All these years later and I just now realized that "Academie Le Tour" is a reference to Tim LeTourneau

And when they play the marco polo game in the pool, they shout, "Timle!"- "Tourneau"!

And one of my favourite townies is Brandi le Tourneau

I have to laugh at least a little bit at the latest spammer in the TS2 forums (inadvertently I'm sure) including the word "llama" in their spam posts- I did a double-take wondering if it was deliberate or not at first!

Aww, I missed the llama. XD I bet it was the cow mascot posting to try and get the other mascot in trouble!

But how does the cow mascot type with those big hooves?

I've created an npc cook in Service Area who cooks llama meat, not without controversy from some sims of course. :/ xDD

I love custom content shopping. I really, really do. I love downloading hundreds of rar files mindlessly. Better than doomscrolling. TS2 is honestly the best for this because it's been around longer than 3 & 4. You literally never run out of stuff to find.

However...

I don't love having to organize it later. I try to do it in batches, but it's still so much work! I also hate having to figure out what items are broken/meshes I missed after the fact. Also trying to find duplicates.

The price to pay to have a pretty game.

Small tip for organizing - do it while downloading.

I have a downloading folder outside the game. I download the zip/rar file(s), at least one picture, copy the text to a notepad file, save the link (as a file or text), and put everything in a folder named the same as the zip folder.

I (roughly) sort these folders into larger categories of Buy/CAS/mods/default/poses (and so on) in that main folder. You could use whichever categories fit for you.

This helps keep things neat. It's also very useful if you need to check for an update, or something is flashing blue or not working properly and need another item, or you get errors and need to find out if the mod has known conflicts/need another mod. Also extremely handy if the original item is deleted and you suddenly need the original text since you don't even know what the item was. Pictures are handy for searching the folder if you need to find a spesific item but can't remember what it's called (do searches for jpg + png, and set to "large images")

If the item needs extra files from a different download, I also tend to stick those files into the same folder, so I don't have to go on a hunt (that's why it's always useful to read about the item! Saves lots of work later).

I never just download a bunch of random zip files and stick them in a folder - after a few weeks I'd barely have any idea what they were for, and the cleanup work would be endless...

(It also keeps me from putting every last bit of CC item into my game. I can hoard CC, but my game doesn't suffer too much for it )

Very random question, I thought I'd ask here to see if someone could point me in the right direction.

I have been playing TS2 very sporadically over the last few months, I must have added some mod that's messing up the gameplay on community lots and sometime even on residential ones as it seem to have affected the attraction ingame.

If I try accessing debug, I get the following error:
Error: Problem executing script (AttractionScore): Run-time:
(none):0: attempt to perform arithmetic on field `?' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
(none): in function `AttractionScore'

I've tried with LD updated HCDU but it won't let me as it things it's generated by the "force error" interaction.

It could be that a sim who is coming to the lot when this error happens doesn't have an aspiration.

Very badly? XD



You can't tell me what to do with my life!

I changed the language in The Sims 2. I reinstalled, so we're all good here. I have two external drives and an internal drive with backups of my Sims 2 folder just in case. As for how I managed to run Regedit without admin privileges... I disabled a lot of Microsoft's built in "fool-proof" protection because I found it annoying. I've been using Windows since I was a toddler in the 90s and honestly don't need the amount of hand holding that Windows comes with. Unfortunately, it's all or nothing with the "fool-proof" protection, so I can't pick and choose which parts of it I want. So yeah, the "fool-proof" protection didn't stop this fool from disabling it.

Yeah, but changing the language only requires editing one DWord- I don't understand how you could mess up an entire install by doing that. I change the game language often (as my daughter's game is installed in a different language to mine, and we have a hood that we share), I just made a backup of the relevant key in both languages, so I can just install that key easily to swap between both languages without even opening regedit each time.

Then you should always have administrator rights. You can't use regedit without them.