That's what I was referring to when I said the high-rise condo plopable was replaced by the new AL building decoration, which does that for all instances. 

Good to hear about the fixes are in the works for some of the more critical problems.

My Sims are successfully able to call out, but I am experiencing the cell-phone-goes-poof-when-answering bug too.  So far as I can tell, it's probably because of the extra phone features added in AL that they never translated to the Uni cell phone, but just a guess.  Pretty annoying either way.

New Bork (at least to me).

Warning: BBS Link.  Though it's pretty tame.

Upon receiving any NL mail like coupons or whatnot, the apartment mailbox reverts to a standard mailbox thus preventing apartment-based mailbox actions.

The only thing like that is that the condo building neighborhood decoration was replaced with the newer building in FT, so all instances of the condo building turned into the newer one automatically.

Others have mentioned this, but I'm going to do it again.

I tested this in a no-mod game so I know it's not a conflict.  Though running the game with the phonehack doesn't solve the issue.

When the phone rings and a Sim attempts to answer on their cell phone, the cell phone immediately disappears from the inventory.  Answering on the landline phone appears to work fine and calling out on both the cell phone and landline yields no issues.  Only answering on the cell phone.

I'm attaching a forced error log of the cell phone just because that's all I have.  I don't know if it'll do any good.

Pets can run away??  I guess this is what I get for never purchasing PETZ. 

If you have Nightlife, can they also get run over?

If your turn on the testing cheats, do any error messages pop up when you have the Sim eat?  That would probably indicate a hack conflict or other abnormality.

Do you have any hacks that modify food?

Try taking out nouniprotect if you think that may be the issue and see if it helps.

You would not see any new tour guides--they do not pop up on screen.  It's all in the background.  The only way to know would be to count character files, or use the Cleanpack Installer.

I hope this hasn't been posted before, because I'm a huge fan of this person's work.  Short stories, simple plots, but definitely Pulitzer territory if you ask me. 

And while not as good, I like this one too.  Not as emotionally provocative as the first selection, but I think it delves into the human phyche on a philosophical level not reached by common literature.

OK, I understand that....but if I don't have Pets but want to install the Pets Patch in conjunction with Seasons because I feel I need to collect all the Maxian patches, will I need both the Pets patch and the Seasons patch?

I didn't even check that (I'm at work, and so I'm not too interested in the patch right now).

It could have been interesting to ask goonter that when he was around (ETA: he's around now)...especially when he said that the individual patches only fix the respective EPs and are not cumulitive.

That's what I'm saying.  Not so much a patch but a stitch, or something of lesser sewing terms.

If you copied everything in lieu of a fresh install, the Sims that don't currently exist would still be in non-existance when you put everything back.

The plus side to not having extra useless Sims around is that you're in no danger of experiencing a fiery ball from space anytime soon.

You could use the testing cheats to force the creation of NPCs via the mailbox, but that would probably only generate service NPCs; I'm not quite sure.  But, hey, it's your game.

You could also check the N001 character files in Program Files (or wherever you installed) to see if the characters exist there.

You're kidding, right?

I'm certainly not buying this.  Half the crap was available for download on the official site for FREE.  Maxis will pry the money out of my cold, decaying hands.

Which may be how they prefer it.

Has it gone missing again?

He needs to put a little bell around its neck!

It's gotta be the driver.  I have the same card and it works fine--and I haven't updated since I don't know when. 

Don't know what to tell you other than: Save the downloaded drivers to a special folder so if you need to roll back (you say it's tough to do this time around) you'll have previous ones you can install after uninstalling the newest one.

Yeah, but idtaminger can't access the box now, so entering the cheat isn't possible.  Unless s/he can access it in the neighborhood screen immediately after entering the game.

How will entering the moveobjects cheat solve the problem of the box now showing up?

Errrr....AncientSim, I don't think that's a back rub.....

And not only is the Sim in the original photo in this thread triple jointed, but she's apparently telekinetic, too.

Oh, hey, yeah!  Glad to see Maxis finally found their own content!

Makes sense, all right.  As for new animation, I don't know.  A sit animation already exists, but it would be a matter of telling the game to have the Sim do it while talking.  Don't know if that's possible--but El Presidente does, presumably.

Yes and yes.  The complexity (detail) of the skin would determine how hard it is to do what you ask, but, yeah, that's all possible.

He would, but the brick isn't very good in bed.

Pfft.  Every grown adult should have his or her own brick.  I call mine "Brynne."  He keeps me company.