More Awesome Than You!

I thought I'd start this thread... I'm sure there's much more to follow. I just installed OFB, have barely started playing...

- Crammyboy's nudist hack does not work (he does state that it is Nightlife Only).
- So far the one lot I've loaded had some flashing blue trees which I removed.
- More to follow! Add yours!

Edited to add: So far, game runs very smoothly, and is definitely fun! I've opened up a home business with a widow selling her late husband's masterpieces. The first day she sold 3 paintings.

When your customers are playable sims from other lots that are visiting the lot you are currently playing, when they buy something, does it go into their inventory and when you go to their lot is the purchased item there or in the sim's inventory? Are their funds reduced when you go to that lot?

Thats a good question.

It could really screw up a lot if the family members all spend their money with no control by you.

According to the manual, the non-controllable playable Sims can buy items but they stay in inventory, and when you play them, you can sell the items back at full price (or of course, keep them, if desired).

Another note: The BLUR IS BACK!

You get the option of letting them keep it or getting rid of it all.

I'm going to play a bit yet before testing out hacks and what not.  All my other downloads are being put back in..in fact right now I'm waiting for it all to load and what not. 

 >:(
 :'(

Those assholes.  ;D


Doesn't it seem like such a short time ago we got all our fixes and now we've got to start all over again...

Update: I have disabled all hacks, except the BLUR was really annoying me. I had been using CrammyBoy's no-censor. I managed to find Quaxi's NL no-blur hack, and so far it's working. That's the only hack I've put in, I've disabled all others for now.  :(

Does OFB automatically apply the latest Nightlife patch if NL is a part of your game?  (I haven't installed the patch yet.)

I've got Crammyboy's nudist hack and I can see their thingamajigs.  How exactly is it not working?

Just a guess - Pegasys had been using Crammyboy's censor patch which if I remember correctly changed the executable. Maybe that was what caused the problem?

I am presently in the process of acquiring and scanning an objects.package. Compatibility notes will be available within 2 hours.

This is somewhat related to the topic but not in reference to hacks:  I noticed that my custom content (objects only) cannot be placed on the new shelves designed for stores.  They can only sit on the floor or on regular counters or other surfaces pre-OfB.  Which sucks because I have a ton of custom objects that would look nice in a store but I have to use regular counters.   ::) 
Maybe some genius out there can figure out how to convert our pre-OfB objects so they'll sit on the darn shelves?

Just to be clear, are you talking about this one? 

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=756080

Is that all custom objects or only certain ones?  It might be based on what the custom object was cloned off of...

Something is causing my game to crash whenever I try to have my Sim buy a community lot over the phone. I deleted all my hacks, and it's still crashing. I'm just about ready to say screw it, delete my entire downloads folder and start over.

I had some issues with cc too. Some lots with cc simply refuse to load. But after which I moved the sims out and bulldoze the lot, problems solved. I haven't checked if those offending cc can still be used but it should be able to considering it still appears in catalogue.

By the way, SIMPE still works. I was so daring that I edited sims' data after installing OFB. SIMPE still work and I played one hour and the sims didn't crash on me.

Yeah, Quaxi's no censor hack still works but I am most curious about Inge's shrub and Monique computer. Are they working? I haven't the time to try them out yet.

Those careers are all not working. Did you scotty have any custom careers? Del them. They cause my game to crash when I load.

If you do absolutely nothing else, PLEASE do a quick and dirty turn the ringer off hack for the phone. Since they messed with the darned thing so you can call up and start your business by phone, I can only assume the phone hack will not work and I will be forced to again suffer the torture of RINGRINGRINGRINGRING 'Hey you don't call my anymore!' CLICK RINGRINGRINGRINGRING 'Hey you don't call my anymore!' CLICK RINGRINGRINGRINGRING 'Hey you don't call my anymore!' CLICK... etc.

I don't have the damned thing yet (thank you Amazon for your pathetically slow shipment of pre-orders) but I am, ahem, currently procuring it through other means. However I did pay for the damned thing so as far as I am concerned I have a right. :p

I only had one custum career. The Vampire career. And I deleted it, but I was still crashing. I moved my downloads folder and played a bare bone game. It worked great. Now I moved all my clothing and genetics back but left out the objects. I have noticed that alot of my custom objects were flashing blue again also. When CEP is updated I'll add them back. Hopefully that will fix it. Maybe it's something that Sims2Pack isnt seeing.

Yes that one.

Hi Scotty

I have a older version of CEP and none of my objects are flashing blue. Did you enable the objects when that stupid maxis warning msg came up? That list indentified mostly objects as offending cc. If you don't enable them you won't see ur objects. As usual, it hates 11 dots creations (I have no idea why) and it hates Simaddict 99's creations too.

Yep, I got that, and I set it to enable. Some things were just missing alltogether, such as Vamp Cats custom cars. And a few other things werent there either.

That's weird. I shall check my game again later when I am home but did they disappear all together from the catalogue or was flashing blue?

Patience, man! I just started!

That's fine. As penance for admitting that, I require you to post like a pirate for the rest of the week. Arr!

anyone have a problem with just the meshes of cc not working?  All the recolours of Maxis stuff works fine but all my cc for buy/build mode have disappeared except the fences for some strange reason. ???

They were just gone alltogether. Some things flashed blue. Buth other things, like the cars were just plain gone. I really REALLY want to slap someone. Mainly myself for running down to Best Buy and getting this game.

If they screwed custom content - I'm not even installing it. Anyone else having this problem?

sounds like they don't have custom content enabled (or forgot to restart after enabling it)


*could be wrong*

I enabled my custom content as soon as I saw the box at the beginning and then I saved it so it wouldn't ask to me again ???

did you exit the game after enabling? you need to exit and reload the game after enabling or custom content won't work/showup

And then you exited the game and went back in, right? If when you start the game, it doesn't come up with custom content "enabled" already checked, once you make the change to enable it, you have to exit the game and then restart it for the change to take effect.

Hey Motoki.  :)  Good to see you.

Arrr...

Welcome back Motoki!

To my great delight, the kitten killer appears to be present and correct. Woohoo! It doesn't like some of JM's hacks, but since they're on the 'dirty' hack list my next step is gonna be removing all of the 'dirty' ones and seeing whether lots start hanging again. And whether the loss of some of the Awesomeness is going to make me go on a killing spree (Veronaville's my testing grounds, I'll be quite happy if it blows up).

Edit: Spoke too soon. Spoke muuuuuuuch too soon. Lots are not hanging, but Sims are frozen and nothing can be selected. Damn it!

I installed my game.  Started a family but it didn't save.  At the first play, I turned ON cc.  My computer got restarted and I started OFB again and found majority of my cc except for the custom meshes for Build/Buy Mode.  I'll try it again one more time to be sure but I am so happy I didn't try it on one of my existing families

I'm probably not the only one who would find a peeing pirate nanny hilarious. Shiver me timbers!

Walk the plank or it's puddles for you!

Oooh, 97.8% done, I guess I will get to experience the joy of my hacks being broken very soon.  :P

Or you could wait until tomorrow when the important stuff receives updates.

*snorts tea*  Would you people stop making me laugh unexpectedly like that!

Ok so far in my game I am useing no hacks except Quaxi's blur remover which is working just fine.Went into a house no one was moveing they were froze used testing cheats and it said error in a table so I hit delete and everyone started to move so it was all good in there from that point on. checked all my custom content and it was there.  All recolors were there. buy and build mode worked just fine.Went to the newshopping district and wasable to go into one of theoccupied houses and everything there was fine. So far everything seems to be working ok.Have not tried to actually play yet am just kind of checking things out.

I started it up and I got it to work with all of my custom contents (no including hacks)  Thanks for the help

Does the romancemod fall under "important"? I honestly need this hack more than anything. And it took so long for it to be updated for NL. :(

I've been doing some quick testing and so far this is what I've discovered:

I'm sorry I don't remember where I got everything from, you bet though that I'll be figuring it out and looking for updates though *heh*

nokicktrash: seems to be working fine

Permafridge: no longer works, probably has something to do with the new fridge options...this one is much needed if you plan on running a successful bakery business.

noemptypotty: Works

assignable cribs: works

Monique's Computers: Doesn't take in account the business options...still appears to work otherwise

Firemod:  I'm not sure if this is working or not.  It didn't appear to be at first.  I set a few more fires and every once in a while a sim would run up and try to put it out, but it wasn't as instant as it was pre- OFB.

nowhatsthis:  working

cribsleepnight: working

marriage-traditional: I have it in and it's not causing any problems..I don't really see how it could but I haven't been able to make sure it's working correctly.

Eldersleepthrunight: working

LTWvariety: seems to be working

quaxi's censor mod: working

TJ's Casual romance: working

Some other stuff I have that I haven't put back in yet... most I'm not worried about..others are things like death fixes and move out bug fix...waiting to make sure they're okay in the long run and needed

phone hack...need it but not going to bother testing right now since there are new phone options

Inteen (prays for update) but not going to bother testing now either....Insim..assuming it will be updated as usual and will wait although I am dying w/o it hehe

I think the first four and cribsleepthrunight are Inge's at Simlogical.

Inteen is most assuredly NOT compatible. The list of changed code is long and ugly. Insim (at least the dest version) is clean according to the autoscan.

I have insiminator in and it is working just fine in my game. That was one I had to try. I also have no punch you punch me no pillow fights no playredhands no gizmo wants

There is a new annoyance resurrected from Sims1.... Rock paper scissors is back.

The insiminator and inteen are apparently shutting down pie menu options in the new parts of the game (and probably breaking much more on the side).

The results are starting to come in. The first one was about not being able to mass cook anything.

inseminator has a post for bugs and so far they say it is fine inteen not fine at all

Anybody got a definite yea or nay on custom careers or foods yet?

Welcome back Motoki

A boy can hope, though... :'( Even though hoping doesn't change anything.

Yes, we can hope. My cat is getting a little nervous as I keep talking about making sacrifices to the kitten killer god.

Welcome back Motoki and arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr at having to work long hours all week,  :'(  can't go get the game till Saturday   :'(

I have found that Abduction Higher odds, abortbedmaking, The allinone and the nanny painting, Elder Sleep Night, nojumpingonbed, No Social Worker Abduction, all work.

Motoki, am I GLAD that you are here, to save my life again...:).

I installed the OFB - the game runned smoothly, and I have only 800 Mhz processor, 2 Giga Ram, X850 Radeon.

I left all the hacks I have, on purpose. So far, even daily gardener works. The phone hack works when you invite transportation (taxi), and the choose which sim will go to the community lot still works. Insimenator (dest) works too. All hacked objects work fine (mood boosters).

But comm-skilling is "dead"!!! When I send my sim to a community lot, not he, neither the townies, can gain skilling points; and at his home - only the residents can gain skilling points.

I know for sure that JMP will make it only for the selectable sims - so I ask again for your help!

Hurry...:)

I add the hacks I have.

Edit:

If you already invited a gardener, he will continue to come; but you can't invite a gardener, with or without the phone hack. I took the both out (daily gardener and phone hack), and still the sim was  unble to invite a gardener, and got a jump-by  after the try.

With OFB as I understand it, Sims can now skill away from home without a hack.

Thanks, Inge, I'll take out the hack, and see what happens.

Sorry, Inge - still nor the sim, neither the townies can gain skill points.

Motoki, HELP!!!  ;D ;D ;D

I thought they could skill at community lots too.  Perhaps something else is interfering Gali?

Pregnant Sims do go to community lots, (in whatever they happen to be wearing), and after reading about the censor patch, I went through SimPE and enabled it from there.  No problems.  And I have a very successful Lemonade stand thank you. ;D

I openned a "TestVille", and found this:

You can have the NL phone hack, but you can invite a gardener only if the "daily gardener is out of the hacks folder. Then, even if you put the "daily gardener" back - the gardener doesn't come on the other day.

The Buyable Collection of TJ works good, and I already used the Dr Vu Surgery.

Miramis - I have to take out all my hacks folder, in order to teast if something is interferring. I don't have so many hacks, so it won't be a problem.

Hacked doors don't work anymore, obviously. (Edit: because I took them out, stupid me. But couldn't they conflict with the new lock option?)

And for the annoying ring-ring: it seems to me that they fixed it. Anyone to confirm this? When I played last night and an almost-no-more-friend called my sim, they chatted for about 20 simminutes, then my sim hung up. Would be great if this were the new usual thing.

I took out all my hacks folder, sent my sim to the community lot - none of the townies coud gain skill points. My sim too. Still need Motoki's help...:).

I got so mad, I maxed all skills with a cheat...:).

That sucks bigtime.  Besides the fact that they don't skill without the hack, the fact that we can't use the comm-skilling hack hurts.  Did they even skill body on the excercise machines?  They should be doing that as of Nightlife at least without the comm-skilling.

That's the point - my selectable sim, AND the townies, could work out from here to eternity, without a plum-bob above their heads.

Now I found another obstacle - SimPe doesn't work with OFB!!! WooHoo...:)

Back to the shelf, gamie...:).

Crud... forgot about that. There may be a slight delay then (of me updating/installing OFB), since I was already in the middle of updating a hack.

Also... just wondering, but does OFB include the 2nd NL patch? I still ::) haven't gotten around to installing that. Is it even necessary for me to do so i.e. will OFB do it anyways? Or should I patch before installing OFB? I would think it should be included, but you never know. :P

Ste

OFB apparently does patch nightlife  but to what extent I dont know since it only checks existing installs to see if they are patched ??? and since my game was already patched with both NL patches it didnt have to patch anything

Installing 2 GBs of RAM and a Radeon X850 on an 800 MHz machine is like installing a racing spoiler on a turtle.

What about custom careers? I only have two, but I would rather like to keep them. I remember that they had to be updated through SimPe for NL. Now I read that SimPe doesn't work anymore either. Oh well, I guess I'll wait before installing, sounds like too much is affected, especially things I don't want to do without. And SimPe is an absolute necessity for me.

For those of you who aren't aware:

http://sims.ambertation.de/en/2006/03/01/the-sims-2-open-for-business/

Thanks Rainbow, I'll keep an eye on ambertation. I guess I will need to wait at least one week then. I'm not playing without the essentials, especially sanity preserving mods and SimPe.

With regard to hacked doors - and bear in mind this is an educated assumption rather than proven - I would imagine all my locking doors would work very much the same as they ever did.  But they won't pick up any of the new stuff that has been added to doors in OFB. 

I would advise removing the Security System patch if you use it, until I get a chance to check it out.  Prison and Classroom doors should be fine in those institutions.

I will probably look at overhauling my locking doors to take advantage of OFB features in the future.

 ;D ;D ;D - OK JMP, take your revenge! - I admit I don't understand technical issues. I agree to install what my technician advises, and I trust him that he wants the best for me...:).

Now is the time you can poke, shove, slap, and insult me as much as you can...:). How Brynne says? "I pee on your direction".  :D :D

I already uninstalled OFB, so you want read more replies from me - back to NL...:).

LOL Gali, that's letting him have it. I'm sorry you had to uninstall though.

Oh my, this was so funny, I think I hurt myself.  :D  I think what Brynne says is she is mooning in your general direction.

I'm sorry, I can't help it, just thinking about you peeing on someone's direction is hilarious.  :D

Thanks for making me laugh!  :)

I have a couple and they are working fine. I don't think they messed with them at all this time around unless you consider running a business a career of sorts, but that uses a whole different system anyhow.

As long as they are at least Uni/EP1 compatible, they should be fine for EP2 and EP3 as well. At least that's my experience so far. And I think we'd know right away if they didn't work. We sure did with University.  :P

Thanks Motoki, I really do like the two I have. One is the computer career and the other is the xtreme one. I have several sims in those and I would hate to have to mess around with getting them in comparably similar stations in the maxis careers.

I had my doubts because OFB involves new career/business venues (sp?), and ea/maxis ep's seem to break a lot of mods. It's still inconceivable to me that the phone annoyances and all that surrounds them are still not fixed by them. Not only that, but they break the one great mod that fixes the damn things. Well, I guess they don't need to care about that, they are a business after all, and when the money comes rolling in anyways, why bother. JM definitely rocks, the phone-hack shows in a nice, green color.

InTeen is indeed incompatible and anyone using OFB is well advised to remove it or there will be far more than dead kittens you'll have to worry about.  I am still only about a half of the way through my evaluation, so its hard to say how bad the situation is.  Details will be posted on my website.

Also, if you're an InSim user, some people are reporting problems with the SIM edition, but it seems like the DEST edition is compatible with OFB.

I agree. It's like, hello did you people actually PLAY the game? Does ANYONE like how the phone works by default? Everyone hates it, everyone complains about it. They refuse to change it AND mess with the damned thing every episode so the fix that we have gets broken and Pescado has to redo it every time.

Oh well, at least the supposedly made it so you can change toddlers hairs now (without a hack or cheat). I kept nagging Tom about that for a while. lol

It only took them 3 expansions to get the toddler hair thing done though.  Perhaps by the 6th EP they'll have fixed the phones.

I haven't had a chance to check the toddler hair thing yet.I am still admiring the new parent/child animations

I haven't bought the new Ep yet Bangelnuts.    The family aspect of the game is the one I enjoy.  Would you mind telling us a few of the new interactions with babies and toddlers?    This is the one of the things in the new Ep I am looking forward to.

That's what I did last night.  I frantically replaced so much stuff in one of my houses, figuring I had accidentally deleted those things when moving hacks out with CleanInstaller..

I'm just a tad paranoid.

Has anyone tested No Shoving from Look Through, Preg for all genders, TJ-Formalware, or ijClohtestoken?

I read that children can now dance with adults - by standing on the adult's feet; they can also tease toddlers.  Just got the EP about  30 minutes ago, so have to wait till I get home from work  :-[

read this
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=3231.new#new

Wow. He ripped you off bigtime if that's the case. The extras must've been expensive. What's the use of spending all that money if you can't get the most out of it? I'd be wary of further suggestions from this dude...

idtime, I checked the prices on the net (just to be sure that tech doesn't get overpayed a lot) - I payed the same price as if I bought them on the net. The only thing I added was the working time of the technician, and it's quite reasonable.

Pretty sure I have the DEST version of Insim so I might give it a go.  My game is being such a bitch right now with loading times that I'm hating testing things..putting them in/out & reloading.

All my custom foods are working fine..they always did even if with NL I never really bothered to check them out for updates and stuff unless they are causing some problem I don't know about *heh*

I think I have TJ's formal wedding put back in and it's on the not compatiable list of his...I'll have to double check.

Gali, read my above post about the censorgrid.. ;D

i have the object version of insiminator and haven't noticed anything wierd or not working yet

that sucks  :-\ i haven't read all the new posts on this thread yet. Have you figured out what was wrong? i read this yesterday before i installed, and so when i loaded it-i specifically looked for vampcats cars n they're there for me. Originally-i had trouble with ALL custom content, in spite of enabling it on the load up screen and restarting. i went to clean installer-hi-lighted everything in there and told it to "enable package" n then clicked "update" juz for the heck of it.  When i went back in-it was all back to normal.

Yeah, but is this the same guy who told you to buy a $5000 computer? I'm still concerned

I took out all of my hacks and any hacked objects until I could go over JM's whole list. The only thing I left in was non-worrisome stuff like recolors, custom skins, and hair.

I am not sure why but none of my custom anything is showing up in Create a Family. Has this happened to anyone else? The weird thing is my default custom skins I have installed are definately showing up as are one or two hacks that I added back in. No custom hair, clothing, make-up etc. Nothing. I even pulled a few custom skins out of the folder they were kept in and placed them directly in my downloads directory. The game still did not pick them up.

I double checked and all my custom object, walls, floors, and recolors are showing up. I wonder why just the CAS stuff is not showing? Any ideas?

Thanks!

Create a family in the game or do you mean Body Shop?

Because I recently blew up my hard drive I had to install all games from scratch nightlife looked for the sims 2 patch and installed it OFB just said it was already updated. So I am also looking for that answer. I dont see how it could have. It did NOT run a patch like NL or UNI did. Again to clarify I did NOT run the NL patch before installing OFB and OFB did not run a patch for me. What the heck I have nothing invested in game right now so I will try to patch after the OFB install. BRB Well it ran the patch and did not tell me it was already there. I posted the question to bbs since max is hanging out there.

Well here is what I did. With OFB installed I went to ea and installed the nightlife patch. It let me install it with no problem. Then I exited and went back and hit download nightlife patch and it stated that nightlife was already updated. So I would say No OFB does not patch nightlife.

Well, I didn't mean ripped off as in overcharged, but ripped off as in he sold you something you didn't need. It's kinda like buying an apartment building to live in one unit, in a sense. The excess functionality is doing little for your computer if you've got a 800Mhz processor. You probably could've gotten the same effect from lower-power, cheaper vid cards and less ram.


You don't need it anymore, b/c Maxis has now made it w/ OFB where you can change into formal to marry.

The only problem I've had so far was with Sims being unable to serve a meal of any kind.  They would prepare the food as usual, but it would vanish at the point where they tried to serve it.  My Sims were getting dangerously near the starvation point, but fortunately Merola's multi-painting still works :)  I took out all custom foods and all hacks that looked even remotely food-related, and that seemed to fix it.  Obviously a hack conflict somewhere.  I have a lot of custom foods in my game and I don't know if they are causing this or not.  Anybody else have similar problems?

Karen

I had to delete the SuperEspresso....the damned sims kept wanting to makje coffee  :-\

and for some weird reason, they keep wanting to take a bath (even when their hygyne is maxed out)   ???

Merolas Multi-Pic works like a charm

I noticed that with the Phone Hack, best to call the gardener & maid BEFORE setting the 'ringing limit'; I did that and no probs...I set the rings and I couldnt phone the gardener...it would just cancel out

Non awesome hacks that also work like a charm is the insimenator,and Danny's DMA sets

That's what happened to me with leaving the lot.i i would tell them to leave and it would just disappear n they'd go read or something. i couldn't drive anywhere and if i called the taxi-the taxi would just do "drive by's" endlessly without ever stopping-lol! i went back through the files n FINALLY found the "pick up/drop off" hack  that lets you drop your friends off at work or pick up carry out yourself.  i guess i'd missed that one the other three times i'd gone through the files.  so that definately is NOT compatible

a new non-awesome hack


Maxis Extracted ~Badge Juicer (now buyable) OFB

http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=1089680


 ;D

Haven't got the game yet, (darn Amazon) but from what I've been reading from other's...

TJ -formal wear, is no longer needed as now with the arc the sims can get married in whatever formalwear they have selected
Toddler Mirror (MTS2), no longer needed since an adult or teen can bring a toddler to the mirror to change appearance.
TJ- multiple births, there is now an option to force a pregnancy to be twins. I guess it is still need for multiple births though.

And TJ's multiple birth hack lets you choose who is going to stay home wtih the new baby.  It is good for those Family sim dads, especially if the wife is Fortune, as in the default Burb house. 

The only issue I've had with the game so far is the ReNuYuSenso Orb making lots not load. Thanks for the suggestion to run in debug mode and delete.

I'm going to start putting hacks back into the game tonight (especially the phone hack. My poor Sim was trying to run his business and his darn cellphone kept ringing with the "You never call me" messages).

If  you want more than twins you still need Two Jeffs triplets and quad mod. the force twins cheat only gives you twins and as rainbow said it has no added features like Two Jeffs Hack does

ooo that would explain why I didn't have it in it was working as if I did lol  I have to catch up on what's going on with my MATY hacks yet.

I got fed up and did a major custom content clean out, hopefully that will help with my loading times.  I'm back down to 8,000 downloads lol

I was having issues with some of my objects not showing up..flashing blue...even Maxis objects flashing blue.  They did that with NL as well.  Maybe something with CEP?  Not sure.

Yes it's awesome because Maxis made it. :p

Before everyone rushed over there too ooh and ahh and gush with adoration, I'd like to point out that like the Sim Modder baby object which several people 'made' (and I use that term very loosely), it's actually something available in debug mode that you can access quite easily by shift clicking on your sim in debug mode.

Unless your are abnormally terrorfied of using debug mode like many at the BBS seem to be (BOOLPROP NOOOO!!!!!!) then there's really no reason to download this because it's already in your game.

Yay!  Thanks for pointing that out, Motoki.  Welcome back!  I do hope you will stick around for a while. :)

BTW, I am loving your Elder clothing equality mod.  Would there be any chance of an updated version for NL soon?  ;)

Possibly, but I think a Mascot hide might come sooner lol. I'm damned tired at looking at those ugly pink gorilla bodies.  :P

LOL Motoki ,I hear you on the mascots 5 minutes of the pink Gorilla was all I could stand :P

In create a family no custom content shows up..... I am not sure what to do.

you have to enable CC on the pop up screen befor you get to the neighborhood then restart you r game for it to show up

I double checked that it was enabled and it is. I even restarted the game a few times to make sure that it had a chance to enable the custom content.

EDIT: I found the problem. I had to change the name of my EA Games / The Sims 2 / downloads folder to "Downloads". I am assuming it is case sensitive in CAF and not in the game itself. CAF could not see the folder at all. The rest of the game could access the folder just fine. I find that interesting.

They must not have put in the code for IF (EXISTS "Downloads" OR "downloads"), in the CAF section. But yet it can see either folder in the game itself. Anyway I am filing that away for further reference so I do not make the same mistake twice. Lol.

Thanks! :-)

I have heard people say that before, that Downloads must be capitalized.  It seems really stupid though because most of the time, Windows doesn't care about caps.

I am having this probelm too, but I can't find the damn file. At N99, it's listed as Power_Espresso-SimCutie. I've searched my whole hard drive looking for various combinations of keywords, but I can't find it. Anyone know off hand exactly where it is or what it's exact filename is?

Thanks in advance.

Even if we had the filename, if it got installed somehow with the Maxis installer, like say via a downloaded lot, the name will be scrambled up into hexcode.

You could try browsing your downloads with Clean Installer and looking for an object or hack with that name.

Ah, crap, yeah, I'm pretty sure I downloaded it with a house, before I had clean installer. Thanks, I'll go searching for it.

It's kind of funny on my community lots with espresso machines, everyone and their dog is lined up to buy espresso! I should open up a coffee bar and make a killing until I find the hack.

My sims keep wanting to drink coffee. (the cheap machine not the expresso one).
I have used clean installer and scan at least 3 times including manual scanning and have yet to find that expresso or whatever hack that is causing these.  I am banning these coffee stuff from my lots at present :(

And rainbow, I think its true that Downloads need to be capitalised.