substituting default pets with my own creations

[maxon]

mmm - I'm not sure that's it - maybe American English version of the game?  I got 'name this breed' too but then I'm English and my version of the game was made for the UK.

[Arina]

Yay JMP! I'll get the new one then, some random strays have been spawning in all my hoods and it's upsetting me (This is still pre-Seasons, too, and one definitely unplayed neighbourhood has grown them without my playing it, and with empty templates correctly installed. It didn't have a single character file the other week. :S)

I'm also using the UK English version - perhaps I should have stated that earlier. (I really don't see why all this trouble has to come about when it's simply US/UK versions - they don't even change it to 'neighbourhood', I had to download something from MTS2 to do that. Other languages I can sort of understand.)

[amjoie]

That is interesting about the names of the breeds not showing up in non-USA English games. I had no option, of course, because they were just saved in the game format for my language. Maybe breeds saved in UK English would not show up with names in my game, either. You would think they would all be coded for all languages. MaxisEA, MaxisEA, the shortcuts you took ....  (shakes head)

[J. M. Pescado]

I think it has something to do with the language you play the game in. I play in french and I have downloaded some of amjoie breeds and they are named something like "nommez cette race...." ("name this breed"). Looking in Simpe I found that the real name appear only in the English field, all the other languages are filled with the same phrase...

Yeah, non-USE fields may be filled with garbage. Delete all the other languages and the game should default back to the correct field.