Ok, that's pretty much what I thought (so I'm not as stupid as I thought I might be ) about the character data being lost, I kind of suspected that was the case. As for Bella, I have read so many posts about the "I am dead" token, I kind of took it for granted that she would be "dead" and had thought that she would be resurrectable in the game now. Oh well. I would love to be able to look over your shoulder Ancient Sim and see how you work all the ins and outs of Simpe

I have been reading posts regarding how much easier it is to resurrect dead relatives with the advent of NL so last night I decided that I would have Cassandra resurrect Mortimer and Bella; when I had her use the phone to call the Grim Reaper, only the Crumplebottoms showed in the panel for family to be resurrected. I looked at Cassandra's family tree and both Mortimer and Bella are still in colored, not greyed out, pictures. Then I remembered that when I installed the game, my daughter for whatever reason deleted Mortimer, so that would make sense because he didn't die, he got deleted but (this is the part I really hate to ask) what about Bella? Is she still shown in color because she's "missing" and not dead?
Another question, I can't resurrect anyone that Olive Spectre knew(she gets the message from the Grim Reaper, "you don't know anyone who died, keep it up and I might come visit you") is it because I deleted all the headstones? I had no problems resurrecting Skip Broke despite the fact there isn't a headstone for him.
Sorry if these are stupid questions but I really am just curious to know.

Oh okay...thanks Motoki.

That's pretty much what I thought but I wasn't sure. Can anyone tell me what the UI Transparency setting is for in the options? It is set to off by default in my game.

Okay since we are exposing our ignorance to one another here....what is the more/less smooth edges option? Mine is set to low by default but so were all my other settings since installing NL (I have a Nvidea GeForceFX5200FT 128DDR, 2.167 ghz AMD Athlon, 160 GB HD and 512 mb). I tweaked all of the settings to high except the smooth edges bit (since I don't know what it does) and have been wanting to ask someone what the UI (something) setting is? Mine is off by default but I don't know what it does so I haven't touched it. Would someone mind explaining that to me?

Right, it can only be placed as if it were a floor tile, although the options on it seem to work just fine.

I had this happen the other night while I was playing too. I had Nervous Subject go downtown to try and find a suitable mate. He was striking out left and right, no luck at all. Pascal Curious showed up on the lot so I thought, "well, they're friends, they can get a cup of coffee and chat." So I had Nervous buy a cup of expresso for Pascal, next thing I know, Nervous has a crush on Pascal. Obviously, this is not what I had intended. I think this is such a stupid bug/glitch/"feature"/whatever. While Pascal and Nervous might make a lovely couple, that wasn't the way I wanted it to go. This really needs to be fixed.

Yep, once my elder sims were in Perma Plat in my Legacy family I was like thank goodness, now you can play that guitar/drumset/bass until your fingers fall off, for all I care and I can focus on the rest of the family. I also use JM's lot debugger to reroll their LTWs and had them switch careers if I could (some sims have one LTW and when it's done, they don't get another one in its place). But as Hook said, if they are in Perma Plat and have all their skills, high relationship scores, it's hard to keep them interesting.

You always crack me up; yes, I was cringing when I opened this thread and waiting for the "the matchmaker set my sim up with her uncle/cousin/brother" scenario.

I totally agree. Most kids from the age of 5 or so can make a bowl of cereal or a sandwich. By the time I was ten I was cooking mac & cheese and hot dogs (without a microwave..we didn't have those in the '70s ). It's silly that in this day and age to think a kid wouldn't be able to not only prepare cold foods but a few microwavable ones too (tv dinner anyone?).

My first husband would look at the wall/tv/stare off into space, anything other then look directely at me when talking (now you know why he was my first husband!), so I was actually somewhat uncomfortable with how when I met the man I am now married to, made direct eye contact at all times when talking to me. The reason for the unwavering eye contact? He said when he was a younger man, he was talking to a very beautiful woman who suddenly, but very gently,cupped his chin in her hand, raised it up, looked directly into his eyes and said, "no matter what you say, they won't talk back", lol. He said he never forgot that and always made sure to address a woman "from the neck up" from that point on.

Thank you Jordi. I kept looking at the smartserve.package in my hacks folder and thinking it was one that one (I should not delete the RTFMs).

A couple of months ago I downloaded a hack that enables children to serve meals/make meals for themselves. I think it was by dizzy but I'm not absolutely sure. I removed all of my hacks before I installed NL but for the life of me, I can't remember the name of this particular hack. Does anyone know the one I'm referring to and if it is compatible with NL? I really miss this one!

The clothingtool is working just fine in my game; as an added bonus, no more scrolling through outfit selections, it shows all outfits (by everyday, underwear, etc.,) your sim has in its closet on one screen. It is indeed, More Awesome Than I.

It appears to be working for me as well.

Same here.

I am having visions of that one ghost in "Beetlejuice." lol

Nope, never have had that particular hack. I removed all hacks before I installed NL and I'm slowly putting hacks back in based on lists given by Boris and TwoJeffs.

edited: for typos

As my son just entered high school this year and joined marching band, this really caused me to laugh. I think part of being a band instructor is to have no sense of real world time.

My maid doesn't; he meanders around a bit, cleans a toilet or two and then declares he's leaving for the day...leaving spoiled food on the table, old newspapers and misc. other garbage laying around.

Could someone please post a link to this list? I seem to have missed it. Thanks!
edited: Nevermind, just found it

I don't know if there is any truth to it but yes, I have read about a custom eyeshadow that for whatever reason does away with the pork chops option. I have no idea why, how it would do it or why anyone make such a thing.

One more thing: after using a mirror to "change appearance" on a sim, their clothes in their pictures appear all blurry, looking truely terrible. Same thing when using JM's buy at home clothingtool. I don't know if this is related to the large, overbloated wants/fears/memories pictures. Anyone else experience this?

I just bought NL on Friday, installed it on Saturday. Count me in with the people who have never used the "maxMotives" cheat (actually never heard of it before I read this thread)  and having visitors being greeted then the "wow! look at the time, gotta go" box pop up.
Also having the same problem with the graphics constantly resetting to default (lowest/off) every time the game is started even though my game runs fine when I reset them to higher settings. Very annoying to have to reset them every time.
I am also having a few sims (either born in-game sims or formerly NPC sims) with blank want slots.
The karoke is working pretty well, although I can barely hear my sims singing over the music (even after tweaking the audio settings).
I'm really happy to see a Maxoid visiting these boards, responding to questions and (hopefully ) taking note of the problems we are having. Thank you, MaxoidTom.

no, no expresso involved...oh well, it's a minor issue.