Hello...

Well, I got all the EPs and SPs all together at once, some time ago. Hadn't even had the time to play them, when my computer had some issues, and I couldn't really discover the new stuff.

So, now I got my PC back, fixed, and to celebrate, I got me the Apartment Life EP. The problem is that now some objects that are or should be one tile objects, take two tiles, and I can't put them in place. Specially courtains.

The problem is that I'm not sure that this issue began when I installed AL... but, I guess that if the bug was caused by other EP, a patch would have fixed it...? Does this problem sound familiar to anybody? Can I fix it?

I don't even have that much custom content, because I recently lost my hard drive, and I'm at the slow process of getting everything back, right now... so I seriuosly doubt that custom content could have caused it...

One of the objects affected is a very romantic country like courtain that came with Seasons EP. It's a one tile short courtain, but it appears in the game to be a two tile courtain, making it impossible to place it over a one tile window.

I've another question: how do you do to choose the higth of wall decorations? The AL EP was supposed to add that option, but so far, I haven't been able to do it.

How long do you think it will take for Maxis to release a patch fo AL EP?

Thanks!

Well... thanks, I know about those guides, yes, but I guess I forgot to mention that I meant something for free... Maybe something online...

It's just that the help sections in this forum or MST2, though they're good, there's a lot of talk about game bugs or errors... or questions asked by people who have already played for a while... I'm looking for a gameplay guide...

Hello,

Does anyone know where can I find GOOD gameplay guides for every EP, if possible as a PDF file?

Thanks

Hey.

I'm new to the EPs... I'm playing and discovering all the new features. So I'm sorry if this questions sounds idiotic... just answer it and don't laugh at me, ok? He he he...

Well. I was quite sure that with Pets expansion, there would be a pets store somewhere...? If there is could you point me where? If there isn't just tell me to stop looking for it. And it would be lovely if you could tell me where to find the best pet objects to build my own pets store.

Thanks!

Thanks, but again: I've got a 512 MB Nvidia 8500GT Super Video Card. And the game display settings are set at the highest, and the game set them for me, since as you just said, it recognised my video card.

I don't know what it is, and I don't know if I should pay attention to this problem or not.

Yes, I do. Plus, as I was just saying... everything else in the game looks and works just fine, except for that.

It can't be a hardware problem of any kind, that I'm sure about.

Hello!

Since Maxis forgot so many dog breeds, including my favourite ones, I went and downloaded them. I was happy 'cos I had quite a lot of new dogs and cats, most of them from MTS2. However, when I saw them in the game I was really surprised by the way they looked... deformed, with strange head shape and weird eyes.
I thought that somehow it was a matter of likes, and that other people might actually like them... I thought: "How strange these creators did not realise that this looks weird...".
So, I deleted them, and went and got some other dogs. But when I put them in the game, they looked weird too. Same head deformation and weird popping eyes...

Do you think it is a real game problem? And what is it?

Hello.
I have this graphic problem with my sims game, and I wonder if you could help me. It's not like I won't play it, because of it, but it can be annoying.

I'm sorry but I'm having trouble with describing the problem because I'm not a native english speaker, but... I'll try my best.

When I'm playing, when I zoom in or out, or pan or rotate the image, the game stops or freezes for less than a second, repeatedly. I think that is called flickering but I'm not sure.

Other than that the graphics are just perfect, since my computer has everything you need to run the game at its best, because I have a great computer with a great graphics card, because I am a designer and I use the computer for work.

I immagine it has to be a configuration problem, but I haven't been able to solve it. Please help.

Thanks.

What? No way... that's an incredibly ridicoulous idea from Maxis. It really sucks. Object recolours, too?

Well... on the one hand is good to know the game is not broken! Ha ha ha...

But, why did they delete such a helpful tool? Oh my...

Hello,

I've just installed all the game expansions... well, I admit I didn't patch them. I'm planning to uninstall everything and re-install, patching the game after each instalation.

However... I haven't yet done that, because I'm so curious about all the never seen (by me) new unexplored chances of gameplay... And looking around the game I just realised that the dustbin for deleting custom eyecolours in CAS, in the game, does not appear when selecting a custom eyecolour.

Is it a common bug? Will one of the patches correct that? Or has it ever happened to anyone?

Well, I know I might seem a little bit too melodramatical, and it is not the worst thing that could happen to my game, but it certainly does bother me, because I like downloading celebs, and I end up having a lot of eyecolurs I dislike and I need to be able to delete them in CAS. Specially because Bodyshop looks so bad, I prefer CAS so much.

Thanks.

Oooooooooh well.
I guess I'll just unistall everything and start from scratch! Shoot!
I wanted to start playing! I can't wait!

Anyway,
thanks for the useful info you both!

Hello.

The only EP I used to have was UNI, and for years all I could think about when I was playing or downloading new objects was: "When will I be able to get the expansions? Why am I so miserable?".

Finally I got some extra money, and I went and bought all the EPs and Stuff Packs. I've got now the complete collection up to Freetime, because Apartment Life is not out there yet, at least in my country.

The thing is: in case any of the cds was wrong and I had to take it back to the store, I installed all the EPs, one after the other one... and when I was done, and everything was working I realised... what about the official patches?

What about them? Do I need them? Do I need only the one for Freetime? In case I need all of them, can I download them and install them now? Was I suppose to install every patch immediatelly after the EP it is meant to patch?

Well, please, help.

Thanks!

Hello!

Well, I've been having this problem... I love celebrity sims, and I've downloaded quite a few. Some I didn't like and deleted them in game. I know if you delete the sim, you don't delete the skin and hair and clothes and make up that sim uses, sometimes I keep all that stuff because I like it even though the whole sim was not good for me.

The thing is that when in CAS and Bodyshop, the "preview" picture - or however you call it, I don't know - is never right... sometimes the game even shows pictures of sims I don't have anymore, because I deleted them.

I always delete the groups.cache and cigen.package files, because I was told that if you deleted those files regularly, the game would have to generate new thumbnails and it would correct the mistakes... however... No, it does not. It's pure chaos.

You click on the Victoria Beckham picture and you get the Madonna sim. You click on Madonna and you get Scarlett Johansson... and so on. Sometimes the thing gets so ridicoulous you are in the male section, and you are looking at a thumbnail of Angelina Jolie, and when you click it, it's Orlando Bloom!

And the worst problem is that you can't just resing to it and say: "Ok, from now on, I won't care, I'll just remember that every time I want Orlando, I'll click on Angelina". Because today is Angelina and tomorrow is Rihanna! The whole thing changes...

Well, it's driving me crazy.

Please, if anyone thinks of ways to colve this...

I'll be gratefull.

P.S.: I don't have this problem with other custom downloaded contents. The only things that don't show up right in the thumbnails are the whole sims. I don't know... maybe that means something.

Hello,

Since I've had such a great feedback on the questions I posted yesterday (people here showed that they were ready and willing to help, thank you very much) I got encouraged to get rid of some other doubts.

These are very simple, I guess.
First, I'd like to know what is Legacy Bodyshop? And how or where can I learn about it? And how can I get it?

And my other two questions are more of a "where can I find..." nature and I hope that I don't get lectured for it... Anyways... "yellow pee hack" and "transparent water hack" where? what? who?

Thanks!

You mean that the HHSP was released twice and the second time it included more objects? I had never realised of that!