Ok, I finally got some sims with enough sewing skills to sew a teddy bear.  Except, when they do I get a constant string of errors, like the one attached.  Any clues as to what's causing this?

nVidia's have usually been the better gaming card overall, but there's traditionally been many more problems with them than with the ATI cards as far as TS2 is concerned. So if TS2 (and probably TS3) is your main game, it's worth sticking with ATI.  Most other games won't have any problem running with the high-end ATIs anyway.


Double your RAM -- I did that, and TS2 flies.  Fast loading, and I hardly ever get any lag.


Edited by moderator to fix double posting.  Tsk, tsk, Jsalemi; you really should know better.

That E8400 is a sweet processor, isn't it?

Yes.  Stick with the ATI card; the rest of your specs look pretty good.  Maybe go with a little faster CPU -- the 3.0Ghz core 2 duos aren't that much more than the 2.5Ghz these days.

I've heard that Parsimonious aromatherapy thing causes a lot of FT problems, so it's probably wise to dump it.

Not even that -- it's EAxis borkage, since my Aspir toddler had the exact same LTW the first time I ever played that lot. And I know better than to do either of those things.

We as contributors didn't have problems with Paypal the last time, but Pesc and company had enormous trouble getting the money we sent to Paypal paid out to them. The payments ended up in some Paypal limbo for quite some time, and many of us had to request our money back from Paypal for 'non-delivery of service' (or something like that) because it would otherwise have hung in limbo for a long time.

ETA: Found the thread from last year on the Paypal mess: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7107.0.html

FTp2 and FTp3 are essentially the same patch; I think the only big difference is that 3 adds support for the EA Store.

Color me a bit confused -- so your ls_buy.package has ALL the LS objects you've converted in one package, rather than in individual packages like Pescado's (and others)?  If it's not all of them, is there a list somewhere of which it does contain, so I know which older packages are replaced?

I've seen that problem recently, too -- seems to have cropped up since FTp3.  I saw it when a sim was reading in a hammock and I tried to get her husband there for a quicky (she had a public woohoo want).  Queued up the woohoo, and she put the book away and they both ended up stuck -- her in the hammock and him standing next to it.  I could only clear them by forcing an error on her, and then having them start the woohoo interaction as soon as she got back into the hammock. 

And it was on a community lot, and no, I don't have any of Ste's Risky Woohoo hacks in my game.

Yup, that's your problem -- the Spore thing comes with suckrot.

Nope, it's not just you -- they're getting robbed.

Which borkedness do you want to discuss?  The restrictions on changing the lot after apartment dwellers move in?  Or the NPC 'roommate'?  I imagine that one is going to break a whole lot of stuff. Or perhaps the social network thing bringing in a whole bunch of new annoyances?

(At the least, it looks like Inge is going to have some work to do to update her lockable doors hack, and I imagine you'll have some major work to do on APO...)

Yes, quilts are fine -- they're built-into the game, so it doesn't change anything to sew one.

Apparently the custom clothes are still saved in objects.package.  I had one sim make some as an experiment after patch 3, and when she was done, the date of the FT objects.package changed to the current date, even though it was marked as read-only. It also wasn't read-only anymore.

Ah, I knew there was more than one reason I kept nostrayrespawn in my game.

I'm not sure if the pool of pets on the phone is the same as the pool of strays that wander lots. Maybe if you exhaust the pool on the phone, it gets filled with the strays?

Yea, Emma is right -- the option 'make>custom outfit' pops up on the sewing machine when the sim has a gold badge.  But the selection is limited (i.e., you only get a dress for an elder female), and aren't really worth the effort.  Better to have them make regular clothes from the catalog -- saves some simoleans and a shopping trip, anyway.

I think it's based on the lazy/active level of the toddler, but yea, that's a very handy hack.

As for my no-wolf/stray issue, I took out nostrayrespawn last night before playing Desiderata, and immediately got strays on the first lot I played.  Didn't see a wolf until I used the NPC spawner on the mailbox to spawn one, but now there's one in the hood at least.  So I guess nostrayrespawn keeps any strays or wolves from spawning in a new hood. Now that I have some, I can put nostrayrespawn back in.

You know, it's occurred to me that I haven't seen a wolf (and rarely a stray) since I installed FT.  The skunk comes around all the time, as does the penguin.  I've been playing the Desiderata hood, though, and I'm wondering if Pesc's hack to cut down on strays being spawned has something to do with it....

Right, because they still write them to a game file (objects.package, I believe?).

They do get to make custom clothes with the gold badge -- not that the custom clothes are any great shakes, but they do get to make them.

Bah -- Uni is boring enough as it is.  Just use Pescado's college clock to send them to finals as soon as their grade bar is high enough and get it over with.

Millions of Italian-Americans can't be wrong about doing just that.

Make sure you have the latest versions for your highest EP of all your hacks and mods (IOW, make sure you don't have tight pants ).