6 brides for 6 brothers but holy crashing batman

Well I did finally resolve the issue well: used the aspiration reward object ReNuYu Senso Orb to recombobulate the aspiration which changed the wish...now he wants to be a Media Magnate. And then got the six sons successfully off to college and might even go back and play them, but that's a lot of people to get through uni at once. I did take a personal interest in one of the younger generation I sent off to uni, though: Hemlock Lovelace. He has the Lifetime Wish to become a Mad Scientist, so I think I can't pass up that opportunity!

Thanks, @EgonVM for the insight about a Literature degree being the only one that supports Space Pirate as a career. I wish a Lit degree could do that in real life! :) And for the other bits of advice and insight. I didn't realize how very little I knew about Sims2, but am grateful to learn.

Currently my long-suffering couple got stuck in limbo buying their vacation home in Twikii Island. They never seem to have arrived, and it just takes me to the vacation home, in build/buy mode, with no live mode available, but back home in Belladonna Cove it says they're at Twikii Island. I haven't figured out how to get out of that jam yet, but that's a separate post.

I like your suggestion, @Seera1024, of Sims Ideal Family Size from ACR. I use a few of their other mods (to stabilize the game I think) so I'll have to go looking for that one. It sounds more realistic, anyway, as well as a good way to protect against desires for crazy-high-numbers of kids that seems to be a peril of the Family Aspiration. I'd like a sim to want a family once in a while without wanting to have their own reality show :D

"EgonVM;c-18080175" wrote:

"ignominiusrex;c-18080119" wrote:
Currently my long-suffering couple got stuck in limbo buying their vacation home in Twikii Island. They never seem to have arrived, and it just takes me to the vacation home, in build/buy mode, with no live mode available, but back home in Belladonna Cove it says they're at Twikii Island. I haven't figured out how to get out of that jam yet, but that's a separate post.

Oof... I do hate this glitch. I remember when that happened to me, but with owned community lot. I Googled the fix for it and eventually got it fixed. However, the community lot that broke will never work again. I mustn't visit it or I'd activate the glitch again and I can't visit it with other sims.

I remember using SimPE to fix it, but I don't exactly remember what I did... One thing is for sure: the aging bars got reset.

I do hope you get it fixed.

Oh no. This gives me the impression this may or may not ever be fixable. Dang it, I was attached to that couple. But I'll just have to start again and try to make ones that look similar and tell myself, they lived happily ever after at the lavish beach house with private shoreline, and never came back. It still makes me sad though, to lose them after all that.

I'll turn my attention to the adopted sons' college experience for a while.

"EgonVM;c-18081988" wrote:

"ignominiusrex;c-18081494" wrote:

"EgonVM;c-18080175" wrote:

"ignominiusrex;c-18080119" wrote:
Currently my long-suffering couple got stuck in limbo buying their vacation home in Twikii Island. They never seem to have arrived, and it just takes me to the vacation home, in build/buy mode, with no live mode available, but back home in Belladonna Cove it says they're at Twikii Island. I haven't figured out how to get out of that jam yet, but that's a separate post.

Oof... I do hate this glitch. I remember when that happened to me, but with owned community lot. I Googled the fix for it and eventually got it fixed. However, the community lot that broke will never work again. I mustn't visit it or I'd activate the glitch again and I can't visit it with other sims.

I remember using SimPE to fix it, but I don't exactly remember what I did... One thing is for sure: the aging bars got reset.

I do hope you get it fixed.

Oh no. This gives me the impression this may or may not ever be fixable. Dang it, I was attached to that couple. But I'll just have to start again and try to make ones that look similar and tell myself, they lived happily ever after at the lavish beach house with private shoreline, and never came back. It still makes me sad though, to lose them after all that.

I'll turn my attention to the adopted sons' college experience for a while.

You can get the family back. Just the lot they owned will be the "never touch it whatever you do".

so how do I get the couple back then? Clicking their home lot in Belladonna Cove just gives me the prompt that they are in Twikii, and when I go there, live mode is greyed out and they don't appear anywhere. I can't seem to access them from either place?

"Cinebar;c-18082295" wrote:
There are several ways around some of the challenges you have created for yourself.

First, if you don't have any other Sims on vacation other than the ones who are stuck in limbo or even in the vacation hood, you can simply delete the vacation world (within the game) and the Sims should return back to their home lot. You can add the same world again if it isn't a custom world you were using for a vacation hood.

Second, if you don't want to go through the fuss of marrying off Sims you can use the headstone to make Sims become involved with other Sims on a lot. (cheat). Choices on the Headstone can help relationships and spawn kids etc.

As far as having six grandchildren, no one has to go through the romance to do that, simply adopt. LTW filled.

If it's too much of a chore to tend to those six, you can always move them out with another Sim and put them in a house (so your Sims can call them) or buy them each a cellphone, and or leave them in the bin, and never play them again. You can age up Sims with the Simmodder cheat object in the game. Or play them later, one by one by adding a Sim you don't care about to household and have them move out with all or each one at a time. Easier to play one by one.

Crashing, it sounds like you don't have the game set with Graphics Rule Maker correctly to where it won't crash, and will use the right amount of memory to keep it running if it's setup correctly.

Things that use too much memory in The Sims 2.

Walls, walls use a lot of performance power for this game. It's why a vacant lot is much smoother.

Inventory, for every townie in the hoods. If Sims visit owned businesses and your Sims sell them stuff every day, they are loaded down with stuff in their inventories.

Memories, every time you see Sims on community lots there are more memories being generated for every Sim there.

That's just a few things let alone how many Sims and visitors are on a lot.

It's why the Graphics Rule maker must be set to read the correct amount of RAM and memory on your video card.

University, there used to be a mod that sets the week for each semester to 3 days or maybe even 2 days. No one says they have to pass...lol.
I think I got it at Mod the Sims years ago but can't remember the name of it. But 3 days was enough for most of them to make the Dean's list in my game so that mod was very useful to shorten their time at college.

Really appreciate that, Cinebar! :)

If I delete Twikii Island (not sure how but will see in the game) my sims get plopped back into their house in Belladonna Cove, and then later I can reinstate Twikii Island and probably this time, just avoid buying any vacation homes there? That would be a great solution!

I got around the marrying off of 6 adult offspring problem by sticking the parent Sim's head into the Renuyu senso orb and changing aspiration, which gave him a different lifetime wish along with it. Then got them all off to college at once, where they're doing really well, all made Dean's List. But I didn't know a lot of what you mentioned, so thanks again.

I will check again to make sure I set it up to use more RAM, I recall changing an .ini file for 4 GB RAM instead of 2 but can't recall whether that was for Sims3 or Sims2. Big households are a big problem like you said, which is why I am going to strive to avoid having any Sim with a wish for tons of kids, ever again (plus it becomes drudgery to mass-produce childcare, for me at least).

Will check Mod the Sims for that idea.

Again, thank you and everyone else here who has been so generous with their help and advice, it's such a nice community!

@Cinebar how exactly do I delete Twikii Island, then? I went into the game and didn't see a way to do it. But one of my original couple did appear at a game party one of my college students threw at the dorm, lol. It was good to see him but there was nothing I could do, he was just there as a non-playable Sim. edited due to typo

You can delete the hoods by being in a different one at the time then clicking on the Hood menu at the top to switch but choose delete instead.
Just make double sure no one is living there or on vacation (actually in a hotel or vacation home etc.) This should bring the couple that is stuck back home. When your played Sims visit a dorm you can't control them but can only interact with them. You have to greet them at the dorm door just like you would greet a visitor at the home lot.

"Cinebar;c-18084489" wrote:
You can delete the hoods by being in a different one at the time then clicking on the Hood menu at the top to switch but choose delete instead.
Just make double sure no one is living there or on vacation (actually in a hotel or vacation home etc.) This should bring the couple that is stuck back home. When your played Sims visit a dorm you can't control them but can only interact with them. You have to greet them at the dorm door just like you would greet a visitor at the home lot.

I've been in Belladonna Cove and seen only what look like packs, and no option to delete them. Like from Belladonna cove I can click on the University one and go there to play, but it just winds up with Live Mode unavailable, no option to delete anything. Just a row of circular icons, and clicking on them enters them, but there's nothing else to do but click on them. ?


ETA Thank you @Cinebar! I went back in and finally found how to delete them, they don't make it obvious, it's a tiny little graphic with no color of its own, off to the right, very easy to miss. The couple are back home, safe and sound.

I still want to go to Twikii on vacation, but is that safe now as long as I never again go to the beach house they bought? Are vacation homes just not safe generally?