As I recall, there was some discussion about making an object like the babbyque, but for pets or neighbors, but that idea was shot down because of the multitude of meshes involved. Soup might actually be a good work-around for that.

Yeah, I was going to say, "Surely, you can figure out where to put a double bed? " You can float tiles in the air around a foundation without any sort of cheat whatsoever.

Although not having a bed at all and keeping the house almost all narrow walkway would be pretty fun. Emma and Goopy would fall asleep standing up.

Pescado has mentioned that any lot -- house, dorm, or apartment -- that is not built in Uni will have a broken Uni controller when placed in a Uni hood. Build your apartment in Uni.

It might pass your filter, but didn't EAxis include a less-functional "turn off ringer" in AL?

Also, make sure you haven't turned off the ringer.

Then turn on debug mode and test again, to see if there's an error. Reset the sims, to see if that fixes the problem. And find out what their relationships are -- the numbers in the relationship panels. Maybe they don't like each other?

1) Does this occur on all lots and with all sims?
2) Do you get an error in debug mode?
3) What happens when you reset the sims?
4) What are the ages and relationships of the sims in question?

There's a C++ DBPF package library over in Bowels of Trogdor. Don't know if there are any package format changes since the last time this was updated. There's also a set of tools for command-line modders (dz utils) which will let you list or extract data from a package. Those might be useful for you.

Out of curiosity, is their name supposed to be parsed "pro-nup" or "pron up"?

At least you know what's causing it, then.

I'm guessing she's pretty corrupt and you should remove the offending hack and restore the hood from backup, but if you want to check in SimPE, why not? Look at the age, it's probably looped around or something. Check age category, too. I bet neither one of those will look even close to the other elder sim.

Although it's *possible* you have a hack conflict, in my experience, freestyling for tips is simply lame. Performing music for tips is better, but not by a whole lot.

Early interviews with Rod Humble suggested that some may indeed become real buildings instead of rabbit-holes in some future expansion pack. For example, stores. On the other hand, there's one rabbit-hole for each career; I doubt some of the careers, like the business track, will be turned into full expansion packs.

Expect the expansion pack, because it will need hardly any work this time. All they need for college now is a way to mark a sim as "going to college" and one of those rabbit-hole buildings to represent the college. Enroll a sim in college by clicking on the building. The building itself could probably contain the code to handle grade calculations. Much less work than Sims 2 Uni. So, if EA has a choice between releasing an original expansion pack that requires a lot of work, and one that requires hardly any, which do you think they'll go with first?

Same here. Although I notice they did away with the idea of *all* buildings being rabbit holes, including the homes. Also, I don't remember if sims in Simsville were supposed to leave their lots or not. I only remember that there was a dog roaming from lot to lot.

I had a lot of hopes for Simsville, but it certainly sounded boring the way they described it. Kind of like Sims 3.

By any chance, did you read the post immediately before yours?

I'll take Things You Can Sleep In for $200, Alex.

After the first moon landing, which caused me to go space-insane and crave space-chewie sticks and space-drinks like Tang, I'd have to agree. "Space" is a super cool prefix for ANYTHING.

Except usernames.

If you're playing multiple households in a rotation, I would imagine the best method would be to turn aging off, play all families but one for a specific length of time each, then turn aging on and play the final family for the same period. This doesn't prevent sims from doing things you don't want when not being played, but it does keep aging in sync without provoking rapid deaths.

You should probably set the maximum sim age on the low setting (25?) to compensate for the bonus days.

Then it's a good thing my modding skills are rank beginner, then, because all the ideas I have for mods would infuriate you. They're all about introducing spontaneous actions and events into sims lives to cause CHAOS. Because that would make playing the game more of a challenge.

That's why the Sims 3 doesn't look too bad to me, at least in terms of sims' lives progressing when not watched. The trait system seems OK, too. It's the locking down of moddability and the promise of ultraslow gameplay on my ancient machine that bothers me. Oh, and the new, improved SecuROM.

Do you have Freetime? How many hobby mavens are there?

ETA: there should be ten hobby mavens, it seems, so if you're just counting main hood sims, you would have 32 normal + 10 mavens = 42 sims. You said you have 44, so maybe the other two are Grimmy and some other NPC that's generated immediately. Or maybe not even Grimmy? Newspaper girl + postal carrier?

He can also leave a stereo. I didn't really need one for that house (they're pretty rich,) but I got one, anyways.

I'm going to have to check, but I thought my sims *did* get a "Met Santa" memory. I think this because, after they joked/played with him, I checked to see if he showed up in the relationship panel as well. He didn't, which may be fortunate, since he probably doesn't have a phone.

Incidentally, the household doesn't need to be in bed for Santa to show up. I think two of my sims were in bed, but woke up immediately when he showed up; the others were already awake. Santa hung out all night, walked off the lot, then reappeared with another present and ate some cookies, finally. Oh, and Bathroom Uses You? Santa laughs at it. He's far too powerful to be kicked out of the bathroom.

I didn't see Baby New Year, but that may be because there may have been an interaction my sims needed to do with Father Time. Unfortunately, soon after Father Time showed up and no-good cowboy daddy sim started making noise outside, the cop showed up and made everyone go home.

You might get TEXT VIRUSES!

Maybe not MATYians, but TapThatBooty is a n00b. The OP's post was pretty self-explanatory. It's a RandomStuff file for neighborhoods instead of sims. If you don't know what that is, either search and educate yourself, or forget about it. Hell, I don't use RandomStuff files, but last time there was a thread about them, I checked some out. So, I know what they are. It's not that hard a concept.

The file's RIGHT THERE. Why do you think it's imaginary?

That doesn't make any sense, because why would it limit sims to just Freetime career LTWs?

However, you might be correct if Khaleesi is only trying the debugger on one or two test sims. Khaleesi: Reinstall ltwvariety, verify it's only giving FT careers again, then trying changing the interests of those sims. Do the LTWs change? Try changing the personality, too. Any difference?