Lol! Yeah don't worry, you haven't missed anything. Them being elves is because I've decided they are. In actual gameplay they're witches and warlocks with pointy ears who've drunk a lot of life elixirs. And then I've made up rules for them that separate them from gods and angels (who are wizards when they're in Middle Earth instead of Valinor). Who are also witches and warlocks.

@Sunbee - I would either have the Guy own the church lot and then invite or teleport in the sims for 'service'. I fyou want to keep it a community lot, I would just teleport in the pastor when the sims going to service arrive.

@Pideli - Ok rap battles are not en vogue with elves but what if we amend 'rap battle' to 'poetry battle' I'm sure elves are into aggressive poetry.

Me neither, but I gave up trying to figure out other people's games a long time ago, I have enough trouble keeping up with my own!

Does someone know what happened to PMBD?

However, regardless of fantasy or not, I do make my sims rap to call attention to themselves when they should fish. Since you can't queue that. It works so :shrug:
But every time I hear it I'm equally confused.

For the most part I use managed groups, so that the minister/pastor/priest is included in the group of Sims who go to church. Otherwise I use a teleporter shrub to summon her. If she's teleported in, it's a good idea to ask her to join the casual group, as she will then stay in church as long as her motives are OK. Yesterday, at the double wedding that you may have heard about, when I failed to make her a member of the group, she left at the end of her short sermon, and I had to summon her back for the ceremony. (When I say "short sermon", I mean "short" by her standards -- she preached for about an hour!)

Of course in some churches, especially more traditional ones, "she" might be "he", but my experience is of St. Simeon's Parish Church in Veronaville, where the Rector, the Rev. Elspeth Anderson, is very definitely a "she"!

@jotaerre
Don't know. It was fine a few days ago and since yesterday I can't get to it.
I hope it's just temporary. PMBD is known for being on and off.

Stupid question, but what's PMBD?

I asked Google, and it came up with: Paysites Must Be Destroyed.
Is Google wrong or right? :P

Phorum is still up, they have a thread about this but not too informative.

I think I heard somewhere that Paysites Must Be Destroyed does this thing where it randomly switches domains, so it's better to google it and find the working link every time than to bookmark it.

Question: if I download a lot that has lots of CC in it, then only install the lot and not the CC with the clean installer, would it cause the game to crash if I placed that lot and tried to go into it to edit it? Or is that caused by something else?

Yes. It will crash - especially if the CC is stairs, terrain paint, or mesh/objects - if it's just recolors, or wallpaper/floors, then you're probably fine.
What I do is install all the CC into a temp file. Enter the lot, manually delete the CC from the house/lot. Then delete the temp folder of CC.
Good luck!

I don't really have religions so much, but I do have a church. My clergy lives on the lot in something like a rectory, I guess, and the chapel/church/whatever is there, too. I probably locked the door to the residence, but not sure I remember that right. I use simlogical's meeting controller that I turned into a ceiling fan so that it fits the building nicely and all the congregation will be summoned at once when the meeting starts (members were chosen for story and rather randomly from passersby who seemed interested in the clergy's sermon/lecture). I use Need Freak that I've fit into the landscaping set to keep sims a little uncomfortable and a little low on fun/social so that they autonomously sit and listen to the sermon/lecture indefinitely. I use one of the lecterns/mics from Sophie-David's Opportunity Pack that I modified to cut out the constant stream of notifications so that it looks more natural. It all works quite well.

When I first built this, I did plan to have it be a community lot, but for some reason, I had trouble with the lectern working on community lots. Probably user error, but this is what I ended up with.

Considering what little I know of my own ancestors' traditions, epic poetry battles would line up nicely with the era when elf-like creatures showed up in the epic poetry.

Thank you for all the Church suggestions. I like the idea of using the meeting controller, but I've already lost track of which religions I assigned to which households! I might do something like that with the Alien Cult, simply because they'll probably meet in someone's home, rather than at a separate building.

Are the offspring of twins also more likely to be twins? What about twins with the Triplets and Quads hack? Brandi, Angela, and Lilith all had natural twins and Lucy had twins induced by the Triplets and Quads random option.

Yes. Twins are more likely to have twins (natural twins without the T&Q hack for sure). Apparently it's some sort of genetic trait that increases their chance, but I'm not sure of the exact details (EDIT: I meant the twin token here, but I have no idea how to look for it in SimPE). I do know that when I had the first set of twins in my game (which took quite a while), and they had kids, the amount of twins increased quite a bit in that family line.



I'm not sure, but I think so (not sure if there's any difference between "natural twins" that pop up without being triggered by the T&Q hack, or twins triggered by the hack. The "single" among triplets may not count as a twin - not entirely sure how the game figures out triplets - but I think quadruplets are 2x twins, so those would probably get the twin trait/gene).

I guess it depends what the game count as natural twins - there's cheesecake twins, ForceTwins (does this cheat still work?), and mods like Insim/SimBlender/etc. that cheats twins before the babies are born and would get any kinds of genetic traits, so I'm guessing any kind of twins would count. Very little is 100% decided about the baby/ies until born (looks/gender is decided at birth), and the number is easily editable up until the sim gives birth if you have the T&Q mod or Insim/SimBlender.

Edit: I haz not memory today - Twin token... Knew it had an actual name. :/ Thanks, Sunbee.

It is possible twins (and quads + the "twins" in a triplet trio, not sure about the singleton) no matter if they're "natural" or "cheated" get a twin token and then have an increased chance of getting twins in the next generation, but I'm not sure.

It would be strange if the game manages to spot the difference between "cheated" and "natural" twins if the token is attached to them at birth (it has to be, since nothing is decided before birth, except birth parents - and even that is somewhat editable). It would seem more normal that the game sees "oh, I'm making twins /(T/Q)" and does all the "Twin screen, make babies and give them twin tokens, naming screens, etc." then "show babies".

I think there is a Twin Token that those who know how to seek can find in SimPE and that increases the chances of natural twins in the game, as opposed to cheesecake, FT Perks, or modded twins. Someone who knows how to recognize it will show up soon. I think Angela and Lilith have it starting, but this is all Sunbee going from memory after staying up for two days making Thanksgiving Dinner then sleeping twelve hours straight. (Yeah, but we have ten people who live at our house: I'm still going to have to actually cook food today. I so am a family sim it's not funny, but I got serve all the things wants filled yesterday, so it's fine.)

I'm gonna end up with a lot of twins in my neighborhood...

Isn't the Twin Token stored in a sim's memories? I think it's an invisible memory in SimPE, much like the I Am Dead token. I could be wrong, though.

Also, the quantity of kids is determined on conception, but it can be edited with Cheesecake and cheats. And I believe the Twin Token increases the chance of twins, it doesn't make them guaranteed. Again, I could be wrong.

Just to update, I found my answer! Screw maxing hobbies. This is much more important.
Show blog update about magical artifacts

Now that is cool!

Not sure if this is appropriate here but, I have a couple of Harry Potter sims ready for upload, I just need descriptions for them and words are hard for me + it's been about 13 years since I read the books
so here's who I have

Angelina Johnson,


Dean Thomas


Lee Jordan


Padma and Pavarti Patil



What would be some good descriptions?

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Game_g...ding_corruption

According to the fandom page of Sims 2 on Avoiding Corruption, one should not "Move a previously occupied/owned lot to the lot bin."

Does this mean what I think it does? I moved a Sim out of a family and into a single house and plan to move him back in with his parents at some point. Does that mean the house he leaves behind must stay in the neighborhood forever without being deleted? Is it ok to move a new family into that same house?

There's an item somewhere on the web you can download, then click on it in the catalogue and it should give you a message saying if the lot is safe to delete. In any case, though, deleting/bulldozing lots should be safe (esp if you do this), it's moving the previously occupied lot into the bin that's bad. (I think. You questioned me and now I'm not sure anymore.)

The item in question is Cyjon's Lot Inspector and it can be found here. You simply enter a lot, click on it in buy mode (Miscellaneous/Miscellaneous), and it should tell you if the lot is safe or not.