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"Scam" you mean people are fighting back against housing discrimination??? I don't think these people know what the word scam means

Scams are designed to trick someone into giving up money based on lies. This is just.. asking for information then legally enforcing the law??

UPDATE: The information in this post is outdated. Please see this post.

Soooo... I didn't intend for two highly requested fixes for The Sims 2 to drop within the space of a week and a half, buuuut...

Here's where you can download an experimental patch to fix the so-called 'object limit'!

https://github.com/spockthewok/TS2ObjectLimitFix

(Ultimate Collection only at the moment, I'm afraid).

The good news is:

Both @lordcrumps and @teaaddictyt have tested it with stupidly large CC folders and report that it works.

There isn't a dissertation the length of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' you need to read through to understand wtf is going on.

The crashing wasn't caused by some hardcoded object limit at all! (That I know of).

An explanation of the issue for programmers:

And for everyone else:

The code for the Build/Buy menu was missing basic checks to confirm that the data it was trying to do things with was actually valid. No, I'm not joking.

Basically, it appears that all of the objects you can buy in the game are stored in something you can think of as being like a big, long list, which grows in size with the more custom objects you have.

The only purpose of the code that this plugin patches is to sort the items in the list into some kind of order. This is done by assessing if the value of the previous item in the list is larger than that of the item currently being looked at, and swapping their position if this is true (also known as an insertion sort).

In short, the game wasn't asserting that the data it was about to compare for sorting was valid before accessing it, and then promptly blowing up when it tried to do so and discovered it wasn't.

I imagine that the odds of the game making an oopsie and dumping some funky data into the list increases with the number of objects it is having to process - this might be why this issue only presents itself to those using multiple GB of Build/Buy CC. It was much easier to patch the code encountering the bad data within the list than to try and hunt down the mysterious culprit putting the data in there to begin with, so this is all the information I have at the moment unfortunately.

Either way, one of the first things you're taught when learning to code is to ALWAYS check that the data you're operating on has been initialised (i.e. it holds some kind of value). I guess someone at Maxis must have skipped that lecture :D

Is the 255 objects per subcategory limit theory true?

The Downloads folder I was using for testing had ~672 objects in the Deco/Misc subcategory (Maxis objects included). With the patch, I can freely navigate throughout the entire subcategory with zero crashes, so I guess not?

What about the whole OBJD limit thing?

People have varying beliefs of what the limit on OBJDs might be, but HCDU reports my Downloads folder had an OBJD count of 20,787. Again, without the patch the game would crash when switching categories in the Build/Buy catalogue, with the patch, no crashing.

If you want to hear my opinion on whether such a limit exists, watch this video.

Do I even need this patch if I don't use much CC?

As it adds some fairly important crash-prevention checks to part of the Build/Buy menu's functionality, I'd probably recommend using it anyway, just to be safe - we all know how much this game loves to crash!

Aaaah! I'm still getting crashes with the patch!

I'm aware that a few of you CC addicts out there have Downloads folders larger than the total size of everything ever uploaded to the internet, so if you still experience crashing in Build/Buy mode with this patch, please take a look at the mod's GitHub page and send me over the information requested there. Fingers crossed that shouldn't happen, but if it does, I'll try my best to investigate :)

Anyway...

Will

those who spend most time in CAS

those who spend most time in buy/build mode

those who spend the most time outside of the game (downloading cc, editing screenshots, making renders, writing fanfiction, etc.)

those who spend most time playing the game in live mode

all types are totally valid in their own right, and many of us go through all four at different times cause they're all fun.

at some point EA realized that they can print money just by catering to types 1 & 2, because developing a couple new hairs and a small handful of objects can be done quite cheaply, especially if you use previously-used models as a base.

they're making another attempt to wrap their claws around some of type 3 with their marketplace bullshit.

When I first started to use Monique’s hacked computer, I looked for at least short tutorial on how this mod works, but unfortunately I didn’t find anything. At first, I was puzzled why interest wasn’t charged to the sim’s accounts on some days, I thought that the mod didn’t work for me. And I was afraid that my game is corrupted when I found “SS Member” and “Frat Member” under “Chat with” menu option. It took some time to figure everything out.

Therefore, I decided to write a guide for the same beginners as I was :D Well, and for those who still haven’t fully explored features of this wonderful mod :)

Please feel free to write comments if you have something to add! I’ve been testing all the features of this mod for a while, including those that I had not touched before, and I could still miss something.

Credits: 

Huge thanks to my good friend and patient editor @anibats for correcting my poor grammar and making some additions to the guide. Seriously, I don’t know what I would do without you :D

And also many thanks to @belladovah for some useful info for the guide.

This is the quite big guide so I hid it under the cut.

Let's celebrate 400 followers with a small grab bag of items! 🎉!

Tbh, it's mostly a spring cleaning of my project folder 😅 Here are 6 items to spice up your Sims 2 game that weren't part of any set: a functional toaster, a functional computer, a bird papercraft, an office chair, a seagull mobile and a tapestry with 100 swatches! The original Brave Little Toaster That Could is found here, by SurelySims, the papercraft Super Birds here, by LamaLama, the Seagull Mobile here, by Simdertalia, the Indigo Chair Office here, by NoStyle x w o o d l a n d, the Ye Old Tapestry is here, by Lunamoth and the iMac G3 is here, by AroundTheSims4.

Everything is low poly and basegame compatible. The iMac includes both a FreeTime and a basegame version. A collection file is included in the download for convenience.

Full object list and extra previews are waiting under the cut ↓

I’ve noticed that certain @veranka-downloads​ links are broken because the redirection service they used - Bitly - marked them as potentially harmful:

I’ve found a method to retrieve the original link. It might be a common knowledge but I didn’t know about this method so I thought I’d share.

You need to copy the original Bitly link, paste it and add a “+” at the end, like so:

Hit enter and you’ll be redirected to a link preview page:

Hearty Home by Twoflower

my annual gift to myself is typing in all caps all day, but i'll bypass that for the moment.

look y'all, i am going to make more fleshed out posts for this stuff, and this post will redirect to them in the future, but i wanted to get it out. i've been working on this (and some other) stuff for the past 2+ weeks solid.

first, i have 3 monique'd ATMs… the only three that i know of. with every improvement i could make possible (for now). http://simfileshare.net/folder/262970/

update: full post here: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/monique-atms/

mq og atm post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/nanashis-4t2-atm-redux/

netmicro atm post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/netmicros-atm-redux-moniqued/

4t2 atm post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/nanashis-4t2-atm-redux/

speaking of monique, i have a phone that'll let you retrieve the accounts of dead sims. yeah, that's what i said. https://www.simfileshare.net/download/5949275/

update: inheritance phone post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/monique-inheritance-phone/

i have retextures of mog hughson's deco parking spots (plus recolors). i'm not aware of anyone else doing this? http://simfileshare.net/folder/262971/

update: mog's deco parking space retex & recolors post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/deco-parking-retex/

some helipad recolors for the simlish-lovers that don't want a massive "H" in their hood. https://www.simfileshare.net/download/5949274/

update: helipad recolors post: https://lodane.neocities.org/y/helipad-recolors/

and i have a custom (maxis-style) food stand, sorta. i mean, it IS a custom food stand, but it's a prototype for a template i'm working on. nope, i'm gonna make them compatible w/ jonasn's food stand improvements before i release them.

OKAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ME! LOL

I WILL FINISH TYPING UP THE PROPER POSTS WITH ALL THE IMAGES, ETC.

The Vroom Set from Seasons doesn't have a lot of recolors* out there, but now it has 14 more!

There are TWO meshes in this upload - first, this 1-tile dresser: the PitStop Dresser aka dressersmallracecar.

And second, I have done recolors of the Vroom! Armoire aka amoiresmallracecar. The dresser and the armoire have separate textures - but they all do match.

I don't like the wood textures for this one as much, but Maxis meshes have their limits so I'll have to accept it.

For the wood colors: I am using Dynamite, Depth Charge, Shrapnel, Safety Fuse and Time Bomb by @pooklet, and Nesert and Honey by Io aka @serabiet.

plus a yellow-y ‘Ikea’ recolor from AL as the base. And, 6 metal colors from Fallout 4 (green, blue, red, 2 greys and one black)! Thanks to however extracted those and shared them on GoS a long time ago.

See these cool seating meshes though? Those are by @hugelunatic and they are repo'd to these recolors.

You can get a version of the sofa, chair and couch that are also repo'd to the Jonsei blanket here

and a version that are not repo'd to the Jonesi blanket here

you can get the Vroom bookcase (my personal favorite) here

and there's a single and double bed too! here

Download - Vroom Set - 14RC's

*there are some other recolors of this set! Here, here, here and here