SpaceDoll,

Thanks for the tip.  I just have no idea what hacks came from where.  I miss the old Sims 1 set up with download subfolders.  At least then I'd have a place to start.

5200??!!! Holy crap!  I bow to the reigning record holder!  Listen, I'm thinking it would be worth the hassle of mass-notification to change your email address.  Do you have to go through them all and delete them manually or do you have a spam buster?  My old ISP's email service had no discernable features of any kind, so I'd have to delete each one by hand. 

If there's one thing I've learned about the world of cyberspace - everyone has erectile dysfunction.

Cheers,
Geneva

Hi all, thanks for the replies... so...

First of all, and this is totally hypocritical as the reason I came in here in the first place was to GET hacks, I don't like to use too many.  I just have a few that take care of annoyances really.  While it is irksome that visitors try to raid the tree of a household that is just starting out and every simolean counts, I simply click on the greedy sim and choose shoo.  They stop dead and wait to be interacted with, then I can get to the tree.  Also some neighbours have money aspirations.  If I'm financially blase I don't mind.  As for the fight anytime hack, I really want to cultivate this relationship.  Get a genuine hatred going.  That would make the eventual fight more satisfying... unless of course my Sim loses... hmmm


Jsalemi, that's all they do.  Insults, shoving, slapping.  It's the basis of all their interactions to date.  I'll try it for longer and see.


Weaver, interesting... I have no idea what you just said.


True, but not as annoying as sitting and reading for seven hours straight.  Besides, I love it when the cow rocks up and the Llama is there.  That's always fun to watch.  It may be a inherent game design that the cow has limited interactions, but I had a hacked bed before my computer died and a sim with woohooful aspirations shagged the cow.  I was surprised when the costume came off and the cow was a she... hang on, DOH!  Cows ARE girls.  The udders should have tipped me off.

Like a steel trap.

Cheers,
Geneva

She finally reappeared after six nights.  I was happy to see her.

Lately I've been focusing my attentions purely on cheerleaders and mascots.  Unfortunately as ghosts go the mascots are just as annoying dead as they are alive.

Speaking of which, I managed to get a great enemy relationship going with one Sim and the Llama.  But whenever the cow comes over (Christy, usually) I simply don't have the "irritate..." option.  In fact I barely have any interaction options at all.  It annoys the hell out of me.  She barges in, shoves my Sim out of the way and raids the money tree.  My sim can do nothing in retalliation but cry.

Any ideas why this would be?  I had all the standard interactions with the Llama from the get-go so I don't think my Sim had to "meet" the cow first.

The friendship bars with the Llama are both around negative 60 and the enemy icon has appeared.  My Sim is working out, training hard.  So how low does it have to get before I can get my Sim into one of those damn funny punch-ups? 

Geneva

Hi all,

Sorry I took so long to get back to you but my ISP went belly up this week.  Now I have to remember all the sites I'm a member of and change my details.  But hey, on the bright side I get to start over with a spam-free inbox.  I think I was a record holder at one time - 2 weeks of neglect and my inbox had 233 spam emails.  Won't miss that.

Right, I got Monique's computer but it played havoc with my game.  It took me ages to figure out what exactly was making my Sims have spack-attacks but I'm definite it was the computer.  I came up with a different solution.  I just move the chair from the desk.  Thanks to your less whiney patch I don't have to put up with a 20 minute hissy-fit when they realise they can't play.  Also I have Christian Love's computer and I really like the features of it.

Most of your solutions appear to require that I have Nightlife installed.  I own it, but have not installed it yet.  With all my 'puter crashes and recoveries I still haven't successfully got a single Sim through a complete life cycle yet.  I wan't to 'finish' Uni before moving on. The other problem is I have no idea if my custom content is compatible.  If it works for Uni - will it work for NL?  I plan to download the entire NL hacks package for when the time comes but that massive, uncatagorised downloads folder is just too damn daunting to have to pick through.

Thanks for all the advice,

Cheers,
Geneva

Veilchen, read the thread, thanks.  I may have inadvertently erased her marker.  Perhaps the pool did more to it than simply moving it to her grave.

Ancient, they probably were weeds.  They grew where she peed.  It is possible she 'gardened' them, but I am sure she ate them.  But I prefer to think of them as flowers, it gives me fonder memories of her.  But why would I want to ressurect her?  I'd just have to kill her again.

Geneva

So far I have killed off three random bypassers outside my Uni Sims house. 

The first was interesting to watch.  She walked by, I had a Sim stop her and call her into the yard.  I then drew four walls around her, neglecting a door of course.  At first she seemed unfazed.  She clapped her hands.  She danced.  She stood silent, accepting her situation with quiet dignity.  Soon she bagan to pace.  The room was small, her pacing required mere steps.  She stopped.  She cried.  She paced again.  Then the pacing became more frantic.  She called to me.  I smiled at her.  She cried some more.  My Sims ate turkey for dinner.  She wet herself.  Flowers grew.  She ate them for sustenance.  She began to smell.  My Sims climbed into their warm, cozy beds - one couple woohooed.  She passed out.  My Sims went to classes the next day.  They glanced her way as they passed.  She awoke.  She paced.  She cried.  She pleaded to me.  She really, really stank now.   The afternoon sun was slipping as the Reaper came.  I moved the walls so my Sims could see.  No-one pleaded for her.  The Reaper took her away.  I smiled again.  My Sims all sat around her tombstone and hung out.  She appeared on the second evening.  She complained alot to me.  Something about aspirations... family, marriage, children... I don't know I wasn't really interested. 

I liked her though.  She would only scare one Sim once and come out on alternating evenings, not like the barrage one household got after I killed two Sims through pinpointed abuse and neglect.  I probably shouldn't have sold their bed to buy a coffee machine.

But here's the problem, see.  I put a pool in over the place she died.  I moved the tombstone, but got a "cannot intersect object" message.  I managed to get the pool there right beside her but have not seen her since.  In fact no ghosts have arrived for nights.  The other two I simply fed to my cow plant.  This generated tombstones, but no ghosts.  Any thoughts?

The last thing I'd want is to come over as callous, but I like my ghost, and my pool.  To choose between them....

Geneva

Hi, I'm Geneva,

I have no idea if this is the right area of the forum for this, so I just took a random stab.

Recently I had a computer meltdown and had to do a complete system recovery.  I lost EVERYTHING.  But hey, you live, you learn, you resist the urge to hurl the computer at passing traffic, you have a cup of tea.

Anyhoo I had to start all over again with my Sims 2 downloads - a task that, with a piddly little 56k dial up, was not going to be fun.  A 3MB download can take 45 mins - that is if it doesn't give up halfway through.  Don't even get me started on the Maxis patches.  So while refinding all my favourite hacks at MTS2 I was led here.  This place is great!  I thought of posting my requests there but I figured as you guys would be most likely to do the work I might as well go straight to the source.

So, my gripes and wants...

1) The insessant need to play SSX3!  Even with the fun metre maxed out they HAVE to play that damn game!  Normally I don't mind if they want a fun diversion, but if I can't catch the Sim before they sit down it takes a good 15 Sim minutes to cancel the action - this is extremely annoying if they're already late for work or Uni.  A no autonomous SSX3 hack please.

2)  The even more insessant need to take out the trash.  I left a 4-Sim household alone with regard to the trash obsession for one day, just to see how often they'd do it.  The trash was taken out nine times over a 16 hour period.  There was no trash to take out!  And if you don't realise they're doing it and send them on another task - you know where the trash goes.  I need a hack that will stop this, but will not affect the maid.

3)  One of the main reasons I came here was to get the coffee cup hack.  I can't find it.  I have the punch cup hack, is this the same?.  If not, please direct me to the thread.

My requests may already be here (I have trawled through all lists and indexes) so please point me to the threads I have missed. 

I have a couple of other questions but I'll post them in a different thread.

Cheers,
Geneva