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#1 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 3:19 AM
Default What's the stupidest thing you've ever done in Sims 2?
I'm talking mindless mistakes that made you go "Ack! No! I did NOT just do that!" a second after you've done it. My all-time stupidest thing:

So I definitely wasn't paying much attention as I loaded my game tonight - AND DELETED MY BACC HOOD! With the trashcan in-game, of course.

And, in keeping with the sort of day I've been having (no backup employee at work and chaos all around, rainstorms on my walk home, fell down the stairs and skinned my knees - worst type of injury ever, IMO) I had just played it last night and progressed a decent amount - all my back-up has is just the start of the hood, so no hopes there.

Gah! Make me feel better - share your "OMG! I did NOT just do that!" moments!
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#2 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 3:43 AM
Ouch! My sympathies to you.

I had a community lot freeze up on my recently, it was a bakery business and I had been running it for about 4 days straight. I was attempting to get the daily revenues up so it could be remotely run. I had the owner on site and he would just revamp himself on the aspiration electric machine as needed. Since it was a bakery I would have him send his two employees home when the business closed for the day and then he would bake to refill inventory. All is going well, sales are great and things are running smoothly I get towards the end of the 4th day and am just about to close down when I decide to reprice something first. Shift into pricing mode and when I try to come back out of it my computer freezes.

Basically it crashed and what I needed to do and should have done was simply reboot. However in my mind numbing moment I didn't want to lose the 4 days so I quit from the keyboard function and saved the lot. Minute I did it I knew I was an idiot. Of course the lot is now frozen and so is his home lot. No way to go into them and no way to unfreeze them. So I had to restore from my back up which was two days old and I lost a heck of a lot more than the 4 lousy days at the bakery.

I now back up after each and every game session not just every couple of days or so, lesson learned.
Test Subject
#3 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 3:46 AM
It wasn't really something I did, but something my sim did. One point away from max cooking skills, she starts a fire trying to cook a grilled cheese, of all things. She nearly died.

(I know how you feel. On another game today, I accidentally turned it off without saving. I had been playing for THREE HOURS STRAIGHT, and had a new high score.)

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#4 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 4:19 AM Last edited by jodemilo : 28th Jun 2010 at 4:43 AM.
Oooh Clashfan, I hate it when that happens.

Probably the most stupid thing I've every done was when I was new to simming and doing all the things you're not supposed to do: moving sims between hoods (thus breaking their relationships etc), moving occupied lots around (ended up with a clone of the Lothario household with two sets of Don Lothario and his missus walking around - don't ask how I got myself into that situation!!) and generally dumb things like that. No wonder my game exploded and I had to start again!

Coming close to the above is not backing up my game frequently enough. When the above-said explosion happened, I had to revert to a backup from two weeks earlier, which meant all my hard work getting sims graduated, married off, careered and babied up was in vain. I have two folders of photos for one particular family - Mark I and Mark II (4 kids in each version but I somehow miss the children from Mark I). I now usually backup before each playing session.

Also downloading stuff from the main Sims 2 site using the default installer which resulted in dodgy custom content which I then had to go and track down and weed out as it was preventing my game from working (turned out to be a couple of cars).

It's amazing I perservered with the game after all the above actually!

(Actually I know I didn't quite answer the original question - sorry Forevercamp!)
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#5 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 10:34 AM
ForeverCamp, I feel your pain!

I've also deleted hoods from the game menu and from the neighborhoods-file without even realizing it. Hint: Do not start to mess around with gamefiles when you are about to fall asleep after playing the whole day...

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#6 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 2:42 PM
Well it wasn't during the game, but like... me being the smart cookie I am, somehow managed to delete ALL my downloads.
... for the second time.
And I couldn't retrieve them or anything.
Thus alot of head + desk = ow ensued.
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#7 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 3:05 PM
I removed all my downloads from a neighborhood I was troubleshooting...including Monique's computer, which wiped out the record of everyone's debt. No backup. It immediately killed my interest in that neighborhood.

Like jodemilo, I don't back up frequently enough. Unlike jodemilo, I can't revert to an out-of-date backup. (I get frustrated when I play a lot for two Sim days and it crashes before I save. I "punish" the lot by moving it to the end of the rotation because I can't bear the thought of going back and playing those same two days over again.)
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#8 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 4:16 PM
I don't backup frequently, just because I hate how long it takes, but that was almost enough to make me want to do it - the BACC, thank goodness, hadn't progressed far enough for me to get really attached but OMG, if it had been Pleasantview, I would done something horrible to myself. I am now recreating the BACC, and will probably back-up Pleasantview before every play session.
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#9 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 4:34 PM Last edited by simsamu : 28th Jun 2010 at 4:34 PM. Reason: t button keeps sticking
I have had those kind of days, when i first started I built a custom hood which I played for 3 months before it got a bit glitchy now and again. So I looked up the instructions to back up the hood and remove the neighbourhood folder etc and wrote it down on the first thing that came to hand, an envelope, cause I was in a hurry to get out. Came back in the evening and lifted the instructions and started following them, started the game and couldn't understand why no Angel Falls appearred afterall I had done exactly what I had written down. Then realised I hadn't turned the envelope over and started from the beginning therefore I hadn't made a back up or copied my hoods folder. Duh!
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#10 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 5:32 PM
Quote: Originally posted by mangaroo
Like jodemilo, I don't back up frequently enough. Unlike jodemilo, I can't revert to an out-of-date backup. (I get frustrated when I play a lot for two Sim days and it crashes before I save. I "punish" the lot by moving it to the end of the rotation because I can't bear the thought of going back and playing those same two days over again.)


Ooh I do now mangaroo, I do! Before every playing session now - yes I'm paranoid but I guess that's what happens when you've experienced losing a lot of game progress.

I agree with you about not wanting to go back to playing the same lot again for a while after it crashes and you've lost all your progress. It just feels like you're going through the ropes and often the story progresses in a different way from the first time and maybe not as good (sometimes it's better though).

It's one reason why I try to save game progress every 20 mins, or after something good or important happens.
Beautiful Dinosaur
#11 Old 28th Jun 2010 at 7:34 PM
Not sure if it really counts... but I just leaned on my power button & rebooted my pc whilst posting a random question. I've got to go back and type it all again now :P

But with TS2 it would have to be years ago when I had just finished building my first custom hood, all the sims were based on my friends, everything was perfect. I somehow managed to turn on the movie camera (without knowing how) and I wasn't too clever about getting rid of (what I thought was) the recorded movie. After deleting my whole Sims 2 folder, I realised that in my haste to delete the movie file, I'd deleted everything. Not clever.

Who knows where thoughts come from....? They just appear.
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#12 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 12:43 AM
You guys are all scaring me. O_o

Okay... *thinks* So I had this couple and I thought I had turned off jealously for the household so the wife flirted with another guy and they all got mad at each other. No, Jealousy had not been turned off. Alas, I did not care about them too much anyways.

That's the worst I can come up with.

...

Oh no it isn't! The cow came to a Uni lot of mine after two sims of mine had had an excellent date and were just coming home to "do some stuff" that night. Without knowing what was going on, I didn't see the cow and he went up to my sim and flirted with her. She denied it but somehow she still had the memory of cheating? I had to quit without saving; I didn't want those memories and damaged relationships.
When I went back to the lot I ended up making the guy sulk all day.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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#13 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 2:08 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Koda_lovemusic.
The stupidest thing I ever did was with Uni. I played a single sim's whole 4 years through, then it was the day of graduation party (the 3-day grace period to get out of campus). I didn't want anything to go wrong with her party, so I decided to exit to the neighborhood...without saving > God, it was such a pain getting her perfect GPA back...


OMG I think I would have punched the computer screen if that had happened to me! Four whole years? Getting through ONE semester is tedious enough for me !
Theorist
#14 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 8:06 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Koda_lovemusic.

The stupidest thing I ever did was with Uni. I played a single sim's whole 4 years through, then it was the day of graduation party (the 3-day grace period to get out of campus). I didn't want anything to go wrong with her party, so I decided to exit to the neighborhood...without saving > God, it was such a pain getting her perfect GPA back...


You played the sim's 4 years without saving even once?
Anyway, I also did a really stupid thing in Uni as well. I was playing a Romance Sim and turned off the free will. She kept wanting to met new people, become friends/best friends and flirt with them and stuffs like that. I spend most of the time fulfilling her wants and needs forgot to make her do her college assignments, term papers and even going to classes that during the final exam, she got a D and almost got an academic probation
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#15 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 12:29 PM
Well, actually, that situation I mentioned was an exception. Since almost all of my Sims have Knowledge aspiration and they always want to "go to class", "do assignment", "finish term papers" and stuffs like that, it's actually easier to get a Dean's list than an academic probation... MUCH easier, in fact
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#16 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 7:49 PM
Oh I can recall saving with glitches at least two times when the whole point of quiting was to reset the glitches.

Quote: Originally posted by Clashfan
Ouch! My sympathies to you.

I had a community lot freeze up on my recently, it was a bakery business and I had been running it for about 4 days straight. I was attempting to get the daily revenues up so it could be remotely run. I had the owner on site and he would just revamp himself on the aspiration electric machine as needed. Since it was a bakery I would have him send his two employees home when the business closed for the day and then he would bake to refill inventory. All is going well, sales are great and things are running smoothly I get towards the end of the 4th day and am just about to close down when I decide to reprice something first. Shift into pricing mode and when I try to come back out of it my computer freezes.

Basically it crashed and what I needed to do and should have done was simply reboot. However in my mind numbing moment I didn't want to lose the 4 days so I quit from the keyboard function and saved the lot. Minute I did it I knew I was an idiot. Of course the lot is now frozen and so is his home lot. No way to go into them and no way to unfreeze them. So I had to restore from my back up which was two days old and I lost a heck of a lot more than the 4 lousy days at the bakery.

I now back up after each and every game session not just every couple of days or so, lesson learned.
Test Subject
#17 Old 29th Jun 2010 at 10:59 PM
I made a replica of my family, and then I got called down to dinner. I left the game running, and then I came back, and all my Sims died in a kitchen fire. o.o

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#18 Old 2nd Jul 2010 at 6:40 PM
Augh! I think this thread jinxed my game! I was making a huge building and swinging my foot and it somehow hit the Power Off button. Usually this just makes the screen go black and if I press it again it will usually resume whatever I was doing before, but this time it didn't, I guess because I had Sims 2 running, so I had to start over... from five minutes ago. Thankfully I'm a control freak and save every ten minutes when I'm building. But I had been placing windows, which I think is the most tedious task in the game, and had to start over.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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#19 Old 3rd Jul 2010 at 1:58 AM
@ Kailacat:

Ooooohh... that sucks. Hence why I keep my tower ON the desk, not UNDER it.
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#20 Old 5th Jul 2010 at 10:28 PM
Ok not really a mistake of disastrous proportions but I certainly feel stupid over it. I'm in the process of starting an additional custom hood, for some strange reason I thought it would be fun. Apparently my memory of just how much work is involved was wiped clean. I've spent the last week assembling CC as I decided on a rural farming community.

Finally I feel ready to begin the work on the hood. Load it up delete all hoods except for Riverblossom Hills since that's the one I want to use. Load the hood and discover that I've forgotten to load the clean template for the hood, I did the stealth hood but not the hood itself. Back out and go through the process of correcting that little mishap. Get it reloaded go in all looks good, I test the lot's I've added and everything looks fine. Go into CAS to make the first Sim and discover that my default face templates are not there. Cursing I exit yet again I then proceed to spend close to two hours trying to sort it out. Go through all the troubleshooting steps, track down and redownload the original files just in case they're corrupt ect ect ect.

Nothing is working every time I go back into the game and CAS I see those ugly Maxis mugs starring back at me. My custom skin and eyes are there all the hair/clothes ect. Finally it occurs to me to actually click on one of the faces (yeah I didn't do this before) and low and behold it's the default that appears.

I forgot to delete the thumbnails and let them regenerate. Man do I feel stupid, not to mention the hours of my time wasted. Time to turn it off and walk away.
Theorist
#21 Old 6th Jul 2010 at 3:00 AM
All this talk about not backing up has made me look in the help section. Apparently, backing up means copying the whole Sims 2 folder in My Documents, and it's 1.18 GB for me.

On Topic:
Immediately after buying the hot tub my sim was yearning for some hot female hot tub action. And wouldn't you know it, there was a smoking hot blonde standing right outside! A quick introduction and a joke and we are in the tub. A few seconds of conversation, I... I mean my sim thought her voice sounded a bit odd. And why is she slouching? Wait, thats not blonde hair... that's WHITE hair...

...

Mad Poster
#22 Old 6th Jul 2010 at 3:41 AM
I don't back it up because I just don't. I have a nifty program called "AutoSave 2010" that came with my computer. From the looks of it, it's homemade though, by the last owner of my computer. Works great. I just don't see the point if this program saves all my files automatically every 30 minutes. :/

Stupidest thing I ever did is when I first got the game back in Canada, and I was playing along fine. You could hear me from the other room going 'no, like, sleep in the same bed please' and 'this wallpaper is, like, awesome'. We even have a home video of it. Aaanyways, I was 12 at the time and had no idea what the hell I was doing, so I made a boarding school lot and moved 7 sims in, and chucked some TSR content into the game. Yes, I was that 12ish to even go on that site. I had NO IDEA about MTS at that time. These were the sims I had:



As you can see, TSR was my homeboy. I'm the one in the sunglasses with the weird hair. But one day the game wouldn't start - I had no clue about the Wiki and how to solve the BFBVFS (Big Firey Ball Visible From Space) so I took an SOS Pad (think Brillo Pad, only bluer) to the disc because of a video I saw on removing scratches. Stupid me, I had to reinstall the game and get Uni because my maingame was basically fried.

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Lab Assistant
#23 Old 6th Jul 2010 at 5:03 AM
I just deleted a NH along with two sims i had just made and was really looking forward to playing - they were remakes of some early sims i had, when i only had the base game, a crappy computer that couldn't run the game properly and before i even knew what CC was. They looked so much better with CC - and now they're. . . . they're dead!
Inventor
#24 Old 6th Jul 2010 at 5:13 AM
Is the hood in the recycle bin still?
Lab Assistant
#25 Old 6th Jul 2010 at 9:36 AM
Yes but i don't know how to get it out lol
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