Stupid Things I've Done

"MadDoctor61;d-937330" wrote:
I don't know if having two lots caused the quirks that entered the game, but that may have been the cause. I couldn't access the chests or bookcases. Even after moving the family to that lot, things were still screwed up.

I haven't been able to access bookcases on additional owned residential lots either. That is consistent with my experiences with additional owned lots. Haven't tried chests though. However when I finally moved my family to that additional lot making it the primary home the bookcases started working normally.

I had a frustrating experience with CAW once too. I can't build from scratch very well, but I love to decorate! I was editing an empty custom world made by another person to suit my own purposes. I just added more available empty lots and of different sizes. Then I added completely decorated lots and filled up the whole town, but when I tried to play it, there were too many routing problems. No sim in the town could pass through any doorway and I spent a real life week, every day after work, going to different lots, trying to figure the problem out.

Once I did, I realized that I no longer had functional versions of those lots saved anywhere. I had to scour the internet to find the lots I'd downloaded and edit them to my tastes all over again. Then I had to redownload that custom world and edit it all over again. Lastly, I exported the edited world with all empty lots and then added each decorated lot manually in edit town mode in game.

It took my months to do this. I was livid!

But... the new version of the edited world was actually so much better. There are no more town-wide routing failures and I had a ton of new ideas to improve upon my original town design. Even though I hated it at the time, it was worth it! :)

I would just like to say, ElanoreAlexandria, that you have the prettiest sim avatar! Was that a posed picture - it's just so cute! I'm "stealing" that color-pattern idea - very fetching.

As for CAW, I'm afraid to even try! I just know I'll get something cobbled together and I'll lose it all to a crash. I just recently redid an entire town to my liking (Roaring Heights - was really good) and then moved in my sim to play and BOOM! got a hard freeze. Wouldn't come out of it and I had to close the game. Lost everything (my progress not the world) - including some cute patterns. I don't know why it's so hard to remember to save. I just get caught up in the fun, I guess. I redid all my work on the town and it is so fun to play. Yes, I'm trying to remember to save more often.

But the absolute worst thing that ever happened to me was when I lost an entire world (not just a save) and couldn't get it back. It was in the same Roaring Heights world and my sim had made so much progress, and her house was so beautiful! I went to save the game and it stuck - then it just winked out! It was gone. That was on my old computer - Vista- yuck! Now I keep at least one old save ( I used to delete them). This game can break you.

Thank you, jaletu2005! :) As it happens, this was not posed. I'm playing a pseudo-legacy with this sim in the town I semi-built. :D I'm also taking pictures and writing about it, diary-style. (I've always wanted to keep a diary :blush:) Fern is a shy and hopeless romantic sim and last night she'd had an amazing date. In this picture, she was supposed to be doing her class activity for university, but she's distracted, very likely daydreaming about it. I just got lucky with pause button, and I really like the picture I manged to take because it's totally natural.

I totally understand your frustrations! I looooove Moonlight Falls so much and always want to play in it. I also want all the features from all the expansion packs to be available to me while I play. I like having all those options to keep my game interesting, and since I like to try playing through multiple generations, I find this especially important. So many time, I've tried to edit Moonlight Falls only for it to blow up in my face.

That's why I found an empty custom world similar to Moonlight Falls and edited it until I was happy. It can be very discouraging when it doesn't work out. That's why I have no future town construction plans. I'm going to play my town for a very long time, and probably panic down the road when I get bored of it because building is so stressful and scary. :dizzy:

It's not nearly as stupid as the original bungle above. The replacement family recently upgraded to a new home. They now have two kids, the youngest just went to the school for the first time on a Friday and a girl came home with him after school. He has been building his friendship and asked her to stay the night. The house originally had a master bedroom with a double bed, a second bedroom with a single bed and a nursery. That was fine when they moved in with the toddler. I redesigned a bit and added a second bed to the second bedroom. That takes care of the two kids. But there is no place for the guest to sleep.


This home will eventually be use by other sims and Story Progression seems to like kids. I knew more space was going to be needed. I added a basement (what a pain that was) with a billiards room, and walls for another bathroom and two bedrooms (with double beds for teens). That put a big dent in the family budget (already dented by the move). The budget was obliterated when I had them empty their personal inventories of all those rocks and gems they collected. After selling off the cheap ones, they were able to send the rest for smelting or cutting (including two pink diamonds-heart shaped cut). The have 17 simoleons to their name. Everything that would be sold was. I can't afford a bed (or even a sleeping bag). I feel sorry for the poor kid with no place to sleep. Oh well, when the older kid had a sleepover, the guest was up till 5 in the morning. I wish there was a way to encourage them to go to bed.

Edit: The girl guest found a place to sleep. In the boys bed while he was in the shower, she asked for a bedtime story. I don't feel so bad for her now. The poor boy gets to serial nap on the couch.

Second Edit: After the boy settled down on the couch, the girl guest moved to the love seat in the parlour.

I pulled another boner. I decided to put a front stoop on my library. Nope can't do that. No foundation. That idea kept nagging at me though and I couldn't let it go. I also wanted to move it further back on the lot, partly to make room for the stoop and partly because the back was too large. Then I came up with an idea. Use Blueprint Maker to copy my library. Then I can put up temporary wall corners to outline where my library is, demolish the library, move the temporary wall corners back to where I want them, build the foundation inside the wall corners, place the blueprints on the foundation and finally delete the wall corners that were only there as an outline.

First, Blueprint Maker didn't seem to like my library and wouldn't make the blueprint. I thought maybe it had something to do with the Sim reading inside, so I waited till the middle of the night to try again. Still no luck with the blueprint. I tried again the next night. Nope. I couldn't wait any longer. I decided to do it manually.

I moved everything at the back of the library forward as far as possible, demolished the back corners, built a foundation block on each corner so I knew where to build. Then I demolished the rest of the back three rows, joined the foundation corners, put in flooring and the wall pattern samples and returned the windows where they belonged. I moved the furnishings that were originally lining the back wall into their new location. I worked my way forwards a couple rows at a time, shifting out of the way, demolishing, building anew, relocating. It took forever. I had to dig out the basement to put in columns so I could build the floor over an incomplete foundation. It took ages to do but I finally finished. It looks identical to the original and in the identical location, but up a bit on a foundation. I considered it a success. Till I tried to work on the front stoop.

How many of you have realized my boner yet. IDENTICAL LOCATION!!!!! I wanted to move it 4 squares back, which would have made the reconstruction much easier because I wouldn't have had to shift everything away from the demolition zone. I don't have room to build a front stoop, or much of one anyway. I built the smallest one possible and put the stairs on the side so sims will be able to enter and exit, till I have enough gumption saved up to do it all again.

Same here! :) I started fiddling with CAW because I wanted a worlds with "everything" in it. The fiddling continued for over a year, but the result was worth it - Twin Towns! I have to add that I'm fidding again - with a smaller world this time, but I expect it to take just as long...

I've lost so many builds from crashing a freezing of CAW/EIG/Game that I've gotten used to saving to the library after a few stages of a build. If I like what I've done after a few areas, I save it to the library and keep going.
I actually find I like my remakes better than the originals (I tell myself to make me feel better). :lol:

I grew onions in my garden, replanting the best till I planted a perfect one. I got rid of all non-perfect onions. Because there are still plants missing, I planted Unknown Uncommon seeds. One of them was a Putrid Onion plant. With the Gardener Service taking after my garden, I got a little lazy. I didn't notice that they had stored some of those putrid onions in the fridge before I cleaned out the garden. Onions are used in many recipes. I'm sure you know where this is going by now. Anyway, I my angler sim needed bait for Tuna (aka onions) and I noticed I only had 2 left. My perfect onions had all been used up and only 2 putrid ones remained. I planted one of those putrid onions and am starting the perfection process all over again. To make matters worse, the latest planing of Unknown Uncommon seeds included an outstanding onion plant that I deleted before it would have been harvested. It may have given me a perfect onion to restock from. Moral of the story, keep a close eye on you fridge's contents, and replant before you run too low.

"MadDoctor61;c-16674084" wrote:
I grew onions in my garden, replanting the best till I planted a perfect one. I got rid of all non-perfect onions. Because there are still plants missing, I planted Unknown Uncommon seeds. One of them was a Putrid Onion plant. With the Gardener Service taking after my garden, I got a little lazy. I didn't notice that they had stored some of those putrid onions in the fridge before I cleaned out the garden. Onions are used in many recipes. I'm sure you know where this is going by now. Anyway, I my angler sim needed bait for Tuna (aka onions) and I noticed I only had 2 left. My perfect onions had all been used up and only 2 putrid ones remained. I planted one of those putrid onions and am starting the perfection process all over again. To make matters worse, the latest planing of Unknown Uncommon seeds included an outstanding onion plant that I deleted before it would have been harvested. It may have given me a perfect onion to restock from. Moral of the story, keep a close eye on you fridge's contents, and replant before you run too low.

Or keep at least one perfect (or the best you can manage) specimen of each harvestable in a storage chest someplace else, they won't spoil, so that the last one you have doesn't get used to make dinner -- for your sims or the fish they are trying to catch. ;)