Just knocking on an apartment door and asking them to come out doesn't have the same effect as calling and having them actually visit. It's what I've been doing, though, because all this time I thought getting stood up by apartment neighbors was another EAxis bit of stupidity...lol. But I have just discovered the problem is the apt hack as well. The also don't come to birthday parties, etc when invited. Since I see the issue has been reported and ignored, I suppose it isn't going to get fixed, so I'll either settle for not inviting my apt neighbors on the phone, or I'll live without the apt hack, although I don't like that option very much. 

Saw my Charlatan hanging around a graveyard today. He had a perfectly clean and bare babyface too... without the patch installed.

lordrichter: Did you see anywhere that I said it would happen to everyone? It DID happen to me. I just thought I would post it here to let anyone else it may happen to know that it has not just happened to them. I beg your pardon it that does not happen to be okay with you. Mmmm 'k? 

Zazazu: No. I have only ever had one account on this computer as I am the only one who uses it. All I know is that it was really strange. I saw that little black dialog box pop up both while uninstalling H&M junk AND BV. *shrugs* Maybe it was just a freak thing that somehow happened. If it's possible for something freaky to happen; it will likely happen to me...lol.

I'm not worried about it thiough. I got rid of it once. Now I've gotten rid of it again. 

No. It was gone. I checked several times just for the hell of it on several occasions. I was using the recommended no cd crack to play the game. Also while uninstalling, I noticed that strange black box that someone else mention somewhere, pop up for a brief second. I know it was reinstalled during the uninstallation process.

I followed the steps to rid my system of Suc-u-rom. It worked beautifully! It was NOWHERE to be found. I was happily playing my game with all the expansions until something totally un-related got borked and I decided that a total re-install was neccessary. After the game was completely gone, I checked the registry to make sure it was gone from there too and guess what I found? 

Apparently the damned game installed Securom during the UN-installation process. Now THAT is what I call ridiculous! 

I'll tell you what... I've done so much damned re-binning now that I have the numbers memorized!    It is definately easier for me now than it started out being. It is most definately worth every grueling minute though.

Problem solved!  Actually it was something rather simple (and stupid). For some reason, a couple of the numbers were not staying changed. I went back in, changed them again and... it works!  I was really tired last night when I was working on it, so it was most likely something dumb I was doing. The tutorial is AWESOME.

*presses thanks button repeatedly*

Hey thanks for the reply, Captain Swooptie. Well actually I have been just ignoring the error and continuing, but when it's all done and I go to into the game to see if it worked, the item (it's a necklace) does not show up in cas. I made sure to follow each direction step by step at least five times. I guess I do suck and am doing something wrong. *sigh*

I'm going to roll my sleeves up and go back in, trying it the way you suggested. Hopefully I'll get it right if I don't give up. 

This is an excellent tutorial, except for one thing; I can't get the damn thing to work for me.    Things seem to be going great until I get to step two. When I try to change the Group and the Instance values, SimPe throws an error. As soon as I delete the orginal number to edit it, a popup says it can't set value.

First, I'm not an expert at playing around in Simpe, though I have binned hundreds of hair files, changed clothing categories, etc. So maybe I'm failing just because I suck...lol.  I do know I've given myself a headache trying to figure out what the hell I could be doing wrong. Any ideas?

The old one still works for me. Maybe it depends on one's combination of EPs/Sps. 

Actually they broke it in Pets, then patched it. Now I've read they've broken it again.   

It's working fine for me too. 

Yea, I noticed that it works at the parks, etc, but not at campground/hotel lots. I guess those are not actually considered community-type lots. Sucks to have your hungry sim grill food then not get to eat before all the townies grab a plate. That's when watching closely and cancelling that serve action comes in handy...lol

You're supposed to learn the legend of the dragon. Took forever for me. Had to actually go fishing with the old man for a while before he decided to share it. 

Well, I managed to overcome my missing content problem. BV must have farted during installation or something and wiped out all the change appearance content all the way back to the base game.  After reinstalling the whole kit and kaboodle, my stuff is back. 

Yea, he said it was because it had over three hundred replies and was getting too long. Guess his eyes got tired while reading. I know mine did! lol I read the whole damn thing and didn't see not on other complaint about my exact problem. Only problems with the new jewelery options, etc. 

Hell, I uninstalled BV and then reinstalled it with the same result. I have no hacks or other custom content in the game for testing purposes. I took some screenshots of the problem.....http://s85.photobucket.com/albums/k52/TinaG13/Sim%20Troubles/ 

I even braved the BBS and made a thread over there because Sam's bug thread was closed before I could post in it.

My Complaint Thread

Since installing BV, all my facial hair is gone except what came with BV. I have no options for any makeuip at all, and the only costume makeup available is what came with BV.    All non-BV glasses have disappeared too.

Whatever you do, don't take a friend on vacation with you and stay at a hotel with a restaurant. All they do is hang around there and eat even though they are not hungry.    

I discovered one interesting thing that has nothing to do with taking a trip. In my newly-generated Pleasantview, I visited the Dreamer house and all the bills that have been missing for several expansions are back! 

When all else fails, I would try moving the family out and then back in again. Maybe because of the mailbox situation, the game is still seeing it as a community lot for some reason.    Just make sure you have a proper trashcan and mailbox before trying it.

Oh yea! Playing is much more pleasant having your own tunes in the game.  LOL, Hegelian, your music collection looks very similar to mine! 

In cases like this, I usually move one sim back to the neighborhood then get one of his college roomies to send him most of the money that's left using the money order. Then he can afford to buy a house for himself and his other college mates to start out in.

It could depend on the lot and which season it is at the time.  I say this because I took a sim to Woodland Park in Pleasantview without any problems whatsoever. I took the same sim to the park a couple of sim days later and had short pauses every few seconds. Finally I realized that the first time I was at the park it was summer. The second time it was fall.  I think it may have had something to do with so many trees and the falling of dozens of leaves all at once. 

The seasons and weather controller works great for me..... http://www.simwardrobe.com/    It's found under 'other' objects.

There's one here :  http://www.simwardrobe.com/    It's working great for me so far. It's under 'other' objects.