The Joy of CC: Who Knew a Couch Could Ruin EVERYTHING!
tl;dr. A 7 year old couch broke my entire game, lol STORY TIME.... If you enjoy reading people's CC/Mod-induced pain, this is the post for you lol. (And If you're having any of the below issues... I may know what CC is causing it!) So I have had a mess of glitches in my game for YEARS that I just gave up on solving, because I've basically resorted to the TS4 motto: "If it's not COMPLETELY broken, don't try to fix it." It's a fine motto, minus the fact that one of my most long-standing glitches involves the "Bills Information" which had never worked once since that feature even existed. Alongside that, my freelance writing career also stopped working maybe 3 years ago. In fact, no sim could even write a book, period. It's fine, who wants to pay bills or write a motivational book about fixing your life? I chose to ignore the glitches since they didn't have a HUGE impact on gameplay.... until December when suddenly any lot type with a bar in it became completely unplayable. All of the sims on the lot would debug and spawn somewhere else anytime someone tried ordering a drink. I do have you-know-who's "real drinks" mod installed so I figured that was causing this problem (not sure if the mod is allowed to be mentioned on here so I left the name out for now. iykyk, lol), but even after updating that, no fix. So I did what any simmer would do... freaking rage quit and not touch the game again for a month. But I got back on tonight after getting those sims withdrawals, and now... NOW my restaurants stopped being functional too, like I legit couldn't interact with anything dining related. All I wanted to do was go to dinner and accidentally forget to pay, but NOW I CAN'T EVEN DO THAT?! Okay, now I can't avoid it...it's completely broken. I reaaaaally didn't want to sift though a 14GB mods folder, so I decide to finally download TwistedMexi's Better Exceptions mod to see if that would detect any conflicting/broken mods... of course it did. I go ahead and remove a bunch of them on the list, hopped back in the game, but everything is still broken :/ So I ran the scan again, but this time one file in particular flagged a whole slew of warnings that basically politely indicated that it needs to get the hell out of my mods folder: A freaking couch? "Pfff what?".... First off, I've had this Novvvas Sofa in my game since 2017. I've also put it in at least half of my builds! In fact, it's my favorite couch! But still, I reluctantly take it out of the folder and launch the game juuuust to see what would happen, because what more could go wrong at this point? Hah, It's not the couch...... Yeahhhhhhh, IT WAS THE EFFING COUCH!!!!!!!! First indication: This mysterious "Bills Information" thing immediately pops up in my notifications for the first time EVER. *queue my jaw dropping to the floor* THEN My sim ACTUALLY goes to sit down and order food at the restaurant I left him in before I started this mass-deletion mess. Upon following him downstairs, NPCs were also at the bar successfully ordering all the drinks their hearts desired after their inadvertent Dry-December... good thing that lot has a bouncer lol. Well, there's 3 big fixes, but I still had one thing left to check. So I pop over to my writer sim's lot and tell him to write a book aptly titled, "PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SIMULATION-GOD (aka me), WORK!!".... and what do you know, the dang kid wrote and finished the book. I can smell the publishing royalties now!!! Well that's it folks. If you made it this far, I'm sorry lol. Moral of the story: download one of those conflicted mod scanners because it might just help. Also... beware of couches.
Sims 4 - Super Sentais!
this Topic is for all old Super Sentai series (Jaspion, Changeman, Flashman) 05-04-19_7-18-26 PM by Gustavo Lacerda Homem Assumpcao, no Flickr Juspion/Jaspion 05-04-19_2-56-00 PM by Gustavo Lacerda Homem Assumpcao, no Flickr Macgaren/Mad Gallant 05-04-19_3-10-53 PM by Gustavo Lacerda Homem Assumpcao, no Flickr Jyraia I Meeeeembe!
Oh, the Antics of the Nurse Practitioners! UPDATE He Strikes AGAIN
I recently reinstalled the SimRealist mod, Private Practice. Since I've basically restarted my save, my Sims will now have to get through the slight epidemic which will ultimately result in Herd Immunity. But first it was the youngest in the family who started out feeling poorly. Then it spread to his mother and his four older siblings, all Teens. While I had the mom at the clinic, I noticed a Nurse Practitioner prank one of the two bathrooms, happy at that time my Sim had already peed into a cup. What I didn't expect was that I would send the eldest two Teens to be seen, just a few short Sim hours later. Sure enough, the toilet it still rigged. Erik took one bathroom, and Aaron took the other. Aaron got the pranked toilet. :open_mouth: So, being a responsible Sim, he took a moment to repair the 'john'. Suddenly a doctor is in the bathroom with him, chatting. I'm wondering if he's going to be charged for the broken toilet? LOL I highly doubt it. Should be interesting. I've used this mod in the past, but I have never witnessed one of the medical team prank a toilet before. This made me smile. I wasn't in the best of moods earlier today, but I'm in a better one, now.
How can one sim get another pregnant and never have met?
So yesterday I was playing the game and decided to play the Harris family from Eco Lifestyle. I had played with Gemma Charm previously and she met Jeb Harris in highschool. They aged up together, and were buds. And I was gonna cheat him into University. And once I played him I saw that he had a daughter not in his family. However the daughter's mother was not in his relationships anywhere. So I spent a long, very long, time searching every world to find her. So he could meet his child, and the child's mother. Now when we first saw her in the family tree she was single. And had the last name Cho, so our daughter had the last name Cho. By the time we met, she was married and had the last name Shimizu. Confusing, she was also a 4 star celebrity. So somehow he met, woohood, and had a baby with a celebrity all without every actually meeting her. Or introducing himself. And she went from single to married in 5 minutes. Now I have Basemental, MCC, W, and Nisa K. How did this happen? Like it's okay, the baby is fine. We added her to his new family with the gf he met later on. And like other stuff happened. But I still wanna know if all the other sims that I've been seeing, that the game autopopulated, that have babies, don't know the partner.Oh, My Goodness, A Gold Medal?
I am getting acquainted with KS' Memorable Events mod. It's been recently updated to agree with the game, again. Prior to the upgrade, I've had a total of two Funerals. Things don't always work out for me the way I intend. I went to great lengths to find a tomestone/headstone, and picked up an Urn, just in case. Still can't mourn for the deceased. But the Ancient tomestone will allow for an epitaph to be written. The highest I've received for my efforts has been a Silver Medal. Today, just moments ago I achieved a gold. This allows for each Sim who attended to have a buff that helps them move on from the loss of the loved one. Yay.
Saint Nicholas, really?!
I find myself really disliking the Sharing is Caring community action plan. I had my sims vote for another plan that was in the lead by 6 and then suddenly this... Well, to make a long story short my sims, poor and with a toddler, looked forward to Winterfest and good ol' Father Winter only for the man to, not only take their microwave but their counter as well! My sims busted their butts for everything they own only for Father Winter to celebrate Reverse Winterfest! Why? Think of the children! :lol: Seriously though, why code him to steal things?
