Yea, I know. I've harassed him a bit just to fuck with him, but what evs.  This is what happens when you put stuff on the internet.

You're doing it wrong, that's why.

Menaceman, I do believe the mermaids in IP are townies so the suggested should work. The moment I befriended a mermaid she led me to the secret mermaid island, whether or not there are more than the one island that require mermaids IDK.

While I do need to re-install everything eventually, it seems like everytime I do I get less of those. And that is only store stuff BTW.

Yea, me too. What an odd thing to cause so much trouble.

Like the mermaids are any better; they're useless. The new shiny effect they have wears off real quick when you realize that once you've seen them swim around for a few minutes that that's all they're worth.

Now now, lets not get too hasty to judge. If no one bought their games/products there'd be no one to share/pirate them.

Make a folder and put your sims3packs into it. Download the first link and put those two files into the same folder with your sims3packs. Select the sims3packs and drag them over the decrapify.exe. That's it.

You have to use this first, then install them.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15129.0.html

I'll give you one ESL benefit of the doubt. I don't know what you are asking, if you can try to clarify what it is you mean I can try to help.

Well for now I have found a suitable work around. I added this line to my resource.cfg file in my mods folder:

Priority 500
PackedFile DCCache/*.dbc

Then copied the dbc files into a folder named DCCache in my mods folder. Zipped up the mydocuments DCCache folder for when I need to add more store stuff then deleted the original. I only install store stuff through the launcher and everything is arr'd so I had no ebc files(legit store stuff). Works like a charm and all my fixes still work. Now my game starts up everytime. This will do for now until something else comes up or when I feel like playing around with cc magic or something.

I only have 13 dbcs and my game decides when it wants to work or not. On a fresh startup of my pc I try to run the game and it works. I quit the game and try running it again, I get the forever black loading screen. I remove my dbccache folder, try running the game and it works. Quit the game, replace my dbccache folder, try running the game and it works. Quit the game, try running it again and I get the forever black loading screen. I'm gonna try a few more things but I might be switching over to packages for store stuff.

If you have to ask you're not ready for the test version.

What food and drink stand? Are those new objects? Store? Game?

Are you patched to 1.55 now? Sounds like you've got the same problem as me, with the black loading screens. What I have to do is first make sure the launcher isn't running via the task manager then load the launcher. Once that's up and running start the game. It does take a while for everything to load up but it does start up eventually.

With the latest patch the launcher does take a lot longer to load up the first time. You should try FULLY patching first, then open the launcher, instal what you're trying to install and wait for it to do it's thing.

On a completely different side note, Chrome is insisting I correct "a lot" to "alot". What is this I don't even.

There is no 1.50 test version, 1.50 is stable.

Are you referring to the time stamp on the site or the actual time stamp on the file that downloaded? Cause the one I got was not from today.

Neither does the fucktard that mentioned it, it's still the 5/9 version. BETA is the correct one though, just replace www. with beta.

Make sure you're not using unAwesome anymore, if you're trying to use that and the xml one you'll get borkedness. Share past versions all you like; just don't share it here, there's enough idiocracy as there is.

If your stuff is decrapped I would suggest going into your library folder, finding the lot in question and re-decrapping it. The lots will all be named a bunch of numbers so use the time stamp to figure out what is what or open them up in s3pe and check the thumbnails to see which lot it is.

No.

Yes and no, the career bundle is fixed by AM, the register isn't. Either way you should be able to use it with AM, I'll test when a test version is out.

Updated everything. Moved around and changed some things so pay attention. I removed the unAwesome mod and replaced it with the KT_XML mod. Now that is the only piece that needs updating come new patch time. The working pet register was moved to decrap fixes since that's technically what it is. Game isn't reliably loading so I don't have the patience to fix the teen workout outfit right now; since I couldn't find the problem in the package itself I'll have to add bits that I think is causing it one at a time and load the game.

Yea, scuba diving is pretty boring.