Pre-FT adults really get screwed. I have a child who has full Lifetime Aspiration + perma plat. I like now that there's an alternative to doing the lifetime want if you want perma plat (legitimately).

I believe the matchmaker gives you the genie lamp after one of your sims have had a full lifetime aspiration meter for a while. You get 3 wishes per lamp, anyone in the house can make a wish. After that lamp is gone, you can get receive another one for the accomplishments of one of your other sims (thats how I understand from my experience at least.)

My lot debugger disappeared when I installed Freetime. Is a new version being worked on?

Thanks a lot for the info, I'll look into these.

I don't really mind the green tone, not too many plantsims around my hood, I got bored with those fairly quick, tho they are good for running stores and stuff.

I like to have some of my male sims abducted so I can get alien babies, but sometimes the pollination technician's facial features show and it can be just horrible; giant eyes, no nose, etc... I like the green skin and black eyes but the rest I can do without. Is there a safe way to somehow change his face? Currently I just use a plastic surgery thing but it can't be used on kids .

Thanks

I don't think it matters whether you get rid of people before or after installing. You will get a bunch more people when/if you add a shopping district to your 'hood so it might be easier to navigate before you install OFB.

I would get the newest version of SimPE, it made the procedure a little easier on me and I knew nothing of how to do this stuff. And I'd get the newest lot debugger... not sure why you wouldn't.

Ah, thanks, I should have tried that.

And thanks for the invitations cwykes.

I did read the FAQ. I learned a lot of acronyms and some stuff about the site, it was helpful. The main problem was finding it.

The search is useless. I typed in lot debugger most of the results were anything with the word clothes. I typed FAQ into the search and the actual FAQ was not even on the first page of search results.

I think it would be easier if I had stumbled upon the site and been like "hey, lots of sims 2 info, I'll start reading" when I didn't have a goal in mind.But I came here need to find something in particular, and then have to look around for the info I needed, because that was very frustrating having a goal of what to find, largely because the names of the forum sections didn't make any sense to me. I did find a lot of good stuff in my searching, but finding what I was looking for was hard.

Anyone can learn/find/discover anything given enough time, but you know, I'm on my break from school, looking forward to some time to relax and play some games, so I wanted them to work so I thought I'd ask for help and try to speed up the time I spend fixing my game so I can spend more time playing it. 

I'm sure it's evident but I'll say it; I am/was utterly clueless about this stuff.

I went to some forum and told them of my woes with BV and they gave me a link to this thread.

After a few days of trying to understand the tutorial here I decided I had to ask some questions. When I mean utterly clueless I mean it. I have only played the sims 2. When I go looking thru this forum and see an area called FFS hacks, I didn't think that was even related to the sims 2. I thought this was a forum for a myriad of games and FFS may as well have meant Fairy Fuck Safari, I didn't know what a hack was in the context of TS2. I thought the war room was the "Sims 2 section".

I look at the tutorial and I don't know what a lot debugger is, or what debug mode is. I don't know what "Ye Olde simPE" or "newfangled craptastic" are, whether they are part of the game or what, much less how to get to each shown window. I don't know where to find character files.

I ask for a bit of help, I never whined or complained, and all I hear is "HAY DUMY IT DUN SAY RITE THARE WUT 2 DUE!" Am I dumb because I have never explored TS2 outside of the playable game? Maybe. I don't know, but coming to that realization didn't help me.

So I figure it out and delete my problem sim, with almost zero help from anyone (a few people gave a vague link like "look around in there"). And my game ran fine. Again, clueless, I thought this meant the threat was gone, because I was not aware of how a little corruption can get worse, because I know nothing about stuff like that. You simply tell me how stupid I am. A nice person comes a long and subtly lets me know that I am stupid, while telling me how to improve my situation.

That's why I don't like you(@invisigoth). Your interest involves telling people they are wrong, whereas I would tell them they are wrong and help them, to my ability, to understand why they are wrong and help them become right. That seems like the right thing to do if you know something someone else doesn't. If people didn't share their knowledge we would be building the wheel.

Your life would be less stressful if you were capable of ignoring people.

Obviously I'm a pain in the ass to you, yet you don't have to continue coming to this thread to eagerly see how the conversation is developing and come spread your negativity. Are you that bored with your life?

There are several people, like Ethendrelle, who seem interested in helping people to a degree, so clearly not everyone here is a prick. There is a lot of useful information and resources here so I'd like to stick around. That will be more pleasant if I ignore people like you, since I can already see that you aren't helpful. I would suggest that you consider doing the inverse.

Lord Darcy was helpful. What makes you think I ignored him? Don't act like you know everything.

Well I'm glad you replied in addition to invisigoth because I don't speak asshole.

I'll definitely heed your advices, and I really appreciate the thorough warning and suggestions. Thanks.

Well I got the lot debugger, figured it out after a while, and got the Witch Doctor deleted out of my neighborhood properly.

Game runs great now.

Yeah there probably is some level of corruption but if it's not affecting my game play, I can ignore it.

Thanks those of you who offered useful info.

And Mr. Pescado, that Lot Debugger is a damn fine device. Good work there. Just putting it in my lot made it run a bit better.

I just play the game, you know. I never thought it was necessary to go online and search for what you can and can't do in a game, because in most of the games I've played (and there have been a damn lot) they are made well enough where it's not necessary, and anything you can do is ok.

Thanks for letting me know these things. I never would have thought moving an occupied lot would damage things. Seems very irresponsible of EA to not warn you about that while you're doing it.


I have figured this out, that I am far from capable of doing this tutorial, however, I need to do it... hence why a lot of people here seem to hate me.

Thanks for the link, witch.

I have realized that.

Not all of my questions have been answered, like how to find all the tour guides so I can prep them for delete like the tutorial tells me to do.

I think I may have figure out the real problem though. I sent one of my sims on a vacation to Twikki Island and got him flirting with the Witch Doctor ( you can do 'feed a bite' and once they fancy each other you can do everything else) and eventually marry the guy/have him move in. So I did this... it asked me if I wanted to move in Mrs. Crumplebottom or the Grim Reaper or the Hula Zombie or any of my dead sims or Bella Goth with the Witch Doctor, but I declined. I think having the witch doctor in one of my families is something making my game run bad, because that's about the time I remember it starting to run bad. Also, after backing up my Sims 2 folder I moved the family with the witch doctor in it to another 'hood via the move occupied house thing figuring I'll start anew in this neighborhood, since the other one was looking grim, and play my favorite family in the new 'hood and go from there. Well the new 'hood ran slow...

So I think my real problem is the Witch Doctor since you aren't supposed to have him playable in your families. It makes sense too because I didn't spend $3500 building this computer so a small band of tour guides could slow it down. Witch Doctors do voodoo shit though so you never know. 

Anyways, I don't know what the lot debugger is, or if it's even different from debug mode. I've tried to search high and low on this site to figure it out so I wouldn't have to burden you people with a question, and while it is mentioned a lot on the site, I cannot find out what it is and/or how to use it.

Because of this I'm stuck on the first line of the tutorial, in my quest to delete the Witch Doctor.

And age and maturity are not directly proportional, however I don't have any reason to think you are immature, you seem very logical to me and your post wasn't full of personal attacks and insults you expect to hear on the 5th grade playground.

And witch your luck did not help me

Ok.

Asking for help and whining are different things.

You all just love to sit on your high horses and laugh at people who aren't as good with computers as you are. I have just been asking questions, and been perfectly polite, and not whining at all. And I am met with sarcasm and jeering and almost no help at all (which sparked some deserved impoliteness from me). 

Usually if someone is having trouble with somethings, even with some instructions, there are nice people willing to help. Here I can see it's mostly people who just get kicks out of seeing people struggle. It's extremely immature from women in their 40's.

Jolrei, even though you did a bit of the unnecessary above, I appreciate the info you gave me. Thanks.

Sorry to end all your fun but, to both mine and probably your happiness, I think I'll look elsewhere for help.

So I have to find every tour guide in the game, all 37, and click on them to prep for delete?

And I have to do a bunch of crap in two different, apparently crappy, versions of simPE when there is a new version with something called a sim deleter tool?

My point is that, there is a new version out, which sounds like it makes things simpler, and it seems logical to me to try and use that if it could potentially be easier, rather than continue to struggle to understand the stuff on the first page here. It seems like a group of people here who are pretty into doing stuff with simPE so I is my hope that one of you will figure it out and help me.

And witch, you honestly think V's post was a real favour?
I mean, this forum isn't exactly going apeshit with activity, causing an inability for anyone to actually answer someone else's question personally. 

Woo, clever.

If we were all as smart as you, natural selection would work in the human race, but no, people in wheelchairs get a little dog and blind people got braille.

I'm new to everything described in this thread, and yes, figuring it out on my own is an option, but it would be more efficient to receive help from someone more knowledgeable on the subject. Hopefully not everyone here is a twat, one who makes gender assumptions no less.
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An update for any not-assholes who might be interested in generously helping me solve my problems:

With the new simPE I loaded my neighborhood, selected tour guides and charlatans, and deleted them. I don't know if this is ok but the game still worked. However it was still pretty slow, though slightly less so.

I may have a new problem. I just realized that making all 3 vacation destinations available to my neighborhood created a ton of people. Is there a safe way to reverse this? If I delete all of the people from one destination, assuming i can figure out who's from where, and never go back there, will they stay gone and not be replaced?

Thank you very much to anyone who's considerate.

Ok. I'm left with no choice. Damn you Bon Voyage.

So I'm assuming this is a little different (hopefully simpler) when getting rid of tour guides rather than my sims' ugly grandpa. They don't actually have any sort of relationship with my sims do they? Also I can't just go click on them all to prep for delete and get little numbers and stuff right?

Can anyone outline the steps I need to do just to get rid of tour guides/unsavory charletons?

I appreciate it.

Edit>>
So I went and looked for this SimPE business and ended up at the site for it and it appears that a new one was released yesterday...
http://sims.ambertation.de/

How does this change things?

It says there is a sim deleter tool plugin!

Starting from scratch isn't what I meant by "able to play my neighborhood again". I meant the neighborhood I put a lot of work into before Bon Voyage came and fuckt it up.

Hey, new here, looks cool, anyways I got linked to this thread for help with fixing my Bon Voyage.

I've never used any cheats or debuggers, never used simPE (let alone two different versions?), never used hex editors.

My game is running slow, I figured out I have about 37 extra vacation NPC's running around.

I don't trust myself to fix my game however, the outline here intimidates me because I'm new to all of it.

Are there any other solutions to this? I'd like to be able to play my neighborhood again. 

Thanks.