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didilysims said: Or you could pull them all out to another folder and put back those you know you want to keep, adding others as needed or missed.

Uhhh! That’s another very good option. So far, I’ve mercilessly deleted hairstyles, even the ones that looked just too similar to each other, compared my list to Keonis’ default replacements (I may actually keep those) and moved hair that doubled with that into my “SortedOut” folder, and FINALLY got rid of almost all redundant V1 hairstyles. And my Hair folder is now down from almost 3 GB to…. *drumroll* 900mb including defaults. (Yes, I was really desperate to get rid of all that unused hair. I only use like the same 25-40 over and over again…). I have three V1 hairstyles left, because I like them that much and just couldn’t find a V2 replacement (one’s the “Sandy” hair, the other two are a Nouk Girl Next Door Alpha Edit and Nouk’s Long Braid- we need more Nouk love, methinks).

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The internet died! And then it came back again after I completely reset everything. This is getting ridiculous…

(Naming traditions in 15/16th c Germany)

eulaliasims said: Oh, so neat! Those remind me a bit of some Puritan names, albeit less wordy. It’s interesting to see how names change in response to cultural shifts. And Ludgera is kind of absurd, but also sounds strangely charming for some reason?

Yes, they are similar in idea. It does sound kind of absurd, but I’ve heard worse (somewhat unrelated, but have you ever had “Jason” screamed at you in a heavy Southern German accent? Now THAT’S the stuff of nightmares (’Tschäisooon’)). It is still used, but very rarely. I believe it might be more popular as a religious name for nuns (the holy Liudger is pretty popular in my region).

To cull or not to cull. That is the question

davidmont said: I think so yes! LOL that’d be easier but not. You might feel better cleaning. Because if you don’t do it and start over then you might download one of these again. And at the end you’d not do anything.

holleyberry said: I agree you should delete these instead of starting over.

I’m still torn. I deleted roughly 320 hairstyles from my folder, which brings it down to 240 (yes, I’m THAT determined). But on the other hand, there’s currently a completely NEW folder sitting on my hard drive in which I downloaded only the “essentials”, replaced all my leftover V1 Poppet hairstyles with V2 ones and, in the process, threw keoni-chans default replacements into the mix in order to a) fill in the gaps (missing V2 versions, hairstyles I couldn’t find) and b) to bring down the size of my folder (I’m not sure how I feel about that, as I actually like to use the Maxis hairs at times (for example, to emphasise the makeovers as I did in Strangetown)). Sigh, this is a hard decision.

alienpod said: i wish i had your discipline D:

I spent 2 hours in front of the PC before I screamed “Screw it!” about halfway to the male hair section (about ¼ of the female hair section) and closed the game… so, yeah. I’m close to insanity.

Anyway, I think I’ll spend the evening (well night), combing through my “Old Hair” folder and replacing all the V1 hairstyles with V2 ones. That’s probably a compromise I’d be able to live with.

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eulaliasims said: The ‘influence to’ action is pretty awesome. Think ‘influence to…/appreciate’ will end up with an admire action? Nope, backrubs! Always! It’s like the game picks the most dramatic option.

Oh dear! I really need to use it more often!

eulaliasims said: I feel you on the shitty internet, mine goes out multiple times a day (including while I was writing this comment). I would love to hear about 16th c. naming traditions! Historical naming conventions are interesting. 😀 And ‘The Monsters of Templeton’ looks like an awesome book. I’m gonna go get it from my library tomorrow.

To make it short: Following the Lutheran Reformation, names like Hans and Gretel, the typical German names (which weren’t German at all, but Hebraic or Latin and only became German names during the medieval ages), became less popular as they didn’t fit the zeitgeist (Pietism) anymore. So they named their children “Fürchtegott” (”Fear God”), “Traugott” (”Trust in God”), “Leberecht” (”Live right”), “Thurecht” (”Do right”), which have mostly disappeared, but also “Dorothea”, “Theodor” or “Timotheus” which are still present (”Theodor” is actually becoming popular again in Germany). Most prominent example: Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart (Although his real name was “Theophilos”, but he also called himself “Gottlieb” for good measure. But hey, that’s an artist to ya!). Before Pietism, they were really big on names from the Greek mythology or Roman history. A little while after they started ‘adapting’ male names into female ones. That’s where we got names such as “Louise”, “Paula” or “Josephine”, but also names like “Ludgera” (from the German name “Ludger”) which sound a bit absurd. It’s funny how names you think that sound native to your language/ country are really just adaptations/ translations from another language.

Oh, hope you’ll enjoy it! I actually once recommended it to a friend and she absolutely hated it!

eulaliasims said: Loveable dork villains are the best kind! ;D

I love Jodie Larson as a villain/ dork and I’m not afraid to admit it! I mean, even their family bio suggests she made her money in dubious ways!

fuzzyspork said: Try loading the lot with testing cheats enabled and see if there’s a specific error that pops up. If that does nothing, get the bat box, put it on the lot and force errors on all (in world and off). Also try replacing the cash register.

Hm, I tried it with 2 of my 4 owned community lots (trying out the other two ones as I type) and so far, it doesn’t help. The same Sims keep showing up, no matter what I do…

(By the way, huge thanks to all of you! Thank you for trying to help me!)

questforsims said: maybe it’s an issue with how many sims are allowed on one lot? I remember way back in the day you had to use a special cheat to get more than two non-family NPCs to show up on a lot, but I swore that got patched out and the number bumped up to 8 or so. Though also, lower level businesses start out with less customers, so maybe that’s it?

Nah, my game’s patched up-to-date, my PC should be more than capable to handle all the sims and all the unowned community lots have plenty of visitors at once. Yes, but for a level 0/1 level, the maximum number is 3. I only ever get 2 at max. And ALWAYS the same two guys?

littlelittlesimmies said: Are the 2 customers townies or NPCs ? If yes, Are they the only townies/NPCs in your neighborhood ? In that case you probably have a mod that don’t allow playables to be customers. I had one like this. It required the MoneyOrder placed somewhere in the lot to allow playables as customers.

No, they are playables. I have roughly 15 Sims in that neighborhood (including NPCs, 8 are playables). It was fine the first time I played a owned community lot, but ever since, only the two of them have shown up (including home businesses- walk-by’s and unowned community lot visitors are fine, though).

questforsims said: is this for sims 2? are they the only customers showing up? Do they buy things or do they just hang around?

Yep. Still only playing Sims 2. They do buy stuff (or do whatever the home business offers), but even when I’m playing one of them, the only other guest to show up (apart from the reporter) is the other “regular costumer”.

didilysims said: Oh, I see. I downloaded it and all the folders were empty except one file in Thumbnails, but there was a picture and the N174_Neighborhood.package. Very odd it was different for you. Maybe it was a downloading glitch–try downloading again?

Huh. That’s really weird! I’ve redownloaded it a few times (even restarted my PC) and both folders (NH and SC4) are still empty for me… huh?

didilysims said: If it comes with no lots, maybe it doesn’t need a Lots folder? I know that sometimes the game doesn’t generate a DL folder, and it’s fine to create one yourself, so maybe the same case here. Also wondering: what do you mean it’s empty? There should be no lots, right?

Ah, should’ve clarified it. The N174 folder is completely empty. There’s nothing in it. Not even a picture. Which struck me as really weird. I might actually do that, although I’m pretty sure it ~should~ have generated a lot folder when I plunked down the first lot… weird.