Wowzers. The deformed/"stretch skeleton effect" thing just happened to one of my toddlers, and needless to say, it creeped me the hell out. Wtf. I hope there's a fix for that soon.

Oh em gee, that is hilarious! Lol. Damn, so is it safe to delete copies from the bin? Hmm, I recall seeing a topic about such a thing, I think. *off to search*

Edit: Yes, I've spotted the clone. If I delete households out the Library, will that stop this?

Is she just being overly narcissistic or is this yet another shitty bug? Has anyone else experienced something similar?

Thanks for the tips. I'll try those suggestions .

Edit: I found her by following her car! Also, the reason I couldn't find her on the map the first time is because she's part of a household with an entirely different last name from hers.

Hey good people, I have a question...

One of my playables had a baby with some random townie chick, and I looked to see if she was on the map, and I couldn't find her house, therefore I guess she lives who the hell knows. With that said, how is he supposed to see his newborn child?? It's not like he can invite the child over. I tried inviting the mother over but she only brings herself. Ideas? Thanks.

Gotcha. I ended up just turning headlines off; not gonna let that mess drive me nuts lol, not when Sims 3 is on the way. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your response.

Okay, I have about 4 on the menu right now. I'll take them off one by one and use process of elimination.

Question: I used the Lot Debugger to "clear gossip" and "clear trash"...this can do nothing but help, right?

Also, I only have like 5 items on the menu, and I've seen them all appear in thought bubbles perfectly fine before; does this not matter and mean that the foods could still be bugged regardless? Like sometimes they appear in bubbles and sometimes they don't?

Hi, y'all.

I own a restaurant in my game, and I have 3 employees (host, chef, server), but they all seem to chip in w/ trying to "sell" the food on the restaurant menu. Sometimes the food in their thought bubbles appear as squiggly lines though, assuming food is what's trying to appear. Has anyone else experienced this? It's driving me nuts, and I'd really hate to have to do a full reinstall.

I'm playing w/ a no-cd.exe crack, and my dumb ass tried to use Maxis' patch over it - could this be where I went wrong?

Thanks,
Totally Non-Awesome.

Nice. Is there one for Residential?

Thank you. I will check out the Awesomeware hacks, as well as the Lot Debugger if it's not already included.

I have tested WITHOUT hacks recently, and while I haven't seen sims pick up the whole case of cans, there has been an instance of them not being able to clean up the serving platter still.

Before taking out my hacks, I ran the Hack Conflict Utility and nothing popped up.

I am thinking about just doing a reinstall....I hate to, but this thing is giving me more of a headache than a fresh reinstall probably would.

However, I have some houses that I spent days decorating that I would like to save, 2 in particular, but I am scared that if I do, i might be saving borked lots since I have no clue WTF is causing this issue really.

Thank you for the help, but these all seem like quick fixes, and the problem reoccurs, so I am pretty much looking for a permanent fix. I think the problem started on the 15th, when I was trying to figure out how to stop TVs from "breaking," so I asked someone, and they suggested I do boolprop testingcheatsenabled to "fix" broken TVs. I believe the problem started after that. First with the TV, and then I started getting issues with the serving platter. *le sigh* I am really trying to avoid a re-install here...so tedious.

BTW, where can I get the Stuck Object Remover?

Hmm, okay. Well, yes, I tried the moveobjects on/delete thing, and I could not do it that way. Afterward, I enabled the testingcheats and forced an error, and that's what they gave me. The whole log file is huge; I wish I could just copy and paste it, but there's a limit.

Hi, I've been having a problem for the past week with the serving platter, but before I get into that, here's some basic info:

I have every EP up to FT installed, with the latest patch. Also, I ran the Hack Conflict Utility tool with results of no hack conflict. Okay, usually this problem occurs with a visiting (custom) townie after one of my resident sims serves "Instant Meals" and uses the "Call to Meal" function. I haven't noticed this problem really occurring with my resident sims, but here's what happens:

A few people on the lot will get a drink from the serving platter, and then a townie will pick up ALL the drinks sans serving platter.

Example Picture:



After this happens, when I point one of my resident sims to "clean up" the serving platter, she cannot pick the object up. I even try to delete it and cannot (I went to the Sims2Wiki page about not being able to delete objects, and the fix didn't work for me; guess it's not that simple.)

Here is the serving platter:



I did the boolprop testingcheatsenabled true command to generate an object error log, and I have it at the end of this post. You will see that it says something about Hit Break Point Primitive. Is this a serious error?

I really appreciate anyone who takes the time to go through it and help me with a fix because it's really starting to effin irk me.

(Note: Yes, in the screens, I have default replacements for both drinks and dinnerware, but I have since removed both of these things, and it STILL happens with the "Instant Meals," so I'm quite sure it's not those other things.)

.................

OBJECT ERROR LOG:

Build: 1.13.0.155

at May  1 2008,22:26:42

Object id: 475

name: Food Dish - Serving Platter

Stack size: 4

Error: Hit Break Point Primitive.

Iterations: 7

  Frame 3:

    Stack Object id: 475

    Stack Object name: Food Dish - Serving Platter

    Node: 0

    Tree: id 732 name 'CT - Object Error' version -32761

    from global

    Prim state: 0

    Params:    Locals:

  Frame 2:

    Stack Object id: 0

    Node: 0

    Tree: id -1 name 'No behavior' version 0

    from

    Prim state: 1

    Params:    Locals:

  Frame 1:

    Stack Object id: 475

    Stack Object name: Food Dish - Serving Platter

    Node: 0

    Tree: id 280 name 'Idle' version 2

    from global

    Prim state: 0

    Params: 20000    Locals:

  Frame 0:

    Stack Object id: 475

    Stack Object name: Food Dish - Serving Platter

    Node: 1

    Tree: id 8192 name 'Function - Main' version -32753

    from FoodDish_Globals

    Prim state: 0

    Params:    Locals:


I guess I posted the right part of the log? I didn't post anything beyond "Global Simulator Variables" because the whole file is just too big, but in case anyone wants to look at it, I have uploaded it HERE.

Thanks.

Is it compatible? I ask because soon after I fired up my game, one of my married couples, who both happen to be BFFs with this one particular sim, ended up falling in love with her. I had no such problems until I patched my game again. ACR and NoInstantLove were working fine for me. I asked over at the ACR forum too about this, but I just wanna know if Pescado's hack is cool with the latest FT Patch.

Thanks in advance.

Yeah, I figured that was the case, just wanted clarification. Thank you.

Okay, I have another question, and sorry if it's been covered already...

(If it has, bring it on! I like torture...I'm into light S&M)

Okay, SO...

Do I need to follow the whole "custom hood" tut if I'm not even gonna use any of the pre-made neighborhoods? I plan to DELETE every SINGLE neighborhood I see once I load the game up and then make my own. I'm just wondering if I'm exempt from some of this somewhat tedious process.

Gracias in advance! 

Emma, I've been looking for this kinda help as well, so I must thank you too lol .

Okay, thanks. However, I do recall reading somewhere not to delete the /Lots folder in FT.

OKay, I tried this tut and apparently did something wrong. No prob....off to try again.

Do these instructions apply to Free Time the same way as well?

BTW, for those that don't know, the FT patch is finally back up again, nice and shiny (hopefully).

Thanks .

Thanks for the clarification . I used an empty template for G002. Was that completely okay? G001 one is still clogged with Character files and all that junk. Is there an empty one for that too around here?

Am I the oddball, or is it like this for everyone else too? I noticed it when I was completing one of those custom neighborhood tuts. Wtf...just seems odd to me. While making fun of me, please answer my question .

If it's not supposed to be this way....I wouldn't be surprised. Heh.

"Original" as in Pleasantview and such with those hideous Maxis townies and such? I'll pass , but it is good to have backups just in case I bump my head and want it back one day. Thanks for your help!

^Thanks for the quick response.

So, okay...in order for me to have a totally clean hood when I start a new one, I would still have to overwrite all the templates with clean ones though, right? I hope I'm not making this any more confusing than it has to be lol.

I have a quick question.

Is it safe to delete the neighborhoods I don't want from the main menu? OR, should I download the empty templates first, and THEN delete them. I don't wanna mess up any code or anything, and I'm wondering if the latter is necessary to ensure that.