Ditto. I haven't tried disabling anything new in the config file yet but with all but TS2 style aging and expert mode enabled, my game will not load with the newest (carpool) version.

Does the cheat "boolprop petsfreewill true/false" work?

When the kid goes to sleep (not just relaxing on the bed), the option should be available on him/her during the first hour or so afterwards.

Yeah it was Free Time that stupidly removed NPCs from the phone book. Paladin has a fix for it over at Sim Wardrobe.

Have you tried "Retrieve Missing Sim" on the debugger while visiting the borked business lot? Try removing the "bugJarTimeDecay " section of your cheat file and see if it works. That option has always caused anything after it to not work in the cheat file.

You've checked for outdated/conflicting hacks and pulled your downloads to see if the problem still occurs?

I'm having two unrelated issues with my game. The first problem is that my Sims' cat errors out when she returns home from work in a helicopter. Attached is the log when she tries to exit the vehicle. Cancel/reset puts her in the basement and the she receives no wages for the day. She won't be alive much longer so I've been having my Sim drive to work but I thought I'd mention it anyway in case it comes up again.

My second problem is that when my Sims send out party invitations, they are only accepted by Townies and NPCs. Downtownies and Social Sims will not attend any party, regardless of relationship status. Townies that my Sims only have 10 or so relationship points with will show up but even at 100/100 the other Sims will not show up. It's been this way in my game for as long as I can remember, I was curious if there was some way to get these other Sims to accept the invitations. I don't use localwalkby and checked the visitor controller several times to ensure they were not banned - I can't think of anything else that would be preventing them from coming. Is this just "normal" behavior?

I'm running all EPs/SPs and HCDU shows no unusual conflicts.

I use both without problems. Make sure the gender controller loads after the noregen.

You may need Argon's makelocal fix from the Peasantry if you want your vacation locals to have the appropriate skills and abilities, I don't know if that was ever fixed. The NPC gun used to have an option to make Sims into Tourists but it has since disappeared. When I used the teleporter cat it sent my tourists to an unused family instance and they didn't show up at my vacation neighborhoods. I ended up having to create the correct family instances and move the Sims into them with SimPE.

I've had AdBlock for ages as well but I had to manually add that domain.

I have the same problem. I blocked secure-us.imrworldwide.com with AdBlock and so far I've been able to visit MTS2 without my browser crashing.

TwoJeffs has a dormie gender controller available here.

This is SimPE. It's used for modifying Sims and neighborhoods and creating custom content, among other things. AFAIK it cannot be used on a Mac.

That's why I was a little confused as to why the majors I assigned reverted back to undeclared - all their memories, skill points, and personalities that I had given them were still intact. I made sure to initialize all of my NPCs and townies so all of the changes I made would stick.

I'm not sure how to do it in SimPE but you could always summon your townies and update them with the bat box. You may also need to initialize your townies before you give them new jobs/skills/etc. in order to make your changes stick.


I tried to do this the other day and once they started moving into the dorm, they all reverted back to undeclared majors. I don't know if it's a case of them not being properly initialized yet or what, but I am going to try again when my next generation goes to uni.

I knew it was something obvious that I was missing. Cheers!

Is it possible to add a Sim (or group, in this case) to a particular fambly instance using SimPE? I started a new neighborhood and cloned all of my Sims from a previous 'hood to use in this one. Everything has been going along swimmingly except for my Tourists. The NPC gun is missing the option to add Sims to a Tourist fambly so when I got to that batch of Sims I used Inge's teleporter cat instead. My playable Sims went on their honeymoon and no Tourists appeared at the hotel. I looked in SimPE and noticed that their fambly instance is set to 0x7FF4. I saw some mention that this fambly instance is not used anymore so I tried to set their instance to 0x7FE5 on the Sim overview tab, but I can't get the changes to stick. I'm obviously missing other areas where the instance is set but I looked through the neighborhood and individual character files and didn't see anything. Is it possible to correctly set this group of Sims as Tourists somehow or am I better off Deleted2ing them and spawning a new set with the NPC gun?

Weren't the "Walk To" problems caused by an outdated Visitor Controller from TJ or something along those lines? Have you checked his new site to make sure all of his hacks are updated (if you have any)?

Several questions on the survey were related to payment for their crap. Some of the options were buying points online via credit card or through PayPal, or by purchasing a points card in a game shop. I wish I could say I'm surprised EAxis wants to milk the content cash cow even further by considering doing this but I'm not. I'm just thoroughly disgusted. $0.50 for a wallpaper or a rug? Fuck off!

Are you able to enter the lots in build mode? If you can, try "changelotzoning residential" (no quotes) in the cheat box.

They didn't have a comment box to put "EPIC PHAIL" in this time.

Probably best not to post the delete link, someone has already deleted it (no, it was not me). The download link you posted above it seemed to be the right one. I got the same error message as keirra using the link in the first post.

Jfade made two versions.

One could do all that face and name changing with TJ's SimBlender but I think jolrei hit the nail on the head. By the time you've finished, the old townies would cease to be old townies and would be instead new townies. So why waste all the time and effort of changing all the old ones into new ones when you can start with the new ones and get back to your extremely important life?


Don't forget to mention how rude and nasty everyone who tried to help you was! I'm sure they'll throw you the pity party you've always wanted.

I wouldn't suggest doing that, since you'll be leaving behind all the character data that is contained in the subhood neighborhood file. You should replace the neighborhood file with an empty one when you nuke the files in the Characters folder.