A new version of the romancemod was posted today.  I suggest updating.

To continue on the wrong track, I've always been amused by the fact that the only person in ZZ Top without a beard is in fact named Beard...

One common way that I don't think has ever been fixed is saving the lot when a sim is on the cell phone. But that's only one way, and there are probably dozens of others.

See the recent flap about Google apps blocking the use of PayPal for more details....

Sounds like the lot got borked; time to bulldoze it and put a new hotel in its place.

I see a big "download now" button when I go to the link. So perhaps blondness strikes?

That would actually be pretty funny...

Same here.  Big do.not.want, to the point that I only go to MTS2 now if there's something I'm specifically looking for.

And FWIW, there are legitimate reasons to use Alcohol (CD/DVD archiving, for example) and Daemon Tools (to run legitimately owned software without having to put the CD in every time, and to speed up game loading), so calling them 'pirate tools' is a sign of severe brainwashing by the companies who use invasive and/or harmful forms of copy protection.

And also FWIW, I have legitimate copies of all my games, and I still prefer to run them with various no-cd tools or exes.

Very nice, Annan -- that one's going in my game...

Not really "longer than usual', I don't think.  I remember one of the earlier no-cd.exes took a while to come out after the patch (I think it was the first BV patch) -- maybe 2-3 weeks.

The hospitality/romance attraction thing gets seriously wacked at times.  The sworn enemy of one popularity sim (who had the hospitality benefit) kept coming to his house and getting into his pool.  I don't mind if friends or family members drop by, but an enemy?  The owner of the lot would eventually take notice of his being there, and would go stand by the pool waiting for a fight that never happened because the enemy didn't get out of the pool on his own. Put up a fence, but then the enemy would come and stand by the gate trying to get into the pool, until the playable noticed he was there (which sometimes never happened).

Got to the point that the enemy would keep getting smited  to chase him off.  I didn't want to kill  him off, since he was a playable from another lot. He has since died of old age, so problem solved, but it was annoying while it went on.

Ah yes, the bin dance!  I've deleted a lot of bins from hotels after seeing that one too many times...

That one has been fixed by Paladin over on www.simwardrobe.com -- look in his fixes area for the 'improved-housekeeping' fix.  He also has one that makes the bellhop useful.

Why not just play the owner's lot, and have him/her sell it first? 

Yea, it's pretty bad that way -- I usually click on macro/concentrate right after sending a sim off to study parenting, and that solves the ADHD problem.  Since the parenting thing is pretty useless anyway, now I don't even bother having the sims study it at all, unless they get a want for it.

Yes, it includes all sims.

More likely you have a hack that's breaking it -- they retain their 'knowledge' between sessions in my game just fine and pick up where they left off.  Make sure you don't have an older non-FT compatible hack hiding somewhere.

When the HD went south under warranty on my Dell laptop, they sent a new (bigger ) HD out with a Windows install CD.  Though as Witch pointed out, most mass market computers have the Windows serial number on a sticker somewhere now, so really, you can use any Windows install CD.

Yes; there's a cheat you can enter that regulates the number of sims allowed to visit community lots and come to parties.  I'm not at my game computer right now, and I don't remember the exact name of the cheat off the top of my head, but if you do a search on "maxnumberofsims" (or variations of that phrase) it should turn up here in the Podium.

Check the Thumbnails folder under 'The Sims 2' -- I believe there's a file there for Bodyshop.  Just delete it and BS will regenerate it when it needs to.

You mean, as in the patch installs SecuRom when you run it?  Oh, definitely DNW, then.

(P.S.: colored text in messages is frowned upon here on MATY -- just a word to the wise...)


ETA: Ok, I checked the sources mentioned -- it appears you still have to run the new Sims7EP.exe to get the new, nastier SecuROM. It's not installed by just installing the patch.  So the wait for a no-cd.exe continues...

They may be; I avoid them like the plague (i.e., by not answering the door).  I did have a sim go to the park at Sim State when I was playing last night, and the male drama professor was there -- hitting on every other male in sight (I love ACR's random gender preference). He got rejected and poked in the chest quite a bit.  

The latest VC doesn't squelch anything you don't want it to squelch.  TJ removed pretty much all the default settings, and every setting can be changed. I think only the gypsy and Mrs. C are banned by default now, and even that can be changed quite easily.  The settings are on a lot basis; handy for making teen-only or gay-only clubs, or designing that little love nest club for your romance sims where they can stalk new lovers without running into existing ones.   In my mind, it's one of the 5 essential tools for the game (the lot debugger and macrotastics and its related accessories are also in that group).

No, that started with FT.

1) The only solution I know of is to ban them completely using TwoJeffs' Visitor Controller, found at www.simbology.com.

2) The names change, but the stalking professor is usually one of the Drama professors.  They're always randy romance sims. To keep them from stalking, see the answer to #1.