Do you have fish on the walls? or even in your sim's inventories? He likes fish, and I've noticed the penguin on my fisherman's lot even when it's not winter.

No fish on the walls as far as I know. My Sims don't tend to fish a lot - I don't think any of the lots in this 'hood even have a pond to fish out of, anyways! Maybe he just wanted to stop by and say hello...?

No, not from the lot. Um, no. Definitely not, now that you mention it. Thanks for answering

Nope. That penguin is just weird sometimes. The game doesn't always know what its code is doing.

Penguins can smell fish in inventory too. My sim was fishing at summer when penguin appeared. It walked to my fisherman and walked around him. I took one fish from my sim backpack and put it to ground. Penguin went and ate it. And returned. I was laughing "Do you want more?" and repeated. Penguin ate second fish, mumbled something like thanks and left.

Can sim move from diferent districts... like can i move nina caliente to downtown or to my shopping district?

Yes, moving Nina out will put her in the family bin, and then you can put her in any sub-hood except university.

wont corrupt my game right?

Nope. Your game will be safe doing that.

Thank you both! :D

Amora, the subhoods are part of your main neighborhood - they are dependent on it. You could empty them out, sell all the old businesses, and delete them (except for the final University subhood standing; once you have one of those you must always have at least one) and it wouldn't hurt a thing.

Look at your main menu. All those hoods are separate, complete universes. Everyone inside one can move around freely from one part to another. However, if a sim travels from one universe to another, the process is traumatic - bits and pieces of the sim are left behind, desperately seeking a sim to belong to, and the sim who arrives is not a whole sim, but a weakness in the fabric of space-time who will, however innocently, eventually tear it apart.

The existing subhoods - stealth templates, vacation destinations, universities, downtown, Bluewater and any custom subhoods you've downloaded - are not truly neighborhoods, but templates for neighborhoods. You don't add Bluewater Village; you add a copy of the original, static Bluewater Village, whose denizens are whole and complete but have only just been created when you added the subhood.

I have 2 elder sims, both knowledge, both are lazy (0) and shy (0), yet they're on every single community lot, even before my playables are fully on the lots. They constantly interrupt other sims in activities, dates or whatever they might be doing. I thought shy and lazy sims didn't appear so active and friendly. What determines which sims are more apt to appear anywhere other than their own homes? These 2 sims, I thought, would be great to have for babysitters when other sims go to work. I do have no social workers but having a sitter seems more normal.

Sometimes crashes can be your computer showing signs of being over-worked, and not Sims 2 in itself. Try the things mentioned in this thread over at digital perversion.

You might also want to try running the game on one core, if you have a multi-core processor.

The way to tell is look at your main hood menu and you will see all your main hoods. EG Plesantview, Strangetown, any custom hood that you made. When you load up a main hood you can attach any sub hood to it. So you might have Blue water added to Pleasanview, but you might also have Blue Water added to Strangetown and also to your custom hood. Each time you attach Blue Water you get the same sims and same shops. Your sim can move to Pleasanview main to Pleasantview-Blue water or pleasantview- down town. That is safe because each one is attached to Pleasantview. What they must not do, as peni said, is move universes. So a sim from pleasantview-Blue water must not move to Strangetown-Blue water. Jumping from Pleantview to Strangtown is jumping universes and will corrupt both.

Duine - how many nice points do they have, and how playful are they? I found that my playful Sims are quick to arrive at community lots, even when they are shy or lazy - guess they are just looking for a game to play!

They have 10 neat, so the rest are shared with playful and nice, more nice though. The thing is, they aren't bowling or using any objects on lots, just annoying others like they're starved for attention or want to be the center of attention. This particular lot I've been having a problem with has bowling, darts, chess, video games, books and a snack area. They don't even talk to each other, just interrupt what the other sims are doing. Everyone is busy having fun, while they seem more intent on stopping it. I swear they have ADDH. Do sims have a treatment for this?

When Sims are eating out at a restaurant is there something i need to be doing to be able to order food i've downloaded or is that just not possible? I'm tired of ordering fried chicken, lol.

Thank you. Having the game recognize more memory definitely helped.

I figured out that it was memory related yesterday morning - I finally thought to check the rest of my system when I noticed another program was sluggish. I had updated a number of applications and my OS a couple of weeks ago, and things I had removed from my computer startup were suddenly back; I had more running in the background than needed. I got rid of the clutter, did a bit more to clean up my system, and tried the first thing mentioned on the thread you posted, and my game ran quite well last night. It handled two large university households for two semesters each, with parties, snow, and three visits to the over-crowded secret society lot with barely a hiccough and I left the game running over dinner so it was open for about 7 hours - a big improvement over crashing every hour or so.

So, note to self - next time the game starts crashing all the time don't just assume that it's the new cc shirts or eyes, but take time to do some basic cleanup and maintenance with the rest of the computer system.

I would like to have two (or more) copies of my new hood in at the same time (once I finally get it finished). Is re-numbering a hood (all the files) and changing the name, enough?

Downloaded food would need to be added to the menu and to do that you will need a sim to buy and own the restaurant Easy enough if you make a rich sim that you don't play and have them hire and assign staff to every position, host, chef and waiter.

I'm glad it helped stitching. I hope it continues to run decently I view my PC has a living being, and sometimes it's just grumpy. Those periods, the game will become crash-prone and crash at the smallest provocation, and then one day it runs fine and does not crash at all. I've learned to just roll with it, and keep toe load light when it's being grumpy.

SleepycatDSL, I feel like I've read that you can't copy your hood like that, but I don't recall who said it and why it didn't work.

Sorry to double post, but I have a question of my own. I'm installing Sims on my laptop, and I want to set it up so that my home pc hood works if I ever want to play.

So far I have
- Installed all EPs/SPs
- Patched
- Installed scriptorium + added the CC I use in my main game that requires scriptorium installation
- Installed CEP and SEP
- Installed SimPE
- Replaced default user files with the folder from my main pc

I'm going to wait with installing a light mod, I want to see how much maxis lighting bugs me first. I can't think of what else I might have edited in installation files that I should replicate. Can anyone think of anything else that goes in the installation files?

EDIT: Made installation files read only.

Do you use a userstartup.cheat file? Edited cameras?



Yes, I thought I once read something like that too but then I've seen others tell people to just rename to hood files, which has left me all confused.

Config and camera are both stored in user files (the stuff that goes in documents), and I replaced those with my main pc folder, so all that is automatically fixed.

I could try googling tomorrow to see if I can anything. You could backup your user files (The Sims 2-folder in documents) and then give it a go. Won't help confirm that it works, since it may be something small and slow to notice, but if the problem is something big and obvious it may help confirm that it's a bad idea.

I did google and apparently just re-numbering all the files is enough. I guess I just can't get that old post out of my head. :p