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Post by blackcat on Feb 15, 2010 16:39:07 GMT -5
The mailbox and trashcan are here: daydream.etowns.net/ Click on Sims2 at the top of the screen, then hacks/mods... and take care to get the right one for you EPs (voice of experience speaking ). Strange stuff happens if you have the wrong one! Too late for your school but might be useful should you have a similar problem in future...
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Post by laura on Feb 15, 2010 21:09:20 GMT -5
Thanks for the links! I'll definitely keep that in mind for next time (since I'm bound to get myself into these messes again and again, lol!) I found Jodie her very first soundtrack song, which is like graduation or something. She's a real character now "Bluff" by Pilot Speed. I've never heard this band before, but I like them! I should have Jodie's story up tonight.
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Post by laura on Feb 18, 2010 10:19:23 GMT -5
I just wanted to say, I think Corbin and Amelia are about 1000 times more hilarious fun to write together now that they're NOT sleeping with each other, lol!
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Post by maisie on Mar 1, 2010 10:34:03 GMT -5
I had this problem!! It happened with my Emma McCarthy, and I was able to fix everything, she's fine, the business is fine. I had asked for help at N99, and wrote everything I tried and did there. I'm linking to you waht actually worked. In moving the sim into a new household, I went to the household I wanted her to be in, popped Emma over, and then added to household. There is a cheat for it, there's Inge's teleporter plus, and I used Insiminator. starlightsims.yuku.com/reply/652423/t/bjorked-lot-stuck-with-sim-quot-away-quot-.html#reply-652423HTH!
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Post by laura on Mar 1, 2010 21:22:13 GMT -5
I'm long since past the point of no return, lol! But thanks for the link! I'm glad Emma's lot was saved. I think I did just about everything you did, until the point of putting her business in the lots bin. It wouldn't let me do that. All I could do to the lot was bulldoze it. I have had that taxi thing happen to me on community lots too though! Never get in the taxi, lol! It's bad news
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Post by laura on Mar 2, 2010 22:02:41 GMT -5
Oh my sheesh! I did it again! No joke! This time to Aurora's level 10 salon. And yes, just after I warned against it, borked by the taxi bug - I didn't get in the taxi!!! I swear it!
Time to put down the testing cheats, and walk away very slowly. I obviously have no clue what I'm doing...
At least I'm able to package the lot this time, so I'll have a copy if I can't fix it.
Dude, what's my problem?
Maisie, I'm going to try what you did, since this time it looks like a similar problem.
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Post by blackcat on Mar 2, 2010 22:09:16 GMT -5
Hey, I just had a thought - has this been happening since you used that hack that adds all interactions to the pie menus, but you need testingcheatsenabled in the startup? (I hope you know what I'm talking about - can't remember the name of it right now but I know you mentioned it).
Just wondering, because I know I've read in various places that you should only enable testing cheats for short periods of time, do what you need to do, then turn it off... it can cause problems if its left on all the time, which is what would happen if its in a startup file. That was why I'm reluctant to use this hack even though it sounds really useful.
This might be the problem.
Good luck, REALLY hope you can save this lot! Remember the shrub if you have to try the residential/community switch thing!!
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Post by laura on Mar 2, 2010 22:23:55 GMT -5
This particular problem I've been running into for ages, pretty much ever since I knew you could make Sims selectable with testing cheats, so years probably. I usually know my way around these cheats pretty well, since I've been using them so long. I should know better, and I do know better, but every once in a while, I leave it on too long, or try to do too much, and you know, bork my game, lol!
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Post by blackcat on Mar 2, 2010 22:29:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm very familiar with that hindsight is 20/20 feeling Wonder how I ever played before I realised you could do stuff like make any sim selectable?
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Post by laura on Mar 3, 2010 9:41:17 GMT -5
Ugh, so frustrated! I tried all the moving/bin tricks, but it still loads the lot in buy mode. THEN I tried loading up a duplicate copy from the packaged file, and had somebody else buy the lot, and it still loaded up in buy mode. Someone else owning a duplicate copy under a different name and it's still borked I hate it when this kind of stuff happens. It's the biggest waste of time, when all I want to do is take some damn pictures and write a story, and instead I'm stuck fixing stupid crap that I broke. /whine.
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Post by laura on Mar 3, 2010 12:47:09 GMT -5
Nope, can't fix it. Can't have someone else buy it, or play it as an ordinary community lot. I tried EVERYTHING! Even tried Pescado's old crowbar thing, which did free up live mode, but that did no good for me since she still couldn't leave the lot and travel home.
So is this the second major "electrical fire" in LH this month? I might as well write a storyline about an arsonist on the loose... except that I'd be afraid to travel to a community lot to get the pictures :\
Note to self though: as soon as you see that visitor-taxi thing, the pop up that says "will so-and-so be traveling as well?" Exit without saving, immediately!
And pretty much as soon as any business owner has trouble leaving a lot, exit without saving, immediately. Whatever progress made in a play session is not worth all these headaches!
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Post by blackcat on Mar 3, 2010 20:37:47 GMT -5
Oh, bummer, this makes me want to back up my hood before every play session (like it doesn't take long enough to get started already!). I hope this doesn't happen every time you send a sim to a community lot. Is it only with taxi's? I rarely use them because I don't like waiting for them, they either take the car or walk - even if its too far to realistically walk from a story pov, I just imagine there was a taxi involved . ??crowbar thing??? Sounds brutal!
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Post by laura on Mar 3, 2010 21:48:36 GMT -5
No, actually, I NEVER use the taxis! It's just some glitch that happens sometimes when you make visiting Sims selectable on a community lot, whether or not you came in a taxi, or by car, or by foot. I can't even predict why, or when it's going to happen. But I know it's been happening ever since I knew how to use testing cheats. Or maybe since OFB? I just know it's been around for a while. I found that crowbar thing on MATY from like 2006, lol! It seemed like it might work, but no such luck. But anyway, yes, I'm seriously afraid to play owned businesses right now - or at least I'll play them strictly by the book, which totally isn't my style, lol!
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Post by billybop428 on Mar 3, 2010 22:26:26 GMT -5
hey laura,
have you tried uploading it to a website as a download (such as TSR- it usually goes up next day or two)
Then download it yourself and place it, buy it and stuff. You would proably lose the rank and employees (which SUCKS) but you'd get jolie jolie back.
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Post by laura on Mar 4, 2010 7:33:08 GMT -5
I did try packaging it, and then reinstalling from my packaged lots folder. (The duplicate still loaded in buy/build mode.) I'm not sure if going that extra step of actually uploading/downloading the file would change anything, but maybe I'll try it some time.
I'm also curious to know if it would work in anyone else's game - surely the saved game in progress wouldn't transfer? Maybe I'll share the link if I ever get around to uploading it... if anyone's brave enough to try it out, lol!
I've already lost the rank and employees when I put it in the bin for the first time. But that's easy enough to cheat back, compared to all the other stuff I've tried.
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Post by laura on Mar 5, 2010 22:22:15 GMT -5
I really would write y'all an LH update... but I'm so, SO tired! Tomorrow just might be my last day of cleaning/moving, I hope. Hopefully I'll get my brain back after that
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Post by laura on Apr 9, 2010 22:58:13 GMT -5
The annoying thing about sim-storytelling? All the annoying glitchy crap!
So I have this girl, and she can't interact with her boyfriend. It's not the same attraction glitch I had before - it's different. She can interact with anyone else, everyone else, except for her boyfriend. Which makes it kind of hard to shoot an update between the two of them. He can interact with her just fine. They were interacting, to the best of my knowledge, just fine recently.
She can interact with him just fine on other lots, just not at home. I'm hoping it doesn't mean her home is borked, but you know, I've been known to bork lots before!
It's just frustrating. I have so little time available to work on this thing as it is, and then when I do have a free night to spend on it, I would rather it be getting useful pictures and things accomplished, and not troubleshooting some stupid glitch, you know?
I wonder sometimes if the neighborhood is just getting too old. I mean, neighborhoods don't last forever. Little bits of random junk data accumulate over the years, causes one glitch or another... after another.
I hate wasting time. There's so little time as it is.
Done ranting :\
ETA: fixed, I think - about 2.5 hours flushed down the toilet.
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Post by thelunarfox on Apr 9, 2010 23:49:20 GMT -5
Ugh-- seconds all of that. So true all of it! TS2 'hoods don't last forever. Especially considering some of the stuff we probably did to them before we knew better, depending on how long you kept it.
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Post by blackcat on Apr 10, 2010 20:17:55 GMT -5
Glad you could fix it... this is why my glitch was so frustrating... I was 99% sure it was cc-related, but it took sooo long to find out what was causing it... and like you say, I wanted to use that time for gameplay, not fixing things. I ended up staying up until 2am to sort it because I didn't want it to run over into another day...
The glitches might be a sign of the neighborhood 'aging'... I've decided with my hood that I'll make frequent backups and just keep playing the original for as long as I can fix the glitches and keep it working.
When it does die, I'll recreate it from the most recent backup (that'll be a big job but worth it as I've become attached enough to these families to want to keep their story going)... maybe I won't recreate every single sim (for move-aways and non-playables it will depend on their ties to the ones I'm keeping) but enough to continue the story. I'm hoping it'll last at least until the generation now becoming elders are mostly gone as that will significantly reduce the number of sims I have to recreate.
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Post by laura on Apr 11, 2010 7:38:02 GMT -5
Lunar, so true - this hood is four years old now, OMG! There was so much I didn't know not to do back in the beginning. This hood is officially older than my RL child, lol! Wow. Blackcat, I'm backing up a lot more frequently too. I'm just hoping I can finish out this story before the whole hood blows up. Which might be a lot to ask, because I do have five more years of neighborhood time planned. I won't recreate it though, even from a backup. If it gets that bad (hoping it doesn't!), I'll just replot the story a bit, clone and stage to tie up loose story ends, and move into the Sims 3 version like originally planned. On a much lighter note... I shot a fun post last night. Some of my Sims just don't seem to like to keep their clothes on, that's all I'm gonna say I was thinking about my story, and all the couples I have, and which ones get sex scenes (multiple ones even), and which couples only get suggestive sex. It's strange, because most of my couples have sex on a regular basis, even if only functional, routine sex. I can't say it has to do with the innocence of the characters, because sheesh, Dallas and Lucy have had a fair share of skin time, and they're just about as innocent as it gets, lol! I guess it must have to do with storyline. My couples who get lots of skin time are also characters with the richer storylines. Sex is just so useful to demonstrate such a wide range of emotion - love, lust, anger, sadness, comfort, confusion... Lunar, I'm blaming this on you, with your "views on sex" part of your character profiles. It has me thinking about how all my characters view sex. I mean, it has me thinking about that more than I did already, lol!
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