressed.  It bugged me that the seasons careers LTWs were "reach top of XXX career".  BV has changed them - you now see things like "become space pirate", so the seasons careers have been brought into line with the others.  I'm liking it!

As long as it's done the right way - via family bin - it's ok.  Never move sims through the lot bin.

Just pointing out that there is already an update, and even though I've only just got the game reloaded it appears to have fixed the problem.

ETA: Still getting the errors when clicking on the currently selected sim.

Thought it would be useful to have a thread to discuss the things you actually *like* about BV.

One thing I discovered today - you can delete subhoods now.  Not just delete them if there's another of the same type - you can delete them completely without having to replace them.

Added a downtown and now decided you don't want it?  Just delete it *poof* gone!  I'm liking this bit! 

Thirded.

I've got mountain men doing tai chi and singing sea shanties.  I've got islanders doing tai chi and slap dancing.  I've got sims in kimonos singing sea shanties and doing the hula.  Not to mention the fact that none of the locals are using the right greeting any more!  Mountain men are wanting to hang loose, sims in kimonos are chest pounding...  argh!

Surely there must be some way to keep each greeting, dance, thing isolated to the appropriate vacation area?

I guess a trip to the optometrist is in order.  I found the list, but couldn't find the sign on it anywhere.   

Ness needs more time to herself and less work to do.  I hope someone else has managed to befriend a bigfoot, I'm probably not going to get time to do much until Wednesday. 

Thanks, Joe! 

I'd got that far...  but I still couldn't see anything to indicate that they were suitable for the beach lots.  I went just a little bit further this time...  and found the pictures that tell me.

All I need now is instructions for how to install them that are actually in English - but I'll track that down this evening after work.

Thanks, Sleepycat!

Are you also able to translate so that I know where to go to find these terrains?  My German is non-existant!

Jsalemi - have the new BUY, looking forward to testing it out after work today.  But there'll probably be another new version by then! 

Inge's sign works by deleting the strays once they are on the lot - I'd prefer something that doesn't even allow them to get there.  And I can't tell if it works on skunks and wolves either.  Plus no mention on Inge's site as to whether it's BV compatible or not.  The other thing I've found is Jfade's anti-wolf sign, but again no mention of it being BV compatible...  and it still leaves the strays and skunks to deal with.  Surely there must be something?!

When have EAxis ever done the right or logical thing? 

Main Ness-land probably won't happen until I'm satisfied that all hacks have been updated.  Unless someone can give me an alternative to keep the damn critters (strays, wolves, skunks) off my lots!  The critters must die!

In fact, main Ness-land may never be restored - I'm seriously considering dumping out some stuff packs which would make it impossible.  My usual thing with a new EP is to mess about with a test hood for a while, then start over with a brand new one.  I've still got all my original hoods dating back to NL, but I just never return to them.

I've had the roaches problem - you either need to change accomodations regularly or make sure you're there long enough for the maid to get things cleaned up.  At some stage you're going to have to be there long enough for the cleaning to happen, because the mess is saved from one vacation to the next - disappointing!

I'm most miffed that bigfoot isn't breedable, either.  He appears to be intending to be entirely asexual.  Although you can make him pregnant with the tombstone of L&D (no pregnant body morph).  Doesn't create hairy kids, either

Yep, probability sucks.  Just because you have a 2% greater chance of being right with option A, doesn't mean it's not impossible to have option B the correct answer 50 consecutive times. 

You crack me up, Assmitten!

Pescado - big bunch o' error logs in attached zip - bigfoot, human, even some errors of bigfoot and other human when being used by BUY... and a random one forced on the BUY controller while dealing with bigfoot in a shower loop.  No idea how useful some of them will be, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

I forgot to mention that I catch ninjas by heading straight to the spot where they spawn when the lot loads.  Sometimes you don't get much time before the zap off somewhere else, or away completely, so if you're close and waiting it works better.

There are other hoods, but I've not even entered them - still messing about with a test hood after the EP install.

Now that I think about it, there isn't even another occupied lot in the hood!  But I'll get cracking on generating some error reports for you.

Ok, that's leading me to think it's a random crapshoot as to whether your answer will be correct or not.  Bugger!

And with my bass and squash - I don't recall any preparation going on with a bench before hand, but I can double check later.

He does have a hygiene score that functions normally.  I do recall reading something along the lines of bigfoot would never care about his hygiene level.  I do note that other sims hygiene levels appear to be negatively impacted when he interacts with them.  Something is seeing him as still dirty - the first time he showers his hygiene will go from red to green as normal, but then instead of ejecting him, BUY will endlessly send him back into the shower despite his completely green hygiene level...  with a few random breaks for him to repair the shower as it breaks.

Would forcing an error on bigfoot give you any helpful information?  Or perhaps forcing an error when BUY has him in one of those endless loops?

He doesn't actually do anything if you get the wrong answer - he just calls you stupid and vanishes.  If you get the right answer, he teaches you to teleport. 

Pescado, did you see my thread about bigfoot and his problem with BUY?

I did discover the dig for stuff macro - and was disappointed when I discovered that you can't dig with snow on the ground!

Witch, I got it once with selecting ninja on the which comes first - the ninja or the sword question, and I got a correct answer again on another question, but I can't for the life of me remember what the question was, let alone remember which answer!

When I was seeking him out, I'd have my vacationers constantly walk between the shrine and the zen gardens lots...  walk to lot, answer question, lose ninja, walk to new lot... rinse and repeat.

The ninja is a frustrating little character.  He does reappear, but won't reappear on the same lot until you've been somewhere else.  I found the zen gardens to be one of the best places to get him to appear.

As for the questions he asks...  ARRGGHH!!

I had the know self/know enemy one twice, and both answers were wrong.  I got the wisdom/courage one wrong repeatedly.  I'm not sure if there's a random correct answer each time, or whether there are some questions that have no correct answer and only some questions that have a correct answer.  Make sense?

I've had camping sims cook fish they've caught on the grill.  Once the sim had fish in his inventory, the option to cook bass with squash came up on the grill, instead of just hot dogs.

Thanks for the album tip, off to try now.  Should just leave me with the find buried treasure memory as the only one to unlock.