I wonder if this is broken much like the Piano was broken back at launch.  It's fun for a day and then goes to hell?

In order for a ceiling to occur there must be floor tiles on the level above it.  Even if the level above it is the roof.  As long as there are floor tiles, and you haven't turned off auto-ceilings, you should get a ceiling.

I haven't messed around with the wall hanging feature much, mainly because I consider walls to be non-existant except when required by phone or mirror placement.  I play with my walls down more than up, so I forget they're there and never see anything on them so I don't put anything on them.

Hmm.  The two I have have no lightning bolts, so that's probably what caused it.  Still, twenty flirt/romantic hugs/romantic kisses should be able to override it I'd think...

I've had this same issue with Sims who were already in love with someone else refusing to fall in love with someone despite making out like crazed weasels, which initially led me to believe it was the RomanceMod, but noinstantloves does sound like a more likely culprit.  Especially since removing the RomanceMod did nada to fix it.

The less possibility of some stupid Sim going to cook something while at UNI the better.  No fridges, no extra stoves, no microwaves.  They can order Pizza if they're hungry and there's no cook on the lot.

That sounds right.  I seem to recall some hilarity of Sims talking and suddenly standing on the water while they chatted shortly after installing Seasons.  Happened to me in Strangetown at the Smith's house.

Were Don and Cass married?  If so, go get the Romancemod and nuke that kind of idiocy.  If anything, Dina should feel bad for cheating on Morty with Don.   

Having a similar problem to the above poster right now.  I removed all CC and the problem went away.  Put back in just Marriage Traditional and the problem came back.  Put in all Pescado goodies except that and it still errored.  Put everything in with the marriage fix in this post and it errored still.  Most recent log attached.

rundll32.exe is typically a windows required process and is not likely to be the process you think is attempting to "phone home" from in the game.  It's literally a program that reads DLL files and places the libraries contained in them into memory so the computer can use them. 

Now, some viruses disguise themselves as rundll32, so make sure your defs are up to date anyway.

This is a bug.  It's not some thing about personality conflicts or aspiration conflicts or the fact that some sim rolled over in their grave.  Just a bug.  You can trigger Love through certain actions (flirts and kisses that aren't the whole shebang), but it takes some coaxing.  I managed to get a pre-made married Maxis couple from Seasons to finally not be mad at each other in the family portrait by having them caress hands at the dinner table one night.     And Daniel and MarySue Pleasant got their love-shack on after kissing each other up the arm.

There is a debug object in the game called the Sim Modder which gives you the option of going through the list of LTW's in a set order.  To access it:

• Turn on Debug Mode (boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true)
• Shift+Left Click on a Sim and select "Spawn - Sim Modder"  (the object is a baby model)
• Left Click on the Sim Modder and select Aspiration - Lifetime Wants.

You can't select one directly, but you can go through either all of the wants or just your Aspiration LTWs in a set order through that object.  You can't be in Pause mode while doing it, as it queues it as an action.

Yeah, the default email boost is really really craptastic.  I think it's one or two points.  It's at least a little more reliable than "Chat With" on the computer, when the person you're chatting with will randomly sign off.     This way you're more or less guaranteed to get the boost.

Um...  The only time you get email is when you send email.  As in, say I'm playing Don Lothario and I have him email Dina Caliente.  He emails her, has a little thought bubble about whatever the hell subject he randomly chose to email her about, he finishes it and sends it.  I immediately make him check his email after and, voila!  He has email!

Dina, however, doesn't, because she never sent email in the first place.  The entire interaction took place on Don's lot.

Is it logical?  Not really.  But how else are you going to get an email reply from a Townie?

Their grades won't go down anyway if the homework object doesn't exist. 

 

I'm knowledgable???

*hides in fear*

 


All of the official stories are actually right there in the game in front of you.  All you need to do is read the actual storylines at the beginning of each neighborhood, the Sim Biographies, examine the Sims memories, and take a look in the screenshots created for the default families.  It will give you a very good idea what has happened in the lives of your Sims.  The memories do have the occaisional glitch (Alexander Goth is firmly convinced that Bella taught him two of his toddler skills, but Mortimer is firmly convinced that he taught him two of them as well), but for the most part they all work out.

Also, family trees.  Very helpful!



EDIT:  Michael Bachelor's Urn was the other thread you were looking for. 
http://p218.ezboard.com/fstarlightsimsfrm51.showMessageRange?topicID=10525.topic&start=1&stop=20

If people are actually interested I can compile my own theories, but other than relating what is in the stories and in the memories, everything I write is just a theory on it.  I'm too tired to do it now (been up for 22 hours), but I can look into it.  At least for Pleasantview.  I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about Strangetown, and I've never played Veronaville.

Or you can do the real easy thing and only sell one item per shop.  That way, every sim walking in will walk in wanting to buy the same thing and you won't have to putz around with Sims who want something that someone else just bought and you haven't yet restocked.  I mean, it's not like your playable Sims are really ever going to go to these stores for something useful.

I use the YA's as a townie-marriage pool.  There are a few plate eaters in the mix, but that's why we have Sim Surgery.

I think the only two lots in Downtown that should have issues are Gothier Green Lawns and The House of Fallen Leaves, since those are the two lots with tombstones on them.  I'm gonna do some experimenting and see.

Multi-word cheats need to be in quotation marks.

The default neighborhoods only regenerate if you remove your entire Sims 2 folder in My Documents or rename it.  That causes the entire directory to regenerate.  I deleted all three of them on my PC since I'm only playing my custom neighborhood right now and haven't had any problems.

Next question.  Why do you say not to use the Maxis downtown?  Is it because of the Tricour ghosts?  Their character files are created even if you create a custom Downtown for your neighborhood, and they are still created as ghosts. 

Because one is the Party, and one is the memory.  There is no "Golden Anniversary Party".  The memory is called the "Golden Anniversary".  The Party is called the "Anniversary Party". 

Why do you not add the sub-neighborhoods before running the deleteallcharacters command?

Death by Cowplant is an odd thing.  I think this is because it skips most of the standard Death antics.  So who knows.

Yes it wsa increased in NL.  Still.  Don't care.  Unless you actually like having 20 buttzillion sims all related to eachother inside of two generations, don't give in to Family Sims.  They're INSANE.  There's a reason I nuked my first Pleasantview.  Actually, two reasons.  One's named Brandi Broke.  The other is named Cassandra Goth.  When I had 8 Goth lots and 7 Broke lots after one generation, I knew it was time to move on.

Have 10 Children is a Power Want, not a LTW.  Either way, it's not one you ever want to fill.  Unless you like accellerating your neighborhoods demise in a bfbvfs.

It usually rolls up every time a Family Sim has a kid.  I just ignore it and it goes away very quickly.