thanks for the idea.....I would've been here all day

Well, that worked.  YAY!  So now I get to go through and put one thing at a time in my game to find the culprit.   Thanx for the help!

I don't have any hacks to allow my sims to change autonomously.  I'm taking everything nonAwesome  out of my game and trying again.

I always play with free will activated and I've never seen this happen before.  They stand there and cycle through all their outfits....over and over again.

First off I have every ep and sp through ikea stuff.  The problem started when I decided to uninstall and make a clean install w/ patches and everything.  Now the only thing my sims do autonomously is stand at the wardrobe and change clothes.  This happens with kids all the way to elders.  They ignore all needs while changing until they're in the red.  The only way I've found to stop them is power idle.    Please help.....btw I looked for another thread about this and didn't find one so sorry if I duplicated.

I'm thinking B must stand for brilliant...    It's fixed...thank you so much

Well, I found something similar (disappearing sim) so I tried what was suggested in that thread (try d/l sim pe on a dial up!  ) But every time I try to load a hood in the neighborhood browser I get nothing but errors.....same in every hood whether custom or original......I did make sure I have all the requirements to run it but still no luck.      I did have two files one visitor controller and one visitor controller-community lot I pulled them out of my game and am off to try again

I just got the dang thing today and already I want to smash it!     I took one of my favorites on a vacation to the beach, she sunbathed and had some lunch and then I had her walk to a community lot to do some sight-seeing (this was my mistake).  She never showed up at the other end.....so now the vacation meter is full, it's time to go home and she's nowhere to be found.  I apoligize if there's already a thread dealing with this but I couldn't find it.     Any help would be greatly appreciated!