Ugh, it worries me that your logs show a "TemplateDog", I wonder if that sim can't show up because it's messed up its species.

ETA:
Also there's a gazillion of


in your lot. Any idea on how they can be there? Stuck enemies or something?

I would add a modded version of modded tippingfix (tippingfix³), which nukes the endless animations when the sim picks up the tip jar.
Once you try without anims, you'll never go back!

It's amazing how players made ceilings never had this kind of issues, so far...

Go, EA, GO!

P.S.: I wonder if ceilings are sold back like waves do, when the family moves out.

Heh, that's an issue that annoyed me since the beginning (it started in Nightlife maybe?). Squinge solved with a Less Romantic Greets & Goodbyes hack, now still outdated.
You can try a rough update I made for myself in BV - quite sure it needs updating too, but probably it may crush at least the most part...
Beware, this crap is HIGHLY NON-AWESOME and I myself keep it in Quarantine folder, as I still didn't have the time/will to look seriously in it.

It worked! Yay! I'm able to force errors on Mac!

That's really interesting; I've never been able to have a Force Error spawn the window and the subsequent log. Something probably happens, though, as when I click e.g. "Force Error on all" with the batbox the game freezes or lags for a few seconds, even if no visible outcome occurs.
I didn't any extensive test with different combinations of EPs; now I have every damn EP and SP those lazy Aspyr programmers ported for Mac (I was so sick to wait that now I play in my Windows partition, to enjoy all the remaining SPs and at least FT).

Yesterday I tested the "Force Error an all" in Winzozz game... VERY bad idea.

That would be awesome (needless to say); I may test it in BV (no FT nor AL for us Mac paeons, probably forever).

You know, I was afraid of something like this (my bad, of course). Actually, my boss seems to realize that internet connection at work might be useful sometimes, so I hope I'll can use my spare time at work for - at last! - browsing, reading and posting. During this year I become a crossword expert, sigh.
Next issue could be having that Windows ME connect and properly display sites between a blue screen and the next one... but that's another story.

Yep, "autonomous" errors do pop up regularly in debug mode, but force error does not pop up any window, nor it creates any log file.

(hi everybody! somehow back here and there, out of the little time I have to play or hang out on the net; better greetings and hugs [or kicks/stomps if preferred] later in more appropriated places)

There may be an additional problem for the OP: since she states she's a mac user, for some reason only Aspyr and their gods know, forcing an error on mac version does not work. Neat feature, uhu?

I have the same problem, random, with Seasons and the computer change, from iMac G5 to MacIntel. I blame the video card.

Yep, autonomous repair happens if the sim has mech skill 8 or more. Apparently it happens if the sim also has no other needs with high advertising (e.g. low social/fun/etc.): when it would probably idling, or something like that. I'm sure it's planned since the base game.

The MP3 swap seems weird, instead; maybe some inventory tokens messed up?

I think that it doesn't work with the QA version, because I assume that Theo is still working on that upgrade (or will wait for that SimPE's version official release, before upgrading his tool). However, it works like a charm in Seasons' version.

Yes, it deletes the same resources (I checked manually, and I spotted no differences between the two methods) as the lot debugger does, plus the SDSC resource and the corresponding phyisical character file.
The lot debugger is quicker in deleting related resources in game, and with Theo's tool you don't need the part of writing down the #ID of the character, etc.

It's a sorta glitch, it happens sometimes since the base game; I've witnessed that quite often with CAS elders. Sometimes the "try for baby" is present in the pie menu, too.
Anyway, chime yes, but no "real" pregnancy, as the sim doesn't give birth to anyone anyway.
Probably it's some safety check missing somewhere in the age-pregnancy code, I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem to make real harm.

Actually, there is a plug-in for SimPE (sort of), by Theo here. I usually delete sims with the lot debugger first, and then finish the work with that tool in SimPE; it speeds up the whole process and deletes the sim completely, character file included.

I knew for sure that some windows are broken and do not let the light pass through, so it is possible that other new windows are as well. One of the OpenMe windows is; there's a couple of fix on MTS2, one by MaryLou (global) and one by Windkeeper.

The blue background should be IIRC about "unlinked" state (default for Maxis' dead sims). There's a hack by Pescado which prevents dead sims unlinkage, maybe you have that hack too.
In any case, though, it should not be a bad thing for your sims.


This is the regular behavior; probably you saved the lot before with that teen already scheduled as a brought-home schoolmate. In those cases the game loads the now-dead sim and process it exactly the way you witnessed.

Yet another regular feature of default Pleasantview: the game ships with duplicates of Skip Broke, Darleen Dreamer, and IIRC also other dead sims. It's not your fault .

It happens to me, sometimes, when I hide the application "too early" (hide is the Macs' corresponding action to Win's minimize), while the neighborhood is not fully loaded.

As soon as I can put my hands on BV objects.package, I'll try to check compatibility/update for Squinge's mods (at least the simpler ones). Jordi also said that he will.

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And if you hate the endless tinkering with the tip jar, grab this, or this if you use Pes' tippingfix.

If you have the Mac edition of the game, instead, you have to ctrl-clic on the application, choose "Show Package contents" and open the subsequent folders till you find Archive.pax.gz. Copy this file from the DVD to the Desktop (or wherever you want, on your hard disc), double-clic and let it expand.

This archive is compressed with gzip and pax, but luckily the archiver built-in in the system can expand both formats.

I would bet on this. SimSlice's stuff pretty much always have some weird or borked behavior.

Sharing a whole hood is safe, it's the export/import of single lots with families that is not.

Lot Debugger is here. It's an advanced tool, though, so be careful. It doesn't do any harm, though, unless you choose something random without understanding what it does .

In this specific case, though, I guess the Pescado suggestion is way more useful. Just drop it in the Downloads folder, it will not show up like an object.

Perfect, thank you .

The error seems related to memories; do you have any hack that affects memories? In that case, I would try to load the game without them - as a first try - and see if the error persists.

Another try might be cleaning the memories with the Lot Debugger (choose to clean trash, gossips and attraction markers).

Even better, grab the error log and attach it to your post, as pointed out here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,7437.msg208014.html#msg208014