And our own Emma has a bunch of 'hobby lots as community lots' she built and posted over in her area on laverwinkle.sims.  You can save yourself a lot of effort having to build your own.

Go into the thumbnails folder (under your documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder) and delete the relevant thumbnail file (I believe it's 'objectsthumbnails.package').  The game will rebuild it next time you go into buy mode.

The thumbnail files get glitched over time -- many of us just delete all of them on principle every so often.

Well, the easiest way is to just delete the CASThumbnails.package -- the game will regenerate it next time you go into CAS and select a skin. There's also a way to update individual thumbnails -- turn the testing cheats on before you go into CAS, and then shift-click (or shift-right-click -- I forget which, since I rarely use it) on the thumbnail to regenerate it.

Just deleting the thumbnail package is probably the best course of action if it's more than one that's borked, though.

I believe it's net available simoleons of the household, divided by the number of sims in the house.

What EPs/SPs do you have?  A bit more info about your setup would help us.

Posting in the topic for a particular hack is never necromancy here, in spite of the big scary guy.

As for your problem, try making the shower and the toilet be in the same room by knocking down a piece of the wall.  I've found that the radius setting isn't quite as accurate as just having it set to 'room'.

The OP was oldversioned on nonpregannoy -- the problem with pregnancies stalling and causing errors when the sim tried to change into the preg mesh at the 25th hour was a known issue with the older version and FT.

What's the difference between your DFA and the Gunmod camera changes?  I've been using the GM ones for ages, and get a top-down view whenever I want.

Depends on if and when El Presidente is in the mood to have one...

Actually, it doesn't make a bit of difference -- both names point to the exact same file (the ol' Unix alias function, dontchaknow), so it doesn't matter if you download moreawesomethanyou.zip or moreawesomethanyou-ft.zip.  The real moral of the story is to get the moreawesomethanyou.zip from the directory that corresponds to the EP you have.  Or if you always have the latest EP, just download it from the link in the Hack Directory thread in the Armory.

Google search is your friend; TwoJeffs has had that mod available for years now.  You can find it over on simbology.

I don't see anything bigger than 320GB at newegg, and if they don't have it, it probably doesn't exist...

Yes, at least twice.  I suggest you keep an eye on the 'Hack Directory' thread in the Armory, as new updates are reported there as they happen (or pretty soon afterward ).

The package file includes all the CC you need.

Hmm, I must have something that fixes that (or perhaps the BV patch does --- are you up-to-date on the patch), but I've not had a problem with the nanny staying around to house sit for a pet.

Are you waiting until the game says you need a nanny, or are you calling the nanny on your own?  I think I've only scheduled the nanny on my own ("come just this time"), and that may be the difference.

Make sure you have the latest version of all hacks before whining -- the problems with the Phone hack and AutoYak have been fixed in recent updates.  If you still have problems, you have either an old version of the phone hack hiding elsewhere in your downloads directory (it's a hack that will hitchhike on downloaded lots), or another hack that's conflicting with it or with the game (aka, tight pants).  Get the clean installer from MTS2 and the Hack conflict detection utility from simwardrobe, and run both to find your problem(s).

Not to mention the silly advice with no backup reasoning to stay away from SP3, which is perfectly fine.

And so it begins... 

I was happy with 512Mb until I got 1GB.  Then I was happy, until I got 2GB and wondered how I lived so long with 1GB.  Then I built my own PC and put 4GB in it, and wondered how I ever got along with 2GB.  It never ends, Jess.

Also, don't forget that your new PC also probably has a more powerful CPU than the old one (I think they upgrade the CPU capabilities every other day these days  ), so that certainly influences how fast things happen.  But it's a kind-of PC formula -- faster CPU + Faster and more RAM = much happier user.

Depends on the motherboard and the type of RAM sticks it takes.  There are 4GB sticks out there, so if your motherboard supports it, you can have 16GB RAM in the machine.

Of course, the 32-bit version of Windows XP/Vista will only see 4GB, and effectively give you 3.5GB usable memory.  You need the 64-bit versions to see it all.


If you have a need for more than 3.5GB RAM, then the 64-bit version is better. Otherwise, it's a toss-up for the average user, with the downside that you can't just upgrade from a 32-bit version to a 64-bit version -- you have to do a fresh install, and re-install everything on your system.  I remember that some applications had problems with the 64-bit version of XP, but I've read that applications written for Vista don't care one way or the other which one they run on.

Make sure you have the latest version of the debugger, released last night.

Or take the fridge out completely, and the sim will also take the food from their own inventory.

Heh; I have that second one (the floor lamp) sitting in my family room...

Yea, all good things must come to an end...


(But my custom built, super-duper desktop computer is and will remain Vista-free for as long as possible. )

Revenge story about getting Vista:  I was working from home yesterday, so I ran up to Best Buy to get the upgrade pack (Home Premium), which was listed on their website at $129 (I had a bunch of reward zone coupons I was planning to use).  After waiting a while for a salesman to finally get it for me, since they don't keep it on the shelves (like people are going to actually try to steal it ), and waiting in line, I got to the register and it kept ringing up @ $159. In spite of their web page saying that $129 was the price, and the sticker on the shelf in the store saying it was $129, the cashier and her boss kept insisting that $159 was the right price, so I told them to keep it and walked out.

Went on line a bit later and ordered it for pickup at the $129 price.  Went to the store to get it later in the day, and had to wait a bit as the guy found someone with a key to the locked cabinet they had the pickup orders in.  When he finishes the ring-up process, it turns out the in-store price is really $95, and that I also get a discount because of their guarantee that you'll get an in-store pickup item in a minute or less (didn't know about that one).  So with the lower price, discount, and the reward coupons I had, the Vista upgrade cost me....

$35.

Yup, the remote-controlled car, and the helicopter that came with FT, and all the robots from OFB are treated as NPC sims in the game.  That's why you'll see very outgoing sims making the greeting animation to the sentrybot (for example) as they walk into the house.