Stupid/random questions... (v3)

[Prosthetics]

As far as I've been able to determine, it's completely random. No matter how seasoned my sims are at poker, there's still a 50/50 chance of them losing.

[anothereyjana]

Is it possible to send a sim back through for a second degree, without losing the first?

EX: I send Johnny Sim through college, and have him major in Biology. He complete college, gets his degree, and ages to adult (they usually do age to adult right after getting their degree, right? Or am I remembering wrong? Could they stay as a YA, and re-enroll?). Then, I age Johnny back down to a teen again so that he can re-enroll and get a second degree, in, say, Chemistry.

Will he still have his Biology degree? Or will it have been lost in the de-aging or re-enrollment? Also, it is only teens that can go through college, adults can't re-enroll, right (If I'm remembering correctly)? (Kinda limiting, completely closing off any oportunities for adult education like that..)

[hellofromholly]

if i want a family to have the season 'spring' to start with on a lot and i change the season chart in neighbourhood to spring,summer,autum,winter FROM ''winter'',spring,summer,autum..
will this effect other lots i'm already playing who i want to start with winter?
i guess what i'm saying is...does immediatly changing the season chart in neighbourhood change all your lots to that specific set up????
hope this makes sense... do we even really care...is life toooo short to be wasting time on questions like this... jeeze
:D...please answer my question o_0

[wickedblue]

anothereyjana: YAs turn to adults at graduation and it is not possible for adults to go to Uni. The degree they get isn't anything but a skill-set anyway so I'm not sure why it would matter what degree they get. I often have my sims choose a major that is not specified for their career lifetime want simply because I don't want them to have advanced their skills so far that they start out on level 7 of their career.

hellofromholly: When you change the season order, it changes it for the entire neighborhood. If you want each family to be in a different season than the one they are in, you'd have to go to neighborhood and change the season order before going to their lot.

[aaries16]

hellofromholly: You don't have to change the season order for every family you play. If you are not playing the game in rotation, your lots could be at different seasons depending how long you play. For instance if your order is (winter, spring, summer, fall) and you play one family for 2 days they'll be in winter, if you play another one for 7 days, they'll be in spring when you come back to them. If you want to start a family's house in one season that the season order doesn't start in, use the weather/season changing thingy - it's an aspiration reward you can get with aspiration points.

[anothereyjana]

Wicked Blue: Thanks. I honestly have yet to send a YA fully through college without hood/game explosion, so I wasn't entirely sure about the majors. I knew about the skillset thing, but I guess I thought that majors worked like getting a hobby plaque or a talent badge, where after you went through school you would get either a badge-like icon under skills, or a sheepskin to hang on the wall or something like that. Figures that Maxis would take the lazy way out on this. I just thought that it would be cool to make a super-educated/talented sim, who had gotten multiple degrees, or to simulate a double major or something. Ah well.

[lauratje86]

Wicked Blue: Thanks. I honestly have yet to send a YA fully through college without hood/game explosion, so I wasn't entirely sure about the majors. I knew about the skillset thing, but I guess I thought that majors worked like getting a hobby plaque or a talent badge, where after you went through school you would get either a badge-like icon under skills, or a sheepskin to hang on the wall or something like that. Figures that Maxis would take the lazy way out on this. I just thought that it would be cool to make a super-educated/talented sim, who had gotten multiple degrees, or to simulate a double major or something. Ah well.

Don't know how the "redoing uni" thing would work, but you do get a diploma to hang on the wall when you graduate. So I guess if you could manage to send a sim to uni several times (by aging them down to teen when they graduate) you could get a wall-full of diplomas! I think they all look the same, though....

[AlexandraSpears]

Have any of you experienced this:

I'm playing the DeBateaus. I had Armand get remarried.

He and his wife had two more daughters. Tara, at this point, was in private school, and her younger sister Melanie was in public school, as I hadn't gotten her into private school yet, since Melanie's mother had just given birth to Jacqueline.

There was a snow day. Tara cheered; Melanie didn't. The bus came. Melanie got on, but I couldn't click on the bus for Tara. Seems that the snow day was just for the private school and not the public.

I thought that was pretty weird. Or maybe not so weird; just never had that happen before!

[wickedblue]

Don't know how the "redoing uni" thing would work, but you do get a diploma to hang on the wall when you graduate. So I guess if you could manage to send a sim to uni several times (by aging them down to teen when they graduate) you could get a wall-full of diplomas! I think they all look the same, though....

I can't say for sure as I've never done it but I can see that ending up badly because of the memories thing. The sim would have memories of college, then of being a teen, then again of college and so on.

[dking38133]

I've been playing Sims 2 since the base game was first released. Today I ran into something new. A sim was outside in a storm and was struck by lightning-but she didn't die. Her skin in now blackened and "burned". How can I fix her? She was gorgeous before she was hit. Not-so-much now and she looks very sad. Any ideas?

[Prosthetics]

@dking38133 - send your sim to the shower, once she gets out she'll be normal again.

@AlexandraSpears - snow days for private and public school kids are usually different.

[dking38133]

Thanks for trying to help. The shower didn't help.

[AlexandraSpears]

Sims can get allergies?

I have a family who has a toddler, and when I had her selected, her picture appeared in the action queue, and "Allergies!" was underneath it. Huh.

[lauratje86]

I've been playing Sims 2 since the base game was first released. Today I ran into something new. A sim was outside in a storm and was struck by lightning-but she didn't die. Her skin in now blackened and "burned". How can I fix her? She was gorgeous before she was hit. Not-so-much now and she looks very sad. Any ideas?

I think that if she has a shower or a bath she will go back to normal... :-)

[aaries16]

After a sim is shocked like that a shower or bath usually helps. If for some reason it doesn't - take the sim to the mirror and change appearance. Go to the full face make-up click on one of the options and then remove it. The black ash on the face should go away for sure.

[AlexandraSpears]

After a sim is shocked like that a shower or bath usually helps. If for some reason it doesn't - take the sim to the mirror and change appearance. Go to the full face make-up click on one of the options and then remove it. The black ash on the face should go away for sure.

A bit off-topic, but there have been times where I've had this glitch where their face is just a black or a blue blob. A trip to the mirror has always cured it.

But yeah, bathing has always helped for me.

[wickedblue]

Sims can get allergies?

I have a family who has a toddler, and when I had her selected, her picture appeared in the action queue, and "Allergies!" was underneath it. Huh.

With Seasons, they get allergies in the springtime. Their sneezes are so cute. :lovestruc

[AlexandraSpears]

With Seasons, they get allergies in the springtime. Their sneezes are so cute. :lovestruc

I always thought I heard the occasional sneeze and was thinking, what was that...?

[dking38133]

Thanks so much for all your help. Adding and removing the full face makeup was a great idea. So often with this game that I love/hate, something that should work doesn't. If it wasn't for MTS2 and other players, I would have had to give up long ago. Thanks to everyone who answered and offered help.

[Katika]

Why is it that if my sim children can't get to one desk they give up and put homework on the ground when there are tons of other desks that they could use? Is there a fix to this?

[mangaroo]

By default, all children in the household are programmed to place their homework on the desk "nearest" the main entrance. ("Nearest" is in quotes because, like pathing, the game's logic for identifying what is nearest the main entrance is not real-world logic. Sometimes players can use this to their advantage.) If there is no desk on teh lot, they dump their homework indoors as close to the main entrance as possible. If that fails, it's homework hunt time.

Mog has a mod you can use to assign desks: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=312004

[wickedblue]

The "One Desk" thing still completely baffles me. Most of the time, when I build a lot, I just make sure there's a desk somewhere on the same floor as the entrance and my kids will pile their homework around it which is what they are supposed to do. I use Macrotastics at MATY and just select the kid and macro>do homework so they go to the spot where the homework is and do it without me having to hunt for it. Fabulous.

Except that after recently giving my legacy home a much needed makeover, it no longer works. There is a desk right there in the foyer just like it was before the demolition and rebuild but instead of putting their homework there, they now drop it by the mailbox. Without realizing this, on a cold winter day, I selected macro>do homework on all the kids like I always do and then ignored them until I suddenly noticed that every one of those kids were blue in their thumbnails. Poor babies were all sitting outside in several inches of snow doing their homework. It was a sight.

Random story is random. But if anyone can tell me how to make my kids recognize that the desk is there that would be wonderful. As it is, I have to remember to pick up the homework in buy mode and move it indoors before I have macrotastics take control. Kind of a nuisance. Are we not allowed to move the desk once it's been assigned? Because I'm sure in the renovation it got moved from its original location.

[Luckypup2122]

"The "One Desk" thing still completely baffles me. Most of the time, when I build a lot, I just make sure there's a desk somewhere on the same floor as the entrance and my kids will pile their homework around it which is what they are supposed to do. I use Macrotastics at MATY and just select the kid and macro>do homework so they go to the spot where the homework is and do it without me having to hunt for it. Fabulous."

I just recently downloaded that and had no clue about that option thank you very much.

Ever notice how the Kat and Kim families are only playable once? You reset the neighborhood and they don't show up in the occupied lot bin anymore What made EA think that was a good idea? Much rather play a family with a storyline already started then the Ramaswamis.

[Katika]

Sorry to ask so much but one more question should help me out: Is there a way to make my sims fall in love with other sims without me having to tell them to?

[Yukkuri Shiteite ne]

Sorry to ask so much but one more question should help me out: Is there a way to make my sims fall in love with other sims without me having to tell them to?You mean like go steady? Or crush?

[wickedblue]

Not that I can think of without mods. With default behaviors, as best as I can recall, you have to have some romantic interactions with another sim once their daily and lifetime scores are high enough and then they will fall in love. They will not initiate those actions autonomously. If you want to give up full control of your sim's romance then get a hack like ACR(Autonomous Casual Romance). Personally, I can't play without it. You can set your sim's gender preference and level of autonomy and then let them loose to romance whomever they desire, whether you approve or not.

[Amtram]

I usually try to clutter up the desks or use one-tile desks, because invariably, the kids and teens can put the homework down on a desk, but when I ask them to do it they complain that they can't reach it. Stupid sims. Point of information - be careful about what area rugs you put down, because often the homework becomes invisible on them when put on the floor.

[AlexandraSpears]

The times my children and teens put their homework on the right desk...they put it on the wrong side. I just go into Buy Mode and move it.

If their desks are upstairs, though, I prefer to leave it on the floor downstairs for when they are taught to study. I don't know how many time I tried to have them do this at the desk, only to have the parent/grandparent/whoever complain that something's in the way.

[cheshirekat]

I don't even bother with a desk any more. Now, I just make the brat drop their homework by the mailbox. Later, when one of the parents is ready, they will teach the kid to study on a spot in the yard out of the way of things. After they learn to study, I just always make them do their homework outside on the ground. Desks are for computers and grownup purchases. Kids get a desk when they go to college.

If the darn spawn weren't so darn slow about taking their homework to a desk, no matter how close it is to the mailbox/bus dropoff, it's just far too irritating waiting for them to go to the desk, assigned or not. I had to remove the assigned desks mod because I never use it any more for that reason. Great idea if the kid runs to put the homework away, but I have no time to watch them move as slow as molasses in the winter.

It also means my decorating isn't limited always trying to put a desk for the kid by the front door. Another thing, when a parent would prepare a meal, the desk couldn't be on the same wall as the refrigerator/stove in the kitchen. Too many times a parent would dilly dally all the way to the desk that was assigned to a kid to serve a meal on the desk, then complain that there wasn't a spot available. Well, of course not! You just walked by the dining room table with several empty seats and an entire table for eating just to serve a plate on a desk that is not for eating. Geez! But I finally figured out that they must plan their route while they were cooking the meal, and technically the desk was closer because it was in the room on the other side of where the stove was. But they often had to walk through the dining room, a hallway, and possibly one other room to get to that desk and I couldn't tell them otherwise because the action couldn't be cancelled.

Life is much better with fewer desks to worry about.

[Katika]

Not that I can think of without mods. With default behaviors, as best as I can recall, you have to have some romantic interactions with another sim once their daily and lifetime scores are high enough and then they will fall in love. They will not initiate those actions autonomously. If you want to give up full control of your sim's romance then get a hack like ACR(Automated Casual Romance). Personally, I can't play without it. You can set your sim's gender preference and level of autonomy and then let them loose to romance whomever they desire, whether you approve or not. Where can I find this ACR?

[mangaroo]

Where can I find this ACR?

We have a forum for that. When you're starting a post with those words, please visit Help > Where Can I Find, instead.

[johnsmith999]

Sorry, yet another question. I tried to contact EA Games for the solution, but was basically told that they were too busy to answer my question.

I used to run the Sims 2 (and all expansion packs, but no stuff packs) on my computer with Windows XP. After the computer got fried I got a new computer with Windows Vista and reinstalled the game. The game runs without crashing or any obvious issues, but I've just noticed now that the game isn't quite running right. I can't access the cheat menu by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C, and certain social interactions with NPCs aren't available even though you have a high enough relationship score for it (for example, the option for the NPC witch to turn me into a warlock would not appear despite being friends). I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game with no success, and the problem occurs even when only the base game has been installed. Has anyone else had issues like that?

[Prosthetics]

You need to head to the tech forum, this is a gameplay related thread.

[johnsmith999]

Sorry about that. Thanks.

[aaries16]

What are the requirements for meditation?
When my elders start living alone and have gotten to a boring stage, I will make them meditate with only a few breaks to call their children, to make sure the kids get the inheritance they deserve. But I have this one elderly guy who just does not have the option to meditate. He has 7 points of logic, which I thought was over the requirement needed to meditate, so why can't he meditate?

Also, just a curious question since I haven't run into it yet, but I will in the future...what happens to an urn or tombstone that gets left on an apartment sublot and there's no one left in the apartment? Will it still be in the apartment when the next tenant moves in or will it be gone like the other furniture in the apartment upon move-in? I have quite a few elders (single and couples) living in apartment lots and I just want to be sure that their urn/tombstone will be able to be transported to my community cemetary lot after their death.

[Prosthetics]

An urn left on an apartment lot, with the urn belonging to the last tenant, will be removed to a random community lot.

[wickedblue]

You can use this mod (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=316426) to select which community lot you'd like the tombstone to be moved.

[amora_selvagen]

Okay...Can someone remember me how I make all the decorations appear in my game?? I cant see the trees from far even puting my decoration setting on max!!!
Thanks

[Kailacat]

Is the heater from Apartment Life able to heat sims up in Seasons? Or is it really just a decoration.

[wickedblue]

Kailacat, it's been a while since I've used that interaction but yes they can warm their bottoms in front of the heater. I'm glad you brought it up since I always forget to put it in my lots.

[Katika]

Can sims wear hats to bed?

[AlexandraSpears]

Can sims wear hats to bed?

Probably, if you set hairstyle per outfit.

[aaries16]

Can sims wear hats to bed?

It'd have to be a CC hat, the hats in game won't show up under pajamas, undies, or swimwear.

[laughs_love_peace]

How do you get the police to come to your house and/or arrest your sims?

[mangaroo]

The police come to your home if you call them, if you have a burglar alarm (and the burglar sets it off), or to return delinquent teens caught sneaking out. The police do not arrest playable Sims; they will only arrest the NPC burglar.

[DrowningFishy]

Here's a stupid question: How do you throw a party? Yes, I am serious, I can't figure it out.

[lauratje86]

Use the phone, and select the "Throw A Party" option. This may then give you a choice of parties, depending on the time of year and whether any sims are 24 hours away from growing up or are engaged (and which EPs you have!). The basic option is "House Party", but there are also birthday parties, New Year's parties, sports parties, wedding parties and anniversary parties.

When you've selected the type of party, a screen comes up where you can select who you want to invite. Select the sims you want to come, then click OK or Select or whatever the button says, and your sim will invite them by phone. A while later they'll all turn up (unless they're out at work or don't like your sim), and then you have to make sure they have a good time so that the party is a success!:-D

[DrowningFishy]

Funny the phone never says throw a party. XD It just gives me an option to call for service, or call sim.

[mangaroo]

There are time restrictions on when you can throw a party, so the option doesn't appear between midnight and 8am. However, if your Sim never gets the Throw party... option on the phone, then you have a glitch in your game and should work through the Game Problem FAQ linked in the TS2 Help menu.

[laughs_love_peace]

Thanks for answering my first question! ^^

But here comes another..

The Real Esate office that came with OFB in the pre-made sub neighborhood (I forget its name), what do you do with it? I would like my sim to buy it, but I am not sure how it is a business, since townies don't come in and buy real estate. Help?

[mangaroo]

Running a real estate office:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=367919
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=332035
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=331969

[aaries16]

Can my sim hire their spouse (or any other sim that lives with them) as an employee at their business? I know I can invite them to tag along and give them something to do, but when other sims visit the business I noticed only the owner is there (kinda makes my restaurant a little unfunctional).

[mangaroo]

You need a hack to hire anyone who lives on the same lot as the owner. I believe Squinge created one, and it's available at InSim. If you can't locate it, please ask in WCIF. (For the record, I think the name of the hack emphasizes hiring family members. I'm just pointing out that the problem isn't the relationship, but the residence.)

[arathea]

Can my sim hire their spouse (or any other sim that lives with them) as an employee at their business? I know I can invite them to tag along and give them something to do, but when other sims visit the business I noticed only the owner is there (kinda makes my restaurant a little unfunctional).

Squinge made a mod for this, check his section at InSim. I'm not sure if it's compatible with all EPs though.

[Kneon_Knight]

I may have lost what sanity I have left, but I seem to recall running a nightclub as a family business without any mods or hacks. This was a couple of years ago, and I had not installed any expansions byond OFB.

[Mia138]

Thats a dangerous state to be in, Kneon, lol

[vhanster]

How do you change a Sim's turn-ons and offs? Because I created some CAS Sims before there were Chemistry and when I installed more EPs, the game generates random turn-ons and offs for them- which I don't like.

[AlexandraSpears]

How do you change a Sim's turn-ons and offs? Because I created some CAS Sims before there were Chemistry and when I installed more EPs, the game generates random turn-ons and offs for them- which I don't like.

There's an Aspiration rewards object, I can't remember what it's called, in the description it talks about "reprogramming" your Sim.

Making sure your Sim is at least in the gold aspiration, use it to change aspiration (don't have to do that), and turn-ons/turn-offs. (I think if your Sim is in the green or lower, they might get the Grilled Cheese aspiration. Yum.)

One time I had two Sims in love with each other, had the same base personality, except they had been encouraged in other traits (one was neat and serious, the other sloppy and playful), they had two bolts of chemistry. One was Knowledge and the other Pleasure. I changed the other Sim's aspiration to Knowledge, now they're three bolts. (I changed aspiration during university, though.)

[Squirrel]

Hi!
If my simmie does a painting, hangs it on the wall, then paints something else after i've installed a default painting replacement, will the picture on the wall be replaced?
Man, i hope that makes sense!

[Tenielle]

Okay...Can someone remember me how I make all the decorations appear in my game?? I cant see the trees from far even puting my decoration setting on max!!!
Thanks

boolprop dontmergenhflora false :)

[Kailacat]

TENIELLE, I LOVE YOU!!!
*adds to userstartup.cheat*

[AlexandraSpears]

Why is it that Jessica Peterson, who I had grow up badly, had 16 days remaining in life, while her ex-husband Armand, who grew up well (green aspiration), got granted only 13? I didn't think that was fair.

I used SimBlender to remedy THAT situation....

[Cyjon]

Why is it that Jessica Peterson, who I had grow up badly, had 16 days remaining in life, while her ex-husband Armand, who grew up well (green aspiration), got granted only 13?

The difference between red and green aspiration isn't much. When sims turn elder they get a random remaining life of 10-20 days (15-25 if plantsim) which is then adjusted by their current aspiration level: : -2 (red), 0 (low half of green), +3 (high half of green), +7 (gold), +10 (platinum). So a red sim could still get as much as 18 days while green sim might be as low as 10-13 days depending on where in the green range he is.

[Squirrel]

hi - i have a problem with a sim stuck on her business lot. I can't get her home, can't access her home, and sims can't visit her business. what should i do?

[vhanster]

How do I prevent Sims from getting the "See first snow" memory?

[mangaroo]

hi - i have a problem with a sim stuck on her business lot. I can't get her home, can't access her home, and sims can't visit her business. what should i do?

Post to the Help section. Please read the first post in this thread as well as the Discussion Guidelines. Good luck fixing your game!

How do I prevent Sims from getting the "See first snow" memory?

Uninstall Seasons. It's doubtful there's a hack to prevent the memory from generating, but you can always ask in WCIF. It's likely that Pescado's batbox includes weather memories among the "junk" memories it clears, but you'll also lose lots of other memories you might want to keep.

[Kailacat]

^It (Batbox) doesn't. I don't know why. I consider it junk.

[Garambola]

I've seen references in more than three stories/legacies. Do fatal car accidents exist in Sims2?

[wickedblue]

No they do not. That's just writers taking creative liberties. :)

[AlexandraSpears]

I have questions about when you age a Sim down to child.

(I use SimBlender, that way their grade is set to C+. Use boolprop and it's set to F, which brings the social worker to your door.)

When I do this, they still have a lifetime want, even though they have the Grow Up aspiration. And a couple of Sims I've aged down are still rolling wants for Throw Sports Party, and parents are still rolling wants for that child to be an overachiever (that's if they were originally a teen).

Is there anything I can do, like in SimPE, so they won't have the lifetime want, and so their wants are more age-appropriate?

[mangaroo]

Can elf ears ever reappear in a family line if the offspring of an elf + "human" Sim have normal ears? After two generations, I am losing hope. Logic says no, the child's face sculpt is a mishmash of its two parents' faces and there are no recessive genes for facial elements. Game code says...?

[Bellasaurus]

Is there a way to determine how much money a townie/downtownie has other than asking? The answers seem to have no bearing on actual funds. Sims that say 'Oh yeah, I've got loads of money ($$$) will move in with a pittance, and sims that have nothing ($) also move in with nowt. I want my sim to marry a particular downtownie, but I would like him to be rich so she can get the 'Married a Rich Sim' memory.

[AlexandraSpears]

Is there a way to determine how much money a townie/downtownie has other than asking? The answers seem to have no bearing on actual funds. Sims that say 'Oh yeah, I've got loads of money ($$$) will move in with a pittance, and sims that have nothing ($) also move in with nowt. I want my sim to marry a particular downtownie, but I would like him to be rich so she can get the 'Married a Rich Sim' memory.

If you have SimPE, you can see how much money that downtownie's household has, keeping in mind that when they marry your playable, they bring along 10% of that amount.

You can also use that program to change how much money they have.

[Bellasaurus]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

[Eran of Arcadia]

How do I actually use custom lots? I put them in my regular downloads folder but they didn't show up there.

[mangaroo]

Erin, please read the first post in this thread. Answers to all questions about installing cc can be found in the Game Help FAQs. From the top menu: Help> Sims 2 > Custom Content FAQs.

I will give you a hint: unlike hair, clothes and catalog objects, lots don't go in your Downloads folder. Please look to the FAQs for where they do go.

[AlexandraSpears]

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

No prob. :) Just Open Family and it'll give you the information you need.

[Netjera]

Hi, I have a couple of questions. (After twenty pages of reading questions, my eyes are bleeding, so I apologize if anyone else has asked these, I just couldn't get through the 215 pages of the thread.)

1) :wtf: Why do Sims act meanly toward other Sims they don't know at all, or hardly know? I have a very large family. Oldest brother is in another lot, and a married vampire with a vampire spouse. He keeps coming back to the family home, running inside the house from wa-ay across the lot, and shoving his younger sister who wasn't even born before he moved out. He doesn't know her at all, and he's just horrible to her.

Why is he doing that? He'll walk past the house if she isn't there, but if she's home from school (she's still a child), he'll run in (even though I have the doors set to "Only allow household") and shove her around, leaving her crying. I can't get him to stop picking on her, and I don't know why he's doing it, but now she hates him.

2) Is there any way to fix a Sim who's got a body-part stuck in mid-action? For example, his arm is raised like he's putting a book away, and it's stuck that way. He works in all other respects, except that one body part doesn't ever change position. Anyone else ever had this happen?

Thanks!

[Menaceman44]

Has she ever looked through a telescope during the day? He could be mad if she has been spying on him.
Not sure how advisable this advice is but to fix his arm you could turn TestingCheats on and force an error on him and then choose "reset". That might work.

[el_flel]

You should be able to type moveobjects on in the cheat bar, delete the sim, save the lot, exit and re-enter and they should be reset. You're unlikely to get a problem with this but I'd make a backup just in case.

[Netjera]

Has she ever looked through a telescope during the day? He could be mad if she has been spying on him.
Not sure how advisable this advice is but to fix his arm you could turn TestingCheats on and force an error on him and then choose "reset". That might work.

OMG, she's a science NERD! I had no idea they could be caught SPYING! >.< rofl As a matter of fact, I've seen this happen to people on the telescope and never put two-and-two together!

Is there any way to repair their relationship?

Thanks, I guess if it's not hurting him, I'll let him walk around looking like a doofus. I'd rather not muck about with possibly damaging the game.

[AlexandraSpears]

OMG, she's a science NERD! I had no idea they could be caught SPYING! >.< rofl As a matter of fact, I've seen this happen to people on the telescope and never put two-and-two together!

Is there any way to repair their relationship?

Thanks, I guess if it's not hurting him, I'll let him walk around looking like a doofus. I'd rather not muck about with possibly damaging the game.

Your Sim could call up the other Sim and talk.

[Bellasaurus]

2) Is there any way to fix a Sim who's got a body-part stuck in mid-action? For example, his arm is raised like he's putting a book away, and it's stuck that way. He works in all other respects, except that one body part doesn't ever change position. Anyone else ever had this happen?

Thanks!

This happens to me quite often, I just ignore it & it'll eventually go back to normal. I've never had it go on for more than one gaming session, so just try reloading the game & see if that helps.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've had Sims with their arm stuck in playing-chess mode, but it goes away, no biggie.

[Hwes]

I entered a lot and had one sim with a blue flashing face, it was still there when I quit without saving and loaded back up. Sims in CAS of same age and skintone were fine. It went away when I got her to "change appearance", but I was wondering if it's common or something to worry about.

[smorbie1]

I entered a lot and had one sim with a blue flashing face, it was still there when I quit without saving and loaded back up. Sims in CAS of same age and skintone were fine. It went away when I got her to "change appearance", but I was wondering if it's common or something to worry about.

I've had that happen once or twice. I've also had the face be blacked out. I changed appearance and that fixed it. I think it's just a glitch. Wouldn't worry about it.

[AlexandraSpears]

I've had that happen once or twice. I've also had the face be blacked out. I changed appearance and that fixed it. I think it's just a glitch. Wouldn't worry about it.

You mean where the face is a black or blue blob? Yeah, Change Appearance has always fixed that issue for me.

[Kailacat]

What happens when your sim calls in sick from work but isn't really sick? Can they get caught? What will happen if they do get caught?

[lauratje86]

I don't know if they can get caught, but I've had loads of sims call in sick when they were perfectly fine with no consequences. Maybe they can get caught if they do it too often, or just more than once, though? Or perhpas there's a small chance of them being caught each time?

[wickedblue]

They don't get caught for calling in sick. :) But, if you have vacation days available, it's best to not call in at all, just don't show up.

[Hwes]

They don't get caught for calling in sick. :) But, if you have vacation days available, it's best to not call in at all, just don't show up.
I'd do this if I had a few available, but I like to always have at least one day of vacation in case someone doesn't get to the carpool in time.

[mangaroo]

Sims can get caught for calling in sick if they are not sick. It happened to me so long ago that I don't remember the consequences. I thought my Sim was fired, but according to the Prima guide for Uni (<- just letting you know this is older info and Prima is not the most reliable source), they just take a job performance hit. Also, from the same guide, they are only susceptible to being caught if their job performance is below 50% and if they are not actually sick when they call.

[Kailacat]

Oh, so their job performance has to be above 50% or they'll get caught? Good to know, thanks!

[Julieryc]

I don't know if I'd trust a Prima guide - as Mangaroo has already pointed out, they're generally not all that reliable.

[Croutonian]

I noticed once when I had a sim who was actually sick, call in sick, that they still did so in the way they do if they're faking it (the lil sniggers away from the phone etc) I found that very annoying!

[wickedblue]

Sims can get caught for calling in sick if they are not sick. It happened to me so long ago that I don't remember the consequences. I thought my Sim was fired, but according to the Prima guide for Uni (<- just letting you know this is older info and Prima is not the most reliable source), they just take a job performance hit. Also, from the same guide, they are only susceptible to being caught if their job performance is below 50% and if they are not actually sick when they call.

Learn something new every day! :)

[lauratje86]

Does anybody know why there are hearts and flowers following my BACC founder's wife, Marisa? They follow her everywhere. It only just started, any idea why it's happening??

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v409/kathryn1986/snapshot_5992a6d1_59a833e5.jpg

I am confused......

[mangaroo]

Did she consume a love potion?

[lauratje86]

Nope, I don't think so. After she and her husband woohoo'd the flowers and hearts started following him, then they woohoo'd again (they are on their honeymoon after all!) and they went away completely....

I'm guessing it's CC related? Didn't half look weird! :-D

[AlexandraSpears]

Had she used cologne?

[smorbie1]

They can get fired for calling in sick. It happened to one of mine. He was pretty high up in his job track too. But the idiot called and held his hand over the phone laughing while he was pleading illness. The boss said something like, "I heard that. You're not sick. You thought you could fool me? Well, you're fired!" I don't remember exactly; it was a long time ago.

[Bellasaurus]

Love Potions & Beauty Cocktails will both cause hearts & flowers around your sims, I think maybe there's one more thing that'll cause it, but can't remember what.

[lauratje86]

Nope, no cologne, love potions or beauty potions. It happened to both her and her husband when they used one of the shower-baths for a shower in one of the Twikkii Island hotels. I assume it was CC related, or maybe just a weird glitch. It went away when they woohoo'd in bed or took a bath in the shower-bath. Bizarre!

[Kailacat]

Smorbie: My sim did the laughing-while-covering the phone thing too and didn't get caught :)

[smorbie1]

Mine laugh when they call in sick all the time, so I was shocked when this one got caught and fired. But his work performance was like about 1/3 or something, so he wasn't their star employee.

[vhanster]

Does anyone knows how to prevent a Sim from getting the "See first snow" memory?

[Kailacat]

The only way I can think of is to delete it with SimPE. All of my sims have it.

[funcioná!!!]

Why when twins are born the message says "There's TWO new babies in the family" instead of "There are TWO new babies in the family!"? Shouldn't it be fixed after 9 expansion packs?

[potatoehead]

Why when twins are born the message says "There's TWO new babies in the family" instead of "There are TWO new babies in the family!"? Shouldn't it be fixed after 9 expansion packs?

No. This is EA we're talking about here.

[lauratje86]

No. This is EA we're talking about here.

Yeah, EA do seem to quite often have issues with grammar. I always thought they used American grammar (I'm from the UK), but apparently they're just wrong a lot of the time.....

[Kailacat]

In America at least, "There's" can be either "There is" OR "There are." It's a bit awkward to say "There're," I've never heard anyone say it. It's not grammatically correct to use "There's", but EA isn't grammatically correct either.

My question now. Why do toddlers sometimes not cooperate with adult sims when learning to use the potty? Is it low mood (which makes no sense, since I'm trying to raise the mood, hello!)?

[lauratje86]

I always kind of figured that it was because their bladder motive (or something else?) was so low they couldn't concentrate on being potty trained..... Like if I was really really desperate to pee, I wouldn't want someone telling me how to do it either! Not sure if that's actually how it works, though.....

[wickedblue]

The only time I've had toddlers not cooperating is when they are tired. What do the other motives look like when they aren't cooperating for you?

[mangaroo]

Toddlers will not cooperate on the potty if they are too tired, too hungry, or if the toddler has bladder desperation queued. So, what both lauratje86 and wickedblue said. *echo*

What bugs me is that even though they don't cooperate or empty their bladders, the potty now needs to be emptied before it can be used again.

[wickedblue]

Yea, that really grinds my nerves too. That's usually when I make an exception to my no cheating policy and just replace it. If the toddler is in such a state, taking the time to empty an empty potty is not going to make the situation any better.

[aaries16]

Toddlers will not cooperate on the potty if they are too tired, too hungry, or if the toddler has bladder desperation queued. So, what both lauratje86 and wickedblue said. *echo*.

Just wanted to add that this also happens when they need to raise their fun bar also. I experienced this yesterday while playing. The toddler refused to potty, so his mom tickled him a bit and tossed him in the air and then he was happy to potty.

[Croutonian]

I've found them to refuse to use the potty if their aspiration level is in the red...

[cheshirekat]

There is a hack for the potty so that it automatically empties. I think it is either from insimenator.org. I don't have it in my game only because I have so few kids that I wanted to cut down on some of the hacks. I have a ton of them for all the annoyances that having kids brings.

[HRPuffNStuffAddict]

If I move my entire Sims 2 game to my external hard drive that has 1 terabyte of space and play from there, could that help with the slight game lag that I experience at start up and sporadically during the game? I know the RAM of space is different from RAM of memory but just how different?

[potatoehead]

You can try that, but I don't know whether it would work. TS2 requires files in the registry to function, and you can't copy those over. The game might be able to access them from an external HDD, but I wouldn't count on it.

[HystericalParoxysm]

HRPuffNStuffAddict - You'd have to uninstall the game from your regular hard drive and reinstall it to the external. That way would work (not copying) but it's not going to speed things up any. In fact, it might slow it down a little as it will be slower reading from an external drive than an internal.

[simneesee]

Okay here's a stupid/frantic question. I put all the families in my sim bin (the ramaswamis, ottomas, gieke, larson, basically all the pre-made ones) in Riverblossom Hills. However, the families are still showing up in other neighborhoods' sim bins. Is this normal? Can i delete/place them in other neighborhoods as well? Or will that bork my game? I had other families (made by me) in the sim bin, but those aren't showing up in other neighborhoods- only the pre-made families are battling time and space to land in every neighborhood *eyeroll*.

[smorbie1]

Why when twins are born the message says "There's TWO new babies in the family" instead of "There are TWO new babies in the family!"? Shouldn't it be fixed after 9 expansion packs?

That has bothered me from the very first time I saw it! Come on people! You're college graduates (probably). :deal:

[Kailacat]

Okay here's a stupid/frantic question. I put all the families in my sim bin (the ramaswamis, ottomas, gieke, larson, basically all the pre-made ones) in Riverblossom Hills. However, the families are still showing up in other neighborhoods' sim bins. Is this normal? Can i delete/place them in other neighborhoods as well? Or will that bork my game? I had other families (made by me) in the sim bin, but those aren't showing up in other neighborhoods- only the pre-made families are battling time and space to land in every neighborhood *eyeroll*.
Premade families show up in every neighborhood - for some reason EA is under the impression that you would want to play them. I wouldn't delete them - that would bork your game. Placing them into the neighborhood and killing them would work better if you want to get rid of them.

By the way, if your game isn't patched, the Ottomas family is messed up - Samantha's unborn twins will have a different father, which could be from another neighborhood, or could also be a dog. Get the Seasons patch to fix it, or get the InSim or SimBlender to abort her pregnancy.

[potatoehead]

Okay here's a stupid/frantic question. I put all the families in my sim bin (the ramaswamis, ottomas, gieke, larson, basically all the pre-made ones) in Riverblossom Hills. However, the families are still showing up in other neighborhoods' sim bins. Is this normal? Can i delete/place them in other neighborhoods as well? Or will that bork my game? I had other families (made by me) in the sim bin, but those aren't showing up in other neighborhoods- only the pre-made families are battling time and space to land in every neighborhood *eyeroll*.

Yes, you can, if you also don't care about the townies. The tutorial here http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,10798.0.html details how to make a custom neighborhood with no sims whatsoever. It requires you to edit files in the game's Program Files directory which means you could very well end up messing up your game up royally. Therefore, I wouldn't suggest it unless you really know what you're doing. I see no reason that simply deleting the premade families from the bin would bork your game up, though.

[AlexandraSpears]

Can you delete Sims from the Sim Bin if they've had no interaction with other Sims? Like, if your Sim in the Education career track hasn't yet brought home Samantha Ottomas with them.

[Kailacat]

^Once a sim is in the Sim Bin... they're a part of the neighborhood and they don't leave until they die. You could, but it would lead to corruption. However, not as fast as if your sim had already met them, of course.

[lauratje86]

I've read that it's vaguely okish, but still not too advisable, to delete families from the sim bin before you've played the neighbourhood at all. But if you play a family in the neighbourhood then the sim bin families can come up in sim's memories and gossip etc, and hence deleting them can corrupt your game, even if the household(s) you played haven't met the sim bin sims at all. Not sure how reliable that info is, though, as I can't even remember where/when I read it!

[katya_stevens]

Deleting characters still leaves some dangling information, most notably their wants and fears, which can lead to babies becoming toddlers and having LTWs and adult wants (because the deleted character's file has been re-used). I believe you can delete in-game if you use SimPE to clean up all their remaining data, or use Theo's Deleter (http://theos.chewbakkas.net/tools/sim-deleter-tool.html) plug-in for SimPE and delete them from within SimPE.

[potatoehead]

Pescado has instructions (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6205.0.html) for deleting a sim completely at MATY. You'll need SimPE and his batbox debugger.

[Prosthetics]

It has never been "okay" to delete a family from the sim bin, regardless of whether or not you have played the neighborhood. If you want your game to remain free of problems you'll go through the detailed post at MATY about deleting a sim. Since the original tutorial is a bit old by now, go to the end of the thread. If you're someone who needs pictures to do anything technical, you're out of luck, someone has only posted the steps you need to take.

[Kailacat]

What are off-world loiterers and how are they caused? Isn't it something to do with using a phone?

[dostha]

Why here and on moreawesomethanyou forums important people (mods, etc.) are telling not to use Insimenator? I know it's not updating, but there was no important changes in game either (not counting M&G). And from my testing I achieved messing the game only when I changed looks of NPCs or tinkering with them in other ways, which was predictable by common sense. (But I must had done this anyway on my : did you know that Grim Reaper has female body and nice [but not #1, heart] face? Doesn't resemble Nervous Subject at all.) So, are there other reasons not to use this?

[mangaroo]

Insimenator is no longer supported. I'm not even sure there's a place at the relocated insim forums to ask about its use. Since neither MTS nor MATY is going to provide support for using a mod abandoned by its creator, the people who operate those forums are going to steer players toward supported mods, like the Simblender.

[simneesee]

Premade families show up in every neighborhood - for some reason EA is under the impression that you would want to play them. I wouldn't delete them - that would bork your game. Placing them into the neighborhood and killing them would work better if you want to get rid of them.

By the way, if your game isn't patched, the Ottomas family is messed up - Samantha's unborn twins will have a different father, which could be from another neighborhood, or could also be a dog. Get the Seasons patch to fix it, or get the InSim or SimBlender to abort her pregnancy.

Ok so I got the Seasons patch and instead of going through the long process to delete sims, I moved them all into a lot and lit them on fire :D Thanks for all the responses!

[Kailacat]

When do seasons change? What time of day?

[aaries16]

When do seasons change? What time of day?

It always seems like it happens sometime in the middle of the night.

[Kailacat]

Really? I could have sworn I had to wait until 7am for one... which is why I'm asking.

[katya_stevens]

The seasons change around 4-5AM for my game.

[lazzybum]

My game does it at 2am o_o

Since Im starting to play Sims 2 again *squeels*, that means hours to come of looking through awesome CC!

Is there a site that updates CC from many sites? Similar to : http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/ for TS3, but for TS2 :O. I dont mind if its not active and doesnt update anymore.

[Psychosim]

Rosie at Sims Cave posts good and many updates: http://www.simscave.com/index.php?board=172.0

[smorbie1]

Here's something I've always wondered: why can vampires have babies but zombies can't?

[lazzybum]

Rosie at Sims Cave posts good and many updates: http://www.simscave.com/index.php?board=172.0

Gasps! That site is great. Im suprised how theres still so many updates for TS2 CC. Thanks so much :]]

[vhanster]

Speaking of seasons, how do you change a season?

[AlexandraSpears]

If you go into neighborhood view there should be a button (like where you click to add downtown, shopping district, etc.). Click on that, and you can determine what season goes in what quadrant. Most neighborhoods have Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring (in that order); Riverblossom Hills has Winter, Winter, Spring, Fall.

[Amairani]

I can't figure out what mod is affecting the rent of apartments, I went through all my hacks/mods and can't find which one is causing this:

http://i55.tinypic.com/552vqt.jpg

Anyone knows it?

[lauratje86]

Is it the Pescado (I think?) one that takes into account the price of furnishings when you rent an apartment, and makes you pay a deposit for them so that you can't just sell them whilst you live there and then move out with the extra money?

No idea what it's called though, I don't have it in game either so can't check for you. I know I've seen it somewhere though, most likely on MATY, on insimenator.org or on here.

[el_flel]

That's the apartment hack from MATY I do believe.

IIRC: It doesn't affect the amount of rent you pay, but you get charged for the furniture inside - the higher amount means you buy all the furniture, the lower amount means you buy just the appliances (kitchen and bathroom). I think the reason for this was that you could get free money by renting a place, selling all the furniture and then moving out because you wouldn't get charged for the stuff you sold.

[lauratje86]

el_flel: Despite not being able to remember where I saw this hack, that's what I remember the reasoning behind it being too :-) So it is from MATY.

[Amairani]

Thank you, lauratje86 and el_flel! It's MATY Apartment hack indeed, called apthack :) I guess I added it along with all mods in Director's Cut months ago right before uninstalling the game and I believe I didn't play apartments back then. Now I began playing again, by using the saved games, and was all clueless why the rent is so high. Thank you!

[el_flel]

You're welcome, Amairani :)

el_flel: Despite not being able to remember where I saw this hack, that's what I remember the reasoning behind it being too :-) So it is from MATY.I knew it was definitely from MATY because I have it and there was a WCIF not long ago asking for something that the hack did. But I couldn't remember if that was indeed the reason behind having the different prices - you posted whilst I was still typing mine so when I saw yours afterwards I thought we were right as we can't both have been wrong (well, we could, but it would be pretty weird if we'd both said the wrong thing!).

[lauratje86]

You're welcome, Amairani :)

I knew it was definitely from MATY because I have it and there was a WCIF not long ago asking for something that the hack did. But I couldn't remember if that was indeed the reason behind having the different prices - you posted whilst I was still typing mine so when I saw yours afterwards I thought we were right as we can't both have been wrong (well, we could, but it would be pretty weird if we'd both said the wrong thing!).

Yup, you're welcome :-) Glad we could help!

I assume we're not - would be funny if we'd both come up with identical wrong reasons wouldn't it! I think I saw it through that WCIF too, as I don't normally go on MATY much.

[vhanster]

If I install a downloaded Sim or pet, where would they appear in the game?

[lauratje86]

I think that downloaded sims appear in the "select a sim" bit in CAS, and downloaded pets appear in CAS as new breeds.

[anothereyjana]

Just a couple of "deleting" questions:

I know that it's safe to do whatever you want with the screenshots and thumbnails in the "Storytelling" sub-folder in the "Neighborhoods" folder, but what about the ones which say "webentry_...."? Are those safe to delete? I've been leaving them alone, but, if it's okay to get rid of them, I'd like to.

What exactly is/isn't safe to delete in-game? I know that you never delete things from body shop, or sims from the sim bin, but that you should delete hoods directly from the game first before doing anything to the files in your Sims game folder, but what about objects? I.e, would going into Buy Mode and deleting a CC sculpture with the game trash can be bad? I know that you should never do it if it's an EAxis item that was already in the game that somehow got a CC star, but what about an item that's just straight CC?

[Kailacat]

^You can't delete stuff from Bodyshop or Sim Bin?

...

God, my game is f'ed up. Time for a restart.

[mangaroo]

The only reason I can think of not to delete cc items from Bodyshop/CAS would be the strong likelihood that you are leaving behind an orphaned mesh in your Downloads folder. Deleting from within the game removes the recolor, not the mesh. The orphan doesn't do any harm, but it does take up space, add to load time, etc.

I've never deleted cc objects from within the game. There (in the case of objects with more than one texture), I would think the danger would be deleting the recolor that is actually the mesh. Isn't inconsistency wonderful?

[my4monkeys25]

I have 2 questions:

1) Is there any way to pick what table to sit at when dining out? Seems like they always sit you in the same place :( (other than at the bar, of course)

2) How much CC is too much? I have 1.04 GB right now and I really need more clothes... is this too much for the game?

[arathea]

1) Is there any way to pick what table to sit at when dining out? Seems like they always sit you in the same place :( (other than at the bar, of course)
From my experience, it's always the next free table from the podium (linear distance, walls don't matter).

[Garambola]

I have 2 questions:

2) How much CC is too much? I have 1.04 GB right now and I really need more clothes... is this too much for the game?

This thread http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=334968 has information on the CC amounts people have. Yours isn't really all that much. :)

[anothereyjana]

Thanks mangaroo, I guess you're right about not knowing exactly what you're deleting when you use the in-game method. I'm still kind of curious about the "webentry" files though, since I don't know what it is they do, and I've almost accidently moved or deleted them before, and I didn't want to screw something up.

[cheshirekat]

From my experience, it's always the next free table from the podium (linear distance, walls don't matter).

I tried to figure this one out when I was making my OFB shops. In my game, it is rarely the table closest to the podium. At that downtown crypto whatever place, they always made my sims sit at the outside tables, no matter what the weather was like.

In my business lots, I moved tables all around trying to find a pattern before giving up. Now I usually make my sims sit at the bar if they are made to sit somewhere stupid the first visit to the restaurant. Until I've had a chance to change the tables around.

And another reason I couldn't stand going to those downtown places to eat (especially the crypto) is they often had only one table being used, yet the hostess tells my sim they didn't have any tables available and my sim should have called ahead. What?! So, I'd make my sim play pinball or something to wait for a table opening. Hell, I was so mad keeping my sim playing pinball for two hours while only one table had a customer the entire time. I should have killed off that hostess. Maybe I will install downtown to my custom hood just so I can kill off all the sims in those downtown restaurants.

One time, I remember putting a locked fence around a table I wanted my owner to eat/take a break at. The table was not the closest to the podium, but I didn't want him to go all the way to the break room if the restaurant suddenly got slammed with customers. (Which usually happened every single time my owners tried to take a break when their business was opened. Or that reviewer would show up and say my sim was lazy.) Every guest was shown that table to eat at, although the fence was locked for household members only! Then the guests would stand there upset because they couldn't eat at that table.

I like making restaurants, sometimes owned, sometimes just regular comm lots. But it rarely goes like I planned on opening day. Or the first day I bring another playable to an owned lot after changing the seating. The seating is always different for my playable and I just try harder to make sure I like ALL the tables knowing that whatever one I don't want is where my sim will be seated. I usually want my sims sitting where I can still watch the other sims without moving my camera, because it isn't fun watching my sims sip water and eat. And if I don't watch my sim, another sim will come along and steal their food and nearly starve to death before I figure out why they are still drinking water.

[lazzybum]

If I want to sell fish that you catch in Seasons on OFB displays, do I have to have it in the bakery style displays (where theres a glass window)? Will the fish go bad if I just put it out on regular displays?

[anothereyjana]

@lazzybum--One way to get around that could be using Paladin's fish-packing station at Sims Wardrobe. You pack them in bulk and, since they're crated, I'm pretty sure that they don't go bad. As for the types of in-game shelves, however, I think that you're always supposed to put (non-deco) foods in the bakery displays anyhow. I know that you have to if you're selling drinks and such. I'm not sure if food goes bad in them or not, but I would assume that if the cakes and such don't start rotting, then the fish will probably be okay too.

[cheshirekat]

The deco chill displays are supposed to keep food forever. But there's a glitch in the game, so if your environment score goes bad, it is one of the deco chills.

You can only place one fish per shelf in the deco displays - and then the customers can only buy one at a time. Hardly worth the time and energy unless you don't want your sim to make money.

Get the fish packing station so you can sell a crate of five fish to your customers. Then the price is more like 100. But get your sim to fish a lot before you open the store so they have a good inventory. Especially if they aren't going to sell other stuff that is more expensive. Then sell, sell, sell!

Edited to add: I know it is nearly 24 hours since I replied but I had to edit to ask a question. Two questions. Maybe a bunch of questions.

Is it okay to change the names of the pre-made families? I'm talking about the playable ones, not the sims that could mess up the hood if they are messed with.

What other ways can increase the sun for plantsims besides making them hang out all day outside? Will the greenhouse lamps work? I've tried everything and the only think I hadn't tried was meditating. When I had my plantsim meditate during the night, her needs didn't decay as quickly. However, that is much much too boring for me because the game doesn't automatically speed up when all the other sims are asleep or at work. I think. I could be wrong.

Anyhow, I would like tips on taking care of my first plantsim family. I have them in the sim bin now while I'm building them their own house.

[Engram]

@cheshirecat: the greenhouse lamps will work to increase the sun motive. I usually put a couple in the house, in spots I know the plantsim might use at night, such as over the computer or a couch/chair the family most often uses for reading books or watching TV. Helps to have them in the greenhouse or outside (placed with moveobjects on) over the crops they're going to be tending, too.

[AlexandraSpears]

Also, Plantsims don't sleep (an annoyance here--along with Servos, but at least you can shut them down). That can be good when caring for toddlers...but unless you have them studying a self-help book, forget using the fast-forward "button" to speed up time....

[cheshirekat]

Thanks for the tips.

For some reason, I always forget about using moveobjects on and that was very helpful. But those lamps are major expense. So, I just bought them a few and will just have to move the lamps around when my sims move around. At least until I have some other plantsims move into the house. When I checked out some of the other plantsim townies I created, it looked like the game gave most of them jobs, so most are employed, even if they aren't at the top, it should be a help with the expenses. Maybe then I can build them a proper greenhouse as I just have all their plants outdoors along with some fruit trees for now.

I'm still debating whether or not I should add a regular sim to the household. Mainly so I don't keep getting angry that these greedy townies always visit with their hunger near red. My plantsims don't need to eat, but they spend too much time making meals for greedy sims. Hard not to notice when some of the townies will even take two plates at a meal of the fish my plantsims caught. I didn't think more than one plate of sparkly food was ever needed. At least, it never has been in any of my households since I got Seasons.

Too bad I can't give my plantsims some orange juice or something to boost their sun need.

I was tempted to make one of my plantsims use a bed, just to see what would happen but sleeping wasn't an option when I clicked on it. Too bad. I guess fishing, meditating and television are the only activities they can do for long periods of fast speed play, so I don't have to micromanage every second of their lives.

[leesester]

Plantsims are awesome for businesses. My most successful OFB owner ever was a plant sim - lived on the business lot 24/7. With a shower, an easel and a sunlamp and doing nothing but painting and selling the paintings that sim was loaded. And it was immortal as it did not age (being on the lot in the shopping district). And you can put them on fast forward while they are creating inventory....I mean art.

[cheshirekat]

One of my plantsims just left for work. They are in the criminal career. I decided to play them a little while before changing what the game gave them. Anyhow. She is a popularity sim and just finished making friends with a visitor. It was too late to invite another friend over to fulfill her ltw of 10 best friends. (She has only one best friend so far.) And when I looked to see what other wants or skills she had, I was surprised that she wanted to have a great novel. So, I had her get busy writing a novel under her sunlamp at the computer. Her first novel was Great. Easy points there. So maybe she will be my hood's first writer.

I have a little shack I made at the edge of town I created for a writer or an artist. Although I'm not sure that would be a good fit for her. And right now they can't afford to lose any members of the household. Maybe after two more plantsims have moved into the house.

I've been trying to imagine running a business with a plantsim. So far, I'm not seeing it. Maybe because I'm not really attached to any sims in my new hood yet. Still at the stage where I feel like I'm just poking at the experiments in progress. Although I am much more interested in seeing the next sim walkby. I can't believe how many of the custom townies I created and have completely forgotten while I was busy building houses and comm lots. Some of them I am a bit more anxious to play. But first I gotta try out the happiness spores and making a plantbaby. Do they plant a seed in the ground for a plantbaby? Does it get fertilized and watered? I looked through a ton of Seasons older threads (guess we don't get to search at MTS these days.) and the sparse wiki but found nothing useful about plantbabies.

[simsamu]

. Do they plant a seed in the ground for a plantbaby? Does it get fertilized and watered? I looked through a ton of Seasons older threads (guess we don't get to search at MTS these days.) and the sparse wiki but found nothing useful about plantbabies.
I just got my first plant sim a couple of weeks ago. When they spore plant baby no they dont get planted or be a seed (though that would be cute) I dont want to spoil it for you but it's not the same as a regular baby, they dont have the same needs so there is no need to save for normal baby stuff. If I could work out how to do a spoiler alert thingy I would put in all the info for you but I am not sure how much you wanna know.

[smorbie1]

What's the deal with spores of happiness? What's the point of that?

[arathea]

What's the deal with spores of happiness? What's the point of that?
Motive boost for sims nearby, very useful.

[smorbie1]

Motive boost for sims nearby, very useful.

Thank you very much! I have always wondered. :beer:

[cheshirekat]

I just got my first plant sim a couple of weeks ago. When they spore plant baby no they dont get planted or be a seed (though that would be cute) I dont want to spoil it for you but it's not the same as a regular baby, they dont have the same needs so there is no need to save for normal baby stuff. If I could work out how to do a spoiler alert thingy I would put in all the info for you but I am not sure how much you wanna know.

I wanna know EVERYthing. Hehehehe.

Not the same for a regular baby - hoping that doesn't mean they are babies longer than regular sims. Sure hope I can use simblender to age them up if I don't like them.

I do recall reading somewhere that they skip one or more of the age groups, but there were not a lot of details. I like having details before I embark on the journey of letting my sims have babies since I don't like babies/kids.

I should have played Rose Greenman in Riverblossom to learn more about plantsims. But I was too busy playing my own sims. And Marla Biggs and The O'Mackeys. Gabe O'Mackey wanted to be a plantsim but I kept trying and trying to make it happen for him. And I didn't have any garden/plant hacks at the time, so a fair number of tomato plants died. And I remember the gardener used to leave the greenhouse door open all the time in the winter and all the tomatoes would be frozen in that tiny greenhouse.

I have a fresh and clean RiverBlossom now if I want to play him later. But first I gotta have a good plan for all the plantsims I created for my hood.

[AlexandraSpears]

I always break up Jason and Rose because I hate PlantSims and I always get Gabe and Alexandra back together.

At least there's this, though: Plantsim toddlers are easier to take care of. If you want spoilers scroll down.


































They are born knowing all their toddler skills. They skip over Child and Teen stages and transition right to Adults.

[arathea]

Plant babies are "born" as toddlers and have the needs of a plant sim. Playing outside in the sun or under the greenhouse lamp, a bath or playing in a puddle and some hugs is all they need. IIRC, they inherit their parent's skill points. As AlexandraSpears said, they grow up directly to adult, perfect if you don't like to play kids. ;)

[Bellasaurus]

As AlexandraSpears said, they grow up directly to adult, perfect if you don't like to play kids. ;)

Although annoying if you like playing Uni!

[cheshirekat]

Yeah. I do like playing Uni and would love to have a plantsim in Uni. But if I can't play Uni, I will probably just play the first plantbaby to see how it goes. Then after that I'll age up the other plantbabies.

[Bellasaurus]

It is a VBT to move sims from one uni to another? I have all three attached to my hood (all three were there before any sim went to uni), but I'd like to move my sim from Fiesta Tech to Sim State. Is this ok? She already interacts with a couple of the sorority girls in Sim State, through calling the college directory, so I'm guessing it should be ok, but I'd like to make sure before doing it.

[lazzybum]

It is a VBT to move sims from one uni to another? I have all three attached to my hood (all three were there before any sim went to uni), but I'd like to move my sim from Fiesta Tech to Sim State. Is this ok? She already interacts with a couple of the sorority girls in Sim State, through calling the college directory, so I'm guessing it should be ok, but I'd like to make sure before doing it.

Not sure what VBT stands for. But for moving them to another university hood, I would think it would be problematic just like transfering families to different normal hoods. Mainly because your sims will still have all their memories from their present hood. You should read this: http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Moving_Sims

[mangaroo]

Sims can be moved between subhoods of the same main neighborhood without damage. In the neighborhood Pleasantview, you can move your Sim from Pleasantview to Pleasantview > Bluewater Village to Pleasantview > Sim State to Pleasantview > Academie Le Tour.

Sims should not be moved between main neighborhoods unless you follow the procedures in the link lazzybum provided. You should not move your Sim from Pleasantview to Veronaville.

There are, however, some concerns about redundant characters spawning when you attach more than one Uni to the same neighborhood. Nothing to do with moving the Sims. (Also, my megahood has all three Unis attached so I can't pretend it is the ultimate DOOOM.)

[lazzybum]

Didnt know that :]

This might be stupid but.. can I build a basement on a house thats already built? :/ Or am is my head thinking of TS3 too much.

[Psychosim]

Kind of. It's possible if the house is already built on a foundation where you can cut the hole in. But I guess you'd need to clear all objects and walls on the ground floor in that area, or else it won't let you delete the foundation there.

[Bellasaurus]

Not sure what VBT stands for.


Very Bad Thing :)

I knew it's not ok to move between hoods, and I knew it's ok between subhoods, but wasn't sure if uni was counted among the subhoods. Thanks lazzybum & mangaroo.

[aaries16]

Kind of. It's possible if the house is already built on a foundation where you can cut the hole in. But I guess you'd need to clear all objects and walls on the ground floor in that area, or else it won't let you delete the foundation there.

You don't have to clear the the objects and walls on the ground floor in that area. When you make the hole in the foundation for the proposed basement just go to the lowest level view and start cutting away at the foundation. When you go one floor up, the main floor will look weird because the spaces that didn't have objects now have no floor, but just fill it back in as needed. I'm sure there's a more detailed tutorial around here on how to add a basement to an existing house - it's actually quite simple.

[Garambola]

This is a bit embarrassing, but I need to check. Better safe than sorry.

I have a beautiful custom skin in my game, but now I found someone made a default replacement of it. Can I keep them both?

[DigitalSympathies]

Yes, you can. One will replace the Maxis, the other will show up in the * folder.

[AlexandraSpears]

Isn't this supposed to happen as they're sneaking out? Jason O'Mackey was up watching TV when his daughter Emily came in, after having snuck out with her cousin Jonathan:

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af292/alexandrasims2/busted.jpg

Um, too late, Jason...she's going to bed!

[smorbie1]

I wouldn't know. My teen sims are ALWAYS brought home by the police.

[sora02]

well hello there :D ... at first: I'm from Germany and my english is very bad o,o but i hope it's okay ^^"" so i have a stupid question, too. may I'M just stupid. but every time when i try to download something from this page, this horrible site appears http://chii.modthesims.info/getfile.php?file=899050 :o I've only been here today... so i hope someone can help me ^^""

[Sacred Nym]

I'm going to guess that's a problem on your network. The file works fine for me. :/

[lg135]

Isn't this supposed to happen as they're sneaking out?

I've had some sims get caught after sneaking out. And some not at all, even if their parents are blatantly waiting for them outside on the porch. :lol: Does it depend on the parent's personalities?

[lazzybum]

Aw, my sim parents never do ANYTHING if their teens sneak out (unless they are caught by police). One time the teen was sneakin back home from the edge of the lot.. and her mom was a few steps away raking leaves >_>

[dostha]

well hello there :D ... at first: I'm from Germany and my english is very bad o,o but i hope it's okay ^^"" so i have a stupid question, too. may I'M just stupid. but every time when i try to download something from this page, this horrible site appears http://chii.modthesims.info/getfile.php?file=899050 :o I've only been here today... so i hope someone can help me ^^""

Maybe it's that typical error when you try to download more than 2 files at once?



My teens were never catch sneaking out by parents. I even tried walking insolently before their noses, but they didn't reacted.

[AlexandraSpears]

He didn't even lecture her...that was the end of it. LOL Maybe he figured since she was with her cousin... *shrug*

[sora02]

^^"" thanks ^^ it was really just stupid. may i do a relogg net time, before i ask xDD uhm... so and i have a question again :D when i download cars for nightlife, i can't find them in the game. :o yes, i do all this stuff with winrar and winzip and so on. ( ea games...--> sims 2... --> downloads) all of my other donwloads e.g clothes hair ,eyes ... work o,o HELP ! :o

[mangaroo]

sora, we have FAQs in the Help section for installing custom content. Please read the guides in Help > Sims 2 > Custom Content, and if you can't get them to work, post in the Help forums: http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=32

This thread is for gameplay questions. Technical problems (including problems with cc) are handled in Help.

[sora02]

man oh man ... I'm a poor child -_-" next problem :---> i bought pets but everytime i try to install it, a fail-message appears. or more a big red cross. so only thing i can do is press the "OK" button -_-"" i have install sims 2 pets a time ago and it worked well. um... yes... i hope someone understand what my problem is. oh and i have a medion laptop with windows XP.

[sora02]

thanks ^^

[lazzybum]

I accidently deleted CC eyes that one of my sims had, so now he has some blue eyes that isnt CC nor maxis' default eyes. Would this cause problem for my sim or game? What happens if he has kids and some carry his eye genes ;o? (I wouldnt remember which eyes it was for me to find the file again)

[mangaroo]

When you delete cc eyes, the display defaults to the eyes on the skintone the Sim is using, so I assume that's a custom skintone, as well.

The DNA for the missing eyes can be passed down for generations. I find fiddling with DNA in SimPE too bothersome (which is why I'm keeping eyes and skintones I would rather be rid of, darnit), but the absolute best thing for you to do is to edit this Sim's DNA: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=186939

(Ignore the instruction to create a new Sim -- wasteful! -- and just find a Sim in the game whose eyes you want to use.)

[lazzybum]

lol! Thank you mangaroo. I actually made a booboo on my first try without backin up my game =_= my male sim I was fixing turned into a woman!! but luckily I used a face I downloaded so I was about to make an identical him and copy his appearance back xD Makes me learn my lesson on backing up my game when it is told

[funcioná!!!]

What happened with the "used" recolor of the base game teddy bear? When I had only the base game and University the recolor showed up, but now it's not there. I remember that it was bugged, everytime a sim used it, the bear turned back to the "new" color.

[anothereyjana]

I haven't managed to get a sim all the way through college without accidently doing something to cause a hood/game explosion, so I'm wondering--at what point does the "graduation" cinematic start? Do they go directly from the cinematic back to the hood they came from, or does it give you some time or something?

It's just that I'm developing a system within my hoods where, when a teen is sent to college, they go with a bunch of stuff in their inventory to decorate their dorm room with (since I plan on only giving the college-bound a bed, dresser, and desk within their room, like in real life), since that will help solve the problem of what to do with the things the playables keep dragging home from owned businesses, and would let some sim-families have "heirlooms" they could pass down through generations. I was wondering when I should have them "pack up" (put back in their inventory) all of their stuff so they don't have to leave it behind.

[tlynnjpeg]

They move as part of the cinematic (which, if you're throwing a graduation party, comes when the party timer gets to zero). So you'll want to pack them up before the cinematic starts. If you miss it, though, you can always pack it into the inventory of another sim still on the college lot (if there is one), invite the graduated sim over and give it all as a gift.

[anothereyjana]

Thanks, tlynnjpeg.

[cheshirekat]

In my game, they don't get forced out of the Uni campus as soon as they graduate. They are given 72 hours to vacate. During that time I usually have them harvest the last of their garden goodies. Maybe the difference is that I never throw them a party. So after they take the final exam, they are done. Then I just use the phone to have them move back to their hood before the 72 hours is up. At that point, it is too late to have them pack up any stuff because the outfits are chosen and then the cab arrives to take them.

[Bellasaurus]

Even if you throw a graduation party, there are a few sim minutes after the cinematic while the sim is waiting for the taxi that can be used to access the inventory & pack everything into it. The lot still sees the sim as active after they've gotten into the taxi too, so there is always time to steal all the cool dorm stuff!

[anothereyjana]

Wow, thanks everyone! I wasn't expecting that many replies! :P

EDIT: Nevermind, I found the culprit; it's either Pescado's Macrotastics, or the Useable Lightsaber mod from Sims Cave. Since Pescado's mods/hacks aren't known to conflict and are clearly labeled if they do, I'm guessing that it's the lightsaber. FYI, if you have the lightsaber mod, you may want to take it out before playing households with Plantsims, since it seems to bork/break the ability to release spores and spawn Plantbabies (at least, it did in my game--it seems like each person's game is different in what makes it upchuck. Gotta love the amount of testing and science this game requires just to play it. :/).

[SmallMizz]

Can an alien with white skin have a baby with green skin?

[lauratje86]

Can an alien with white skin have a baby with green skin?

An alien with white skin?? Is that a custom skin that you have in your game, then, or am I confused??

[SmallMizz]

An alien with white skin?? Is that a custom skin that you have in your game, then, or am I confused??Well actually one of my male sims got abducted and had an alien baby with white skin...I probably should have mentioned that =P

[lauratje86]

Hmmm... White as in the really pale Maxis skin or an actually white custom skin that the male sim who got abducted had? Or do you have extra (downloaded) pollination technicians with white custom skins, or a default replacement alien skin to make all aliens have white skin?

If it's the really pale Maxis skin then I have no idea, I don't think that that should happen - I believe that all half alien babies (from abductees) are supposed to be born with green skin like the pollination technician.

If the father (sim) had a custom skin it could be that it is coded so that it was equally dominant or more dominant than the green alien skin, in which case the half alien's babies could have either white or green skin, depending on who they have babies with and on chance.

If you have extra PT's with white skin, then no, the half alien wouldn't have the green skin gene to pass on.

If you have a white default replacement alien skin, then no. If the half alien had a baby with the white skin and you removed the white custom skin from your downloads folder, then the baby would, I think, have the green skin instead, but so would its parent and any other alien sims in your hood that did have white skin. I'm not 100% sure if I'm right on that, but I think I am.

So, ummm; don't know, sometimes yes, no and not without removing a default replacement, depending on the circumstances.... :-D Or if it's some kind of random glitch, then who knows!? I hope that helps somewhat, at least! :-)

[SmallMizz]

I just looked at my alien sims family tree and it says its other parent is the social bunny?? Confusing ;S

[vhanster]

Does anyone knows how to delete a Sim's outfit? (one of my Sims grew up and the clothes he changed into were fugly- so how do I delete that?)

And I download a few buy mode CC (poseboxes, to be exact) which doesn't appear in the buy mode of Community Lots. How do I make them appear?

[simsamu]

Does anyone knows how to delete a Sim's outfit? (one of my Sims grew up and the clothes he changed into were fugly- so how do I delete that?)

And I download a few buy mode CC (poseboxes, to be exact) which doesn't appear in the buy mode of Community Lots. How do I make them appear?
For the first if it is maxi's content no way to delete it although I believe there are some hacks or mods knocking about that let you hide it. Best thing to is just buy some new clothes and have the sim go to wardrobe or dresser and selct option plan outfit and change from there. If it is cc clothing you can delete in the CAS or bodyshop or use clean installer.
Sorry I have never used poseboxes so I have no idea why not re-read the thread you downloaded from to see if there are instructions or failing that contact the maker.

[AlexandraSpears]

Is there a way to rename jobs in any given career track? Like instead of "rock god," can you change it to "pop star"? For example.

[mangaroo]

Yes, you would need to create a mod that overwrites the text strings of the Maxis' careers with your preferred text. It would probably be significantly easier than creating a whole new career. I would check out the tutorials available in the Create section.

[anothereyjana]

I noticed something browsing through the Storytelling folder, both the general game one, and the ones for individual neighborhoods. Both the general Storytelling folder and the Storytelling folder for my Uberhood (but not my custom hood) have these XML files named "webentry_04086" (or similar number configuration). Since they pop up in the general Storytelling folder, I'm guessing they're there because of Maxis, but what exactly are these files and what (if anything) do they do? Are they leftovers from the EADM and it's "phone home" feature, or is it something else? Is it safe to delete them?

[MsScribble]

Hi. I have Bluewater as my pleasantview shopping district. I'd like to add another shopping district using a different terrain, move the bluewater charactors and the houses over to that, and eventually delete bluewater. Is this okay to do, or a no no? If its okay, should i move the sims out of their houses before moving?
I hope its okay to put this question here.
Cheers!

[cheshirekat]

Hi. I have Bluewater as my pleasantview shopping district. I'd like to add another shopping district using a different terrain, move the bluewater charactors and the houses over to that, and eventually delete bluewater. Is this okay to do, or a no no? If its okay, should i move the sims out of their houses before moving?
I hope its okay to put this question here.
Cheers!

I've deleted Bluewater Village several times when I've started a new hood because I just don't like it and don't think it is worth keeping in the game. I just put all the Bluewater sims in the sim bin or in houses in the main hood or a subhood before deleting Bluewater Village.

If you want to save their houses, just make sure there are no sims in the house when you move the house to a different subhood via the lots and houses bin.

You can either put all their stuff in inventory before you move the sim out, or use the moveoutobject stayer shrub (from simlogical I think.) before you move the sim out, if you want to avoid having to redecorate their old house.

[MsScribble]

Thanks cheshirekat! I wasn't sure if it was okay to move people between subhoods or not. And i hate Bluewater's layout! lol.

[Nalia]

It is not OK. You should check their memories and relations before moving them to a different 'hood. Even if they are EAxis families and you haven't played with them at all, they might already know people in their current 'hood which will create a few problems in your game. http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Moving_Sims

[vhanster]

Sorry I have never used poseboxes so I have no idea why not re-read the thread you downloaded from to see if there are instructions or failing that contact the maker.

the threads don't say anything about community lots.

by the way, is it possible to turn a community lot into a residental lot/vice-versa?

[Kailacat]

Use the cheat changelotzoning residential.

[Psychosim]

Yes, use the cheat "changelotzoning residential/community". Save and exit to make the change take place.
Residential lots need a mailbox and trashcan, which can be bought with this mod: http://daydream.etowns.net/S2hacked.htm. Community lots need only a phone (maybe not even that if your sims are allowed to walk to other lots?), and it doesn't do harm if they have the mailbox and trashcan. So the easiest way if you're building a new lot is to start out with a residential (because many objects don't appear in community catalog) and then change it into community later.

[smorbie1]

whenever I choose the change lot cheat, I end up with a place my sims can buy, but never show up on. I can't play them, but I can click on the lot and move them back out. I hate that because there are a lot of community lots (like custom churches and things) that I downloaded with the intention of making them residential. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

[AlexandraSpears]

I just created an apartment building I'd like to share. This may seem like a stupid question, but where would I submit it?

[arathea]

whenever I choose the change lot cheat, I end up with a place my sims can buy, but never show up on. I can't play them, but I can click on the lot and move them back out. I hate that because there are a lot of community lots (like custom churches and things) that I downloaded with the intention of making them residential. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
If you change a lot from community to residential, you need a buyable mailbox (http://daydream.etowns.net/) and a trashcan. Be careful because the buyable mailbox can conflict with mods changing the bills.

[smorbie1]

MMM-WAHHHH Giant smooches! Thank you very much

[AlexandraSpears]

As for my most recent question--never mind, I found the right section.

But why, oh why is it that when I hit Print Screen with the interface on, it turns out fine, but I hit Tab to get a picture without the interface, and I get my desktop?

[cheshirekat]

It is not OK. You should check their memories and relations before moving them to a different 'hood. Even if they are EAxis families and you haven't played with them at all, they might already know people in their current 'hood which will create a few problems in your game. http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Moving_Sims

You didn't read the posts carefully enough.

It is perfectly safe to move sims to a different subhood.

Moving them to a different MAIN hood is very bad, but this question was specifically about a business district subhood. Sims maintain all their relationships when moved to a different subhood if they are taken out of their house before moving.

Never ever move an occupied house into the houses and lots bin, even if just moving to a different subhood within the same main neighborhood.

I know because I do this all the time. And it is exactly the same thing as moving a sim from Uni back to their hood/subhood. Or vice versa. They maintain all their previous relationships.

Different subhoods is one way to make it much more tolerable to play some of the pre-made sims. I've never liked Bluewater Village or any of the lots/houses there. But I find some of those sims much more interesting to play than most of the main hood characters. Especially in Pleasantview where I really don't like playing the Pleasantview characters. But I just move the Bluewater Village sims out of their subhood to Pleasantview or to another subhood under the SAME MAIN neighborhood.

[lazzybum]

I have all expansions and my last stuff pack is M&G. I feel like grabbing the stuff packs I dont have. Would it be ok if I just installed the stuff packs after M&G? Rather than in order?

[mangaroo]

Absolutely. The order of installation of EPs and SPs makes no difference.

[Nalia]

You didn't read the posts carefully enough.

It is perfectly safe to move sims to a different subhood.

No, I didn't, I thought it was about moving Sims between different neighbourhoods, not subhoods. Mea culpa.

[zauberlinda12]

Even though my sims have enough friends required for a job promotion... my game, in some families, does not count them all.
It's frustrating because I work so hard to increase their friends number but it does no good. What's up with that? At first I thought it was because most of their friends are family members but that wasn't it.

[aaries16]

I don't think the game counts family members as friends for promotions - so you will have to get non-family members as your friends. Also it doesn't count the same friend twice, so even though 2 people in your household are friends with the neighbor down the street it only counts as one friend for the list. Though it doesn't hurt for both to be friends since that can help the neighbor down the street get a promotion.

[anothereyjana]

Zauber--If you don't mind having/using hacks or mods in your game, you could also try twojeff's "no friends needed for careers" mod, if the whole "required number of friends" thing drives you nuts.
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=15.0

I use it myself, especially for new custom hoods which (thanks to clean templates) may not always have the required number of people needed in the hood (especially if I'm doing a challenge or something).

[zauberlinda12]

Thanks for the comments and hack tip aaries16 and anothereyjana. It's no wonder why this only happens in Veronaville since everyone seems to be related to everyone :rolleyes:

[Amairani]

Is it safe (or even possible) to have two Download folders, one being renamed to smth else so that the game doesn't recognize it and ignore, and other folder named Downloads which the game will use?
It's just that I have two themed neighbourhoods here and wish each of them to use separate CC to avoid long loading times and Buy/Build catalogs' overflow.

[mangaroo]

You shouldn't leave the alternate/renamed Downloads folder inside The Sims 2 folder, but it is perfectly safe to swap two Downloads folders in and out of your user files depending upon which game you want to play. Simply stash the one not in use on your desktop or inside the EA Games folder (next to, not inside, The Sims 2 folder).

[Amairani]

^^ Thank you, Mangaroo :) I was hoping it would be safe to leave the renamed folder there as it takes time to move more than 2GBs. I'm glad I asked before actually attempting to run a game with two Downloads folders. Thank you!

[mangaroo]

I used to maintain separate accounts on my computer to run games with different cc requirements, now I simply rename my user files and generate a new game on the same account. So inside my EA Games folder, I have folders labeled The Sims 2 (current game), The Sims 2_megahood, and The Sims 2_war.

Of course, a full set of user files does take up more disk space than just swapping out the Downloads folder, but it requires no time at all to change the folder names.

[Amairani]

I do the same, there are six games now inside my EA Games folder... Most games only have one 'hood in them, but one or two have two 'hoods and I was thinking if I can have them within one Sims2 folder and only rename the current Downloads folder I wish to use for chosen 'hood. Am I making sense? :D Anyways, thank you for clarifying it's no good to rename Downloads folders^^

[aaries16]

My friend is convinced that when a sim gets to a very very low aspiration level that the option to commit suicide comes up. I told him that I've never seen that option ever and I've played longer than him, but I don't make my sims drastically depressed much either. Plus adding the option for suicide would have to raise the game's rating wouldn't it? Who's right?
P.S. Is there a mod/hack that does that? Because I swear that's the only way he could've come to this conclusion.

[dostha]

No, it's not a game option. Knowledge Sims sometimes have "suicidal want", but it's not linked with bad mood. You can "commit suicide" via InSim, but it's not different than choosing death from Tombstone of L&D. I know Simwardrobe's guns have options to shoot the shooter, but I never tried this and I'm not sure it works.

[AlexandraSpears]

Knowledge Sims want what's basically a near-death experience...remember they want to know everything about everything.

If you don't mind doing this kind of thing, just lock them in a room with one of those fire-jets from Nightlife. Have a Popularity Sim bargain with the Grim Reaper, since defeating him is one of THEIR power Wants. Oh, and make sure their relationship is really high.

[lazzybum]

Is there a way to debug a frozen lake? My lake is frozen even though its spring/normal weather. Just wondering if theres an option in boolprop testingcheats or any other way to change it back to a normal lake.

[cheshirekat]

I hate it when my sims have a day off from work, the gardening is all done, and I want them to catch fish to make a bunch of group meals for their inventory. But the damn pond is frozen. Arggghhhh. I so hate that. And yesterday when I was playing, the pond stayed frozen for several days and I don't even have winter in my hood.

I just now realized that there is a weather thing in the aspiration rewards. I've never used it, but maybe that will get weather warm enough to thaw out the pond?