It can't be done as a full-Vacation hotel, so technically, that's correct. You won't have memories, the tour guide, the shuttle, etc.

I see my NVL hotels more as places where a Sim can crash for the night, or get away from the stress of work or other Sims at home for a very short time. Or for two Uni students to quietly rendezvous for a quick session, away from the other dormies.

Just be careful with beach hotels. They can be a real pain.

I've built a sort of hideaway for sims who need a break. It was a 1x1 community lot furnished with most of the comforts of home. The visitor adjuster was set to 'block all', allowing only the visiting sims access. A working hotel sounds like a weekend vacation sort of, very nice. (:

I have always had hotels in my main hood - well, technically, since BV first appeared - but since then, always. In my game I find them very useful. So you perhaps cannot go on vacation in your main hood, but you certainly can have a hotel, book in for the night, order room service and swim or play darts or pinball.

I heard that the caged bird's hunger remains to decay even if you pause the game without a mod...

Thanks for the suggestions guys, turns out I had a package file that snuck in somehow. I think it was literally called TestGameVersion or something. I guess it was attached to some other CC I downloaded. All fixed now!

can clothing be removed from a household's clothing options without removing it/them from the game?

the 45-angle rotation cheat, what are all the things it can work on? and which of those can function diagonally?

Never had any beach-related hotel issues.

I think in my case, much of my problem was my inexperience about beach lots in general and what you should and shouldn't do. I initially tried a hotel on a flattened lot ... bad idea. (There is still a line of demarcation on a beach lot, even if it looks flat.) I tried making a hotel while playing around with beach slopes ... bad idea. Freezy and the shuttle notices abounded. And for some reason, I had a whole lot of trouble with beach cottages on foundations. It seemed strange to me. I looked over the layout of one of my prototypes, and honestly, I think it should have worked. I thought I had everything needed for a successful hotel and a non-freezing housekeeper, and was conscious of slope problems. But it failed miserably. When I put all of the cottages on a flat level, it worked much better. Could I have missed a slope issue? Possibly.

Knowing a little more now than when I started (I had built all of two beach houses and one more-elaborate community lot before I tried a beach hotel, and I had a 50% success rate with the beach houses ... this was before I knew about lot flattening and the like), I might try a more elaborate beach hotel sometime in the future. But my basic (and admittedly boxy) one seems to be doing the job, and I'm pleased with that. I would advise anyone trying a beach hotel for the first time to keep it simple and away from the beach slopes. You might be OK using a boardwalk over the slopes. I see some more-elaborate hotels here did that, and they probably work fine. But the housekeeper ... at least mine ... seems picky about slopes.

Oh, okay. I thought you meant incompatibility issues of some kind, like (I think) there are with frat/sororities on beach lots, and from what I've heard (but haven't played myself) apartment lots on beaches.

In a custom hood I made both the frat house and the sorority on beach lots, and had a lot of autonomy issues (starving sims just standing there and such). I read then that frats/sororities didn't work well on beaches.
Though even that I'm not sure of, it's so hard to troubleshoot those autonomy issues because it's a thin line between regular moronic sims choosing to watch TV instead of eating, and genuine issues when something prevents the sim of taking care of his needs.

Do you think that would be possible to run as a sim-owned business as well?

Actually, I have no idea - it can be bought, but how to run it? I guess one could try!

A long time ago when I was searching for a way to run BV-like hotel as a business, I was told it wasn't possible. I don't know if anything has changed since, I would be interested if it has. Maybe there is a mod now, or some other indirect way to force the game otherwise. Mods I'm aware of, only provide a possibility of a certain improvisation of a hotel, allowing Sims to sleep on community lots and charging service.

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I have a stupid question. Not exactly about TS2, but I don't know where to ask, and I'm most comfortable here.

There was a social group I encountered few months ago while I was browsing the forum (not posting anything, just for informative purposes). It was called "Refugees", or something like that, and was consisting of people who were most critical of the current iteration of the Sims, the direction the franchise was heading in, and it's future. I remember some of the people because I've known them from TS3 and TS2 discussions, remember reading them a lot in the past few years. Some time has passed until I finally started visiting this forum again few weeks ago, and now I can't find the group, and it is not in the profiles of those I remember were in it. Like it disappeared without a trace. Does someone here know what happened to it? I'm curious, it was quite entertaining. Also, a crowded one, I believe at least someone here was in it, or knew of it. It can't be that I was hallucinating .

If i played some sims inn apartments and want to move them to other apartments do i move them out via the sim bin in neighbourhoodview or do i have to use a computer?

Apartments are the same as any other household for moving purposes. If moving the whole family, do it from neighborhood view. If moving part of the family, use the computer/newspaper interactions.

thought so! Thanks!

No your sim can't run a hotel, which has been a player complaint since BV came out. Your sim can only buy community lots and vacation houses so your hotel would need to be turned into a community lot and of course then all hotel functions stop.

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another question::
"School Type"/"Grade"/"Career" on the Career tab of a Sim Description resource, which of those options are safe to set for each age of sim?

No you can't remove clothing as far as I am aware, yes it is annoying.

Many things are still usable however I do not have a list. You can use angled chairs, beds, piano (if you don't mind the clipping) I do know you need a mod to be able to watch TV from an angled chair and I know you can't use an angled easel. I placed one at my weddign park and was peeved my sim could not paint. I have no idea about things like sewing machines, pottery wheels etc.

You would just set it for the relevant age. If the sim was the wrong age I guess you would get nothing.

Mootilda made a plug-in for SimPE that's supposed to do exactly that. I saw mention somewhere that Jfade's Wardrobe Wranger could be used to do that too. I haven't tried either of these methods so can't confirm this.

Mootilda's SimPE plug-in is available here:
http://modthesims.info/d/489194

Jfade's old website is archived here, but something's broken because no matter what I clicked on it kept taking me back to the home page instead of letting me try to download stuff. (his old site at forum.jfade.com appears to be long gone)
http://sims.jfade.com/index.php

This appears to be the same Wardrobe Wrangler program.
http://sims-2-wardrobe-wrangler.software.informer.com/

If I recall correctly, Mootilda's plug in wipes the entire wardrobe. I believe she intended to add the option of removing single outfits as well, but she died before that could happen.

Pescado's clothing tool has an option to change a particular outfit. e.g. Everyday But I don't know if it then removes the old outfit from the wardrobe; you'd have to check.

You're right - it says "This SimPE wizard will remove all unused clothing from your family's wardrobe." I don't know why I missed that before.

I use Pescado's clothing tool frequently. If used on everyday wear, for example, it replaces the clothing in the family wardrobe instead of adding the new outfit in addition to the original choice (you'll see the new outfit in the wardrobe but the old one will be gone). If you leave it on the lot, when a sim ages up the clothing tool will offer the option to let you choose an outfit for each category. I stopped doing this because it takes a long time to go through the whole process, especially if you have a lot of CC clothing in your game. I'd rather let the game choose clothes randomly and then only fix what actually needs fixing. For example, I don't have that much underwear in my game, so none of it looks "bad" enough to need replacing.

EDIT - hopefully less confusing explanation.

Good to know you can remove all clothes, even if it removes them all.

I would like to update a bookshelf to have all the study options, can anyone tell me quickly how or know of a tutorial?

The one tutorial link that I found is gone https://sites.google.com/site/sites...ic%2Fftbookcase

There's some information in this thread from Lord Darcy. There's a link in his post to a similar post about AL functions. Haven't done it, so I'm not sure how easy it is to follow. (EDIT: I found this tutorial, also by Lord Darcy, on how to update fridges. It's supposedly more step by step and aimed at people that aren't that comfortable with SimPE-editing, so even though it's the wrong object, it might be helpful to look at it if you get confused)

Haven't forgotten about the tutorial I'm doing for you, by the way, I've just been stupidly busy with life. Still am, but as soon as I find some time and brain power I'll finish it for you.

Thanks RoxEllen, that's good to know. I've always wondered what change outfit really does, but I haven't bothered to look into it.

Thanks, I'll look it over later. Since I am not great at stuff like this I don't know if I can take a fridge and be able to somehow translate that to a bookcase. But who knows, maybe it will all make sense.

That's okay I still don't need it, that's how slowly I play.

New Q. If I save in the middle of the upload wizard but don't finish uploading isn't it possible to go back and finish it? I've looked around and can't find anyway to get to what I saved.