I don't have any of the Stuff Packs (too cheap to buy those I just get the custom stuff...) and for expansions I have University, Nightlife, Open For Business, Pets, and Seasons... I really want to get Bon Voyage but I can't buy anything right now. And that new Free Time one or whatever looks kind of cool; I'm excited for it

I haven't been able to play The Sims much lately because I downloaded too much crap (15 gigs ;_;) and it takes a billion years to load. I keep telling myself to load up the game so I can clear out some of the junk I don't need but ahhhhh... takes so long!!! I get impatient. Maybe today I will do it...

The new Expansion Pack is called Free Time.

Are there mountains in BV? I was expecting forests and beaches... Mountains could be useful...

The last EPs have brought nothing interesting in terms of hair, so I'm not holding my breath for that. Anyway I hardly ever use Maxis hair any more, it's too fake-looking. But new build mode elements would be cool. If I ever install OFB it will be to get those round roofs that have never been enabled in a later EP.

Stacysaurus, you should try using the Content Manager. It allows you to go through your downloads and enable/disable or delete content, without having to go into the game. It'll also let you know which downloads conflict with the game, in some slight way or another. It won't give you a full pic of what the content is (just gives a flat looking image of the content), but some are easy to see what it is. I use it often to clean up my downloads folder, I find it quiet handy. If you'd like to try it then you can find it here:
http://thesims2.ea.com/help/?pid=Help_tutorials

Its under Tools for your game. Hope that helps you sort out all your downloads. I know how crazy it can get with downloading stuff continuously. I found the Content Manager whilst looking for a program to do this exact thing because at one stage my game wouldn't load up at all without crashing, thats how much CC I had.

Anyhow, to answer the actual question in this topic, I have all ep's and sp's at the moment, but my game is taking a little bit of strain. I definately won't be buying anymore sp's, and as for the last ep, well its seems cool but I don't think I'll be buying it. I've just started up a new story and fear what may happen if I load in another ep.

Plus I've actually discovered that my 'wear any outfit whilst pregnant' mod for ep 3, actually works in my game. I've been searching for this mod forever. So far *knocks on wood* it appears to work find, with no bugs or anything. But I just know that loading another ep will probably conflict with it. Plus new ep's normally come with loads of problems.

I've never used the Clean Installer, so unfortunately anything I say would be classed as a lie. With the Content Manager, you can search through all the clothes, objects and so forth in their different catagories. Or view all CC as a whole, you'll see that some are in red, this means they conflict with your game, usually all my mods come up in red (so I tend not to stress). Some objects will probably come up in there to as conflicting with the game, dunno why an object would cause a conflict.

Anyhow, in the "conflict" section it'll list all your mods and so forth, you can disable the content you think might be causing the issue, then see if your game runs better. Whats cool about it is that it has that disabiling function, so you don't have to scout it down and delete it from your downloads folder. If the problem persists and it doesn't seem to be that mod, then enabiling it is easy. Also you can delete things in that program, instead of finding it in your downloads. Which I found to be a blessing since my folder usually gets chaotic, even though I try filter in the downloads in the correct order (I'm lazy I suppose).

The Content Manager won't display a proper pic of what the clothes, object or mod is. It'll also be a flat pic, sometimes there are multiple pics you can scroll through, and one might show you exactly what it is. But I don't find it hard to descipher what it is from either the flat pic or the description.

I dunno if it'll tell you if two specific mods are conflicting, but by disabiling one it might allow you to see if they're not working so well together. I'm useless when it comes to figuring out why my sims game is buggy, I usually end up disabling things in the 'conflict' section one at a time to see what might be causing it. So I'm not sure what advise to give on that problem, I suppose trying the Content Manager couldn't hurt. It may just be useful.

I think Free Time is the last expansion pack. They're planning on doing an announcement of Sims 3 soon. Are you planning on continuing your story with Sims 2 or switching to Sims 3? It'd be a lot of work to do that!

IKEA! Priceless!

I wish the Country Living EP was real, though, that would be sooooo useful for medieval hoods. I hate April Fool's Day. Invariably I get my hopes up about something or other.

It has ceilings!!!

I'm just hoping that Free Time will come out for Mac. Apparently Aspyr, the company that converts the Sims games for Mac, does not have any plans to convert Free Time. But I want it!!!

Absolutely all of the CC works for Mac! I was a life-long Windows user before I got my Mac about 2 years ago and I LOVE it. The operating system is so easy to use and there are no viruses and no pop-ups and everything is so neat and clean and minimalist and... and... It's a good computer. But when I bought mine, I would have never in a million years imagined myself playing a video game of any kind. So I do run into some game-lag. But of course, Mac does make computers with fast processors and superior graphics cards. If you're thinking about buying one though, I would not suggest the regular MacBook. My boyfriend has one and the build quality is a little shoddy. Get a Macbook Pro or one of their desktops. Ok, I'm done advertising now.

Edit: Ooo, I also want to add that you can run Windows and Leopard on a Macintosh computer simultaneously if you need Windows for a certain program. I don't know if SimPE works with Leopard or MacOsX. But yeah, there are never any conflicts with the custom content.

yes!! ceilings!!

It looks like they are lit like floors and walls, which is good (for me) to know. I just wonder, can they be recolored? How do you put them down -- do you get ceilings everywhere you have floors above? Do the ceilings have the same color as the floor above??? *must know*

I swear I will get this game only for the ceilings if they do what I ask of them. I am so so so tired of putting down ceilings one tile at a time.

Ah, but in that case the floors of the room above are the same color as the ceiling. Not always the desired effect!

Now that would be lovely!! And they're probably lit the same way as floors, too, which would be better for me than my ceiling tiles, since they're lit as objects and generally end up too bright.

And every time I have a look at oceans I want Bon Voyage too....

I feel like I did shortly before I bit the bullet and installed Pets and Seasons in one go. "This is either going to break my game or make it very cool."

Thank you, anonymous commenter who seems likely to be Sam!