Hacks that you'd like to see!

[sierrakusterbeck]

Yeah I'd really like to have them too... but right now I'd be happy with just the butler! :)
Trust me, butlers aren't something to get all excited over. Mine spends most of his time raking and overwatering the plants, and when he finally decides to go cook for my nearly starving family, he wanders off and sets the kitchen on fire. :faceslap:

[Mootilda]

I'd really like it if there was a way to have my hacks set for one neighborhood, so I can have my Victorian era neighborhood's hacks and then my Belladonna Cove hacks and they won't interfere with each other.The AnyGameStarter is perfect for that. You can have a separate Downloads folder for each neighborhood, if you want.

[JDacapo]

I'd like a hack that takes away the wants for non-knowledge witches to be cured... I mean, make it so they're afraid of becoming witches/warlocks, but once they are transformed, they'd actually enjoy being magical. And perhaps an optional plugin to make their friends and relatives at the very least tolerate their new states. I mean, why would anyone want to give up magical powers and the ability to max all motives without cheats, and without gambling with the energizer when they're below gold aspiration?

Or there could be a spell of tolerance/acceptance, which could be cast on the witch/warlock's self, and friends and relatives would no longer roll cure wants, or it could be cast on other sims so they wouldn't roll those wants. I mean, plantsims, regardless of aspiration, generally don't want to be cured, right? I mean, I've played the Greenman lot a little, and Rose is a family sim, yet she doesn't want to be cured. Why can't witches be the same way?

Also, I think that the memory of becoming an evil witch shouldn't be a bad memory, because after all, Kim Cordial wanted to be a witch... why should she regret it? And why should knowledge sims regret becoming werewolves? It should be a good memory, despite the pain, because childbirth in the game is always a good memory, even if a sim fears it, and childbirth is very painful!

[vhanster]

Would like more sliders for the Body shop- especially the eyes.

[minpinz]

okay we're all posting hacks we'd like to see so is there anyone who is actually working on any of them?

[Mootilda]

okay we're all posting hacks we'd like to see so is there anyone who is actually working on any of them?No. Basically, this is just a wish list.

[sushigal007]

A mod that makes the pet obedience trainer actually do their job. I've searched and it appears to be a common problem, but I can't find a fix for it. Oh, and one that stops the nanny from trying to walk out because there's no children when you ask her to petsit while your sims go on holiday. I always have to use moveobjects on and move her somewhere inaccessible while my sims run for the airport shuttle!

[Macaroodle]

sierra- do you have this mod (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/347) by Cyjon? It makes the butlers cook for your family once someone's hunger level drops to about half. I love it!

Speaking of butlers, I'd love a hack where your sim could ask your butler to prepare a specific food. I've had them serve Big Macs to my very posh families, not to mention macaroni and cheese.

I'd also like a hack that would enable kids and teens to birdwatch. Sure, some kids might find it boring, but it'd be nice to have them enjoy a nature-related activity that doesn't result in swarms of bees (bug collecting) or being crushed by satellites (watching clouds).

Also, about hikes... it'd be nice to have a mod that would keep your sims from being attacked by bees when they return. It's just so stupid.

This is sort of beyond what any mod could do, probably, but I'd like for the game to tell me why my game just crashed/why my sims just jumped out of whatever they were doing. In plain English. I've got a few sims whose inventories, when I go into them, crash the game. I'm up to three of them now, and I've got the jump bug running around in my retro hood. I want to get to the bottom of this, but I just haven't been up to it lately. :-S

It'd also be nice to have more icons for custom novels. By that I mean more covers and more subjects. IIRC there's no birth icon, wedding icon, etc. But what they do have is an icon for soup. :rolleyes:

Someone posted a while back about enabling kids to cook, didn't they? Some time ago on Simbology I got a mod called "Kids Can Cook" that works great. I can't find it there anymore, but apparently it was made by MadCat256. I imagine you could PM him/her and ask about it. :)

P.S: Ooh- found some hacks that I might try once my game's stable again... "fewer bee swarms" and "teen birdwatch fix" here (http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=inteen/misc/&sort=date&order=desc). Yay!

[Peni Griffin]

Kids and teens can get nature enthusiasm from gardening and fishing; but yeah, it sucks that they can't do more on their own. If they can take the dog for a walk they can hike, for crying out loud. And birdwatching is a great activity for real kids.

[Bellasaurus]

Also, about hikes... it'd be nice to have a mod that would keep your sims from being attacked by bees when they return. It's just so stupid.

P.S: Ooh- found some hacks that I might try once my game's stable again... "fewer bee swarms" and "teen birdwatch fix" here (http://www.simbology.com/mods/index.php?dir=inteen/misc/&sort=date&order=desc). Yay!

I always queue up something for my sims to do when they return from hiking - the majority of the time the "Be Chased By Bees" action ends up at the end of the queue so I can just cancel it. Occaisionally it queuestomps, but not often enough to be annoying.

[JDacapo]

And of course, a mod that will fix 'sim got abducted/met aliens' memories for when the abduction is the result of the sim using any of the science enthusiasm perks or the 'summon aliens' interaction. For some reason, there is some kinda bug which keeps other sims that person knows from getting that memory unless the abduction happens when the sim is just stargazing.

[lg135]

If they can take the dog for a walk they can hike, for crying out loud.

My guess is that the kids are suppose to be walking the dog just around the neighborhood (which really isn't the case; I've seen a sim child from Belladonna walking the cat over in Bluewater!) whilst hiking is usually in a forest or mountain-y area, which wouldn't seem very safe without an adult -- even though I did it myself as a kid. My defense - less crazies back then. But in the sims, there aren't ANY crazies so really, it's just like a sim child can use dangerous cleaning products to clean the tub, but can't use the microwave.

[JDacapo]

Something that would give some of the evil witches a tad bit of niceness(like two or three points tops) and more balanced personalities, and possibly make them neater - evil doesn't mean sloppy or completely mean. I mean, I even made Nervous Subject a good warlock, and his genetic personality(which I reverted him to before he got engaged and married) gives him two nice points which ain't half bad, though it doesn't prevent him from going around to steal newspapers from time to time - hell, even his daughter, Miranda, does that.

And make popularity sims WANT to become witches, vampires and werewolves, and FEAR getting cured. I mean, come on - hasn't EAxis seen the Twilight craze or all the fluffbunnies running around getting into the Pagan religion just because it's cool?

[PolterGeist44]

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/3/7/9/0/3/9/7/MTS_PolterGeist44-1279992-snapshot_7c6b228b_1c6b2488.jpg
There should be a mod that stops sims from doing the above thing all the time. It annoys me when they keep doing that repeatedly and never stop unless you give them something to do.

[Gcgb53191]

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/3/7/9/0/3/9/7/MTS_PolterGeist44-1279992-snapshot_7c6b228b_1c6b2488.jpg
There should be a mod that stops sims from doing the above thing all the time. It annoys me when they keep doing that repeatedly and never stop unless you give them something to do.

Erm... what is she doing exactly?

[PolterGeist44]

No idea what is she doing actually. That sim just keeps staring into the sky, saying something and then repeating the whole thing.

[Mrmo]

No idea what is she doing actually. That sim just keeps staring into the sky, saying something and then repeating the whole thing.

If she repeat the action over and over there must be something wrong. I'm no expert but I do not think that it supposed to be that way. All sims perform small gestures every now and then but they do not have tha habit of repeating them. I nerver experienced anything like that anyway.

[Darby]

No idea what is she doing actually. That sim just keeps staring into the sky, saying something and then repeating the whole thing.

That's the "See what a good little witch I am?" thing that good witches do. It's particularly silly looking when male witches do it. There IS a hack somewhere to stop it, but I haven't had breakfast or coffee yet, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

eta: Found one more quickly than I expected to. Here you go: http://www.modthesims.info/d/299567

[Gcgb53191]

That's the "See what a good little witch I am?" thing that good witches do. It's particularly silly looking when male witches do it. There IS a hack somewhere to stop it, but I haven't had breakfast or coffee yet, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

eta: Found one more quickly than I expected to. Here you go: http://www.modthesims.info/d/299567

Oooooh Ive never played with witches so I wouldnt know. :)

[Bodhie]

so a wish list huh ? :)
Personally my wish would be that Sims stop referring to others branch family as Sims but more personal . Like This Sims is my kid , This Sims is my husband/wife . Instead we get 'I know this sims for quiet a while , we have our up and down' (and she gave IT birth ) .
Well I would love to mow the grass LOL I know there are hack that can add object (that are inanimated of course) , but I'm thinking about actually mowing for real that large lot you got . And taking care of the snow in winter !
I would love to see a hack that respawn NPC . Well I dunno if such thing was made , but when I played AL , first thing I did was to court the witch (there was only 1) . Then I went to the hideout , only to find it empty..........
I wish there was a UNi for witch , lycanthrope and Vampires . (witches could learn spells or how to be evil/good/neutral . Lycanthrope could learn to talk to animal say if you have the Pet exp , and Vampire could hang out with rich/arrogant sims , or something though for some reason saying that gave me flashback of the 1st blade movie where there were rich snob old vampires lol) .
I know that spawning more NPC would make the game lagggggg , but for now I just stopped going on others lot cose it is empty . I love OFB exp the most! and when I go shopping...everything is empty (I mean the shop) . If I go to the hobbie lot , there is none else......
In Uni if you go to spot where student hang out , there is none . Making the artist trying to sing for a few bucks sit there waiting forever . (still waiting for bucks) .
I'm not asking to spawn 100 NPC in a lot , just more then 1 say 4 or 5 would do . Like 4 or 5 more witches in the hideout make it like it was worth it to sleep with the Witch headmistress XD
And I would also love to see stuff break :) I mean ,who never broke something ?
We get trash....and bee and others things but no breaking . Who never broke a vase playing inside ? or a cup , slipping from your finger because you were sleepy ? or kid throwing tantrum and breaking something..like toys ?

[Peni Griffin]

I don't know why you're not getting people on your lots - I go to community lots, and they fill up rapidly. Some of them have certain times of day that they're more lively at. Not much point at going to Crypt-o-Night at 7 in the morning, after all. But you shouldn't need a hack for that.

I want something to keep my kids and teens from bringing tourists (who have no phones) home from school when there's scads of playables available in the right age group. Even townies are better than tourists - and I've often enough wished to send them to the ends of the earths. Just yesterday Strangetown David Ottomas, brand new in town and with no fewer than five unmet playable teens to choose from, came home with a townie. Save the dang townies, who in Strangetown have to either live on-base or out on ranches because there's no other place to put them, till after he's met all his near neighbors that ride the same schoolbus!

[Bodhie]

I don't know why you're not getting people on your lots - I go to community lots, and they fill up rapidly. Some of them have certain times of day that they're more lively at. Not much point at going to Crypt-o-Night at 7 in the morning, after all. But you shouldn't need a hack for that.

I want something to keep my kids and teens from bringing tourists (who have no phones) home from school when there's scads of playables available in the right age group. Even townies are better than tourists - and I've often enough wished to send them to the ends of the earths. Just yesterday Strangetown David Ottomas, brand new in town and with no fewer than five unmet playable teens to choose from, came home with a townie. Save the dang townies, who in Strangetown have to either live on-base or out on ranches because there's no other place to put them, till after he's met all his near neighbors that ride the same schoolbus!

Well maybe (and it is a guess) I don't have many npc because my computer isn't strong enough to handle that many ?
But then if it was , I wouldn't have like 6 or 8 shopper on my own lot (and I do, so I'm doubting if it is cpu related or not) .

Two Jeff has a visitor controller : http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=17.0
Maybe it will help ban those kids ? :lol:

[PolterGeist44]

A hack that completely makes every sim immune to disease, flu and any other sickness (except morning sickness.)
Main reason to this is that my sims won't stop sneezing and after my sims have taken medicine from the simsanto gadget or eaten Grandma's Comfort Soup, my sims get flu again after few minutes X_X
EDIT: Nevermind, it was the allergies, found a fix.

Now I wish there was a mod that makes some townies have romances with other townies. Would definitely like to see something like that.
(Aaugh, my keyboard is being a jerk today)

[punkrockgoth1988]

A Mod that makes the Apartment Life skills take longer like the mod by lientebollemeis for the Realistic Ages Project. Apparently the only skills that weren't changed were the skills from Apartment Life: Lifelong Happiness, Couples Counseling, etc.

I'm quite enthusiastic about giving my Sims longer lives!

[Gcgb53191]

A hack that completely makes every sim immune to disease, flu and any other sickness (except morning sickness.)
Main reason to this is that my sims won't stop sneezing and after my sims have taken medicine from the simsanto gadget or eaten Grandma's Comfort Soup, my sims get flu again after few minutes X_X
EDIT: Nevermind, it was the allergies, found a fix.

Now I wish there was a mod that makes some townies have romances with other townies. Would definitely like to see something like that.
(Aaugh, my keyboard is being a jerk today)

Sims get allergies ? :blink:

[maybesomethingdunno]

Sims get allergies ? :blink:

Yes, in Spring time (if you have the Seasons EP installed).

[Gcgb53191]

Wow how did I never notice that when I used to have it installed lol

[PolterGeist44]

Apparently, well, something like that was said in one thread where someone was wondering why his sims kept sneezing in spring.

[Mrmo]

I have experienced the issue too. Suddenly some sims just sneez "whitout reason". First I did think that the sim had a cold or anything like that but I did not get any message about it and the sims did not get sick. Maybe it's a allergie.

[Cyjon]

What's really funny/stupid/annoying about allergies is that robots can get them. I had one house where I heard sneezing in the spring even when nobody was home, and I finally realized it was the hydrobot. I'm testing a fix for that now.

[sushigal007]

Oh yeah, my cleanbot almost drove me up the wall with its sneezing. But I figure it's probably got dust up its nose, so I'll let it carry on sneezing.

[Darby]

Wait... not just SERVOS (which is silly enough), but hydrobots and cleanbots get "allergies"??? Oh lord. :faceslap:

[omglo]

Now that I have a mod that lets Sims cruise in their car indefinitely, I'd like a mod that lets a Sim take another Sim along for the cruise, to make it possible to keep more than one Sim off a lot at a time without having to own more than one car.

[sushigal007]

Now that I have a mod that lets Sims cruise in their car indefinitely, I'd like a mod that lets a Sim take another Sim along for the cruise, to make it possible to keep more than one Sim off a lot at a time without having to own more than one car.

Ooooh, and maybe if the two sims are capable of having babies, have a chance of one of them coming back pregnant. XD A cruise out to Lovers Lane!

[lg135]

Now that I have a mod that lets Sims cruise in their car indefinitely, I'd like a mod that lets a Sim take another Sim along for the cruise, to make it possible to keep more than one Sim off a lot at a time without having to own more than one car.

It would definitely make my "parents away for the weekend" stories a lot more simpler. Out of curiosity, which mod are you talking about now?

[Sunbee]

A hack that completely makes every sim immune to disease, flu and any other sickness (except morning sickness.)
Main reason to this is that my sims won't stop sneezing and after my sims have taken medicine from the simsanto gadget or eaten Grandma's Comfort Soup, my sims get flu again after few minutes X_X
EDIT: Nevermind, it was the allergies, found a fix.

Now I wish there was a mod that makes some townies have romances with other townies. Would definitely like to see something like that.
(Aaugh, my keyboard is being a jerk today)
That would be ACR. Have it set the hood's gender preferences, set autonomy to on, and then hang out on community lots and watch the drama.

[PolterGeist44]

Something that stops Sims from whining when they're directed to clean up or watching TV because they'd rather not clean or read a book instead would be cool.

[kristie91]

I would like to see a no intro type mod. I want to just skip the intro imediately without waiting to click to skip it myself.

[Sunbee]

The intro video? There are instructions how to delete it somewhere on MATY. I think it was a pretty straightforward procedure, but it's been a good long time since I did it.

[Mootilda]

I would like to see a no intro type mod. I want to just skip the intro imediately without waiting to click to skip it myself.Just rename the movies in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Movies and all of your other EPs.

[Cyjon]

Something that stops Sims from whining when they're directed to clean up or watching TV because they'd rather not clean or read a book instead would be cool.
No Command Reaction (http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/219)

[Macaroodle]

It would definitely make my "parents away for the weekend" stories a lot more simpler. I agree- once I had Angela and Lilith throw a Wild Teen Party, and their parents came home from work a few hours in. They had no reaction. "Just keep drinking and making out. Don't mind us." :rolleyes:

[nikel23]

I wish there were a mod that can assign a community lot similar to "lot assignment" in The Sims 3. So, a community lot that's supposed to be a library can be set as a library, or gym as a gym, and some other options e.g. pool, hangout, art gallery, sports park, arcade, etc. This mod will tune every Sim's autonomous reaction and what they prefer to do at their free will. For example, Sims will autonomously start gaming competition in arcades, do exercises in gyms, perform with mic in hangouts, and so on. That'd be great!

[omglo]

It would definitely make my "parents away for the weekend" stories a lot more simpler. Out of curiosity, which mod are you talking about now?

http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,8887.0.html

[kristie91]

I was able to get rid of the intro movie but the ea logo that comes up before that doesn't want to go away. Perhaps it can't.
For the intro movie I only changed the base game one and it disappeared.
Thanks though!

[sushigal007]

http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,8887.0.html

Thank you for this! Hmm... but while I'm on this thread, I wish the drive ended randomly, not when you choose to cancel it. It would be fun to have a cheating spouse invite over their lover and not know if the other partner would catch them.

[Liv Lukas]

I was able to get rid of the intro movie but the ea logo that comes up before that doesn't want to go away. Perhaps it can't.
For the intro movie I only changed the base game one and it disappeared.
Thanks though!

It can be deleted. Search C:\Program Files\EA GAMES for: ealogo_audio and intro_eng_audio and delete or rename.

I've just deleted them all.

[katya_stevens]

Thank you for this! Hmm... but while I'm on this thread, I wish the drive ended randomly, not when you choose to cancel it. It would be fun to have a cheating spouse invite over their lover and not know if the other partner would catch them.

You could always implement a coin flip (http://www.random.org/coins/?num=1&cur=60-usd.0100c-anthony) once every set span (15/20/30 mins, 1/2 hours etc.). Heads they come home, tails they stay out for a bit longer.

[larky]

I want something that'll allow sims to walk over and stand on hobby magazines, and something that'll stop them dropping the magazines on countertops.

[vhanster]

Wishing that there's a No Intro mod for Sims 2...

[Gcgb53191]

Wishing that there's a No Intro mod for Sims 2...

They just mentioned how to remove the intro video a couple posts above yours lol ;)

[Fivey]

A hack where grilled cheese sims...
...can only autonomously make grilled cheese sandwiches.

For that matter, a hack that allows you to restrict the food menus of certain sims, so your jewish sims aren't autonomously making pork chops/lobster thermidor or your vegetarian sims aren't eating hamburgers.

[MimiSim]

I wish there was a hack for people living in uni subhoods to be able to adopt kids. I have a small section of my uni subhood for adult professors to live in. Yesterday one of the professors rolled a want to adopt. I hope one day a hack will make this possible.

[CocoMouse]

This sounds bad but, I want a hack that lets sims autonomously kill each other :anime: I know there are cc guns and swords that let them kill each other, but not autonomously, as far as I know...?
I want this because I'm obsessed with The Hunger Games right now and I wanted to do a sim Hunger Games and watch them all kill each other. Yeah I'm evil :giggler:

[JDacapo]

How about a hack that would completely delete all fragments of a sim that's been deleted with the trash can, which would perhaps keep that from contributing to the BFBVFS which deleting sims would otherwise cause? That way, Sims 2 would be more idiot-resistant. I should know. I did stupid things like that. I mean, if there's a hack to keep grand vampires from biting Mrs. Crumplebottom, there should be one to clean up the fragments left behind by deleted sims.

And we need a hack that will disable nightlife-introduced flirting with NPCs that were not meant to be added to the player's family. It would be quite nice to make it so you can't flirt with NPCs such as the witchdoctor, because adding the witchdoctor to a family will bork a neighbourhood.

Also, a hack that would allow Mrs. Crumplebottom to appear, but will auto-cancel any interactions with her, so she won't be able to follow through on any purse-beatings.

[M.M.A.A.]

How about a hack that would completely delete all fragments of a sim that's been deleted with the trash can, which would perhaps keep that from contributing to the BFBVFS which deleting sims would otherwise cause? That way, Sims 2 would be more idiot-resistant. I should know. I did stupid things like that. I mean, if there's a hack to keep grand vampires from biting Mrs. Crumplebottom, there should be one to clean up the fragments left behind by deleted sims.

Also, one that prepares sims for moving between neighborhoods.

[larky]

I want an interaction that'll turn sims who are in love but not formally committed back into just-friends, with some harm done to the friendship, but with less drama than breakup-via-jealousy or breakup-via-fighting.

[Mootilda]

Also, one that prepares sims for moving between neighborhoods.I wonder whether Pescado's "prep for delete" would be adequate for this?

[Gcgb53191]

I want an interaction that'll turn sims who are in love but not formally committed back into just-friends, with some harm done to the friendship, but with less drama than breakup-via-jealousy or breakup-via-fighting.

Yeah sort of how they have 'Fire' & 'Lay off' in OFB.

There could be a 'lets just be friends' option instead of having to go through so much drama just to make them not have a crush on them anymore and possibly have them be mad at me lol

[kristie91]

I would like to see more diseases or illnesses perhaps more realistic ones but I posted this on another forum and they said it would be impossible... so shrug.

Also maybe some type of item that would allow you to choose the menu for a restaurant on a lot that isn't owned by one your sims.

[sushigal007]

Yeah sort of how they have 'Fire' & 'Lay off' in OFB.

There could be a 'lets just be friends' option instead of having to go through so much drama just to make them not have a crush on them anymore and possibly have them be mad at me lol

ACR - Friend Zone. :)

[Gcgb53191]

ACR - Friend Zone. :)

Does putting them in the friend zone after they had a fling or so take away the crush symbol?

[sushigal007]

I can't recall, I've only used it once, but I'm pretty sure it did. I had two sims I'd extracted from another game. Originally they were siblings, then I put them in separate apartments, played another sim and caught them making out because I hadn't bother adding back the family ties. Friend zoned them at once! The good thing is, you only need to do it to one of them, the other one will automatically friend zone them back.

[JDacapo]

How about a hack that makes any cure memory bad, regardless of a sim's aspiration. For example: "Was cured of witchery - I just wanted to be normal, but I shouldn't have been so shortsighted and thrown away this special gift. Maybe I should try to get these powers back..."

Or "[Sim] was cured of witchery - I really wanted [him/her] to be normal like me, but now I realize how selfish and self-centered I was. [He/She] is so upset now, and it's all because sims like myself can't mind our own business."

Edit: Hmm... my test subject Lyta Alexander(Fortune/popularity) seems to be accepting her fate quite well. I may need to do more tests in this neighbourhood. Perhaps even with a Sims 2 version of Claire Ursine.

And I have another idea: the "Grant Me The Serenity Book". It would basically look like a book on an end table, and for a few hundred aspiration points, you can have it cycle out a want or fear with no gains or penalties. You could use it to make a pregnant family sim not fear having a baby, or use it to curb the wants for ten kids, or for friends or relatives to be cured of their life states when it isn't even that sim's business.

The way it would work is, you click on it and it makes a pie menu with a number of wants and fears, corresponding to how many slots of each type your sim has. If your sim has four want slots, then there will be four menu items for wants, and each would be numbered. Click on the number you want to be cycled out, and the game would treat it as though you ctrl-clicked on the want or fear, though it wouldn't give your sim any points, or raise or lower the aspiration bar.

I'm proposing this because I've noticed that when I cycled out this one girl's fear of becoming a witch, she didn't roll it again - same for when I did that to her want to be cured. Though I might do some other experiments, like locking the cure wants and then using a hack to switch all the playables to Knowledge. Perhaps that will condition them to believe that being cured is bad, and to fear it.

[bb18]

I wish there was a hack that allows teen sims to write college entry essays on the computer. And that they would need to have a certain amount of practice writing essays until the skill was high enough to send the essay to the admissions office. This would give me something to do with my teens sims in their school computer lab.
Also I really wish sims could hold hands/lock arms and walk at the same time! This would be perfect for weddings and dates, etc.

[JDacapo]

I wish there was a hack that allows teen sims to write college entry essays on the computer. And that they would need to have a certain amount of practice writing essays until the skill was high enough to send the essay to the admissions office. This would give me something to do with my teens sims in their school computer lab.
Also I really wish sims could hold hands/lock arms and walk at the same time! This would be perfect for weddings and dates, etc.

Oh hell yeah! And if a non-knowledge sim has a turn on for the paranormal, he/she should WANT to become that creature in the turn-ons list.

[Gcgb53191]

I wish there was a hack that allows teen sims to write college entry essays on the computer. And that they would need to have a certain amount of practice writing essays until the skill was high enough to send the essay to the admissions office. This would give me something to do with my teens sims in their school computer lab.
Also I really wish sims could hold hands/lock arms and walk at the same time! This would be perfect for weddings and dates, etc.

Cant they just write a novel and you can pretend they're doing that since it can take a while for it to be finished. :)

[JDacapo]

Some other ideas for the want tree modifications... like having wants based more on interests and turn-ons, like for example, a Grilled Cheese sim who is turned on by fatness will have a want to become fat, because I think in real life, those who think fat is attractive won't be obsessed with becoming fit, or fear becoming fat. Those who are interested in the paranormal or sci-fi may roll wants to get abducted, regardless of aspiration, though they will still have a bad memory upon return. They will likely also have wants to turn into supernatural creatures even if they aren't Knowledge sims, especially if their turn-ons include something like witchiness or vampirism. And if they have a turn-on for zombies, then they would want to become one. A Knowledge sim with zombieism as a turn-off will likely not roll wants to become one, but probably won't fear becoming a zombie either.

Sims with high interest in animals and paranormal will want to see wolves regardless of aspiration, or at least roll fewer fears of seeing wolves. I mean, I would like to see a wolf in real life, though maybe not get too close to it unless it's at a zoo. I've even cuddled and petted some cute leopard and lion cubs at a petting-zoo before - they are darling! Also, a cousin of mine used to have a dog that was a wolf-hybrid, and she was safe - never bit anyone.

And with paranormal sims, I think that those who have changed should not roll wants to be cured, at least not often, especially after getting used to their new life states. Perhaps there should even be a new want - the want to accept the creature state of one's self, friend or family member. It just seems so rude and intolerant for someone to want someone to be cured and be afraid of becoming a different creature - it's that person's own business! And nothing bad happens when becoming a good witch - you can do neat things and make butterflies appear. If sims can accept homosexuals and bisexuals, why are they so averse to witches and other different life states?

With witches and vampires, and possibly werewolves, they seem more romantic than knowledge-oriented to me. Just wish I could find some way to edit the want-tree files properly :(

[Frostwyrm]

I'd love to see a hack preventing visits from the SimBin.

[JDacapo]

I'd love to see a hack preventing visits from the SimBin.

Hell yeah I was wondering why in my custom hoods I would see this pregnant townie - wish EAxis wouldn't make binned pregnant sims because they bork the game and besides Dora Ottomas is ugly ><

Samantha looks okay but ugh why did they have her in the BIN instead of in Riverblossom hills - preferably in one of the houses? Dude, if the description of the family says they are settling in Riverblossom Hills then FRIKKIN' just put them in RIVERBLOSSOM HILLS not in the Seasons secret neighbourhood!

[Peni Griffin]

I like having the Ottomases to play and it's not her being pregnant per se that breaks the game. If you patch Seasons before you open the neighborhood, the family's fine. But she shouldn't be coming home from work with you, since she's on permanent maternity leave.

And you can always give Dora a makeover. Ugly is as ugly does.

I've never seen anybody in the Family Bin walking around with the townies on community lots. The ones with jobs will come home with your sim in the same job, which can be fixed by making them unemployed in SimPE or some other editing program. There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid bringing the kids and teens home from school, though, which is why I load and play all the families with kids and teens. A new neighborhood generally needs more teens and kids anyway. But it would be nice to have an easy way to selectively bar family bin sims, or choose which ones load, so as to have something between the extremes of loading only empty neighborhoods and having sims you don't ever intend to play cluttering up your families screen and randomly coming home with you.

[JDacapo]

I like having the Ottomases to play and it's not her being pregnant per se that breaks the game. If you patch Seasons before you open the neighborhood, the family's fine. But she shouldn't be coming home from work with you, since she's on permanent maternity leave.

And you can always give Dora a makeover. Ugly is as ugly does.

I've never seen anybody in the Family Bin walking around with the townies on community lots. The ones with jobs will come home with your sim in the same job, which can be fixed by making them unemployed in SimPE or some other editing program. There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid bringing the kids and teens home from school, though, which is why I load and play all the families with kids and teens. A new neighborhood generally needs more teens and kids anyway. But it would be nice to have an easy way to selectively bar family bin sims, or choose which ones load, so as to have something between the extremes of loading only empty neighborhoods and having sims you don't ever intend to play cluttering up your families screen and randomly coming home with you.

Samantha actually would come home from work with my characters if they shared the same job as she did... though of course it might have been the kitten-killer doing something to the game. Yeah, I might just give Dora a makeover, and even some elixir of life so she will have some time before her death to see her sixth grandchild. I may like making grown male sims cry from being abducted, but I'm not totally heartless(which is why I wanted to find a way to edit the want trees and avoid sending any witch-sensitized non-knowledge sims into aspiration failure. But eh... it seems like I do need to remind them of their place.

Anyways I just don't want to have an elder sim die badly under my care. Part of me would even be sad if that sim were someone mean like Loki or Circe Beaker, or Olive Specter.

[Darby]

Samantha Ottomas coming home from work is normal. Easy enough to fix, in-game. Just put the family on a lot and have her quit her job. (Randy too, if desired.)

As for kids/teens visiting after school, check out TwoJeffs School Bus/Bring Friend hacks here: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=15.0 Very handy!

[JDacapo]

Samantha Ottomas coming home from work is normal. Easy enough to fix, in-game. Just put the family on a lot and have her quit her job. (Randy too, if desired.)

As for kids/teens visiting after school, check out TwoJeffs School Bus/Bring Friend hacks here: http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=15.0 Very handy!

Heheh might do that, thanks! Or I might even just punk them and turn all the Ottomas family members teen and above into witches. Then, Samantha will be able to recharge, make some thrones of light and have everyone who is able to use them live without having to eat or sleep! Might cause some aspiration failure but I might try to see if I can get Dora to earn enough aspiration points for some elixir of life. Either that or I might have someone give one of the other Ottomas' a cowplant as a gift, and have some unsuspecting grouchy townie get munched(but none of the lost Tricou teens).

[Orilon]

It always confused me why Samantha would come home almost all the time with my Sims in the Education career, since she is in the showing part of pregnancy and should be on maternity leave. (I think the ACR pregnancy scanner said 30 or 33 hours.)

I found a Mod at MATY for working adults that works the same as TwoJeff's School Bus Hack

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=26505401ae0f5ab335498576eee9e6d9&topic=8130.0

[bb18]

Cant they just write a novel and you can pretend they're doing that since it can take a while for it to be finished. :)

I thought of that, but the teens don't have the write novel option. :(

[sushigal007]

I thought of that, but the teens don't have the write novel option. :(

Something to add to the wish list then!
ETA: Although if a modder were to make it possible for teens to write novels, perhaps they could alter the pie text to read 'write coursework' or something instead.

[Mootilda]

I'm pretty sure that I've seen a mod to allow teens to write novels.

[maybesomethingdunno]

MogHughson's "Become an author ... without a computer" mod (here at MTS) says it's for Child and older.

[Peni Griffin]

This is way outside the mechanics of the game, but is in the category of "wouldn't it be cool to live in the moon" -

If only you could flag specific outfits or hairs (realistically, this'd have to be the meshes) with approval/disapproval codes. So that when I had Lilith get a rainbow mohawk today, instead of cheerily waving good-by as she got on the schoolbus Daniel and Mary Sue could have cows right there on the front lawn. Other teens, however, would tend to cheer and high five her.

Or maybe instead of age it could be tied to something like playful or neat points...

Yeah, I know, somebody'll have to do it in a different game sometime.

[sushigal007]

Haha, that would be awesome! I wonder if it could be possible? I know sims being naked sends out a signal that other sims react to, maybe hair and clothes could somehow send out a similar signal.

[JDacapo]

How about randomly generating new townies with various occult traits, like vampire, werewolf, zombie, witch/warlock or plantsim? Same thing for dormies and even the mascots. It'd be funny to have a cow mascot that would have to flee when the sun comes up, or a llama mascot that lurches around 'cause he's a zombie. Or hell, even some zombie or werewolf cheerleaders? And for pete's sake, maybe some townies and dormies with the grilled cheese aspiration! I'd like to see a dormie cheesing out after getting turned into a paranormal creature!

[omglo]

I'd like something that would make Sims sick with the flu or the mysterious disease refuse invitations. Or, even better a menu that says "I am sick. Do you still want me to come?" when you call them.

[fruitsymphony]

A fridge for the restaurant kitchen. When building a restaurant, the stainless steel fridge looked good, especially with 2 or 3 in a row.

However, It must be impossible to open. Otherwise, guests will try and make their own food.

Perhaps, also a basin so waiter can wash their hands, but guests should not come into the kitchen, and shoo everyone because they want to take sponge bath. Sponge bath in teh restaurant kitchen is not a decent behaviour.

update! Have found a no-autonomy-fridge! (http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Eating.htm) :)

[katya_stevens]

You should just be able to click on the door leading in to the kitchen and select "Lock -> Allow household and employees only" to avoid customers wandering in to the kitchen/washing up area.

[sushigal007]

I'd like a hack that allows you to save on community lots. My game is prone to random crashing, so I like to save often. But I've got to the point where I'm nervous about spending longer than ten minutes on community lots because I've had at least three fantastic dates that have crashed and been lost. I know I'd wind up with my sims returning home if I did save and it crashed, but at least I wouldn't lose the relationships and skills and fish they'd got!

[dustingdustin]

A way to make it so I don't see a fire in a different room through the wall. I picked up some of the buyable, no dangerous fire for a medieval lot, but no matter where I am in the castle, I can see the fire glow. Would love a way to be rid of that.

[JDacapo]

A hack that would make witches have the robes, but not the frikkin' hat... especially with the plantsims. I'd like to see their leafy hair without the hat! It wouldn't be so bad if the game wasn't made so you couldn't remove the hat from plantsims.

Oh, and a hack that would randomize the personalities of plantbabies - I don't want to have a bunch of clones that have the same personalities as their parents!

[Gcgb53191]

A hack that would make witches have the robes, but not the frikkin' hat... especially with the plantsims. I'd like to see their leafy hair without the hat! It wouldn't be so bad if the game wasn't made so you couldn't remove the hat from plantsims.

Oh, and a hack that would randomize the personalities of plantbabies - I don't want to have a bunch of clones that have the same personalities as their parents!

You can always randomize it if you have the sim blender. :)

[Sunbee]

Check Cyjon's site for the plantbaby thing, http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/176 I think fixes that, though it also changes the skills inheritance.

[Darby]

A hack that would make witches have the robes, but not the frikkin' hat... especially with the plantsims.

I ran into the persistent witch hat for plantsims problem awhile back myself. SUPER annoying.

Someone pointed me to a couple mods that solved the problem, but I'm not having any luck finding them in all my Downloads folders. So, I'm not much help, but at least I can tell you their IS a solution to this!

ETA: Found it! Squinge's Witch No Change Outfit http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,94514.0.html

ETA2: Actually, I just noticed this doesn't address the want to have the witch outfit sans hat. For that, I suppose one would need a default replacement witch outfit that removes the hat?

[Junezee]

I really wish there was a hack that would allow you to set up what your sims can buy without having to go through getting the lot owned by another sim, hiring employees and setting up the prices. I like to build many diffrent shops so my sims get out of the house more, and having to have a sim set up the lot every business I make is a pain since I never really ever play the owner.

It would also be nice to set a menu without having an owner too. I would like some themed restaurants, but I hate having to go through the process of, making a sim buy a business, hire employees to run it, and set everything up.

[Cyjon]

Check Cyjon's site for the plantbaby thing, http://drupal.cyjon.net/node/176 I think fixes that, though it also changes the skills inheritance.

No, that doesn't randomize the personality. SimBlender is probably the best choice for that.

[JDacapo]

No, that doesn't randomize the personality. SimBlender is probably the best choice for that.

Yeah... I just wish that the programmers would have made the plantbabies' personalities vary, even just by a couple points, instead of being exactly like those of the parents. For me, clones would only be useful for this other idea I have, where I'm thinking of turning Ashley Pitts into a plantsim, and since I have this hack where the pollen cloud prank turns other sims into plantsims, it could make for something like a zombie apocalypse, only it would be much nicer... considering Ashley would probably be one to play pranks a lot.

Also, I would like to see some other diseases that are mainly annoying, like chicken pox - kid gets that disease and gets a couple days off from school.

[lazzybum]

I'd like a hack where sims will autonomously "sit and chat", where they actually go and sit on sofas/chairs and chat with another sim, instead of resorting to "hanging out" on the floor in the most unappropiate-space blocking areas. It should come up when sims are socializing with each other. Kinda like ACR, when sims start flirting, both will head to the bed for you-know-what. Instead, the two sims will head to the sofa together to chat! This makes living rooms more purposeful, or rooms that are just sofas and not much entertainment (like TV). Its weird that they only chat on the sofa if two sims have to coincidentally be sitting first.

[music2ologist]

A hack that would make witches have the robes, but not the frikkin' hat...

Well, I've had no trouble with that. I just send my witch or warlock to the mirror to Change Appearance. Set original hair, and the hat is gone.

[Darby]

Set original hair, and the hat is gone.

That doesn't work for plantsim witches, though, which is part of what JDacao was annoyed with.

[JDacapo]

That doesn't work for plantsim witches, though, which is part of what JDacao was annoyed with.

Might hafta just temporarily use a mod that just keeps the witches from getting their robes at all. Maybe that will help.

Also, I'd love to see a mod that changes the witch memories so that people who know the sim who became a witch will have good memories of the transformation, regardless of aspiration, if the sim became a good witch - sort of the way every sim, not just Knowledge sims, have good memories of that. I'd also like to have it so regardless of aspiration, being cured of witchery or having a friend or family member be cured will give a bad memory. Hey, if becoming a werewolf gives a bad memory even for Knowledge sims, and having a baby or marrying a rich sim gives a good memory to Romance sims, why can't having a friend or family member becoming a good witch generate a good memory even if the sim doesn't have the Knowledge aspiration?

[Fivey]

A door lock mod that has "Allow everyone BUT..."

So I can lock out my toddler from the bathroom, but my waifu can still take her crap.


Also, do brand new meshes for objects we'd like to see count as hacks? If they do...

I like to see a stack of cards introduced into the game. It would be in your inventory, like the handheld game. The autonomy usage would be set low, though.

With it, a sim can play Solitaire, which would raise fun and build the logic skill. They would sit down at a table or desk to do this action, or just sit on the floor.
They would also be able to offer other sims to play card games with them, like Crazy Eights or War. Choosing those two removes the logic building aspects, but would raise both fun and social.

Also, personalities of the players would offer new options. An extremely grouchy (or extremely playful) sim who is playing a multiplayer card game would have the option to click on the cards mid-game and play '52 Card Pick Up'. When selected, they would yell, and push all the cards off the table and onto the floor. They would then laugh and walk off, giving the sim in question a giant fun boost. The victim would then look surprised, then try to calm themselves down. Depending on the personality of the victim, they'll either start picking up the cards or leave them on the floor for the owner of said cards to clean up. This interaction would raise the relationship of the initiator, and lower the relationship of the victim, akin to a noogie. Grouchy sims would do this, because they hate the risk of losing a game, and want to take it out on the opponent. Playful sims would ideally think that card games such as War get boring after a while, and enjoy a change in plans at the opponent's expense.

Now, only if I knew how to mesh/create objects/anything relating to modding.

[Liv Lukas]

Fivey, I use Simlogical's Security System for this. http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Apartments.htm

You can set it to block everyone except - and put in the names of the Sims who are allowed in - up to 4 names. I use it in my master baths that I want only the head of household to get to use. Works well with Pescado's bathroom uses you mod if you have that.

[sushigal007]

Today I discovered the existence of Pandora Sims and their custom spells. One of them is a spell to make it rain money. And then I thought "ooh, you know what would be an AWESOME custom spell?"

It's Raining Men! (Hallelujah!)

And of course, whether you got a good date would depend on how good or evil the witch is.
ETA: And wow, had a look at some more of the site and they're trying to sell Pescado's mods?!? That's gotta take some balls.

[dieKristina]

I would like to see a hack where you could ask the cheerleaders and llama mascots to leave AND NEVER COME BACK. I wish sims could do that to all sims they didn´t want to see on their lot ever again, but those I mentioned are the most annoying IMO, and they always quickly come back regardless of how many times you have asked the to leave.

[Fivey]

I would like to see a hack where you could ask the cheerleaders and llama mascots to leave AND NEVER COME BACK. I wish sims could do that to all sims they didn´t want to see on their lot ever again, but those I mentioned are the most annoying IMO, and they always quickly come back regardless of how many times you have asked the to leave.

For resident housing, the best thing you can really do is put a fence around the house and lock it for household members only. That always deters my traffic.

Dorms? I don't freaking know. Why is half of build mode greyed out anyway?

[dieKristina]

Yeah, I often look the doors/fences for residental lots because of the cheerleaders and llama mascots. Unfortunately that means sims you have invited can´t get in either, so you´ll have to unlock so they can get in, lock again, unlock so they can get out and then finally lock again...

[Orilon]

Today I discovered the existence of Pandora Sims and their custom spells. One of them is a spell to make it rain money. And then I thought "ooh, you know what would be an AWESOME custom spell?"

It's Raining Men! (Hallelujah!)

And of course, whether you got a good date would depend on how good or evil the witch is.
ETA: And wow, had a look at some more of the site and they're trying to sell Pescado's mods?!? That's gotta take some balls.

What site is trying to sell Pescado's mods?

If you mean this: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ that's Pescado's dummy site to confuse noobies. This is the real address http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/ if you forget the /smf/ you get directed to the dummy site.

[Peni Griffin]

Half of build mode is grayed out in dorms for the same reason it is in apartments - the inhabitants don't own the property and aren't allowed to make major changes to it.

Personally I regard the pep squad, coaches, and professors as normal game hazards. My residence-living students soon get into the door-locking habit and it's not that big a deal, and their intrusion is part of the ambiance of life in the Greek or the dorm. Plus, cheerleading for virginity loss is pretty funny.

However, if you really can't meloow out about the cow mascots, you can get rid of them using any number of existing hacks and mods, from the trophy head to the Visitor Controller.

[Darby]

Today I discovered the existence of Pandora Sims and their custom spells.

Ooh, thank you - I have not heard of this before! Gotta check it out!

I would like to see a hack where you could ask the cheerleaders and llama mascots to leave AND NEVER COME BACK.

TwoJeff's Visitor Controller can absolutely do that for you.

[dieKristina]

TwoJeff's Visitor Controller can absolutely do that for you.

I have tried the Visitor Controller before, but for some reason it caused some strange bugs in my game. Perhaps I had some mod that conflicted with the Visitor Controller, I don´t know it was a pretty long time ago. It seams like a really useful mod though, so maybe I will give it another chance and make sure I don´t have any conflicting mods.

[sushigal007]

What site is trying to sell Pescado's mods?

If you mean this: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ that's Pescado's dummy site to confuse noobies. This is the real address http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/ if you forget the /smf/ you get directed to the dummy site.

Noo, Pandora Sims is selling his hacks. He appears to be aware of it though, as this is in the booty directory for that site:

"The super mod patch is a collection of outdated fixes and hacks by Pescado. Pandora has taken these items from MATY (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php) and is now selling them.

Because you can get UPDATED versions for FREE on our sister site, we do NOT host them here.

If you are desperate for the super mod patch from Pandora and don't want to go to MATY for them, then you're too stupid to have them anyway."

If anyone else is going to look at that site, I should probably add that it's a paysite and there is some adult content.

[Orilon]

Ah. I had never heard of Pandora Sims or that super patch mod before. I had always gotten Pescado's Sims 2 mods directly from MATY. I have to agree that is pretty ballsy to try to sell outdated mods.

[Bunnylips]

Three things I think would improve the game...not sure if a hack could do it tho:

Lot surnames should be changeable. I have many generations and have to hunt for my current Sim residents because the lot still shows the surname of the original owner. Hate that!

Should be a way to label paintings. I always have Sims paint pictures of themselves and family to hang in ancestral homes. After a few generations I forget who the portraits depict.

Wish there were recolours of that TV gaming machine...hate that sickly blue-green which sticks out like a sore thumb.

[Peni Griffin]

You can change the lot surnames in SimPE just by typing over it in the family data. There may also be other basic sim editors that let you do the same thing.

If you want recolors, why not learn to do it yourself if a query on WCIF doesn't do it.

[sushigal007]

Wish there were recolours of that TV gaming machine...hate that sickly blue-green which sticks out like a sore thumb.

Recolours like these? (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=25583.180)

[Darby]

I have tried the Visitor Controller before, but for some reason it caused some strange bugs in my game. Perhaps I had some mod that conflicted with the Visitor Controller, I don´t know it was a pretty long time ago. It seams like a really useful mod though, so maybe I will give it another chance and make sure I don´t have any conflicting mods.

Do you have Paladin's (simwardrobe.com) Hack Conflict Detection Utility program? It's not perfect, but is a very useful tool for finding potential hack conflicts.

[DamascaRamza]

I'd want to be able to make NPC Child Sims on apartment lots go to school if the family I'm playing as has kids that need to go to school. That and being able to make parents and kids not socialise or have the parents able to be abusive without any risk of the social worker taking the kid. It's for the story of a family of a single mother with four kids. (She's promiscuous and wants to relive her party days and by parties I mean hooking up with strangers.)

I also want to see a mod that lets kids have crushes on other kids, inTeenimater's dropped off the internet and I don't know anywhere else that has a mod to allow kids to have crushes.

[sushigal007]

I also want to see a mod that lets kids have crushes on other kids, inTeenimater's dropped off the internet and I don't know anywhere else that has a mod to allow kids to have crushes.

Tada!!!! (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=7713.0)

[lg135]

^If there are children, regardless if the family being played has any, they should be going to school. Teens too.

[JDacapo]

An aspiration reward that is based off of the SimVac, but doesn't hurt relationships when used; basically, you click on it and get an option to remove the invisible "sim became [creature]" memories that sims get when someone they know becomes a werewolf, vampire or witch/warlock. It's best to use it on non-knowledge sims, making them tabula rasa when it comes to sims becoming different creatures. They may still have creature-related fears due to gossip, which can be cleared with batbox. Zombie would not be included because even though non-knowledge sims fear making or becoming zombies, when the deed is done, their want slots won't be clogged with cure-wants. Same for alien abductions.

I think a good name for it would be something like "The De-Traumatizer" or "Dr. Orwell's Revisionist Memory-Wiper". I've found that creature-related fears and cure-wants crop up when a sim that a non-knowledge sim knows(and most-likely is good friends with) becomes a paranormal creature. Since modifying the want-trees can be rather hazardous to core game-files unless you know what you're doing, this might be a good compromise and at the very least stop the cure-want spam.

Is there any safe way to edit or delete memories in-game? If so, I would be very interested.

[Sheldrake]

Number one hack/mod on my "wishlist" right now is one that stops Sims from autonomously watching movies. I swear the "Watch movie" interaction on the television is an addiction that most of my Sims suffer D:

- Sheldrake :3

[DamascaRamza]

^If there are children, regardless if the family being played has any, they should be going to school. Teens too.

They aren't though, the ones not being played as on the apartment lot just play in the playground all day. Kind of annoying.

Tada!!!! (http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=7713.0)

Thanks a ton.

[larky]

Is there any safe way to edit or delete memories in-game? If so, I would be very interested.

Dizzy's personhack, among other useful things, adds a pie menu option to sims that allows individual memories to be deleted.

[Peni Griffin]

The program is inconsistent about sending kids in other apartments to school. When the Casa and Iana families lived in the same apartment building, sometimes one family had to wait for the other to get on the bus (and both families were huge) and sometimes the kids in the inactive household were home all day. When Joshua Ruben lived upstairs from his future wife and her son Gerry, the bus almost always came for Gerry.

Whatever causes the inconsistency may also make this a hard hack to crack.

[smorbie1]

idk, my child apartment dwellers always go to school. I wonder whether there's some glitch?

[Mootilda]

Dizzy's personhack, among other useful things, adds a pie menu option to sims that allows individual memories to be deleted.Would you please give a link to this mod? Thanks.

[JDacapo]

Dizzy's personhack, among other useful things, adds a pie menu option to sims that allows individual memories to be deleted.

Would that work with invisible memories though, like 'sim became [creature]?' And where's the download? I would love to try it out, because unlike the tabula rasa spell, this wouldn't throw out the baby with the bath water. I just want to purge 'sim became creature' memories from other non-knowledge sims, whether they're working or not.

[larky]

I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking; Dizzy's apparently left the community, and I can't find it archived anywhere that doesn't require signing up and logging in. Would it be improper to upload a copy to Sendspace or something?

[Darby]

I have most, if not all Dizzy's stuff, including an archive I got from I have no idea where as recently as December. Haven't ever unzipped it.

[DigitalFlamer105]

A Hack that forces your sim to sleep 8 hours like Real Life.

[JDacapo]

I have most, if not all Dizzy's stuff, including an archive I got from I have no idea where as recently as December. Haven't ever unzipped it.

Would you be able to post his hacks somewhere? That would be so awesome! *puppy eyes*

[Bellasaurus]

A mod that allows maxed (musical) Creativity sims to write music for money - instead of just paintings and novels. I have quite a few musical sims who keep rolling wants to Sell a Great Painting/Novel. I get by at the moment by using the Novel manuscript instead of the computer, and just pretend the sims is writing sheet music, but it would be nice if they could do it from the piano.

[Darby]

A zipped archive of Dizzy's hacks, compatible through AL.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2q333fv18u3x7ta
Enjoy! :beer:

ETA: I think that archive contains all Dizzy's AL-compatible hacks, but if there's something specific someone's looking for that's not in there, let me know, because I've got a bunch of his stuff downloaded singly as well, including the personhack mentioned up-thread.

[smorbie1]

A zipped archive of Dizzy's hacks, compatible through AL.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2q333fv18u3x7ta
Enjoy! :beer:

ETA: I think that archive contains all Dizzy's AL-compatible hacks, but if there's something specific someone's looking for that's not in there, let me know, because I've got a bunch of his stuff downloaded singly as well, including the personhack mentioned up-thread.

mmmmmwahhh (blows kisses) :lovestruc Thank you!

[larky]

A zipped archive of Dizzy's hacks, compatible through AL.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2q333fv18u3x7ta
Enjoy! :beer:

ETA: I think that archive contains all Dizzy's AL-compatible hacks, but if there's something specific someone's looking for that's not in there, let me know, because I've got a bunch of his stuff downloaded singly as well, including the personhack mentioned up-thread.

Thanks!

[JDacapo]

A zipped archive of Dizzy's hacks, compatible through AL.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2q333fv18u3x7ta
Enjoy! :beer:

ETA: I think that archive contains all Dizzy's AL-compatible hacks, but if there's something specific someone's looking for that's not in there, let me know, because I've got a bunch of his stuff downloaded singly as well, including the personhack mentioned up-thread.

Aww thank you! Here's hoping it works! Will be testing it out on some people who hate witches, and I might hafta also do that if I turn Antimony Pigeonblood into a vampire.

Also I'm thinking of cowplanting a cow mascot and then resurrecting him or her just a little bit below the 'perfect resurrection' threshold. It'd be pretty nice to have one that becomes very much like Pascal Curious, only much more active. See, the girl cow mascot in my Uni subhood is a Knowledge sim, and extremely playful sims do not make for good knowledge sims since they hate stargazing(even though I have had a few who were like that including Pascal's daughter, Delenn). Plus, there's another cow mascot out there with a family aspiration, and you know what they say about flies and honey. Reversing his personality with a sub-par(but not zombie-cheap) resurrection would make him the perfect hubby, even if he ain't into playing. Hell... he'd then be perfect for the girl cow mascot.

I figure, I'll either reverse her personality or have her buy some neatness and active points and make her into a Circe Beaker with a permanent sugar-rush. As for the Family cow mascot, I might buy him some active and serious points, and possibly some shyness points as well. Wonder if he'd be as good a daddy as Nervous Subject(please forgive the digression - I'm having a blast right now.

Speaking of which, I would love to see a hack that would display in a speech bubble on the upper right-hand corner of the screen, the 'moodlet effects' of various recent memories, either visible or invisible, and would show how long the sim with the memories will have crying or sighing episodes, or will be acting really happy. It seems to me that these memories act somewhat like 'moodlets' because in one thread I was looking at, there was a mother who had two children taken away due to heatstroke(possibly because of buggy EAxis programming turning it into a 'sudden death' scenario instead of giving her time to correct the situation) and even several days later, the mother is still crying over this understandably horrible tragedy.

Meh... I've just seen way too many shows and movies(many of them based on true stories) where parents lose their children due to things that they couldn't even control, including the old molestation-lie, so I feel for anyone who loses a child that way, human or sim.

[Mootilda]

I would love to see a hack that would display in a speech bubble on the upper right-hand corner of the screen, the 'moodlet effects' of various recent memories, either visible or invisible, and would show how long the sim with the memories will have crying or sighing episodes, or will be acting really happy. It seems to me that these memories act somewhat like 'moodlets'That makes sense. Each memory has a date, an initial "effect" value, a current "effect" value, and an amount to depreciate the effect per day. It should be possible to create a mod which checks the current effect value for memories and displays "active" memories on the screen.

[JDacapo]

That makes sense. Each memory has a date, an initial "effect" value, a current "effect" value, and an amount to depreciate the effect per day. It should be possible to create a mod which checks the current effect value for memories and displays "active" memories on the screen.

That would be quite cool! It'd also be very useful to show the reason that sims, when changed into werewolves via savaging, often cry when turned. There is a clue though - when a sim is savaged, even if he or she wanted to become a werewolf, the wolf memory and the memory of losing a fight add up to a very negative 'moodlet'.

[moonlight_frog]

The ultimate AI would be a literally life-saving mod... I hate it when all of my stupid sims crowd around a burning stove while screaming their heads off... why can't they automatically put out the gosh darned fire?!?! Also, I hate it when the adult sims rescue their babies and tots from the fire by placing them outside of the house before rushing back in to their dooms. Seriously, sims are the epitome of stupid.

[DamascaRamza]

One that makes it so you can make sims have different last names when you're creating a family, so I can make roommates actually be roommates with different last names without having to move them in from different locations.

[Peni Griffin]

Any number of editing tools will let you do that, though not when you're creating the family in CAS. SimPE and the SimBlender both let you change last names and household names.

Create a Student, the version of CAS accessed in the University neighborhood, takes this function for granted - you're asked to give the total household a name, and then also have a field for the last name of each sim, and of course there's no parent/child option, just sibling/roommate. But of course that doesn't help if you don't want to start your sims in University.

[lazzybum]

One that makes it so you can make sims have different last names when you're creating a family, so I can make roommates actually be roommates with different last names without having to move them in from different locations.

Christianlov here on MTS has a name changer hack, I use it for last names for these situations. Its a painting you click on.

[JDacapo]

The ultimate AI would be a literally life-saving mod... I hate it when all of my stupid sims crowd around a burning stove while screaming their heads off... why can't they automatically put out the gosh darned fire?!?! Also, I hate it when the adult sims rescue their babies and tots from the fire by placing them outside of the house before rushing back in to their dooms. Seriously, sims are the epitome of stupid.

I think there might be a mod out there that keeps sims from mothing fires. Might be at More Awesome Than You or Simbology.

[Orilon]

Pescado's Fire mod (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/samples/ts2/index.php click on the link for your latest EP, click on hacks and look for firemod.zip) will stop Sims from mothing fires.

[kittcat92]

I would love something that makes specific CC only available in specific neighborhoods, I hate scrolling through my neanderthal items in my Victorian neighborhood or even a way to see no CC in the catalog or CAS unless you press a CC button

[smorbie1]

I would love something that makes specific CC only available in specific neighborhoods, I hate scrolling through my neanderthal items in my Victorian neighborhood or even a way to see no CC in the catalog or CAS unless you press a CC button

I put them in separate folders and use different folders for specific neighborhoods.

[kittcat92]

I put them in separate folders and use different folders for specific neighborhoods.
Do you just take the folders out that are not relevant to the current neighborhood your playing?

[Mootilda]

I would love something that makes specific CC only available in specific neighborhoodsThe AnyGameStarter is another alternative.

[kittcat92]

The AnyGameStarter is another alternative.
yeah I've heard of it but I'm not exactly sure what it is

[smorbie1]

Do you just take the folders out that are not relevant to the current neighborhood your playing?

On my desktop I have a folder entitled Add Me. Inside that are separate folders that contain the downloads from each of my neighborhoods. These are labeled with the names of the hoods, like Azure Water and Blue Bay, or whatever. Inside each of these files are all the downloads for the specific neighborhoods. Whenever I want to play, say Azure Water, I go to the Add Me folder (on my desktop, NOT in the game files) and remove that folder, placing it in the Downloads folder contained within the game. Does that make sense?

[kittcat92]

On my desktop I have a folder entitled Add Me. Inside that are separate folders that contain the downloads from each of my neighborhoods. These are labeled with the names of the hoods, like Azure Water and Blue Bay, or whatever. Inside each of these files are all the downloads for the specific neighborhoods. Whenever I want to play, say Azure Water, I go to the Add Me folder (on my desktop, NOT in the game files) and remove that folder, placing it in the Downloads folder contained within the game. Does that make sense?
I think I got it, so essentially your download folder is empty, until you put the folder for whichever neighborhood you are about to play in it?

[Mootilda]

yeah I've heard of it but I'm not exactly sure what it isHere's the AnyGameStarter:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=250555

It will create a number of separate save games for you. Each save game can contain one or more neighborhoods with the appropriate CC for those neighborhoods. You can even select exactly which EPs and SPs you want to use for that save game.

The main problem with the AGS is that it is no longer supported. If you have any of the later collection packs (University Life, Best of Business, Fun with Pets, etc.), then you can't use the AGS because it was never updated to deal with those packs.

[smorbie1]

I think I got it, so essentially your download folder is empty, until you put the folder for whichever neighborhood you are about to play in it?

Yep. :king:

[Fivey]

Something that changes the color of the bar drinks, so it looks like alcohol. Like change the ghastly purple and blue colors to brown. And the bottles to look like booze bottles rather than water bottles.

[lazzybum]

Something that changes the color of the bar drinks, so it looks like alcohol. Like change the ghastly purple and blue colors to brown. And the bottles to look like booze bottles rather than water bottles.

I've been dreaming of a whole revamp of TS2 bars in general for a long while. More drink choices, and alcohol-effect ish behaviors if you have too many. Also, the booze should increase aspiration level slightly each time. So if you have a depressed sim who keeps crying, there can be a reason for them to chug down drinks to make their aspiration go up (and less complaining from them for you!). But there should be consequences too, I dunno, a slight chance of death if you drink more than a limit at a given time. I also thought about having one of the effects be to temporarily raise a sim's outgoing level to max 10. So that sim can act differently (if they had much lower outgoing level), flirt more maybe, and they can jump into a tub naked. lol

I also wanted a 'Thirst' need bar. The bar would go along with this nicely. Then drinking water and juices from seasons can be of actual use. And when sims sit down for meals, a glass of a random color drink would appear, so their bar can go up while eating too. And death from thirst!

Yes, keep dreaming Lazzy... :Pint:

[katya_stevens]

Fivey -- I know there's a replacement for the alcohol bottles somewhere, I've got my sims drinking out of vodka bottles from the bar in my game. The only problem is that the bottles sims take from the fridge to juggle with are the same as the guzzle bottles from the bar.

Fake edit: quick google search of "sims 2 bar bottle replacement", and here it is (http://engram-au.livejournal.com/23670.html). Options are generic beer, pirate rum, or smirnoff vodka.

[Bellasaurus]

I want my kids to be able to make pottery! I get that they probably shouldn't be allowed to craft robots or arrange flowers etc, but pottery? Come on EA didn't you ever make eggcups as a kid?

[AlexandraSpears]

Some Sims have a Fear of have picture taken, which costs a whopping 1500 points. I've had a Sim go into aspiration failure (twice) while on a date because of it.

How about a hack where the loss is only 250 points? Picture taking shouldn't be overly traumatic!

[JDacapo]

Or a hack that makes fulfilling the fear of turning into a creature cost only one fifth of the original? I mean, turning into a witch shouldn't be THAT scary, especially when there are quite a few really nice ones.

[maybesomethingdunno]

Some Sims have a Fear of have picture taken, which costs a whopping 1500 points. I've had a Sim go into aspiration failure (twice) while on a date because of it.

How about a hack where the loss is only 250 points? Picture taking shouldn't be overly traumatic!

That sounds about right for me personally. I don't consider myself photogenic. Depending upon who you ask, there's also that whole "losing part of your soul" aspect to consider as well.

[JDacapo]

That sounds about right for me personally. I don't consider myself photogenic. Depending upon who you ask, there's also that whole "losing part of your soul" aspect to consider as well.

'Losing part of your soul'? I thought only people who have never seen a camera before would think that way. Weird.

[AlexandraSpears]

Sounds like something the Amish would say, really.

[Mootilda]

Sounds like something the Amish would say, really.Do you actually know any Amish?

[Josepina]

Aspiration rewards with no negative effects. It's more of a chore than a reward having to make sure sims are gold before using them.

[Bellasaurus]

Lighting that you can turn off per floor, not just per room.

[JDacapo]

The ability to program the sentrybot or servos to attack either good or evil high witches visiting a business lot.

Oh, and something that randomly gives creature-states to newly-made townies, like neutral witch, vampire, werewolf, plantsim or zombie. Also, it would add 'grilled cheese' to the random townie aspirations, and would even make some of the high witches have the grilled cheese aspiration.

[Josepina]

A global tv hack that let's you switch to next show like the radio, a fast forward button, volume button, and makes the shows random. That's not asking too much.

[Bellasaurus]

Tv volume can be set using the cheat - floatProp tvVolume - I have it set at 0.1 in my userstartup.cheat. I believe the options go from 0.0 - 1.0. I can't remember the default setting, but 0.1 is good for me - not too loud to be intrusive, but just loud enough that I can hear it when a sim turns it on.

[lg135]

I'd like a mod that adds an option to the phone that would mix the "Break Up/Kick Out one person" action with "Call the Police" with the "Someone has Died" reactions.-- as in, I'd like to be able to call the police for an emergency to 'arrest' another sim.

Really it would just move them out to the sim bin, but it would look like the police are hauling a sim back to the station.

I imagine it would work like this: An option to the phone is added - "Call Police on Sim". Then a selection menu would pop up with all the available sims on the lot. However, unless you want a false positive (which would result in a scolding (child) or a fine (Teen+), the offending sim must have done something wrong to the caller or someone else on the lot(i.e. just attacked or slapped someone). OR if the sim calling is a Teen or Child, they can call if their hunger/hygiene/fun/social are incredibly low.

The cops would come and arrest the offending sim a la burglar style sans the fighting, and the surrounding sims would react to it the same way they would if the offending sim had just died (tears, shaking head, sigh, laughter). The offending sim could "plead for second chance" the same a spouse would "Plead for Loved One" to grimmy, and if he loses (or has been arrested too many times), he's hauled off.


Another emergency option could be to call the Social Worker -- Not the real, evil one that erases your kids' memories, but just a fake one, who comes and "takes away" your sim kids to the Sim bin. The parent/caregiver could get a second chance if they have the FT option, but if things aren't better in 24 hours, they're gone.

Just an idea that could be fun for stories without having to stage it all :)

[joandsarah77]

I want a mod that would allow player owned hotels which could be run as a business.

A mod that would allow a player run hospital. I tried one hospital mod and it didn't work, the sim would jump back from the taxi when it came to take him to the hospital for his flu.

[sushigal007]

I'd like a mod that adds an option to the phone that would mix the "Break Up/Kick Out one person" action with "Call the Police" with the "Someone has Died" reactions.-- as in, I'd like to be able to call the police for an emergency to 'arrest' another sim.

I do have a phone plug-in from DMA sims that allows me to call the police to report a fight. I tried it out yesterday and then after my sim had been arrested, I suddenly realised I had no idea what would happen to them (the documentation was very vague there). Happily he turned up at home after everyone else returned home.

[SilverLOCKET]

Id really really REALLY like to see the 'clean counter' animation box, so you can clean whatever you want E.G- Cleaning a car, as i really need it to make a movie so please can someone try make this? thank you :)

[Mootilda]

Id really really REALLY like to see the 'clean counter' animation box, so you can clean whatever you want E.G- Cleaning a car, as i really need it to make a movie so please can someone try make this? thank you :)Modthesims doesn't allow requests in the forums. Why don't you just make it yourself?

[LilSister]

I'd like a mod that adds an option to the phone that would mix the "Break Up/Kick Out one person" action with "Call the Police" with the "Someone has Died" reactions.-- as in, I'd like to be able to call the police for an emergency to 'arrest' another sim.

Really it would just move them out to the sim bin, but it would look like the police are hauling a sim back to the station.

I imagine it would work like this: An option to the phone is added - "Call Police on Sim". Then a selection menu would pop up with all the available sims on the lot. However, unless you want a false positive (which would result in a scolding (child) or a fine (Teen+), the offending sim must have done something wrong to the caller or someone else on the lot(i.e. just attacked or slapped someone). OR if the sim calling is a Teen or Child, they can call if their hunger/hygiene/fun/social are incredibly low.

The cops would come and arrest the offending sim a la burglar style sans the fighting, and the surrounding sims would react to it the same way they would if the offending sim had just died (tears, shaking head, sigh, laughter). The offending sim could "plead for second chance" the same a spouse would "Plead for Loved One" to grimmy, and if he loses (or has been arrested too many times), he's hauled off.


Another emergency option could be to call the Social Worker -- Not the real, evil one that erases your kids' memories, but just a fake one, who comes and "takes away" your sim kids to the Sim bin. The parent/caregiver could get a second chance if they have the FT option, but if things aren't better in 24 hours, they're gone.

Just an idea that could be fun for stories without having to stage it all :)



DMA may have what you are looking for found here: http://valdea.com/ Check out the Miscellaneous set for Police

[omglo]

I wish there was a way to buy more than one cell phone from the kiosk at a time.

[sushigal007]

I wish there was a way to buy more than one cell phone from the kiosk at a time.

Ugh, yes. Games and magazines too.

[dieKristina]

I wish there was a way to buy more than one cell phone from the kiosk at a time.

Personally I use this mod: http://modthesims.info/d/387180
That way you can buy cell phones, mp3-splayers etc in buy mode. I find that very handy.

[MatthewIDI]

A hack that allows songs we like onto the game instead of the jibberish we usually hear.


You can do that without a hack! It's simple!
Copy your song and go to
My Documents>EA Games>The Sims 2>Music>Pop (Or any other genre of music)
And paste it in there! The next time you are on Sims, turn on the Music Player, go onto Pop, and click Next Song until you hear it!

:up:

[omglo]

Personally I use this mod: http://modthesims.info/d/387180
That way you can buy cell phones, mp3-splayers etc in buy mode. I find that very handy.Thanks!

[Sunbee]

Something to let my sims who fly to work fly to community lots in general, and continue after they leave those jobs.

[oweemytoe]

I would like to see a tattoo and piercing parlor Downtown where your Sims could go and get inked and pierced, instead of having to choose the option beforehand when you are creating the Sim, it would be nice to be able to add onto an already created Sim.

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@oweemytoe , there are quite a few tattoo overlay boxes available. I believe they require Seasons EP , here is a link to one http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=16300.0 . I have about 8-10 of them and I'm sure there are more. I've had no problems with any of them. There are also various peircing sets available here and elsewhere that can be added by the change appearance feature on the mirror. One of my (owned)businesses is set up as what you would like and it works great. I just use a pay door to charge the customers for the work that they have done. Good luck!

[JDacapo]

A few new spells, like evil or neutral spells to turn other sims into toads or newts(don't worry - they get better). And a hack that would allow sims to smash and actually kill flies that are flying over dirty dishes and stuff, without getting attacked by a swarm. It can be fun, trying to see if you can swat a fly and get it bare-handed. Also there should be an option to spray flies or use a bug-bomb to get rid of all flies and vermin in the room(but using it outside might get you fined). There should be other animals, like real bunnies that aren't clones of dogs or cats, wild reptiles, birds and wasps.

[mozgun]

This is probably already made, but a hack that allows Sims to get into beds from the bottom or different sections of the sides so that bedside tables and double beds against walls don't keep my Sims from going to bed.

[Amalia81]

Something to nuke/reduce the exaggerated facial expressions sims do while reading books.

@mozgun, the third item (called "Use Inaccessible Beds") on this page (http://dino.drealm.info/den/denforum/index.php?page=ts2downloads) sounds like what you might be looking for.

[sushigal007]

I'd like to have 'Invite as a houseguest' for all sims, all ages, not just vacation townies. I'd love for people like the Oldies to be able to have their granddaughters stay over for a few days!

[dieKristina]

I would love to see a hack that enables children to hold parties, so they can invite their own friends to their birthday party when it´s time for them to become teens.

[JDacapo]

Not to mention a hack that would remove invisible "[sim] became [creature]" memories, because then at least the want and fear slots wouldn't always be so clogged up. It can be a hassle having sims get other bad memories just to get those memories to supersede ones pertaining to a friend, family member or acquaintance becoming a good, harmless witch. Yeah I'm a loser lol!

Oh and perhaps a new infallibly good witch spell that would revive a dead sim in a perfect state, giving the two sims a huge relationship boost. I mean, if an atrociously evil witch can revive dead sims as zombies, shouldn't a perfectly aligned good witch be able to do a perfect resurrection? And what good is a zombie anyway? They stink, they're slow, and they're stupid. I don't know if I'll ever make a zombie, at least not the 'usual' way, except for the purpose of a story, because I can't see any point in having an immortal sim that stinks up the place worse than the sloppiest normal sim and can't even run or walk normally... though I did come upon this really sweet youtube video of a romance between a normal sim and a zombie. As ugly as she was, it was such a cute movie.

[lazzybum]

I want a hack that adds a "I dont love you anymore!" interaction between sims that are in love. The sim who says that will instantly fall out of love & crush with the other sim. The interaction will also cut their relationship points in half and the other sim may or may not fall out of love. That way sims don't keep a collection of lovers even if they don't keep in touch.

[sushigal007]

And what good is a zombie anyway? They stink, they're slow, and they're stupid.

That's why I downloaded a dezombification potion. Now my evil witches can raise the dead (because good witches are useless and can't) and then they can turn back into normal sims. Yay!

[Amalia81]

That's why I downloaded a dezombification potion. Now my evil witches can raise the dead (because good witches are useless and can't) and then they can turn back into normal sims. Yay!

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get this dezombification potion? For my Apocalypse Challenge, I created a zombie household and I'd like to turn them back into normal sims after lifting the Science restriction.

[sushigal007]

Here. (http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=209590) Make sure your zombies are happy first though!

[JDacapo]

That's why I downloaded a dezombification potion. Now my evil witches can raise the dead (because good witches are useless and can't) and then they can turn back into normal sims. Yay!

I like how good witches can stop the Grim Reaper, but it would be hella awesome if they could resurrect as well. Plus, why didn't EAxis bring back the toadification spell?

[zauberlinda12]

When a Sim calls to talk I wish there was a hack that would offer options...while you are talking on the phone...to suggest things like: "invite Sim over" or "Ask Sim on Date". Instead of having to hang up, re-call the same Sim and invite them over, etc.

[Peni Griffin]

Or if the person they called for isn't home, the sim who did answer could talk to them instead.

[lg135]

When a Sim calls to talk I wish there was a hack that would offer options...while you are talking on the phone...to suggest things like: "invite Sim over" or "Ask Sim on Date". Instead of having to hang up, re-call the same Sim and invite them over, etc.

Yeah, especially when online chatting sort of has this feature. If you have a good relationship with the person you're chatting with, periodically a pop-ups appears asking if you want to invite them over.

[Fivey]

A blood drive. It'd be an apheresis machine that you can place onto a community lot and donate blood to. You get money for donating blood, but the apheresis machine drains your energy really low, and would also have a negative effect on hunger.

I don't know what else...

[JDacapo]

How about some zoo and amusement park objects which increase fun? These objects would cost a lot, and the animals would be high-maintenance. I'd like to see some cages of typical zoo animals, and if these animals are neglected, they would be removed by animal control. They would have a 'view' and 'feed treats' option for customers, while the owner would also have the option to do things like training the animals and filling their food dishes, and cleaning their cages. Large carnivorous animals, like the lions, would also need some kind of fence around them, and anyone with low body and logic skills would be in danger of getting eaten - resulting ghost would be the same as cowplant ghost.

For the amusement park, there should be a few ferris wheels, roller coasters, swings and of course roundabouts, as well as ice cream and hotdog stands. Sims need more of a variety of treats, and for pete's sake, why didn't EAxis put ice cream in the base game of Sims 2 when the original Sims had ice cream and cotton candy? I'd absolutely love to be able to set up zoos, true aquariums(like with whales and sharks, and other wild aquatic animals) and amusement parks with more options for souvenirs, things like that. If they can have car dealerships and other types of businesses, why can't they also have other types of entertainment businesses?

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@JDacapo , there are some pretty cool functioning amusement park items here http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=213108 and here http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=190771. Echo's set also has a pre-made community lot complete with functioning ( and fun increasing , as you mentioned) roller coaster , bumper cars and spooky cart ride. The pre-made lot is a real nice easy way to use the items , but you can also make your own track rides with her items. The ferris wheel is also a fun builder for sims. I usually slap Beck's hot air balloon in that amusement park too , it's a cool , fun item and I don't really have an excuse to use it otherwise. As far as zoo stuff, almost everything is just deco animal type ( much of it still really nice though). I have upwards of 400 megs of dl'd animals and the only animate stuff I'm aware of are quite a few by Beck (who has mad skillz!) and some from simsslice and simsfarm. If your sims like bacon(or if you like hearing your sims make oinking noises!) simslice's pigs are pretty entertaining. Good luck!

[JDacapo]

@JDacapo , there are some pretty cool functioning amusement park items here http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=213108 and here http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=190771. Echo's set also has a pre-made community lot complete with functioning ( and fun increasing , as you mentioned) roller coaster , bumper cars and spooky cart ride. The pre-made lot is a real nice easy way to use the items , but you can also make your own track rides with her items. The ferris wheel is also a fun builder for sims. I usually slap Beck's hot air balloon in that amusement park too , it's a cool , fun item and I don't really have an excuse to use it otherwise. As far as zoo stuff, almost everything is just deco animal type ( much of it still really nice though). I have upwards of 400 megs of dl'd animals and the only animate stuff I'm aware of are quite a few by Beck (who has mad skillz!) and some from simsslice and simsfarm. If your sims like bacon(or if you like hearing your sims make oinking noises!) simslice's pigs are pretty entertaining. Good luck!

Oh how beautiful! Thank you! Where are the 'deco' animals though? It would be so much fun to have a sim zoo, and looking at the animals would increase enthusiasm in nature for those with Freetime. Of course, with all the animals that are in zoos, it would take awhile to make all those different animal cages and pens.

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@JDacapo , for animals go here http://www.affinitysims.com/forum/index.php?board=25.0 (stuff by Rebecah(Beck) , who has created so many wondrous one of a kind items , she deserves so much praise!) these are animate. For some nice inanimate I would suggest here http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,110944.0.html and check the creators profile for more at Insim.. There are also quite a few at Blacky's Sim Zoo , Sapphire Sims, a creator by the name of Suiryuue (mostly at TSR :faceslap: ), for great aquarium stuff check Windkeeper (TSR) or SavageSims. There are also some animals here at MTS , unfortunately the most prolific creator of those, Tazman Oregon pulled his/her stuff from the site. Bitzybus, Daislia, Jasper, Mickyss and other creators have all produced animals and Dragonslave is THE inanimate horse creator.
Good luck!

[JDacapo]

@JDacapo , for animals go here http://www.affinitysims.com/forum/index.php?board=25.0 (stuff by Rebecah(Beck) , who has created so many wondrous one of a kind items , she deserves so much praise!) these are animate. For some nice inanimate I would suggest here http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,110944.0.html and check the creators profile for more at Insim.. There are also quite a few at Blacky's Sim Zoo , Sapphire Sims, a creator by the name of Suiryuue (mostly at TSR :faceslap: ), for great aquarium stuff check Windkeeper (TSR) or SavageSims. There are also some animals here at MTS , unfortunately the most prolific creator of those, Tazman Oregon pulled his/her stuff from the site. Bitzybus, Daislia, Jasper, Mickyss and other creators have all produced animals and Dragonslave is THE inanimate horse creator.
Good luck!

Aww thank you! Those animals look so cool! Am hoping to find some lions though, and possibly other big cats, and some primates with and without tails XD

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@JDacapo if you follow the Insim link to the creators topics you will find chimps and orangutans. Blackys sims zoo has Affenbande monkeys (don't ask me I don't speak German) and panthers and about two dozen other animals. Eva (think it is an lj) has jaguars. Sapphire sims has an ape of some sort (package file name doesn't specify)and another dozenish animals and Suiryuue has a leopard , lion and lioness and about seventy other animals as well. There are bunches out there, good luck!

[Aegagropilon]

I'd love to see a hack that allowed uni students to bring a friend back to their dorm or campus house after class. It seems odd that after bringing friends home from school as kids and teens -- and bringing friends home from work in the future -- that there wasn't such a thing in place for the young adults.

[dieKristina]

I would like to see a hack that makes it so that children can be born with less than 25 personality points. It would only be realistic if some sims were born sloppy, lazy, serious, shy and grouchy. I want more Nervous Subject-personalities in my game, where some sims only have a few personality points. Also, though it´s probably impossible, I would like to have unlimited use of personality points in CAS - so some sims could have 0 personality points while some had 50. I know you can change personalities later in SimPE, but it would be cool if it could happend "natural" in-game. I really think Maxis were silly regarding the personality-points-system.

[JDacapo]

I'd like to see a mod where there would be a special interaction with the computer: one for starting online rumours. Suppose a sim has ticked off your sim by doing things like fighting or hitting on your sim's significant other, and you want to get even. Just go to the computer and use the interaction 'spread rumour' which would give a pie menu of all the names of the sims you know, and to make things less cluttered, they could be sorted by three or four alphabetical sections. You click on the name of the sim you want to lie about, and then it has a few options like

-'had an accident'
-'had an accident at a party'
-'threw lame party'
-'skipped college'
-'dropped out'
-'was expelled'
-'broke up with lover[of player's choice]'
-'had an affair[with sim of player's choice]'
-'lost a child to the social worker'
-'lost fight to[sim of player's choice]'
-'is a zombie/werewolf/vampire'

The success of this interaction depends on the level of logic and charisma skills. If either are too low, then the interaction is likely to backfire and your sim's reputation will go down. If successful, the target sim's reputation will go down. If the target sim is playable, then he or she can use a special interaction to find the identity of the original poster if his/her logic and mechanical skills are high enough, and possibly send the sim a special 'secret network' penalty over the phone depending on the player-directed sim's charisma. A bad reputation, however, will only be healed with lots of friendly interactions on community lots or secret network benefits.

[Dizzy-noodles]

Also, claws would be nice. 99.9% of my sims are furres, even though I'm not totally into that scene. I have claws for them which are very nice, but they don't move with the hands sometimes.

Try these:

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=146244

[Dizzy-noodles]

I'd like to see a formal wear hack, so that sims wear formal wear to all parties, not just wedding parties, and also makes the sims in the house you are playing change into formal when they throw a party.

[zauberlinda12]

I want a hack that adds more NATURE to lots. Don't get me wrong I appreciate the butterflies and lightning bugs and the occasional skunk and....penguin.

What I miss are birds flying around my lots and perching in trees, singing and being able to feed them seeds,etc..... and squirrels hopping around and climbing up trees, being chased by your dogs.

It would be such a treat to have that outdoor activity when my sims are lounging in the backyard retreats that I make for them (but it would really be for me!)

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@Dizzy-noodles , There is a sign which changes sims into formal wear located here http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Dressing.htm , there are also doors at the same link which can be used to change sims into formal wear (or other attire). The signs and the doors have both worked as advertised and been problem free for me. Good luck!

[CherryFlight]

I tried reading back through the whole thread and didn't see this brought up.

I don't know if, say, ACR has this option (since I haven't done much research on it) or if it's even possible for the game to work with, but I'd like a sim's gender preference to be capable of being Both, not just Male, Female, or None. Don't get me wrong, I know that a sim can fall in love with someone of either gender regardless of their current preference, but actual bisexuality reflected in their wants and chemistry? That would be awesome.

[Sunbee]

Sims already do that--to make it happen and keep it just have them do romantic interactions with both genders. You'll get bolts for both genders--but of course only for sims with compatible gender preference. ACR can set it as well.

[CherryFlight]

Oh, I thought it only displayed chemistry with the currently-preferred gender. Okay, my mistake, then!

[JDacapo]

Oh, and I forgot, for the hack I had proposed, if it fails due to lack of charisma, you could get a message saying "Anonymous says: NOT YOUR PERSONAL ARMY!" or "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!"... or perhaps a message(not the kind that pauses the game) that is just an ascii picture of Captain Picard doing a face-palm.

[sushigal007]

I'd like to see a formal wear hack, so that sims wear formal wear to all parties, not just wedding parties, and also makes the sims in the house you are playing change into formal when they throw a party.

You might find the Simlogical Formal Sign (http://www.simlogical.com/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Dressing.htm) handy.

ETA: Whoops, already posted. XD

[Dizzy-noodles]

MOOKIEBLAYLOCK & sushigal007-Thankyou, I'll give it a try! :)

[JDacapo]

I wonder if there's a way to put in custom voices. It'd be so awesome to make your own voices and have more variety.

And I noticed Cyjon's more sloppy sims mod... one that raises the neat threshold for salvaging and stuff like that. I wish there was a mod that raised the nice threshold for crank calls, because none of the zodiac signs have fewer than two or three nice points. Another idea is to also make it available to sims who have a lot of playful points. Honestly, my sis is fairly even-tempered and she has done some prank calls. One that was fairly memorable was when she called someone with the last name 'Flanders' and said, "Hey Mr. Flanders, your chickens are in and ready to be plucked!"

[Fivey]

Default replacement of the satellite of death to look like Sputnik.

...or a russian space toilet.

[Sunbee]

http://psychosim.livejournal.com/18774.html There's a piano, Fivey, and a link to an anvil. Maybe you can hunt up something further from that?

[LordOrochimaru]

How bout something for the furry sims? They look like an animal, why not have something so they could behave as one?

Just a thought.

[iCad]

OK, I know this is probably impossible, but for beach lots I'd like something that links the beach activities available with the season that the beach is experiencing. See, I like to build beach communities. (Because, living in a landlocked state but as a person who spent much of her adult life with easy access to either the Atlantic or the Pacific, I miss the ocean.) However, they aren't all tropical beach communities. Most are temperate, actually, like, say, the Carolinas in the US. So, they have seasons. Even winter, in some cases. But of course the beaches on those lots have all the game's beach functions all the time, like swimming and sunbathing, which the Sims will do autonomously. As a person who lets her Sims free will a lot, I tend to have to watch their queues to make sure they don't try to go off sunbathing when it's snowing out. :lol:

So, it'd be nice if the more "summery" activities were only available during the summer and maybe the late spring/early fall, but stuff like watching the waves or combing for shells or building sandcastles would always be available. I doubt it's possible to be that selective, but I can dream, right? :lol:

[maybesomethingdunno]

iCad, that may actually be quite doable. I don't have time at the moment to look and see if there are Guardian BHAVs for those activities though. Now, if you wanted the ocean to freeze in winter like the ponds, that would definitely be a bit more ambitious. But I think making a replacement Guardian BHAV which looks at the current season is certainly possible.

[iCad]

iCad, that may actually be quite doable. I don't have time at the moment to look and see if there are Guardian BHAVs for those activities though. Now, if you wanted the ocean to freeze in winter like the ponds, that would definitely be a bit more ambitious. But I think making a replacement Guardian BHAV which looks at the current season is certainly possible.

Really? Gosh, that would be completely awesome, at least for me. :) But maybe other people do temperate beaches, too. Unfortunately, looking at that kind of stuff is beyond me. I just recolor stuff and am currently dinking around with, of all things, clothing meshes. But...yeah. :)

Of course, the ocean wouldn't need to freeze. It doesn't, generally, except in arctic climates, but I don't think I'll ever be building any arctic beaches. (Although some of them ARE quite lovely... I was up in the north of Russia a few years back, in the Arkhangelsk area, and the Arctic Ocean beaches were quite lovely. I mean, not for swimming and such; I don't think the water's ever warm enough to do that without a wetsuit, but for strolling and stuff...Yeah, they were quite nice in the summer when I was there, when the sun doesn't really set. :) )

[lauratje86]

Really? Gosh, that would be completely awesome, at least for me. :) But maybe other people do temperate beaches, too.

I'd agree with it being awesome! :-) I make a lot of temperate beaches - lots of the sims 'hoods I make are based on places I've visited, and as I live in the UK I have a lot more experience with temperate beaches than with tropical ones!

Like you said about seasonal stuff on beaches, iCad, when I was little we used to go to the local beach and just build sandcastles and watch the sea and run about and stuff. Then in summer we'd go and do all of the above and also swim and sunbathe. So it would be cool if sims could do that too...

To be fair though, the main reasons my sims visit beaches now is either to get married or to surf! :-) Is surfing seasonal? Getting married definitely isn't! :-D

[iCad]

I'd agree with it being awesome! :-) I make a lot of temperate beaches - lots of the sims 'hoods I make are based on places I've visited, and as I live in the UK I have a lot more experience with temperate beaches than with tropical ones!

I do the same thing, and while I do love quick (or excessively long; I spent 7 months on Barbados once. :lol: ) getaways to the Caribbean, most of the beaches that are familiar to me are temperate. No palm trees or anything. :lol: When I lived on the East coast of the US, I could usually be found on a beach somewhere between Maine (Where the beaches are rocky and actually very UK-like, I think) and North Carolina, all year 'round, whenever I could be on one. All of those are NOT tropical. :lol:

Like you said about seasonal stuff on beaches, iCad, when I was little we used to go to the local beach and just build sandcastles and watch the sea and run about and stuff. Then in summer we'd go and do all of the above and also swim and sunbathe. So it would be cool if sims could do that too...

Exactly! When my oldest kid was little and we lived in New York City, we'd go down to the New Jersey shore for weekends all year 'round. Of course, from about mid-October through late May it was generally too cold to swim, but it was still fun to play on the beach or walk the boardwalk or what-have-you and basically just be near but not IN the ocean. :)

Of course, it's not as if you can't manually control Sims to do just those things. But when you leave 'em on free will a lot and don't pay close attention...Well, sometimes I find them out there, sunbathing with snow coming down. That's what I'd like to squash without having to think about having to squash it.

To be fair though, the main reasons my sims visit beaches now is either to get married or to surf! :-) Is surfing seasonal? Getting married definitely isn't! :-D

I've seen die-hard winter surfers out there in wetsuits on occasion. :lol: Crazy people, but according to them some of the best waves happen in the non-warm months. Whatever. :lol: But I don't think MSD's surfing mod will let Sims surf autonomously? At least, I don't think any of mine have. But if they can, I could see that still happening during the colder seasons; I'd just need to remember to change their swimwear to the wetsuit-looking thing. :lol:

And marriage...Yeah...Although I can think of better places to be married in winter than a cold, windy beach! :)

[Fivey]

A hack that makes "Learn How to Talk" actually worth teaching.

Like, for instance, a toddler can't ask for attention/food/a diaper change without learning how to talk first.

[Orilon]

Boiling Oil's Less Toddler Annoyance makes toddlers less annoying and stops them from asking for attention, food and a diaper change if they haven't learned how to talk.

http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/thread-3335.html

[fcc2]

This is a long thread, and I haven't read every item; nonetheless. . . .

What I would really like is a mod that forces dormies to change into casual clothing when leaving the dorm lot. This may not be an issue in a regular dorm, but I use the "secret room" technique in my dorms, and outgoing dormies are forever walking around in underwear, even when going to class (because they sleep in their underwear).

Even better would be a mod that caused all sims to sleep in pjs (except after woohoo) unless otherwise instructed, and to change into everyday when leaving the lot.

[lazzybum]

Id like a woohoo on single bed mod :x Maybe take the animation from the hammock woohoo, where the 2nd sim jumps in lol. But then the animation on the bed has to be custom.

[fruitsymphony]

Social benefit, the social worker could come, and lecture the poor unemployed sim, and then give them some money.

[Mootilda]

ToolRegame had a mod for Social Welfare. I've never tried it, but I believe that a family can apply for benefits and receive money without working.

If you're interested, let me know.

[Sunbee]

Id like a woohoo on single bed mod :x Maybe take the animation from the hammock woohoo, where the 2nd sim jumps in lol. But then the animation on the bed has to be custom.
ACR plus http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=476970 :D

[JDacapo]

Some new chance cards, like one for a child or teen, asking which book he should do a report on - some boring classic novel with lots of words ending in 'eth' or the novel he found in his parents' bedroom, titled "Paddle Faster!". If the kid chooses the latter, he'll either get an award for a provocative composition and of course some film/lit. enthusiasm, or get suspended and sent to a psychologist, at the parents' expense.

[MOOKIEBLAYLOCK]

@ Mootilda , I'd be very interested in that Social Welfare mod from ToolRegame that you mentioned in post #979. Thank you!
Edit: Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!

[fruitsymphony]

A hack or mod, so the home services (house cleaning, nanny etc) will cost much more, so poor sims can not afford them.

[x-kisses-for-yooh-x]

A way for children to have "jobs" that act as extra-curricular activities. When I bought the Freetime EP I wondered if this would be incorporated with all the hobbies that Sims can do, but sadly it wasn't :( I've done this myself for teens once, or rather I asked Lientebollemeis to make a custom ballet class career for me! It's really quite a cute idea, using the wages as scholarships for all the "equipment" and "lessons"! Haha! If you want to download it, its here (http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=466853)! But yeah, I would love to see little girls running off to ballet practice in their tutus, or cheerleading practice. And boys going to soccer practice, then bringing back an army of young boys to eat all the food in the fridge and play noisy video games! Heehee :bunny:

[Mootilda]

@ Mootilda , I'd be very interested in that Social Welfare mod from ToolRegame that you mentioned in post #979. Thank you!I zipped up everything that I have about the mod, including pictures and instructions.

[katya_stevens]

A hack or mod, so the home services (house cleaning, nanny etc) will cost much more, so poor sims can not afford them.

Expensive NPCs in MATY's director's cut (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8.0.html) (also, if you're comfortable with SimPE, you can adjust the costs to your liking).

[fruitsymphony]

Wow, so many hacks... I downloaded the entire directory and installed "expensive npcs".
I love it when the maid comes in their white van. But, it has to cost otherwise its not fun.
I have tried googling after "sims service fees" and so on, but I could not find anything. Thank you!

**Update** Yes it works, the sims have a hard time now. It is probably best to install the social welfare mod in case some sim will need support assistance.

[Fivey]

An elevator that plays Muzak.

Preferably "The Girl from Ipanema".

[JDacapo]

A mod that makes the invisible motives of plantsims visible. Ever notice how a plantsim might be in a horrendously bad mood despite the sunshine, water and love bars being almost completely filled? It's because plantsims still have the comfort and fun motives, though probably not environment or hygiene. Players don't often notice this because when they're filling the water and social motives, they also may be filling comfort and fun. So a plantsim's mood might be in deep red if he or she doesn't sit down or do anything fun.

[MattShizzle]

One to get rid of that stupid swooning/whistling at Romance sims. It's really annoying. Also one that prevents food from burning.

[Darby]

No Romance Swoon
http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0

[MattShizzle]

One for people without any EPs. I should have said. Anything I want is for base game only.

[Darby]

Oh yeah. *sigh* You'd be so much easier to help if you weren't base game only. ;)

[JDacapo]

One for people without any EPs. I should have said. Anything I want is for base game only.

I hope you can get the EPs someday - they are AWESOME!

[MattShizzle]

I actually have Uni and NL but won't install it. Too many problems. Don't want to lose hacks that aren't compatable and don't want some of the crap that comes with. Besides the fact when I tried they didn't work right and uninstalling deleted everything. Why would EA have made it that uninstalling EPs deletes everything (not just neighborhoods but all CC) other than to just be an ass?

[aUserName]

What I would really like is a mod that forces dormies to change into casual clothing when leaving the dorm lot. This may not be an issue in a regular dorm, but I use the "secret room" technique in my dorms, and outgoing dormies are forever walking around in underwear, even when going to class (because they sleep in their underwear).

Simlogical has a sign and a door that make sims change into normal clothes when they enter or leave a room.
http://www.drealm.info/simlogical/sl/Sims2Pages/Sims2_Dressing.htm

I'm curious, what is the secret dorm room technique?

[MattShizzle]

Note - I downloaded the "no swooning" hack anyway to test it. Game doesn't crash and it appears to work. I suppose it may have only been tested for NL and higher but still is compatable. If it had caused (or does cause) problems it's easy to find. Not one of those "i684857853e9838785" type file names.

eta played for some time using Romance sims and no problems, no swooning/whistling so I'm calling it compatable with base game.

[lazzybum]

Delivery option for Grandma's Soup, for my sick families that aren't family aspired :P Then again, I could make a soup kitchen/bakery style... *runs off with new idea*

[Y2Jay]

Recipes. I doubt we'll ever see it but one thing I really really wish they would have imported over from the Sims 2 console versions was the ability to create stuff by mixing harvested items and getting boosted benefits from them.
Also the fish tank that you could harvest seafood out of.

[Peni Griffin]

But you can make concoctions with benefits out of harvested items. It came with Seasons. As did edible fish pulled out of the fish pond, though not the tank.