This is probably what I did, in messing around trying to fix the husband.

It's a house made by me, so this is actually my fault, not Maxis'.

I just moved a Uni student back home with her new husband, and now the house seems to be possessed. If anyone uses the computer, dishwasher, piano, or any sink just once, it breaks. I tried buying replacements of all these things, but they keep breaking. Any ideas what could be causing this, or how it could be fixed? I previously had to delete the husband, save, and return to him in front of the mailbox because no one could interact with him, I think he's cursed  .

I have exactly the same problem, but it's only on one lot. The only thing different about this lot is that I used the roof slope cheat. I didn't play the Sim at all before it happened, she was just plunked onto a yard with a phone, but she was seen visiting various Nightlife community lots. When I finally built her a house and played her for a day, the dishes were uncleanable, unclickable, invisible to macrotastics. I tried selecting visiting Sims with Merola's mirror and telling them to clean, but they couldn't see the dishes either.

Does that mod kill the wants too?

Nope, they want to pillow fight no matter who they date. Pillow fighting doesn't clog their wants slots, I don't have problems getting other wants like woohoo to spin (usually), I'm just sick and tired of even seeing the pillow fight want.

I'd really rather not resort to that, I'm fine with the Nightlife neighborhood that came with the game. Shocking after the joke that University buildings are. I just don't want to see the stupid want.

Oh, I do play to the wants I like, and can most often avoid the pillow fight want. But I hate even seeing it there. Some wants that others dislike, I don't mind much (like the tree/shrub/plant wants), but this one is a pet peeve of mine.

It would be fine if they only wanted it in bedrooms, but they want it in clubs and restaurants and probably rock quarries.

Lucky you, my only pleasure Sim at University so far has made me really hate the aspiration. Even my romance Sims want to do homework and write term papers, but all she ever wants to do is stay home from class, play computer games, and go on dates. Okay, so she's like I was when I was 19, but I don't really want to re-live that  .

Forget pleasure Sims, my fortune Sims want to pillow fight on dates! All my Sims do, regardless of aspiration and playfulness. It's quite annoying, and reminiscent of the instrument want spam that TwoJeffs so kindly burninated.

If Sims didn't want to have pillow fights in the first place, they would roll better wants replacing that stupid one. It's a totally ridiculous want: you go out to a nice restaurant or club, of course you always want to have a pillow fight, right?

I would also love a hack preventing Sims from wanting pillow fights, or just replacing that want with a simple "play with".

Same here. I use Helaene's 1111 set too; the eyes aren't really as baggy in-game as they look in some screenshots. I like the hair amount on the males, and I actually wish she'd put a bit of arm hair on the females. I don't know any woman who waxes her arms  .

I love Enayla's art, but I don't think "realism" has ever been something she's shot for. Her males are very feminine, and all Sims made with her skins look like they're wearing makeup and lots of baby oil. I'd use her skins for a fantasy kind of thing, but not for boring bourgeois Sims.

I could have sworn I didn't have that hack. How did that get in there? Oops .

I didn't notice this as being different, because I didn't know Nightlife made dormies invulnerable in the first place. They just seemed to be behaving the way they always had in University. Heh.

I've tried filling a dorm with lots of playables, but I get really bored with that many playable Sims in a dorm. Also, I do like the concept of dormies; it's the execution that's severely lacking.

Does anyone know of a hack that makes University dormies actually take care of their basic needs? I'm tired of dormies who pass out all over the place, pee in the street, and go into "fun" desperation when there are plenty of fun items on the lot for them to play with. Even some kind of hack making all their basic needs besides fun and social stay at 2/3 full at all times or something would be great.

Number three's eyes are so far apart, they're about to fall off his head. I've had experience with big-nose Sim genetics, and they can be overcome. And actually, as Sim male noses go, neither one nor two are that bad. #4 is definitely the winner though.

For dormies, I force semester parity with twojeffs' phonebook, and move them into a separate lot after graduating. Then my Sim calls them to move in. If you do have a Greek House, you can ask the guy to move in after he's a full member, and he'll become playable.

Numbers one and two could become acceptable with different hairstyles. Also, young adult male Sims often grow into their noses a bit as adults. I just went through something similar with a legacy Sim (story on my website), cringing whenever I looked at her college boyfriend, but now that they've been married forever and have two kids, I'm finding him quite adorable.

As for Bachelor #3... you could make an uglacy!

  Yeah, unfortunately, humans don't really seem to learn much from history past the end of the semester. Plenty aren't even capable of lasting out a semester. My last history course, a large portion of the class, mostly history majors, were absolutely shocked that they were actually expected to read the textbook.

Or if it's really cold in the water.

Hideous soccer outfit and a hideous flag. I could do better texturing than that, and I'm not above average in the texturing department. Yuck. Sims playing soccer would be cool, but that is just total crap.

MistyBlue, that's a great design. Where did you get all the plants?

I am curious about this "Sims don't like stairs" thing. I've never noticed that in any way, shape or form. In fact, if I don't want visitors going upstairs constantly, I have to make sure the environment score downstairs is better than that upstairs. Even then, they'll go upstairs very readily for anything they want, whether it's socializing, playing a game, going to the bathroom, playing with some toy, whatever. They don't seem to differentiate between house levels at all.

I don't care how she plays, but I very much disagree with the idea that it's the only way, which I thought was implied in her saying, "You can build thousands of house-layouts in the game, pretending to copy the real-life ones, on which you exclaim "Wow!" - but they are not comfortable to the sims. Period."

They are if you know how to tweak them, period. And I wouldn't be able to wrap my mind around a lot like hers -- doesn't mean her lot is "wrong", but it also doesn't mean that it's the one right way. Maybe I come off as grouchier about it than intended because I don't use smilies much.

It's the probing.

I cloned an espresso maker for my Sims that gives more energy, less fun, makes them need to pee more, and is non-autonomous. They get jitters from it after about half a cup. I think it's directly related to just how much "energy" is in the coffee.

There are thousands of real house layouts that don't work for Sims, quite true. But there are thousands that, with a little tweaking, work perfectly for them. I don't think the layout in your screenshot would work for my Sims for one second, and I wouldn't want to look at it.

Basing Sim houses on real house plans works nicely, though Sims often need larger hallways. I use the same method as MistyBlue, basing the size of the rooms on windows. Also, all my Sim houses have at least 1.5 baths, and I give them a second full bath as soon as I can afford it. Basically, one full bathroom per 2 Sims works well. Rounding up, so 3 Sims get 2.5 bathrooms. I give the half bathroom the most convenient location for guests and the best environment score, so they'll prefer to use that one.

Stairs are fine, especially if you place two staircases when you expect many Sims to go up and down them a lot, but Targa's elevator tile mod is awesome. I've never, ever had Sims who had any problem whatsoever using stairs. Basements, porches, second floors, third and fourth floors if you use Targa's mod -- they all work fine, though paging through floors to see what all your Sims are doing can get annoying if you have a whole lot of Sims on the lot.

I always put the master bedroom on the first floor, and don't bother with a nursery for toddlers and babies. The crib can go in the parents' bedroom, and the changing table can go either in their bedroom or in the parents' bathroom. No one should have to go up and down stairs to deal with babies, it really throws things out of whack -- I learned this the hard way the first time I played the game and had twins with the first pregnancy .

To get Sims to prefer the front door, always make it the first door you place when building a lot. Ditto with the front staircase and porch. J.M. has a hack that helps with this too, the FrontDoor hack.

Huge lots are a serious pain in the butt. They're slow, and Sims take forever to traverse them. The biggest lot I use when not playing some kind of challenge that demands a bigger one is the largest medium lot. Gali's setup would give me conniptions.