Ohh lovely! I found this thread while searching the forums for the exact same reason... finding out the fate of some Awsome hacks that I had in Bon Voyage and are not in the FT directory.

In fact, I have a few more, and I haven't found anything about them -- so what's the deal with...

commstereofix.package
engagewantfix.package
norandomcrush.package
petsp0-servicecallfix.package

?

A related but different question: I have all the EPs and none of the SPs. I didn't install the second BV patch, and then I installed FT (forgetting all about the patch). Is it pointful/impossible/insanely dangerous to install the second BV patch now? Or is it one of those great metaphysical questions that nobody has yet managed to answer? 

Ha! Found it again. And this does seem like a legitimate instance for necromancy...

Does anybody know if this hack plays nice with Bon Voyage? I'm starting to miss it... (I have nobuskers, but I've started sending Sims to Uni again and the amount of time they waste picking up jars is boggling...)

Oh, yes... Forgot to specify that I'm looking for a non-awsome hack... 

(I like to give my Sims a slightly higher level of autonomy than power-idle, and usually the computer lives in the same room with stuff that I want the Sims to have access to...)

I am aggrieved by Sims playing computer games all the time. Especially since it's an action that takes time to start and finish, so even if I cancel it they still waste a chunk of time.

I had Inge's lovely NoAutonomyComputerGames, but that is listed as not compatible with Bon Voyage (checked again today...), so no go. Does anybody know of another hack that does the same job, but is BV-compatible?

(I know Monique's computer, but I'd rather have something that stops the autonomous behaviour on all computers, rather than having to use Monique's computers on every lot...)

TIA!

Thank you, twistingsims -- it's good to know it's not one of those two mods.

Sounds like it's Eaxis' borkenness then. I can cope -- it just means that my Fortune sims have to suffer. Oh woez. (Evil? Me?) They will be setting up little money-themed shrines in their rooms and praying for a patch to materialize. And the other Sims will be pointing and laughing at them.

Oh, I notice now that there is another thread referring to this same problem here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6142.0.html. This is from October 2006, and people got "unnamed" wants for OFB crafting benches after installing Pets. No answer is found in the thread though... but I thought I'd point it out.

Me too!

The objects are different, as they are worth 2,000 and 500 asp respectively. Codes: 10098 and 10097.

This has happened today for the first time, after I installed TwoJeff's ACR and SmartBeds yesterday (current updated versions for BV -- ACR is still in testing). However, I *think* it's also the first Fortune sim I play since installing BV, so it may have nothing whatsoever to do with TwoJeffs' mods.

I'd rather not pull those mods because I'm not sure that wouldn't bork things somewhat -- so I'm going to watch this thread and see, does everybody who has the problem also have those mods installed, or not...

(Anyway, this Fortune sim is trying to set aside money, so he's not getting any "buy" wants fulfilled for a while... bwahahahah...)

You can cancel the "walk to lot" action and have them run to the portal after you've established which one it is. The "walk to lot" icon will regenerate in the queue and they'll leave.

Ooohhh... I think I will, soon as I get the time to look for some. And of course I can do some of the testing...

(Or if it's not too transcendental maybe I could do it myself given instructions, but if you say it would only take you a few minutes then I might just take advantage of that instead...)

Yep. On several occasions, I've had the message "X and Y are no longer best friends" when Y had been dead for a while. So it appears that the relationship decays as normal after they're dead -- and until it has decayed, the dear departed is still counted as a best friend.

(Hasn't happened in a while now: it's possible that some hack I've installed stops it happening, or otherwise that it simply didn't have a chance of happening.)

Ohh, that sounds like the ideal solution! Do you know where one might find more? (Either yours or by others)

I've tested the produce packing station. It works well. Sims can indeed unpack the box, and the fruit goes into their inventory for normal use.

For the original poster, Paladin also has a ton of shelving units, which as it happens I've just downloaded for the purpose of storing items in the basement/attic... The largest one can hold 10 separate objects. You'll find them at the link that was posted above, under Sims2 / (Objects, I think) / Furniture.

Ok, so I checked and the widow had the memory of her husband's death. I tried summoning Leod anyway, and he dutifully appeared, waved buh-buh and disappeared again with the message that he'd died on another lot. This didn't fix the problem (and at that point I didn't expect it to).

So I tried the lot debugger and there was no appropriate option. Considered coming here to whine about it, then had a brainwave and checked the FTP listing, and lo, the debugger had been updated since I'd re-downloaded it a few days back. So I re-downloaded it again, installed, went back and the option was there (I would thank Pescado but he might not appreciate it). Used the option and lo, it worked! (Leod still showing as Sophie's husband in the family tree, but the Propose-Engagement option is available -- which I assume is the intended correct behaviour.) Life in Riverrun can go on! 

Thanks for all the answers.

The widow is a Maxis creation, but it's not Denise Jacquet, it's a Sophie (probably a townie originally) who married Leod McGregor in Bluewater (and is now called McGregor herself, so I don't remember her original surname).

Her intended is a born-in-game Sim who has never been married, and I have already moved him in with her (through the Neighbourhood since he previously lived alone): the "Propose" actions weren't available before he moved in, and aren't available now. (Propose-Engagement isn't available either.)

I was quite happy to let them live in sin, but he keeps hitting on every skirt he meets (with ACR) and that's not at all what I want, so I wanted to add a "committment" flag to curb that a bit...

I will check if she has a memory of her husband dying; then I'll try the lot debugger (didn't know of this option) and/or Marhis' fix, and we'll see...

Another thing that I noticed after posting is that she didn't have a "Try for baby" action when relaxing with him on their bed now that he's moved in with her. That is even more annoying because I want more babies in that family, and I assume it's related to this. I'll try things out and report back.

I have the marriage-postmortum hack installed, and in the RTFM it says that "the surviving partner may remarry as usual". However, now I have a widow in the game and the Propose-Engagement interaction doesn't appear, either from her to her intended or vice versa (they have 100% and are in love, as well).

Any solution?

Lana, the thread about TwoJeff's adult/elder age hack has the most complete information on these values that I've been able to find, both by TJ himself and by others -- including specific discussion of Inge's hack, in fact. It's longish but worth reading.

(From memory, elders have 2 lines but there are then 4 or 5 lines further down that determine the aspiration bonus; and the very last values are for PlantSim age categories. But as I said, it's worth reading the thread, which has all the details.)

Ugh, it seems I can't edit my posts.

Anyway, looked at RetardoLand now (I usually ignore it), oh dear. Sigh.

And I meant to edit my previous post to say:

"And now it looks like the reason the forum didn't help me is because my SimPE was misbehaving -- or possibly my computer is haunted, or sunspots interfere with my brainwaves. Or I'm just caffeine-deprived. Or whatever. So forget about that...  "

No squingicide needed at all

What's Squinge to do with this, poor thing?

That's what I had done, except nothing whatsoever appeared in plugin view, so I assumed there wasn't a plugin that could handle this and/or I was doing something wrong.

Then I tried it again, and had the same result.

Then I searched for instructions; then I posted; then I read your replies and tried again, and this time it worked. I swear I didn't do anything different from the previous times. I think SarahMK has Seekrit Remote Helpdesk Powers  

Thanks again everybody...

LOL Inge! The "not posting more than once" is simply because I don't have any of your hacks (apart from this one now)... The "uninformative" referred to that specific thread, I don't know about the rest of the forum... but I find forums hard to handle anyway, so I have a low tolerance. I didn't mean to diss 

After reading an old thread on this forum, I've decided to try Inge's age duration hack (found here http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Aging.htm). It needs to be modified in SimPE. In a discussion thread, Inge says that once it's open in SimPE it will show 2 columns: labels and values.

I've opened the file in SimPE and the only way I can see anything at all is in the Hex editor, and it's extremely confusing. The comment about "2 columns" seems to refer to something different from the hex editor.

I've done a search and while I found out that some people here use this hack, I haven't found specific instructions: could anybody tell me how I should go about modifying it?

Many thanks in advance.

Note: I didn't ask on Inge's forums because (a) I don't want to have to create Yet Another Login that I will probably never use again after this; (b) The thread in Inge's forum has been there for a long time but it is not very informative; (c) People here are very helpful and knowledgeable; (d) There is no "d"; (e) I like it here 

I have the latest (3rd) Seasons patch installed, and I've bred dogs not once but twice. Well, the puppies aren't born yet, but both times I got the chimes.

Note that I have installed Monique's hack for breeding animals who aren't friends, but I don't think it affects breeding success once the dogs retire to the privacy of the doghouse, only the initial "shall we?" interaction  (But you never know, I haven't actually looked at the code.)

The one that springs to my mind is Russian. Ulanov/Ulanova, and so on. Statistically, there must be other languages that do the same...

Mine works -- both the "defaults" section (like boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true, boolProp allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true, etc.) and the alias section (like alias snap "boolProp snapObjectsToGrid"). No idea what your problem could be, sorry, just giving my data point...