Hmm. I thought it would override for the Maxis crap-hoods. Jordi doesn't mention there being any difference between new names in customs and in defaults, and there really isn't a reason for there to be a difference.
I could be bothered to test this in Riverblossom, as I've no desire to play that neighborhood again past jerking over the Corsillo kids (Ramiswami spawn) eventually.

My Riverblossom has four Goopies. They live in a commune. Perhaps I should have Sim Emma come and join them in a love tri-uh-pentagon.

The neighborhood I actually play (Urban Paradise/Downtown Craziness/University Land) is 100% custom, so no Goopiness.

I just edited live.package (from the downloads folder, courtesy of Jordi) in SimPE. I like most of the names, just needed some U, Z, W, and V's added so that I could complete my Alphabet challenge some time down the line. Adding lines to or changing the entries seems to work, if you are just wanting a few changes. I've already seen a townie spawned with a new name I needed.

Turn on/turn off the stereo loops drive me nuts, too. It's bad enough that I have to listen to that salsa channel 24/7, but do the simmies have to make it skip so much?

I feel you on the Legacy thing. I never got beyond Gen 5 before and now that I'm doing Alphabet/Apoc/my own spin, I'm finally on Gen 9. If it's not satisfying your play style or "needs", modify it or ditch it.

As for the puppy/kitten thing, I've definitely noticed that fortune sims tend towards those wants and that they prefer one or the other. Kids seem to be a bit more scatterbrained. Hardcoded? Not sure.

I had wanted something that would let me see what it was and delete the file if need be. This did half, and I couldn't see the real file name to cull them. I still use it for the intended purpose of collection creating, though.

Thanks. New version reads the files fine, the program just didn't do what I wanted it to. Still useful, though.

There's nothing more fun than messing with "boolProp constrainFloorElevation false" ....unless it's doing it in multicolor.

Slight issue, may have been mentioned before. The Collection Creator doesn't play nice with this. In fact, when opening folders in CC, I get nothing or one gobbly-gooked named file. Ick. I really need to clean my recolors and decorative objects, too. Any short-term suggestions?

Holy crap, you've done some DePaul buildings. I have to show my buddies those. I went there for three years. I'm a northsider through-and-through (well, not originally, I'm from Indiana, but I bounce around the northeastern 'hoods).

Nope, you can't put 2nd-story floor tiles on the last two squares to the edge, even with moveObjects on. Another stinky thing as sometimes I like overhangs on my mod buildings.

And again, I want a piece of this Chi hood, or at least some pics. I keep wanting to build houses just like those in my neighborhood but get sidetracked. When I'm finished with this extended Apocalypse thing, I think there will be zoning laws that only allow lots of the 1x2, 1x3, and 2x1 variety. Maybe the occasional 2x2 for those pesky historic houses like along the Inner Drive and around Old Town/Streeterville and some mid-rises.

Ignore the wierd one.


I'm concerned with why you are getting these "$Private String:0" options. I've never seen this before. Do you have any non-MATY hacks installed? Specifically ones that might borkify the mailbox?

1. Babies and toddlers are not allowed to go on vacation, by design. However, when a sim calls to invite another household on vacation with them, the ankle-biters show up and are not interactable. Since no social worker can come to vacation lots, the buggers die. Could be good, could be bad. Could be a new way for the Oversoul to enforce population control.

2. Increased chance of food poisoning on vacation lots = more dead simmies.

3. The firepit has a small chance of igniting sims by design. However, they bork the probability and pretty much every sim that comes within five squares of it ignites.

House available here: http://www.4shared.com/dir/2710440/c8824f7a/sharing.html

Lot size: 2x3
Price: $92,387
Bedrooms: 3
Bathrooms: 2
Other features: pool, greenhouse, crib room (keeps the ankle-biters from waking up the other kids)
Awesome materials: Lot debugger, macrotastics launcher hidden in roof area, phone hack included by default.
Expansion Packs: All
Stuff Packs: None

Outside views:


The floorplan (notice that the greenhouse is a clean environment):


Room views (no custom content makes me cry):


Bribe: My matching college lots. I have one dorm, one quad-setup with dorm/gym/library, one greek house, and one trinket store with clothing/snacks/magazines/games. Soon to add a coffee house/diner to the set. Not custom content-free.

Fences can go to the boundary, though. Often I'll add a fence around in my more populated areas to make the homes look back-to-back.

Well, since you have a pic of Harry's bum as your avatar, I'm assuming you've both seen the HP movies and read the books. Those movies do the same thing with me. Piss me off, but I still love them. They change so many things. Some of them are due to time constraints, but some are just silly....like the source of the gillyweed. Showing the true source would have kept more continuity between the movies. But no.

I picked up Fellowship a couple years ago...I was 22, I think. Got to page 30, couldn't take it. I'll try again in a year or so. Beautifully described world, I just get antsy.

It would be a challenge. The advice was for the future. He's screwed for now, as far as I know.

My current family plays the salsa channel. ALL THE TIME. It's the only cd they could find after the neighborhood went kablooey. The salsa channel is now the soundtrack to my dreams, and I find myself humming it at work. Between having to listen to that for three generations at this point and being thoroughly sick of the big families caused by no birth control and ACR, I'm thinking Medical and Music have got to be next. Gah.

I've killed them by hail and by lightning, but those were Rodney's Death Creator deaths due to that family going against the oversoul's wishes. I've done drowning, but it's difficult to set up so that the social worker doesn't take them first. Generally, I let them get to teen before killing them off. Lately no one gets killed since the neighborhood is in rebuilding mode, and due to the fact that medicine hasn't gotten back to the point where birth control is possible and I have ACR, well....four kids 1st gen post-apoc and three so far 2nd gen. Back-to-back.

Package all lots you like (after temporarily moving the residents to the bin, of course). Then back those up separately. I learned the hard way after my uploaded copy of a community lot went bonkers and I didn't have the original neighborhood I'd made it in anymore. Now I save all my lots, with the exception of the phone booth and the cheese wedges, because they are not ones I'd use in other 'hoods and they took all of 5 seconds to build.

Whoa, whoa whoa! This is news to me. How is it that several people here have folders upwards of 13GB (side product of the Compressorizer thread is the inherent folder envy) and still run the game, then? I know they can't have 26 GB of RAM. I have 2 gigs, folder is now around 1.8 again because all compressing and purging did was make me feel free to get more stuff, options all maxed, and my game runs quickly and smoothly, except for a bit of slowdown during snow.

Similar gripe...the Maxis music still hasn't gotten under my skin, but I hate having music in buy/build mode, since I build a lot of lots. Or just toggle in & out. I've tried unchecking every song in the options panel for buy/build mode tunes, but the dratted thing still plays stuff. Anyway to make this stick, or should I just find a "blank" mp3 and activate it while deactivating everything else?

I have noticed that only clicking one song does keep only that song playing. It just seems that the game doesn't want you in silence.

Hm, I'd suspect the objects, like he said. OFB did something somewhere that borked up my custom content at the time. Specifically, these plastic flowers I had from Windkeeper would hang the lot load screen. I could place them just fine in build mode and play to my heart's content, but reloading the lot was a neverending experience. On one memorable lot, I had about 40 of the things to go through and delete in debug mode.

...or don't touch anyone you don't see on your screen/can't naturally flirt with. IIRC, you can't flirt with the Social Worker or the Repo Man. I know you can't with Grimmie, Crumplebum, hulas, drivers.

I'd like a piece of that, when you're done, since that's where I'm at. If you are in a sharing mood.