More Awesome Than You!

I've got several hacks in my game whose creators don't seem to have done anything with them since before OFB, or that have vanished from the face of the Net.  Has anyone tried any of these with Pets yet?  Or know where the creators have got to?

Replacement and/or Multiple Pollination Technicians by L-J and Fwiffo - appears to work
Let's Undress by ebruere
LessHygienicSwimming by Eddief66
NoSpoiledPizzaSlices by ???
LongerBurningFires by Michaelthechoirboy  Thanks Motoki!
Bodyshop nude male meshes by Targa
Move In All Ages and Find Own Place for Teens by Pinhead - Need updates
Vampires Walk Normal, Homework Fall Asleep and 9 New Gypsy Potions by Smonaff - the potions can be bought, but the menu option to drink doesn't work; you have to remove them from the Sims's inventory and click on them.
Garage Door Opener by Bobcatben - threw up errors in boolprop but worked fine.
Lottery Move-In Fix by Jase - Needs updates.
Spongebath patch by Inge Jones - Can be made to work but only with multiple tries.

Also, as per usual, half the community seems convinced custom careers and/or foods are broken and the other half says they're not.  Has anyone done heavy-duty testing or looked at the code to confirm or deny this?  Appears to be a non-issue.  Thank you, Karen and MellissaSue.

People always run around saying careers and foods are broken, but I've seen no hard evidence and haven't run into problems in my game.

Oh and longer burning fireplaces seems to work just fine. I don't think they messed around with the fireplaces at all.

I've not looked at the code, but all my custom careers seem to be functioning just fine.

I have fwiffo's multiple pollination technician hack and so far no problems in game.

Having said that I haven't actually entered the household where I currently have an abductee incubating a facehugger new arrival.   

I'm not sure that custom careers are actually broken but the reason people believe they may be is that whenever one of my sims went to search for a pet job, the only jobs that came up were  custom ones. I don't beleive that's the careers as this wasn't corrected after I disabled them. I'm not sure what it was since I just pretty much got tired of thinking about it and deleted all my objects and hair. That corrected the problem.  But as far as know, foods are fine. I'm using them without incident.

I had this problem too, but Pescado's harderjobs update fixed it.  I haven't noticed any other issues with custom careers.

Karen

Has anyone gotten Crammyboy's cock to work?  I tried it on my work computer, where I'm testing Pets.  It doesn't have a great video card, but details are set to high and I'm sure I saw it before.  Sim guys still look like Ken dolls, though.  :(

I haven't checked Crammyboy's cock yet, I have it in though so I'll know soon enough *laughs*

Anyone know about the rest of Crammys hacks, like "no force watch fight"?

Crammyboy's cock does, in fact, work.  ;)

Wonder why it's not working for me then?  :(

I am using JMs'  no e-mail spam and it works but it is not on the list.  And I am using a bunch of Squinges that are not approved yet,  and not having any problems.

I am thinking of using a couple of C-boys that I really need but he has not updated anything yet.  I am going to try the no computer madness and the no serve everybody on comm. lots.   I hope they work.   lol

I can confirm the "No serve everybody on comm. lots" hack works.  The only hack of his that I've had issues with in Pets is his Easel usage fix.

As far as other hacks I have, Phedge's potty hacks seem to work.  Inge's "Toddler sleeps through night" doesn't seem to work anymore, but her "Toddler gets out of crib" hack does.  And I'm still using Quaxi's OFB version of the No Censor Blur hack with no problems.  But he has an updated version of that out now.

oh damn, if my toddlers and elders start getting up in the middle of the night again....I forsee mass simmicide in the near future.

maybe you're not his type?   ;)

C

where did you find the updated no censor blur?  I went to MTS and looked under Quaxis' stuff but I could not find it.  Is it at their    ' over 18 forum,'   Sexy sims or whatever it is called?    thanks

try going to Simpe webpage, its listed right on the front page.

I'm pretty sure Inge's Toddler Sleep through the night hack was working.  I'll watch again, but the toddler had a full energy bar and did not wake until 6 am like he was supposed to.

Has anyone tried the toddler blanket? I looked at the thread on MTS2, but it didn't say anything particularly helpful. Of course, what I WANT is for my toddies to sleep in the cat beds now.

The toddler blanket from MTS 2 does work.  I've used it several times.   :)

Sleep through the night and get out of crib both work fine in my game.

While we're talking Ingelogical hacks, anybody got the scoop on the Endless Buffet patch or Spongebath patch?

Crammyboy's Pee-Pee works fine for me.   ;)

While on the subject of Squinge, does anyone know if he updated his mods for "Pregnancy wear any outfit" and "Buy Maternity Clothes?"  I have a whole bunch of maternity clothes going to waste in my Clothes Sub-file.

Neither of those mods appears to be on any of Squinge's lists for updated or needing-update mods, so in theory they may still work without an update.

I can confirm that Inge's Toddlers sleep through the night hack works in Pets.  I just double checked to be sure.  The toddler slept all through the night with a full green energy bar, and woke up right after 6:00 a.m.

I just had an alien birth, and fwiffo's multi-pollination tech mod seems to work for me.  :)

I installed Crammyboy's nudist hack, and I entered a different house this time.  Both it and CBoy's cock seemed to be working that time.  I'm not sure what the problem was on the other lot.  I'll check it again next time.  ???

In my game, and by reports a lot of others, custom food disappears when it's put on the table.


Dunno about the others.

My custom foods are all still there. I tried to teach my Sim family to cook, but after the second day of toaster pastries, lunch meats, mac n cheese, and unfilled hunger motives, I broke down and gave them Christianlov's Power Fridge, which allows for all foods regardless of skill, and they happily ate beef au jus, bel pepper soup, and french toast. With hunger needs filled, they actiually focused on more important needs..like kicky bag ???.

I only have one custom food, mozzerlla cheese and tomato sandwich, and it works fine.

I have been using Inge's Bottomless Bottle and it's working fine.

I seem to remember this was an issue with OFB a while ago, but I haven't had this problem in months, and not at all since Pets came out.  I have dozens of custom foods in my game, mostly downloaded from MTS2 and cocosims, and they are all fine. 

Do you have any other food-related hacks in your game?  If so, try taking them out and see if it helps.

Karen

There actually seems to be more than one kind of custom food--some show up in Clean Installer as game objects and others as custom careers.  I've been told that the kind that show as careers won't work with OFB and I assume they won't with Pets, either, but a more awesome modder than I would need to verify that.

I dont think so, i have some custom food that comes up as career and it still works fine, i havent tried it with pets though.

I was wrong--Pregnancy Wear Any Outfit is on the 'needs an update' list (but only the EP3 InTeen version apparently.)  Wish the dude would clean up his lists so it's easier to sort these things out.  :p

Here's some others I haven't been able to find out about:

Move In All Ages and Find Own Place for Teens by Pinhead
Vampires Walk Normal, Homework Fall Asleep and 9 New Gypsy Potions by Smonaff
Garage Door Opener by Bobcatben
Lottery Move-In Fix by Jase

How about it, anybody tried 'em?

move in definitely needs an update. I've already pm'd him about it. I don't use the find own place hack tho. But I imagine that it would probably need updating as well.

The no lottery move in fix Also definitely needs an update. It doesn't look like Maxis fixed it since the original BHAV remains unchanged. So I would imagine that the fix is still needed. However, new BHAVs were added that the hack is using. So it WILL cause problems in your game if you try to use it. I posted about these hacks in my compatibility thread. I went to the InTeenimater and I didn't see a place for me to report it. I would have pm'd Jase directly, but I figure he has more important things to deal with tryin to update InTeen.

Ste

Does anyone know if Dizzy's work-deliver3 works with Pets? Thanks!

Yup...this stuff is all on my radar.  My policy is that all mods I produce are assumed incompatible with Pets until explicitly stated otherwise.

Well that's a shitty assed policy.  :P Some of the stuff might actually work. There are ways to check like running hackdiff and such and even what we used to do back in the good old days, report about our experiences using the files and compare.

I realize everyone is saying 'OMG YOUR STUFF DOESN'T WORK WITH PETS WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO UPDATE!!!' bla bla bla, but I think it's a lame cop out to say things like 'My policy is that none of it works until I feel like saying so' or 'Don't give me any more reports about my hacks with Pets' etc. Regardless of if or when you ever update, people want to know if the current hacks are safe or not and it's a lazy assed way out to say that all of them are without even bothering to check because some of them might not be.

May I request that we keep things civil, please?

Motoki, it's really not good for you to hold your feelings back like that!  You should really tell us how you feel!  ;)  *hugs*

/me looks carefully at the code involved...

It looks like it could work. I'll have to try this out.

Dizzy, is there any way to separate the code that prevents Family sims from doing the "I'm home!" thing but without the pizza or groceries thing?  I lowered the percentage way down on Pizza and lowered groceries to zero, but I don't need groceries with Inge's permafridge hack, and pizza just spoils now with all the snapdragons I've made in OFB. 

I suppose I could whip up a No Greet hack, but I thought someone had already done that.

If there is, I don't know about it.  JM has one that fixed the queue stompage that occurred when parents returned home and children ran to greet them, but that wasn't the same thing as this.

While we're sharing Inge info, she's got new updates for agecons and the Heirloom Cake at her new dinnerbell (http://simlogical.com/dinnerbell/index.php) forum.

Sounds like her shrubs are working okay in Pets (Stay Things and Days Left, and also the jordi version of Teleporter Plus (latest version posted on MTS2)). I'm not 100% sure on "No Autonomous Computer Games", but it had better still work properly, 'cause otherwise I'll go mad.

Also not sure on the status of all the hiders; but I never wound up using those anyway, so I've just culled them.

I have --Let's undress by Ebruere-- it seems to work fine.

I think KevinTMC meant to hide things, not make people nekkid...

I was wondering, where are Inge's shrubs now?

Inge's Institution Sign doesn't work w/ Pets - it makes the pet carpools not show. If anyone's made an update, I'd really like to know. I use her school hack to socialize my sim teens and now I can't do that anymore. :(

the two most important hacks to me: No Homework, and No Social Worker. Work fine with pets. I can't remember who made those.  :-\

I also use inge's bottomless bottle. Lifesaver! That and the Magic Potty. {tho I only use that for toilet training, I like them to crawl around while toddlers, it's more cute}

Look out Gali, we may have a new competitor for the position of Outrageous Cheater on our hands...

Incidentally, I've been using the homework fall asleep hack while at Uni and it seems to be working fine in my game, as far as I can tell. I've been playing with debug mode on, so I haven't gotten any errors.

Ste

Where are these toddlers going? They should be sitting still and skilling.

They're crawling between the no-empty potty, the ever-full bottle, and the Bunny Head.

I pretty much hook my toddlers up with their own room consisting of: toddler sleep blanket, magic potty, bottomless bottle, xylophone, bunny head and shape sorter. maybe a teddy bear for when they aren't in the mood to skill.

I really need to stop neglecting the toddlers, maybe that's why they turn into such bratty kids. :D

But honestly, the social worker hack is a godsend, because I tend to have large families and if one child screws up, and the rest are really good students, etc... they all suffer, and that's not right. Sometimes I want to mess up a child on purpose to see what happens with their personality.