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Hello! I'm Sol (she/her) and this is where I play The Sims 2. Always WCIF friendly, but please send me an ask!

Currently playing 🌲 Emerald Pines (BACC) and ⚔️ Brambleton (Medieval Legacy Challenge).

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TOU: Do whatever you want with my stuff! Just no paywalls, please. Credits and links are appreciated but not necessary.

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This really couldn't have happened in a more cramped room, but TIL pets can chase remote-controlled cars?? 😭

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so surreal to scroll through the gos archive and see stuff named 'clothes.zip' or just random lyrics or something. whatever's inside those files isn't technically lost, but it's hard to imagine organically discovering any of it again. yes it's possible to track down a download if you know exactly what you're looking for, but what if you don't...?

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Hi! I’d love to know where I can find Joseph’s hair please? Thanks!

Hi! It's Daylifesims' Shaggy, by platinumaspiration here :)

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~fairytales~

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hello! I was wondering wcif the black and wood produce stands in emerald fresh? /771333403615412224/ ? thanks!

Hi! I answered this a while back, here :)

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Hello! I’m so committed to Emerald Pines, any plans to continue?

Hi, thank you so much for this message! 🥹 Emerald Pines is my baby and my "forever hood", so to speak, and I absolutely plan to continue! Work and my health have been kicking my butt this year, so I haven't had the time or energy to play rotationally, and I've been really enjoying the smaller scale of my medieval save in the meantime. But my plan is to play Emerald Pines until I literally cannot anymore, haha.

With that said, playing 7+ rotations of a BACC has made it clear that the BACC style of slowly building things up probably isn't for me 😅 I want to build when I want to build, and that doesn't always align with when I unlock things. Also, partly as a side effect of playing medieval, I've been thinking a lot about stuff like different socioeconomic classes, more diverse family backgrounds, and... not really realism, because I still love a bit of goofiness and being surprised, but maybe just a more grounded feel, with more interesting stakes? This isn't a problem with BACCs in general—lots of people manage to incorporate meaningful storytelling into the challenge right from the start! Not me tho 🫣

It goes without saying that I didn't think any of that through when I started Emerald Pines 2 years ago, but being more active in the community has made me want to strive for more. I just love seeing and hearing about other people's playstyles and the stories that emerge from them, and I fear the current state of Emerald Pines doesn't reflect how much I've absorbed! Over the past few months, I've been super tempted to, like, retcon details about certain families/sims, rebuild lots (again), and probably rethink the way I handle ROS rolls (/other chaotic events) while I'm at it? But again, life's been busy; realistically, I need to pick my battles, and some days I just want to play, so idk!

Either way, Emerald Pines will be back! There might be some more condensed rounds, or (if I end up making a bunch of those changes I mentioned) maybe I'll do a timeskip to give myself some runway? But I don't intend to stop playing or posting it! I love those silly sims too much. Sorry for writing a novel, but I appreciate you asking, anon! 🫶

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hello, hope everything is well! i was wondering about wcif the skirt that's previewed in your "chika" post, correct me if i'm wrong on if its a skirt or not, thank you!

Hi, hope you're well too! That is indeed a skirt — Clumsyalien's Bellatrix, converted by platasp here :)

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It's been a few months since I played Emerald Pines, but I'm looking through my screenshots and apparently I spent my last play session decorating a little workroom :')

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Object Limit 2: Electric Boogaloo

Good Bad news, everyone!

I have returned from a grueling 48-hour adventure deep within the Maxis mines, and have witnessed unspeakable man-made horrors with my own two eyes — the object limit is very real and there is nothing that can be done to fix it! The end times are upon us!

Okay, I'm being slightly dramatic. It could be fixed fairly easily, but not with a simple patch, and likely not without access to the source code (anyone else tired of hearing that excuse?).

The issue is that the limit isn't localised to purely the Build/Buy menu — it's integral to every aspect of the game that involves objects. Here are just a few examples of the game's functionality that would need modifying to remove the limit:

Sim pathfinding and routing.

Mapping tree tables to objects.

Interacting with objects.

Manipulating objects within lists (reading/writing/deleting them).

Objects being unselectable in the Build/Buy menu was also a result of this limit and I managed to fix it very quickly, but because The Sims 2 is a house of cards with the limit as its foundation, everything started falling apart almost instantly.

"So, what is this limit?", I hear you ask. 32,767. Yes, you read that correctly. The game is only willing to accept object IDs up to a meager value of 32,767. In computing terms, this is the maximum value of a signed 16-bit integer. It can store many more objects than this in a list, which is why you can still see all your 4t2 objects in the catalogue, but it isn't designed to recognise this many IDs and thus can't do anything with them.

Why are integers signing things? Are they famous or something?

'Signed' refers to the fact that these are integers (an integer is just a whole number btw) that can represent both positive and negative values — negative numbers have a negative sign before them, hence the term 'signed'. An unsigned integer is therefore one that can only represent positive values.

While they can both represent the same total of different values, the range of representable positive values differs. Using 16-bit integers as an example:

Unsigned: 0–65,535 Signed: -32,768–32,767

This shows that both can represent 65,536 different values, but the range of positive values for signed integers is half of that of unsigned integers. Object IDs cannot be negative, which means Maxis deliberately chose to use signed integers as a way to cut the ID limit in half.

The cherry on top of all this is that the game is manually converting 32-bit numbers into 16-bit numbers to enforce this limit. This is why I could fix objects not being selectable in the Build/Buy menu easily, as all I had to do was patch out the conversion. Could EA do this across the whole game themselves if they wanted to? I imagine so. But then again, if I had billions of dollars, I probably couldn't be arsed either.

What's an object ID?

An object ID is just a number from 0–32,767 that the game assigns to each new object it places into a list, presumably starting at 0 and incrementing by 1 for the next object. It would appear that CC objects are given IDs first, which is why it was solely Maxis objects becoming unselectable after passing the limit.

Sims and objects are stored in separate lists, but I believe they both contribute to the overall limit. My single piece of evidence for this is that I experimented switching between several hoods and observed that the IDs of objects in the Build/Buy catalogue fluctuated across them. Objects in hoods with subhoods attached had higher IDs than in those without.

What was causing the Build/Buy menu crashes?

The same thing I explained in my original post (the game trying to access null pointers), except the creation of these null pointers was no accident and not the result of something going wrong.

The game merely checks whether the ID for the object it is looking at is above 32,767, and if it is, it deliberately sets the pointer to its address to 0. This would be fine, if it didn't then try and access this nullified pointer immediately afterwards!

I'll cut Maxis some slack here, because surely no one would be crazy enough to want more than 32,767 objects in their game, right guys? How could they ever have predicted such a scenario? (2004 was a simpler time).

Wait, so you were wrong about there not being an object limit? Not so cocky now, are you?

Whoa there, cowboy — hold your horses. If I may direct your attention to this excerpt of an email I sent to @teaaddictyt on the 22nd of April 2026 at 13:42 BST:

As you can see, I was right all along!!!

In my defence though, we thought the crashing was the only thing we had to solve, which is why I missed the completely obvious 16-bit conversion that was occurring within the functions I patched. Unfortunately, I am only human, but I understand if you want to destroy all the spockthewok posters I know you have hanging on your walls...

In light of these new findings, if you want to hear my updated opinion on the existence of the object limit, watch this video.

Is your patch useless?

Yes, but also no. It's not fixing the object limit (I should probably rename it tbh), but it is fixing those annoying crashes caused by it.

At the moment, not having the Build/Buy menu crash when you try and use it is the best we can do. It's up to you which you find more annoying — crashing, or not being able to buy x number of objects in the catalogue. Like the 4GB memory limit, this is going to be an additional constraint we'll have to learn to accept :/

Another alternative would be to join me and the 12 other weirdos who play with no CC, and never have to worry about any of this. No? Oh well, it was worth a try...

Will you ever actually fix the object limit?

If it's even possible without the source code, then not by myself, no.

Because of the number of core areas of the game that would need patching, I don't trust myself not to miss something and have the game explode. Unless someone wants to assemble a modding strike force to try and tackle the issue as a team over several months, I'm not touching it with a 10-foot pole (for your safety and for mine).

Should Maxis go on trial at the Hague for crimes against humanity?

Probably.

Anyway, that's all from me, apologies for the false hope :( One small positive is that I did manage to map out a reasonably large chunk of the game's code while I was frantically searching for solutions, which should make my life easier when looking at your requests. I feel like I need to successfully complete some of them now to make up for this dud!

Will

(Thank god I didn't look at this for my dissertation, I would have failed my degree).

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after spending almost the entire legacy so far playing 2-3 sim households, I was already struggling to keep four sims afloat... but a bunch of stuff happened within the span of a few sim days and now there are about to be EIGHT sims in the household. help 😭

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welp. i finally had time to play again today, and uhh never mind 🥴

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ts2 premades as memes (part 1)

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With that, Matheo (Romance/Popularity) officially joins the family. He gets a new outfit, a concerned crinkle in his brow, and significantly increased odds of dying tragically.

He's a green-thumbed coward with one nice point, because of course he is. I'm sure this marriage is going to be totally smooth sailing!

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At the dawn of year 617, Margery and Matheo put on their nicest clothes and finally exchange vows at the church.

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Having a normal one before the wedding 👌

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Oblivious to the plight of the children in her house, Margery takes fate into her own hands and proposes to her long-time lover, Matheo.

It would've been a shame if his dilly-dallying meant not marrying in the spring—I mean, look how beautiful it is! And look how many sheep need to be sheared that she could definitely use some help with! It would greatly benefit everyone if they married as soon as possible.

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Still much to learn about vampiric life, I fear.