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13th Jul 2008, 5:59 PM	Stupid/random questions... (v3) #1
StarboardParoxysm Original Poster Haddock of Yarn and Swearing Join Date: Tommorow Posts: 21,499 Thanks: 333064 in 222 Posts 46 Achievements View My Journal	This thread is for: Silly, quick little questions about the game that don't need their own whole threads. Things you're wondering about gameplay that you think you should know despite having played the game quite a while. Little things you're curious about, gameplay-wise. That's what this thread is for. Ask all your silly stupid questions here. This thread is not for: Technical help. If you are having trouble with your game, please read the FAQs in MTS2's Game Help section and post in the Game Help forums if you are having issues. More likely than not, any answers to technical questions you might ask here would be -wrong- and will not help you fix your issue in the best way possible. Custom content issues. If you need help with installing custom content, getting custom content to show up, or finding problem custom content, see here: Game Help: Custom Content. Where can I find/does this content exist? If you are looking for certain custom content, even if you're not sure anyone's made it, please ask in our Where Can I Find? forum instead of here. Questions about specific hacks/custom content. Individual creators support their own work. If you have a question about InTEENimater or InSIMenator, ask on the InTEEN or InSIM forums. If you have a question about how a particular piece of content works, ask its creator in the thread. Creation questions. Please use MTS2's Create Section where there are extensive tutorials as well as forums where you can ask questions on all aspects of creating custom content. Helpful Tips: Your question may already be answered. Here's some helpful tips/links for you, so you may not need to ask. Search! You can Search the Sims 2 Discussion forum to see if someone has already answered your question. Use Game Help. MTS2 has an extensive Game Help section that not only covers problems, but also Cheats, Gameplay Guides, and Expansion Packs. (Thanks to _ani for the original thread!)

13th Jul 2008, 8:01 PM	#2
longdaysend Instructor Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 551 Thanks: 3607 in 29 Posts 10 Achievements View My Journal	ooh a shiny new thread for me to ask a really stupid question in if i put up custom walls and floors, then turn off CC in the catalogue to furnish..will my walls/floors go blank or will they retain the custom paint/carpet?
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13th Jul 2008, 9:01 PM	#3
novemberlove_SC Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 997 Thanks: 3 in 1 Posts 1 Achievements	I think they should automatically get replaced with a maxis wallpaper/floor. Thats what happens whenever I take out any CC (but i've only done that with furniture so i'm not completely sure)

13th Jul 2008, 9:06 PM	#4
longdaysend Instructor Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 551 Thanks: 3607 in 29 Posts 10 Achievements View My Journal	with wall papers and floors they are completely new things...it's not like when someone clones an object from an existing object..so if anything they would go bare wall/floor...but i'm not sure if it would stick or if it would disappear and i'd have to redo it.
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13th Jul 2008, 9:06 PM	#5
Nimi Lab Assistant Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 124	I suppose that depends on whether the CC will only be blocked out of the catalogue or out of the game.. Haven't tried that yet myself.

14th Jul 2008, 12:43 AM	#6
Daisie Top Secret Researcher Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,600	If you disable or delete custom content, then the walls and floors will be gone or replaced, but if you just disable the "show custom content in catalog" option from the game options panel, nothing will happen.
	tSc

14th Jul 2008, 5:00 AM	#7
treeag Theorist Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,341 Thanks: 79718 in 49 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	Is there a cheating way (using boolprop, hacks, anything) to study parenting at the blink of an eye and to grant a membership of hobby club to a sim? ETA : also to unlock mementos? Is there a cheat for that?

14th Jul 2008, 1:51 PM	#8
Daisie Top Secret Researcher Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,600	I'm almost positive that inSIM can unlock those mementos in the memories panel, and it can probably give the parenting skill, too. Look under "hidden skills" and see if it's there.
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14th Jul 2008, 3:12 PM	#9
treeag Theorist Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,341 Thanks: 79718 in 49 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	I looked under the hidden skill and there's no parenting option. Also, when I set the massage skill or teleport skill, the corresponding mementos don't get unlocked... Or you mean there's another option specifically for unlocking mementos?

14th Jul 2008, 3:20 PM	#10
crocobaura Mad Poster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4,770 Thanks: 59206 in 192 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	Have you tried to activate them by typing in the bollprop testingcheatsenabled true? Maybe it will work.
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14th Jul 2008, 3:23 PM	#11
longdaysend Instructor Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 551 Thanks: 3607 in 29 Posts 10 Achievements View My Journal	thanks daises, just what i wanted to know!
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14th Jul 2008, 3:25 PM

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Originally Posted by crocobaura

Have you tried to activate them by typing in the bollprop testingcheatsenabled true? Maybe it will work.

But what should I spawn? :confused:

14th Jul 2008, 3:27 PM	#13
crocobaura Mad Poster Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4,770 Thanks: 59206 in 192 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	No need to spawn anything, just click on them. I increase my sims business levels that way.
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14th Jul 2008, 5:13 PM	#14
Ferret II Scholar Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,295	What version of body shop should I use? The one that came with the original Sims, the Freetime one or the Kitchen & Bath Stuff one?
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14th Jul 2008, 5:15 PM	#15
Avaluna Scholar Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,349 Thanks: 7784 in 18 Posts 14 Achievements View My Journal	The Freetime one.
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14th Jul 2008, 5:18 PM	#16
leenetje Field Researcher Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 281 1 Achievements	the freetime one. that's the one i use anyway and i have all ep's and sp's and if you click the wrong one you always get a message that you used the wrong one.

14th Jul 2008, 5:18 PM	#17
Ferret II Scholar Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,295	Thank you Avaluna! I was trying to use the Kitchen and Bath one and it wasn't loading. EDIT: and thank you leenetje! We posted at the same time
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14th Jul 2008, 5:20 PM	#18
Menaceman44 Alchemist Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,990 Thanks: 35603 in 112 Posts 31 Achievements View My Journal	For Sims dropping by other Sims' homes uninvited (from the previous thread) I have read that it has something to do with throwing parties. Once a party has been thrown on a lot it is possible for passing Sims to invite themselves in without being greeted. If you bring a mascot back from uni by marrying them then they can also just wander into other Sims' homes as they are still tagged by the game as mascots who don't need to be greeted.
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14th Jul 2008, 5:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Menaceman44

For Sims dropping by other Sims' homes uninvited (from the previous thread) I have read that it has something to do with throwing parties. Once a party has been thrown on a lot it is possible for passing Sims to invite themselves in without being greeted.
If you bring a mascot back from uni by marrying them then they can also just wander into other Sims' homes as they are still tagged by the game as mascots who don't need to be greeted.

I've yet to throw a party at that lot yet; although the info about the mascot was interesting! Thanks!

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14th Jul 2008, 5:43 PM

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14th Jul 2008, 5:45 PM

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Stasisesque/Zaggytiddies - If you're going to delete neighborhoods, it's a bit better to do so from in-game, on the neighborhood chooser. There's a small trash can icon that will appear toward the bottom once you have a neighborhood selected. It -usually- goes okay if you delete them from within Windows but there are occasionally issues with disappearing neighborhoods that we haven't tracked down yet, so I'd strongly recommend doing it in-game as that way is known to be safe.

Thank you very much, HP. :D

I'm going to try asap (and with Strangetown I think, as I haven't played it this install).

14th Jul 2008, 5:48 PM	#21
treeag Theorist Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 2,341 Thanks: 79718 in 49 Posts 25 Achievements View My Journal	Strange, even if I run the K&B or any older bodyshop, it'll automatically change to freetime's bodyshop. So I always wondered how people managed to run the wrong version of it. @crocobaura : I'll try that

14th Jul 2008, 7:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Menaceman44

I have the same issue, but mine are all ex waiters, or barmen - basically anybody I brought to the game who used to work in the restaurant business. I actually find them quite hilarious

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14th Jul 2008, 11:26 PM	#23
psivampyr Forum Resident Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 672 1 Achievements	Oh I had no idea about the mascot. Thanks for informing us. Here are a questions- 1-Is there a tutorial for packaging homes? I want to save some before I reset the hoods.

15th Jul 2008, 4:49 AM	#24
ani_ Mad Poster Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 3,429 Thanks: 10966 in 479 Posts 14 Achievements	click the home you want to package - then press the packaging sign, it's a * with a cursor under it if I remember correctly - and you are done.
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15th Jul 2008, 5:16 AM	#25
psivampyr Forum Resident Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 672 1 Achievements	Thank you - So I package it without people in it I assume? And how do I put it back in the hood when done? Is it saved in some obscure place?

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