39:06 April, I did some digging and I think that the reason Mortimer and Bella don't have each other in the relationships is simpler than it appears. :D When you go to sim description of Bella or Mortimer and later you choose "Relationships" section, they don't have a Relation added there (relationship is marked with smiley) - Bella has the relations with her children. You have to have "Not related" ticked and with right mouse button you can add the second spouse to relationships and after saving Mortimer will have Bella in the relationships in game. Therefore to make a sim to appear in the relationships in the game, both relation between them must be added and "known" tick must be checked. Bella has relations with her children, but no "known" tick checked and she has "known" tick checked, but she has no relation with Mortimer.
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
Oh, that actually makes so much sense! I didn't know about the Relations and that they were separate to the SREL records. Thank you for the final piece of mystery!
@stolmaier
2 ай бұрын
You are so smart! Thank you for explaining ❤
@mansiselyn
Жыл бұрын
I never thought I would see Bella Goth document and explain her own disappearance
@ntrg3248
Жыл бұрын
how does this joke always get me
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
someone's gotta do it
@coldcube1088
Жыл бұрын
@@ntrg3248it just never gets old ... because it's the truth. You can't argue with a classic 😏 she is who she is, no questions allowed.
@rand0mdude779
10 ай бұрын
I don’t know what you’re talking about. This is obviously Lorde
@coldcube1088
10 ай бұрын
@@rand0mdude779 the plot thickens 🤔
@catloaff
10 ай бұрын
Crying at the Call Me Kevin footage 😭😭😭😭😭 his save file must be amazing for corruption research
@RubyBlueUwU
Жыл бұрын
I love that in the examples of Bella being found in the wild one was absolutely freaking out in astonishment and then Kevin didn’t even notice it amongst the carnage that was his play through
@SpiffyDot
Жыл бұрын
Yes, Plumbella’s reaction is adorable. And Kevin is an unbothered king 😂
@carolinemcgovern4488
Жыл бұрын
If you were wondering, Jessie was intentionally trying to find Bella in the wild so that explains her freak out meanwhile Kevin as you said had way too much going on to notice.
@RubyBlueUwU
Жыл бұрын
@@carolinemcgovern4488 I figured she probably was, but thank you for confirming! The joy was palpable and I could tell it was on purpose that she found Bella. Kevin was just kevin-ing his way through
@mdkmen
Жыл бұрын
i genuinely hope we see more of your sims 2 technical deep dives even after the teased grim reaper vid, they're amazing!
@shr00mski
Жыл бұрын
I’m not sure if using Kevin’s cursed cloned Vidcund footage is clarifying anything or adding more confusion 😂
@agwarddd
Жыл бұрын
I’m so glad that you’ve dedicated the time to dispelling so many myths of The Sims 2. The coding for The Sims 2, especially for what it is and the time in which it came out, is not the Flying Spaghetti Monster mess that people really think it is, it’s actually quite sophisticated. Even it’s faults, I don’t think people realise how many games are technically hacked and slashed into function and the fact that The Sims 2’s most disastrous glitches and errors can take years to really accumulate, is a remarkable feat for such a huge game from 2004.
@LazyDuchess
Жыл бұрын
14:21 the funny thing about this pop up is that you're actually supposed to say "Yes" if you decline and vice versa, because they're asking if you mind that they give them your number. So it's No as in I don't mind and Yes as in I do mind, this is how it works in the BHAV script. They should have really rephrased it lol, so confusing for no reason.
@existenz_1
Жыл бұрын
Oh, that explains why my sim got a call from the townie when I said no, lol
@aliciah2391
Жыл бұрын
Oh, this explains why the relationship never showed up and I thought something was wrong with my game
@CourtOrderedThiccBitch
9 ай бұрын
I remember getting it and asking discord for help, because I also remembered learning in English class that it has to be answered as if it was a "do you want to" question
@ravenID429
7 ай бұрын
LOL that’s such a bad idea
@octaz3651
Жыл бұрын
This is the only youtube channel where, if a new video drops, I instantly stop what I'm doing and go watch it. Great content as always!!
@alexpaul9704
Жыл бұрын
Oh, really neat to know that there is indeed a specific BHAV to fix Strangetown Bella. I remember testing about a year ago and observed that Bella always gets moved to the Townie household in a patched game, so I had a hunch they must have added a routine for this. Didn't think the BHAV would literally be named "Fix Bella" lol I still remember the DRAMA back when the game launched and no one could find her. The oversight ironically turned a purposeful "mystery" into a genuine one.
@TheMarshmallowBear
10 ай бұрын
I love that something that clearly must have been a bug became a feature in Sims.
@Hendrik_McSims
Жыл бұрын
I think the I am dead token is there so visiting SIms who died somewhere else while playing another household will immediately die and won't just wander around as if they would be alive. I remember I had a bug where a collegue of a Sim died on another lot and they kept bringing that Sim over from work but they immediately 'died'.
@Joshyfied
Жыл бұрын
lmao that’s really funny to me for some reason
@katanah3195
Жыл бұрын
Yep, it really strikes me as a rotational play edge case fix.
@Lemony123
11 ай бұрын
they only become dead when you revisit the lot. the reason your sims instantly had the "this sims has not died on another lot" despite not revisiting is because of the sims actually being dead (or is a ghost for that matter)
@Metzli
7 ай бұрын
@@Lemony123 I once accidentally gave a sim the I Am Dead Token. With the testingcheats of course, I must have misclicked when that sim was visiting another household I was playing. And I don't know when it happened because it took me a while to re-visit his household and see him disappear into thin air and saying he died on another lot! I was quite bamboozled xD
@DiscoTimelordASD
4 ай бұрын
Or... your sim had an imaginary friend lol
@Joshyfied
Жыл бұрын
Aww, I have a cameo in this during the Bella patch part! After my comment on reddit, I realised the devs actually didn't mention the Bella fix in the patch notes but I sweeeaar I saw it mentioned somewhere. Glad to see that I didn't imagine it. Thank you again for your service, April! x
@houseofmous
Жыл бұрын
drop whatever shit you're doing self-aware bella goth transported herself into our reality and explains her disappearance from a technical point of view
@CalipersandTongs
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering what was going on with Caliban's inventory I Am Dead Token lol. I didn't notice you could make all the tokens visible using that checkbox.
@TheStepsen
Жыл бұрын
I love your videos! :)
@higherquality
Жыл бұрын
ayy caliper
@Marticore
Жыл бұрын
whooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 🤯 If someone watches any lore video about Bella (e.g. by Plumbella), then my video, then your video, it's like they're going deeper and deeper down into a mysterious dark cave 😆 PS The Helena pun is much appreciated!
@DiscoTimelordASD
4 ай бұрын
I already have... no regrets😁
@junniperjess1639
Жыл бұрын
I love your deep dives into the coding and behind the scenes behaviors of the Sims 2. I used to be really interested in game development until my comp sci 101 class in college scared me away because of all the math my professor made us do. Your content is unique and presented in a way that makes it understandable even without much game development knowledge.
@PDD555
Жыл бұрын
Maybe the disappeared Sim still appears in the relationship panel because the relation is set to spouse? Between Bella and Mortimer the relationship is not defined or unknown. This could overwrite the whole known tickbox. Hopefully you'll see this comment because I'm certain there's that possibility
@sonicflower955
Жыл бұрын
I also thought so, but she did mention she recreated the relationship ''to a t''
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
I did check the 'not defined or unknown' option also - it didn't make any difference :(
@dummyan
Жыл бұрын
@@aprilblacksims I posted a comment to this video with the answer.
@Metzli
7 ай бұрын
Is there a BHAV called "Fix Mortimer" so he's the only special one who truly remembers Bella? xD
@BeNotNormal
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU for explaining what the "kill" option on the townie gun does! I had been wondering for years if generating and then "killing" a townie that way actually created a character file, let alone what would subsequently happen to said character file; I'd asked multiple times but nobody ever seemed to have an answer, or else misunderstood my question. I just double checked in SimPE and yep, my custom hood does indeed have a handful of randomly-generated Sims that must have been my townie gun rejects. As someone who hates unnecessary files, going forward I will just stick with the first generated option and AltSimSurgery them into what I want.
@dariab9133
Жыл бұрын
As a QA Engineer, I'm impressed! Your video is so clear and detailed :) Amazing investigation!
@nervosims
Жыл бұрын
I love seeing the game from such a technical point of view. it really explains how the game works and makes me appreciate it WAY more
@lilben9441
Жыл бұрын
She's back to school us ! 🥳 Really hyped for that game corruption video as well. Can't wait for everything I think I know to be ripped appart.
@R.MLynn2004
Жыл бұрын
For someone who's tragically never played the Sims 2, I kept watching the entire video and actually enjoyed it idk why🤣 also your style, the way you speak, and that gorgeous black cat gives some serious witch vibes.
@williamnicholls9256
Жыл бұрын
Bella Goth died in a fire in my Sims 1 game, so when I first opened up Sims 2 for the first time and saw the Goth family had lost Bella I was SHOOK! Love your videos, I think you're one of the coolest people around x
@teochau
Жыл бұрын
Your contribution to the debunking of Sims 2 most misunderstood occurrence, corruption, is phenomenal. And i'm impressed that you still pushing out videos. Good job!
@GuilhermeKitten
Жыл бұрын
Did Pleasantview Bella's sim description got broken somehow, making her lose personality points or was she never given any at all? Would it be possible to restore her intended personality?
@lazykatie42069
Жыл бұрын
it's possibly they just didn't bother giving her any as she was never meant to be played
@MB-og3dw
Жыл бұрын
imo since the devs never intended for her to be played via normal gameplay they didn't bother making her a full character, which is why her face is a default template, she doesn't have personality points etc.
@GuilhermeKitten
Жыл бұрын
@@MB-og3dw She has a bio and even skills tho! Which means she may have been playable at some point, besides that, you can't make a sim without giving then personality points.
@pinkcatacombs
Жыл бұрын
I think she probably had a personality bc imo when making ts2 they made the goth family as normal and then through the new game code and such figured out they could make a sim “missing” and then created lore from that. Like what came first the chicken or the egg I think Bella game first then the missing storyline
@0impronunciavel
Жыл бұрын
@@GuilhermeKitten Actually, you can create sims without personality points if you turn on the debug mode in CAS. And we can't even be sure the devs created sims in CAS, they could have coded them instead.
@emiliakassner1810
Жыл бұрын
25:58 something pretty interesting here I think - your sims has a grey portrait in the family tree, yet she is still linked to Vidcund as his spouse there, despite not having any kids that would connect them. Is this perhaps why pre-made ancestors are also linked to each other as spouses in family trees? So much knowuledge I never knew i needed :P
@jesaea
11 ай бұрын
Yep that's the reason. Premade ancestors were given the I Am Dead token to keep their marriage visibile in the family tree.
@nonsensicalpixels
10 ай бұрын
a random thing that i *believe* is a side effect of the way that maxis built the 'fix bella' behaviour function: in one of my pleasantviews, which i had renamed to N002 as i already had another pleasantview in that folder, cornelia goth got moved to the townies family instead of bella. i found that out the other day while teleporting sims around using the sim blender... not exactly a game-breaker as ghost sims don't spawn on community lots, but pretty fascinating for some reason lol.
@ravenID429
7 ай бұрын
Huh, she must be sim 44 in pleasantview lol
@dummyan
Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your investigation. The Sims community really needed someone like you because the number myths which were created around TS2 is reallly huge.
@yunderaly
Жыл бұрын
...earlier today, i left a comment on squiggly lines video saying i'm watching that and corruption one interchangeably from time to time while waiting for the new one and HERE IT IS, THE NEW ONE.
@dozzy9984
Жыл бұрын
I love Sims 2 videos like that, especially those focusing on SimPE. It always seems so nice learning how Sims 2 actually operates and stuff (plus some nice remnant stuff that basically is a history of Sims 2 development, be it unused data or patches apparently). Now Bella's disappearance is finally explained fully (from technical point of view). Almost fully, there's still that weird thing with Mortimer's relationship tab with her (maybe it was also somehow fixed in that object.package file, like Strangetown Bella?). Also, as always, you're videos make me feel like Sims 2 in the end is quite stable and good game, without fix everything mods. I wonder, does next video by any chance will be connected to Nervous and Olive? Plus, that video basically made somewhat of a time travel in Sims 2 a possibility. Just hide a Sim in default bin for few generations then have them back, not knowing anyone notable etc. Not to mention you gave a fix to Brandi's pregnancy (or cloning process I guess).
@boltcore._.
Жыл бұрын
THE QUEEN POSTED I REPEAT THE QUEEN POSTED IL BE BACK ONCE I WATCH THE VIDEO
@boltcore._.
Жыл бұрын
Okay i am actually so fascinated by your videos and this one ate with no crumbs left. It s so interesting to see how the developers tought of stuff and not gonna lie suddenly i just wanna go in simPE and literally open every possible game file and see how things work lmao. I cannot wait to see your next video!! Grim grim you are her next victim :D
@EvilParagon4
10 ай бұрын
So knowing all of this diagnostic information, is it possible to bring Bella back properly? Put her in the right household, get rid of the token, relink her, tick known relationships on, etc.
@idlegameplayer3756
5 ай бұрын
yes! however, it's not special to bella, you can do the same exact thing to any sim and it will work as normal
@UnReal31337
11 ай бұрын
this video made me realize that Sims 2 is the new Doom when it comes to learning compsci
@Kikimora857
Жыл бұрын
WOW, I did not expect there was so much to Bella Goth’s disappearance! Excellent work, as always! PS. I love the April x Vidcund ship!
@nelkakarmelka6555
9 ай бұрын
Cześć april z tej strony siostra gabi(nie chodzi o kota) jestes bardzo cool🔥🔥🔥Jesteś jedyna przyjaciółka gabi której nie poznałam niestety 🤧😵💫🤮 Pozdrawiam z Białegostoku razem z gabi
@aprilblacksims
5 ай бұрын
Pozdrawiam z Londynu ❤️ Jak przyjedziesz to się zobaczymy 😊
@nelkakarmelka6555
5 ай бұрын
@@aprilblacksims 🥰🥰🥰
@oceansidegraveyard3567
Жыл бұрын
so excited to see a new video pop up! and super excited for the teased grim reaper video, im assuming it's going to be about the fact nervous is implied to be the grim reaper's child via olive.
@LeoTheDarkAngel
3 ай бұрын
The fact that Strangetown-Bella showing up wasn't even close to the weirdest thing on screen in Call Me Kevin's footage is so funny 😄
@UlalaDope
Жыл бұрын
Girl… You have done it again… explained something i had no idea on perfectly and with grace. I actually adore you and your content. ❤
@PrideTheTiefling
Жыл бұрын
Oooh thank you for this one! Very useful :D can you please explain why in most games Grim Reaper is locked from being interacted with much? A lot of special NPCs can be invited over and moved to your household and the game would easily generate a new one, but never the Grim Reaper. Idk, I just thought it would maybe make a fun video to corner Grim Reaper from a technical standpoint!
@magesticalmysterium6856
Жыл бұрын
Bella having No Personality Points I Agree is a Oversight (as with Memories) but a Story Reason Bella may have no Memories may be because when she was Abducted, perhaps she lost all her Memories
@ember9361
Жыл бұрын
Not Bella getting reanimated and immediately fawning over Don Lothario!
@DonTornado
Жыл бұрын
If your sim has a memory or a visible death token in their inventory, will the game let you give them to other sims as gifts?
@baticeer_
Жыл бұрын
omg I am curious about this too, I have some mods that are (visible) tokens in inventory and the mod creators made it so they can't be given as gifts, so I know that being giftable can be separate from whether an object is visible, but did Maxis do that to the invisible token items? Imagine dying and just being like "hey I have a present for you" and passing it off to someone else XD
@KakiT1
Жыл бұрын
This is some good stuff. I have always been interested in programming and this video made me even more interested in getting into it. I'm a Sims 3 player muself, but Sims 2 has so many cool features I wish I could mod into Sims 3.
@Sammy_de_Magica
Жыл бұрын
this was very usefull for me cause the clean template of Pleasentview removes all this and Bella spawns on community lots so i was able to replicate it so she doesn't, so thank you
@bemlok
10 ай бұрын
I think is because she's sentient, she's free from the coding.
@baticeer_
Жыл бұрын
Wow! What a thorough explanation. I never knew about the "Fix Bella" BHAV, I remember reading that about her being in the Default family on the wiki and wondering if it was another case of the wiki providing incorrect information or if it had been fixed in the clean template I was using, because she was always properly in the townie household for me - it never would have occurred to me that it only is the case before opening Strangetown and that a patch fixed it. I love learning new things about the game after all this time 😎
@BellaDovah
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the extremely interesting and well explained information, the gorgeous kitty (did you say her name is Gabby? That's my name too!), and the chuckle about Oli Sykes!
@ArtiAngel3
Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, thank you for finally revealing why all of my gravestones disappeared! I've had my neighborhood for 15+ years and when I moved my game to a new computer everything else was fine, but my graves were gone! I was so worried that I had finally corrupted her after messing with it for so long. I did find a mod to respawn most of my graves though, so I kept going. That was over a year ago now and that neighborhood is still going!
@existenz_1
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are so interesting! I love technical deep dives even though I'm quite a noob 😅 Hey, at least Vidcund didn't pee himself again
@gallirei
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha I posted that screenshot at 14:21 to the Sims 2 subreddit because I freaked out about it! Good to know I was just being overly cautious. Lazlo never did get therapy in my game.
@caz1764
Ай бұрын
I saw screenshots ages ago on the Sims wiki of Alexander Goth and Bella together in the initial cutscene if you send him off to university, and Mortimer has already died. I would absolutely love to know the logic of why the game picks her even if she's in the Default household, and not Cassandra, but I guess they didn't factor in cases like Bella's when developing the University expansion, and creating the programming behind that cutscene. Either way, thank you so much for these deep dive videos! All your stuff is now on my cozy playlist for when I need calming videos in the background, and I love going back to watch them all whenever I get back into the Sims 2. Keep being awesome 😎 (Also, I got super bored in my Pleasantview recently, used this video as a guide to undo Bella's settings, and brought her back to the Goth household. She was immediately attracted to Don Lothario, so after he ran away from his and Cassandra's attempted wedding, I had Cass move in with the Dreamers, and Bella hook up with Don, and a few other Sims around Pleasantview. I'm so mean to Mortimer; his missing wife came back, and almost instantly started sleeping around the neighbourhood, but not him, and they're still living under the same roof).
@MarlopolyGaming
Жыл бұрын
My theory as to why Mortimer knows her (but does not know her) is similar to the way that there exists a "Bella Fix". Perhaps on loading a household there is a check for sim number Mortimer, and if yes then known is false? I suppose if you could find a way to change Mortimer's sim number, it might bring up an interesting result?
@myrianrose3619
Жыл бұрын
Hi April! I'm wondering if the 'Relationship Type' setting is what messes up Mortimer's relationship to Bella? It's set to 'not defined or unknown' which has made relationships in games weird before with, say, siblings having romantic actions and wants enabled and being attracted to each other 😬😬 because the game doesn't realize they're siblings unless that relationship type is set and keeps romantic feelings allowed in case the sims flagged as 'family' are spouses. maybe the devs unticked a bunch (including 'love', 'married' etc) to enable Mortimer to move on with Dina without getting a 'had 2 loves at once" memory and all
@Lisspeed
Жыл бұрын
Hey I hate to be that person! But my Object.Package changed several times after my Sims got weird memories form NPCs. I also got this weird glitch where some lots would get pop ups from the NPC Remote Control Car after using the mod for online shopping (that also changed my Object.Package file). :'D But aside from that, nothing weird ever happened to me? Hence I just started to ignore it. These kinda videos make me incredibly happy for that reason cause I always suspected corruption wasn't as bad as everyone said it was because GOD has my game gone through to the worst shit (such as a weird glitch where OneDrive ended up deleting several Veronaville files so my Veronaville file was thrown back in time, Sims that had grown up or were edited still looked like that, except their ages were reset, so for example teen models plastered on kids, or remnants of memories that were no longer there, odd stuff lmao or one of the ancestors deleting himself like weeks after I started that playfile and had removed it from OneDrive... basically dealt with the weirdest kinds of shit, but still pulled through and kept on playing lmao, will never understand the disappearing family tree Sim).
@meganrogers3244
Жыл бұрын
This also explains the 'college' bug where Alexander goes to uni after Mortimer has passed Bella would be shown as the parent in the cut scene instead because their relationship is still in tact (aka has data despite not being 'known') and the game still recognizes her as his mother via the family tree. My one question after watching this is how is Mrs. Crumplebottom able to go to community lots? Is there a specific patch similar to the 'Fix Bella' one that allows her to show up at downtown community lots? Do subhoods have ID's so she doesn't show up in the main hood? Technically downtowns can be applied to any main hood so I wonder if the subhood ID's are codded differently (Like Pleasantview and Strangetown both having a downtown but the two downtowns would have to be recognized as different in the game). To that end, I wonder which came first, the 'Fix Bella' patch or the Nightlife EP? Maybe coding Mrs. Crumplebottom to show up in Downtown community lots inspired the 'Fix Bella' patch or vice versa? Very good video - well explained. Given me a lot of food for thought.
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
I'd have to investigate it more, but off the top of my head, I believe that Mrs Crumplebottom has a special BHAV that allows her to spawn on downtown lots (i.e. she is not included in the regular array of eligible Sims to spawn, the game handles her separately). I believe the patch to fix Bella was included in the first base game patch - I can't confirm this 100%, but I have a VM where I installed the base game + patch (to compare with an unpatched version) and the Patch - Fix Bella BHAV is in there!
@Metzli
7 ай бұрын
I wonder.. if you de-age Nervous Subject to a teen, kill Olive Specter and any other family member so the only available family member from what we can see on the family tree is the Grim Reaper, could the Grim Reaper himself be the one to appear in the cinematic for when Nervous Subject enters university?! The thing with Nervous Subject and Olive Specter family tree is that they're not consistent. The Grim Reaper doesn't actually appears in the family tree. When you click around, I remember the family tree changes when it comes to Nervous father. There's even a different name there. But I always played in portuguese so the different name could be something to do with that, idk :s
@zacadoole1
Жыл бұрын
Sims 2 technical deep dives are my all favorite genre of KZitem video and I always look forward to you posting 🙏🏻
@rowan404
Жыл бұрын
I find it wholesome that, as a kid, you admired Bella so much that you made your sim look like her twin sister, and now, you look like you could be Bella’s twin sister irl.
@cheyenne9081
Жыл бұрын
April!!!!!! You’re seriously one of my favorite content creators ever. I love all your deep dives and insights into the sims 2. It’s been my favorite game since i was little, and it’s thrilling to me to learn about even more about it so many years later through you!!!!! You absolutely rock and i hope you’re having a great day :)
@PDD555
Жыл бұрын
This is so amazing, it's so cool to finally see a developer explanation because it shows a lot about the intention they had for her. Now I can double check if I have successfully retrieved my Bella
@GrotesqueIy
Жыл бұрын
Very informative video! Was wondering since you briefly touched on the "hit break point primitive" error, maybe in the future would it be possible to do a video on a some of the possible errors and explain what they mean? It would really help a lot of us Simmers out, those errors are pesky and very common
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
It is possible - at the moment I don't understand what some of them mean, but if I manage to figure it out, then I'll probably create a video about it :) Thank you for a neat idea!
@zelkat1350
Жыл бұрын
39:10 could it be because their relationship is "Not defined or Unknown" while with her children they show up as "Child" and she appears as "Parent"?
@dummyan
Жыл бұрын
no, it's different reason, I will add another comment soon
@MatthewCenance
Жыл бұрын
12:56 does this mean you can physically place mis-flagged memories in the lot as objects?
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
yes :D
@Voix1000x
5 ай бұрын
I’d like to know how Nervous Subject was ”born”
@CreusasDragRace
Жыл бұрын
THE QUEEN APRIL IS BACK!
@yourstrulymattress
Жыл бұрын
babe wake up april black just posted...
@OddSauce
Жыл бұрын
THE QUEEN HAS ONCE AGAIN POSTED
@ponurezapomnienie
Жыл бұрын
To będzie dobry filmik
@willch5285
Жыл бұрын
Your documentaries are sooo interesting ! It makes me want to play TS2 again. I tried but it keeps crashing for no reason…
@alexhowlett3100
Жыл бұрын
Umm, I don't know if you take requests, but could you do a video about playing as the social worker, or is that tied into the Grim Reaper video? A lot of the old guides about neighborhood corruption said that social workers are prime examples of an NPC you shouldn't move in order to not blow up your neighborhood- but at least in my (admittedly basic) testing... she and the repo-man seem pretty much perfectly fine, at least compared to some of the other unplayable NPC's, such as hot dog chefs, food contest judges, human statues, break dancers, and ninjas, who outright just... don't work as Sims.
@aprilblacksims
Жыл бұрын
This is also on my to-do list! In fact, the video about special NPCs with character files and the video about universal NPCs are two of my biggest future projects at the moment. I am planning to do a few smaller videos in the meantime, but this subject is currently under investigation :)
@MayLina
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing video as always!😍 I will never get tired of CMK cameos in your videos haha. I was wondering when i was watching the exact video you are referencing, why was Kevin’s face gone? It wasn’t a missing custom content for sure, but earlier in the series he did use “assign the uniform” from open for business which is known to be buggy and it turned his face into, i guess, default state with no eyebrows and such. Could these be related? Have anyone thought of it?🤔😅
@logan057
Жыл бұрын
Bella wont become "Stuck", but other sims may not be able to move out if she is brought back with a tombstone and then game is saved and she fades away. but you can fix it with SimPE. I had the same thing happen with Knut Futa. Im not sure though if this is due to the death token or due to the ghost flags being unchecked.
@SammaLlamas
Жыл бұрын
oh my god she's a cundliker
@harrypothead42024
6 ай бұрын
As someone with thin straight hair, your video triggered me with so much jealousy, I had to go back to the beginning.
@saranemcova5448
10 ай бұрын
33:39 Fangirling hard. Praised be our Dear Leader (and Grilled Cheese Maker). That gameplay was wild 🤣
@mikeo3382
Ай бұрын
I’m surprised this channel isn’t bigger. A girl that knows her shit
@robs5688
4 ай бұрын
This is not meant as a knock on you, Miss Black. It's great that someone with some actual software skills and knowledge finally breaks down at least some of the ludicrous nonsense that's been bandied around over the years. But really, who cares about Bella Goth? All this fretting over the original Maxis characters and neighborhoods just proves how untalented and unimaginative the vast majority of players who play these Sims games are. One would think that after 20 years there would have emerged some truly legendary characters and neighborhoods created by players, but no, all the babble is still about Bella Goth, the Broke family and Pleasantview. Truly pathetic. I don't know, maybe I just don't get around enough. Now, a change of subject: What's your opinion, Miss Black, on the notion that third party creators for the Sims franchise of games actually have ownership and distribution rights over the stuff they've created? We've all seen and read the many "Policies" people set up, promoted by agenda-pushing sites like Mod The Sims and most other Sims fansites, wherein "creators" admonish people who download their creations on what they can and can't do with said creations. This is all in blatant violation of Electronic Arts' EULAs, as well as long established industry customs and practices in the software industry, which state that software developers retain ALL rights pertaining to anything created with their software. Never in 40 years of playing computer games have I ever seen third party creators claim ownership or distribution rights over the things they've created. People in the so-called "Sims Community" seem to think that they are the only computer game players that spend hours creating stuff, and therefore they actually own it. What's your opinion on this? (Anyone who wants to read a more detailed breakdown of this issue can go to the More Awesome Than You fansite and read my thread on this issue. My name there is 'ScaryRob'.
@mccorade5941
4 ай бұрын
Now I'm curious if there is an exception coded for Mrs. Crumplebottom, since she's in the default bin, but is capable of visiting downtown community lots
@DiscoTimelordASD
Жыл бұрын
This was absolutely fascinating. I love Sim PE and creating my own stories through it.
@AniBats
Жыл бұрын
Epic, loved it ⭐ ❤
@tarabelle7716
2 ай бұрын
Does your furniture look like Sims 2 objects on purpose or is it coincidental.
@soupstoreclothing
8 ай бұрын
i love your whole look and vibe so much. i really appreciate how you're totally saying fuck you to the stereotype of who can be a programmer. i tried getting into programming too but just didn't like it. i'm glad there's other women who are in there proving we're just as capable and intelligent as men.
@enbeast8350
Жыл бұрын
Unrelated to the entire video, your hair is amazing
@milktrician
Жыл бұрын
i always love your videos! as a mix of my love for the sims and diving into the intricacies of game code your videos are right up my alley :)
@QuinnsIdeas
Жыл бұрын
Wow. I love your videos!
@Corkoth55
Жыл бұрын
A new April Black upload!! 😍
@SingingAudball
7 ай бұрын
Your videos are a goldmine of information. I know you mentioned doing something about universal NPCs, but will you do one about so-called “unsafe” NPCs like carpool drivers, social workers, repo men, and human statue’s?
@dundee6402
3 ай бұрын
She just did one. Spoiler: they're not "unsafe" at all
@kaydwessie296
Жыл бұрын
This is literally the most interesting thing! And you taught me so many fun things about SimPE that I wanna play with now.
@hannas-things
Жыл бұрын
ITS FINALLY OUT
@PhDSimmer
Жыл бұрын
Great video! After your corruption video I had a look at my character files and I noticed I have duplicates of the same sims (mostly townies) in there which is odd, how has this happened.
@tmlforsyth
Жыл бұрын
Gabby belongs in the show because she's a cute kitty.
@Kotoliszka
Жыл бұрын
WAIT. The Strangetown Bella fix only checks if the neigbourhood has the right ID and if sim with the ID 44 is in the Default household, right? Does that mean that under very specific circumstances (that is, if you get very unlucky with your IDs) it's possible for the fix to accidentally move a universal NPC to a different family?
@Dojan5
Жыл бұрын
I adore your videos. I grew up with The Sims, (like I suspect most of us) and also work as a software developer. I've always been curious about the more technical aspects but at the same time much too lazy to investigate them myself.
@LKComputes
Жыл бұрын
17:42 this is absolute gold
@hazeeqrazak
11 ай бұрын
I think strangetown bella was kinda fake or being cloned by the aliens??
@hatad321
10 ай бұрын
Alien abducted then memory erased as confirmed by Maxis.
@subject667
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad bella goth is covering her own disappearance
@a_humble_rat
Жыл бұрын
WOOO i was watching your other videos repeatedly just waiting for a new one IM SO HAPPY TO ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THE ROSTER! they bring me a sense of comfort so thank you for these!
@theonlybilge
Жыл бұрын
8:55 It said some bad words on twitter 12 years ago.
@celeblessil
Жыл бұрын
One of the Sim Gurus actually admitted in a podcast that Bella not appearing in Strangetown was a bug which was indeed fixed later, as it has always been an intention for her to be dropped in there. Source: kzitem.info/news/bejne/xmym15mEg4OraHY
@AmaryllisMyo999
7 ай бұрын
Your videos make me a better person
@Esth.1
Жыл бұрын
Amazing video once again! I have a question.. I installed all the sims 2 expansions and stuff packs from disc on my laptop (idk, just figured I'd try that)... my neighbourhoods arent in the best shape though, even completely clean, nothing messed up yet by me. First family that I played with. I started with a sims in veronaville's subneighborhood, one of the universities. I randomly got a crash (no clue why), and when I got back into the game (which I didnt save btw), she did live in the house I put her in, but everything about her was wiped. No interests, no memories, no inventory, no life aspiration, male voice, maxed out fitness, no skills (which I hadnt built yet anyway), randomised attractions/turnoff... and she was also not a student anymore. She was a regular adult, not enrolled in uni, stuck in the university lot... I moved her out and deleted her in the bin. I remade the sim in CAS, no more problems there... but most of the sims were broken like this, almost all the female sims had male voices etc. Even when I was done with uni and moved back into veronaville, most sims AND PETS were messed up like that. Pets are the worst though, they have human male sim voices, their bodies get messed up because they try and walk on their hind legs and the front legs get twisted into their bodies. They can't be interacted with by my sims (shooing or petting, it just deletes the interaction). I eventually got sick of them constantly being on my lot so I deleted them too. The game works mostly fine otherwise. Rarely have any crashes... Do you have any idea why my game is behaving this way? I'm at a loss for what to do to fix it because I don't know where to start looking for a cause... Thanks
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