I don't know, but Pescado's Asp Recharger has a function built in that keeps people from jumping into your love tub uninvited, thus wasting its' charge. It hasn't been updated for Nightlife, but works fine all the same (just doesn't deal with the new NL objects obviously). Haven't heard of anything similar with the normal hot tubs, though.

And does it work with NL?

Pleasesayyespleasesayyespleasesayyes (as long as you actually mean, it obviously)

*moans in horror*

Oh, you savage Americans. Next you'll be telling us you don't even drink tea.

Heh. I kinda like it. If they go to sleep in my room, I move a noisy stereo in with them until they get up, then lock my door. I've also made a little cell out of one room in the dorm that they all claim as their own, then just stuck normal, non-lockable doors on all the rooms so they can sleep there.

It's Pescado's No uni invulnerability hack that does it.

Pretty tedious stuff, but it's doable.

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=267661&highlight=residential+community+objects

Edit: Is this actually what you're asking?

And that if you thought they were lame the first time round, you've no way of getting rid of them now!

Somebody at MTS2 made a hack that lets you throw a party on a community lot. I've never used it, since I like to dictate when the wedding starts *and* ends, and don't have much truck with the timed scenario thingy that goes with it. I'm not sure how it handles the honeymoon limo, but it might be an interesting addition to the comm. lot stuff.

Heh heh heh - I left a flamingo on the lawn hoping they could use it to get their fun up, and only one dormie ever kicks it, and even then she only does something like once a semester. I put a swingset out for them as well, but forgot I also had Pescado's nobogartswings hack, so they don't use it at all. I should maybe take that out sometime.

I don't really use instruments, learned not to long before this hack came out. Might be worthwhile adding them again, since they won't use them day and goddamn night anymore.

I add TJs static energy sculpture to the home lot to stop them all falling asleep by 3PM, firstly. Get everybody washed up and fed in the morning, phone a taxi to take them to church. Get them all changed into their formal gear (using TJs' no maxis-default wedding gear hack, of course), pack them into the taxi.

Off they go to church, make somebody give a speech with the teleprompter, have somebody else play the "organ" (piano) for a bit, send them outside to the scenic garden bit. Start off some toasts and so on. Then it's time for the Big Moment! They do their stuff at the arch, everybody sits and watches (except for the stupid townies still loitering with the toasting set and piano), then they go off to the function room, where there's eventhorizon's community buffet (MTS2) table and a wedding cake waiting for them. Nobody cares about the cake-cutting like they do IRL, but I have the bride and groom do it all the same. Obviously the nasty greedy townies fall over themselves to get to the cake once it's cut.

Now we've got the slow dance interaction with NL, there'll be a point to having a bigger function room with a dancefloor, where they can dance the whole night away (and not need to worry about passing about because of TJ's nifty running man!). Then once I've taken about a hundred different pictures, I send them off home.

Some pictures of the wedding of Lucy Burb and Meadow Thayer (I always seem to end up with lesbian couples, I've no idea why  )

Anyway, John Burb mincing about Lucy's lovely dress: johndress.jpg
Don Lothario and Dina Caliente feeling the bite of being nearly middle-aged and not settled down yet? dondina.jpg
Hooray for Lucy! Isn't she smashing? Nobody raised a single toast to Meadow, and I don't know why: hurrah.jpg
Cutting the cake in the church: cakecut.jpg
At a completely different wedding, Dustin Broke pee'd himself. Should have remembered to add a loo when I built the venue, oops: /dustinpee.jpg

Since installing NL, I've had sims visit that won't leave at all. I haven't had any parties, so I don't know if it's connected, but sims that are brought home from work will just hang around for days on end, sleeping in my sims' beds, playing with their stuff, wandering around in their pants...

Very disturbing. Could be related.

I'm remembering something really vague from CS Lewis's Narnia stuff.

What was the one with the giants? And Puddleglum the marshwiggle? There was a giant sleeping underground or something in that one, IIRC, and maybe called old father time or something. Oh, I dunno. It's been a long time since I read the Narnia books.

Rrrright. How extremely odd. Is this an american (or other foreign) thing that we poor Brits don't get, then?

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Absolutely baffled

Will somebody please explain this Father Time thing, because I've only seen it referred to a handful of times and I don't really understand. Nice, small words with colour pictures, please. New Year Toddler?

Help!

ps: gotta agree about the dancing snowman, he's too funny.

I don't think it's a conflict as such - just general dormie ineptness. Under normal circumstances they'd just take out a book and never get up off the sofa again (I've had dormies that spent their whole time in college doing this before). Now they try to research, but find it isn't fun enough, so want to stop right away, and then decide they want to research, "oh, but it's no fun", etc.

Perhaps an update to make researching non-autonomous for the little beggars? If it's possible.

What triggers him to come? The cookies? Don't bake 'em.

But how can he leave you coal if he comes and there's no cookies? Do you make them and then snarfle them all before he gets there?

This is intolerably annoying. They've got those frosty window panes as well, and instead of just making the frosty glass a recolour of the windows that are there, they've just stuck in new meshes with the frosty crap on them. So my catalogue is now clogged with even more crap. I don't want to have to scroll through shitloads of thumbnails to find something I want, so I delete anything that's custom-made that does that crap - but I can't delete it when Maxis do it.

Gah.

The dormies used to do that to me even before this hack, because they're filthy slobs.


I solved this problem by spawning the Sim Modder and changing all their neat points to max. It's not very student-like, but it does mean you're able to move around. It doesn't stop them with the OCD research, but they do put their book back on the shelf instead of leaving it lying at their ass.

Did he threaten to have you shot, though?

Who did the hack that stopped non-playables from wasting all your Love Tub charge? I think it's bundled with Pescado's asp recharger mod. I only ever use the love tub because then *I* can decide when people are allowed to sit in *my* hot tub, instead of everybody just deciding to plonk themselves in it when I want a free space for a controllable sim. I don't know anybody with a hot tub IRL, but if I did, I wouldn't just go and stick my fat ass in it as soon as I walked in their door for god's sake. Especially if I'd only just met them.

My dormies stand around uselessly a lot more, too. Not sure why - it's maybe because sans-hack they go and research or play the drums for three semesters at a time, and with the hack they have to use the toilet and eat and stuff instead. And sometimes don't really need to do anything, so just stand around vacuously.

Yeah, I noticed the bed-hogging as well. Even the cow mascot comes and sleeps in my bed when nobody even invited the evil sod into my house, nevermind my bed. I'm going to make a special dormie pen, where all the dormie's doors lead to the same tiny room where they can go and disappear whenever they want - then I'll put beds for them in normal rooms and lock my door.

I'd never had a dormie death accidentally before I installed this, btw - I just noticed when I zoomed out that somebody was curled up at the very edge of my lot. And they pee themselves ALL the time now, which is nice, but it means the maid goes into their rooms to clean up their puddles then gets locked in for days.

Some amusing college pictures below (the third dormie is being punished in a cell for her constant fighting):


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It means you're a kind soul who bought a copy each for BlueSoup and myself along with yours. You're so sweet! :pinchescheeks:

I just want my fridges to work on Comm lots again. I only want a bag of cookies, dammit, not an a' la carte restaurant with 3 npcs and swanky serving plates. Add a juice bar and I've usually got twice as many NPCs as townies plus playable characters. Been meaning to ask if anybody had found out how to enable them to work again.

And I'm really disappointed that Maltesh's hack-free restaurant idea stopped working with NL as well. And that you can't put wedding cakes on lots that have a restaurant because the stupid waiter puts them in the bin. 

They came up as an option for Angela Pleasant when I wanted her to wear a Santa hat.

I'm not liking this age and sexual discrimination, you know. Why shouldn't a teenaged girl be able to wear a santa hat? Why shouldn't a toddler? Wtf?

Yep, you can chuck every file in the starter pack if you only want the outfit changer.

Btw, the COA doesn't work on NPCs - that takes more mucking about.