I wanted to say thanks for your tips , and how to change the setting, and yes I believe it is a UK version, one because of the clock. I did notice the clock was on 24hrs and I kept have to change it back to 12hrs.

After installing BV, all the females in the neighborhood (whether there maxis made or not) they all have different last names than their spouses. Some have entirely different first and last names.

I did a clean install For BV, So there is no downloads/mods or savesims files etc… I did try to use my backup's folder and still the same thing. I also try to use simpe to see what was up (after getting though all the error hiccups in simpe) It showed the entire correct names for all females. 

The only other problem I found is I can't walk to community lots at all.
Other than these problems everything seems to working ok.

I had something similar happen in strangetown yesterday. Playing the Grunts, I have tank, buck and Ripp wants filled with they want to teach pet tricks to General Buzz . I tried re rolling their wants but they kept on spinning them back up.

I don't know why Maxis or EA didn't give an option to make it so that the dogs or cats could of walk to work if they missed the carpool. I would of like a feature that Sims could walk them to work too.

I started with a total newly install game all eps and sps, and new custom hood.
Here are the problems I'm having with no hack and with fresh installed game.

Still not getting the option for pet job from the newspaper; I do get the option from the computer.

Pet get a job and carpool come to get the pet, the go to work queue drops and the pet never get in the car. Yes the pet needs where all in green. I put the cheat in to control them and action cancel cheat and I get no action available on any object or the pet it self.
I can't get any option on any thing now with the control cheat on. I shut the cheat off and it doesn't change a thing. The only different is the action not grey out.

Carry puppies or kittens up stairs. It doesn't work I try and try. Maybe there is a way I don't know but I try every thing you could possible do in the game and still no go.

Ok trash the hood and made a new custom hoods no hack at all and this still happens.
Ok trash the second hood made a new one and put some hack in like JM"s petsp0-jobfixes.Still no option from the paper for pet job, still the pet won't go to work and cheat for the pet still don't help.
Ok put in JM's harderjobs fix that work with JM's petsp0-jobfixes. Still no option from the paper for pet job, still the pet won't go to work and cheat for the pet still don't help.

I also had a problem when I put in the harderjob fix.When the Sims come home and bring a friend home from there job, the sim that they brought home is invisible and you can't interact with them at all. I tried using the cheat to make them selectable I can select them but that it I just deleted them off the lot. And another thing with the harderjob fix is calling service npc you can't do it, the sim jump out of action with cell phone or house phones.
When I took the harderjob fix out, and when the sim brought a friend home from work it was back to normal. The sim was visible and you could interact with them, and the phone work fine too.

I don't know if this make a different but the Roseland family the dog has a last name, but if you adopted a dog or cat it doesn't , that's in my game  .I don't know if this causes problems with job for the animals or problems with them on the lot where they live.

  I think I found my where my problem was coming from . It seems somewhere when installing the pets ep my custom hoods got corrupted and screwed with the whole game. That's where my problem with jump bug and other oddities is coming from.
After JM mention something about the custom hoods Should be taken out, I remember when I installed Pets I took everything out, hack, cc, all that good stuff, but didn't take out my custom neighborhoods.
When I install new eps I always start with I fresh hood, so I hadn't play my custom hoods. So I loaded up a custom hood, after it loaded in the Pets ep, I would get a message there was no neighborhood and the Sims won't know where they are or going or some message similar to that.. My custom neighborhoods all have sub neighborhoods a Uni, downtown, and business, so I thought maybe I'll put in another sub hood but still the message came up. I put in 4 new sub hoods and still the message pop up, Also after I install the sub hoods and went back to the main hood the main hood had no lots, excepted uni lots that were suppose to be in uni hood.
Needless to say that neighborhood is pile of mush. However I do have many backups.

I went and took the neighborhood folder out of the ea folder and loaded the game, letting it spawn the default neighborhoods. I've had no problems, no jump bug after playing for about an hour in a replace backup hood . I'm slowly starting to put back cc stuff and a few hacks, and so far it seem to be going ok.

I have the jump bug back in my game, but it different than other version of this bug, I only have this bug with a Sims or pet that doesn't know each other. If a sim knows the other sim or pet it will interact fine no jump happens, but it a sim try to interact with a sim or a pet he doesn't know I get the jump.

My game installed fine had no problems loading it after install. I didn't notice this bug right away until the new neighbors came, I greeted them fine but the 3 new neighbors couldn't interact with each other because they didn't know each other there kept jumping ,a stray came on the lot I could interact with it fine but all the non controllable Sims couldn't  jump,jump,jump!!!!! None of the visting sims where npc. 

 It has also happen when they are eating at the tables if an unknown sim is sitting there eating and talking they jump. The only action I can do is greet but that it and only with a control sim on their lot.

With the old jump bug you still get a memory if you met some one new and you a least get the face in the relationship panel, with this jump bug I get nothing, no memory or face in relationship panel.

I'm also getting it on business community lot, like with the ticket machine I can't do any sale interaction they just jump, but only if they are an unknown sim. If the sim knows them the interaction is fine.

I took a lot of hack out that are not ready for pet ep.
I also try without any hack, and made sure the download fold was empty and game clean of hacks. I still get it but not right away. I notice it happen when I animal comes on the lot like a stray then they all start to jump.
This is driving me absolutely mad, I have Sims and animals jumping every where and having no friends or memories to boot.
Everything else is working in my game excepted I can't talk or pet or have a party with my Sims

Oh ya, since they made changes with the collection folders I can't use the rewards objects for communities/residential lots. They show up but there are greyed out. Alot of my CC stuff is greyed out to for the collections folders.

I don't know if this has been suggested yet but hears my advice.
This sound more like of a hardware problem then software, however I could be wrong. You said your video card was getting hot and you put in a better fan to keep it cool, that's great. But Some times when you upgrade a hardware component it requires more voltage you maybe sucking up the power of you power supple and it might not have enough voltage left to run all you hardware and software or the power supple could be overheating .You shouldn't run a p4 under anything less than 450 power supple and that's a minimum, and more hardware you add the more voltage you need even if it just a case fan.
Overheating is a killer in a computer if you could I would have your motherboard, cpu, video card and memory check to make sure you didn't burn out any of this hardware oh and the power supple.

Ok I decide to let Wander have a makeover and some surgery.
I didn't do so badly but I still don't like her upper lip.
I don't know if  I'm going  to keep her in the game she still annoying.







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The things is she more annoying than ugly, to me anyways in my game, and she not that mean she just plain annoying.
She one of those sims when your sim is sitting down to eat his dinner she stands right behind him and breaths down his neck,she always there and in the way.

I agree with Renatus on the whole cartoon and parodies thing.
It isn't so much about sims being pretty it about how over board the features go. Some of the townies that I have had in my game their whole face was lips and you could hardly tell if they had eyes, mouth, or a nose.My eyes burned from look at them.

I have change a few townies outfits with (suggest outfits to townies) and half of them became invisible. I think that this option is buggy along with the setting of the uniforms for a buisness.

When I purchase ofb at Targets I got a gift card for buying ofb. I guess that's a hint from Maxis to buy the family pack or they are hoping I'll buy it.I can use the card on any purchase in store if I want though. It's only $10 giftcard, I don't know if I'll get the family pack there are other things in the store the have a better use, like toilet paper.

I have had a couple of lots that have gone buggy after I rezone them. And I have rezone quit a few lots, from residential to community and some them back to residential or community, before and after ofb.
With this game when doing anything it all comes down to a game of chance.

I have no idea if the lemonade stand is hardcoded or not, I do feel the kids should get more out of it.

I fine that doing a home business, is great for one sim or two elders that just want a few extra bucks.
I tried to have a home business with 2 adults and 2 kids and servo; it went smooth in the beginning. But after a few days all hell broke lose.
I had one adult that went to work, 2 kids in school and you know the carpool has its quirks.  Then you have the customers coming in and out of the house. And then you got servo that goes crazy here and there, and the food going bad and customers complaining that you and your house smells. Also you waste money to hire some one that doesn't really help.
I fine the community lots a lot easier.

I would try removing the ticketing machine; it works well for clubs but doesn't do justice for any other businesses. If removing the ticketing machine doesn't help then it might be some thing to do with the change in the lot zoning?

Yep, I feel the same way about the lemonade stand it is useless!

As far as Wander family having hardly any money, it was not only she but also her husband and daughter that had fill their inventories,come on how many bake cakes and big screen tvs do you need, and why do you have 20 toy robots? It's just funny what they will buy when your not there to babysit them.

 I don't care too much for Wanders character and the way she looks, so I going to let her die slowly.
When I don't like a playable sims I totally ignore them if I'm playing their lot, I will not help them in anyway. Didn't like Mary-sue Pleasant (too boring),So I totally ignore her on the lot, never click on her to see her wants or anything. She was much more exciting that way. She finally did die about three days later she had gotten sick and never got well !

I had move in Xavier Hurt in to one of my playable lots and he only brought $1 to the family, I had Crystal Vu move into a lot with Lazlo and she brought $1 to the family.

Another funny thing I have found in my neighborhood is Wander Tinker is  a wanderer in my shops. Every shop my playable sims own she show up on the lot and hangs around forever sometimes she buy something not. I try to get her to buy something when I got tired of seeing her all over the place, she said she didn't have enough money.
So I sad to myself maybe I should go play the Tinker lot, well Now I know why see had no money she spent it all, the Tinkers only had $10 to their name.
Ya their inventories are full, but a lot of it is useless crap! I still have to get them cell phones!

Yep, this happens to me, I have 5 lots all-full and were mostly juniors and seniors and their extra want slots were gone. I notice after graduation and when they left the lot and move into the main hood, some of them did get there want slot back but not all.
I use twojeffs College Adjuster to fix the others.

I have notice something weird with the mp3 player too.
I was playing the Smiths house in strangetown the other night and I notice Pollination Tech#9  kept playing with an mp3 player. The thing is I know I didn't give him one and I don't know how he got it either. I delete the dam thing out of his inventory, but some how it kept being put back in his inventory the next day, how the hell was it getting back in there?

I had some Invisible townies after changing their clothes.
This happen on community clothing shop lot; Everything went fine as far as the changing of their clothes and the sales, but some of these townies became invisible after changing clothes, I change their clothes with the (recommend an outfit option.). It seem to be a random thing, I had change 4 of townies clothes this way, but 2 became invisible.

I figured this out when I noticed shopping bags floating around the shop, but the sims were invisible, I use the mind control mirror to see who they were, I found it was the same townies that I sold the new outfits to a few hours before on the lot.

I have been having most of my problems with university after install ofb, all my juniors, and seniors have lost there extra want slots, I can fix the want slots but it is a pain when you got 5 lots in university and there are all full. I have also notice, I tweak some of my sims personalities before ofb and now they're back to the default personalities.

Yep I also noticed the Invisible fish too.

I have notice this problem in my game before nightlife; it started for me in university. It seems to happen mostly with the computer desk, dinning tables and chairs for me. And like you said they will do the tasks if immediately re-queue. I don't know why this happen. I have notice that some times the chairs get out of position and sometimes it will repositions it self sometimes it won't.

All I know in my game the vampires are having a blood feast, I notice this in my downtown, that the counts or countesses are biting my playable Sims or npcs without even knowing them. I also notice that I have a zombie bartender or something is wrong with his skin, it's a dark grey. I don't have any zombies in my game, so where the hell did he come from?
I thought that you had to have a good relationship with a vampire to have them bite you.

I had killed off some of the townies that I didn't care for (I know not to nice) one of which was Holly Anderson (I believe that the right name). I play for a while after some of these townies were deceased. When I went back into play the next time, the game reproduced new townies, one of which was Holly, and I was so pissed, because I wanted her gone. Even through it look like Holly, her voices was of a males. When I went into simpe and check her character files it was mark as male.
So far this is the only sim reproduced and that came back and had a sex change.
Bug maybe?

I also a freak thing in CAS , probably a bug too.
I created a family with two male adults and two female adults. I link the first male and female up to be married, the other adults were just be to sibling, well the second male I forgot to link him as a sibling. So I went into the lot and I notice he was also married to the first female. The game took it a pond it self to do this, is because I forgot to link him?
What was cool about it she had two husbands at the same time and on the same lot. I bet I couldn't do this again if I tried.
Has anyone else experience anything like this.

I play a romance sim he went on a date after he came back he rolled a want to get engaged to her (his date). I think maybe they might of change the engagement and marriage wants and memory somewhat for the romance Sims.
Has any one else notice this?