I guess this only fixes what it says it fixes, i. e. problems with the animations of the objects, missing parts of them and the function of the objects themselves?

I got the compilation for February 2012 as one package (including the magic items) and I got very bad crashing problems in Bridgeport, which stopped when I removed the file (there was a whole area in the town which I could not click or even get close to anymore). I deleted a few other objects (which I had for longer though) and of course the compilation includes more than the magic stuff, but I am convinced that one or more of the magic items caused the crashing.
I have the spellbook in one merged package and recently installed Hidden Springs (retail version/pack) but I still have those and my game works again.

Great! I spent the last two hours thinking about a tool to do that.

I am not sure if it will stop the respawning though. Generally, I never had a problem with newly generated townies, it very rarely happened, not even when I moved some townie teens to university. But now I see this massive increase in population and I need a way to control it. I started the game, loaded a residential house and began writing, I did not play at all. When I minimised the game I noticed that the folder with the character files was still open and there was a new character. I have mainly played Strangetown so far and it already has ca. 30 more new characters than Pleasantview, about 10 of them were created last night. I really do not want to go through the hassle of deleting all those sims, so I begin to worry about playing my game now. It does not seem to be a problem for everyone, but my apartment dwellers (I have two apartment buildings in Strangetown) are invading the hoods.

The sim would find him/herself in a realm where wants and fears don't matter anymore.

With Bob instead of Bigfoot?

Thanks. Good NPCs make it a lot more fun to play. Sometimes I am tempted to send sims on a holiday, because I miss seeing Zeeshan dancing the hula. Many of them women who met him want to see him again too.
I did the same with the hobby sims and now I want all my playables to become hobby club members so they can meet them.

I never associate real places with my sims. They live in their own universe, so they have places which are probably similar to some place on earth but it doesn't mean it's the same. I based the sims I created on a general idea of "Asian", "Island people", "Mountain people". When I looked at the Three Lakes locals before I replaced them all I remember were sloppy and had stink as a turn-on. There seems to be the idea that they are a bit uncivilised, being so isolated up there.

I used mainly Enalya's skins for the Takemizu village, but to avoid that they all look too much the same, I also mixed in some of helaene's old skins.

That's some of them there:

http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=17947901&uid=2916537

Strange. I see a massive energy/hygiene decay when they are outside in bad weather/snow.

At least popularity, pleasure and romance sims get useful motive-decay bonuses. The benefits for family sims on the other hand are of so little value to me that I don't see why I should bother with benefit points for them. Before they get to the - interesting - energy motive benefit they have to reduce fun and social needs (which for several reasons I see as a disadvantage). Fun and social is NOT what a pregnant sim is lacking, why couldn't they get a hunger/energy benefit? Plead with social worker? - I've seen the social worker once soon after I started playing sims 2 and I didn't save then. More twins? - How original, not that there are a zillion ways to get twins already (and who wants twins all the time anyway?).

I think I will adopt my own benefit system and change them accordingly with SimEnhancer because I do see the difference, especially in winter when energy and hygiene drops incredibly fast. I am also beginning to wonder whether I should install the patch, didn't someone make it available here somewhere?

I would really like some dead-end careers, where it does not make much difference whether you reach the top level because you still aren't much better off than before, but my search for custom careers like that wasn't very successful so far. If you play with your sims for a very long time it is not always easy (or fun) to keep them from acquiring skills, so that they don't get promoted. I have two sims in the politics career and every creative activity is forbidden to them. 

I wonder about

- Teen and Child Sims will no longer receive the unachievable Bird Watch Want.

Basically this means that there is no birdwatching for teenagers. Why???

Oh, they give you plenty of chances to meet them, it's called "Do you mind if I bring a friend along?". And with Freetime the visitors on the hobby lots were almost exclusively NPC's, actually always the same numbers, 2 students, 1 professor, 2 townies/downtownies and 2 service sims/NPC-NPCs (kitchen workers, maitre d' etc.). 

Since I have to go back in time to a pre-FT state I decided to be very careful when I choose a secondary aspiration. I did not have any marriages/engagements when I had FT installed, but one of the last things (with the TwoJeffs fix in) I noticed was that a former 3-bolt couple was suddenly a low end 2-bolt couple after I gave the husband a secondary popularity aspiration (his wife is knowledge), although the secondary aspiration is not meant to affect the attraction system.

I thought this cheat only worked with the original game or am I getting this mixed up with Sims 1?

Nervous and Circe had a child in my game and she isn't exactly beautiful. She inherited Nervous' eyes, although if I remember correctly they are not dominant. But if you kept Loki in his original state (I changed his brows), the child would not have much of an alternative, the weirdest outcome I could imagine would be Loki's brows with Nervous' eyes.

I have to admit that I would have never let the above dormie breed with anyone. It is one of the ugliest face templates in the entire game and I think the son was lucky not to inherit the mouth of his father, his profile is bad enough. You don't have to follow any folly of your sims, especially since Daphne could have rolled a want to get engaged to somebody else only days later, shy knowledge sim or not.

See above. It works with the exercise machine that came with FT (the one you used), it does not work with the older exercise machines. Sims gain fitness enthusiasm from swimming, but not from yoga or tai-chi. I am not sure about working out with the stereo or tv. But it does not leave many options for fitness enthusiasm.

I was going to try out Bimbelina's buy/build mode enabler, which gives you access to the inventory. I was about to do that last night when my C: partition decided to go AWOL. Now I am merely distracting myself from the unpleasant thought that most of my data may be lost. I was also planning to burn my downloads on DVD's over easter...

Would this be true even if you only turn the shower the right way round (on the arts and craft hobby lot) or retrieve food from the inventory? And how would you save the lot differently from just leaving with your sims? I was thinking about taking objects to the lots in the inventory and removing them again before leaving it because I did not think that any build mode changes would be saved.

5 inches equals roughly 13 cm and that seems fairly average to me. One of my former colleagues used to ask men how many pennies (Pfennige) they could place on their penis and usually the answer was between 10 - 12 (with the exception of one guy who said 20). The assumption was that a penny is a centimetre long (while in fact it is 1 1/2 centimetres, so the question ended with her placing the amount of pennies on a table and the male in question going slightly pale). While under extreme weather conditions a penis can shrink in length and might come to resemble a premium bottle champagne cork it  - this is in answer to your question ScoobyDoo - does not seem to shrink much in girth. I base this on what I have seen in private and in various places where you can sunbathe in the nude.

As for extreme sizes: I went to an exhibition in connection with an anniversary of the gay movement and it had a life size model of male porn star Jeff Stryker in erect state. I would run and hide if I came across that in reality.

I read the thread, but it seems a lot of effort if you only want to stick in one object, change floors and wallpapers or turn a shower the right way round, especially since I am in the middle of replacing all the ugly hobby instructors. The worst is that apart from the instructors none of the other hobby sims turn up. There are not that many. Instead all the NPCs I never bothered with, waiters, professors and students come to these lots. I have about 850 sims in Pleasantview right now, there are 100 - 150 which belong to university, most of them still in their original ugliness. Plus the service sims. To change all of them I have to go into sims mass production.

So you keep saying, but unless you post pictures of them I don't believe it. At the moment the evidence is speaking against you.

Has anybody tried this? Maybe I will tonight. A lot of my sims are well off, so they could afford to donate a few objects to the hobby places. I was hoping the games lot would have a poker table but then I realised that it came with Nightlife.

But now to the stupid question: How would I have to do it?  I never used the cheat because I always changed the dormers by rezoning them before any sims moved in. Don't I have to save and leave the lot before the cheat works?

Yes, but if I decide to equip my male sims with a penis, would I want to give them one of those?

I love BFF's. There are massive lifetime point boosters, several of my sims are on constant platinum and even while there visiting others or sleeping I see these 5000+ symbols popping up over their head. It  makes their lifetime meter climb to a level which they should have had in the first time (and hopefully balances the motive decay when I play them longer).

Everytime I look at this I get stuck at the last picture. This is not a realistic size, it's the same as the guy's pointing finger, actually it is smaller and thinner.

They even do that without any anti autonomoy hacks. I noticed the same thing. I had only one sim trying to write his diary in the last few days, while several others suddenly became art critics.

Well, mostly I had a sex-crazed suicidal Servo, but that's a different story.