Duine Right click and do 'add to archive'.

So... I've had an interest in corruption lately. I've always had a fascination with glitches, unfinished content, and generally things that aren't meet to happen in games. If I was crazy enough to say, start an isolated 'hood I didn't care about and do everything I'm not supposed to do, would it affect my other neighborhoods? Or will they be fine? The only thing I obviously know not to do is download hidden npc objects and then take them out of the game. Is there anything else that's game corrupting, not just 'hood corrupting?

Lock your objects package files (make sure you get them for each EP) and don't do things with the Universal sims - Grim, Mrs. C, the Hula Zombies, the PT, the Ideal Plantsim, Bigfoot Bigfoot - and your installation should remain intact.

Corruption is primarily caused by missing data, and stray bits of unattached data. They tend to get together, with inappropriate results. Like human code grafting itself onto a pet sim, or adult code grafting itself onto a newborn.

A little bit of it may look amusing, like when a cat sim tries to behave in a human way, if you have a certain kind of sense of humor. But most of it is just annoying, random, and interferes with gameplay. But it's your hood, so if that's how you get your jollies, go for it.

Nope, the first one is about instance ID 1000, the second about 1001. So they are slightly different. These two files have two internal resources in common. so they appear twice in the conflict report.

But it's good that you're careful, dear. You wouldn't want to break your game, if you can help it. :D

Without resorting to CC elements, how do you get Sims to have facial features that you'd find in different ethnic backgrounds? I can do a variety of European faces (easiest, since that's what the game lends itself to most) and African ones aren't too difficult, but honestly, I have yet to create a Sim who I'm satisfied looks "properly" Asian or Native American... any ideas?

When I wanted to make an asian-ish Sim, I googled pictures of asian women, and tried to sort of fish out common traits. Combine all the faces into one face, by taking the median of everything. When I had a general look I liked, I choose a couple of pictures that had some part look like what I aimed for, and did some finishing touched based on those. I don't know if I succeeded, I think it looks asian-ish but I am biased. I uploaded her, so if you want to see what I did you could go check. I used CC wrinkles, because I was going for an elderly woman and it just doesn't look right without wrinkles (and the maxis ones look like dirt streaks), but I have pictures of her as an adult and as elder without the wrinkles.

I once read a Sandman comic where there was supposed to be an old, wise Chinese man, but he did not look Chinese at all. He looked like an old Afro-american with pale skin.

I think the key features are cheek bones and eye sockets. They are different but I'm not sure how. I have tried to make Asian looking sims but they don't look good.

You can clone Ty Bubbler, because he looks Asian. And Xavier I think (the maid in Strangetown), he has the Maxis face template that is supposed to look Asian.

I have gotten some decent Asian looking sims by accident/random using Lionpau's face templates.

Try these:

http://isbrealiomcaife.dreamwidth.org/11526.html

If you like them, thank RedSimmies. He directed me to them on the "Look at this awesome thing I found" thread

You all, Zara said WITHOUT cc.

I have the body shop sliders enabled in CAS, which gives me finer control. I'd suggest you start in bodyshop, since you don't do cc. See if you can get one feature right, then take two sims with one different right feature into a throwaway hood and use the CS pacifier until you get a good combination, make him/her an actual sim, extract, and start working on the next feature. I don't really know, I go with the cc templates.

To my eyes, the EA sim Ajay Loner looks Native American--the local tribes here are Shoshone and Bannock, so if that's what you're looking for, you might start with him as a base.

Are sims immune to disease on community lots?

This is for people who have the full game - can adults play tag with kids in your game? I haven't seen that interaction in years. I'm trying to find out if EA removed it and if so, to figure out a way to get it back.

Alas, no. That's why, in extreme cases, the Drama Acres Health Department not only quarantines certain families, it asks that they refrain from community lot visits. Flu epidemics play holy hell with my playstyle.

Wow, you're right---I remember and loved that interaction from my NL+OFB game, but in my UC game it's just plain missing.

I confirmed it just now with two child siblings living with their adult parents. The children were each best friends with both parents. I figured that ought to do it, because I know tag is an unlockable interaction even between kids, requiring either friends or best friends. But no, the kids (who were also best friends with one another) could only play tag together. Neither the parents nor the kids could initiate tag across the two ages.

Would love to hear if you find out how to get it back! Wonder why it's gone in the first place.

Yes, and the visitors after school and work make it so much worse!

Does the cheat 'Showheadlines on/off' actually work for people? I have tried many times but I still always get thought and speech bubbles coming from my sims. It'd be nice to turn them off for some pics.

Well, I guess something is wrong with my game.
Cole Morand was summoned in my playable school (community lot) which counts 24 students and none of them catch the flu.
I've had sick sims on community lots and I've never have a plague.

ETA an other Q
Can sim buy an object placed on an indoor foundation? The business is owned.

Yes it works, but you do have to wait for the conversation to be over before they disappear.

...So what gives? pardon my question but..when a conversation is over, it is just normal that thought bubbles be over too? The cheat changes what exactly then...

Meaning that when they start to talk again there will be no bubbles.

No they cannot. They will just stand there and do the cannot go there animation. I've tried. :D

"Downtown sort" and "Vacation sort" in catalog placement section of Object Data; on what lot types do those sorts appear?
same categories as the ones on Community lots?
same possible values as in "Community sort" line?

Build Mode catalog same on each lot type it is available on?

The Visitor Controller has an option to ban sick sims, this might help to avoid epidemics. Once they're healthy, they should be able to use the lots again.

I have questions about the log files. From the beginning, or whenever I learned to empty that folder, there have always been the same number of files in it and I thought these were normal. I just looked at them recently and the info is confusing.
One is App Errors the other is Audio Errors, music works fine in the game so I ignored them.

The problem is, and was since the very beginning, I don't hear sound effects, such as walking on different type floorings, chairs moving (do they make sound?), possibly other things I never heard and didn't realize they don't work. I do hear water running, the mailbox opening, cars, school bus, doorbell and some other things. I realized there were more sounds to the game from people mentioning them.

Some examples are Karoake no extensions defined, Buy, Build, CAS, Nhood music listed twice. I don't know what any of this is, or does. Karaoke works. Can anyone read these and tell me what to do?

When I first got UC, Origin mixed up the files along with Sims Life Stories, I did straighten out the downloads, as that's all I knew happened. Also removed Life Stories. I've done searches to be sure LS and PS have no files and can't find any.

...Should I be concerned if my Sim aged up and became invisible upon age-up? Valkryie just aged up into an adult (she just graduated uni), and she's invisible. I can see her picture on the sidebar, I can see her when I go to plan her outfit, but I just can't see her when she's... in game...

I'm tempted to see what happens once I move her out of her dorm into a different lot, but at the same time I'm scared to save in case an easy fix would just be exiting the household without saving.

EDIT: It's also not just Valkryie, apparently. Her sister Aoife is also invisible. But I'm assuming moving them out of their dorm and into a new lot should fix it?

The Batbox has an option to fix invisible sims.I'm not sure which section of the box, you might need testing cheats on to see it. Look under all options without the cheat, then try with it to see if it shows up. Good luck! (: