Found a very interesting, minor conflict with this hack and the 'no townie respawn'

If you have both in your game, you do not respawn townies, and your player sims do not show up to buy things, BUT, if you used 'deleteallcharacters' so you HAVE no townies, and you send a player sim to another player sim's store to buy (a servo in this case) then the game automatically generates a SHOPPER for the store.

I have had 21 out of 22 families drive to Frank en'Stein's Electronics to buy the toys and electronics that I want them all to have. After about 30 to 45 seconds of shopping, another Shopper will walk in. So far only 2 or 3 new character files have been created, as most of the time it is the same townie shopper that arrives.

I'm sure that if you have Townies in your 'hood, this won't happen (until you kill them all off) but I thought I would pass along the info to the wonderful and all powerful Oz..um.. JM just in case he needed the info.

Trixie

Yeah, and think about your GRANDPARENTS!

Ick, just Ick, and I AM a parent

I still say that Sims is teaching my kids life lessons the best way.

#1 You can't afford to buy everything, so chose carefully.
#2 Babies are HARD to take care of, don't do it until you have enough money to hire help.
#3 Pregnancy can kill, so whoo hoo instead of try for baby whenever possible (use protection)
#4 If you don't do your homework, the Social Worker will take you away.

Seriously, #4 worked! My then 9 year old son was fighting me every day to get his homework done. i would literally stand there and flick him on the head every 30 seconds as his attention wandered. One day he was playing his 2nd generation Legacy child and BAM! The social worker showed up because she got an F in school. My poor son was traumatized. He refused to play TS2 for 3 weeks! I finally showed him how to get the fun up quickly after school, and how to study, etc.

Most amazing thing, literally from that day on, I have not had to fight him on homework! I can sit across the room and merely speak his name every 10-20 minutes to get him back on track! THANK GOD FOR MAXIS!!!

Trixie

Most of the challenges out there specify 'No Cheats, No Hacks' meaning nothing that really changes the gameplay. In this case, the only thing that really changes is that you can leave your sim unattended on the phone and get relationships all the way up. This makes life too easy the point of challenges is to CHALLENGE you.

I've talked to Pinstar about this, and my partner in crime Violet Kitty, and we all agree that the setting the phone ringer, having people call who are actually HOME (ie, no children in the middle of the day) and getting rid of the spam calls are all acceptable to keep the sanity of the players. These are things that dont' really change the gameplay.

So if Almighty god would make this hack, then it would be allowed in Legacy, and all of VK/TT's contests I'm working on the designers of Royal Kingdom, Rights of Women, and Prosperity

These are the current Challenge designers, I am betting (if I were a betting type of person) that there are others who would be using a modified hack if it were available.

So PLEASE, Almighty, PLEASE, when you are fixing the phone hack for NL, consider pruning it back to just affect the calls, not the relationships.

I'll send you some homemade chocolate chip cookies! How is that for a bribe?

Trixie

Hey, your Royal Awesomeness.

In all your copious free time, would you consider making a 'not quite so hacked phone' hack?

The ringing endagers my sanity, the 'have you been abducted, you never call me' calls endager my townie's lives. Being able to just call your friends is a godsend (thank you god)

But the part of the hack that makes them stay on the phone until their social is maxed AND their daily is maxed is just not compatible with 99.99% of the challenges that we do.

So there are hundreds, even thousands of people who can't use your phone hack, because of the one tiny thing that changes the gameplay the most.

If you could make a ChallengePhoneHack (or whatever) that takes that part out, it would be an even greater godsend to us. I know the phone babysitting is annoying, and should have been programmed differently, but that is what we are stuck with, if we want to do the challenges.

And the challenges are what keeps it FUN for a lot of people

So thanks for considering this, and thanks even more if you get the chance to DO it. You will be a hero to thousands of Townie Sims out there who no longer have to worry about being invited over 'for a little swim' or to 'play with Spot, the cowplant'.

Trixie