Thanks so much, that's exactly what I was looking for. I thought it existed, but apparently I never downloaded it before.

Is there an Open For Business hack that allows you to set the hours your home business is open? Like setting the business to close at 9pm and open again at 8am automatically?

Edit: to avoid confusion - I'm not looking for a mod that calls employees in for a set shift. I thought I'd note that before someone suggested the hack at Sims Wardrobe that does that, since it doesn't seem to adjust the hours of business, just the hours employees work.

I know that her computer has been updated, but would you be willing to update another of her mods? The Hacked Bookcase mod, that allows sims to study all skills from any non-custom bookcase. It does not work with Freetime or Apartment Life, and she's not around to ask for an update.

Link: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=65844&c=1&ht=0&page=4&pp=25

Thanks =)

There's a 20 grandkids want, but not a 20 kids want.

I don't participate in the various contests here, but I've looked at the threads more than a few times. It seems like people really enjoy them. However, I can't recall there ever being a contest like this:

Suppose instead of a contest about sims, it was a contest about homes. The point would be to design beautiful rooms, kind of like a sims version of all those home design shows.

Let's say that someone designs a house from house plans*, and puts it here for all would-be contestants to download as the basis of the contest. This would be the house that every contestant uses. The house would have a basic layout, but no furniture, no wallpaper, no floors and no plants or decor outside of any kind. All you would get besides a completely undecorated house is photos of the rooms labeled as what they're intended to be - bedroom, kitchen etc.

The first contest would be for everyone who enters to design a specific room (you'd know which room from the labeled photos above), probably a master bedroom. Everyone could submit photos of their designs, and have them be voted upon, like the people-based contests.

The next contest would be another room, maybe a child's room or a nursery - these would be two different assignments - and so on, until the last contest was to design the yard. Each contestant would be requested to work on only one house, so their master bedroom entry would be in the same house as their nursery entry etc. And at the very end, it would be nice if people uploaded their decorated lots.

What do you think? Would something like this work as a series of contests? If you like the idea, feel free to start such a contest because I'm more interested in how it would turn out than coordinating contests.


* house plans sites - if you click on a plan, you can get photos of what the area of the rooms in each house should be. I, and a lot of other folks, use these plans to create homes.

http://www.houseplans.com/index.asp
http://compsimgames.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.natalieplans.com%2F

Apartment Life. I have all expansions and every EP but Teen Style, and Mansions and Gardens.

Though I'm about 75% sure this isn't do-able simply because no one has already done it, I guess I'll ask anyway: is it possible to create a mod so families could adopt 2 (or more) kids at once?

In my mind, which is completely unhampered by knowing how creating mods works, I imagine it being something like a cross between the mod that allows one to pick the gender of adoptees and the hack that allows one you pick if your sim gives birth to 1, 2, 3, or 4 babies. The only reason I think this might be possible is because of that screen telling you that there's a new baby on the way appears during both births and adoptions. But like I've said, I know nothing about hacking; my only attempt at creating a hack resulted in non-autonomous computers...that were also invisible!

Thanks for thinking about it.

I like this too. Want 12, 15 or 20 kids, why not? That way they could be fulfilled beyond kid 10 and qualify for a discovery channel series

I don't know how much money they made, but I had a home business go to 5 stars in less than a day so it probably did nicely. The business was a bordello (a few of lizloves' autonomous beds, some of those doors that only allow men in, and a ticket machine), so make of that what you will.

I've had the game since the week it came out, but sometimes I'm surprised when something unexpected happens. How about you?

I just discovered today that sims can use the mirror to practice romance - while holding a baby. My self-sim has six boys, and the younger set of twins are still babies. I had her check on Henry and then practice romance at the mirror because a want for gaining a charisma skill point appeared. When I checked to see what she was doing, she was holding Henry and talking to the mirror =)

What cool things have you recently discovered?

Squinge, thanks again for the move away from the dresser mod, it works wonderfully. If you have time, I have another request.

Is it possible to make sims get dressed in their everyday outfits after whoohoo'ing/trying for baby? They love to wander around in their underwear until you force them to get dressed, and I can't imagine what their neighbors think! I know there's a mod that makes them get dressed after sleeping, but it doesn't work on non-sleeping getting out of bed...activities.



my specs:
I have all eps except BV and AL installed (I also don't have teen stuff, h&m stuff, or kitchen & bathroom stuff, if that matters), and the FT version of inteen & the autonomous lovebed, inteen version, which allows you to say what sims should be wearing when they get INTO bed, so I'm not sure if it complicates things. I'm about to install your FT version of Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit too.

I know you updated this mod for AL... I have all the eps Except BV and AL. Do I use this version, or did the update arise because of changes earlier than AL as is the case for some other hacks?

It *almost* works. There are a few spots along the shoulders and feet that don't end up being covered by the outfit. (the flesh tone along mom's fingers rings the bottom of the foot.) You know, though, I think it might work if I "cut off" the feet from the outfit since the shoulders are less distracting.

Bloom... if the winking smilie indicates that you're not really 100% against making more of these meshes, can I make a request?

Could we have a version of this full body infant mesh (I'll link to a recolor because that's a terrible description http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=67657 ) with a pacifier but *without* a hat? And is this barefoot recolor in this thread http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=81347 the same mesh? Because it's really cute too....

Thanks Bloom, we and our sims' babies owe you a lot.

So...what are the effects of what you've listed as "Effects"? My wild guess as to why we'd find this is useful is that it might speed up load time. Am I close?