No, not a pet career. It's the Adventurer career from MTS2. Removing all hacks caused immediate birth of the puppies, so it is indeed something in my hacks/mods folder. Now to just discover what it is!

Also, if you have deleted it in your Downloads folder but the empty, unclickable object is still in your game, you can use the "move_objects on" cheat to click and delete it in Buy mode.

Sorry for the delay in answering.

Yes, the build mode cheat in AL allows you access to all the build/buy tools that are otherwise disabled.

It is: boolprop aptsublotspecifictoolsdisabled [false/true]

False makes everything available, true turns it all off. I don't recommend using it to move the apartments front door while Sims are in residence

I keep all my mods in a subfolder anyway so I can keep track of the pesky little buggers. Most of my other custom content are recolors and genetics (non-pet), and I do have one career (although I haven't even used it yet).

So once mods are installed, simply removing them from the Downloads will remove them from the game? There's no "residual" left in the game code that would mean I need to delete other folders and such?

Yeah, I tried that. Probably easy to miss in my initial ramble. It didn't find any conflicts.

Lets see...

InSIMinator v2.9 SIM edition
InTEENimator 19b Apartment Life (but I added that after I started having this problem)
Smart Toddler Picture
Triplets and Quads (recently updated)
Becks Ridable Cow
Becks Ridable Pony
Buyable Wishing Well
marhis-morepointsforprofwoohoo (new)
LBFMoreGenieLamp100

I think that's it.

Hrm... about 40, plus a few hacked objects.

Well... I *thought* I had, but just to be sure of it, I removed all of my mods and started a new family in a new neighborhood. All my other attempts had been in the same neighborhood. Lo and behold, I was able to get puppies (although I didn't try with pugs, just pets from the Adoption agency).

So what do you think my best course of action is at this point? Should I list my mods here, to see if anyone can point out the likely culprit? Adding them back in one at a time and testing will make for a lot of litters of puppies!

Also, some of my mods are global... will the old neighborhood be irrevocably tainted by those mods so that if one of them *is* the culprit, I won't be able to fix it without a reinstall?

In three different families, I've tried to have two pugs have a litter of puppies (not the same pugs either). I'm using the EA default pugs. Two families were EA default sims, one was a second gen sim. I do have many hacks/mods, but I've double checked each and every single one of them to ensure they are compatible with all the expansions I have. I've also double checked them with the Hack Conflict Detection Utility. I've attempted to force their births with the "boolprop controlpets on" cheat in conjunction with the InSIMinator, but nothing happens when I use the Give Birth command. I've gone through the MTS2 problem resolution FAQ. I think the only thing I have not done is reinstall everything without any downloads, and try a birth on a clean family. I'm hoping to avoid having to do that, as it takes FOREVER and a day to uninstall and reinstall this many expansions (and watch a 9 mo old baby at the same time)!

Any advice?

I discovered that this was caused by me using the build mode cheat while my Sim lived in the apartment. I moved everyone out of the building, made my building changes, and moved all my families back in. After that, everything worked great (in that regard).

I have a sim I've been playing for a while. He lives in an apartment with a roomie. He has left the lot before to go to a community lot. However, this time when he left to go on a date, upon arriving back at the apartment building with date in tow, another sim had moved into his apartment! He was all paid up on his bills. Any help would be appreciated!

Could you please explain the hidden outfits cheat? I haven't heard of it or used it before.

I've attached a screenshot of what I'm getting in the CAS screen. I wasn't able to get any information at all from it.

Great, thanks! I didn't really WANT to kill them... I've never been one to kill my sims for fun. As a mom of a 5 month old myself, even killing sim babies makes my skin crawl.

If I hide them, I won't be able to get the mother to mourn. Or will a fake tombstone do the trick?

Will a tombstone be generated with the insiminator?

Before you think I'm twisted, let me explain.

I'm creating a medieval story, and in medieval times, child and infant deaths were common. I'd like to kill off a kid or two for the appropriate tragedy level. I don't want the death to be prolonged or anything, and the social worker showing up would really ruin the story. How can I have a quick, painless child death?