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91  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Can't Shop and UnFertile Sims on: May 09, 2008, 12:39:26 pm
Do what MissDoh suggested.

I spotted, that the "phonehack" is already redundant, because EA fixed the "who will go?" problem. And "marriagepostmortum" is already updated to be compatible with BV. So is "dailygardener".

The problem is not your plenty downloads (objects, clothing, hair, etc) - but the hacks. Better take them out of the game (they are not so many), put them in one by one, and taste the gaming for bugs. Choose the main bug you have, and try it with all the hacks separately. I did it in University, because my sims couldn't go to class, and the culprit was the "nojelousy" hack.
92  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Discussion / Vacation spot makeover on: May 09, 2008, 12:20:45 pm
Wonderful idea, but I don't think it's possible to override the default NPCs' outfits, because they are not controllable.
May be this question should be sent to EA tech support.
93  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Something wrong :( on: May 02, 2008, 04:17:47 am
It's good that you got your CC in the game. If your lots have CC furniture, hair, clothing - then when you will try to upload some lot, without CC, the load will go on and on - until you cancel the application (ctrl+alt+delete), and restart your computer.
When you want to play without CC, try it always in a new hood. Cancel the use of CC, exit the game, enter, and play in a new hood.
94  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Discussion / I sent my family on vacation, they are stuck in a netherworld between home and twikki on: April 29, 2008, 03:01:38 pm
Why don't you use the Insimenator - it has an option called "the summoner". Summon the sims, and try to "add to family", or  simple "move in". Usually, the "move in" option appears, only if your sim is best friend (80/80) to the summoned sim. So, if you want to move him in, increase the relation points until they are best friends.

Doesn't matter which summoner you have. I use Inge's shrub. Download the teleporter+, it has an option to add to family.
 
http://simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Teleporters.htm

All your downloads have to be in one folder, named Downloads (case sensitive). After you extract some zipped file, open the folder (if it has one), or copy the file, and paste it in your Downloads folder (you can open there subfolders such as "clothing", "mods", "objects", "makeup", etc. If you don't have this folder, create a new folder named Downloads in My Documents/EA games/The Sims 2.

I suggest you to download the Sim 2 File Maid. When you download a zipped file, if it has only .package files in it - you drag the zipped file to the "lawn", and it's unzipped and the file is installed in your Downloads folder. If it has a folder in it - you have to unzip it on your desktop, and then drag the folder to the "Lawn".

http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/projects/SimFileMaid/index2.html

You have to use after that the Sim 2 Pack installer, to move the files to their sub-folders (if you have any).
95  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Got SecuRom? Get relief. on: April 27, 2008, 12:13:06 pm
I don't think that it's a matter of luck. I have Core 2, more than 7 months old, and I think most of the players bought it too.

Besides, if I try to activate the application, even after I surfed the net (not to mention changes I make in any folder of the computer) - the game doesn't upload, and I get a message, that the program doesn't respond.
96  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Got SecuRom? Get relief. on: April 27, 2008, 01:38:13 am
If you restart your computer, each time you plan to play the game - and you start the application from "All Programs", and not from the short cut - you will overcome all obstacles of the Securom, and will be able to enter the game without any problems.

I do it all the time. Never had any problem to play the game.
97  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / I just bought BV got any advice? on: April 24, 2008, 12:16:53 pm
If you use hacks - you have to replace them with compatible BV ones.

Download and install the Patch.

One important suggestion: to prevent problems of not loading game (the Securom is very sensitive) - always restart your computer before you are going to play the game, and activate the application through All Programs, and not through the short cut.
98  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Castaways Custom Walls on: April 24, 2008, 04:06:27 am
Cherry, do you try to override the original walls? That is not permitted in any Sims game. Custom walls are only added, and are pasted in the Downloads folder.

Better save the whole present Castaway folder in another place (I hold it in driver D), reinstall the game, copy the original Walls  folder from the reinstalled game, and Override folder too, and paste them in your saved Castaway folder.

(I have 4-5 saved Castaway folders in driver D, and can play different characters, when I am bored).

Now copy the Castaway folder, and paste it instead the original reinstalled game. Allow custom content, exit.

Copy/paste the old Downloads folder on your desktop, to keep the rest downloads, delete the Downloads folder, create a new one, and move to it the rest downloads you have. Now you can paste some TS2 walls/floors.
 
Don't forget to restart your computer, because Castaway has Securom, and won't be loaded, after you change folders in the game.

Enter the "borked" lot, replace the walls to original ones, then use the custom walls.

It should work (I hope).
99  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Castaways Custom Walls on: April 23, 2008, 10:43:28 pm
Usually I don't bother with walls and floors, but I tried it for you, and it works. I enterred my TS2 Walls folder, copied random several walls, and pasted them in the Downloads folder, in a sub-folder named Walls (case sensitive).

The first and the second walls in the panel are mine (50$?! - it adds environment points, lol), and they are seen fine on the walls of the house.

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100  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Castaways Custom Walls on: April 23, 2008, 10:18:08 pm
Homecrafter works ONLY for TS2 - not for Castaway or Life Stories. If you made custom walls, search for the files' name in TS2, copy them, and:

1) Enable custom content in Castaway in the Control Panel. Exit the game, and return.

2) Create a Downloads folder in C:/My Documents/Electronic Arts (it's not EA Games)/Castaway

3) Open in Downloads folder a sub-folder, name it Walls (case sensitive).

4) Copy the walls files you made and found in TS2, and paste them in the Walls sub-folder.

Hope it works.
101  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / BV Jewelry is disabled upon "Change Appearance" on: April 23, 2008, 09:37:34 pm
If I remember well, when you buy the jewellery at the community lot, you wear it immediately.

But you can download accessories, and search for them in "Glasses". They work when you change appereance.
102  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Custom houses one life story on: April 14, 2008, 08:11:21 am
No, not in the custom games (Life Stories and Castaway). But it's not such a big disaster - you learn how to build houses from scratch, and it's very good training.

In Castaway, I am not given even empty lots, and I have to move the sims to the sim bin, and redecorate, or delete everything and build a new house instead - and then return them to their new home.

Besides, you can always play TS2...Smiley.
103  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Custom houses one life story on: April 14, 2008, 06:48:23 am
Lol, you definitely can, but even from there the house will be installed again in TS2 game. There, I tried it for you:

I created a PackagedLots folder in Life Stories, and put there a lot, ready to be installed.



I enterred the game, and the lot was not seen:



Now I entered TS2/BV – and there was the installed lot; I put a circle around  the Uni  pre-made lot, to show you that this is the main game.




…"Case closed"…:)
104  Simmers' Paradise / Sims Life Stories Help / Custom houses one life story on: April 14, 2008, 01:35:14 am
All the custom houses you download and install, are installed automatically in TS2, and if you open the house bin, you will see your downloaded house with the couple.

In Sim Life Stories, and in Castaway, there is not any option to package a lot (pity), therefore you don't have too a folder named "Packaged Lots", as in TS2, in which you can put the downloaded house.

Without the option "package lot" (the * in TS2, which creates the Packaged Lots folder), and without "Packaged Lots" folder - you can't place a downloaded house in the game...Smiley.

You have to work hard: create the sims, and build them a house, or buy them a house. Smiley
105  Simmers' Paradise / General Sims 2 Help / Help me please =]] on: April 13, 2008, 08:35:17 pm
It's the Securom fault: whenever you "touch" another application, or even surf on the net - the game won't upload.

Solve:
1) Restart the computer each time you want to play BV.
2) Start the game from "all programs" (don't double-click on the shortcut).

...Very annoying.
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