I tried using google but it was hopeless. Help us out please. We love hacks!

I noticed no one has really said anything so...
I haven't had any fights at all since I installed this. I had quite a few before so I know it is working. Maybe to well. I'll go mess with my sims for a bit and see if I can angle any of them into autonomous fights.

Nah it's just noodles and sauce. It actually tastes good but I don't like to eat it very often if I can help it cause I can't say "They're Great!"

KFC is friggin delicious but I really like Popeye's (sp) better cause their biscuits are greasylicious and their gravy is spicy.
Ranch and Italian dressings are also delicious and are a compelling reason for me to eat salad. I'm getting soooo hungry now but I have no idea what we are having for dinner. (i was just threatened with tuna helper but we settled on pizza woohoo!)
The plastic wrap duct tape thing will definitely stop any worries about chemicals and terrorists. :-P
And Brynne when I read your comment about not cooking yourself I almost choked.

I never played roller coaster tycoon but I did play sim Theme Park and this definitely reminds me of that. I am having fun with it but now that I have gone through the tutorial and a bit of regular game play I know I need to start over and lay things out a lot better. I haven't tried sandbox mode at all but it is there.
Theisz is right about a Lot going on. At one point when I was paying attention to something else one of my actors became very unhappy and started throwing a tantrum. Plus the little tips thing kept telling me I needed to be doing something productive but I just wanted to watch them filming the movie for a little. Ultimately I had to just chill and realize that there Is a pause button and I Can use it when things start to pile up on me. There are some things though that I think you can not do while the game is paused.  :-(

In case anyone cares I did use this method and it worked like a charm. It was easy as pie.

BTW has anything concrete happened with this shared neighborhood idea or is it still being talked out? I did look over the thread but was afraid I missed something.

I'm late but I am excited! I've been playing The Movies. It's pretty cool but I'll have to make time for my sims again now. I've missed them anyway.

It's funny you say that because I bet I Will get it as a gift. Someone is bound to get it for me for Christmas. I'm sure I'll enjoy it and thank them.

Oh no! Mitoki went away. That's to bad I thought a lot of His ideas were interesting.
I like the 2 tier idea as well. Wild Cards sound great! I also like the idea of dl an entire set up neighborhood with story props etc. Maybe we could run it so that it comes in two options? Whole neighborhood with a little story set up or individual sims with bios for those whos comp or connection can't handle the whole hood?
Also honestly I think no matter what "rules" there are everyone will play however they like in the end anyway. We are only limited by what we choose to follow.
I tried the Legacy challenge for a bit when it first came out and while some of the rules were difficult they were also fun. Others were just annoying so I dropped them and quit the official game. I would do the same here if I wasn't enjoying myself and it wouldn't effect any one else in the least.

I like lush terrain. It doesn't have to be flat I actually like hills but I prefer for the lots to be fairly level. If just the area along the roads is flat the rest can be hilly or whatever for interest, yes? I have all the ep's and boat loads of hacks and cc. I can always change some of this for the "thing" we do.

That thing about re-numbering a neighborhood is possibly the coolest thing I have ever been told how to do. Thanks so much for mentioning it! I haven't tried it yet but I plan to.

For anyone else interested the page with the directions is
 
http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?p=3060820&highlight=command+prompt#post3060820

post #1304  It is 4 or 5 down.

Thanks you guys.

Where is the version you uploaded? I would be very interested in having it. I looked in peasantry but didn't see it there.

*also as i was tripping through the thread i went to the dma site. the misc npcs had a report fight to police thing included that looked cool. i may try it out and just thought i would mention it.

First off, I want in on this "challenge" you guys are cooking up. Sounds cool.

Second, I have a crazy on/off relationship with my sims too.
Sometimes I'll be so happy to be home so I can play my sims but when I load the neighborhood I just stare at it not knowing what I was so anxious to do.
Right now though I have just created a new family and am interested in what will happen to them.
I often seem to create single moms. Don't know why. I am trying to resist the compulsion to invent an entire town of neighbors for them to associate with (cause the townies suck).
I think that is where I went wrong when I first got Sims2. Although that first neighborhood Harbor Mill was great fun and fascinating don't get me wrong. It's just overwhelming eventually to have so many playable households with inertwined stories and it gets difficult to keep things moving smoothly for everyone. I had over 15 houses. One had met the 10 kids want and therefore was going to increase the household count quite a bit and soon. And I really Wanted to play them All. I loved almost every one of them. Even the ones I had invented as throwaway charachters ended up evolving into integral parts of my towns on-going saga.
 It only came to an end because for my birthday I got both nightlife and a new computer at the same time and it was to big a hassle to move every house over. I still think I will end up packaging each lot and bringing them over (because silly as this sounds i "miss" them and it makes me sad that i will never see some of the babies grow up) although I plan on using memory in a bottle to give them all amnesia first. I can't just bring the neighborhood file over without taking out Veronaville because of a glitch that occured when I originally installed the base game on the old computer or I woulda done that. I used deleteallcharachters on the Veronaville over here so I could keep the prop set up but build my own people there.

Has anyone ever gotten more than roses or candy for a first date? Maybe only multiple dates get gifts.
I had a girl go on a date where the first one went okay but coulda been better. A few minutes after it ended she asked him on another date and it started. That turned into a dream date. She got roses and then a statue that night. Presumably one for each date. Roses for the first of course and the statue for the second. I don't ever remember getting a gift for a first date.

Death by lawn clutter sounds pretty cool.

Gosh you guys have all made me cry. It is nice to know however that we are surrounded by animal lovers here.
MissDoh my thoughts will be with you as well. Losing a pet is always hard no matter what the circumstances.

I have three cats and three dogs but no kids. One of my dogs passed away very suddenly this last summer and we were so upset we actually sent her off to have a necropsy done to find out why. She had seemed so happy and healthy just earlier that same day. She had hemoragic gastroenteritis. Apparently it can happen very suddenly as it did with Coconut. I felt like my child had died and there was a lot of guilt over not realizing anything was wrong but it did get better. Plus I know she was very happy and we always did our very best for her.

Also as others have said people can be sorry bastards. I don't even want to think about all the cruel things I have personally known people to do to animals. It makes me sick and is one thing that can actually inspire me to truly Hate another human being. The worst part is knowing that usually they don't suffer for it at all. But sometimes they do. Once my cousin saw a guy throw a kitten from his car into traffic. She ran him off the road and beat the tar out of him when he said it was none of her buisiness (she's a big gal) and another driver pulled over and asked if she minded if he took over. She said sure and left them there. (i did not witness this event myself but only heard about it later.)

I'm 30. (it's not right to see it written out there like that.)
I have loved to play games for as long as I can remember and actually own an original Pong upright that works. (although we never play it. what's the point.)
I have never met anyone on-line worthy of my precious RL time. (just kidding. they may be worthy but notheless i have never met up irl with an on-line aquaintance.)
The screening process is soooo important no matter where you met your SO.

So the survey is already over?

I never had depression but I had massive anxiety issues caused by hyperthyroid problems. Before my surgery I had to take so many things to "fix" my thyroid levels and I was all messed up. I was on Ativan then. After the surgery I was even more messed up. They kept trying to force me (told me if I wouldn't medicate they couldn't help me) to take something like Paxil. Eventually they wore me down and I've been taking Buspar for the last 4? years. It did not "cure" my anxiety entirely but I think that eventually my body became used to the new thyroid levels and that did help. Plus turned out my para-thyroid had been damaged and I've got to take two big assed Citrical every day for the rest of my life. That fixed a lot of physical weirdness that they all assumed I was imagining (hell half the time I thought so too. I was convinced I was going insane.) before a specialist caught it.
Problem is every time I want to quit taking the Buspar I get cold feet. I did quit once for 3 days but it made me all emotional and my mom started having health problems (her thyroid was doing nothing and she was on the verge of psychosis but once she got a thyroid replacement perscription (and gave it time to work) she got all better) so I went back on it which made me feel all whacked out for 3 months. So now here I am on an anti-anxiety med I may not even need (might even be better off wthout it) but I'm too afraid of feeling like I did before to go off of it. For two years I've been thinking about going off it and always think "now is not a good time."
My point is doctors will use that crap to fix just about anything even when the real problem is staring them straight in the face and then the patient is stuck dealing with the problems the "quick fix" caused.
Although I medicate I am a strong believer in dealing with your problems the old fashioned way. Whip it's ass one day at a time.