Pets patch released

[V]

Besides, I want visitor playables to be able to bring their pets. Just no bleedin' strays.

I think that Inge's sign checks for unattached pets. In theory this would mean that you could bring your pets with you to community lots and still not be plagued by strays.

I have not tested this theory, though. As I mentioned before, I have ignored strays on comm lots for the most part since I learned that the damage they do on there is only temporary. And it has never occurred to me to have my sims bring their pets with them on an outing. IRL I generally leave my pets at home when I go places.

[Jelenedra]

So what about the borked hair, Jordi? That is a bit of an issue.

[jrd]

Nah, it only affects NPCs when they are performing an NPC job.

[Jelenedra]

And the problems people have been reporting with their toddler hair being messed up?

[jrd]

I haven't had those problems myself. I haven't seen (m)any reliable reports of it either.

[Magicmoon]

I actually caused the toddler hair mixup myself once, when I binned all my custom hair. The Sims were wearing the correct hairstyle, but the wrong color. Best I could figure was because the GUID is the same for all colors of the same style. All the Sims that had their hair the wrong color would have the correct eyebrows. I just went to a mirror and changed the hair to match the eyebrows and thumbnail, which was still showing the correct color. Some toddlers would also transition with the wrong hair color.

Every since I put the correct colors on the Sims, I have had no further problems. New toddlers transition to the correct hair color just fine now.

Could something similiar have happened when they patched it?

POST PATCH: I haven't checked all my Sims yet, but I haven't seen the color problem...yet.

[ZiggyDoodle]

regarding that hair...  anyone else having huge problems with peggys right now?

Ness, I can get to the main site but the free area seems to have issues.

As to borked toddler hair, that doesn't bother me as much as the facial disfigurement.  Won't know if that is permanent until tonight, when I can play the kid to childhood. 

[Jelenedra]

What do you consider reliable then? Ziggy has one with screenshots. And I've counted more than 5 claims that the toddlers are getting mismatched hair and brows. One is on this page.

[Weaver]

I experienced a toddler growing up bald with mismatched eyesbrows from the babies genetics, not disfigured though.
Nonetheless, I went back to NL & OFB and plan to wait it out until Seasons becomes well-seasoned and stable.

[Li'l Brudder]

Which patch should I be getting?

The digital download, or the other one?

[Venusy]

If you installed Pets via CD or DVD, you want the CD patch. If you got it through EA Link then use the Digital Download patch.

[Li'l Brudder]

Thanks Venusy.  They could've explained it better.

[witch]

I think I used the other one, does it matter?

[Mike]

Does anyone have a no CD crack for version 1.6.0.273 of the game? Game Copy World is outdated.

[J. M. Pescado]

Nope. Either you'll have to wait until one comes out, or go with the DT/hider/image route.

[gethane]

You know, I took my cd crack out, installed the patch, and then on a lark gave the crack a try, and mine still worked.

However, one of the problems the patch was supposed to fix, a problem I'd not had (people moving in with a pet already being reset to some sort of CAS default) started happening then to me.

who knows? *sigh*

[blubug]

I once patched my game and put the wrong exe in (the no cd one) and the game played fine but it was as if the game hadn't been patched at all. And as for the toddler hair. My toddler aged up just fine. She was bald, but I just changed her appearance and got the right hair color when the bin loaded, and she had the right color eyebrows. No facial disfiguration at all. In fact, she looks almost exactly like her mom

[purplehaze]

I have no problems with toddler to child transitions.  It seems to affect baby to toddler transitions.  That is when the hair gets borked.

[gethane]

I once patched my game and put the wrong exe in (the no cd one) and the game played fine but it was as if the game hadn't been patched at all. And as for the toddler hair. My toddler aged up just fine. She was bald, but I just changed her appearance and got the right hair color when the bin loaded, and she had the right color eyebrows. No facial disfiguration at all. In fact, she looks almost exactly like her mom

hmm, wonder if that happened to me. Odd though since I'd never had the problem before. I'd been moving this particular sim and her cat in and out of houses for weeks because she is my house playtester and only last night, when I tested a new one and then moved her out, did she then end up with straight blond (default maxis) hair and a different face.

[jrd]

You know, I took my cd crack out, installed the patch, and then on a lark gave the crack a try, and mine still worked.

However, one of the problems the patch was supposed to fix, a problem I'd not had (people moving in with a pet already being reset to some sort of CAS default) started happening then to me.

who knows? *sigh*

By replacing the exe with the older (cracked) version, you're essentially rolling back part of the patch. You are now running an unholy hybrid.

[witch]

You are now running an unholy hybrid.

hehe, nothing new there then, at least not for MATYers

[vilia]

I have just become victim of the eyebrow/hair mess-up -  take a look at this poor tyke. Why doesn't EA think of the children when they release patches with problems?? 

[J. M. Pescado]

Eeew, gross. What's SimDNA say?

[Karen]

I just had a baby with black eyebrows transition to toddler with brown Maxis default hair.  His SimDNA is exactly what it should be (black custom hair for both recessive and dominant).  Both parents have black custom hair.  It's almost as though the game is assigning a random hair color when the baby transitions to toddler, totally disregarding whatever the SDNA says.

I have checked all the babies and toddlers in my hood in SimPE and they all have SDNA set up correctly.

[vilia]

Eeew, gross. What's SimDNA say?

Hair according to SimPe should be brown with a recessive gene of black.

I had called her Molly but I'm tempted to rename her Elvira lol.