More Awesome Than You!

Does the BLEH! BLEH! mean that Pescado has gotten Nightlife?  :o

uhhhhhh...either that or he's got a hairball...

LMAO....Brynne, you owe me a new keyboard!  ;)

Possibly. Or it means he's been bitten.

*breaks out the juice & passes it around* ;D

Also, reggikko - you are More Observant Than Me!

Awwww.............Happy Birthday J.M.  ;)

OH!! I didn't notice that the newsbox had changed silly me.

And I suuure hope Pescado finally has NL. I've been waiting for the Romance Mod. I've getting sick of those stupid cows ruining relationships and hope the Romance Mod can help me out .I've never used it before but now with NL and the furious thing I kind of need it.

I know i had to murder 12 of those cows during tonights game play. Almost completely broke up my happy home. GRRRRRRRR. Anyone want a side of beef?

I just saw that too. Oh please let it mean that. That would seriously make my week so much sweeter if J.M. finally got the game.

That was my immediate thought when I saw the message.  Either that or he just felt like blehing.

Since I am only a member since the last month and a half, does JM normally put this kind of message in the news?  If not, I think also he finally got Nightlife.

I can't wait to see his future awesome hacks/mods.

I wonder if JM downloaded his Pescado sim? I can picture him playing with the firejets first. Flaming toilets anyone?

I saw that earlier and wondered the same thing, but I didn't have time to try to find out at the time!  I'm thinking it does because of the brand-new, shiny, Nuclear war edition Phonehack over in the Firing range.  I'm off to try it out!

Woot!!!

Celebration time  :D

You'd make a great spouse for any Finnish male if you can read guys' grunts and other incomprehensible sounds like that!

Welcome to our world JM ;D *does the smustle*

Well, since that's what vampires in Nightlife say, I think it was an educated guess. ;)

Ahh, ok. I always miss the point when sims speak is spelled in an English way  :P.

hrm... i know i'm late in replying to this. I started reading a few threads and then I passed out cause I was so tired. I just came back from a wedding this weekend, and then I had to study for a quiz I had on Monday, which I tried to during the weekend, but really didn't have any time for it. :P Anyhew, from there I had to teach Tues morning, and then run some errands in the afternoon. And then I just wanted to relax, so the hubby and I went to the movies (We saw Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang which was brilliant by the way, I totally recommend it!).

Anyhew, when we finally got back home, that's when I started to try and catch up on some of the threads I missed, and I was so tired I passed out. :P Anyhew, I also noticed the box, but did anyone else notice that Dr. Boris' official list is no longer up on the first/main page of threads?!?!

I hope that means we'll be seeing some updates soon!  ;D

Ste

*dances with glee and runs off to find the shiny new Phone Hack*

 ;D

I vote for JM having a hairball   ;D

Whee!  I can't wait for all the shiny new hacks!  And the Internet at home so I can download them all!

Ah, check the Downloads section!

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What do they say in Finnish? Enquiring minds want to know!

I'm always surprised by the noises that animals make in other languages. In English, cats go miaow. In Japanese, they say nyaa nyaa (and in Japanese the noise always repeats). In English, dogs go woof or bow wow. In French, they go hien hien, according to Richard, who may or may not be making this up.

It's weird that noises change according to what particular language you're listening in.

I wonder if a french dog and an american dog would understand each other...

Probably not but I'm sure the butt sniffing would be a universal language for them  ;D

So, it's Finish Husbands that speak in that language?  Hummmm.  My husband must be a throwback to his Viking ancestors then.  LOL Because he speaks that exact language, and I have learned how, in 13 years to read it.

Wait, I'm getting distracted again!  JMP has NL?!  There are new downloads??  Happy Mod Dance!  . :D

Actually I haven't paid that much attention to what the vampires are saying, but generally when you type the same-sounding word in English and Finnish, it turns out quite different. Not to mention the animal sounds you wrote about, even the same exact sound will be spelled differently, which confuses my American husband to no end. For example, we also have the word "tie" in Finnish, (meaning "road") but the pronounciation is different, more like "tee-eh". The "i" is pronounced more like the "e" in English overall.

For me, it causes confusion when people use spellings like "kewl" for "cool", because if I were to spell it phonetically, it would be "kuul" :lol:. And if you're going to spell out a word for me using the English pronounciation for the letters, you'll have to do it slowly, even if understanding whole words in English is no problem.

can I join in that happy mod dance :D

True. And yuck.  :D

Yep, let's smustle!  ;)

I always think of a young Dr. Doolittle in that movie where Eddie Murphy played a doctor who could talk to animals.  In the beginning of the movie, as a boy, he met some neighbors, and he sniffed their butts like a dog.  Were they freaked out!

Rainbow, come chat with me at Joe's Place. I'm bored waiting for bodyshop to load!
Sorry, back on topic, now...

Yes, mistress. :P

Yippeee! *does little dance of joy*

yep Jm's Homing pigeon finally arrived with his copy of Nightlife :D

So I can safely lay off chewing the table now?  :D

yep unless you've developed termite tastes ;D

I don't know, you may still need the fiber. ;)

"Mistress", huh? Kinky...

Well, you were being bossy, and I didn't think it was appropriate to call you "Master," so the feminine form is "Mistress."    You are female, right?  What were you thinking anyway??? :P

Don't make me crack my whip on you again!

keep this up and you can charge $4.99 a minute    ;D

Sheesh, someone is feeling rather frisky today.  ;)
LOL.  Say, I could sure use the money!

I'm late but I am excited! I've been playing The Movies. It's pretty cool but I'll have to make time for my sims again now. I've missed them anyway.

You should be excited! You, too, can watch me whip rainbow for $4.99 a minute!

Yep.  Except I won't be there.  I'm not into S&M.  :P

I won't be there, either. But it'll still cost $4.99. Quite a steal, no?

Definitely. :D

Whoa! I forget to check out MATY for a few days and when I check in again I find out Pescado has gotten Nightlife? O.O

It is a time for rejoicing! ...Right after I look in the Firing Range. And get the Phonehack. Can't forget the Phonehack. <runs off>

yep the eagle has landed  :)

Well, I wouldn't get too excited, just let, let the poor guy make up for lost time and play the game a bit first!  Besides, how else will he know what really needs to be put right?

I don't quite believe that he is only just now getting the game.  That's just the story that he's telling us. ;)

I dunno he has already started making shiny new mods for NL that fix things

Yup, one of the first things was a vampire fix.

which nobody actually understands the purpose of except him. All we know is that it's fixing some unspecificied bug.

I think its to fix NPC biting bug that the patch was supposed to fix and didnt

that was added later. It's fixing some other things too, something to do with the "bleh" interaction and peeking into coffins.

Now I want the vamps to start biting tasty young virgins...

None of my sims are being bitten, only when I make a sim be friendly with a vamp they eventually get bitten, but it doesn't seem to be happening autonomously. :(

The bitting thing won't start until one of your controllable Sim is bitten (which is possible when you are at a friendship level of 70/70 with a grand vampire if I am not mistaken) or if you influence a Grand vampire to bite a sim.  I think there is a greater chance of it happening if you invite the grand vampire over to your Sim house but I am not sure.

This is the way the game is design so people that don't want vampires in their game won't end-up with them.

I've had a sim bitten by a grand vamp. I made her bite two more of my controllable sims. Since then, the grand vamp hasn't bitten anyone. I understood the grand vamps would bite autonomously once the first controllable sim was bitten but this hasn't happened for me.

You could try and influence it to bite a townie maybe it will then spread a bit more  ???

No, if I hadn't just gotten the game, there'd have been a lot more fixes out earlier. There is nobody here who can't live without the hacks quite as badly as me. Mostly because if I hadn't made them, I'd have quit ages ago. In fact, I still haven't really started PLAYING that much. I'm still fixing things.

so you just refused to buy NL for 2 months in order to torment those of us that were waiting for NL updates?

I find it very hard to believe it actually took two months for the game to arrive. I think you just enjoy stringing us along  ;)

No, it really does take 6-8 weeks to arrive. And it gets pretty beat up along the way. My manual was partially eaten, for instance.

I was in chat when Pescado found the game in his shipment.  His description of the package was... interesting.  Apparently, it had been partially eaten.

German Shepards bark with an accent:  Bow Vow!  And most of my cats make a sound like, "Owl?"

I'm paying my $4.99 a minute, when does the show start? :D

Hook

Edit:  Darn! Pescado beat me to it! Hehe!

H.

Seeing as this thread relates to the newsbox...what exactly are Brynne type people?? LOL

But somehow both CDs managed to escape unscathed?

Well, well, I can finally change my avatar. ;D  I am so glad JM has the game and cannot wait for his Awesome "fixes".

One thing that I would love to fix is the Nanny.  I call her for a schedule, and she gets stuck! I spent one entire sim's day hitting reset over and over again, until the parent's arrived home from work. My only other solution was to delete said Nanny , but then the Social Worker would have taken the toddlers away, as the Parent's were stiill at work. Another problem with the Nanny is that as soon as she leaves, another shows up. She basically asks upon arriving, if she can stay now that she is off work. Hello? Who are you and why are you on my property uninvited!  I found that canceling the "Track Schedule" and going with the "Just For Now" alleviated the problem for now.

JM, you are my "Hero". Than you for being you sweet awesome self.

No, one CD was completely pulverized and warped. Fortunately, it was the redundant CD2, since my package seemed to have 2 sets of CD2. Plus CDs are plastic, and even the starving African children probably figured it wasn't edible.

Brynne-type people are exceptionally cool - and definitely girls.  ;)

Definitely.  I want to be just like Brynne when I grow up. :D  :P

Now I know you're trying to put us on. :P

thank you


and thank you. Even though I know you're kidding, Miss Rainbow... ;)

No need for thanks... It was more of a personal compliment ;)

'Cuz personally I think I've got a very good shot at being a Brynne-type when I grow up... IF I ever decide to grow up, that is. I'll definitely be a girl-type though. The boy-type Brynne's always spell it differently. No one ever seems able to pronounce either.

I'm going to bed now... I fear I'm only making sense to myself at this point.

My incredibly greedy Maine Coon cat says "Me-all!"

Oh, yeah...you are one of those Brynne-type people aren't ya?

OK! Though I think you're a bit cheap, love, and should definitely raise the price. The subscription will be covered in no time, and J.M. can get himself a few extra missiles.

I don't think anyone can fix those nannies. In some warped way, I'm not sure I'd want them to.  ;D

Anyway, Christianlov's nanny functions pretty well you could try his.

And corks for his pop gun!

I don't really care if they fix the nannies or not - I don't use them any more.  Nanny spam, though, is another ball-game, and for the sake of those people still suffering from it, fixing would be good.

in my entire custom hood I only have one nanny and thats because the first babies were born to the Mayor and his wife twins to go with the twins they already had.

I'm about ready to strangle the in-game nannies...I normally use the painting but this time I couldn't (challenge...not that I'm any good at them)

nanny arrives...walks all the way up the stairs...gets to the top...turns around...walks down the stairs...crosses the road...gets in her 'car' and drives off...and charges me 10 simoleans... :o

I usually don't use the nannie either, they scare me :D

However, I had a scenario where my vampire sim was asked (during a phone call)  if she wanted to go downtown, and I clicked 'go downtown'. The game then selected her significant other to go on that outing as well, and the dialog popped up to tell me that they needed a nanny, would I want one. Crossing my fingers, I clicked yes. Well, off they went.

Coming home my vampire sim was directed to the nanny to dismiss her and the stupid nanny thought it prudent to throw a water balloon at my vampire sim. The vampire 'bleh'd' the nanny and the animation was hilarious. The dumb nanny cringed and flinched, covered her hears, shuddered and shivered, in short, a wonderful come uppance. It was quite hilarious indeed.

I had one do that to me once. Except she walked in the house, up the stairs, grabbed the shit bag from the potty, went to throw it out in the toilet but couldn't (apparently that bug started with uni, the nannies used to be able to flush them prior to that and my playable sims still can) then walked downstairs to the trash, threw it out and left and yes she did charge me. ;)

and here I thought that was because of the toilet roll throwing them out of the bathroom  :D

Yes, even with the anti-prank hack installed, nannies still prank their employers!  I imagine it's because their motives are very low!

Good, I shall make it a point to hire the nanny just so my vampire can 'bleh' them. :D

And probably pee all over the floor as a result.

Is it contagious?

I certainly hope so ;D

Hi ZZ, nice to run into you. If you mean nanny-contagious, that would be very intersting to watch.

Well, I just have visions of the vampires peeing all over downtown!

How undiginified, don't forget, they are nobility. They don't do things like that :D

Nannies on the other hand... I don't know, but I really don't mind them getting into the most precarious and humiliating situations. I am so shocked at myself.

No, the vampires don't pee on the floor, the nannies do that.

Well, if the peeing on the floor were contagious.......

Ohh, ZZ. You might give some people some positively evil ideas here. I like it.

Well, I don't play the vampires, so I just wondered.......

Could you turn the nannies into vampires?  or zombies?

To be honest with you ZZ, I'm not so sure I want the NPC's bitten. Knowing ea/maxis, that would probably result in a disaster, or a BFBVS.

But to tell you a secret, I have a mod that makes the vampires immune to the sunlight dying thing. I forget where I found it, most likely one of Dizzy's thingies, he's famous for making usefull little things like that. I know it's cheating (sort of), but I got tired of my vampires dropping like flies before I was done with them.

I haven't played vamps much yet. I'm in the midst of buiding a vampire castle, big garage built into a hill, castle on top, internal access to the crypt and garage. I want a vampire dynasty. I have several sims waiting to go. I thought it would be a challenge to try playing when they couldn't go into the light. Do they drop too fast Veilchen? Maybe a hack to slow it down would be good.

Heh, I'm not veilchen, of course, but I thought I'd answer.  When they enter daylight, their motives drop like someone pulled the plug on them.  So unless you want to get to know the Grim Reaper really well through your Resurrect-o-nomitron, a hack would be good.  Either that, or you'll just have a vampire ghost roaming your lot at night.  Carrigon has a hack, but it basically stops the decay altogether.  She says she can't change it so it only drops a little though.

Yes, they do indeed drop as fast as Rainbow says they do. Come to think of it, I think it was Carrigon's hack. And true, they should drop at least some, but I kept running out of vampires. Even when I had them in a windowless house/garage etc., they almost always did something stupid and they died on me.

That sounds like a great castle witch, I was wondering when you would start building again, especially with NL out. I was watching the threads you participated in for news, or a link, or something *cough*. Anyway, Reg is trying to get something going with her New Orleans vampire quarter, although due to understandable slowdowns, it'll be a while. I can't wait for either one of you to really get going.

Cowplants will eat nannies.  It makes for satisfying viewing.

Well...

The vampire castle is nearly ready, just have to furnish the upper storeys and make a spooky garden. It does have Shaklins elevator though to the top two floors. 6 bedroom, 8 cryptroom.

Just made a hippie commune this morning - using the caravan site link someone here provided. Three caravans, one largeish room with beds, kitchen and table, outside loos, outside/exposed showers. Swimming hole and central bonfire.

I don't know whether to upload though, when I import it into the game with the sims2 installer it's OK but renames all the custom content to strings of hex crap. When I try installing it via the cleanpack installer it won't do it. Fresh lot and all. Don't know why it's doing that. :(

I wanted the commune for my contribution to the shared hood, but with caravans it would have custom content. The hippie sims will be mostly higher in playfulness and niceness, lower in neat and active personalities. I plan to let them mostly cope by themselves. No smoke alarms of course.  ;) Maybe one or two with low level jobs. Leave them running all night to see what has happened when I wake. I also want to see what happens when they start falling for each other, trying to work around almost no privacy. I'm thinking of installing LizzLoves' bed that makes sims do autonomous woohoo. Maybe with 2Jeffs' jealousy moderating hack.

Well, Veilchen, thanks for your kind query, it prompted me to take some pics for a sneak preview. I'd still like to try to do a Maxis version of each, if only to cut down file sizes, except for the elevator and the caravans of course.

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. (http://photobucket.com/albums/v730/nz_witch/Lucy%20in%20the%20Sky%20with%20Diamonds/) I just realised, I didn't take a picture of the swimming hole.

Castle Razmussin (http://photobucket.com/albums/v730/nz_witch/Castle%20Razmussin/)
Don't worry about all the roofs, they are mostly dormers added to make an interesting skyline. I've brightened some of the pictures quite a lot so they may look a little washed out.

Edit: I worked out how to get the custom content out easily. I used Delphy's multisimpack extractor to undo the packaged lot, deleted all custom content except the caravan stuff, put the lot segment in the teleport folder and voila! The lot loaded fine with maxis replacements for most things. I replaced a bit of wallpaper. 5Mb now, not 30Mb. So there's a link to the download in my signature.

Yes you can, and I have done it, of course.  ;D

When they get turned into vamps it does make them townies, but you can forcibly move them back into the npc household. ;)

Zombie nannies work just fine with no prompting, they're just slow as hell is all.

Witch, that commune is too 'groovy'. I grew up in the 70's (okay, late 60's, early 70's, but that's all I'll concede), more or less instant flashback ;D. I checked it out on the exchange, and I'll most definitely download it later. Right now I have the game running in another window, and I heard downloading while its running is not advisable. Anyway...gave you 5 stars to tide you over :D (I'm kidding, I gave you 5 stars because I like it very much)

The castle looks like a castle should look. Trust me, I know, I have one practically right in my backyard. They did have a lot of smaller, self-contained rooms, remember, no central heating back then.


Motoki, I so wish you had pictures of that one. Vampire/zombie nannies.. now if that's not all that's demonic, I don't know what is.
Put one of those in Witch's castle and you have an instant extremely creepy lot. Hollywood would turn green with envy.

A better way will be available shortly. The Sleep Clock is being updated to support vampires, meaning if you set the bed class to Coffin, and the user is a Vampire, the system will correctly recognize that a vampire's need to return to his coffin is not based on his energy level, but based on the time. Combine that with "Bed Time.../Max", and he'll definitely return to his grave before dawn.

Great!  I just posted something about this in the Vampire fix thread, along with the arising early and flamingo kicking problem during the day.

Can you make the sleep clock do this for all sims.  I hate seeing my sims (especially children) wandering around at 2:00am, after they decided to take a nap during the day, and I can't send them to sleep b/c they are not tired.

the problem is that they get out of bed at dawn to cringe at the light even if you put them to bed before then.

Any chance of nixing that annoyance?

Thanks for the appreciative comments Veilchen. I left school in '71 and instantly became a hippie, I drew from memory and experience when I made that commune. ;) Incidentally I've just created a Maxis content family to live on that lot. I will be uploading as soon as I've finished tutuing in simpe, they'll be on a small lot, the family name is Purple Haze. Their bios tell the story.

Now that is really good news! I love the sleepclock, yet another bit of micromanaging I don't have to do. The hippies won''t have sleep clocks though.

Edit, JM any chance of making non-vamps stay out of the coffins?

Motoki, *ingratiating grin*, don't suppose you would consider making a zombie nannie for the castle would you?

Oh THIS drove me batzooie almost immediately. Even Inge's reservable bed patch doesn't stop it. I had to put the coffins in rooms with those myne dorm doors.

I didn't think Mr. Free Will Off would be bothered, but I'm surprised nobody's done anything about this yet.

I'm sure we can give it an object model morph to something suitably flower-powery in appearance, if somebody wants to make a mesh for it.

I also am hoping it will keep their stupid human family members don't sleep in their coffin. UGH, that drives me nuts!

And I think I made have to make an invisible recolor for the clock and put it on an end table with an invisible recolor. Not to be nitpicky, but I don't like the idea of an alarm clock next to a coffin. :P Alarm clocks are just so not goth. ;)

Witch: I nuked the neighborhood that had Lisa the zombie nanny who was once human but died in a grilled cheese incident. ;) You can fairly easily make a zombie nanny though. If you have the insimenator you can set any sim's life state to zombie or vampire. Or just kill a nanny off and revive her but don't spend to much. She'll come back as a zombie but moved into your house so you will have to move her back into the npc bin. The family tree sectional from the insimenator can do this, or you can do it with SimPE.

Motoki, you wouldn't hold back on us if you make an invisible recolor would you? I mean sharing with friends is such a fulfilling thing to do...ahem. Heck, if you want me to beg, I'll even do that. A regular alarm clock next to a coffin would indeed be silly, Unless I could use the grandfather clock as an alarm clock. I have a nice recolored black one from somewhere, I think from 'sims2day'.

Got the commune Witch, absolutely lovely. I'm having fits of laughter messing with it. Flowery powery? Oh yeah. Now I'll be hunting for your hippies as well.

Andygal, Inge has some nifty fixes that will make kids sleep through the night. Go and check her stuff at www.simlogical.com you might find something you can use.

And I so agree on the non-vamps and their coffin obsession. It seems I am cancelling that one out constantly.

I even had to get Loki's daughter out of his coffin so he could sleep in it.  She's a child!  I don't think children should eve be allowed to sleep in coffins because they can't be vampires anyway.

Oh an invisible recolor of anything is terribly easy to make. Just erase the whole texture and make the whole thing transparent and save as a png. It's probably somewhat of a waste of resources though as I suspect the game renders the mesh anyhow. :O

 *dies laughing at picturing herself manipulating texture* Motoki, if I ever start erasing textures and things, I will probably manage to erase half of the eastern seaboard. Yes! I am that talented.  ;D

and if I ever tried to do something like that my computer would explode and take all of Vancouver Island with it.

Vancouver Island?  Where do you live?  I live in Victoria...

It's really not that hard, hehe.  I have some basic recolors of JM's bathroomuses you, just white and black, if anyone is interested.  I wonder how that would look as an invisible recolor?  How would you know where to click on it?

What about a candlestick? That would cover hippies and goths / vamps and old-fashioned?


Thanks, I've never made a zombie & keep forgetting how for some reason. How do you make that nannie come to you when you hire her? Though I might just install a clone in the castle before I upload it.

Edit: well my hippies never even made it through the night. I was up briefly at 4am and they were all dead. I restarted, only one had died at 8am (realtime). I have given in and given them smoke alarms, I wish they'd fight fire autonomously. I'm going to try them with power idle tonight, see how much difference it makes.

Veilchen, something slipped under my radar last night - you have a castle in your backyard?!?
So... what do you live in?  8)

Well making her a zombie is fairly easy. If you put her back in the npc household there's a chance you can get her as a nanny. Of course the service npcs being the way they are it can sometimes take numerous phone calls to get the one you want. :P

But if you already have a particular nanny scheduled for a house, IIRC, as long as you move her back to the npc bin she should continue to come post mortem ;)

Ah, thanks. I thought there might be a trick to it. But if I kill the currently employed one I should be fine.

Well, not right in my backyard, but I grew up in the Rhine/Mosel Valley, which is loaded with castles. Castles on and in the Rhine River (which, incidently, we spell Rhein), castles on and in the Mosel River. Castles atop the vinyards, castles below the vinyards...well, you get my drift.

I was actually shocked and saddened when, after I got a little older, I found out that some regions in Germany only had one or two castles. Poor, deprived people...