I remember something from one of the lessons that any sim/household that is still on the clipboard will be discarded if you don't put them into a house. Which is kind of sucky, IMO. It sounds like that happened with your sim.

But with a marriage-related move, I was quite surprised at how well it worked. I wanted my test sim to move into her husband's house, which was larger and better furnished. After they did the little private ceremony, there was a dialog box. I moved both sims to his side of the panel, then renamed the household to her name. I also got to decide if I wanted to pack her belongings, or sell them. There was no loss of wishes or opportunities - the sims walked together over to his house, and she had a little negative 'moving day' moodlet for a few hours.

My not-really-a-self-sim changed clothes when pregnant, and "plan outfit" wasn't available on the wardrobe anymore. It's annoying, but the 2 pregnancy outfits I saw were more varied and somewhat less fugly than TS2 default maternity wear.

I've had success using dining chair & table combos on quarter tiles, but I found I have to be exact in placing them where they need to be slotted for the objects to function. I start with placing them snapped to a full tile, and then activating the cheat and carefully moving each object the same distance in quarter tiles. In occupied lots, I check by going to Live mode to make sure the chairs push in to the table and sims can eat a meal.

I wouldn't say that I've tried every chair and table in the catalog, but the ones I've tried have worked (including your slaved dining tables, HugeLunatic ). I haven't experimented as much with desks, but I *think* I have had success with them as well.

I have no idea about diagonals, though... I rarely use the 45-degree cheat except for decorative objects and the occasional living chair.

I have all EPs/SPs through M&G, and it's generally working for me. Sometimes, the sims that went to the community lot arrive back at the home lot with no passage of time. I don't get any errors or dialogs when it happens: it's just simply as if the hack were not present in my Downloads folder.

I haven't yet noticed any common circumstances between situations when it doesn't work, and I lack patience for testing. I'm just going with it and backing up regularly in case the hood goes asplodie.

The OP's question was about moving 12 GBs of CC in the Downloads folder order to test a game without it. My language could have been more precise, I suppose. For a vanilla game, anything that's been modified in Program Files would first have to be restored to its original state at installation. Replace modified neighborhood templates with originals, remove anything that's been added to TSData\Res subfolders, restore backups of files, etc.

Hey, if you really want to be exact about running a completely vanilla game, then I suppose ditching the no-CD crack and running the game from the disk would also be required, right? Any volunteers?

Don't forget, if all you want to do is test a vanilla game, you can rename your 'My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2' folder to something else, then start the game. This will generate a fresh 'The Sims 2' folder with the EAxis default neighborhoods and settings. At that point I usually delete all the 'hoods but one, then use that for testing.

You'll probably still have to go through the process of moving files to track down the problematic CC, but I find it to go more smoothly with the default 'hoods. They're smaller and therefore take less time to load than my primary 'hood.

It was just something I remembered reading somewhere along the way. I don't use that particular file, since I don't bother with phone recolors, but it's good to know it's sorted out.

Yeah, you're totally right, Kyna. Apologies for not doing my part to contribute to lulz... I'll modify my post as penance.

Edit: ask in WCIF!

In my experience, Business-Be Salesperson appears once the sim has earned a gold badge. It's usually the first thing I queue up when the owner arrives at the business, even before it's been opened and employees have been summoned. But before gold badge, they can only skillinate on sales, which doesn't appear as an option until there is at least one customer with a buy bar.

Employees are different, however: they can be assigned to sales even without having earned a bronze badge.

It's Macro-Skillinate-Salesmanship that requires a customer with an active sales meter.

Have you tried removing CEP-EXTRA_Phones.package from the My Documents\The Sims 2\zCEP-EXTRA folder? I've read before that it can cause errors.

It's been a while since I used this hack, but I don't remember it coming with any object timers, pepsihamster. To reiterate what edespino said, I think you are confusing it with Pescado's lotsynctimer, which uses the green elixir bottle. They are completely separate and unrelated hacks.

Looks like the error I was getting with a previous version of the apthack. The current version works for me, though.

Just reporting back to say that the final exam error is fixed in the latest version. Thanks!

This just happened in my game today... the adult was Macro-Going to Bed, the teen was Macro-Cleaning, and somehow they ended up on the stairs at the exact same time. New sport: synchronized spiral stair-climbing!



Not really FUBAR, but I found it funny nonetheless.

Actually, I've found that lazy sims will often run if their energy motive is between 3/4 and full. It's not consistent, but it can be helpful in the mornings for the carpool/bus shuffle. Also, if you're encouraging a lazy sim to be active, you only need to get him somewhere between 5 and 6 points for "Run Here" to show up on his pie menu.

Hmm. I have the current version, I don't have that other hack, and I'm also getting the error.    I haven't done a binary search yet, but there aren't any obvious conflicts according to HCDU. I'm not able to work on it now, but I'll look into it tomorrow.

EDIT: All righty... generated a fresh The Sims 2 folder and emptied out my Catalog\Bins and Overrides folders, just to be on the safe side. Downloaded a fresh copy of the DC to ensure I have the most recent version of hacks. Created a new YA sim and plopped her in one of the ALT dorms.

Loaded only my usual suite of Awesomeware, including apthack: error at final exam time. Loaded zero hacks: no error. Added just apthack: error.

I'm not sure if this is new information, but I noticed in my regular game that the error only pops up once per major. I had a lot with two sims in the Mathematics major, and only received one error. On a lot with four sims with different majors, I got four errors.

I've attached the error log from the last test with only apthack loaded, just in case it's useful.

I don't know, but those 3 (afbodyfunkyuniform) aren't working for me, either. The weird thing is that CleanInstaller and SimPE are showing them with the right textures, but in BodyShop and CAS they are showing up as one of the outerwear outfits. Refreshing thumbnails and the like didn't help, and selecting the outfit puts them in the outerwear outfit.

I tried redownloading dawnkay's file, but it didn't make any difference. I don't have Store Edition installed, so I'm wondering if it's a property set issue or something like that? I've looked at the packages in SimPE, but can't figure out the problem.

EDIT: I redownloaded the outfits from Cerridwen's post on page 3, and they're fine now. Chadwick, give that a try as well.

Well, it's been a few months since I felt inspired to do another House of Fail, but this one looked interesting. And like some others have mentioned, I thought it'd be a good opportunity to mess around with the new stuff in M&G.

111 Stratford Street - Roux
Price: 192,861 (drops to 118,354 with Magic Wandage)
3BR / 4BA + twins-ready nursery
Theme: "Roux wanted to play with M&G stuff." Architectural stuff was taken almost entirely from the Third Empire collection. Interior doesn't really have a theme, so I suppose I'll call it contemporary.



EPs/SPs required:
Everything, including the kitchen sink.

Custom content used, but not included:
Invisible driveway recolor (rdrglx_invisibledriveway.package)
I keep all bonus, Stories, and EA Store objects in my Catalog\Bins folder so I can't delete them in-game. I do not think I used any of them, but there is a chance I accidentally did. If so, just let me know and I'll correct it.

Features:
Anti-pest perimeter
Ground floor nursery
Lockable kitchen and stairwell
Spacious dining/caffeination area
Covered patio with hot tub, grill and dining area
Stairwell has room for hack objects (batbox, macro launcher, etc.)
Large unfurnished room on 2nd floor that could be converted for nearly any use
Greenhouse
Fishable pond

Pictures:












Notes:
Use CleanInstaller, as this lot was packaged with the Phone - Line Controller.

I really didn't want to expand the house too much, since it's already pretty massive. So, I only added space on the left for the kitchen and stairwell, and while I was at it I built a second tower.

The garden-ey part of the courtyard was enclosed to make a greenhouse, and along the right side of the courtyard there's now a covered patio area. (Love the fences that also function as columns, and the architectural decor with working windows!)

Briefly playtested to ensure the study layout worked and the house was generally navigable. However, I think I neglected to add a creativity skill object. Also, there is no desk yet, so you can place The One Desk wherever you desire.

Be warned: the Third Empire windows are a bit screwy. The double ones aren't letting in light the way they should be, and the small round ones don't seem to properly reflect light at night. Hopefully, someone more awesome than me will make a fix for them at some point. (That is, if it hasn't already been fixed and my Google-fu was lacking.)

Lastly, a nit-pick at EAxis: the new green tile roofing doesn't quite match the Third Empire architectural decor. Grrrr.

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It also bears mentioning that you can reassign your existing townies to social groups using Inge's teleporter cat (AL version, of course). It's working like a charm for me so far: the townies I reassigned have been moving into unoccupied apartments without any apparent ill effects. I have 20 total, 4 in each group.

You could also make your own social group townies in CAS and then assign them to social groups using the teleporter.

I got some HCDU errors a couple months ago, and deleting the "Temp" folder cleared them up. (Cache issue, I guess.) If that doesn't work, you should report this at the HCDU support section at Simlogical.

I recall from some L&P that the alleyway neighborhood decorations are intended to impact the rent cost in nearby apartment lots. Trashy ones would lower rent, while fancy brick ones raise it. However, I've not tested it. Has anyone here played around with this yet?

Here's some old, but good info on fixing mascots and other NPCs: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5646.msg162123.html#msg162123

AFAIK it worked fine for a while, but got broken in one of the expansions... perhaps OFB.