Speaking of re-binning hair... I had this problem with early DatGen binning, in that the scalp portion of the Maxis skins will sometimes get replaced with an odd hair texture. After long hours I have most of my custom hair binned properly, with extra age sets removed, which I did pretty much by hand.

Recently I noticed when a Sim aged to elder that her Maxis S3 scalp was replaced by some blonde texture, which looks sort of like the male shaggy hair, and any hairstyle which needed some transparency through to the scalp looked terrible. I wish there was a way to find out which texture is replacing the scalp, because I haven't had this problem otherwise since I started doing the binning by hand, and I used to have it all the time with DatGen. (I -have- used the hair binning tool a few times, though, but not recently.) My custom content vice is new hairstyles, so there are so many to poke at to find the culprit, sigh...

Wasn't the vampirism thing (supposedly) meant to work sort of like this, without hacks? Except that a certain percentage of the population became vampires, which included the NPCs and led to all those problems. I've only had one non-directed bite in my game, though, which I think is thanks to hacks, and that's how I want it anyway, so...

The plus about making it a disease is that NPCs are exempt already, and you can always add the immunity token to Sims you don't want it to affect.

It's in the lot debugger if you have the testingcheats enabled. It puts a death token on 10% of the population, so you also have to remove it from NPCs before they're dead, if you don't want them to respawn, and then use the cheats to spawn a tombstone for anyone if you want them to have one... so it's a little more involved, I guess, than a disease would be, and has the NPC problem with it.

Way back before I realized they would respawn, I tried to cull my townies by sticking them under the house with move_objects so I didn't have to watch them I also did the same by taking them out of the pool and putting them there, where they drowned in the dirt much faster. Eventually I ended up using that NPC creator/destroyer that's part of the game tools to mass-kill the townies... took the grim reaper forever but it made for some interesting pictures 

I've had the flu spread constantly when I ignored it and just kept playing, and I've had it kill some Sims, but only the ones I hadn't played in a while. They'd gotten infected as visitors somewhere, spent a loong time infected while I wasn't playing them, and then when I finally went back to their houses, they died pretty instantly since they'd had the required time with bad motives while they were visitors elsewhere. I also had a couple die like that while they were still being visitors, though only one wasn't pled back alive. It's still not really a good plague, though... *likes the plague idea too*

I hope he updates it, too. I'm able to use SimPe to fix the genetics now but at one point the Enhancer was the only thing that would change skintone DNA for me at all. I had a born-in-game Sim with Maxis genetics only who went from S1 to S3 all randomly, and no amount of SimSurgery would fix it. I was also able to remake the custom skins I first made before the game even came out to match the default replacements I got later, and reassign them to everyone really easily.

The DNA part is giving me errors now (probably because I've been adjusting my custom genetics so they don't pass down so much, and trimming out the repeats from the hair) and I've heard it may not be updated, which makes me sad because it's way easier to use the drop-down menus than futzing with SimPe (I also have no idea how to use SimPe to do the other thing I use the Enhancer for, which is setting the length of age groups differently, ie 8 days for teenagers and a varying amount of adult days depending on the Sim, but if I ever install Pets I'll kinda have to...)

Hmm, I just put in noinstantlove for the first time and also ACR. A bunch of Sims at college, and the one guy decided to head for the bed with a best friend instead of his girlfriend - the second time they tried this, I allowed it. He fell in love with her (they were at 90/100 or so) but she apparently fell in love with herself. I'm not sure which hack caused that one...

I think there's a certain percentage of cats who just aren't affected by catnip. Mine all seem to be, though; helps to get them to use the scratching box instead of my bed, phew.

The only issue I've ever had with it is the toddler receiving the 'be kicked out' icon in their queue, usually when being held after by the parent. Unless the parent needs to go I usually just make them walk outside, especially if I wanted them to do some socials afterward. I think an older version used to be worse about trying to kick out toddlers being bathed, but I haven't had the problem lately. I did have BUY kill a visiting Sim once because of a constant queue of the icon, heh...

Ah, speaking of toddlers' fears - in Pets do they have any regarding the animals? I.e., when I was a kid, I was afraid of dogs, and I was afraid of cats (when I was sleeping!) because I didn't have any pets until I was a teenager. Or is it the usual "fear that Rover won't play fetch with me" type stuff?

Mine does the same thing, though it's such a small place that I wish I knew why he can't find me sometimes! I'm also told he howls at the door for me for a while when I leave the house...

Yeah... I guess, like someone said earlier, they had to think of -something- for them to want/fear. I wish there really was more to the toddlers and babies than there is now, even if it is a short timespan. I don't exactly like rushing the Sims through any age group, but it's seriously unrealistic when they can leave a baby in a crib for that long and barely touch it, or having this completely self-sufficient toddler (depending on what hacks and objects you have, heh).

It's at the point where I was playing recently and the parents wanted to play with the kid constantly, it was noticeable compared to other families and thus I have a "personality" for that family that's different now in the story of my neighborhood. If that makes any sense. I've been playing the same neighborhood since the base game first arrived, and by now if -anything- happens contrary to the way I expect it to, I'm thrilled. I remember when I first started playing and had so much trouble with my first set of twins - now all these hacks have streamlined things a great deal, but they've also removed a lot of the chaos, and sometimes I miss it. Oh well, going off on a tangent, oops...

I've noticed that too. Usually I just use the dreaded Insim temporal adjuster to force the adult to transition the kid as soon as the popup shows I can do it (I don't use the baby controller because I've never had any problems with them taking care of the babies, just harrassing them...). It's easier when the baby's needs are all green for it to happen automatically, too.

There was a hack on MTS2 that kept Chinese food from making your Sim fat, a while ago... I rarely have them order out, though, but I think it works fine as far as I can recall.

Sometimes Sims will wait outside the door if you've queued someone who's sleeping for the bathroom, and they haven't woken up yet... I dunno why that would affect anything when you have more than one bathroom, though :\

When I've noticed that, I think it's because they had the Relative Dies fear which got fulfilled. It seems to be the largest-hitting one that toddlers can get. I almost want that to happen more since I've had maybe one or two Sims ever transition badly... need more chaos, dangit!

I actually noticed for the first time today the toddler getting an aspiration hit from throwing up after drinking from a spoiled bottle. I don't usually pay a ton of attention to the toddlers, but in this house he was an only child so there wasn't much else going on. Definitely a -500 asp. but he gained it back pretty quickly. He also noticed a fire earlier and got an aspiration hit from that too, which sometimes they won't even notice if they're playing (I canceled out the toy to see if he even would notice). This is with OFB so...

I think Djssims has a program that allows you to rename the wall/floor/terrain with the long gibberish names to something else, which I spent a while doing the last couple days (even though I'd already used the clean installer to sort them to folders, heh). Much nicer to have real names for the files!

I get this too, in one house only - I've tried using the burninator in the hopes that I can nuke the sound emitter but I haven't been able to find it. :\

I just noticed Shaklin has something to give Sims different walks and facial expressions, for movies... I dunno, but that romance sim 'about to do a flirting interaction' walk is more of a strut, I guess... /random

I guess that's why I had four sets in a row right after NL came out. I just checked not long ago and I have had 16 sets of multiples in a four-generation 'hood I've been playing since the base game One or two sets were from Twojeffs' hack but I took it out for more random surprise. Not quite sure how many Sims I've had born in game, there are a ton, but it probably equates to ten percent or so being twins...

I wish I had any of them get those fears... well, they get the Woohoo rejection one, but there's little chance of that, ever Then again, I don't usually get Romance Sims married, either, but when I did, no fears like that... blah. I'd like to see more of the Wants and Fears that I haven't seen before; by now they're all getting pretty predictable.

Dates make things a little different, though I know I can count on them to finally Want to marry their significant other on a date. Only twice without dates have I ever had a Sim Want to marry someone - which he rolled up right after his first kiss with her (also first kiss ever) in college. They're obsessed with each other, worse than three-bolters, but they just have two.

Anyway, once on a date I had a Sim Fear that his ex-steady girlfriend was stinky, on a home lot, and she was nowhere around. That was kind of out of the blue, heh.

I've had this happen since Uni, at least a couple times, when the phone call would be for the Sim who just died and they say "not home" (why not 'OMG THEY JUST DIED?!?', hah?) but I haven't had repeated calls like that, so... yeah. 

When I had this happen, after asking around desperately, I finally ended up deleting my thumbnails and had the game regenerate them, and it updated finally. I believe it was a thumbnail file under Program Files/EA Games and not the regular thumbnails under My Documents - anyone else know for sure?

I'd like to see that Power aspiration activated again, too... it'd fit with a good number of my Sims, especially the "villain" types, who right now are mostly Knowledge and Fortune for lack of anything better.