I always place the elevator at the "back" of the 1x2 box, with the arrow pointing away from where the door will be, toward the back wall.  The door goes on the opposite wall, and in the same spot on the floor above.

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Is that what you're already doing?

The only time I've had an issue with the elevators is when someone loiters in the spot just inside one of the doors (such as if they had to wait for someone else), having decided not to actually use the elevator.  Sometimes others get blocked from using it at all.

I don't like sites where I have to hit F5 so often to make it load properly -- i.e. the columns don't load at the right width -- or where I have to scroll endlessly to get past the fact that you have the explanation as a header for every page.  The new MTS2 format can be  highly annoying, though it was nice that I could reset home back to the original.

I was originally one of those people who would have to be dragged kicking and screaming in order to install XP.  I was a diehard 98 fan, despite the fact that I could almost set my watch by how frequently my machine would spontaneously reboot or bluescreen.  I simply got used to it's multitude of quirks, restarted frequently on purpose, and went on with my life.

Then we got a laptop.  It came with ME.  The utter nightmare...blech.  My husband tried to install 98 on it and failed miserably every time.  Something about the lack of proper drivers for the onboard stuff.  On the other hand, it took to XP like a duck to water.  And surprise...the sucker actually ran decent.  It didn't reboot whenever the wind blew, or you looked at it crossways.  I suddenly became an XP fan.

So I run XP Pro on my machine and literally the only trouble I've ever had with it was when the hard drive was failing and I didn't realize it at first.  (Of course, that was shortly followed by the laptop exploding, then my desktop's motherboard and memory frying itself, but that's a whole 'nother story.)  A machine I used to have to reboot on a daily basis (sometimes more often), now runs for days or weeks without any problems, and that's playing high-end games frequently as well.

I be a convert.

I don't think those screens mean those things either.  I mean, in a household of eight, I might have only one of the couples snuggled up in the load screen, but in the house itself, you can't stop everyone from serenading, hugging, making out, etc.  Suckers are all over each other.

In any case, permaplat elders are good for several things in my opinion: they can watch the kids--I often set them to wake up at 3pm, and it generally works out that someone is always awake to feed the baby/toddler, teach, whatever.  If they show no desire to retire, then I leave them working, unless...one of the adult parents needs a job to obtain a LTW, in which case, they retire instead.

Of course, LizzLove's waterbed is fantastic for letting them fulfill their whoohoo wants autonomously (so long as I use some kind of security to prevent mismatches in bed).

Exaggeration is often useful in helping to prove a point.

I myself would like to see this changed, especially when those delightful Maxis-made romance sims walk by (the ones you swear you saw last week on Wild Kingdom?) and my sims swoon and wolf whistle.  If romance sims are more or less, by definition, sluts, then it should be they who go weak kneed and make an embarrassing spectacle of themselves in public.

I'll probably get smacked for this, but will stuff like Macrotastics get updated to prevent vampires from running outside during the day? I'd rather see them drop the queue than go up in a big puff of smoke on the obstacle course (well, unless it was intentional).

Well, here's a silly suggestion--how about one of the many talented meshers out there make a lovely flying fish sculpture as a gift and maybe our dear, obstreperous J.M. will imbue that with the spiffyness that is the Macrotastics Launcher and Lot Debugger?

I see it happen every so often.  I just ignore it, and they go back to normal eventually.

Well, a collection is really just a set of pointers, right?  So that makes sense.  Delete it from the catalog or whatever, and it disappears from the collection.

It takes that long for the security clearance check for the UPS/FedEx man to come back in, plus make his way all the way down into J.M.'s bunker 5 zillion feet underground.

On the other hand, all that water means you get up to stretch regularly and get the circulation going as you trundle toward the loo.

Yes, and no.  I prefer to interpret that statement as the drugs persuading the superego to go tale a very long vacation.

I can't really get into the idea of playing more than one house, so synching isn't usually an issue for me.  Spare children get shipped off once they're adults to a new home so they're available as friends (or further down the line, remarried back in).  Even so, the "legacy" family I'm playing right now doesn't even come close to being to spec, but I simply can't make an actual story out of it.

It's far more tempting to take stories I've written for other reasons and attempt to simify those instead.  Then I suppose I'd play really slowly in order to get exactly what I want, but then...it wouldn't exactly be playing at that point.  If I did that, I'd set up a neighborhood called Pixel Studios with stage sets.

I made a bunch of townie kids so mine had friends to bring home or get their first kiss from, uni YAs, and of course, a bunch of people for the "heirs" to marry.  I think I spend more time re-designing the house or admiring the way the kids come out.

It's only been within the past week or so that any sim of mine ever died of old age, and at that, I felt horribly guilty for some reason.

Now, killing them off on purpose is a different story entirely.

Hehe.  My sims are much too cute to play the starring roles in a Mr Potato Head sim fantasy.

Nonono.  I don't like violence unless it involves shooting intruders.  Now if only I knew where hubby stored his guns...

Actually, he was prescribed Valium once for vertigo.  I found it kind of odd that a tranquilizer could also have such negative effects.

As far as sleep goes, Insomnia is my middle name. I just live with it.

Sorry, I think I was unclear in how I worded things that time.  All I meant was that the expectant "mother" meditated in order to prevent him from giving birth in the bathroom (like the previous two children born in that household).  After the baby was born, I just let things go back to normal.

Needs, specifically his bladder at that point.  Though, it really ought not to have mattered, since meditating freezes them.

Celiac disease?  Nasty.  Mum has that and keeps trying to convince me I also have it (even though I've been checked, and wasn't that an uncomfortable experience).  Of course, if she eats anything with gluten, she's in one sort of agony or another within an hour, though I understand the more immediate effects differ from person to person.

Mind you, if that is why the guy is gluten-restricted, whoever fed him doughnuts really ought to be smacked.  CD can kill you if you don't adhere to the restriction.

I was put on beta blockers once as a preventative measure for migraines--what a mistake.  They turned me into the meanest bitch within a couple of weeks, so I stopped taking them and went back to stuff like Fiorocet (now Imatrex).  I've also noticed some of the drugs to help you sleep (prescription) can really change a person's personality for the worse as well.

Yeah, well, the last sprog to be popped out, I actually used a spare brain cell or two and had the "mother" to be meditate after greening him up.

Sure, I could.  Though I think that's a drastic response to the issue considering how interconnected a lot of these nifty little things are.

I just wanted to point out that it happened again.  If it's not something that can be tweaked, so be it.  I'll just have to continue to keep a close eye on my pregnant people.

Heh, just my luck.  It's happened again.  Kaworu gave birth in the bathroom, and I encountered the same circus.  Hitting Emergency Stop didn't help in the least.  Having done that, and directed a sim manually to go get the baby, still resulted in being kicked out by the Bathroom Controller.  I had to delete it before anyone could rescue the newborn, then replace it afterward.

This is also in a new house (I decided the 5x5 lot was just too weird, so I moved them to a smaller one).

I admit, I hadn't thought to hit the emergency stop.

Still, I don't know/understand if it's a quirk with the whole system, or just a fluke.  Mind you, that's the first bathroom birth I've had with this family, so who knows?

I just had the most delightful time.  Sim does a runner for the bathroom, uses a stall, comes out and promptly gives birth the second he steps out. Cool.  Then he sets the baby down, and I watch a comedic routine of three sims dashing in and out of the bathroom trying to pick the newborn up to place it in a crib, but getting kicked out every time by the controller.

 

Yes, I moved the controllers out long enough so one of them could rescue the poor darling, but...is it in any way possible for this to be added in as an exception to how the bathroom controller handles things?

I recently gave into their frequent spins for a tv, though I generally put such things up on the roof where they cannot get to it, but I was feeling exceptionally generous (and I admit, I was missing the Yummy channel a bit) and swapped it out for the wall-mounted flatscreen.

Well, that just had to go within a very short amount of time.  Sure, it was useful for keeping idle sims out of trouble, but it also resulted in some of them ignoring the call to work and using vacation days.  Every time I turned around everyone was huddled in that section of the living room like lemmings at the edge of a cliff.

On a side note, I've not yet had a problem with the helicopter, but they are on the largest lot, so there's plenty of space available even with the maid's van present (not that it usually is, as it tends to arrive after and leaves prior).