Do you have the latest version of the game (1.00.05)?

I'm already enjoying 1.00.05! My wee people are less exhausted by the time I get home from work and can check on them. And as one of the people who worried it would get too unchallenging without that, I was glad to see that hunger management has changed to be less automatic.

Plus, some of the new actions are a hoot. And I just got my first set of triplets. Challenge a-plenty!

LadyCFII's note: This suggestion will work only with the Windows version. Mac users should see Arthur's post for details about updating their game.

Badger55, have you re-downloaded the "trial version" and then installed it again? It will install over your game, but it will still be the full version that you paid for. Then, when you go into the game, go to the Menu and look at the bottom left to see what version it is after you have done that. The last two numbers should now be .04 -- unless they have released another version since I got the last one anyway.

Once you have .04 installed, it should help. I know everyone else is saying that you don't have to delete your existing families and start new ones, but even though it did help my existing families I found that after I deleted all my previous ones and started new ones that there was a tremendous difference in their energy levels.

I've also discovered something else. I am the only person who uses my computer, but I still have a second log in anyway. What I have now done is I installed the game under the second log in and now I have 5 families that I can play during the day when I have the time and then I have 5 more I can play later in the evening and into the early morning if I can't sleep. By doing that, the families that need to sleep during the night are being left alone and the ones that need to sleep during the day are also being left alone. It's working out really well.

The latest version available is now 1.00.05.

I downloaded it today and deleted my old families and started a new family to see what happens. I won't know what they do at night until tomorrow as I reversed time.

But I've backed up my old families in case I want the pool & thin screen back, oh and the generations I had too.

Version .05 worked like a charm for me .

I may be wrong, but I noticed that my peeps are willing to work more on morning hours (their morning). In the evenings, even if their energy levels are high, they tend to do other things and so their progress is slower.

Thanks for adding the Mac info to my post, Lady. Also a thank you to Arnie for letting me know that the latest version is .05 now. Does anyone know what the changes are with this latest version? I'm pretty happy with .04 and don't want my peeps to work less in the evening hours. I truly try to make sure they take time to relax, play and exercise already, so I don't want them refusing to work in the evening, lol! Anyway, ever since I discovered that I could put it under both of my logins, I have simply been having a blast with this game. To the point that I need to do other things that aren't getting done, lol!

The newest version says just one change about people's names when they get email. I don't see much changed.

This is cut and pasted from Arthur's post about the newest version and all versions:

Highlights from 1.00.02 to 1.00.05:
- Life event notifications were sometimes mixing up people's names when it coincided with someone going off to college. Fixed.
- People will sleep to a higher level of energy replenishment
- Adjustments made to offline food consumption, in-game hunger and eating. People will overeat less in game-off, and will never starve if there is food available. Expect to see slightly hungrier people when you turn on the game, and much more food in the fridge.
- Adjustments made to allow greater player influence on longevity
- Failsafe put in for refusal to breed
- Adjustments made to a couple of the more difficult trophies
- Working is a bit less tiring, other changes to energy usage and recovery
- Fix to prevent glove loss/corruption
- Emails-to-player now correctly reflect customized names
- New pet behaviors
- Pets no longer show up in store rotation once purchased
- Store rotation now every 4 hours instead of 8
- Story book shop item works now


Edited by Arthur (Yesterday at 02:39 PM)

Thanks angeltalena, I think I'll just stick with .04 then as most of the things you listed were in the .04 version anyway. Fun game, isn't it?