I use Pidgin regularly...but I've been thinking of switching over to Trillian. Ever since the 2.2.something update (or thereabouts), the stupid thing's been crashing on me at least once a day. I haven't had much luck tracking down what the problem is, either, and subsequent updates haven't fixed it.  That issue aside, though, it is a nice little program...though I liked it better back when it was in its GAIM days.

Not to contribute to the thread hijacking, but I've been having the same problem with the poker tables since BV. Four sims will sit down to play, but never get around to the actual playing. I don't use the tables that often though, so I haven't really dug down into trying to figure out what the problem is. Haven't even tried the mahjong tables yet.

I had that problem with one of my sims recently...I had to delete him with moveobjects to fix it. Try that?

After a glance at the registry, it turns out mine was, too. Whoops. Thanks for that link--got it fixed now, and nothing seems to have imploded.

I installed BV and dropped in a no-CD.exe, because SecuROM sucks. Everything works fine, except that my 12 hour clock is now showing 24 hour time. The game swears left, right, and upside down that my language/location is still English (US), and just at a glance I don't see any issues with Sims' names being changed at random like I've heard happens when you switch locations mid-game. And yet I still have a 24-hour clock. I can live with that...I'm just not sure if it's a sign of something else being broken or not. And, okay, it's a little annoying.

So, why did my game switch over to 24 hour time? And how do I fix it? If it involves fussing around with the registry, I should warn you that I'm sort of a Windows n00b (grew up with Macs), so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing on that front and am afraid of blowing something up. So detailed instructions are nice.

Thank you!

I think that might be a downloaded hair causing problems...I just tested it on two adult male sims and had no weirdness issues.

I wouldn't, either. One of my OFB (I think--she could've been generated with the Pets install) townies has been redefining the term "gender confusion" from the moment she appeared. S/he has the hair/face/clothing of an adult female, but her voice is definitely male, and s/he's flagged as a male by SimPE.

There's something else glitched with her, too...every time she appears on one of my sims' business lots, her buy bar appears embedded in her neck instead of over her head.

If you look at the gallery, it looks like there's a flight of stairs for sims to run, run from the horror! get down to the road. At least I think that's where the stairs lead to. With that lot, who knows.

Speaking of Parsimonious creations, "Analyze" caught my eye. At first it looks relatively not-hideous, except, well...the roof's full of "skylights." AKA holes. I'm not sure the game would even consider it a real roof. Soooo...who wants to play that lot with Seasons?

No it didn't. I've got Seasons P1 and one of my sets of earrings is still flashing blue. The other few that I have, however, seem to be fine for whatever reason.

You can also force a wants reroll with the lot debugger, IIRC.

I had a sim catch pneumonia the other day and decided to see if she'd actually die from it--I basically let her run around on free will rather than take care of her. Despite her getting so stinky she was attracting flies, eating out of the garbage can constantly instead of the fully stocked fridge (sloppy sims, honestly ), picking fights with the social bunny, passing out in a heap all over the house, etc. etc. ...she still made a full recovery.

...At least until I got annoyed and dropped a satellite on her head.

Personally, I think at that point I'd declare the sim in question too stupid to live and just let them pass out/starve/pee themselves/whatever. Obnoxious whining doesn't get my sims very far in life.

But there are "desktop replacement" laptops and laptops built specifically with gaming in mind. Mine is a desktop replacement rig...crap battery life (about 2 hours) and weighs 10 lbs, but it's taken every game I've thrown at it so far.

Theoretically ATI doesn't support driver updates on it, either (Mobility Radeon card)--their detection software kept saying my computer wasn't compatible. I went with a late '06 set of drivers I dug out of the depths of Google instead of the '07 set ATI had posted...they work great. And no, I don't get support from EA either, since I'm running the game on an "unsupported" system...but why would I want help from them anyway? They'd just tell me to delete my custom content and reinstall. 

It's entirely possible to get TS2 running--well--on a laptop if you're willing to shell out the money. And stay away from Nvidia.

Thanks so much for these! It's nice to finally have Abys that actually look something like my two boys.

Use JMP's nowhatsthis. I haven't seen the "what's this?" routine since before installing Uni because, no, I don't care what my sims think about the new ceiling light. 


Sims have no survival instinct, much less peeing instinct. I've had exactly two sims in a neighborhood of five generations who had the sense to take themselves to the bathroom when they needed to.

Binning sims in the lots & houses bin = very, very bad thing. Do not want.

The best way to move sims between neighborhoods is to clone them--use the SimSurgery tool of SimPE to export them. Then re-create them in CAS in your cleaner neighborhood, assigning personality points, turn-ons, etc. to match the Pleasantview originals. Further alterations to DNA and so forth can be made in SimPE.

I've got the same problem--IIRC it was happening before Pets as well. ATI Mobility Radeon X600 here.

Couldn't you use Merola's mind control mirror for that?

Really? Weird that I never noticed...what did MaxisEA bork that causes that?

Has anybody noticed anything weird going on with their townies' hair post-patch? I had a Bluewater townie drop into one of my sims' stores yesterday with some sort of bizarre scalp disease or something.

SimPE says she's genetically blonde/blonde, but she's always walking around with brown hair. I could've sworn she used to have brown eyebrows, too, but I may just be remembering wrong--anyway, she has blonde ones now. And a blonde...scalp?





I do use default replacement skintones (obviously) and bin all my custom hairs, but I don't think they're causing the problem here, as all my other sims are fine. I also have playables with this same haircut that don't have this problem.

I think that's a coincidence, not a bug. I've had sims who were absolutely adorable as toddlers/children, only to be hit with the ugly stick repeatedly on their way to their teen transition. A friend of mine also had a whole family where the boys were ridiculously attractive as teens, only to turn into young adults and develop some disturbing noses and cheekbones almost identical to yours, MagicBeans.

Edit to clarify: Both of these incidents were pre-Pets--pre-NL and OFB, even.

I thought the issue was with NPC outfits...? So if the maid's no longer wearing her NPC outfit, she should have the correct hair, I think. One of my sims moved in and married Lucy Hanby; she still has her red hair. (The blonde maid who replaced her, however, has suddenly become a brunette. )

I saw a message on her site stating that she was thinking of closing it soon--that was a couple of weeks ago, IIRC. Still, pretty low key closing. And am I the only one who can't seem to find Helaene's skins on sexysims2.com since the lost downloads fiasco?

Well, I tend not to notice the visible trashcans have been knocked over until the roaches show up, so... 

I've never heard of a second trashcan, either. But it's not CC--I install all my downloaded lots with the Clean Installer, and all it installed with this lot was the lot itself, no CC. So I'm not sure where the extra trashcan came from.

Looks like I'll be moving the mailbox back where it belongs, at least, though--I'd like to avoid future wonkiness.