I would like the opposite - a hack that permits you to call a penguin at any time.  (Actuallly, I'd want a mod that lets you make a pet out of the penguin, but that is probably complicated.)

Law and Education for the first two, obviously.

As others have mentioned, Gaming does require education, at least insofar as you need to know how to program.  A lot of programmers are self-taught, but many do have degrees in computer science - I'm not sure how many who go into gaming have degrees though.  There are many schools for journalism, but going into journalism doesn't require having an education in that field.  Music depends on the type of music - garage bands and singers don't generally require education, but classical musicians do.  Adventurers don't need any formal education whatsoever.

Amen.  Any semi-serious web designer who tries to create HTML/XHTML and CSS compliant sites knows that IE is the absolute *worst* when it comes to handling compliancy.  There are so many "workarounds" we have to use in order to get sites to work properly in IE just because IE was so crap; hopefully with IE7, we won't need to use them anymore, but since people will be using IE6 for ages to come, we'll still need to include them anyway :/

Squinge at insiminenator has a hack that permits you to have 10 pets and up to 21 sims+pets on a lot at a time.

*didn't know about that*  I'll have to take away all their toys and leave them alone together, see if it happens.

You could try requesting Squinge to make a hack for it at Insimenator, as he takes requests.

For some reason, nothing will work for me.

I've tried both CureROM and SD4Hide (separately), both with Alcohol and Daemon tools.  I've also tried GameJackal.  Every time, The Sims 2 OFB says that I need to make sure that the CD is in the drive, then the program shuts down.  The only thing that *does* work is to 1) use my actual version of The Sims 2: OFB in the CD drive (which, for reasons mentioned in this thread, I don't want to do) or 2) find a cracked exe file, which I've heard is the reason my college grades are messed up (the bar doesn't change).

*has no idea why it works for everyone else, but not on this computer* :x

He already answered your question, as did Motoki, twojeffs (in his fix thread), and many others.

Please stop whining.

Objects/new meshes that are just decorative usually work fine, so I would guess the closet system, closet units, and photography backdrop would be okay.

The rest on your list are hacks.  Twojeffs has said Movie Maker needs to be updated, I believe, and Crammyboy hasn't released a list of working hacks yet.  Dunno about Carrigon, would go to her site to see if she has a list.

Is that all custom objects or only certain ones?  It might be based on what the custom object was cloned off of...

Not sure if that was geared at me, but I don't believe so.  I have JM's fix, but that's it.  Anyway, I can move out Sims fine by telephone/computer, I just can't send them off to college that way.

Happened before in one of my dorms.  I stuck a professor in a room with no doors, but the room had a toilet, fridge, and bed.  A ghost scared the professor three times in a row, and he died.  The Grim Reaper came, called on his phone, left the professor's urn, then went to use the toilet :x  He left after he finished.

How do you disable/enable that option?  I've tried sending my teens to college by phone/computer, and it always says I have to choose a University first, when I already have a working university attached.  I end up having to send them to university through the neighborhood chooser, which is very inconvenient.

I'm not sure if it's that I have GunMod's lighting mod or what, but Enayla's normal skins look awful in my game.  I tried "alabaster" for pale, and everyone looks dead.  Their faces are too shiny, and it's creepy.  "Pale blush" was better in that they didn't look dead, but still a little off.  Dusk, by contrast, is much too dark for the darkest skin.  However, Enayla's alien and zombie skins look excellent in-game, so I'm using those.  For my normal defaults, I went with Simcribbling, which all look great in-game.

I agree.  If this is possible, that'd be great.  Sometimes I want my Sims to be taken to the secret society, and other times I really just want to stay on my current lot.

I notice that Sims still roll semi-romantic wants for Sims they're no longer in love with - wants such as giving backrubs to ex-lovers, or just desiring to constantly talk to ex-lovers (more so than with their best friends or family members).  This is the case even for Sims who aren't Romance Sims - I've had it happen mostly to Knowledge Sims (both Sims who were created as Knowledge Sims and have always remained such, and for Sims who were originally Romance Sims but were then changed to Knowlege Sims).

This semi-obsessive behavior happens normally when Sims fall in love in game, then fall out of love in game.  The Sims still want to talk and appreciate their ex-lovers, even when furious, and even ages later when they've fallen in love with other Sims.  I've seen this phenomenon mentioned on this board before, but I don't recall the reasoning behind it.

Furthermore, it also happens when: a) the Sims fall in love in game, b) in SimPE, I then remove the crush/love flags, and c) then I also remove all memories they had (and invisible memories other Sims had) of falling in love, kissing, woohooing, cheating, etc.

Is there some way in SimPe to make Sims fall completely out of love, to remove this obsessive effect?  I hate the "backrub/talk to" wants clogging up my want slots.  Usually, they only spin some of their more recent ex-loves, and not much older ones, suggesting recency has some effect.  And given that I've removed crush/love flags and the memories in SimPE, it seems some aspect of "Sim love memory" is also stored elsewhere.

In the case of lightning bolts for the wrong Sims, there's not much I can do if they're friends and they hang out together.  All I can do is make sure they're happily in love with other Sims- or better yet, engaged/married to other Sims.  If they have two or three lightning bolts for random dormies/townies and they're already attached otherwise, then I either try to change the dormie/townie using the Mind Control Mirror and a mirror/Merola64's painting so that he/she is no longer attractive to my Sims, or I just kill them and have them make nice ghosts for various lots.

Thanks, Pescado.  I installed the latest Omega Drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, and everything's working again :]  Strange how the previous drivers suddenly started fritzing though.

I was playing the game perfectly fine yesterday and last week.  Suddenly, today, everything screws up.  Here are screen shots to demonstrate:



Basically, the neighborhood, university, and downtown in Pleasantview and Strangetown will load.  However, after the loading screen, the university and the downtown in Pleasantview and the downtown in Strangetown will screw up, as seen in the above pictures.  (I haven't played Veronaville so didn't test it.)  For some reason, animation and movement seem to stop.  The camera won't move around the screen (technically it does, but the screen will remain fixated on the original spot and won't show the changes), and animation on the screen will stop (cars will stop moving, for example).  Hovering over anything such as lots will leave a trail of pop-ups that never fade; the various boxes from changing views/modes won't fade; and mousing things across the screen results in image streaking that won't fade either (as seen in the second picture).  There's no way to get the camera moving again and the pop-ups/image streaking to fade other than through pure luck.  At one point in Pleasantview's university, changing to Decorations mode fixed this problem, but I couldn't duplicate this effect again.

Last week, I was playing Strangetown's downtown fine with no hitch whatsoever, and now I get this problem.  Strangetown's La Fiesta Tech has the problem, sort of, but the camera will eventually move around and stop the image streaking.  I never noticed this problem until tonight either, and I've been playing it almost exclusively for a few weeks.  I was actually playing this university two days ago perfectly fine.  I haven't tried entering lots to see if there's problems with them, too, but I was playing Pleasantview's neighborhood just last night without any problems.

I removed the Downloads folder to see if it was any hack/mod causing it, but I got the same problem.  Anyway, the only recent hacks that I downloaded over the past few days were syberspunk's apologize hack (today) and Pescado's romance mod in testing (which worked fine before, no problems).  Last night, one of my lots froze on loading, but I restarted and deleted the pool lights (causing the problem) in debug mode.  After that, I played the lot fine and saved.  I haven't touched it since today, which is when I noticed the weirdness.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Do I have to completely reinstall my game and get rid of my current saves, or is there another way to figure out WTF is suddenly going wrong?

Thanks muchly :]

Does this affect slow dancing?  *hope it doesn't*

I can create groups of up to 8 members using the phone.  If you can't, it's probably a limitation of your hardware.

Er... what happens if someone actually tries to make a payment through Paypal?

Are they unable to send the money (doubtful, since you can send money to any e-mail address, whether they have a Paypal account or not)?  Do you return it?

*kind of concerned about, y'know, fraud*

If you have Crammyboy's normal clothing on community lots hack, be sure to download the Clothing Event Fix: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=1299.0  That was my problem, the clothing event fix fixed it though~

Thanks, you guys

I downloaded Carrigon's hacked tarot cards for the "remove zombie curse" hack (had to check the various threads since the search function there is kind of effed up), and I shall follow Hegelian and gali's advice on packaging the lots

Question 1: Is there any way to un-zombiefy a Sim?  I learned that after you Zombie a Sim, then kill him, then resurrect him, even if you pay the full amount, you still get stuck with a Zombie.  I don't particularly like the Zombies (they freak me out, and I need to ply their faces with full-face make-up to make them less ugly), but my knowledge Sims all want to be them, and there's no way I'm making them Zombies if they'll be Zombies for forever.  Anyway in game or with SimPE to change Zombies to be normal Sims?

Question 2: I changed some things in my lots Downtown.  Since the default Downtown is the same in every Neighborhood, I don't want to go through the hassle of having to load up the same lots in another Neighborhood's Downtown, just to make the same exact changes.  I wanted to copy the files from Neighborhood 1 into Neighborhood 2.  I think this would work (would welcome any suggestions as to why it wouldn't so I can give up if it'll screw up my game), but because the file names (lot numbers) are different between my neighborhoods, I'm not sure which lots are the same.  How can I determine which file names correspond to which lots?  Again, either in game or in SimPE?

I tried locking him up and setting his motives to zero, but all he did was walk around the room, complaining about a toilet or belly laughing.  I tried setting a fire nearby, but he didn't catch, and then he disappeared, so I'm not sure if he's fire proof or not.