When you uninstall Pets, the game tries to be helpful and delete all your Downloads and 'hoods, even though you intend to reinstall Pets without the patch.  I classify this under Stupid But True.

All your neighborhoods are in My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods.  Custom lots (anything in the Lot Bin) are in My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/LotCatalog.

The Unknowns are stuff like the Grim Reaper and the RC car.

Cassie is much cuter now!

It's possible that the custom age flags didn't get copied over into the new outfit. 

You'd need to open the file with SimPE and check the age.

Lemme find my notes...

0x01 Toddler
0x02 Child
0x04 Teen
0x40 YA
0x08 Adult
0x10 Elder

So if you want an outfit to be available for YA, Adult, and Elder, you set the age to 0x58, the sum of the three hex numbers.

I'm not sure why it happened other than Murphy blessing you.

You know in the Neighborhood Browser where it says "Backup"?  Did you do that?  If so, you can get your 'hood back.  If not, sorry.

I suspect either option would produce an error, so you might be able to get an error log and figure it out.

Nope, he was still an NPC when she invited him on a date... I just checked his wants during the date, and there it was!

Get this.  HarderJobs is your own decision.  Skip the patch.

Ah ha!  I'll just have to kill Deloris by other means... she's nasty anyhow and has about 3 enemies, including Donna.  I kind of like Janice and Blanca so I won't burninate them!

The repair guy is a virgin.  Chelsea Cheeze, the tramp wife of Chester, the Grilled Cheese Sim, asked him out on a date, and he promptly spun up the want to WooHoo for the Very First Time.

I believe you just open the file in SimPE, select the CTS (Catalog Description, in case I screwed up the abbreviation), and type in what you want.

Once you give them the major they want, you can then give them economics or another major of your choice.

Option is not available.


I'm using the default controller.  In the 3 cases where the option did not come up, both Sims were adults and married, with relationships between 90 and 100. 

In the two cases where it did appear (and I used it): Major and Paula were engaged, but not married when he asked her to die of old age.  I think Donna and Marshall were engaged too.

One quibble about the RTFM in the first post... what's the no-type-check version supposed to do?

Ok, interm progress report. 

1) Sidney Scrapingby asked two Dormies to Grow Up (one plain graduate, one Cum Laude), Major CumLawde asked one to grow up Summa Cum Laude.  Their wants and memories seem to be normal (or like those in played graduates).

2) I decided to age up the 3 borked Grow Up victims to get rid of them with mixed success.  Donna was able to ask Marshall (Grown Up by Donna Dropout, but not moved in) to Grow Up then Say Goodbye Forever.  Major was able to ask Paula (Grown Up by Major as a YA and moved in) the same way.  Neither Dudley nor Donna was able to ask Deloris (Grown Up by Dudly Dropout, moved in) to Grow Up.  Sidney was not able to ask Janice (Grown Up apparently normal graduate) to Grow Up; Major was not able to ask Blanca (Grown Up apparently normal graduate) to Grow Up.

I haven't tried any other Adult->Adult requests, nor any YA->YA requests.

I think under certain circumstances, you'll get a gap where two irregular lots can't reconsile to being next to each other.  Would you want to look "behind the scenes" if your neighbor relandscaped their house?

Maybe you could export the terrain resources, place your lots, back up the hood, and replace the original terrain?  There's a tutorial around here somewhere...

Another trick is to take a 1x1 lot and repeated place it next to a giant hole in the road.  Eventually, the hole will fill in!

No, it seems to be how quick you can make them reroll their wants (by satisfying them, not the Lot Debugger).  Most of my born-in-game Sims end up as Math or Physics majors because they're Knowledge Sims.  Grown up Townie teens usually want Poli Sci, Literature, or Drama.  Sometimes it seems aspiration based, sometimes it's skill based.  I use Community Lot Skilling, so they usually have a decent amount of Logic or Creativity.

Some Sims just never do (and end up Philosophy majors by default).  I think the trick is to roll the wants as many times as possible in the first Sim day or two.

Looks like it; just get the file from the EP of your choice.

BTW, I think the OP wants to clean out her downloads folder; she just doesn't want to listen to the stupid music while she does it!

When you're looking at the Sim Description, click the Uni tab and change the semester number to 1.

Could you have an outdated No Busking hack?  Those usually jump, not crash tho.

Is there a controller for the custom guitars?  Maybe that's missing or outdated.

If you have "inventories," you can stuff the food in there and the Sims will eat them one serving at a time via Macrotastics.  Especially handy if you have preggo ladies on the lot!

Every single file inside the N001 folder has to be renamed to N004.

I'd go in and delete the memories of Complete X Year, Graduate, Diploma (token), etc. after making a backup copy.

Here's SaraMK's directions on how to prevent the ugly premade Townies from showing up in every hood:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4306.msg205331