I've had a plethora of issues with the whole moving/kicking/merging/splitting of households. Strangely, my problem manifest itself by crashing to desktop, most often. In a positive light, if I tried enough times, the same action over and over, eventually whatever I was trying to accomplish would complete. It just took doing it over and over, which brought me to wonder if it was some sort of memory issue or similar, and not actually a neighborhood issue. The way mine acts, it reminds me a bit like the error code 12 issue where, if you try enough times, you may get lucky and not have to quit your current game without saving one last time. Then again, I've tried 10-15 times on certain saves and it hasn't worked.  I did notice something about error code 12, though. The more I deal with clothing, buy objects and especially patterns, the faster error code 12 manifests itself. When I had a Sim who was in the Stylist profession, I was constantly getting that error. I started just opening and then closing the menu (with Awesomemod's option for marking the action as complete without having to change anything) unless I was dying to make some sort of change. That allowed me to make it last much longer. Eventually, though, after any length of time playing, the error pops up. So, without any real technical knowledge about it, it feels like it is connected to having a lot of textures cached, or something similar. A large amount of object/clothing mods may exacerbate the issue as well. I don't recall having it quite so often in the beginning.

 Sounds like your issues are a bit different, but not in the sense that it has been a bit of a hassle dealing with this borked system.

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Yes, "ask for autograph" as well. In fact, the autograph interaction may be slightly more evil after dealing with it a bit more and noticing that it will cancel the whole queue every time, whereas I've seen the "have photo taken" actually cancel only currently action and keep the rest of the queue. It is especially irritating while away on vacation when you have a few dig sites set up and a local stalks you to do one of those two things, and you lose the queue... Then, if you're like me, you completely forget where the dig sites were and are out of luck. I'm not sure why it wasn't simply pushed in front of the queue unless it is just one of those things EAxis has added for the sole purpose of taking out the humorous, fun aspect and going overboard, making things plain irritating. It isn't as though it would be a new addition to push to the front of the queue. It's there with the phone. Also,
I've just recently hired a Butler, and just like the maid, he will ask for autographs or photos! And he is there 24/7. It is absurd. So, I definitely hope there is something in the way of a fix. I can't imagine that some smart modder somewhere isn't about to strangle a few pixels.... And hence bring us some peace.
It is extremely easy to make your Sim a celebrity, even by accident (which is how my family found dreaded stardom), that it's almost unavoidable without going out of your way. Soon, Bridgeport is going to be full of the Famous and void of the little people. Maybe then not as many people will be asking for autographs in town. I feel like I've seen a few that do ask, but I feel like I've seen less than others.

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In closing: Well, it seems I was able to disallow that function entirely with S3PE. It's working now with a little help. No more nasty Ask for Autograph. I actually went back to playing my five-star family and it's only bit slightly annoying. Lovely.

Lol, I think I know what one of your traits happens to be.... and no, it's not just grumpy. It's the whole "babies are stupid" thing. I have to admit, puppies take less than a year to fully train and babies take three times that. I think I've suddenly decided against children in my future.

Here, let me take a wild (or not so) guess at those traits...

Evil
Mean
Grumpy
Genius
Dislikes Children

Thanks for the answers. My machine is BEEF-A-FIED and hence should be able to handle the masses. However, I don't know if I care to have that many Sims soiling my lands, unless they all turn out to be gardeners.
At least 100-300 is a basis for me to go by. I wasn't sure if 100 was way too many, so at least I know it's in that realm if I feel the need to put some sort of limit on it myself.

I know this isn't an obscure annoyance with Late Night, but I just wonder if anyone knows if by now there is some sort of mod/fix that would allow this action to work the way as, say, answering the phone works. So, rather than canceling the entire queue, only the current action would be canceled. It is one of the single most irritating things I've ever dealt with in this game. (Though, prior to Awesomemod, I had a very long list) I think one of the main reasons it is so disruptive to my game is that when the maid is here (and I love my maids), he/she always interrupts my Sims to take pictures. So, they are in their own houses, queue full of actions for max efficacy and skilling madness, then everything gets canceled and I go to my Sim who should be absorbed in learnin's and other useful activies, to find them playing Foosball, computer games or some such other useless activity. My fix for this was to fire any and all maids on the premises of any and all of my celebrity Sims.... but, hopefully someone else knows a better way?

Has anyone seen any sort of fix that would make this action work the same way as answering the phone? I opened up s3pe.. then shortly thereafter, proceeded to close it without any understanding of what I just looked at.

- I should add that this pertains to Late Night. Most people will know this since no other expansion has celebrities, but just to have it stated. -

A couple of questions for those more knowledgeable, and more experienced than myself:

1. Can anyone suggest a reasonable number for AwesomeStoryPopCap that will allow for enough sims to make a thriving town, but not become a bloated mess?  Is there any kind of limit in place if that setting is set to zero? I'm not at all sure what to base my decision on in terms of numbers. I read a thread where Pescado states that the cap only related to sim breeding, so if I understand correctly, this has no bearing on service sims or sims moving in and out with the story driver. What is the default limit (if there is one) and what is a reasonable choice, or at least a suggested number that has worked well for some?

2. Does anyone know if those tedious toddler walking, talking 'learnings' are included in the skill multipliers set for lifespan? I am (tentatively) guessing yes, but I'm hoping (truly hoping) no..... I am just not sure if those skills would apply since I don't know if they are part of the general skill set.

Thanks for any information.

Just one more vote for the Error code 4 with 2.2. All is working fine with v2.1, but 2.2 isn't finding wget in the Windows folder.

Btw, I can't thank you enough for this awesome piece of coding.