Making friends freezage.

[Emma]

Whenever my sims make friends with another sim, whether face-to-face or over the phone, just before they actually make friends the game freezes for up to a minute. Is anyone else experiencing this? I have no idea what has caused this. I have all updated haxxors and stuff.

[J. M. Pescado]

Cannot reproduce issue. Attribute problem to suckiness of Emma. Death to Emma.

[Emma]

The only other 2 things I have added to the game apart from DC is Sim Blender and Argon's Townie brick. I will try taking those out and go complain to the makers if it is one of them.

[jsalemi]

Probably not the sim blender, since I have that in my game and haven't seen this problem.

[jolrei]

I have neither of those, and have not seen this.  Unhelpful and dull, I know.

[Emma]

Yeah, I think it could be the brick. Thing is, I can't be arsed to investigate at the moment. I'll take it out and load my game later and see if I get the same problem. Cheers J and J

Oh, btw how do you get the loadlot cheat to work? I really am quite unsuccessful with my game at the moment. Boohoo.

[jolrei]

Yeah, I think it could be the brick. Thing is, I can't be arsed to investigate at the moment. I'll take it out and load my game later and see if I get the same problem. Cheers J and J

Oh, btw how do you get the loadlot cheat to work? I really am quite unsuccessful with my game at the moment. Boohoo.

Never used that one myself.  Here's what I've found (and you may have seen it already):

I believe the proper format is:  loadlot "lot name" If there are spaces in the lot name, they need to be included, I think...the cheat still worked on a regular community lot, and it also worked on a hidden secret hobby lot.

My extremely cursory research suggests that a number of people seem to have had some trouble with this cheat.

[Zazazu]

I couldn't get it to load secret hobby lots or lots in a different subhood from which I was actually in at the time. Otherwise, no issues.

[Emma]

Cheers both. I'll try it out later.

[Jelenedra]

I don't use the townie brick, myself, I use Inge's teleport and the townie gun to fuss with my townies. Seems easier that way.

[Emma]

It might not be the brick yet I still have to test.

[edit] It isn't the brick.

[Roux]

Oh, btw how do you get the loadlot cheat to work? I really am quite unsuccessful with my game at the moment. Boohoo.

Never used that one myself.  Here's what I've found (and you may have seen it already):

I believe the proper format is:  loadlot "lot name" If there are spaces in the lot name, they need to be included, I think...the cheat still worked on a regular community lot, and it also worked on a hidden secret hobby lot.

My extremely cursory research suggests that a number of people seem to have had some trouble with this cheat.

I couldn't get it to load secret hobby lots or lots in a different subhood from which I was actually in at the time. Otherwise, no issues.

Yeah, it's a little tricky. You have to be in the proper 'hood or subhood in which the lot is located. To loadlot the Bigfoot lot, you first have to load Three Lakes. For the hobby lots, you have to first make that hood available as a Downtown using SimPE, and then load the Hobby subhood in the game.

I am slowly completing the tedious process of swapping out my old LS build stuff for Argon's new extractions, so I loadlotted my owned business lots to get them transferred to the new textures. Doesn't seem fair to make the owners pay for it, when it's a 1:1 swap.

[Emma]

Yeah, I got the loadlot to work, thanks.

Oh BTW, dumb Emma is dumb. I know why it is freezing on certain sims, it is because it is a fairly new hood with playables and townies already included. I have default skins and makeup. The thumbnails are updating with the new skins and stuff. Hence...freezage. Doh.