New Patches for OFB and FFS

[skandelouslala]

Soo...it keeps giving me an error and telling me uninstall/reinstall.                 


Yeah...I don't think so.

At first I was going to congratulate Maxis for finally getting off their asses and patching the game, now I'm pissed again =P

[ZephyrZodiac]

Mine patched without any problems.  Is yours the OFB or the FFS patch?  Mine's OFB and it was fine, and the game is playing  OK at present, though I'm not holding my breath.

[RainbowTigress]

skandelouslala:  Do you have any hacks of the core game files?

[skandelouslala]

Not that I know of or ever recall downloading unless something snuck in.

I lurked around a few other boards trying to see if anybody else had problems but eventually got fed up and just did the uninstall/reinstall.  After all I figured it would take a lot less time to just back up the game and do it that way then hunt around for what the problem is.  So I did that, put in the patch in (which worked fine!) and put my files back in.

That's really strange though.  I've never had problems with patches since the very beginning...well I think I did the very first patch b/c I had the blur remover that modified the exe or whatever...but not since then.  Makes me wonder if I have something I don't know about lurking somewhere.  Probably time to do a scan!

[BlueSoup]

I just found that my UI start-up messages wouldn't work while installing the patch.  Replacing the Maxis file temporarily made it work though.

[Ambular]

I had to replace my UIText.package to make it install too, and also the B001 folder that I had replaced with SaraMK's clean template.

[J. M. Pescado]

See, and this is why core game file hacks are bad. People who are playing with Squinge's LTW stuff are gonna have this sort of issue too.

[BlueSoup]

Meh, it's a really minor mod, and once I placed the backup there, it was fine.  This is why I told people to make a backup.

And I can always post a backup for those who did not RTFM. 

[Jysudo]

Thanks Blue for posting this otherwise I will never know...

[Pegasys]

Wooo! I just noticed this one:

Cleanbots can now clean up baby bottles.

That alone makes the patch worth the price. Although now I have the rather nice task of removing all the hacks that fixed what is supposedly now fixed by the patch...

[Emma]

Nothing about the half-full bladders though.....still not installing.....

Thanks for the info though Blue

[Karen]

"Teens will no longer have the same Small Business Career Work schedule and School schedule."

Has anyone verified this one?  If this is true it should be possible to hire playable teens to work in owned businesses without having to miss school.

Karen

[kacidama]

Personally, I'm waiting for the patch for the patch.

I thought this was the patch for the patch

[J. M. Pescado]

"Teens will no longer have the same Small Business Career Work schedule and School schedule."

Now THAT will be interesting to see. The implementation of that may prove...interesting.

[kacidama]

OOhhh I asked for that 

[draranha]

Soo...it keeps giving me an error and telling me uninstall/reinstall.                 


Yeah...I don't think so.

At first I was going to congratulate Maxis for finally getting off their asses and patching the game, now I'm pissed again =P

I'm having this same problem and I'm not sure I want to do the reinstall thing. I don't think I have any core game file hacks.
BlueSoup and AmberDiceless: What have you done to avoid it? Could you please explain it to me?

[pioupiou]

"Teens will no longer have the same Small Business Career Work schedule and School schedule."

Has anyone verified this one?  If this is true it should be possible to hire playable teens to work in owned businesses without having to miss school.

Karen

It seems to work in my game but I had to make the teen quit and then re-hire her for the change to take place. She now goes to school 9-13 and to work 15-20. I'm happy 

[ZephyrZodiac]

But will it satisfy the Get a Job want, or get them the Scholarship, or satisfy the parent's Overachiever want?  If it doesn't do any of these, I'll stick to townies for employees (and maybe townie teens, since they don't go to school anyway, or at least, don't appear to learn anything!)

[SIMplyLisa]

I got the error too but it was my globalcatbin file that it stopped at. I replaced it and the install went fine.

[Dark Trepie]

Didn't one of the Maxoids say there were supposed to be some Expansion announcements happening around the time the patches were going to come out?

Oh yeah, I literally cheered when I read that the Nanny's "Track Schedual" was fixed.  Now if they could fix stuck flamingos and dorm chairs I think I'd die from overjoyedness.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Give them time!  And I don't expect they expected flamingoes to get as much kicking as they do!  Poor things probably aren't stuck - but DEAD!  I mean, I tried to delete a fence next to a gnome, and I got the message "wall too close to sim - the sim child was a whole square further away!

[ZiggyDoodle]

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Cleanbots can now clean up baby bottles.

That alone makes the patch worth the price.

Hmmm.  To patch or not to patch?  My cleanbots have always whisked the baby bottles away.  Think I'll wait a couple days.

[ZephyrZodiac]

There are other useful things though.  What I did, I copied my hood and downloads back in after I patched, so I have the originals still on my desktop, and if the patch really shows signs of being worse than no patch at all, I can always go back.

[rohina]

I mean, I tried to delete a fence next to a gnome, and I got the message "wall too close to sim

That's because the gnomes are little sims. Read my legacy story, and you will see.

[Jelenedra]

Didn't one of the Maxoids say there were supposed to be some Expansion announcements happening around the time the patches were going to come out?

I don't know how accurately one can trust the Coming Soon section of gamefaqs, but they have The Sims 2: Pets listed in their games and already have a message board set up for it.