Yup, I think it's the same in everyone's OFB. There's no way to place anything on top of the mailboxes or move anything beyond the sidewalk. I tried to move a school bus because it stopped right in front of the mailbox and the kids couldn't get off and I wasn't able to place it back down anywhere on the road. I didn't bother waiting for the car in front of the bus to leave, I just exited and sent the dad to work in his car instead the second time around. I hope someone is able to find away around this issue - I love the mailbox covers. 

How does the recharge speed in a bed/coffin/etc. compare to using sunlight? I've only just activated my first Servo and it seemed like it only took her an hour or two to recharge from half power to full when she went outside. If it's the same speed for beds, I might build her a little shed in the backyard so she has somewhere to hang her uhh... bow.

Yup, I removed the corresponding memories of them meeting each other. I've done the same thing any number of times with other Sims successfully, he just doesn't want to stop. At this point I can't think of any other way to get him to stop calling besides killing him.

I've had a couple of problems so far (in addition to the Renuyu orb corruption) in the little bit of time I've had to play OFB. The first problem is that once my family's crafted robots have returned to their bases after their initial startup, they don't ever leave on their own again. I don't exactly know what the CleanBots are capable of, but they remain on their bases while dirty dishes, puddles, and old newspapers pile up. I have one CleanBot on each floor and I've checked any number of times to make sure they are turned on but they just sit there taking up space. When I send my Sims to "reboot" them (turn off then on), they go off to water/clean for a few minutes and then return to their bases and never come out again until they are rebooted. Maybe I'm missing something, but I assumed that while they are in the on position they will leave their bases periodically to do the limited number of chores they are capable of doing.

The second problem is far more irriating though. I have a phone stalker who calls every evening for a Sim even though she died a few days ago. He was initially introduced to my Sim as a contact but that effect has long worn off. From the first time he contacted my Sim, he has called every evening at around 6:30 and then again a few minutes later (it's always twice). Before my Sim died, I would have someone else answer the phone and tell him she was unavailable. Now that she's pushing up daisies, when he calls he says something to the effect of "Oh Callista isn't home? Okay, I'll call back later." I tried removing the relationship between the two of them in SimPE last night so they have 0 relationship points towards each other and are, as far as SimPE is concerned, unknown to one another. I also checked both their memories and don't see a contact token anywhere, but the bastard continues to call every night for her. This happens with or without any hacks in the game - even with the phone hack he still calls. One small thing to note is that even with the phone hack installed and the phone ringer set to off, his phone calls still get through and the phone will ring for hours until someone answers. I've taken to removing the telephone from the house until I introduce him to the cow plant.

You have to wait at least 6 hours to call them back into work. They can still call in sick if they don't feel like coming in.

There's a New Wave station with some 80's songs in Simlish and a Shopping station with build/buy (I think) music from TS1. I don't usually get to play with the sound on so I'm not sure if there are new songs on the other stations.

I was wondering the same thing when I loaded OFB for the first time. I'd much rather hear the original TS2 loading music or even from Vacation or Superstar.

Is there a trash can on the lot anywhere? I seem to recall the community grills using paper plates instead of regular dishes. I could be completely out of my mind though.

I would love a talent badge meter. The guide has listed 1 hour, 24 hours, and 48 hours for the time it takes to receive the badges, but the relevant skill level and personality seem to make a difference as well so those numbers could be wildly different for a Sim with the "wrong" personality type and/or no skills. I'd like to know just how far my Sims have to go before they can make Servos/snapdragons/etc.

Slightly related, does anyone know if thinking caps increase the speed of earning badges?

I haven't done much with the makeover chairs but in order to promote to manager, the employee needs a total of at least 5 badge points (bronze = 1, silver = 2, gold = 3).

A home business won't allow you to promote someone to manager, only stand-alone businesses can have them.


I believe the choices for employees works similar to job openings from the newspaper/computer - every night at midnight another random group of potential Sims is available.

The ones I already had in my neighborhoods seem to be working just fine.

Holding down ctrl + alt lets you place more than one object on the same wall section (e.g. a lamp over a painting). It doesn't help getting the cover over the mailbox. 

Or even better, remesh him like Bender and Flexo.

And so are born the words hax0r, h4x0r, |-|/-\}{()|3 (I can't remember how to make an obnoxious R), etc.

Yup, autoyak works great for me. My Sims are obsessed with calling each other so it makes filling those wants so much easier.

I'd like to see this too, most of my Sims have 5 or 6 points in each trait so they don't really qualify for either personality type but I'd still like to keep track of what their personalities are.

You're missing the true/false at the end - boolprop testingcheatsenabled true to turn it on, boolprop testingcheatsenabled false to turn it off.

Try here, he's moved things around.

Is there any way to retrieve a Sim's maiden/pre-married last name in SimPE? I reinstalled the DB and tracked down just about everything except that little detail. I'm lovin' this program! 

You can either delete the neighborhood in-game by selecting it from the neighborhood browser then clicking the trash can icon to the right, or you can go into the My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods folder and delete the folder itself (you'll need to know which number it is, you could also tell by the neighborhood image). But it sounds like something went wrong with the "change icon" or whatever button for the adjustors. Have you tried asking someone at the InSIMenator website for help?

I've run across a problem. I clicked on the reports button and now I can't figure out how to get back to the data entries. I closed out the program and restarted it, but the only two windows that show now are the generated report and Sims2Partners. I've done something dumb, haven't I?

Read here.

Firefox is free, you should be able to download it directly from the Mozilla website.

Fantastic job, Pegasys! This is exactly what my Sims needed me to have.