Pets patch released

[eevilcat]

The patched version is still running ok for me, in fact the loading times appear to have decreased considerably across the board (initial, neighbourhood and lot). I did have a couple of babies age to be bald toddlers but they miraculously regrew their hair when they transitioned to children. All new offspring have inherited sensible hair/eyebrow colours and look like either one/both their parents. Risky woohoo seems to have struck a bit more often, but that's probably one of those law of average things, a bit like waiting for buses; nothing, nothing, nothing... then 2 or 3 arrive at once!

[purplehaze]

Ok..I think I did a VBT. 

I backed up my Sims2 folder and installed the patch, but I forgot to remove the phonehackOMGpetzzz version.  What can I expect if I  remove the hack in the future, like when I install Seasons ? ( At least I have my backup if I have to uninstall Pets) 

[KatEnigma]

All your phones will break. BDTD. And that's why I uninstalled/reinstalled Pets last night. 

[blubug]

It does get fixed if you re-buy every phone on every lot, right?

[BeckerCheez]

Is fixing the problem with vampire hair worth doing if the consequences of installing this patch are...well...what y'all described?  I find it humorous that a vampire Sim went on a "biting spree" and the women he bit transitioned with Grand Vampire hair.   

[purplehaze]

It does get fixed if you re-buy every phone on every lot, right?

I'd like to know also, obviously.  That sounds a tad easier than an uninstall/reinstall.  I can't believe what a moron I was not to remove that hack!

Oh...what about cellphones? Are they also broken?

[Sleepycat]

I didn't remove any of my hacks when I installed the patch...including the phone hack, I doubt it really matters *shrugs*

[BeckerCheez]

I removed the downloads folder, installed the patch, and put the downloads folder back in.

It did fix the vampire hair problem!   

[KatEnigma]

It does get fixed if you re-buy every phone on every lot, right?

I'd like to know also, obviously.  That sounds a tad easier than an uninstall/reinstall.  I can't believe what a moron I was not to remove that hack!

Oh...what about cellphones? Are they also broken?

I didn't try cellphones.

I guess it depends on how populated your neighborhoods are. I cram a lot of houses into my neighborhoods, and to go in and delete every single phone would have taken forever. Just uninstalling/reinstalling Pets was a lot less work since you don't have to uninstall all the EPs like in TS1, just Pets.

And sleepycat, it doesn't matter unless you ever actually want to remove the phone hack- or replace it with an updated version for Seasons, for instance, if that's needed. Before I upload anything, I take out my hacks since I don't assume that everyone else wants them and not everyone is smart/informed enough to use Clean Installer. I suspect that you might be able to take out the hack and then install Seasons over it, and it would probably be okay, but Sims installations can be so delicate that I didn't want to risk it, personally. Leaving it IN while installing Seasons would be an even bigger risk, since Lord knows what it will break.  It's much more annoying to me to have to mess around with reinstalls on the day I get a new EP than just a regular day I'm firing up the game.

[Swiftgold]

I've been having the odd eyebrow and hair thing going on some of my NPCs, too. Since I don't ever breed my playables with them the DNA doesn't matter, so whenever I catch one I use the Insim temporal adjuster to do a makeover on them and match the hair and brows again, whatever color I feel like or remember, and send them on their way

I've had some ugly toddlers fill out surprisingly nicely as teenagers/adults... some a bit less so, but that's due to extreme features on their parents' part. And sometimes that's just part of using the sim rerandomizer, I've found - one sibling will get a good mix of features and the other not so much. Better than clones, anyway. I've started breeding for the orc nose strain I accidentally got on one of my Sims now, just for some fun and variety. (Well, they DO live in a little rundown shack in the woods... it seems fairly X-Files, with appropriate story added )

[Moa]

I've used Theo's Alternate Sim Surgery Plugin on several Sims to good effect. Granted, you still have a template Sim in CAS to delete, but I'm assuming deleting those don't cause the complications that deleting a fully fledged Sim from the bin would create.

Simsurgery doesn't work for actually changing sims at last check. For some arcane reason it possesses only the capability to copy one sim that is ALREADY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD onto another similar sim. This is rather useless, since copying a sim in such a manner thus requires you to CREATE AN UNWANTED TEMPLATE SIM, which means fun-with-deleting-crap.

[miros]

Swiftgold, are you saying there's hope for Cassie and her cheeks with the horizontal ridge? 

[MagicBeans]

I've just had the opposite happen in respect to cute vs fugly. Heath was a rather handsome baby, toddler, child and teen. Then, he grew up. Get a load of that nose. His brother, who is a genetic clone btw, turned out incredibly handsome.




And I've had a baby just born to a father with D-black/R-black and a mother with D-red/R-red hair. The boy has black eyebrows and blonde hair. His new little sister (different mother, D-black/R-black) has red hair and black eyebrows.

And my mail lady miraculously switched from blonde to black, without changing her thumbnail.

I can't begin to tell you how PLEASED I am to have installed this *expletive deleted* patch. At least now my vampires won't have the Grand Vamp hair.  (/sarcastic tone)   I'll be uninstalling/reinstalling pets without the patch tonight...

[J. M. Pescado]

I can't begin to tell you how PLEASED I am to have installed this *expletive deleted* patch. At least now my vampires won't have the Grand Vamp hair.  (/sarcastic tone)   I'll be uninstalling/reinstalling pets without the patch tonight...

Technically, that bug was fixed as part of the Vampire fixes on MATY.

[MagicBeans]

Of course it was! LOL  I have to learn to look HERE first. I'd much rather install anything you guys can come up with, over the patches anyway. 

How long til you hack right into their brains and rewire their way of thinking? You know from "get it out quick" to "get it out right"? 

[miros]

Priorities like "get it out quick" vs. "get it out right" are set by management.  Management wears tinfoil hats so their brains can't be hacked.

[J. M. Pescado]

Neither getting it out quick nor right, or even really at all, appear to be priorities for EA. Note how their patch was neither quick nor right. Technically, our official favor leans towards "quick". We figure "right" is something you zero in on through a succession of quick attempts.

[MagicBeans]

Note how their patch was neither quick nor right.

So very true. 

[PandaGirl]

I patched my game, but my new RAM arrived so I figured I'd do a complete reformat of my laptop. This time I'm not patching pets, simply getting the MATY fixes I need. It's easier that way.

[miros]

Good girl, PandaGirl!

[Sleepycat]

heh, I've decided to uninstall Pets and NOT reinstall it...

[PandaGirl]

The only reason i found to reinstall pets is I quite like the floor divider thingy and the flatten to road level tool.

[MagicBeans]

I only had two problems with the EP itself. The Grand Vamp hair thing, and another one that the patch didn't even fix. There were a few times that I'd have a sim invite a townie to live with them, and a pop up would come up saying the townie had a pregnant pet at home, and couldn't move until the pet gave birth. But of course, the townie didn't have a home, much less a dog or cat. lol It's a glitch that I know at least one other person had as well, causing her Black Widow challenge to come to a screeching halt. I'm willing to put up with that (ha, unless there's a fix for that on here! lol), seeing as it now feels like an incredibly minor glitch compared to all this DNA crap from the patch. 

[J. M. Pescado]

But of course, the townie didn't have a home, much less a dog or cat. lol It's a glitch that I know at least one other person had as well, causing her Black Widow challenge to come to a screeching halt. I'm willing to put up with that (ha, unless there's a fix for that on here! lol), seeing as it now feels like an incredibly minor glitch compared to all this DNA crap from the patch. 

I believe there is, in fact, a "pregnant pets fix". probably from Syberspunk, here.

[MagicBeans]

I love you. And I mean that in a non-romantic, you've-solved-my-problems kind of way LOL

And, might I add, that my current status of Asinine Airhead is SO fitting.