Do you Need to create New families for the changes to effect them?

Or in other words - the Old families - Will the changes help them out?

The changes are automatic, so will be applied to your existing families

I found the new actions were all working straight away, and they are fun, but some of the tired & exhausted issues either needed some time, or a reboot. They didn't respond too well for me as soon as I downloaded the update, but after turning off my netbook and playing the next day they were going to bed a lot better.

They get hungry quicker now. Is anyone else experiencing this? And the food supplies seem to last longer, but you get a little less with each purchase. I think it was 200 units of non-organic & 300 of organic & now it's 150 & 250. Anyone else confirm this?

As it says in the 1.00.04 readme file:

- People will sleep to a higher level of energy replenishment
- Adjustments made to offline food consumption, in-game hunger and eating

So, yes there are changes in those areas, but the food quantity from groceries hasn't changed.

Thanks LadyCFII. I thought that had changed as I hadn't seen them make themselves breakfast before.

I hope the next update will 1: Make it so new moms can work and 2: Reduce the amount of time between baby makings. In the real world some people have a new baby every year. So there's no logical reason for the 3 "year" wait.

The .04 version really does a great job fixing the energy problem. I've been playing almost non-stop since installing it, and haven't seen exhaustion except when it's actually time for them to be exhausted. Yay!!!

Anyone having name trouble in the .04 version? I have 2 children with the same name, and I am not sure if I was reading correctly but I could have sworn one game told me that a certain child went to college, then came back and used the same name to tell me the father had gotten a promotion. This is "My" family, so the 1st gen are all named after my actual family (except Pepper,) The second gen family has named itself though.

The game will sometimes create peeps who have the same names, even within the same generation. You always have the option to rename them if you'd prefer different names.

The issue with the 'going to college' and 'promotion' messages is a bug that was accidentally introduced since 1.00.02, and we're looking at it.

I haven't seen any new actions with the dog yet. :-(