Hacks you miss most?

[Gus Smedstad]

I'm running a completely hack-less install of Nightlife for the moment.  It's a bit better than I expected since Maxis did fix some of the existing bugs.  Still, I miss -

1. Phonehack.  I don't really care about most of the features, but I'd forgotten how much I hated being called just to say "why haven't you called?"  I'm back to avoiding answering the phone unless I need it to call out for some reason.  The answer to "Is David available to talk?" is always NO now.

2. No Influence Obsession.  A Sim is a lot less interesting when all he wants to do is make other Sims talk to each other.

3. No Gismo Wants.  It's even more annoying than before, because the Sims now Want to purchase phones when they already have them.  Yes, I've heard No Gismo Wants works, but it's not on Boris's list...

4. Marriage Traditional.  It's annoying to have to choose between fulfilling a Want and keeping names the way I want them.

5. No 20K Handout.  One of the few mods that actually makes the game more challenging.

There are a lot of others I liked, but the effects were more cosmetic, like the Car Pool Fix.

The one I'm not missing is No Buskers.  Not because I like buskers, but because I no longer keep instruments of any kind around because busking or not, they still act like flypaper for guests and sims I'm not watching.  They start playing and then don't stop until they go into needs crisis or I forcibly interrupt them.  I simply want them to stop if their Fun meter is full.  Yeah, I know, that interferes with training Creativity, but I've always got computers and easels for that.

 - Gus

[nothingbutsims]

I'm running a completely hack-less install of Nightlife for the moment.  It's a bit better than I expected since Maxis did fix some of the existing bugs.  Still, I miss -

1. Phonehack.  I don't really care about most of the features, but I'd forgotten how much I hated being called just to say "why haven't you called?"  I'm back to avoiding answering the phone unless I need it to call out for some reason.  The answer to "Is David available to talk?" is always NO now.

I have a few hacks installed, but I have to agree that I miss the phone hack the most of all!

[Brynne]

The Romance Mod! I have grown kids getting furious with their father for kissing someone other than their mother (even his current wife!), to whom the father was never married! I can't even let my romance sims go on a date, now. I tried one yesterday, and had to find a lot that had some privacy. Of course family members and old flames kept showing up and barging in, anyway.

[MistressBoleyn]

Oh, most definitely the phone hack.  My sims will not answer the damn thing again until a new hack comes out...

[nectere]

So far - bathroom uses you and of course the phone mod...and the college clock.  I am sure I will miss toddler/elder sleep through the night and the school bus dialogue when I get there.

Oh yea and no eat crap, which was a real problem with college since hardly anyone ever ate except my two sims and it seemed they were always getting the food right when it turned bad.

It seems all the modding sites are down except this one so I cant check on anything I got from 2Js or others over at "that" site.

[Brynne]

I noticed that, too. MTS2 is down for maintenance. Luckily I was there long enough to get the "no bladder failure spam" hack. My sims have...issues.

[nothingbutsims]

It seems all the modding sites are down except this one so I cant check on anything I got from 2Js or others over at "that" site.

I miss 2Js no friends needed for job hack.

[J. M. Pescado]

So far - bathroom uses you and of course the phone mod...and the college clock.  I am sure I will miss toddler/elder sleep through the night and the school bus dialogue when I get there.

Neither the college clock nor bathroom uses you makes use of any overrides. They're self-contained and therefore can't inherently "conflict", although there may be unknown issues. Therefore, they're not going to be reexamined until we actually have time to play the game. Go ahead and use them, they should work largely unmodified, barring any unusual corner cases.

[Gus Smedstad]

The Romance Mod! I have grown kids getting furious with their father for kissing someone other than their mother (even his current wife!), to whom the father was never married!

I haven't played enough to run into that, yet.  I liked the Romance Mod too, but mostly I what I liked was it prevented my Sims from getting crushes / falling in love with those damned flirting professors.  For the moment I've reverted to just never inviting professors over under any circumstances.

The Cow isn't much of a threat because everyone hates the Cow anyway, so his flirts always fail.

 - Gus

[gillies]

I'm missing all the hacks related to being able to kill the townies and not have any new ones replace them... Or at least I will be when I get a chance to play for more than a half hour. The macro socialiser is something else I used a lot.

[nectere]

Neither the college clock nor bathroom uses you makes use of any overrides. They're self-contained and therefore can't inherently "conflict", although there may be unknown issues. Therefore, they're not going to be reexamined until we actually have time to play the game. Go ahead and use them, they should work largely unmodified, barring any unusual corner cases.

Excellent, thanks for the heads up, saves me the time of checking them through this weekend. (yes I am being lazy...I have been trying to just break Nightlife in its current state)

[aussieone]

Oh, how I miss the nojealousy hack!!!! 

I'm so sick of my pleasure sim getting slapped silly by those he has 'wronged'.

C"MON you silly, jealous women...........he's a pleasure sim for crying out loud!!!!!!   

[sonofajoiner]

I keep forgetting that I no longer have that hack installed. Also would love to be able to use easy break up again. Don Lothario's getting restless.

[knitro]

The romance mod was the one I used the most. And boy do I miss it already, had some serious slapping going on by accident. oops