Definitly don't place them on either side of a bed in a room full of tacky 70s looking crap, curtains, and flashing lights and turn them on at the start of your attempt to make a comedy 70s disco film love scene.

The result is funny, but not really what I was aiming for.

I am hoping less than 100.

I have spent a week cleaning, workarounding, hacking, and crying to get my hood working and down to 675 files now.

A friend of mine is buying it, I will post the numbers tomorrow afternoon if no one else has.

Couple things,

1- I hope you don't mind, I made a rough compilation thread on the main boards listing what you have said so far.

2- Thank you for posting and answering our questions. We understand how difficult some of these bugs are to fix with limited resources, the lack of communication has been what was driving everyone crazy. This will surely alleviate much of the tension and worry. Some of us are used to dealing with companies like Firaxis and BHG and expect to have to fight for even a nod.

3- For large neighboorhoods, if you are having problems reproducing some of the bugs, would it help if we made available corrupted neighboorhoods for you? The one I have been spending the last week trying to fix with workarounds, hacks, SimPe, and alcohol is under 400 meg. Zipped that is less than the size of uploading/downloading a quality porn vid. Many people have high speed connections and would be willing to put files up.

4- Is the team using the "critical fixes" from the two sites as a base for things that definitly need to be repaired? If so, with some optimization the game could be made stable much longer.

Ok I feel like an ass doing this but, here is a list we are interested in knowing about. A description of each one of these in detail can be found http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.62,root.1,item.43,item.41,item.23&threadID=5de981ed22feb6b93b736153a3880b01&directoryID=62&startRow=1

BUGS RELATED TO LAGE HOOD SIZES ARE WHAT MOST OF US ARE MOST CONCERNED ABOUT. If you can get us any concrete info on a fix for that, allowing us to play large complex hoods, most of the others we can live with.

EDITING OUT THE ONES YOU ALREADY MENTIONED (ok done witha  quick pass through. May have missed some though)

1 ) final exam bug
2 ) high times bug
3 + blank memories, blank job icons, wiggly script for text
4 ) no graduation moveout
5 ) no tombstone and inheritence (kind of mentioned)
6 ) too many chatters
7 . bodyshop D3DERR_INVALIDCALL chipset 82915g
11 ) npc engagements
12 ) greek phone and movein
14 ) reunion memory spam
15 )+. birth greyout
16 . teleport folder sticky
17 . death music
20 ) too many memories transfered
21 ) lostsims
22 ) babydrop
23 ) wrong uniform
24 ) heliocopter kills queue
25 ) lost marriages
27 ) cheerup crush
28 ) arbitrary age changes
29 + lot wont load / 8am
30 ) curtains memory
32 ) no skill com
33 ) smart milk drag
34 ) no stereo repair
35 ) enemy jump
36 ) hug queue wipeout
37 ). nofind door
38 ) Captain Hero pee
39 ) doorbell wakeup
41 ) stranger dance
42 ) strangers BD party
44 + ya townies
45 ) sticky viewcamera
46 ) phone mumble
47 ) uni portal bogart
48 ) aging reset
49 ) expresso forever!
50 ) 'i see dead people'
51 . no newcareer ltw
52 . lost sims 2
53 ) bathroom madness
54 ) homework shell game
55 ) death toys
56 ) nursery kickybag
57 . preggers ya male
58 ) noserve comlot
59 + baby no baby
60 ) uni acne
61 ) static thumbnail
62 ) static thumbnail 2
63 . mia 1
64 . SS who?
65 + badpatch
66 . missing neighborhoods
67 ) cellphone screamer
68 ) double dead
69 . ghost apiration
70 . heliocopter1
71 + wheres my reaper
72 . nodorm paper
73 . no subfolders simbits
74 ) i said GO! NOW!
75 ) weeders daze
76 ) night of the living npc (tagrunners bug)
77 ) bum aspiration
78 . reward crush
79 ) invis kickybag
80 ) toddler toilet
81 ) turn OFF the tv!
82 ) grave messge
83 . mia2 sandilous bug
84 . teacher madness
86 . random student ditch
87 . pregnant ya male 2
88 . highskill nocook
89 ) robme baby!
90 . hand visual
91 . cutscene error collision
92 . diagnol door block
93 . baby chat
94 ) cellphone mia
95 . terrain crash lot
96. job OR paper
97 . greyout madness
98 . was i somewhere?
99 . refrig problems
101 . fix my face!
102 ) homework mia
103 : uni students crazed
104 : uni pj class
105 ) doublebill
106 + no sheepskin
109 ) broken portal
112 . ching ching crash
113 ) hot sheepskin
114 . nofun preg
115 . disappearing tombstones
116 ) deathtoys
117 ) narcolepsy
118 ) im not yours?
119 ) midsteam stop
121 . homework mia
122 ) nobill
123 . zombie sim
124 . tabletop height
126 . fishtank adinfinitum
127 . earthquake!
130 . baby BD blues
131 . you dont listen to me!
132. play w/me
133. tantrum lose queue
134 +. collegetimer affliction (nichdaemus bug)