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First lets get the formalities out the way , hello everybody im new here love everybodys work ect ect ................

I have the hack that stops sims droping a baby thats sleeping or somthing , anyway my sim was holding the sleeping baby when the car pool arrived and he just got in the car holding it, and returned later still holding baby.  i was wondering is this some kind of fault with the hack or was it intended to do that , and if it is intended is it possible to make sims do that , and if not could it be ??

I don't have that baby hack, but one of my sims once took the baby to work in the helicopter. Nothing bad happened. (There are pix in the story link below.)

This seems to be happening to other people as well. http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=3089.0

I have that hack and my sims have never done this since installing it, but before I had the hack I did have sims attempt to take the baby where they weren't supposed to (like while preparing a meal or gardening). I think it's just a case of the baby getting stuck to the sim and the game losing track of where the baby is. My guess is that it might happen when certain animations are interrupted. I have that problem with other stuff, like food plates and flame from lighters getting stuck to sims' hands and other annoying glitches like that. Luckily it's all pretty rare.

thankyou , its a shame its proberly a glitch it would be great if they could take the baby to work ,

I've had babies getting stuck to the parents several times now.  Of course, I've had a lot of babies being born in this neighborhood lately since all my sim kids graduated from college and got married.  But another glitch I've noticed that is starting to annoy me is when sims get a book out of the book case and somehow their arm gets stuck straight out with the hand in a curve as if they are still holding the book.  This makes for some very strange animations until somehow it gets reset.  If it bugs me enough, I'll go ahead and force an error on them to reset them.  I also get a lot of sims with their eyebrows stuck when they are dancing and their arms stuck bent at the elbow from playing chess.  It all seems to be cosmetic and doesn't hurt anything, but it is very annoying and messes up my pictures.  Sure it makes for some goofy pics, but then I want to take a picture of my sim teaching her child to talk, and she looks weird clapping one hand against the air.  :P

i never get any funny glitchs like that , thats why i was so surprized when he took the baby to work , it was werid as soon as he got home he went and fed it so he did at least still know he holding it ,

I've had kids get off the school bus with the step-stool still attached to their foot!

In my first month or two of playing the game, before I discovered this site and the wonderful hacks here, I had a nanny leave after her shift while still holding the baby (Brandi Broke's youngest)!  By the time I realized she still had the baby, she was already crossing the street to her car and there was no way I knew of at the time to stop her and get the baby back.  I had no idea what to do other than to quit without saving, but I took a good look around first (it was night on the lot) and fortunately spotted the baby lying by the mailbox. Don't know now if she appeared there right away or after a period of time, but I had Brandi retrieve her, and the nanny got her butt fired the next day.

That nanny has since become cow plant food, now that I have the baby controller. :)

Nannies are an invention of Maxis designed to plague us!  I haven't used one since I has nannyspam (at the Lothario house, when Brandi and Don just couldn't get rid of them - there must have been hundreds, as every time I tried deleting one, another one arrived!)

I refuse to hire nannies anymore.  I have been using Dizzy2's Sitter mod, which I love.  It's great to be able to call Grandma or another friend or family member to come take care of the kiddies, and they get a relationship boost as well!  I only wish I could schedule the sitter like you can a nanny, but I haven't had to use them all that much with sims who are living with extended family, work different shifts, or have enough vacation saved up that they can stay home.

And once the eldest kid is a teen, you have no problems at home time either.

Yea, I just got Dizzy's mod.  I finally have enough generations around that I can move sims with family potential back into their old homestead, or have a surviving parent move in with them.  I've also had one of the parents quit working for a while if they're going to have more than one kid, get the family up where there's at least one teen and the rest are kids, and then go back to work (kinda more like real-life, anyway). I only used the nannies in cases where it was a semi-poor single parent who had to work, or where I wanted to kill off the original nannies so the new ones would be pre-lobotomized. :)  But from now on I pretty much plan on using sitters when necessary.

All these incidents of bringing the baby to work make me wonder - is a nanny still required when this happens? I mean, say a young couple had a baby, both chose to go to work instead of having one stay home to look after the newborn, so they need a sitter but instead of tracking schedule, they always hire a nanny on a 'just for now' basis. So, what happens when the baby is stuck to one of the parents and taken off the lot for a few hours? Is the baby considered 'offworld' or on the lot? Will the social worker come if neither parent hired a nanny to take care of the baby that is er, not on the lot? Will the nanny even stay at all, or will she say there are 'no children in the house' (can't remember the exact message, been a long time since my sims had a nanny) and leave just as soon as she arrived? Am I making any sense :P?

You pose a few interesting questions, there, Curious - I don't know the answer, but maybe someone whose babies stick to their parents like glue could try it out?

"babies stick to their parents like glue" :D, I've never seen things like these. Heck, I don't see a lot of things even with free will on. Took me long enough to see a sim 'stuff face' only that one miserable time, I thought it was some sort of rare occurence like Angela Pleasant swinging on the fridge door on the Broke's lot, but apparently, stuffing face is rare only in my game ::). Oh well, at least I get to see the 'static shocks' as long as there are kids and rugs in a house since it's not limited to an autonomy thing :P.

In the cases I had this happen, there was another parent at home.  I didn't have a nanny tracking the schedule, of course.  But I also have the No Social Worker hack that is included in Dizzy's mod.  I also have JM's mod which will ask if I am sure when a parent is about to leave a child in the house alone.  I can then either call a sitter or let the parent go on to work and leave the child alone.  This isn't realistic, but it's perfectly fine to leave babies and toddlers home by themselves once you don't have to worry about the social worker.  But I only do this if I have a child coming home at 3 pm and one of the parents will be home at 4 pm.  A sim hour isn't long at all.  Or I can have the child call a sitter to come stay with them.  Anyway, since the baby going to work is really a glitch, I don't know if the game would recognize the baby actually being gone.  The baby's icon became yellow when it needed a diaper change, and it became orange when it got hungry.   I have the baby controller, and it gave me the message that says "A baby needs attention from a family member," but I couldn't do anything about it until the parent got home with it.  Once she got home with the baby, she went and changed the baby's diaper and fed it.  Obviously she couldn't do that while they were both stuck off-world, although you'd think she would have been able to!  She should have taken the diaper bag with her! 

I know this doesn't exactly answer your questions, CuriousSpurious.  I really don't know, but I hope I've provided some information that might help.  It's hard to test because you never know when it's going to happen.

Just shows there are times when having one of gnomon's flamingos on your lot is a godsend!  My sim babies never ever need a nappy change!

That's a bit too unrealistic for me. :)  I haven't seen the electric shock thing on the carpets yet, and I only saw a sim swing on the fridge door yesterday!  And I've had the game since it came out.

I actually like the nannies, maybe I have just been lucky with my game. They are certainly better than the maid!

Rainbow, play the Burbs!  Lucy is an inveterate fridge-door swinger and jumper on beds!

I'm at the point now where I don't hire any services.  My sims do their own cleaning (thanks to Macrotastics) and they do their own repairs since most of them are maxed on Mechanical since an early age now, and I used to use Macrotastics for gardening, but now they don't have to do that, thanks to TJ's no care plants mod.  The sitter takes the place of the nanny, and I think that's about it.  I don't hire bartenders and I don't use the matchmaker. 

ZZ:  I played the Burbs.  I never saw Lucy swing on the fridge.  I probably kept her too busy studying.  I also have Numenor's (?) patch to keep kids from jumping on the beds.  That drove me nuts!  (I've also heard that they can break beds doing that, although it's rare.)

That'll be the 'sshack', yes? I do that too, but only with school-age children and if a parent is coming home at 4pm because I don't have any other social worker hacks.


New question on that - if the baby got hungry enough, will the SW show up to take the baby away as soon as the parent gets home? Guess we'll never know the answer unless next time someone get this 'bring baby to work' glitch, s/he drags the hunger bar way down just to see what happens :P.


Alexander does that a lot (bed-jumping) in my game too. Those two are made for each other....

In some people's games, they are!

Rainbow, how on earth do you keep Lucy studying if you don't use a flamingo to keep her fun at least half way?

Oh, and why is the flamingo any more unrealistic than a nocareplants mod?  Or a non-interventionist social worker hack?

Oh, and I've never used the sshack, the only time a child ever got taken by the social worker in my game since Sims1 (when it happened to the Newbies first attempt!)it was Lucy Burb - but since it was my fault, I didn't save!

Lucy Burb died in a fire in one of my game plays once, when I was still trying to figure out how things work :D (:P). The family had just moved into their new home, silly John not only burned the mac & cheese he was making for dinner but also caused a fire. Since they were too busy freaking out despite my attempts to x out the panic and queue up 'extinguish', the fire spread to a few counters and got Lucy. It was terrible, all that screaming and sobbing after Lucy turned into a pile of ash.

Because that's how I like to play my game.  :P  I use Macrotastics to keep her fun up.  She kicks flamingoes or gnomes when her fun gets low while she's studying.  Other times I let her paint, play the piano, or play chess.  But I keep my sims busy doing something, even with free will on, I don't let them stray too far unless they are permaplat and maxed on skills.  I don't care to use Gnohmon's flamingoes, although I do have them and I've tried them on occasion.  But you are free to play your game the way you choose, as am I.  I use mods to get rid of stuff that annoys me about the game.  I don't mind having my sims care for their plants, but it annoyed me that they were always complaining about not being able to reach them.  The gardener wasted all his time on the job complaining until I realized what was going on.  And on some lots such as the Smiths in Strangetown, I never could get all the ground level enough and the plants and shrubs rotated the right way for them to be able to water them.  So I said, screw it.  And sometimes I just want my sim parent to go to work without complaining about the child being left home alone because I know the other parent will be home soon or the teenager is coming home or whatever.  :P

Did you know you can get hedges at Meshkiste that are cloned from the bonsai tree, and you can stick them in corners where the gardener can't reach them?

Oh, I use the flamingo (only the contentment one) because that's how I like to play my game - to me it's totally unrealistic having sims dropping dead from exhaustion and hunger at 4.pm!  I'd ideally prefer a mod which simply spun out the day better, so sims get tired at BEDTIME and hungry at MEALTIMES, but I don't actually know of one.

And I never said anything about how you shouldn't use the flamingo of contentment.  I accept that is how you want to play your game.  I choose to play mine a different way.

PAX!  I didn't mean to start an argument! :(

Is the not dropping baby hack on floor here? I got the no baby harssessment hack but my baby still got dropped to the floor.

And if the baby is picked up while it was zzz, I got those silly zzz following the baby for the rest of the day.

Thks for heads up on the sitter mod. I am going to pick that up!  ::)

The first hack is by JM, and you can find it here:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/nl/hacks/nodroptiredbaby.zip

He doesn't actually have threads up for all of his mods since the move from VS, but a couple of people have posted descriptions somewhere...

The sitter mod by Dizzy is at MTS2 or VS.  You might want to try MTS2 because VS is so sllooooow these days.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=86894
http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimforum/showthread.php?t=2093

EDIT:  Ah, here it is:  Hack Directory - All Hacks
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=7.0

/random question and rant


How come the toddlers can play with all the toys after their "fun" is totally maxed Except for the stuffed animals?  >:(

a toddler will be playing with a stuffed animal and just before "fun" maxes, blink, no more playing with the adorable stuffed animals, lets go play with any of the other toys, including the toys in the toy box!


I have lots of really cute stuffed animals for my toddlers and children but they don't get played with  :'(

Put it near the potty!

 I think you lost me there ZephyrZodiac.    Does the fun meter go down when they use the potty?    I have to admit I have never noticed.

tried that and it only worked once  and it didn't last long because once her fun was almost maxed she went off to play with some other toy.

Most of my toddlers have their fun maxed almost all the time from playing with the other toys *sigh*  I wish I could find a hack that would let them keep playing with the stuffed animals, with maxed fun, like they can do with all the other toys.

I wonder if it would be possible to change the attraction to the stuffed toys in simPe. If this is a dumb question then ingnore because I am simpe dumb.

gypsylady, I'm not sure  :(   I only managed to make all the stuffed animals "no talk through" because I was given directions *laughs*

Yeah I was able to do that too,with the same instructions.I can do a few things in Simpe but I wouldn't even no where to begin to see about changeing the attraction thingy in a package file. ;D

I once saw Daniel Pleasant pee himself while holding his toddler and laughed my ass off.  I hadn't realized they could still do that while holding a baby or toddler.  I actually took a picture of it.

http://the-isz.com/pee.jpg (http://the-isz.com/pee.jpg)

Why would you want them to play with the stuffed animal anyway? While they are playing, they are not skilling!

thats the point! I'm tired of seeing the same old skilling toys and I don't want all my sims to max out all their skills.

After I downloaded a bunch of nice stuffed animals I discovered, they won't play with the damn things! *pouts*

Right, put the toddler to bed with fun NOT maxed out.  Put the soft toy near the potty.  Put all other toys downstairs.  Use Inge's cribgetout hack.  toddler wakes up, fun still lowish.  Toddler uses potty.  Toddler plays with teddy.  My toddlers play with the teddy.  Some of my kids play with the teddy in preference to the dolls' house.  It's whichever is nearest.

Where could one find these directions? :)

You can find the directions about in the middle of this thread here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1215.0

o.o I want that flamingo!

You can get them at Simlogical.  The flamingo of contentment doesn't interfere with potty training, but the flamingo of happiness would.

0.o I can't believe I never noticed them before.

Edit: For the love of me, I can't find those flamingo's on the site? Could you give a link to a stupid person like I?

Can't give a specific page link, I'm afraid.  But just click Downloads, then click the livin-it-up button, and follw your nose!  They're all there (but beware flamingo of decay, I find it doesn't work correctly any more although it's ok for a quick fix when you don't have time for your sim to spend hours on the phone.

I get that, too. Like their arms will be pointing out behind them.  They look really goofy. It's come in handy sometimes, though. I would get plates stuck in Uni, and no one could clean them up, and of course you can't delete them. I'd pick them up, and I could sometimes get them to 'stick' to a person just getting up out of a chair, and then when they straighten up, it disappears.

BTW...Hi, all.   :)  New here.  One of those 'strong, silent' types that reads all the posts for years, but rarely posts anything on any of the sites I frequent.