So what's been fixed in NL

[Hook]

Modular stairs are the ones you use on your front porch to connect to the ground.  They can also be used inside in place of the one-piece stairs, which I recommend highly.

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[radiophonic]

Modular stairs are the ones you use on your front porch to connect to the ground.  They can also be used inside in place of the one-piece stairs, which I recommend highly.

Thanks Hook, yeah, I figured that one out. They complain about any stairs to be honest. S'pose I'll just live with it, it's minor, I'm not a whiner.

[Hook]

My Sims don't complain about the one piece stairs nearly as much as I do.  In fact, the single stairs have definitely set my Furious bit.   You'll find that modular stairs are a lot less pain than the other ones.  Only problem now is that if someone's walking down the stairs, I can't send my Sim running down the same stairs, he turns around, goes back up, and the action aborts. Even if there's another stairway right next to the one he tried to use.  This is minor, however.

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[sara_dippity]

I tried deleting my thumbnails folder for missing icons, it worked on the first house I played, but it was back the second time I played that house and in other houses as well. Also when I did have my icons back, my graduates were still missing their uni want slots.
I have no idea how to submit for this bug properly, I have no suggestions for how to replicate it. The only thing I did to cause it was install nightlife, the bug was instantaneous.

Can you try restoring your objects.package file from the NL installation disk?

That did not work. One of my graduates got her extra wants back, but her son who was missing wants did not get his back, and he rolled a blank want after fufilling one.

[rohina]

Thanks Motoki, I'll certainly keep that in mind... though I've never seen this choking death... 

I just had a guy sim tonight who choked to death at a party after eating some cookies. At least I think that's what happened. He was a guest, and he wasn't ill at home or anything.

[J. M. Pescado]

This is one of the funniest things I have read in ages.  Not because it relates to Wal-Mart (which we don't have here, unless you count Asda which has been taken over by the Wal-Mart people and as a result gone all weird and American already, y'all), but because it's so incredibly sarky, dry, and ... well, BRITISH.  I swear Pescado is alive & well and living in the middle of the Yorkshire Moors.

I get mistaken for being British surprisingly often, generally by people who aren't. I've never entirely understood this, since I'm otherwise a violent, boorish American.

[witch]

This is one of the funniest things I have read in ages.  Not because it relates to Wal-Mart (which we don't have here, unless you count Asda which has been taken over by the Wal-Mart people and as a result gone all weird and American already, y'all), but because it's so incredibly sarky, dry, and ... well, BRITISH.  I swear Pescado is alive & well and living in the middle of the Yorkshire Moors.

I get mistaken for being British surprisingly often, generally by people who aren't. I've never entirely understood this, since I'm otherwise a violent, boorish American.

Perhaps it's the unAmerican subtlety of your sense of humour?

And your self-effacing nature of course.*

*waiting for a bolt of lightning now...

[sanmonroe]

Do you wear a gingered wig and velvet jacket and talk about what you are having for tea, and the terrific fanny on that bird? If so, that may be why they get confused.

[The Loot]

I get mistaken for being British surprisingly often, generally by people who aren't. I've never entirely understood this, since I'm otherwise a violent, boorish American.

Maybe it's because you use words like "boorish"......

[RainbowTigress]

Do you wear a gingered wig and velvet jacket and talk about what you are having for tea, and the terrific fanny on that bird? If so, that may be why they get confused.

From what I've been told, British don't like using the word "fanny."

[Inge]

Fanny means vulva in the UK, I understand it means backside in the US?

[gynarchy]

Where I live in the Midwest, it's a rather tame word for the backside, like tushy or hiney (sp?). I don't think I've heard anyone use it in like 20 years though, my grandmother was the only person I knew who used the word.

[J. M. Pescado]

A feedback loop would be nice in theory, but I can only imagine how it would turn into a forum for arguments and ranting.

Ahem. THIS is a forum for arguments and ranting, and yet you seem to spend about 4 hours a day here anyway. Maybe a forum for arguments and ranting is a GOOD thing, hrm?

[MaxoidTom]

A feedback loop would be nice in theory, but I can only imagine how it would turn into a forum for arguments and ranting.

Ahem. THIS is a forum for arguments and ranting, and yet you seem to spend about 4 hours a day here anyway. Maybe a forum for arguments and ranting is a GOOD thing, hrm?

I do it because I like pain and abuse.  Others at Maxis may not share my sentiments.

[sanmonroe]

Do you wear a gingered wig and velvet jacket and talk about what you are having for tea, and the terrific fanny on that bird? If so, that may be why they get confused.

From what I've been told, British don't like using the word "fanny."

I used it in the british context in this case. Get it? Its funny that he is admiing her vagina.

[sanmonroe]

A feedback loop would be nice in theory, but I can only imagine how it would turn into a forum for arguments and ranting.

Ahem. THIS is a forum for arguments and ranting, and yet you seem to spend about 4 hours a day here anyway. Maybe a forum for arguments and ranting is a GOOD thing, hrm?

I do it because I like pain and abuse.  Others at Maxis may not share my sentiments.

So you are the perfect complement to the average EA/Maxis admin.

[Oddysey]

My Sims don't complain about the one piece stairs nearly as much as I do.  In fact, the single stairs have definitely set my Furious bit.   You'll find that modular stairs are a lot less pain than the other ones.  Only problem now is that if someone's walking down the stairs, I can't send my Sim running down the same stairs, he turns around, goes back up, and the action aborts. Even if there's another stairway right next to the one he tried to use.  This is minor, however.

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They look better, too. The one piece stairs are, for the most part, rather ugly.

[witch]

Ahem. THIS is a forum for arguments and ranting, and yet you seem to spend about 4 hours a day here anyway. Maybe a forum for arguments and ranting is a GOOD thing, hrm?

The point-of-difference is the venue of course, this forum boasts members who can read, comprehend, reason and reply in complete sentences. Maybe Maxis give the Maxoids holidays on other forums when they get too braindead on the ea forum.

I do it because I like pain and abuse.

My great aunty Ada, a barmaid during the London blitz in ww2, often used to say, 'be careful what you ask for'...

[Meek_Monkey]

I have just found out that the problem it is high time [insert name] gets back to the real world when they are in their fist semester of collage has not been fixed.

[miclsimmer]

MaxoidTom: hate to be blunt about this but I posted a Feedback Form under the Uni form.  This was done a long time ago about Terrain Paints.
I have posted another at your request and so has 'witch'. It should be well documented by now, as I am sure others have done the same.

[Hook]

Spamming the feedback form satisfies the bean counters at the publisher that there really is a problem that needs to be addressed.  I think you can figure out for yourself what kind of problems this can cause.

Reasons to ignore bug report that's not backed up by others:

"It's a one-time glitch, we can ignore it."
"The user is doing something wrong, we can ignore it."

If IBM can use such excuses (and I've *heard* 'em, dammit!) then EA can as well.

"Caused by hacked content, we can ignore it."

IBM didn't use this one, but I'm sure EA does occasionally. 

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[witch]

Do you have NL miclsimmer? Are terrain paints still buggy? Mind you, why would you want to crash another lot just to find out.

Yeah MaxoidTom, I'm bolshywitch on sims2ea.com, make sure my terrain paint feedback hasn't been bitbinned please. 

[witch]

Reasons to ignore bug report that's not backed up by others:

"It's a one-time glitch, we can ignore it."
"The user is doing something wrong, we can ignore it."

Oh God, just had a flashback to trying to get info out of a PC user the other day.
'My computer just crashed.'
'What were you doing at the time?'
'Nothing, I wasn't even touching it'.

GGAAGGGRRHHH!?! It's not about guilt you fool, I'm trying to get helpful info here... 

[dizzy]

I picture it more like this:

"We're putting new cover sheets on all of our TPS reports now before they go out... Did you get the memo?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPS_report

[Oddysey]

Reasons to ignore bug report that's not backed up by others:

"It's a one-time glitch, we can ignore it."
"The user is doing something wrong, we can ignore it."

Oh God, just had a flashback to trying to get info out of a PC user the other day.
'My computer just crashed.'
'What were you doing at the time?'
'Nothing, I wasn't even touching it'.

GGAAGGGRRHHH!?! It's not about guilt you fool, I'm trying to get helpful info here... 

You should read Userfriendly.org. It's a webcomic about a Canadian ISP, and there are a bunch of comics that revolve around Greg, the tech support guy, and stupid users. Like people who think that "right click" means you should write "click" on your screen.