Just some standard questions... 

Is it happening on all lots, or just one lot?
Have you tried debug mode to see if an error is occurring?
Are these Maxis cribs, or custom cribs?
Did you try replacing the crib with a new one?

1 is very easily answered. Put Lot Timer on lot. Click timer and select 'Install for Family'. It will start at Day 0 and add 1 at 6PM every day. You can add to or subtract days from the total. Adding is useful if you're putting a brand-new CAS family in who don't need to start at Day 0 and catch up. There's also a feature ('Display'?) that will give you a pie menu showing all the other lots and what day they are on, with Event Days in parentheses.

2 is more variable and will depend on your play style and how much or little you want your families to be synchronized. Once you set an event on one lot, say for Day 23, if you leave that lot and play another lot, a little reminder will popup at 5PM on Day 22 saying, "Event Day 23 scheduled at Jones lot," or words to that effect. That way you know it's time to get back to the Event lot so memories/aging will be synchronized.

There's also the 'Skip to Day X' feature. If you've got a family that you don't feel like playing (retirement home for elders, perhaps), shift-click while in debug mode and indicate to which day you want to fast-forward.

Personally, I set Event Days whenever there will be an event that triggers a memory in family members living in different lots. Births, birthdays (child thru elder), weddings, deaths, Uni semesters/graduation are the main ones I target for synchronization. For example, I can see when a toddler is aging to child, and set that as an Event. If there aren't Events going on at other related lots, I can play everything as I wish until that Event arrives. At that point, I would need to go back to the lot for the aging-to-child birthday. Then the next Event on the lot would be +8 for the aging-to-teen birthday.

In this way, I don't have to stick to a straight X days per household rotation, unless they have relatives in Uni and Events are going on at the home lot (I send teens to Uni with 8 days until adulthood and play 1 semester = 1 day. Stupid Dean's list memory spam.). I don't install the timer on Uni lots, but keep track of their 'Day' in the family notes, adding 1 every time they finish a semester. I also keep track of the each lot's 'Day' in the family notes, as well as details on upcoming Events. As a neighborhood gets larger and more interrelated, though, it gets to the point where there's pretty much an Event almost every day in at least one household somewhere. That's when I have to refer back to the family tree, and it gets annoying. Still, better than trying to keep track of everything manually.

And in Maddie's case, a hug from Bob resulted in death... which come to think of it, would be interesting for the game.

Dizzy's Have a Leftover modifies autonomous fridge behavior, so yes, there's a conflict. When sims autonomously try to make a meal, his mod makes them grab a leftover instead.

Pescado can answer this for sure (I don't have SimPE handy ATM), but I'm quite sure it was cloned from the gnome. Like Blueblood, I had a 9-10 points playful sim autonomously play with it and it turned gnome-shaped during the animation.

I used the one IAmTheRad uploaded in the Empty Templates thread in Peasantry: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4306.msg317272.html#msg317272

It seemed to work just fine in my game!

I'm pretty sure I have been able to change skintone either from one default to another, or from custom to default just by editing Sim DNA (never tried custom to custom). That's why I got frustrated when it didn't work for removing custom eyes, and started searching.    If my memory is correct, the characters automatically changed to the new skintone in-game and didn't need to 'change appearance', though portraits probably had to be regenerated.

You actually can get the new eye color to show up in the game. I recently removed some custom eyes from my game, and was able to get characters to display the 5 defaults. After some extensive searching, I found some instructions posted here by SleepyCat.


So, change it both in Sim DNA and in the character file age data, and you should be good to go. Worked for me, though it was a PITA to do all the SimPE changes, and then summon each of the sims in-game (townies, to my chagrin) and fix their appearances. No more townie-enabled custom eyes for me!

I had the same issue with a sim after using the "create baby pet" item. My favorite was when one of my sims had a want to "Stroke Christopher," his brother-in-law. Never took a screenshot, but it was pretty funny.

Well, that makes sense. As a non-awesome customer and a non-gamer except for this one, though, it makes me a little peeved that there's no mention of it in the game specs. "Game not tested in laptops," or something like that. Oh well... if I didn't already love my lappy, I'd have buyer's remorse.

Dammit, have to go to work now.

I recently posed a question to EA customer support, because I have an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 card on my laptop and was getting problems with the game crashing to the Windows BSOD. Since the game specs don't mention the ATI Mobility cards, I thought perhaps my card wasn't supported.

The answer from EA was pretty standard: shut down background tasks, run in windowed mode (2 things which I hadn't been doing lately, mostly because shutting down those tasks is a PITA... but I began running it in windowed mode, shutting down tasks and unhooking the internet connection again and haven't had a crash in a few days). However, it did contain this little tidbit of info:


Am I the only one that this is news to? Or is this a standard gaming thing that I'm just not aware of?

It might not be Pleasantview... it could be a problem with the lot, or with the family. I'd try moving him out of the lot, bulldozing it, and moving him into another lot. If it's still not working, I'd try to have another family in the neighborhood sell a pet and see what happens.

I don't know if this will help or if it's at all related, but I had issues with BodyShop after installing OMGPETZ!1one. The bodies were completely magenta. I figured it was a hack problem, and it turned out I was running the wrong version of BodyShop (from Glamour) and it was conflicting with the OMGPETZ!1one version of Quaxi's censor remover. Once I ran the OMGPETZ!1one version of BodyShop, all was good.

Also, I haven't put any accessories back into my game yet (trying to pare down the CC, and accessories are my least-used items), but I wonder if OMGPETZ!1one borked some custom accessory meshes?

I just thought I'd take a moment to emphasize SaraMK's warning in the thread Kyna linked to.  I had deleted the Maxis Downtown shortly after I merged the neighborhoods, then last weekend decided I wanted it back so I could play the Tricou family.  All of a sudden Windows was crashing whenever I tried to exit any downtown lots (both residential and community).  After scouring MATY for similar problems and trying many standard fixes (removing hacks, deleting groups.cache, uninstalling/reinstalling, resetting to a vanilla game, etc.), I finally realized that the game was fine but the neighborhood was simply FUBAR. 

So I deleted it today and came back to this thread, because I love playing the merged neighborhood and wanted another.  That's when I saw the link to the other thread, figured I'd save myself some time and download the merged neighborhood, and saw the warning about attaching additional downtowns.    

Fortunately I don't mind starting over, and the Tricous are included in the merged neighborhood (thanks, Sara!), but I'm kicking myself for not knowing this before.  I'm just hoping others can learn from my mistake. 

I haven't tried the challenge yet (not in the mood at the moment), but what about if the rule was that you have to sell off enough items to account for at least 10% of the overall family worth?  I say at least 10% because obviously, it would be nearly impossible to get exactly 10% by selling items.

I think it's universal from base game + no/any/all expansions that you get the family worth at the neighborhood screen.  Players with OFB would have to add in the value of any owned lots.  If OFB players cannot sell off enough items at the family lot to account for 10%, then they'd have to go to their business(es) and sell off items there.

Now, please commence the hole-poking in this suggestion. 

Just checked a house with a baby where I thought I'd painstakingly assigned sims to manage or ignore him by clicking on their portraits.  Point and laugh, people... point and laugh.

 

(Now that my dreams of one day being even slightly in the know have been so publicly shattered, I'll RTFM more carefully next time.  I did read it, honestly I did!)

I am definitely Not Awesome, but I think you can achieve this using the Automated Baby Controller:

Process/Babies/Toddlers: Select Manage for the sims you want to care for it, and Ignore for your male slut. 
Process/Bottles: Ignore
Option/Manual Override: On
Always Smart Milk: Off

So, you'll get the assignment functionality you're looking for, but you'll have more control over your sims' interactions with the baby.  The controller will still direct the "manage" sims to care for the baby/toddler when his/her needs get low, but you'll override the controller when an adult is in the same room as the baby/toddler.  And you'll be able to make the decision on how to dispose of bottles and when to feed smart milk.

Just a thought. 

Glad to be of help! 

I had a problem like that with a regular house, and it turned out to be because I saved and exited the lot while someone was talking on a cell phone.  Check out this thread here.

Actually, there was a hotfix for this a couple months ago.  The current version incorporated that fix, so go grab a fresh copy. 

Just to clarify... what Motoki's mod does is make the adult female clothing wearable for the elder female.  It doesn't get rid of the hunched shoulders or the shuffling walk, but it does get rid of the droopy chest and poofy thighs. 

I think Pescado himself said the elder shuffle could not be burninated.

Edit: Sorry, it was TwoJeffs, not Pescado.  Link to post here.

Works for me.    I'll just leave my character files as they are and keep an eye out for any signs of impending doom in my game.

*Clicks thanks button!

Ah, yes, I have the waiter fix as well, which would support your finding.  (Yes, I work at a company in which one of the "values" is to "Be Science-Based".  Stupid corporate America.)

Wow - you're quick!  Thanks, I was really worried there for a minute!

I was browsing my characters folder to take headcount and noticed that I had a couple oddly-numbered files.  This is what I found:

N001_User00373.1.package (292 KB)
N001_User00373.package (1KB)

N001_User00390.1.package (280 KB)
N001_User00390.package (1 KB)

I opened the character files in SimPE and found that the packages with the extra .1 in the filename are server NPCs.  The packages without the extra .1 in the filename only contain one BHAV: NPC - Server - Job Main.  This BHAV also appears in the packages with the extra .1 in the filename, and I'm no expert, but those packages appear to be complete and contain all the other character data.

Is this a pending BFBVFS?  Or would I be safe to delete these character files as long as I check for dangling SWAFs, relations, DNA and memories?  Any help is appreciated.