I'll try to look out the post, but it's a few years ago, and it could be hard to find. To be honest, gummilutt probably said that she wouldn't risk it herself, rather than categorically that it was unsafe. It's nearly 3 a.m. here and I really must go to bed, but if you want to search for it yourself, it was the school in New Desconia. Nothing terrible happened, and I played the lot and the 'hood for a long time afterwards with nothing worse than losing all the paintings painted by the pupils. Eventually however the lot became unplayable again, and this time I was able to restore the whole 'hood from back up with no significant loss of play. After that I moved the Sims out and cleaned it much more thoroughly. Unfortunately I haven't played it since, so I can't swear how successful that was.

[EDIT] Ninja'd --you found it yourself!

Never used this spell but I would think you have to load up their house and have her break up with him and he moves out.

It ended up that Leo, the husband, stopped by to kick over Logan's garbage can for the hundredth time. So Logan summoned Ethel and did the spell on Leo, and it worked correctly. He didn't even have to cast spells on Ethel to get her to marry him, even though he had the reagents all ready!

Leo is the oldest son of the oldest family in the neighborhood though. Logan might have messed with the wrong one; we'll have to see :D

Sounds like it. If by "they" you mean Logan and Ethel start fighting, then yeah, it sounds like it backfired. The spell failed and Ethel, being furious for being spelled, slapped Logan. What the spell should do is remove the marriage flag of the target. I tired it once with Leod McGreggor and Stella Roth... But I remember also using tabula rasa. So it's possible that the spell breaks up any/all romantic relationship(s), but it's been a while, so you'll have to test. Did you go back to Ethel's lot? Is her marriage broken up when you load her and her lot? Then you'll know more about who the spell targets.

Anyway, I had a question of my own: Anyone ever kill a servo/have a servo die? If so, how?
I'm writing up some rules for my Mad Scientist sims and wanted to introduce the chance of a Robot Uprising, but I won't do it if they're basically unkillable. The wikia says they can die of satellites, scissors, and the cowplant, but I don't know how I'd work that into any military strategy (not to mention that the idea of a cowplant eating a robot just seems wrong). I'm hoping they can also die of fire or electrocution. I don't usually play with servos, so I'm hoping someone else has some experience.

Is there a way to rotate terrain paint? I would like the pattern below to go vertically.

@yavannatw - use the rotate keys (comma/period, or the pointy bracketss)

Anyways, I restored the lot from backup. Aside from my Sims getting reset, having to fix the day of the week, and that sort of stuff, everything seems to be working fine. HoodChecker came up clean too.

Is that while you're spraying? I tried that and it didn't work. I'll give it another go.

That works for floor tiles, not ground cover I am afraid. Terrain paint is not a *tile* that you can rotate.
@yavannatw You probably have to edit the texture yourself, turn it in your paint program, and make a new terrain paint with it.

Oh yeah, I'd accidentally selected a floor tile instead of the ground cover. Sorry for the misinformation.

Is this something I should be worried about?



Mootilda's HoodChecker didn't pick up anything weird.

Nah, some of the wants are glitched up. I think the massage table and green energy sources.

I've had wants for massage tables and green energy sources display properly in my game. I thought the blank ones were supposed to be due to a mod conflict or something.

Could be. I think Squinge's LTW hack can break it.

@maxon
My game is installed in French.
I didn't use Bidou's career for the editing.
I'm doing it by export the lang file in SimPE (it's named english.txt), then replace the text in English by French using Notepad++, then rename the file french.txt and import it in Simpe. I then fixed typos in SimPE if needed.



Commit and save.


@he.mf.bg
I have those since I recently installed a reduced LTW mod (not Squinge's one).

I think this might be it if I'm understanding you properly. You replaced the English text in the english.txt file but your game is installed in French - correct? The thing is because of your language setting (French) what the game will do is use french.txt not english.txt when you play. To get around this, put the career into English for ALL languages by pressing the Default lang only button (picture) - make sure it's your translation in the window when you do. What this does is use the english.txt version for every language in your installation and wipes the rest.

Although ummmm - maybe your default language is French? oooo I dunno about that because I've never dealt with any other installation than an English one. My advice is to try it but make back ups. You know there's a career chance card tester you can access through Debug Mode?

@maxon


Yes and I changed the name of the file in french.txt

Default language is French.


I didn't know that. I'll give it a try asap.

I'm pretty sure your solution is going to be use the default lang only button but take care you get the right 'default' language. I'm a bit uncertain with your game being installed in French so can't give you a definitive answer there.

That's not a problem, I keep SimPE setup to use English (UK) as default but it still 'knows' to set English (US) as Default when clearing all except default because that is the only language used for texts that don't display in game like animations etc.

There is no need to rename the English.txt to French.txt, just import the English.txt to the French language.

Thank you both for your answers and your help.
@Chris Hatch
@maxon

I used the career chance card tester and the texts are fine.
My sim got demoted because of a hobby chance card. I didn't even know this could happen. I truly thought it was a career chance card.

Now I just need to found out why I can't build a barn roof.

For some reason I'm not able to call the Garden Club members, it says "this sim does not own a phone" when I try. I could swear that it was possible before... should I be able to do it? I could always teleport them over, but that feels a bit too cheaty.

I'm not sure if the Garden Club members are included, but FreeTime made it so a lot of NPCs couldn't be called on the phone. SimWardrobe has a fix for it: http://simfileshare.net/download/257606/

BO does, as well: http://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2988

Which one you use is up to your preference.

I am expecting this to be hugely controversial, mostly because Cyjon claims it can't happen, but I have had a servo die of flies. It was quite a shock.

I would also assume that getting hit by a giant chunk of satellite wouldn't be good for a servo either, but I haven't ever tested this.

@ihatemandatoryregister Oh wow, I was unaware of that. This helps a lot, thanks!

With all the Veronaville love going around, I'm compiling a list of ALL the premade sims* with Shakespearean names (that DON'T live in Veronaville). If anyone wants to take a look at my list and tell me if I missed anyone?

• Ophelia Nigmos
• (Pease)Blossom Moonbeam
• Mortimer Goth
• Cassandra Goth
• Alexander Goth
• Don (John/Pedro) Lothario
• Malcolm Landgraab
• Jules (Julia/Juliet) O' Mackey
• John Mole
• Edward Contrary
• Elizabeth Aspir
• Pauline (Paulina) Aspir
• Violet (Viola) Jocque
• (Don) Armand (de Adriano) DeBateau
• Jessica Peterson

As you can see, I'm not terribly strict. I'm playing around with an idea and I want to have as many options as possible!

*living sims. Sorry Talbolt Contrary and Adriana Lothario!