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FoMD Series
I will be finishing the Flowers of May Day series today. I'll get them in the game and check them out tomorrow and have them in for submission this week. My game seems to be back in working order since I reinstalled everything. Luckily I didn't even have to lose anything. A warning I'll be posting new items a lot slower from now on because I'm back to working fulltime, maybe a little more than fulltime. This first week I was totally braindead at the end of the day and basically didn't want to do anything. I'm hoping as I get back into the swing of things that it won't leave me so tired at the end of the day.The sofa poll is closed, it just hasn't given up the ghost yet and let the new one take it's place. The results of the poll were not unexpected just very lopsided. Out of 12 people who voted 10 preferred sofas of all styles and 2 preferred solids. So I guess I'll continue to branch out with my textures for sofas and chairs. The new poll is checking into which rooms or areas of the house people are more interested into seeing objects made for. I hope everyone votes, I'm always eager for input and feedback on what people want!
May Be Fixed
I reinstalled all of Sims 2 yesterday only hanging on to my Downloads file, my Neighborhood file and the Lot file. Today for the first time in 4 days I didn't have to reload the whole The Sims 2 file in my My Documents folder. I'm hoping that means it's fixed from whatever happened after I added Pets last week. I'll be able to get the bathroom objects and the last of the recreation objects colored. Once I know the game is fixed I'll recreate my testing folder and get them checked out and get the pictures so that I can upload and submit them.A Problem
It may be a little while before the next set from the Flowers of May Day comes out. There are a couple of reasons but the main one is that ever since I added the Pets EP to my computer I've had to reload the "The Sims 2" document file every day just to get the game to come up. I replace the file and it loads fine. Reset the "Allow custom content" and restart, work in the game for a bit and then the next day I have to reset the folder again. I don't know what is causing the problem. I'm considering uninstalling the whole thing and starting over from scratch. I hate to do it though because I'm going to lose some hard work that way. Any suggestions would be appreciated.FoMD Kitchen Approved
The Flowers of May Day Kitchen Set has been approved and will be out on Tuesday the 22nd. I'm going to have to get a move on because I don't have the bathroom done yet. But honest I have a good reason!! ;p I got Pets on Thursday and since I'm still fighting the crud going around Denver I thought it would be easier to spend a little time playing. I've been missing the chance to play my Sims game now that I'm creating anyway. I test everything in the game but that's not the same really as actually playing.Anyway I thought I would be playing. But since adding Pets I've had more trouble with the game. Technically I think it's a download, the problem is I don't know which of the current downloads it is. Luckily I always keep a backup file of my The Sims 2 folder, good thing too. Whatever this download is it doesn't matter if I remove it from the folder. Once I've actully put my 'new downloads testing' folder into the download file and tried to start the game, nothing except removing the folder again and then reinstalling my The Sims 2 folder in My Documents will let me start the game again. It is very disappointing because there are at least three new downloads in that file that I really really want including Ceruleon Talon's new Oak set and Shadow66's beautiful Tropical paintings. Ohhhhh and CT's new bathroom! Darn it that's why it wasn't in my Buy catalog last night when I was trying to build that pretty green and white bathroom.
God I hate having to put every little individual piece in one at a time and testing the game. If I could just figure out which download was bad. They look fine and none of them say they have to have one of the stuff packs I don't have yet. Grrrrrrrr!