Try having him change appearance at the mirror or use the Lot Debugger's option to "Fix Flashing Blue" (which does the same thing). You may need to change something about his appearance, then go back and put him back the way he was. I think this is one of the known issues that sometimes crops up when using a witch skintone replacement, but the fix should work even if you are not using a replacement.

I think that this is normal. From comments I've seen around the place (don't ask me where! Can't remember) I recall people saying that AL changed the pregnancy odds for male abductees so they don't always come back pregnant. Or maybe it was Free Time? I'm making a male maternity default replacement so I forced abductions on the Curious brothers in a totally hack free game so that I could see all three manternity outfits. As you may recall Pascal is already pregnant but of my two abductees only Lazlo came back pregnant, and Vidcund was not pregnant when he returned. So it's not a hack conflict, just new game code.

Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims Life Stories\ and delete the entire Neighborhoods folder. Also delete the file called groups.cache that you find in the The Sims Life Stories folder. Fire up the game again. It will make a new groups.cache and make brand new copies of the hoods. They should hopefully all be there.

If you download from the Exchange, all Bodyshop custom content is offered on sims, so you end up downloading sims2pack files which automatically installs into your Downloads folder and makes a mess.

The content you download from this, and most other sites, is in RAR or ZIP format. You actually need to uncompress the files you download and manually put the resulting .package files into your Downlaods folder. Less mess, filenames you can actually understand.

Reading through a tutorial on how to get custom content into your game might help: http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Downloading_for_Fracking_Idiots

Oooh! Didn't know there was a new Buy Maternity hack. That's good to know. If it's a new one, then you can probably keep it.

I think it would be best for you to use the 50/50 method on your hacks. And to perhaps throw them into subfolders by site and/or creator. That's how I keep mine organised and it takes me very little time to track down problem hacks because I put in and take out whole folders, then once a folder is in and starts causing errors, I track down the culprit from a few, not from many.

The HCDU will help you to track down conflicting hacks, so it's a really good idea to grab it and use it. Just remember that you don't delete ALL the hacks that are shown as conflicting - just one of the conflicting pair. Also, some hacks are meant to conflict (eg. some of TJ's hacks will show as conflicting with Pescado's but work OK if loaded after Pescado's and once InTeen is updated, that shows the Flavor Packs as conflicting with InTeen but this is normal and not a problem) so you really need to check the threads or readme's for each and every hack you have so you know which conflicts are OK and which are not.

I would strongly advise against using the Insimenator while you are still in Story mode. Goals are triggered by the game recognising that certain events have happened. Eg. it is impossible for Riley and Mickey to have a lifetime relationship of 100 unless you cheat. The game actually limits the values to which relationships can rise while in story mode. You'll keep getting problems and stuck goals if you keep mucking them up with the Insimenator. It's only 12 chapters, something like 4 or 5 hours worth of gameplay. You can use cheats, etc, to your heart's content once you have finished the story. If you stuff them up even more, you'll just get a stuck goal and will have to start again and that will actually be more annoying than having to actually do a bit of work on their relationships in the first place.

Check out this tutorial by Lord Darcy: http://nene.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=286886 It's for fridges and computers but it also links to a tutorial on how to create an update package, so you may be able to figure out from both of those how to do this for the change table.

Move all your hacks to the desktop, enter the lot and see if this fixed it? If yes, you need to track down the hack/mod that is causing this.

Not as experienced at this as ancienthighway but....

You have Buy Maternity Clothes in there - as I said before, this is what is most likely causing your closets to go crazy. As Squinge said - not compatible, take it out. I also noticed you have Shaklin's sectional sofa global as well as Inge's in there. They may be conflicting. You have a "no spin when changing" hack as well as another "no spin into outerwear" hack. That first one should probably do the job for you, I'm not sure what the duplication is doing, but again, this may be interfering with closets because you have two hacks attempting to control the one clothing changing behaviour. You have "adults go steady" and "adults go steady plus marriage traditional" - again, don't know the hacks, but this looks like it's duplicating functions. Also, you have both Smonaff's Jealousy Check and TJ's Maxis Cheating Fix - it says in Smonaff's hack description that his hack will conflict with other hacks that do jealousy checks. Still on the duplicated mods - you have rebecah's toddler uses staris and the toddlers + baby pets use stairs. According to rebecah's download description these two versions conflict with one another and you need to take out the toddler-only version.

I don't know many of the hacks that you have, but a lot of them have NL and OFB, etc in their names. Unless these have been stated by the creator to be compatible with later EPs, you really need to track them down and download updated versions. Sometimes a hack will keep on working for several EPs but then an EP will change a tiny bit of code and it will no longer be compatible. Squinge's Buy Maternity Clothes is a good example. it worked right up until FT and then AL broke it. I think you need to get rid of your duplicate hacks, get rid of the conflicting ones, get rid of and/or update the incompatible/outdated ones, and then check again if you're still having problems.

You need to raise their lifetime relationship. This is done easiest by having her use flirt... charm, appreciate... backrub, entertain... joke and hug... friendly. Just keep working on it, the option should appear around lifetime relationship of around 21 or 22. Try to mix it up a bit, because if you use too many flirt interactions in a row he'll start rejecting her. I usually do a series of charm, joke, hug, charm, joke, hug, etc. The backrub can sometimes backfire, but charm-joke-hug usually works a treat.

If you're having trouble with any of the goals, just check the walkthrough here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/937309/49266

The "firstborn syndrome" works by affecting the personality, not looks. I've had kids who were affected by it who did not look identical. If the kids' parents have very similar facial structure, their kids will tend to look a lot alike. If the two girls have different star signs/personalities, then they don't have "firstborn syndrome". They're both really cute, too! I love their skintone and Keisha's hair is GREAT!

You did what?!?

Beatrice working as the DJ

Lamuel as a toddler



And as a child



Sandy as a toddler



And as a child