- not changing the last name when marrying.
- the musical chairs is an issue, but we seem to have a musical bed as well. I have my guy sim go to sleep earlier than the girl, but about half the time when she goes to bed, he gets up, she lays  down where he was, and he goes to the other side and lays down to sleep.
-Am I missing something? There is no nanny or baby sitter, and no maternity leave? WTH?
-my sims won't wash the dishes when I select clean up. They pick up a plate, walk somewhere and set it back down. Half the time when the clean out the spoiled food from the fridge they just set it on the counter. Where are our dishwashers?
-would like to be able to see the age of sims we are trying to hook up with. My young adult just married a guy who is half way to elderly :-/
-I want to be able to see my sims motives and queue stuff while they are working.
-bills are WAY too high
-I can't even FIND my mailbox on my lot... I have to stalk the mailman and see if I can figure it out...
-having to clean up trash after every repair is annoying
-my sim got pregnant in the evening and by 5am she looked like she was ready to give birth... craziness
-no queue dropping mod would be nice. If she auto eats I don't want it to drop because I queue her up to pee...
-even the ts3 camera option sucks, especially if I'm trying to move the camera back. The camera operation that it comes with is bogus
-agreed on the motives dropping way too fast. I understand my pregnant sim having to eat and pee more often, but they need to slow down for the rest, especially when sleeping.

Falconpunch worked, thanks!

I'm not sure it was supposed to be like this. The townies are congregating by my garage and I have to keep sending them home with resetsim or they sit there til they fry or freeze. Asking them to leave doesn't work, I can't interact with them at all.  I have a stray cat that is stuck in front too. Poor thing.

I've also noticed a super bad lag. They just stand there for an hour before doing anything. Annoying. It makes it very tough to potty train my toddlers!

I have all EPs and stuff packs, downloaded, latest patches and Awesome Mod, no other CC.
My sim went into labor but was holding her toddler at the time (not on her property). She wouldn't set the baby down, the dad couldn't take it. No options for mom other than go to hospital. Labor went on for a bit then stopped and everything went back to normal except now she's pregnant and won't give birth? Still has all pregnancy functions but no moodlets and can't go into CAS. Has anyone had this issue? Is there a fix? I tried fixall and resetsim. It's been about 3 days since borked labor.

Also have noticed since installing seasons... many of the townies are bursting into flames and dying from standing outside too long in the summer.

I recieved one only once... I was waiting for daddy sim to return home from work with momma and two toddlers. I put some things in the family invantory to prepare for a move that evening. I believe from what I can recall, the errors sais something about an expected object or something like that. I think the sim was trying to interact with something that used to be there? I put the objects back in place and no more errors popped up.  And no, my sim didn't have anything queued up to do, it was several minutes later after I removed the objects the errors started.

Maybe they are looking for better reception... lol

OMG people I'm not not crying boo hoo saying I'm dumb and I made the mistake of saying "lazy" shoot me. Its not being lazy, I just mean when it comes to guts of the game and getting into files and stuff like that I'm LOST... ok? Does that make sense? You guys really like to tear people up... sometimes funny... but some of us are actually mature intellegent adults with jobs and families who don't have HOURS to pour through hundreds of posts trying to find a solution, and actually admire those of you, like J.M. who are very smart and knowledgeable about these kinds of things... that's why we COME HERE. Go pick on the idiots who can't form a complete sentance, I'm giving you all a compliment by saying you're smarter than me about certain things... obviously only CERTAIN things. Forget it, I'll just redo the whole damn thing.  Thanks anyway to those of you who actually did try to help.
And by the way... I exhausted everything I could think of, find, had tried before etc etc or BELIEVE ME... I WOULDN'T have come on here.

Ok, going back to being a lurker now, its much safer that way. And since I'm sure I won't be posting for awhile, thank you J.M. for this site, I have found many useful solutions on here in the posts and wouldn't play the game without your hacks. You also crack me up.

well MY point was I'm fairly intellegent when it comes to figuring things out, but not when its a bunch of techy stuff... ie digging into the guts of the game or game files when I don't even know what I'm looking for. I don't have the time or the brain power after work to think that hard to figure it out on my own... plus, my game is borked enough already. With my luck I'll go messing it up worse... sigh. I'm about ready just reinstall it all. ANY other suggestions?

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ok I figured out the regen thing, its the folder in my documents that regens, not program files... but it didn't help. Same problem in the new one... what the hell? grrrrr. And I did try left clicking with the keypad on my laptop, so I know its not my mouse, I don't appear to have any stuck keys or anything of that nature... just random borkedness I guess. I so don't want to reinstall everything


Edit by Moderator: double posting fixed: please cut it out!

And that's why I love you

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Ok I renamed the folder and it gives me this message:

The Sims 2 is not installed on the system, or some required files have been deleted. This expansion pack requires The Sims 2 in order to run. Please install The Sims 2 before attempting to run this application.

I have the base game, uni, NL and OFB installed with the disks, everything else is the downloaded versions... I have everything except teen style, kitchen and bath and ikea...


Moderator edit: double posting fixed.

Well I said I looked in the logs files, tried every neighborhood, other lots, checked my mouse, etc etc... yes, I have tried everything I can think of or I wouldn't be here opening myself to ridicule.

Yes I played in debug mode, no errors pop up and the only ones I can find at all are the ones I listed here... they showed up in the input window when I typed in help to see what was there, and I also looked in the logs folder for error logs. I will try the regenerating thing, thanks!

my mouse is clean... checked it and I'm not having a problem on anything else with it. I tried to play another neighborhood and its the same problem. Every lot I've tried, every neighborhood, same deal. The ONLY thing I can think of that has been different is one of my children aged to a teen and I aged a townie girl at the same time... could that be borking something? grrrrrr!

Is there somewhere to look for an error log other that I maybe don't know about? I'm not really "awesome" enough to know a lot of technical crap like that... more to the point I've just been to lazy to look too hard ha ha! But I did look in the logs folder and all I found was the same error log I posted here...

no errors are popping up on screen. This seems to be all I can find...
ERROR TSAudio: Segment at %DataDirectory%Res\Sound\Locale\%Language%\Sfx\Samples\Karaoke\ has no extensions defined in section DBSegmentDirectoryFiles
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(944)
ERROR TSAudio: Segment at %DataDirectory%Res\Sound\Locale\%Language%\Sfx\Tracks\Karaoke\ has no extensions defined in section DBSegmentDirectoryFiles
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(944)
ERROR TSAudio: Segment at %DataDirectory%Res\Sound\Locale\%Language%\Sfx\Samples\DJBooth\ has no extensions defined in section DBSegmentDirectoryFiles
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(944)
ERROR TSAudio: Segment at %DataDirectory%Res\Sound\Locale\%Language%\Sfx\Tracks\DJBooth\ has no extensions defined in section DBSegmentDirectoryFiles
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(944)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Buy) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Build) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (CAS) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (NHood) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (CAS) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Buy) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Build) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (NHood) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (NHood) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Buy) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (Build) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudioMusic     : Music category (CAS) listed twice in category property set.
.\source\TSAudioMusicManager.cpp(1667)
ERROR TSAudio: Failed to cache resource. 0b9eb87e:0da1f2ca:ff99e0de
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(1220)
ERROR TSAudio: Failed to cache resource. 0b9eb87e:eb8ab356:ff8bceb2
.\source\TSAudioResourceManager.cpp(1220)

I've been playing my family just fine for weeks, no new hacks or downloads at all... in fact I took the whole downloads folder out and its still happening. I click on anything and the menu pops up for a few seconds and dissapears. Its happening on every lot, even the ones I haven't been on before. How can I find out why this suddenly started happening and how can I fix it??? Short of completely uninstalling and reinstalling.. I don't know what else to do! I have all the eps through AL and most of the stuff packs. It takes forever...

Its not the invisable garden plot, and its not the always perfect one. I had the ap one but I took that out long ago. the plot itself ahows up with a custom content star thingy on the pic but the name and description are the same as always. I guess I will start a hunt grrrrrr... its just that I always put downloads into catagorized files and nothing seems remotely the same as this.

It makes the palnts grow very quickly, and seemingly always healthy with no weeding needed. I've tried to find the site I downloaded it from but I can't seem to find it. I'll try the binary search thing... never done that before so here goes...

OK I clicked the link for that and read the information... I have no clue how to do that or what I would do with it once I find it.

Edit by moderator: oh hai, I fixed ur double post

Ok, so, I downloaded some obviously non-awesome hack that has replaced the normal "Pleasant Earth Dirt" and now I can't find it to remove it. I tried to find it with the catagorizer and nada, I've looked through all my hack that are (with the exception of build mode objects that come with downloaded lots) very well organized when I download them... I have no idea what the file name is. Nothing I have seems close. How the heck do I find this thing to remove it?

Whoops one thing someone else had said, the stuck plates. I noticed this too and just figured it was because of old food when installing the new ep... just used the stuck object removed and viola!

It's not just the new hobbies that are taking forever to build badges. I had a Uni student doing flower arranging for days and nothing.. I used moniques computer to study badges and as soon as he sat down he got his bronze badge for flower arranging. The points were there but the badge wasn't coming, weird.
My sims also get 2 spams (the same one) about finding a new planet or something and a $500 reward when they go to use the telescope, and then they jump from it every time they try to use it on their own after that. But I do have telescope related hacks in there so I'll be taking them out. (I'm lazy)

Not to be insulting or anything to anyone, just a possible suggestion for the problem of only doing one craft when instructed to "make many"... are you returning to the crafting table or starting fresh? When returning and selecting resume, they still will only finish one and stop. Not implying anyone is an idiot, but perhaps just overlooked that.

I saw someone else suggest the seasons as well for the bugs, but might it be for the birds too? I've not seen any, but all my sims are currently in winter accept for my uni students (always in fall) and I haven't seen any there either, though I haven't really looked, just haven't noticed any.

All in all, surprsingly bug free so far. Haven't noticed too much at all yet.

I thought macrotastics queued the emptying trash LAST? weird... but funny vid lol

I THINK that's the name of it, pretty sure, haven't played it today... but is anyone else having this problem? Every time I check my sims into the Double Palm Resort hotel whatever, they get trapped upstairs. I can't find any reason for it, but they simply won't go back down the steps. The only way I can get them out is to have them call a taxi to go somewhere, then they "poof" into the taxi. Very irritating, any ideas?

There are pet shops, look in your bin

I say Pescado should just go work for EAxis so the dang thing works right the first time.

This has led me to two thoughts...

1. When I get BV I MUST make the seediest "pay by the hour" looking hotel possible for the main 'hood.
2. Someone should make a main 'hood hotel the old fashioned OFB way - beds in rooms and a ticket machine - and see if the customers sleep. If they do, voila! Sim-owned hotels!
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Hahaha..  I did that with a bunch of Lizz Loves Autonomus Waterbed thingies whatever their called... worked like a charm and they raked in the cash!  Just make sure you have the no playable shoppers hack (snapdragons help too)

linkyhttp://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=198705

I thought I'd check out the greenman house, so I was playing rose and noticed right away she had a FEAR of having a baby.....she's a family asperation sim, lol....weird

well all I did was remove my custom careers folder, and it's worked fine ever since I played for several hours with no more jumping sims