My game is fine too - patch + latest Awesome = great game (insofar as is possible right now).      Seriously, I have had zero issues with either one and removed nothing either before patching/adding latest AM.

There are other forums, one of which you have already been given the link to earlier in this thread.  Keep looking until you find one that feels like a good fit for you.   

As for the secondary aspirations, like I said earlier I don't have Free Time so I don't have experience with those issues specifically but it does not seem likely that using a functionality as it was designed to be used within the EP should in itself cause problems.  However, the game trying to calculate attraction score and throwing errors is a well-known result of coding issues in one way or another but I'm certainly not qualified to say exactly how that is occurring. 

I'm not sure from reading your posts, but at some point did you actually remove every hack and piece of CC from your game?  You said you removed downloads, removed hacks, updated hacks, etc., but at some point did you try just a plain vanilla game?  And if you did, did the errors still happen?  If you haven't tried this, you definitely need to.  Also, is your game patched?

It's a mod (wants/fears sanity) that helps to stomp some of more annoying wants and fears, for ex. the want to play with someone who isn't present, or the fear of being caught cheating when there is no history of such, etc.  It's a nice annoyance remover, but not one of my personal must-haves.  You'll find the longer you play that certain things you just can't tolerate in game-play while the next person will barely be aware they are going on.    

You probably didn't need to kill off your Sim (unless you're into that  ), as there is usually a solution to most problems if you are patient, ask enough questions and provide enough info for people to go on.  As to the "why" of things happening in this game, it isn't always possible to know because everyone's experience varies so widely according to your configuration, CC, and what planets are in retrograde this week .  For example, the Numenor coatrack that half the free world uses in their games with 0 problems nearly destroyed a 4-generation hood of mine not too long ago.  Go figure... 

Do you have wfsanity?  I had trouble with that one because I don't have FT and the updated FT version was in the Seasons hack folder, so it was calling for code my game couldn't produce.  I ditched it - no more attraction errors.   

I have also had the option to "Encourage" in the same area (activity, etc.) with the same two Sims where I have not had the option to "Macro..Encourage".  It seems to me (haven't looked in a while) that it may have been related to relationship scores - maybe higher ones get the macro option and lower ones don't?  You're definitely right about the regular "Encourage" option though - it is a major drag.  This mod is the only way to go.

Sorry you are having so much trouble, I know how frustrating it is.  If your teen/toddler are back in their previous age bodies then still nothing is working obviously...what a bummer.  I personally didn't even know that you could put smart milk already made up into inventories as I usually just put the machines in, but now I will try it and see if it works for mine or if it screws up. 

I had this exact problem but it was due to the Numenor/Marylou clothing rack that wasn't playing nice with my game for some reason.  I even had weird stetched-out babies walking around and toddlers doing homework, as well as Sims of all ages spontaneously changing hairstyles/clothing (reverting to previous selections, not just random new changes)!  I know you said no CC, but check to see if somehow some CC has landed in your regular game folder, because that is what happened to me and when I eliminated my Downloads folder I still had the problem so concluded it wasn't due to CC!  I was just about to trash a 4-generation hood when I noticed that the clothing rack was still in my game, just not in the Downloads folder.  The day I removed this clothing rack all my problems stopped and have not recurred for at least a month now.

TwoJeffs (his site is called Simbology) has a teen/adult attraction hack that works beautifully along with his ACR (Autonomous Casual Romance, as has already been mentioned).  You won't see the romantic options under the regular menu (and there will be no attraction lightning bolts showing on the relationship panel), but they will be accessible through the ACR menu (under "Casual").  This particular one does not allow teen pregnancy, but that does not appear to be what you are looking for.

Oh yeah, that wasn't exactly phrased correctly, was it?       I'll stick with the booty - I'm not a CC addict (yet  ) so there's nothing I need badly enough to risk messing up my game or having files attached to it that I don't know about.

Me too... Could this content that is tagged cause serious errors in the game? I read the "limited potential for damage" part of the thread, but am not sure what type of damage is referred to.  I have been having a weird issue with character files disappearing lately (lost two kids already) and am in the process of narrowing down what could be causing it.  But I did download my first TSR stuff not too long before I started getting the weirdness, so the lightbulb just went off.

So does this mean if the Sim doesn't have a cellphone the options aren't available for that Sim?

OH!  Duh... why did I not remember that from my first try??? Anyway - thank you - I was completely at a loss but now it makes perfect sense.  *trots off red-faced to not chicken out*   

I think I am having a "Senior Moment"    I know that I used testingcheatsenabled (Sorry about my previous reference to "boolprop" in another post - I now know that's a no-no!   ) once successfully to make a visitor selectable so that I could find out why my adult Sim was not getting the option to "Propose - move in".  Turned out she was a uni student...

Now, when I have a visitor (and once when I tried to force an error/reset on a stuck baby) and try to use that cheat, the selected Sim in my household icon list is the one that comes up with all the options (including "make selectable" which of course they already are!) even though I place the mouse over the visitor until the correct name shows, then shift-click on them directly.    Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?  I did a search on-site for "boolprop testingcheatsenabled make selectable" but was unable to turn up anything that applied.  (I'm typing the cheat in once I am already in the household, but I know that's what I did the time I was successful also)

To be completely clear, this is what I typed:  boolprop testingcheatsenabled true.  Then I hovered the mouse and shift/clicked on the visitor.

What do you mean by "nuking the spot" where the item was?    Let me know and I'll be glad to try it because I haven't managed to solve the problem yet.

Is the AutoYak updated for stuff packs too, or only the phone hack?  I ask because when I looked on Friday the phone hack shows a most recent update date of 2/2008 in your list of hacks but the AutoYak still shows a 2007 date.

Logic doesn't always have much to do with it when it comes to EAxis though, does it?!     Anyway, I know it wouldn't work that way in "real life" genetics, but I read that in Sims2 if you impregnate someone with themselves using the spawn cheat (or Sim Modder??) that they will always have an opposite sex child (don't know why or if it's true) with their own hair/eye/skin color because all genes for those things would come from them only (makes sense).  I haven't tested it myself though as I haven't done much with all the boolprop cheats yet...  I have also read that other people have had Brandi give birth to a single boy, not twins.

Maybe the baiting would work for some - I guess my brain just tends to slide right over phrases that have no meaning for it!  And now that I DO know where they are, no more excuses for me.  Anyway, I am sure I will give (have already given??) you plenty of other reasons to heckle me...   

I have only one set of natural twin boys (born to one of my CAS Sims' daughters and Dirk Dreamer) who appear to be completely identical. 

But if anyone hasn't played Brandi Broke yet in their game, I played her recently for the first time and had her eat cheesecake (she has enough cooking skill points to make it) and since she is already pregnant (by herself, as I understand it, so she can have only boys) she will have twin boys who I would imagine can only look identical since they are opposite sex clones of her.  Anyway, mine look identical (different birth signs, though) and are adorable!!   

Thanks - sometimes searching out so much info so fast makes me overlook the obvious...course, it might be a little easier to find the FAQs if they were listed as such, instead of "Spore Torrents...".     On the plus side, Sims2 is motivating me to learn more about my computer.

1st - I read on the firing range that you fixed the version switching error (which I think applies to me although I don't know what OOB means).  Thank you so much for spending your time to make the game so much more playable.  Is there anything new I have to download, or just use the one I have and now it will work?
2nd - By "phone annoyances" I meant those inherent in the game, nothing to do with the hacks, sorry if I wasn't clear.
3rd - I really wasn't kidding in my very first post when I said I was totally non-awesome.   I don't know what an "error/reset on mouseover" means or where I would find a log.     Possibly by playing with boolprop on - just a guess...  Guess I won't be losing my "Asinine Airhead" designation any time soon...

Thanks for your input - I may end up buying Seasons.  I am not opposed to getting it, I'm just not sure how many EPs my system will run.  In the meantime while J.M. Pescado is taking a look, I removed the Phone Hack and AutoYak and my game is running perfectly again - if you can call it that with all the phone annoyances!

Thanks so much - I was confusing the functions of the two hacks.  I'll gladly uninstall H&M if I have to in favor of your hacks since the phone drives me crazy with the stupid "You haven't called" and I have been dying to have the hacks in place for this (Phone Hack) and to help w/friend/family maintenance (AutoYak).  I think I have it straight now...    Looking forward to your additional input. 

Thank you!  Since I haven't used the phone hack before I didn't know how to access those.  Can you click on the Sim at any time and get those options?

Good suggestion - I checked and there was nothing blocking it.  Actually, I originally tested it in a few different households so I was pretty sure that wasn't the case.

So even if I'm not running Seasons I might need the Seasons version of the phone hack because of H&M?
Great, that means some features are working and if I get the correct version I might be okay. 

Okay, me again (BTW how do I get to go from Asinine Airhead to Corpulent Cretin?  I like that one better!!   )  I run UNI, NL, OFB, H&M (most recent, running from this disk).  Have teleporter shrub, stay things shrub, and collegeclock - no CC.  Just installed phonehack and autoyak (OFB version) and the following things are happening:
-  Sims can't dial out for anything, but they can receive calls.
- When I click on call Sim, the action joins the queue briefly, then drops out.
- No menu items appear for "Call Friends" or "Call family", but the one to set the ringer is there
- I am not getting the "We haven't talked in ages" annoying calls and when family/friends call the Sim will continue the conversation until the relationship score hits 100.

One thing I'm not sure if it's related:  Teen was invited to community lot, went and met date, decided to go steady, bought clothes, etc.  Called the taxi to go home - she could place the call but when the taxi came she did not recognize it, the action didn't join the queue and I couldn't click on it for her to get in.  Had to exit and lose progress to get home.   

Any ideas?  The other hacks I mentioned are all working fine.  Thanks in advance for your help.