Yimmits are known throughout the system worlds for their stupidity. When they were first encountered on the planet Nosac, legions of pre-teen girls wanted to bring them home as pets. Their mothers asked, "are they housebroken?" Their fathers, being more inclined to indulge their daughters, only asked the xenobiologists if the stupidity was contagious. Since the specialists asked for more time to study to reach a conclusion, the fathers indulged their daughters. Ever since then, the galaxy has been inundated by the slothlike Yimmits. They infest all the new worlds, and, although their stupid has not been proven to be catching, they vex all they come in contact with. Xarth Comey has come to ridiculed by comers far and wide with his latest TED talk, "The Yimmit, and why you should listen."

Meaning, could I have had one and set it wrong and deleted it and put a new one down and all ok. Does the customer selector remember settings after a delete? You could very well have been right the first time, since I want my playables to buy snapdragons.

yeah, no, there was no customer selector on the lot. But I put one down and all of a sudden, customers!

baa, maybe. I still don't get it. I need to have one on the lot? I usually do, but...

I have a flower shop that I made years ago when I first got OFB that I have used successfully in 5+ neighborhoods over the years. Tricia just got her gold floristry badge and bought it and hired an employee. When she arrived at the lot, no customers spawned. Employee came in when called with BRY. I checked all the settings on the customer selector and they were normal. The open/close sign was in the "closed" position when she entered and usually a newly purchased business is in open when my sims arrive on the lot for a first visit.

I had her sell it back to the community, deleted the copy in the neighborhood, reloaded the lot from the bin. Same. No customers.

Odd thing is, I remember this happened as well with a little cheap poster store I use as a first business for some of my teens. Once I actually played it to level 10 summoning sims with the shrub, but that got really tedious. After being played to level 10 it worked fine for later owners. But that happened again the first time I used it in this neighborhood too. That time I just selected another business from my bin and that one worked fine. The poster business has also been used successfully in other neighborhoods.

Is it time to give up and build Tricia a new flower shop, or does anyone have any suggestions? The lot is quite efficient when I can get customers to show up.

I completely forgot how bummed I was that there was no gnome-making bench in the Sims 2. I looked through every category in buy mode the first day I had the game.

My computer can't run 3 and I still play 2 as much as I ever did. I even have two uninstalled expansion packs around here somewhere.

Yes, they are living happily in their homes in the main hood. Eloise moved back with her Mom and Dad. They are all living where they are supposed to be and where they have been living for almost 3 sim days. Bob and Darla are living together and married and expecting their first child the next time I play their house (family sims get right to business).

Their pictures are their adult ones and not their YA ones. Darla's about to pop in the info pic on the dorm.

I fired up my game today after a long hiatus and went to play my university. The last time I had visited, the only occupied residence was the Greek house. This is all very weird and kind of long, but bear with me. I can restore from backup, but I want to see if anyone has any suggestions about how I could possibly fix this.

When the Uni neighborhood loaded, I found two green plumbobs staring at me. One above a (supposedly) unoccupied dormitory. I clicked to see who was living in this empty dorm and found five adult sims in the portrait, all of whom are adults and are living in the main hood. Now this dorm has seen a lot of use. Dozens of my sims have lived there, usually just for a semester before they transfer to the Greek house. All five adults had moved to the Greek house before leaving the university neighborhood, but they had all lived in this dorm at the same time.

Before I entered the lot, I loaded the main hood and went into the house of one of the five who were shown as living in the dorm. The teleporter shrub showed no "Kids" household (my default name for the sims who live in a dorm), there were no duplicate characters in anyone's phone panels (I checked Eloise and her mom, who has the business perk displaying all characters in the phonebook).

I had a sim who was supposed to move to college, so I tried to see what would happen if he moved in. Teenage Clark was in the loading panel, along with married Bob and (very pregnant) Darla cuddling and the other three adults standing around them.

Clark was alone when the dorm loaded. The two playables who had lived in the dorm before (not part of the adult five) still had their pictures on their doors. The dormies didn't reset, so Clark claimed a playable's old room. A dormie came to claim the other room. No cafeteria worker came.

I moved Clark out and into the bin. All five adults came with him in the picture in the bin. I moved him into another dorm. The adults were still in the loading screen and he was still alone in the dorm. All dormies were reset this time and moved in as usual and this time a cafeteria worker arrived. Clark pledged the Greek house and I switched to play that lot and moved Clark onto that lot.

When I went back to the neighborhood, the adults were "living" in the new dorm. The plumbob is there, I load the lot and get only buy/build enabled. If I try to demolish the lot, the game tells me the "Kids" household has to be moved out before I can do that.

So is there any way to fix this, or should I just restore from backup and raze the dorm before this can happen again? I've been playing this hood a little over a year and have about 275 playables (dead and alive, according to the census tool) and only about 200 NPCs running Uni, NL, OFB, Seasons. Is this just a lot problem, or is my neighborhood dying on me?

I could test up to Seasons (no pets).

I was ready to kill one of my sims who decided to have a tasty one-plate serving of Golden Trout when I turned my back for a moment!

If it doesn't tell you the taxi will pick you up shortly, you have to call a taxi yourself. Doesn't that mostly happen on outings and not dates?

How do you extract the character thumbnails to use them in the family tree?

I've only had that one trigger after the neighbor comes and shoves. I believe the actual name of the want is "Look at Neighbors," not "Look Through Telescope."

Tonight I had a business owner with the want to promote his cashier to manager. I put her on sales and she got her requisite 5 badges. He promoted her to manager, but the want didn't trigger.

I've never had "Get fit" trigger, even when locked. Sim does the "sproing, now I'm fit" animation, but no trigger. I stopped bothering to lock it after a while.


I wish this did work in my game. It's especially annoying at college during winter (I've got a bunch there right now) and all the family members are at school/work.

In my game this has never worked on the phone. You have to invite them over and gossip!

Good to know. I was too lazy to test this myself.

In my game the essential ingredients have always been:

1) 11 pm
2) Stereo on

No outside festivities necessary and the cops don't necessarily come.

Often I'm happy for them to come at that point because all autosocializing is finished and the score is plenty high enough for the needed aspiration boost for the host. But every once in a while 11pm rolls around and they don't get busted.

Which leads to my just wondered...if I say goodbye to everyone and all guests leave, will the party lose its "not bad/good time/rr" status slowly or will that remain static?

I use most of the OFB DC, except those that absolutely don't work on my mac, such as the poolhack and daily gardener. After Santa next week and the anticipated acquisition of Seasons, who knows what will become necessary. Those two may work then and, if so, I will use them.

When I moved into my place, I started to get worried about Lauren. She had doctors, her child's school, all kinds of people after her. Then I realized that the number used to belong to the local Cingular store and Lauren had been the victim the phone company had selected before me.

Cingular store number from their location in one of the biggest shopping districts in my city THAT WAS STILL PRINTED IN THE LATEST PHONEBOOK!!!

(Whew, sorry for the shouting, bad memories.)

Or spawned as a townie and then moved in and made playable. For a while after my first playable died, it was Colby, who had married Daisy. Once Blaine married Meredith, she took over as shover even though Colby is still around.

I've been having problems lately on multiple lots with the emptying of the toddler potty. Sim goes into bathroom to flush contents. Said contents sort of vanish and no flushing takes place. Sim is booted out of the bathroom. Afterwards the terlet is "in use" and unusable and has to be deleted with moveobjects on.

And I love the way it makes stupid visitors unclog their own mess. Then I don't care how long it takes them.

Oh man, ever since I installed OFB, my sims have been crazy about the auto-repair. I'd have one occasionally with just uni+nl, but now I'll have sims walk all the way across the lot or up to the third floor to try to fry themselves. Especially with the computer, but with the dishwasher as well. I've never seen it with the TV.

Every once in a while, I let them repair away even if they don't have the skill for it. But no casualties yet. *yawn*

But that MP3 player thing is very weird. I haven't let a sim have one in so long that I would never witness something like that.

Nil, thanks for the link to the spreadsheet. And just yesterday I printed a floor plan to play with. I'll give it a go this evening and see if it speeds up the process.

I hate building and usually do it free-hand and all my houses end up looking exactly alike.

Random phone call comes at 6.

I remember the rolling wants because I was running only Uni on my old computer that just died last March. The offending item was the cell phone, not the handheld.

Adding Nightlife made the problem *poof* disappear.

The wants would automatically reroll hourly or sometimes just as you used the spacebar to move through the lot residents. Locked wants had often disappeared when you re-entered a house (Lucy Burb had that want to have a baby want locked, goddammit!).

Sometimes they would just roll and roll and roll and roll and roll and roll and .... I finally found dashing briefly into buy/build would stop them. Dang that used to be so annoying!