The copy from TPB contains a Mac folder, so I'm thinking you're right.

And how better to win your way into potential victims' trust than to charm them with your friendliness and and sense of humor?

My test Sim has the following traits:  Friendly, Good Sense of Humor, Over-Emotional, Hopeless Romantic, and Evil.  Her Evil trait has so far surfaced in autonomously scaring her neighbor and kicking over the same neighbor's trash can.  She also "fiendishly" ate ice cream directly from the carton, but I'm not sure if that's different from how any sim Eats Quick > Ice Cream.  Clearly, we are dealing with the second coming of Hitler in this sim.  So far the only Evil want she has rolled is to donate money to undermine a charity.  Other than that, she pretty much wants to gain gardening skill and have her first kiss.

I honestly fail to see the point in dredging this topic up again.  In thirteen days, one side will get to do the I-was-right-and-you-were-wrong dance on the basis of irrefutable evidence; there's no point in arguing over rumors and speculation until then.  

I bet the Beatniks will love that... all those rabid Sim fans taking up their display computers for the next two weeks.  Because Apple stores aren't busy enough normally.

A few random thoughts:

Hats separated from hairstyles in CAS - FINALLY.  But since when do simple braids or a ponytail constitute a hat?  Also, I thought the advent of create-a-style would mean the end of having to scroll through thirty-seven screens of the same damn hairstyle, the only difference being the color of the barrette.  Ditto for outfits; I want ONE of each model displayed, and I can take care of my own colors and patterns, 'kay thanks.  Of course if they did that it would be even more obvious that we only got fifteen actual outfits with the game.

Add some more hate for the round faces.  I like to make sharp-faced, pixielike Sims; the best I could do here was vaguely heart-shaped.  So not impressed.

Some of the buildings on the map don't seem to have flags.  My test Sim had rolled a few wishes to take Handiness classes and gain skill.  It took me forever to discover the unmarked army base in the lower left corner of the map that housed the classes.

One thing that initially amused me but is getting old:  the test Sim has the Evil trait, and whenever I click on an object, I get "Take Evil Shower", "Fiendishly Eat Quick Meal", "Evil Dance", etc.  As far as I can tell, the actions aren't done any differently than the regular kind, so why the distinction?  It just seems silly.

Overall, I'm enjoying myself, though I'm not sure how entertaining it will be once the shiny rubs off, especially if mods are out of the question.  I guess we'll see.


Oh -- one thing that made me laugh.  I had a burglar show up on the lot and just as he was getting ready to walk in, my neighbor raced over from her house, beat the piss out of him, and drove him off.  Awesome.

ETA:  That was metaphorical piss.  No actual pee was involved.  It occurred to me that, being a Sims game, I should clarify.

That seems to be for community lot-based opportunities.  I was in the beach while a chess tournament was going on, and the Opportunity to play in the tournament went into the third slot.

Question for you awesome people:

If the retail disc does turn out to be infected with SecuROM, will the cracked .exe from the arr'd version work to get around it?  I've been trying to decide whether I'll return my pre-order if it does happen.  I'm leaning toward "lying liars don't deserve my money", but I want to make sure of my options first.

Also, is it just me or do these Sims seriously run to fat?  The thin end of the scale just looks on the slender side of normal; shouldn't we have emaciated Sims to balance out the obese ones?  Or at least have a couple string beans running around.

I've been away from the game for a while, and now I'm trying to update my hacks for AL.  I don't see these two in the Director's Cut, but I really like them both.  Will they make my game explode, or simply not work anymore?

Thanks in advance.

No Retired Job Spam
No Xylophone Pee

Has anyone tried calling the number on the letterhead to see who, if anyone, answers?  I rather find myself siding with the "this is a fake" crowd, given the appalling grammar.

*goes back to lurking*

Cold Issue Clothing is the lot I can't get into.  Those were the only two hacks I had in-game at that point... if I removed either one from my downloads folder the lot would load fine.

I haven't tried any other downtown lots.  I probably ought to experiment a bit more.

This seems to conflict with your Normal-clothes-on-community-lots mod.  When I have them both in the game, I get the dreaded endless loading screen loop when I try to go downtown.  Either file on its own is fine.

This issue started when I installed NL.  If one of my sims invites a child over to visit, the child will *always* leave autonomously at 6:00, saying "Look at the time!  I have to go!"  Drives me nuts, especially on weekdays when it's 4 or 5 pm before I can actually get the sim to come over after school.

Is anyone else having this issue?

This is why I use the Pregnancy-4-all mod from mts2.  I wanted my gay sims to be able to breed without having affairs (adoption is *not* an option until Maxis figures out how to make prettier randomly-generated Sims!), and this is the next best thing to artificial insemination.  It makes the game a bit less realistic, but then I don't know anyone who was kidnapped by aliens, bitten by vampires, or killed by falling space technology either.

In my game, notowniechildren caused all the elders on my lot to lose free will.  I removed the hack, and they were once again fighting over who got to clean the toilets.

Already removed.  I just didn't notice it on Boris' list, so thought I'd mention.

Pay-at-box does still work... except that once the bill has been paid (but before the mailman comes to pick it up) you can still click on the mailbox and have the option to get mail.  Which makes you pay again.  This wouldn't be that big of a deal except that Sims keep wanting to autonomously get the mail.  Which makes you pay again.  My sims paid the same bill three times in a single day.

So I'm running the house where four little old ladies are living with their four grown children.  All the old biddies are sick, so I'm trying to keep them from compulsively cleaning so they don't die or anything.  I tell Prudence to go to bed, and a little window pops up informing me that Verity has gained a point of cooking skill.  Verity is sound asleep in the bed next to Prudence.

Verity maxed her cooking skill some hours later, while playing kicky bag with Charity.

Anyone else experience this?  I'm wondering if it's a NL bug, or some weird side effect to one of my old hacks.

It drives me absolutely batty when my family sim comes home from work and then proceeds to waste a half hour spreading her arms out like an idiot, waiting for someone to come up and give her a medal for working or whatever.

Is there any way to suppress that behavior?