This is my Christmas gift to the entire simming community and I hope that you'll all enjoy it. I've been working on my own default replacement townie name mod - and it's one of the biggest ever posted!  DOWNLOAD ME FOR NO TWO SIMS WITH THE SAME NAME EVER AGAIN! Install Live.package in your My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads folder Credits: Thanks to Jordi for creating the original mod and giving tips on how to make/edit your own, as well as giving people permission to do what they wished with the mod so long as they gave credit.  Thanks to SimPE for giving me the tools to make and edit my own mod.  Thanks to my partner, Andy, for randomly yelling out every name he thought of while I worked on this.  I'm sure there are many obvious names I would have missed without his support. Policy: Edit it to your hearts' content, but DO NOT upload my unedited file elsewhere or claim it as your own. There are two versions the .rar file English Versions will only effect the two English versions of the game. All Languages will effect all languages listed below: English English(UK) French   German Italian Spanish Dutch Danish Canadian French (Read here for all info, comparisons, FAQs, etc...)

My classes are done for the term, so I can catch up on all of the things I've had to reluctantly put off. This includes playing Sims 2. I'm about halfway through this generation, I think, and I fully plan on getting through Gen. 7 before classes resume in January. Yes, all I plan on doing over my break is playing Sims and doing crafts. It will be mind-numbingly wonderful, and I will enjoy every bit of it.

Two questions: Is there a harder skilling mod? I swear I used to have one, but I don't have it anymore and now I can't find it anywhere. My Sims skill up so fast and I would like something to make them go slower. If I send them to college, by the time they graduate, come home, get married, have kids, they're only halfway through adulthood and they're all maxed out. It's pretty annoying.

I know there is a harder jobs mod, but that's not what I want. I just want a harder skills mod, if one exists.

The other question is, sometimes I will have a Sim go watch TV, and a few Sim minutes later try to have someone join to watch TV, but the only options that show up are Turn Off and Work Out. I'm not sure if Watch Movie comes up, it probably does, I think when I was playing earlier my Sim was watching a movie when this happened. But I've had the issue happen when a Sim was just watching TV and not a movie.

I don't have any CC TVs or TV mods so I don't know why it's doing this. My game is completely patched and I have all the EPs.

I have had this problem in the past, but I just ignored it. It goes away, but comes back. Then it'll go away again. So I have no idea why it does this. I asked for help elsewhere before about this problem, but it never got resolved. And it comes up quite randomly so it's not like my Sim is doing the same thing every time to make the "join" not work. One Sim night it will work, and then the next it doesn't. Then when I play my game again later, it works again. Sometimes I just buy a new TV and it works.

Not sure what else to tag this entry, so I hope that's enough.

Edit: Another question (sorry!) I've tried to use the Compressorizer before, but it doesn't compress any of my files. I'm sure they're not all compressed already, but not a single one compresses. I do have Vista, and I thought I read somewhere that it doesn't work on Vista. Is this the case?

you'd think more people would be interested in letting their sims skinny dip but maybe i'm the only one. the only thing i've been able to come across so far is lucas's skinny dip pool ladder, but i'm more interested in just nude bathing suits for all ages. anyone have any ideas?

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Every time I click on one family in particular, the game stays on the loading screen. The music keeps playing and the cursor is still moving. I am still able to move the mouse around the screen. The only way I am able to get rid of the screen is if I just control-alt-delete. All the over families load up with no problem but this family just keeps getting stuck on the load screen. They were in vacation but I forced them to come back home and since then still have not been able to play as them. They are at home but I can not play as them. Has this happened to anyone else?

I recently just got into the Sims 2 (hi! -waves-), and for some reason, when my Sims speak, there's no sound coming out. I see their mouths moving but that's it. I still hear the music, the TV, the sound effects, everything but my Sims talking. And when I expand the cheat menu, it always says that there's an audio failure. I checked the audio settings and turned everything up to maximum, and I've reinstalled many times, it doesn't seem to help, so I think it might be an issue with the CD, like, I'm missing the audio parts, or something. If anyone can help, I would very much appreciate it. It's just a little weird that the only sounds I hear when they're talking on the phone is the footsteps. Thanks in advance!