I've also had this problem more often lately.  I'll just be playing randomly and all of a sudden the sound goes off.  It'll go on for less than 5 minutes, then come blaring back on again.  It seems to happen more often to me when I play large houses with big families.  I'm playing a single-person family now and I haven't had any problems so far.

Seems like a random EA bug to me - people have been complaining about sound issues since Ambitions came out.

Well, don't I feel like a dumbass?  The answer is yes. 

Two new untouched sets, fresh from the store:

Haute Hip (modern bedroom stuff): http://www.4shared.com/file/hECewBEW/HauteHipSet.html

Provence (French kitchen): http://www.4shared.com/file/hECewBEW/HauteHipSet.html

Feel free to seed wherever.

According to the Prima guide:

"Sims who spend time in the outdoors or look through the telescopes at the stars run the risk - however miniscule - of being flattened by a falling meteor.  Fortunately, you get a moment of warning before this actually happens.  A shadow appears on the ground around the Sim and foreboding music lilts through the air (<i>I have yet to hear ANY music in my game, from the stereo or in Buy/Build mode</i>)  But the warning lasts only a few moments and any Sim still in that shadow when the meteor strikes is instantly killed.  If the dead Sim is turned into a playable ghost, the ghost is orange.  Babies and children cannot be squished by a meteor."

I'm guessing since you get the warning, you can get out of the way.

Arrogance FAIL - I'm fully aware of how to set up AM and install the framework, since I'm not a complete noob.  It's been working fine until I installed HELS - all of my other mods work except for AM.  But since that wasn't my question...thanks for playing.



Dammit, that's what I was afraid of.  Screw it - it's only a -5 on her mood.

My Sim has 3 spoiled food items in her inventory that I can't drag out.  When I hold my mouse pointer over it, there's just an arrow - no hand, asterisk, or anything.  I was just wondering if there's any way to delete everything in a Sim's inventory and get rid of the "Disgusted" moodlet.

And no, I don't have AM installed - it doesn't seem to be working with my game for some reason.

Thanks for any help.

I figured out a perfect solution - I found a mod over at Crazy Town that allows you to buy all of the fish and fruits at any store (including at home).  Problem solved by people much smarter than me.

I tried using the "buy debug" cheat to get some of the WA plants and put them in my Sim's garden.  I'll see the mounds of dirt, but if I mouse over them, it says "No Interactions Available" - I can't even see what kind of plant it is.  If I leave the lot and come back, the plants have mysteriously disappeared.  If I just hang around the lot, the plants don't do anything - no growth, no weeds, etc.

The base game plants show up (with the "buy debug" cheat) and work perfectly.  I'm currently running on Patch 2.2.

Anyone have any ideas? 

No, they were at home.  Not only all of that, but then I found out my saved game files were corrupted.  I ended up having to start all over.

Now, I'm saving the game at regular intervals, and putting copies into a separate backup file.  It's kind of a pain in the ass, but not nearly as much as redoing everything.  So far, I haven't had the error code come up since then.

I have the MTS and the No Bills rewards and they both work perfectly for me.  I've tried the other rewards as well and they work fine, too.

This exact same thing happened to me.  Then I found this nifty little mod over at Crazy Town: http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?showtopic=3569  You'll get your skills just about instantly.

Tried to save my game a few minutes ago and got the "error code 16" message pop up.  I had saved my game earlier (just after moving a Sim into her new house), but A LOT happened in between there.  I've updated to the 1.7/2.2 patch, but still getting this message.

Any ideas?  Or is EA just still staffed by douchetards?

Be careful - if you dwell on EA's "logic" for too long, your brain will shut down from too much exposure to stupidity.

Ever tried clearing rubble in a tomb without any Athletic skill?  Your Sim would be there for DAYS.

I wish I would have seen this before I just had one of my Sims max a couple of skills by actually DOING them on x3 speed and adjusting her moods.  At least she can finish the rest of them - thanks man.

I've checked these mods and they all work fine:

AutoToiletWashHands
Twoftmama Teens Can Cuddle Kiss and Makeout
Explore_Catacombs_Anytime
floorthickness
hryniuk-NoFootTappingOnWaitForClearRoute
HUDNaviSwapInvenPanel
SolaceInSound's 10X LifetimeHappinessElatedGain
SolaceInSound's Money Cheat Mod 10000, 100000
NoAutononomousBrowseWeb
NoAutononomousComputerChat
NoAutononomousComputerGames
NoAutononomousDance
NoAutononomous-Go-Home
NoAutononomousSprinkler
NoAutononomousStereoDance
NoAutononomousVideoGames
NoAutononomousWatchChess
NoAutononomousWatchTV
noautoputawayfirepit
NoBuildSparkles
NoEmptyPotty
NoMusicalNotes
NoPartyGuestMax
NoWrenchTossing
NoZzzs
slowerfoodspoil
Kolipoki_Buyable OPS, MTS, DF + MG
QueueFits15Interactions
SLAM


These mods did NOT work in my game:
cessil_BuyAllFish (this made it so none of the fish showed up in the grocery store)
Chaavik-ChildrenCanPostTrollCheckForResponsesMoreFun
Fruithack (this made it so none of the fruits & veggies showed up in the grocery store)
gaininstantskills (this one locked up my game)
JTP_childMirrorSpeech

I've got more in my file, but I can't test them out yet - will update when I can.


(Edited to add the non-working mods)

I didn't see this in the Store downloads thread, so here it is.  Feel free to upload it wherever.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=89b561397ad0ad596b21be4093fab7ace04e75f6e8ebb871

FINALLY got it to work - thanks for your help!

Simsample - I haven't tried that, because I have no clue how to do it.  If you could provide instruction, I'd be eternally grateful.

Chaos - Yes, I've deleted the caches numerous times.  Still not working.

I've got a problem, which was probably a result of my own stupidity...

I updated to the latest patch (1.4.6) without taking my mods folder out first (didn't even think about it - now I'm paying the price).  The game started up fine, but now NONE of my mods/cc are working.  The only things that show up in the catalogue are the Store downloads.

I tried a complete reinstall (after backing up my stuff), then re-patching, but it's still not working.  I found links to the old patches at MTS, but when I patched it with the first one (they're saying to go in order), it automatically patched me to 1.4.6.

I'm about ready to kill someone from sheer frustration - any ideas?  The game DOES NOT crash - the mods and cc just aren't working.

I've got a scroll wheel - full speed ahead.

Thanks for all your brilliance.

I knew that spandex was a bad idea...now it's confirmed.

Definitely going to try removing the CC I just DLed - thanks for the help

If one of you geniuses can solve my problem, you can make fun of me all you want 

Chances are I deserve it anyway for my stupidity

Hey all - glad to join your merry band here.  I'm hoping someone can help me get out of Retard Land...

I downloaded some new hacks over the past 3 days, but noticed there weren't any townies showing up on my community lots.  I went through and deleted the ones I thought had to do with townies (mainly the ones that have YAs show up elsewhere other than the college lots).  I went to a community lot after leaving "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" and this error message came up: An error occured with object "Controller - CLP - Community Lot - Populator" #555.  Error: Bad gosub tree number.

Anyone have a clue as to what this means and how I can fix it?  The short bus rider will be eternally grateful.