So to clarify: no one knows what plugins are needed to enable Sim Surgery in SimPE (which is the only program that can be used to get a Sim that was born in-game into BodyShop)?

ETA: I don't think it's possible to get a Sim exported using SimPE at this time. I disabled every single plugin I could in Preferences and I still couldn't get Sim Surgery to work. *shrugs*

Well, you know what they say: when you're right 51% of the time, that means you're also wrong 49% of the time. 

I see what you're saying; if I were to do all that and then install the lot (using Clean Installer to select only the Sims in question), would said Sims show up in BodyShop?

The problem I have with that wretched ninja is catching the little fucker! He seems to teleport in and stays only for about three seconds before he's gone again, so if my Sim is at the other end of the lot, there'll be no chance of catching him. I've seem him about ten times and only caught him twice. The first time he asked me which came first: the ninja or the sword (I said sword and got it right), but the second time was with an elder Sim who runs slower than some Sims shuffle and he asked me if it's better to know yourself or your enemy. I said self and he disagreed. Bastard! 

Oh, and Witch, this may just be superstition, but I just ask the tour guide What's Cool Here, and as soon as he mentions the ninja, I immediately go to another lot and within a very short period of time, he appears. It's catching the guy that I haven't gotten the hang of yet. Maybe this will work for you.

Still no confirmation on the eggplant juice? I seem to recall a patch EA released that said it would ensure that skills earned from drinking it would be properly credited and I'm thinking Bon Voyage may have broken that fix.

It works; I've done it multiple times. I haven't actually gotten the deliveryperson to hand the album over yet (they've just placed it on the ground), but I suspect this is due to poor lot design on my part.

Okay, will do so; thanks anyways everyone.

Would disabling these plugins be fairly easy to do (i.e. choosing which ones to disable), or should idiots such as myself just suck it up and wait for a SimPE update?

I've noticed with learning the dances that you can learn about the skill (as in it appears in the Traveller's Accomplishments section) but when the want appears in your Wants panel, you have to actually master it (as in, pay the fire dancer to teach you the entire thing).

Excellent; a furnished home for my afrotastically-endowed Ratbowl. *rubs hands maniacally*

Thanks for the tip, ZephyrZodiac. However, the Sims I want to export are all either children or toddlers that were born in-game, so they can't be moved into an empty lot alone.

I guess I'll just have to wait a few months for SimPE to be updated. For some reason, I thought I had heard that it was possible to physically copy their package file from the Characters folder, but I guess I must have misread. 

So it's really not possible to export a Sim from the game without SimPE? 

Ahhh, I never knew that hacks themselves could cause Sims to be reset. Thanks for the info.

You know how Sims tend to halt all current actions and reset to having all motives except bladder at full (bladder being at half full) when you install a new EP or patch? Yeah. That's happening every time I close the game and re-enter a lot later on. >=(

Also: for some reason, whenever I have a Sim drink eggplant juice, they'll occasionally get the maxed skill icon above their head even though they haven't maxed a blasted thing.


Really? I've only had one Sim enter the ocean, but he waded in on his own without 'climbing down' anything. How odd.

I'm on it. 

ETA: Yes, it works with BV. I had a Sim starve in Three Lakes (on a comm lot) and had the same Sim drown in the ocean in Twikkii Island. Interestingly enough, his wife swam out into the ocean to 'cry for him,' but once she swam out there, the 'Cry Softly' action disappeared. Grim appeared on the beach itself to dispose of the body (whose hair disappeared at his death, but whose body was gently wafting with the waves). I saw that even the tour guide himself donned a pair of swimming trunks to sigh over the Sim's demise.

I'll give it another try, but I think it keeps throwing the exact same error at me, thus making it never-ending. I'll post the exact error message here shortly.

ETA: Yup, the same error every pop up. Here it is:

Error while trying to open: Package: c:\documents and settings\[name]\my documents\ea games\the sims 2\neighborhoods\N004\N004_Neighborhood.package.

Naturally, Bon Voyage has broken certain SimPE features. I seem to be able to use a minimal amount of functions in it, but not Sim Surgery. I would like to extract a Sim from the game, but the program throws up errors whenever I try. I tried manually locating the package file in the Characters folder, but when I placed it directly into the Saved Sims folder (or inth my Downloads), he doesn't show up in BodyShop at all.

Does anyone know how to extract a Sim from the game without using SimPE, or if they know i'm doing something wrong, could they kindly inform me as to what it is that I'm messing up? Thanks.

Does anyone know offhand if I can simply delete the launcher from the game files, or will that cause a BFBVFS?

Not sure if this is an EP bug or hack related (I doubt it, though: most of my hacks were taken out of the game at this point), but after I exited the game after taking a very pregnant Sim on vacation, when I returned to that lot later, the painting she was nearly finished had disappeared entirely and she suddenly appeared to have her first baby pop when she was already in her third trimester.

Regarding the missing skill points/money due to vacation chance cards: I notice that they don't get applied until after the tour is over. Are you all paying attention to the requisite areas when the 'returning from tour' option appears on the screen? I've never had this problem.

Same here. Even when I had all my "filthy" hacks still in the game, time passed regularly like it hadn't done before. 

Ahhh, that's another issue I'm having. With the exception of Tattoos, none of the new turn ons/offs actually tell you what they are. Point at the red hair icon, you see a 'Red hair' text bubble pop up. Point to 'tattoos,' you see the text bubble. Point at any of the other ones and . . . nothing.

For some reason, that exchange reminds me of Jerry MaGuire. 

Some sort of rock band, I think. It seems to have the basics: a good-looking one, an overly effeminate one and a buffed up muscle-type.

No, no lamè either, more's the pity. 

Seriously: it's a Super Sim that can do almost everything while not having the distinctiveness of being unique. I disapprove.