There's an updated FT version of Squinqe's PregnancyWearAnyOutfit in the FT Inteen public beta thread:

http://box156.bluehost.com/~aestudi1/forums/inteenimater/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1066

Unfortunately I think it only works in correspondence with the kitten killer.

Because I kept getting looping wedding parties when I booked honeymoons, I stopped booking honeymoons... and I still get the limo.

Neither the fridges nor the wardrobes are custom. I turned off all my hacks and turned them on again using clean installer but the problem (at least with the leftovers) has disappeared without removing any hacks - what caused it, since it created no logs or errors, is a mystery. The wardrobe error is intermittent, it will work perfectly to plan outfit in a home and then suddenly will no longer work and cause errors. The only non-awesome hack I have in is Monique's computer, and I'm only keeping that in so my sims's mortgages continue to work as usual until it's updated, I don't touch the computer otherwise.

Firstly, getting an error when trying to plan outfit - log attached. I'm guessing this is due to hacks, I'm currently using all that have been "approved" for use, so may be a problem with one of them.

Secondly, I can put leftovers away but when I try to get them out again I select the leftovers I want and the sim opens the door and closes it again - leftovers vanishing into the ether. There's no error log for this, however. Ideas?

It appeared to be a really really old version of the phone hack secreted in my downloads folder. How it got there and why it only just now decided to screw with the game is anyone's guess.

Good old jump bug - any sim attempting to use the phone jumps out of the interaction. Error log attached. I did see another post about this yesterday while trawling MATY but no solution was really pinpointed and found. Any assistance appreciated!!

Fixed by deletion of My Documents/EA Games. Something was obviously rotten in my files - I have replaced neighbourhoods, downloads, etc. and no more problems. Can't pinpoint the problem but at least it's fixed.

Miros, I think the reason you had such a long load time was because the game needed to regenerate the files you burninated. You can replace groups.cache from the CD to avoid that.

I burninated neighbourhoodmanager.package - nothing. Interestingly, when I checked my neighbourhoods subfolder again it did not generate a new neighbourhoodmanager.package. Perhaps this is linked to the problem.

I'll try deleting My Documents/EA Games again and see what happens.

I installed Pets first time around and had the "stuck loading family" style error which tends to accompany every new expansion, so I did a manual uninstall of the whole game, reinstalled, etc. Now I am unable to get any of my neighbourhoods on the start screen - they do exist in my documents but are invisible in the game. I did create a test neighbourhood which appears if it is in the neighbourhoods directory. I've tried removing all downloads, another manual uninstall of Pets, letting the game regenerate its three neighbourhoods (they don't appear either). So, I'm fresh out of ideas - anyone had this before? I recall reading about it after another expansion was released but have tried searching to no avail. Help!!

I'm currently searching for something that resembles a poker machine (more commonly called slot machine in the US). I've attempted searching the major free sites but haven't found one. Any clue where such a machine may be hiding? It's required for a story, so if it's only a recolour of an arcade game that's fine. Any help is appreciated!

I got this error as well, though I have no idea how to fix it - my error came from the B001 neighbourhood, which I replaced with SaraMK's cleaned up templates to remove ugly-jerk-spawnage. I'm guessing I'll probably have to replace the original template from the CD, patch, then put my preferred template back. How fun.

Shaklin's medicine cabinet also has an "immunise" option, which I used in my severely plagued Pleasantview. It was impossible to cure any other way since about 100 sims were afflicted. I use the immunisation with all sims now as soon as they hit childhood.

I'm Australian, and your versions are much more Aboriginal in appearance than the originals - the originals look terribly exaggerated and I've never seen an Aboriginal man or woman with those facial features. I agree with Renatus - they are pretty upsetting and offensive.

The only annoying thing is that the child won't pass on his medium tan skintone to his children - he will pass on either the dark or pale skintones of his parents. I wouldn't mind having the occasional recessive skintone pop up in this way, but for everyone all of the time? 

The blonde on the right and the dark haired man beside her are early incarnations of Dina Caliente and Don Lothario.

Couldn't you simply select a default skintone while in CAS for Brynne? That's what I did with MATY sims who had custom skintones.

I think you're right there - and that the point of the zodiac signs is simply so that personalities have one header (aries, taurus, etc.) rather than five. It's all rather pointless, but that's Maxis. Oh, and horoscopes are generally stupid because sun sign astrology - determining your personality based on your sun being in one sign of the zodiac rather than all planets in their sign, degree, house and aspecting other planets - is not astrology. I laugh my way through them in the Sunday paper for their total genericness and inaccuracy with what's actually going on up there.    And, no, as far as I can tell from a chart I have of Sim-based zodiacal attraction, it has no relationship to astrological attraction, which is pretty limited when you remove the Ascendant, Venus, Mars and the Moon anyway. There should be much more opposition and square attraction (opposite signs - aries to libra, aries to cancer, etc.; and planetary signs - taurus and libra, aries and scorpio). If I could mod I'd mod the attraction system that way!

This also happened to me with the base game. When I first got the game, I made a family of husband, wife and husband's brother. I then left them in their house and never played them. About three months later I remembered them and went inside, to find the wife was pregnant to a romance sim I'd had woohooing the ladies of Pleasantview. A few days before going back to the wife's family, 'Try for Baby' had popped up on the downtown clothing booth while she and the romance sim were there and I'd clicked it. I never heard the lullaby, however.

Maybe it was an original glitch, since I've never had it happen since Uni. But it was impossible for her to have been selectable at that time as I'd never played her past the first day I installed the base game, and the romance sim had been created only a month before the pregnancy.

At the time, the only hack I had was the jump bug fix as well, since that was the first hack I ever downloaded for Sims 2.

Normally I just wait the day out, but when I used to be extremely impatient to see genetics I would use testing cheats, then click on the baby and select "set to birthday". Then you can age up with cake/baby controller/whatever. 

Australia, to me, is losing what it once had - I blame the government, because it seems these days that more people are focussed on their money and their mortgages and their brand new cars and themselves when people used to actually care about strangers and their feelings. And since our government wins elections based on interest rates, the economy, and how much of our tax they're piling away in the vaults (while hospitals, schools, transport, public works, etc. are suffering) for some "rainy day" - I'm very disappointed in what my country has become.

Kristalrose, your post made me so sad and angry - I wish it was fiction, but then the truth is generally worse than fiction. The worst part is that there is so little you can do, even if you act with all of your power and ability, in those situations. 

Kyna, I understand where you're coming from, and its good to hear from the other side of the Centrelink divide - when my parents divorced my Mum went on the single parent pension as well since she was unemployed at the time, and although we weren't able to remove ourselves entirely from the welfare (due to her working part-time to look after me) it did reduce after the initial money problems. Most people on Centrelink benefits are well-deserving; there are a lot of young people on the NewStart and Youth Allowances that I know, mainly due to lack of any work in the area I live in. But I have encountered quite a few women who do exploit the system in this way - they are not the majority, but most I have met come either from bad family situations or their mothers did a similar thing with their children.


Ha! I'd rather have been in Canada this New Year's, with the 45 degree temperatures... sure, the winters are mild but summer is getting horrendous.

What was their catchphrase? "One for the mother, one for the father, and one for the Prime Minister"? - that turned me right off. 


I know quite a few people who've taken advantage of the system in this way. They see it as being "set for life" - or at least sixteen years, depending on how many children they have - because they get plenty of money from Centrelink, plus child endowment, commission housing (where if your bathroom/kitchen/roof needs renovating, they come and do it free and quickly - wish they'd do that for my house!). As a student, stuck on $100 a week from the government and whatever else I can earn before they cut me off, it makes me angry... I just see it as an example of the government wanting people to choose this lifestyle and making it extremely difficult for other people from poorer backgrounds to get the education they need for whatever career they've chosen. A disturbing trend in Australian society, that's my opinion. 

I'm hoping for a possible residential/community combo, as well as just plain community, so it can really become a family business. Plus, no travel/lot change lag!

And those elevators looked positively swish. 

Pre-nightlife, I had a sim's father "approve" when he saw his son flirting with the governess (Victorian neighbourhood). He didn't really care for his son's wife. Post-nightlife, it seems it'd be a different story, which is annoying - that seemed a bit more realistic, and the sim made his own decision based on his dislike of his daughter-in-law, if not the exact way I wanted my plotline to go.

I'd like to live in the ghetto and slum areas - I'd get bored living the good life for too long!

Possibly autoyak? Since that's on your list of recent hacks and this other problem is to do with the phone.