It would. And then the tourist families could actually be families.

Those all look like Tricou teens, I think.

I would never punish Nina by making her marry Don. I had her buy a nice house once she could afford it, and moved the Broke family in with her.

As for Cassandra, she's a creepy weirdo and I married her to Remington, but now I think he's much too good for her.

Once my knowledge Sims have maxed-out points, all they want to do is woohoo. Or swim. Saved from death and such are usually there in the corner, but they don't interfere in any way. Fortune Sims aren't tough either, just keep them interacting with family members and that's what they'll want to do. If you ignore their big wants they'll start wanting plants and trees all the time, which is also very easy to fulfill by deleting an old plant and replacing it. With BV, of course, they insist you buy them a vacation home, but that fits them so I don't mind.

Now pleasure Sims suck. They can be on a date, which they want, and decide they'd rather do any little piddly thing rather than interact with their date. They don't care about other people at all, and I've found them much worse than any other aspiration in their self-centeredness. Countless puny wants, no power wants, they're the only Sims I have problems getting on constant woohoo chains. (I haven't had a grilled cheese Sim yet.) I hate them very much.

That's an animation active Sims use all the time, it's in no way specific to Lilith and Angela. Mean Sims scowl, outgoing Sims do the finger-pointing thing, shy Sims wring their hands, serious Sims talk to themselves, and super nice Sims do this:

I thought dormies weren't exactly townies because they have code preventing them from dying and because they can be a real pain to marry into a family. But it's good to know that they pretty much are, because that means my extremely tenuous theory may not be completely out there. Maybe the game can use skins with only the flags and not the creator numbers changed if the Sims in question generate normally and not from the mailbox.

Well, dormies aren't townies, technically. Maybe the game counts them as NPCs. I don't know if there's a difference between spawning and generating normally, but I think that maybe the game can grab those custom skins for any Sim that's spawned normally, but not for those that are force-spawned. I'd have to know what makes the game decide to generate townies to test it. Will just showing up at a community lot do it?

That's one hell of a lot of sadorandomness, considering that I had more custom than default skins.

Question: did you let your townies generate naturally, or spawn them with the mailbox?

My Sims regularly independently fall in love with zero and 1-bolt others while ignoring 2-bolt alternatives. I like this, since it gives the appearance that they aren't all about as deep as floor wax.

I removed ACR because it made woohoo all my Sims wanted to do, ever, regardless of personality, aspiration, or other factors. I got tired of watching them like a hawk just to X-out the interactions.

I'd say unfortunately not to that one. Any mod requires testing testing and more testing, and that means opening and closing the game a lot.

Probably just SimPE, if it's possible.

I'd prefer an object; less messy that way.

I hope you are able to make a hack like this, it sounds interesting.

Woohoo can also induce love, if you can get them into bed together.

I think I've seen that once or twice right after the Sim has died but before money has been dispersed. It was a while ago though.

Thanks for the info. Now the new SimPE needs to come out so I can feel safe enough to do some recoloring.

There's a thread here that discusses the optimum configuration for the game: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,4293.0.html.

Minimum specs are just that: minimum. The program will run, but that's it. You need to look at the recommended specs for any PC game to tell what configuration will run the game smoothly. Even the recommended specs usually won't let you turn on all the bells and whistles.

Here's how I tested this: I created a new test neighborhood, generated new townies, and summoned all of them (about 30) to a lot. Changing only the flags and not the creator line did not make them use the skins with only the flags changed. NPCs used those skins; the cab lady, paperboy and cook did, at least. But not one townie showed up using one of the skins with only the flags changed. Townies did use skins that had both the flags changed and the creator set to zeros.

I tested this the other night in the game. You can make geneticized skins NPC available and still have them show up in CAS. However, they will not be used by townies. Townies will only use skins which have the Creator set to a bunch of zeros and which therefore won't show up in CAS.

I'm no computer expert, so I don't know how much more RAM would be beneficial to you, just that more would be better. Perhaps you should post your system specs and someone else who knows more about the subject could help.

Someone should take Chaz's sharpen and contrast tools away until he can learn to stop abusing them.

I used Omega drivers when I had an ATI card, and found them to be awesome. I haven't used them with Nvidia products, though.

Also, YES, upgrade your RAM! 256 MB, I'm surprised you can even run the game. It may not be directly related to the problem you're having, but upgrading will certainly help your game run far better.

I noticed it tonight too. I have five playable Sims in a dorm in midwinter, and their energy is plummeting like crazy. Their active points range from 6 to 10.

BV is faster for me than Seasons and has less lag. I have two Nvidia video cards and haven't had any video errors. However, for me, BV doesn't add all that much to the game. I do like the new objects, and vacations are okay, but the only change in my main hood has been that nearly all of my Sims constantly want to buy vacation houses. I won't let any of them learn the sea chanty etc. until I can find a hack that stompinates them to my satisfaction, because I know that's something that would drive me insane.

So I'd say it's stable enough, but doesn't add a whole lot, though the speed bonus and new objects have made it worthwhile for me.

Same here. My fortune Sim who keeps rolling this isn't getting a sauna anyway, her lot is huge and slow enough.

Well, now that I've seen that, I'm trying to think of reasons to download it. It's well done and different, might be fun.

There's also the obvious answer: to use up that 10-gallon tub of melted butter.

When I was a kid, I loved camping and hated going to the beach. There's so much to do when camping. However, it's mostly exploration and imagination, which unfortunately EAxis didn't encode in any meaningful way.

When you say "their understanding of such is grossly flawed", does that mean the catalogue descriptions of EAxis things are wrong as well? I know one must go through a somewhat complex process to get comfort to work correctly, for instance -- are there other motives that are similar?