Just as an aside, J.M., the zip file link isn't working. I'm getting file not found.

Weird. Is it supposed to keep people from busking in dorms too? (During normal gameplay- not a party.) I thought it was.

Maybe it's because I installed it and then loaded a saved game where someone was already in the middle of busking?

Hey. The nobuskers hack doesn't work for me either. Maybe it only works if you had it installed before you installed NL? Dunno.

Thanks so much!

They don't browse before buying in the patch- that is true- but the hack here also used to make them stop browsing before trying stuff on too, which the patch didn't address. It's browsing before trying stuff on that gets me- after all, if I want to browse, I will use the browse function!

Hi all-

Are we going to get an updated version of the fasterbuyclothes for NL? Or does the existing one still work? It's not listed as compatable so I haven't been tempted to try it. I'm dying to have it though because it drives me insane how long it takes for my sims to try things on and so forth.

LOL. Or I could buy a swingset.

Okay, part of this is up to me being impatient I think. I finally got the menu last night for recharging. My sims had to use the love tub about three times before it needed recharging, which was something I did not expect (I guess because there's no visible indication that the charge is going down- I didn't even know it had a 'charge' until just recently). I guess my sims just don't hang around in the tub as long as Maxis expects, lol.

I also got the menu for recharging my thinking caps! So that part of my problem is gone.

People are still bogarting the tub though. I eventually just made a poolhouse and put a myne door on it which I keep locked unless I'm interested in inviting someone in. It's not that they're using my charge that pisses me off- it's just that they don't ever seem interested in doing anything else *but* using the hot tub- which gets very boring!

My sim has over 300,000 aspiration points.

I did attempt to buy a new tub to see if that was the problem. That didn't fix it though.

How do you know if your tub has lost some charge? I think if you have a few people using it then it would lose some charge, right?

It just acts like I don't have the hack installed at all. I'm wondering if it is conflicting with some other hack I have installed, although the only hacks I have are from JM, twojeffs, or the inteenimater/insimenator stuff.

Is the option to recharge supposed to show up when you click on the object?

I installed that one just today and not only did it not stop people from jumping in the love tub, I couldn't figure out how to get any options to recharge anything... I don't think it worked.

The first time I ever used the Insiminator was in October, so I don't think the version I had was that old. The game was very slow before I used the Insiminator anyway..

I thought I saw a patch somewhere that would stop sims from constantly using your hot tubs (including the love tub). I have just spent two hours surfing around looking for it and must be completely blind or something- I can't see it anywhere?

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone know where to get a patch that does this? (hopefully for NL too)

Thanks

I don't know. I noticed it the same day I installed the most recent versions of the Inteenimator and Insiminator (the ones that are recent right now).

The things I installed from this site on that day were:
ffsdebugger
NL - no autonomous napping
ltwvariety
dontwaveatme
nouniprotect
hygeinebugfix

I'm not sure which hack or fix it was, but something I installed from this site has sped up my game considerably. The load screens still take a while but the gameplay itself is going a lot faster and I can actually turn on more graphics options (like better lighting) without bogging down my system.

Thanks so much guys!

Thanks, I'll try it. I didn't attempt using that hack because it seemed like the same issue that was solved in the recent patch for Uni/NL where people would stall inside a locked dorm room. (I used to work around it by using the moveobjects on cheat and then moving the sims out of the locked room in buy or build mode.)

These NPCs don't actually disappear, they just become useless and walk around the dorms while trying to 'hide'. Annoying!

When I'm playing in the University (I have Ep1 + Ep2) I notice a lot of NPCs will come to the house and my sims won't be able to interact with them easily. Every time I click to interact with them, my sim will follow them around for a while or just stand there, and the interaction will disappear from the to-do list.

So- I selected them using the Inseminator selector and found that these sims had the secret society icon in their to-do list, and the hover says "hide".

Any hacks out there to get these annoying NPCs to stop "hiding"??