I finally got on Twilight Torrents, but they no longer appear to have a Spore torrent.  So it's the long wait, or do as Gus did and just buy the damn thing.

@Gus:  Assuming it's like TS2 and doesn't actually install SecuROM until you run it the first time, you can get a no-cd.exe that keeps SecuROM off your machine.  Of course, you can't go online with the cracked .exe, but that's not an issue giving the informal sharing of creatures here and elsewhere.

Yea, well, as of now Twilight Torrents is down -- I get a 'you don't have permission to access /' error when I go to it.

<sigh>  Please read the last page or two of this thread to see that the Riley/Cho lot is borked, and how to fix it.

Yea, mine's only around 13%, and I've been downloading it on and off for two days now.  Probably at least 20 solid hours of downloads (I have to pause it if I want to do anything else on the net...).  At this rate I should have it by next weekend...

Yea, that's a known problem.  Paladin made a hack to make them do their job (and also have the bellhop actually repair things) -- you can find both hacks over on www.simwardrobe.com.

That's an old bug -- haven't seen that one in a while.  Move the sim you just moved in back out to the student bin, and have her move back in -- the room should be fine.

Found the garbage chute -- it's in misc/misc.


We've been discussing the Cho/Riley lot in the AL bork thread in the 'You Broke It!' forum -- that lot is borked, but the fix is simple.  Just have whichever sim you're playing visit the other for a bit.  When the playable leaves, the other lot returns to 'normal' and becomes invisible.

As someone suggested to me, have whichever one you're playing visit the other for a bit.  When the playable leaves, the apartment you're not playing returns to 'normal' and becomes invisible.  Works fine after that, and solves this bork fairly easily.

Do you have a cell phone replacement mod?  Those have been known to bork the cell phones in recent EPs. 

The trick is that you have to have a sync timer in each apartment, MM -- you can't have just one for the lot like you do for residential lots.  The fun part comes in trying to find a place to put it in the smaller apartments.

Hmm, didn't see it there, but I'll look again later.

If I'm reading the info correctly, the arrgh version doesn't support connecting online anyway, right?  You pretty much just play as a stand-alone game.

Is the same also true for the no-cd.exe?  Or can you get online with that one while avoiding suckrot?

Just a dumbshit, I can't find it question -- where in hell is the hallway trash chute in the catalog?  I looked in all the obvious places, and unless I'm overlooking it, I can't find it anywhere.

Yes, clothing can cause that (a bad mesh would be the issue), as can hacks that haven't been updated for FT. Take your newest CC out (other than the cat), and try it again.

I never thought of trying that -- I'll have to give it a go next time I play them.

ETA: That worked!  Everything is fine with the two apartments working as they should now.

I had a similar crash after I added a Uni to Belladonna -- I was adding a small dorm from the lot bin, and when I attempted to load the dorm to modify it, the game crashed on the lot loading screen.  When I reloaded the game and went back into the new dorm, everything was fine, and it hasn't happened again on that lot.  Some sadorandom borkedness in the lot/lot bin handling, I suspect.

Ok, so it's not my game -- thanks!  I guess EAxis has it setup that way as a sort-of 'scenario' to force the issue of those two getting together.  Makes sense, since his apartment looks more like it's setup for 4 people than her's is. 

OTOH, it'll take a bit of finessing to get their relationship up, since neither can talk to the other on the phone.  I wonder if the current setup also borks any move-in type interactions. May have to move one of them out and back in and see if that resets it.

If it's like pretty much every other crack, it just replaces the .exe, regardless of how you got the game.

Not necessarily 'easier', but many of us make our own townies using CAS, putting the resulting sim on an empty lot, and using Inge's teleporter cat to turn them into a townie. Many MATYians are townies in my game this way.

I'm not sure if this is an AL bork or a bork in my game -- I did a search on it, and didn't see it mentioned.

Belladonna hood -- I played the Cho/Riley building for the first time last night, and saw that no matter which one I played, the other's apartment was still lit, I could see activity in there, and the sims I were currently playing had full interaction menus with the sims in the other apartment. So the game was sort-of treating them like they were all in the same house together, even though only the current apartment's tenants were showing up as playable. I realized this when I had Riley (I played him second) try to call Cho, and she wouldn't show up in his phone book.  Also, I could click on controllers in the other apartment (i.e., lot debugger, TJ's ACR controller) and control the sims in the currently being played apartment.

Before playing that lot, I moved the guy with the dog from Pets into the trailer park with Jesse Peterson (I think that's her name).  I played her first, then moved him and the dog in, and didn't have the same problem -- her trailer was dark like any other tenants.

So, is it because they were already there in the Cho/Riley lot that it's borked?  Or is it just something in my game?

I think AL reduced the harassment hour -- if you play apartments, you'll notice that most of the other tenants go to bed at 10pm, and even your playables will sometimes get the urge to go to bed @ 10pm, even if they're not all that tired.

If that's Squinge's hack to enable the Uni careers as LTWs, you'll find a better version here in the AL hacks directory -- Pesc's uni_ltws_sns hack.

What is the 'new lifetime wants EP8' hack, and where did you get it?  I'd suspect that one messing things up, frankly, as Pescado's hacks pretty much always play nice together.

That wouldn't be a hack -- that would involve modifying/reprogramming core game files, in particular the .exe.  Not something anyone other than EAxis is likely to do (other than removing the suckrom checks, anyway).

I never saw the Charlatan in the regular hoods until I encountered him at least once on a vacation lot, so I guess that's when he was generated.  Since then, I've seen him everywhere .