I have two and a half minor problems, which I am going to assume are not really technical but more like gameplay annoyances.

My first is kitchen clustering. Whenever a household gets over like 5-6 people in it I usually start focusing on 2 or 3 and leave the rest to do their own thing. What tends to happen though is everyone eventually ends up in the kitchen in a tight cluster unable to do anything until I manually break them up. It starts when one person goes into the kitchen and sits down to eat, now for some reason other sims can queue interactions with that sitting sim even though it wont work. So they just stand behind their chair constantly queuing and dropping impossible actions. Other sims come and try to interact with either of them with the same results. The standing sim is too busy trying to congratulate the one in the chair and the one in the chair is obviously too engrossed in their salmon dinner to care. After a few game hours everyone I wasn't controlling ends up standing in the kitchen trying to interact with each other, mostly unsuccessfully. Once their motives start to drop they either can't leave because they are boxed in, or as they try to leave another sim interrupts them with a hug or something. It's a minor annoyance, but I'm always having to stop what I'm doing to direct each and every one of them out of the kitchen, and with 8 or 10 people to direct it can eat a lot of my time. I've tried multiple kitchens, like one on floor two and one on floor 6, but that creates new problems when a sim tries to serve food and ends up going up and down the stairs placing plates on tables 4 floors apart. It only seems to delay the clustering a little anyway. So I'm just wondering if there's something I can do to design a building that deals with this issue, or if maybe there is a mod that wont let standing sims try to interact with sims in a chair.

My second issue is stereo lag, whenever I mouse over a stereo or click on it to turn it off/change the station, my game lags if not completely freezes for a few seconds. My guess is it's going through all the songs in all the playlists to check them for genre or whatever. I don't think it's a corrupted install or any sort of bug on my part (it also happens with no custom content installed or enabled), and I have tried defragging the Sims 2 files in case that was the cause, so I think it just takes a lot of CPU to do whatever it does and my PC is old and in poor health these days. My question here is if I were to mod the game files so stereos only list the two or three channels I ever listen to, would that speed it up a bit or cause any serious issues? Related to that, my second and a half problem, is phones are the same way though not as bad. So maybe I could remove a bunch of the pie menu options I never use to help with those as well?

Keyword being accidentally. :-P Say I'm not paused and tell the sim to go pick up one of the bags of money, and half a second before I issue the command another bag queues to drop. Or I'm just not paying attention. ~_~



Thanks! I usually only check the firing range at MATY, I thought the armory was old stuff that didn't work any more. My mistake.

The bug where you wish for wealth. When one of the money bags queue up to drop and you accidentally tell your sim to do something else and it drops from the queue forever, you don't get the money (I don't care much about that part) and the tile it was supposed to drop on is blocked permanently. Ya, it happens to me a lot. Maybe I suck at searching, but I can't find anything related to this. I'm just wondering if there's a way to fix a lot that has had this happen to it, or maybe if there's a mod that prevents it from happening? Sometimes I can just ignore the blocked tile(s), or place something over it with "moveobjects on" but when I have to redesign an entire house because of it I get really annoyed. ~_~

For a while I've been just "selling" the lamps for 1k and using a cheat to add the ~70k I would have gotten from 3 wealth wishes, but when I have a sim with the earn 100k lifetime want I have them do the wishes because picking up the money bags counts as earned money. After having it happen twice today though I think I'm never going to rub that lamp again.

Yes I read that before. His problem was sort of the opposite of yours though. He updated the write novel bhav to the current one (I assume) but the old percent check was too slow so the novels finished when it said 50%.

I think the whole write novel bhav has to be redone to match the new FT one. I dunno, I actually fixed it on my end as much as I care to have it. I just changed the pie menu to call the real write novel interaction (x2030 IIRC) rather than the custom one, so now it works just like a normal maxis computer for that, only problem being the progress bar doesn't show up over their head, and no pop-ups every 5%, but the pie menu still shows the progress and that's all I need personally. Actually to be honest the 5% messages were annoying at 3x speed anyway. >_>

Thanks for this, but novels are still taking twice as long as they should with these computers. The pie menu percent is now "correct" in that it's checking based on how long it should take to write, but the novel doesn't finish until it gets to 200% because it takes twice as long. >_>

Edit: Almost forgot, it's also not checking anything hobby related while writing the novel. My sims for example with maxed out film and lit are not "entering the zone" when they write on these. Which I think is caused by the same thing making them take twice as long, using the old write novel function or whatever.