You made me shoot diet coke out of my nose when I read that!!!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! Now, all this time, I was thinking you are a younger female player, like BabeWithBrains, Person 123, and Chez-y. Geeze!! I have no idea where I got that idea. I'm sorry WereBear. Say hello to your wife for me, and tell her to enjoy having a Simming-Hubby!!! I wish I could get mine converted. He says he'll play when Maxis comes out with the "Commando" themed EP.
I tried to add to your reputation on this post........ but Josh thinks I need to spread it around before I give it to you again. go figure. but the thought was there for whatever it's worth.
And another one worthy of a hike in rep points. SDCOOMN awesome! But I need to spread my largesse around too Back to the topic. I got NL yesterday and spent the afternoon and evening installing it and testing it with Pescado's hacks. Had some amusing gameplay errors until I noticed I had left in a bad one (a child failed to transition to teen -- no grow up option either -- forced it with a cake and he became a teen with one day to go before becoming adult; also when the game was loaded he was stood in the basement with no homework at ten to three on a school day and he'd gone off to school earlier before I started restoring downloads after the first try outs with NL installed). The bad hack was the phone hack BTW
Did you use Dr. Boris' list from the site? I left all of Pescado's hacks in but turned most of them off with the Clean Installer. Did you find the new NL hacks? They made them a little difficult to locate. The phone hack occupies whole threads because it doesn't work and the constantly ringing phone is driving everyone crazy. The autoyak is working for me. I find this one an absolute necessity. It isn't working quite like it used to but I can live with the one minor problem I'm encountering. I did have one odd thing happen and it's irritating me to no end. My game was working just peachy but someone on MATY recommended making the objectpkg read only. MaxoidTom said that was a brilliant idea...so I dug it out and did that. When I went to play the game none of my hacks worked. I adore Carrigan's "Forever Burn Fireplace". It was working fine...I know because I have every fireplace in my game blazing gloriously. Once the objectpkg was marked read only every home I visited caught on fire. Aspects of macrotastics ceased to work. I'm curious if anyone else tried making their objectpkg "read only" and if their hacks are working. It's certainly possible I did something wrong.
Oh I looked at Boris' list and then my eyes glazed over. In spite of the (mostly) good advice that I hand out I mostly operate my own computer with the delicacy of a chainsaw and axe. Sometimes life is too short for reading long lists ... why couldn't MATY have created a NL archive of workable hacks ... I just started out by removing the ones I could live without and then playing for a bit to see what went wrong. (I was only playing a sideshow family so am not too bothered if they become irreversibly damaged ) Meanwhile I can't wait for the business EP to come next year!!
Well...actually I didn't follow Boris' list precisely either. I put in those I wanted to work. There is some level of denial or something. I know it's ridiculous but in my mind maybe a miracle will occur and those will work in my game.
I had to kill my sims to make my OS work. I'm philosophical about it and trying not to cry. After all, if my 8-year-old daughter can handle it, so can I. And please, don't tell me about how I could have saved them because I really will cry. They're gone. Nothing more to be done. Now I have my chance to start over, so I'm looking at it as a new beginning. I plan to play one character to start with. That's it, just one ... I was thinking Lola Phoenix had a nice ring to it.
I've waited all morning to see if your computer worked! (It had absolutely nothing to do with ignoring housework...honestly. ) You will probably be glad you started over although it feels empty. Remember that in Nightlife you can pick any of the existing buildings and lotbin it to make duplicates. I spent yesterday making duplicates of all of my empty but refurbished rental properties and starter homes I've built. Were you able to save your downloads at least?
I had the same misconception, although not that you were young, just female. I think it was this post: http://forums.worldsims.net/showpost.php?p=84935&postcount=22 Sure wish I had a Simming-Hubby. Sorry about that WereBear, but I'm hoping you write some more about your sims. *Humming* "whatever Lola wants, Lola gets ..." I'd cry if I lost my sim families now. They're like pets. I've raised them from babyhood, nursed their mothers through difficult pregnancies, taken hundreds of pictures of important life events. Oh, brother, I've got tears in my eyes now.
No offense taken. In fact, I'm always teasing the missus telling her that she must be gay 'cause she married a big ol' girl. Or you can blame it on the fact that my Reader's Digest subscription ran out...leaving nothing but Mamabear's Soap Opera Digests to read in the bathroom. Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that sims can interact with the newspaper while sitting on the toilet? Click on the newspaper (the one they are holding while...ahem...sitting) and you will get actions like "Do crossword puzzle" and such. This even shows up in the university neighborhoods where they don't deliver the newspaper.
Very cool. Never noticed that before, only that it disappears when they're ready to get up. If only ... ah, well, no magic in the real world.
Thanks, Zy! I didn't know that about the lotbin. I'll have to do that before I move people into houses I might want to reuse. No, I didn't get to save anything. It's all gone. But I had way too many downloads anyway, so now I can just go and get my favorites. And thank you for the kind words, Lynet. I feel terrible about those sims. I had a really good story going, and I'm really going to miss them. I was looking forward to going back to my old neighborhood just to watch the sparks fly ... it's going to take a while to build a new one. But, on the plus side, my sims have reflections! Clicking between floors doesn't take 10 years! They no longer saunter everywhere (OK, the college sims do, but they do it much faster.) I can see the neighbor's houses, even if they are a bit ghostly. I have got to get rid of that big rock next to Lola's dorm LOL. I hate looking at it all the time. And ... the entire game loads in no time at all. You have no idea how long I was waiting with my old chip, even the "good" one ... the opening movie makes me a bit dizzy, it goes so fast now. Yes, Lola is a pleasure sim! And she does indeed get what she wants ... I'll post a picture soon. One nice thing I've noticed about NL is that Uni doesn't have to be a drag anymore. They're not cut off from the neighborhood any more, so it's just another life phase. They can go anywhere, do anything they want, which will make studying trickier I admit.
I'm sorry you had to scrap everything but it's certainly the best method for spring cleaning all the downloads. I was surprised when I did that, that I knew exactly what items were necessities and where to get them. I never missed most of the items I trashed. Older downloads have huge poly counts that slow the computer down anyway. Most of the newer ones have made an effort to keep this down. I have no clue why but I think the addition of Nightlife makes the whole game work better...smoother. Perhaps they added some University fixes. My game has always loaded quite well (I can tell when my downloads are getting out of control when it starts taking longer to load) and I was prepared for Nightlife adding to the loading time. I've been pleasantly surprised to find that wasn't the case.
Oh, Witches, I am so sorry! I know from experience how painful it is to have to start all over. Yes, they are very much like pets, or like friends, or whatnot. Anyway, I will say it gets better with time, the hurt heals, and you get involved with your new Sims's lives and can actually make them better than the last time because you are a better player. For example: My favorite Sims have had three lifetimes already! Hicks Family (single mom Charlene and her 4 children Jackson, Bambi, Luke and Leia Lifetime #1: Charlene married a Russian named Ivan and argued with her stepdaughter. Her oldest daughter Bambi was taken by the social worker. Oldest Son Jackson married a cheater and was raising a set of twins that actually belonged to a neighbor. The Super-flu swept through the house and killed both parents. Luke stayed in the family trailer and married Annoying Sofie the townie. Leia kept playing the field and had a daughter, Rowena. She lived with Jackson and his family. Lifetime #2: Charlene was a better mother (and had invested in a magical hacked painting that could keep everyone happy and willing to do their homework). She married Napoleon Bonypart for a time and had several children with him before she caught him in bed with Kaylynn the maid. After he left she took his money and his children and moved into a restored farmhouse in the quiet countryside, and was happilly helping to raise her grandchildren. Bambi and Jackson went to college, fell in love with classmates, and married them soon after graduation. Luke was eaten by Tina Jerry's cow plant. Leia played the field. She had joined a Sorority and was actively persuing her ex-stepfather Napoleon. Lifetime #3: Charlene is young again and back with her 4 children, Jackson, Bambi, and twins Luke and Leia. Jackson is now in college. As a teen he has some "Dream Dates" with Marion the paper-girl. Now he and Marion are Woo-Hooing it up in college, and because the full-sized bed is in her dormroom, Jackson has not set foot in his own. Both of them want to get married and have lots of children. Charlene is dating Larry the Cable-guy. Bambi is a teenager and Luke and Leia (I've changed her name to Laura) are little kids and doing well in school. They get a chance to do it all over again, and again, and again. LOL LOL
Surprised, I didn't have a computer problem which resulted in me starting over. However, I'd been getting some weird instabilities and when I started reading about the problems when you have over 800 characters in your neighborhood's character file, it can cause problems. I went and looked, and sure enough I had 881 characters. (And that was pre-NL.) So, I decided that I'd start over. Once you've been playing a while and getting used to your new people, the loss of the old ones doesn't hurt quite so much. And when I restarted I was able to make a neighborhood which fit my needs much better in terms of terrain (although I did have to get SC4 out again), organization and the like. (Problem was, I kept getting the lines of the credits from "6 Million Dollar Man" running through my brain at odd times. You know the one: "we can make him better than he was.")
Oh, this one had me spewing! LOL! I generally don't pursue my Sims when they are in the "facility". Poor dears need some privacy once in a while. (But it is sure tempting to try out those little easter egg type things!)
Thanks, everyone. I do feel better. I know I'll have to resurrect a few of my favorites, eventually, or at least name a baby after them ... I started over before, but not by erasing the game, and I could return to that neighborhood whenever I wanted ... now, of course, I can't. I played Strangetown for a while and kind of got into it, but now that I'd have to start over I'm not that interested in it anymore ... still, I know it's on the back burner if I need a break. In the meantime Lola and I are learning the ropes of NL. She already met a cute guy in a restaurant (Rodney's Hangout) and is working her way toward being friends with him. His name is David something and he's a college student, I'm pretty sure. Anyway, he is fiiiine. I saw my first vampire. She was really corny! Kept sucking on her own arm. Blaaaah blaaaah blaaaah I vant to suck your blood, or my arm ... Honestly, hard to take her seriously. If I create a vampire, I hope they don't do that all the time! I'd have to kill them off.
I haven't met a vampire yet. I understand that Downtown starts with two of them but although I've been there several times I haven't seen them. Maybe I should take Candida to town. She and her creepy mother are good vampire material.
