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I am hoping they will add a hotfix to to this and include an on/off switch soon. 

Agreed. I have given up on that many patches in the past. I wanted to choose when to patch, because I do like to keep my game up to date, but I wanted the option to see how things were going before patching, and this is not possible. It's either you take it all or nothing, but that 'nothing' is really, 'maybe', 'perhaps, if we feel like it'.

Oh yes!!! I had time to play this morning, but now, the cruel reality of the update. 

Ahh! Thank you!! I never thought of using Tray Importer for that, but I do use it, so, I'll see what I can muster from it. 

I cannot provide any help, but I must say that I agree that crash reports are useless, even more so, for players like me, who would understand if it said something simple like "your game crashed because of blah blah", but, of course, such is not the nature of crash reports.

I have tried to find a tool to help me interpret them, but nothing so far.

It IS scary!!!     Beloved sims get lots in the limbo of loading screens when traveling to the netherworld!

I agree that the silliness of a game, The Sims in particular, can provide a chance to take your mind off from reality and get ready to go on. I started playing in 2013, a bit before I lost my aunt who was like my mother. Playing then helped me ease the pain of her loss. To engage my mind in the beauty of the pixel scenery (I started with The Sims 3) and the stupidity of my sims really let me recover bit by bit. And this is also true now, because I recently lost my father, and after taking care of the issues that you cannot avoid when someone dies and you are the only family available, it was a relief to play and just have to decide if my sims would have one, or multiple babies.

But that is what the game alone does. What the community of The Asylum does goes way beyond that. I was lucky enough to find this site and choose to register also that year when I lost my aunt. It took me a long time to start posting. I was a lurker. But I got to feel so comfortable with the attitude of the site Main Goddess (that is you, @Twoftmama) and the other regular inmates, that I started asking questions and then I started sharing posts, and I got a sense of belonging here, that must make it easy to understand how I post almost every day!

I always find something nice and interesting (much knowledge about the game, whether TS2, TS3, or TS4), and the funnies are just amazing!!!

All of this is to say, @coolspearthat you are so right. You have a community of insane The Sims fans / players / inmates here. And you belong here.

I think you are wise to do things this way. First of all, play the game and enjoy it!!! And it you get to something you feel like modding and you wish to share it, that's cool. You must enjoy it, too, not feel it like it's a chore. 

I loooove that addition to the gardening mods!!!! Thank you very much!!! 

I agree with Kimi: the best thing is to hear that you are enjoying the game again. 

And that mess that kids make, is obnoxious like you say! The other behavior that I really don't see the point for is when toddlers get covered in a cloud of dust because they are destroying or messing with counters? Why would you have toddlers behaving like untrained animals? But since they don't leave traces of that stupidity behinds, it's just a nuisance, contrary to the "mess".

It's great that you feel like playing and modding TS4, @coolspear!!!

Hello, @coolspear!! Hope you are doing better. I know from first hand experience that losing a parent is always difficult, no matter how old we are ourselves. Sometimes doing 'mindless' activities, such as playing a game helps us cope. In my case, it did, and it's also my stress relief strategy, especially during these crazy years. Hope that something is helping you, too.

Your wonderful sprinkler mod is a favorite or mine and I miss it very much. I miss it so much that this motivated me to try to follow a couple of tutorials by BakieGaming to make an attempt to do something similar.

I was able to use the Florist pot decor item from Base Game and turn it into a sprinkler!!! It worked in game (I have pictures in my threads, if you'd like to see). Then I was boldened enough by that success to try and see if I could make it sprinkle onto a wider range of tiles like your sprinkler did, and also with the help of a tutorial by Bakie, I changed the range on the xml file. Believe me when I say it is amazing to me that I can mention these terms, more or less accurately.

Anyways, I am about to test the new object I modded in game, but whatever the outcome, it was your work that inspired me to try, so I just wanted to say: 

I think I will always remember Mamma Coolspear.

It’s true that it is heart wrenching to have to “dismantle” the home of someone you love. Sometimes you may feel like you are invading their privacy until you remember that you are there because they aren’t. In a way, I think that if the right person clears the home out, they will be able to preserve the essence of the one departed, along with the memories and mementos. But it is not easy.

Give yourself time to grieve and rest. Take good care of yourself.

@coolspear I am very sorry for your loss. Please, accept my condolences. 

Thank you!

I love that last metaphor you used. Clear and easy to understand. 

--clicks on the link               *gets lost in a blur of options*

--and that's how to end up with tons of CC. 

I love this set!!! THanks so much!!!

And anything made by Zyta is gorgeous too!!!

Thanks, @Chaavik

Thanks, @Chaavik

Thanks, @Chaavik

Thank you, @Chaavik

I was just thinking how @coolspear chose long ago to take on updating this mod by @MadameButterfly who had retired from modding herself, and now you pitch in to help keep it going forward. I think it’s nice to have generous modders who keep wanting to sort out game issues and annoyances and share their work.

Thanks a lot to all of you!

Thank you very much for the clarification. The tables are amazing! I’m so glad the medieval one is BG as that’s the one I have a craving for, hehe!