AnyGameStarter.
safe or unsafe to delete ID file/files?

If you delete the ID file of the full game, or regenerate your Sims 2 folder, you'll have to delete and reinstall one AGS iteration in order to use AGS - it requires the ID in order to keep from getting the game data mixed up, and it only assigns a full ID on installation.

I expect if you delete the ID number of an AnyGame, you'll have to uninstall/reinstall that iteration of AGS, for the same reason.

I tried sharing dorm rooms, by two playables and by playable+dormie. Contents of the room may dissapear if a dormie was the last to claim the room, but playable sim still could enter the room through his door. I didn't play this way for very long, but no disasters happend.

Hotel doors are different, though, and I don't know what would happen.

I tried something similar recently and have actually run into a problem. Most of my sims live in a shopping district and I had one family move over to the main hood. I gave that family the cyan keys and simply banned keyless sims on their lot, which worked fine. But when I went back to playing in the shopping district the sims with cyan keys kept visiting even though I banned cyan keys with the visitor controller. =/

Has anyone here ever successfully used the colour keys with the visitor controller?

@gummilutt
Thank you for your help. It sounds easy. I'll try asap.

I've never used the color keys, but this might be a good time to see how they work.



AGS is not an option for me. I use the rename method to run multiple games with different downloads folders. I am not sure what you mean by "not just empty, but not there." My current hood started as an totally empty hood, roads only. Is that the same thing?

When you say hood numbers, you mean the N001, N002, right? I am not sure what a unique instance number is, but I'll look that up. Sadly, I'm really a dummy when it comes to this stuff. I did add Jawusa's empty templates to my program files. I had hoped merging the two games would be as simple as copying and pasting an in-progress Veronaville or Bluewater neighborhood from one game to the Veronaville or Bluewater neighborhood in another.

One of these days, I'll back everything up and get brave enough to go in and bork up stuff until I actually learn something. :-)

You can't make a subhood out of a neighborhood that has subhoods attached - including stealth hoods. If I understand correctly how it works, empty templates replace the stealth hoods with ones that have no sims, but they are still attached to your neighborhood. AGS doesn't attach them at all. (Though there are problems with the way it deals with the FT hobby hoods. I've never needed to futz with them to date, so I'm not sure how all that shakes out. But in AGS you can just not install Freetime if your concept for Civilization doesn't require features that depend on it.)

Mootilda's tutorial on creating a subhood can be found here: http://modthesims.info/t/420196
The process for changing a neighborhood type is here: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=502306

Mootilda, of course, never got a chance to update these for the UC or Windows10, but she includes instructions for people who can't use AGS. If you follow her instructions a step at a time I'm sure you'll do all right. The screenshots were not hosted by Photobucket, so no parts are missing.

You can name your hood anything you like and can keep track of. I believe the string has to be four alphanumeric characters long, but the game doesn't care. By convention, University names start with U, Downtown with D, and shopping districts with B. All the internal files have to match the neighborhood number, too, so the earlier in the process of creation you do it, the better.

The instance number is one of those hidden programming numbers that computers use and humans never see unless they go poking around in the code, but you can access it through SimPE. The tutorials show you where to find it.

You can do this if you want to. Just be patient with yourself and plan ahead a bit. And if you screw up, well, so did I, and so did Jawusa, and so did everyone who's ever done this, including Mootilda when she was figuring it out, so remind yourself you're in good company and go at it again. Mootilda's gone, but the rest of us are still here and will help if we can.

No mention of local walkbys?
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...hp?topic=4670.0

That should keep them from meeting.

People from other subhoods can still come to community lots.

You could stick prisoner tokens into every Sim in the mainland community when playing the island, and vice-versa. Kind of a kludge, though.

How would you arrange the roof on this building? Attached are pictures with and without Build Mode grid.

Well seeing that it's modern styled probably a flat roof with an edging.

- Are first cousins flagged as family in game?

Mootilda, of course, never got a chance to update these for the UC or Windows10

Our community lost an enormous resource when we lost her (and she had one of the greatest names ever). She did so much for us. I bet we all use something she modded in our games every day.

I know this is O/T. I just thought I should say it.

I'd drag a roof with a gable on the short ends along the core rectangle, then a smaller gable from front to back to cover the bay. The rear is a lot trickier; frankly, since the single-square strip of balcony is no earthly use to anybody, I'd probably add that to the kitchen and access the balcony from a non-diagonal wall, getting rid of the hard part. If for some reason that angle is important to keep, I'd experiment first with an octagonal roof, and if that didn't work, take out the fence long enough to put up a wall and roof the balcony, too.

Yes, Essa - first cousins, aunts, and uncles all get family flags.

What determines the order that families appear on the SimBlender's teleport menu or the Simlogical cat teleporter? I thought it was the order they were created, but then some families randomly end up near the beginning or in some seemingly random order.

Hood Replacer copy everything from one 'Hood to another, except lots?
What's the point fixing their elevation if they aren't being copied over...am I missing something?

You need to copy the lot files over manually:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=468987

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh. K. Thanks.

The Freetime soccer goal. Can you play with it alone or do you need more than one sim? All my sim does is shift position then the ball disappears.

You need two sims for the FT soccer goal.

Is wondering why the disagrees.

Q: my adult sim has the fear of being uneducated. Is this normal?
I don't have a uni hood yet.

It is possible for a Sim to use the FT soccer goal by themselves. All they'll do is practice kicking the ball into the net.

Funny enough, whenever a Sim wishes to summon another to play soccer with them, it could be anyone anywhere including restrooms. I've had a few cases at the Freetime Recreation Center lot where my Sim was in the little girl's room and a guy Sim wanted her to play soccer. NOT while she's doing her own business, thank you very much. >.<

Do you suppose it would be possible for someone to build this? modthesims.info/download.php?t=600851
for sims 2?

Two questions:

1. Because piece of CC has a placeholder or controller, that does not necessarily mean it's unsafe to remove from my Downloads folder, correct? I would like to remove this mod because it doesn't seem to work in my game:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=487978

Maybe it's a mod conflict. Maybe it never was properly updated for AL/M&G. But whatever it is, I really don't need it. If I have to keep it in there, I'll just do that.

2. It seems that in my previous question about dorms, the person (Rosebine) answering my question might have been correct. I had written that my Sims don't get prompts to go to exams in my custom dorms. There is more of a situation than that. They don't get the prompt to go to a final exam (and if they don't go, the game will just stick them in some sort of exam zone until they finally do). they don't meet professors (every once in a while, I'll have a Sim get a little friendly with a prof to raise grades), and they don't get any of these prompts even on a Uni community lot.

I have four dorms with this situation. Is this fixable? I would think you can do one of two things:

1. Move them out, demolish the dorm, put the old lot one back in, make sure it's rezoned as a dorm this time before binning again, take the dorm version out of the bin, move everyone back in. Problem was, I thought I DID rezone the lots before moving them to the bin. Maybe I didn't. I'm en route to checking. It seems the key is to rezone them as a dorm BEFORE putting them in the bin, or have two different versions ... the community/residential lot one (which you can rezone to residential in a normal hood, I would guess, if it's a community lot) and the "definitely a dorm" one. Or ..

2. Is it possible to click/unclick/add/delete something in Sim PE? (Though with four dorms, and more than a hundred lots, that could take a whole lot of searching!)

Or am I just stuck until they graduate? I would like to use the dorms in question as normal dorms. I spent quite a bit of time building them!