Teen & Gender Preference Adoption Hack New EP3 Versions Available(7/02/06)

[Keyblader]

I'm having trouble with the gender preference for adopting teens. I have the OFB No Adoption Pool mod downloaded, along with the Same Day Adoption mod. I just downloaded both of these last night, so I don't think I have an outdated version unless it's changed in the last 24 hours (this was the first solution that came to mind).
When I adopt a male teen, it alternates between a female and male appearing. I have the game saved right before I adopt him, and I've tested it 5 times. The first time it was a girl. Thinking I had just made an misclick, I went back to the neighborhood and reloaded the household, this time getting a boy. However, I thought he was ugly, so being the idiot that I am, I tried again. This time I got a girl. I tried this two more times, each time getting a boy, then a girl. This doesn't happen when I try to adopt female teens or children, since another family has adopted 3 of them without any problems, and the family I'm having the problem with adopted a female toddler and child shortly before. I haven't tested anything with other ages of boys, but do you have any suggestions?

[Squinge]

do you have any suggestions?

Have you tired the sims 2 hack conflict detection utility? to check for a possible hack conflict.

[Keyblader]

Have you tired the sims 2 hack conflict detection utility? to check for a possible hack conflict.

Yes. I tried that last night as well, shortly after posting. It came up with 0 conflicts.

[Squinge]

Yes. I tried that last night as well, shortly after posting. It came up with 0 conflicts.

Did you ever use a previous ep version of this mod? if so did you delete the old one?

[MissDoh]

I suggest you do the exact same test but on a few other lots to make sure it is not simply the lot that is screwed up.  And if possible, remove all your other mods except that one to make sure it does not conflict with anything else.

I also suggest you go in this folder:  C;/mydoucments/eagames/thesims2/ and delete the group.cache file.  It will regenarate the next time you start the game.

EDIT:  You can leave the sameday adoption mod in too.

[Ozzucay]

What does the group.cache file do?

[Squinge]

I fixed the adoption memory only one parent gets the adoption memory it will not work for both; I will try to get it working in a future version.

[Keyblader]

I did have an older version of the mod, but I deleted it before downloading this one. I did run a check for both 'adopt' and 'teen' in the EA folder, just to be sure, but only my current files came up. I tested different lots and different neighborhoods, but the same thing happened. I moved all of my mods except for the Teen Adoption, Same Day Adoption, and Inteenimator (I assumed it wouldn't cause a problem, would it?) out of the EA Games folder, but the same thing still happened. It didn't work when I deleted groups.cache, either. Oh, and I found out that it's not just effecting teens, but all of the ages for male gender selection.
Should I delete both of the mods and reload them?

[Squinge]

Should I delete both of the mods and reload them?

That may help this is very strange I always get the gender I choose, did you ever have this problem with the previous version? also have you installed the EP3 patch?

[Keyblader]

Well, I tried downloading it again, but nothing changed. And I had the patch on my computer, but I double-clicked on it, and it seemed to download itself, so I may have downloaded it off the Sims site, but not installed the content. It still didn't work after this, though, so I don't think that had any effect. As far as I know, I never adopted a male on the pervious version (I didn't use it more than a few times until a couple days ago), so I don't know if I had the problem before.

[Squinge]

Well, I tried downloading it again

The only other thing I can suggest is if you could download this tool run that program & attach the file "modlist.txt" that it will create to your reply & maybe I will be able to solve this mystery.

[Keyblader]

Sorry this took so long! I've had a busy last few days, and I seemed to remember that I needed to do this when the Sims was already running, and I'd decide to do it when I was done.
And thanks to my great memory, I'd forget by the time I was done with it.

[Squinge]

Sorry this took so long

I looked at the list but i'm not seeing anything that would conflict, I have no idea why this isn't working for you, I haven't had any problems with this version or the previous versions, I will let you know if I think of anything else.

[jersey_princess]

Does this also occur with the shrub? I've looked at the code and it should not work this way. I cannot reproduce it with either painting or shrub, either.

Looking at the code some more, it *might* occur if you do not actually HAVE downtownies. You must have Nightlife installed, and have at least one Downtown area associated with your 'hood.

I haven't tried it with the shrub. I have all the EPs and FFS (but this was before I got FFS). I also have a neighbourhood for everything but Uni installed.
I tried it more than once and each time they became part of the original family. Curiously enough, in the townies section I only have 7 townies including the three new ones. Would this be because I deleted all characters before I started it? Wouldn't it have regenerated all of them, not just 4?

[jordi]

I haven't tried it with the shrub. I have all the EPs and FFS (but this was before I got FFS). I also have a neighbourhood for everything but Uni installed.
I tried it more than once and each time they became part of the original family. Curiously enough, in the townies section I only have 7 townies including the three new ones. Would this be because I deleted all characters before I started it? Wouldn't it have regenerated all of them, not just 4?

Townies are typically generated at the rate of one per lot load, so it may take a long time before you have a full complement again.

As for the family issue, I'm out of ideas. If you could test with the shrub I'd appreciate it, but for now I'm not sure where to look. The family ID used in the painting and shrub is consistently and only used for downtownies in all cases I checked, so it ought not to be possible for them to end up in another family...