the game being as old as is, you'd think there are no such guides necessary, there are guides on mts2, the thing has its own wiki! but this post comes as a reaction to my rl friends. see, almost all of them have the game and often they have no clue about the following. :O if this bores you, just skip it. the CC I have now is different from when I made that resource post some time ago so the links will be somewhat different.

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Ok, without using the insimenator, is there any way (cheat code/mod) to give sims a 'face lift'. My family just had the ugliest twins ever.

Also, you know how in Free Time sims have a natural inclination for a hobby? Is there any mod to change which one they have a natural inclination for?

I can't find either of these on MTS2.


Thanks!

EDIT:

Almost forgot! When playing sims on my laptop, the computer and TV have no image. Just a black screen. The sound plays fine, but without the image. Is there a way to fix this? It's fine on my PC.

My fire-related bug has evolved since last I posted about it. I installed Uni, and now instead of the whole scenario freezing, the firefighter comes and puts out the fire like normal, except the fire animation doesn't go away. The stove isn't on fire, because Sims can cook with it, no one gets burned, etc. but the animation is stuck.

Now... I am almost 100% sure that I saw an object/mod/cheat/technique/something for nuking fires stuck on lots. I thought it was the lot debugger, but I have that and I checked all the options. Does anyone know a cheat that does this? I've googled and come up with nothing.

ETA: I forgot to mention two things, namely 1) I ran the hack conflict detention utility and it found nothing, and 2) when a Sim's computer caught on fire from him trying to fix it with not enough mechanical skill, the fire didn't stick to the computer. I'm going to run a test with the cheapest grill.

you see, I have this YA in college who was bitten. and I'd really like to keep her a vampire, but going to and coming from exams is proving... difficult. ;_;

any tips, cheats, hacks you know that could help me out? I'd like to avoid little piles of ashes on my sims' walkway.


EDIT: thanks for all your great advice. in case anyone is interested, I discovered that it also works without little piles of ashes if the lot the sim lives in is small enough, so the way from the door isn't too long. ^__^

and I tried to make the vampire meditate but the command gets dropped from the queue every time. (?) other sims can do it, no problem.

Does anyone know where I can get the hack that allows you to get promotions without having a specific amount of friends?

I have a recurring bug, and I've looked around a whole bunch of help sites as well as straining my googling skills to the max, but found no answer. Yesterday it happened again, so I decided to stop faffing about and see if anyone here has experience with this sort of thing:

Whenever a fire occurs on any of my lots, all Sims on the lot get stuck in fire panic mode, and the fire fighter who arrives doesn't get anywhere near the fire, let alone put it out. The animation looks like they're stuck on an endless loop, repeating the same fraction of a movement over and over. I'm familiar with Sims panicking around fire, and this is beyond that. No matter how long I wait, nothing moves or changes, the fire fighter does not put out the fire, no one catches fire, nothing. Time continues to move, but all Sims on the lot are stuck in their little time warps.

I have the base game plus Nightlife, I'm running it on a laptop with Windows Vista and I have a whole bunch of hacks, mainly MATY ware, but also a jealousy mod and a homework mod from MTS2. I never had this type of problem when I was running only the base game on this same computer.

Anyone else encounter something like this?