I must be missing something here.  I'm assuming you had limited gardening space and wanted to replace the existing plants with better quality plants.  How did your sim's gardening skills prevent you from ripping the plants up once they'd fruited (i.e. deleting them in buy mode), so that you could replace them with better quality plants?

Yes, I thought the same at first, which is why I didn't comment on the first post.  Then he repeated it in a subsequent post.  Once is tongue-in-cheek.  Twice, and it's starting to sound like he works for a tobacco company and is trying to sell us on the glamour aspects of smoking.

And yes, I admit I am a little over-sensitive on this issue as 4 months ago I quit after 30 years of being a heavy smoker.

I am running TS3 on an oldstyle PCI graphics card (ATI Radeon 9550).  Yes, all graphic settings are on minimum.  Some advice: save early, save often, and remember you can rename your backup if your save game gets corrupted.

Then stop trying to make it sound glamorous.  Or balance the glamorous movie-star imagery in your posts with some imagery of the ugly side of smoking.

It still can be trivial.  Instead of 8 perfect apples to fertilise with, they just need to harvest 8 different perfect plants from some earlier sim's garden to plant.

I had the same problem with that opportunity, I thought it must have been my sim that was glitched.

I discovered that if I kept the sim's inventory on screen the cookies didn't vanish, but as soon as I clicked away from her inventory the cookies vanished.  In my case the sim lived across the road from the school, so I was able to finish the opportunity without having to click on the map screen.  You could try sending the sim to stand outside the school before dragging the cookie platters to their inventory, so that you don't need to click away from the inventory screen once the cookies are in inventory.

You must have linked to the wrong post, because I don't see any "mindless rant about Communism/whatever the fad is now" in that post.  Perhaps the post you thought you read exists only in your head?

EDIT: ninja'd by jesslla.

Not sure if there is a limit, but if there is it's pretty high.  I had a sim catch 10 deathfish off-lot to stock his pond with.  He later satisfied a wish to catch 250 deathfish, with the other 240 deathfish caught in his own pond.  Other family members were also catching deathfish from the same pond.

If you have 10 of a particular type of fish in your sim's inventory the "stock pond" option will come up when your sim clicks on the pond.  Then you'll get a list of all the fish that your sim has 10 or more of in their inventory.

I've noticed that some ponds on residential lots come "pre-stocked".  Stocking them yourself seems to wipe that out and replace it with whatever you stocked the pond with.  Fortunately any fish I've stocked (as opposed to pre-stocked fish) have still been there after adding more fish to the same pond in another play session, including after rotating through other households.

To answer SHW's question - yes, you can stock a pond on a residential lot with salt water fish.  I've had all 21 fish varieties stocked in the same pond, regardless of whether they are fresh water fish, salt water fish, or both.

My sim, an International Super Spy living in Riverview, has an opportunity to "Stop Doomsday".  To do this he must turn up to the Outstanding Citizen Warehouse Corp. and disarm the doomsday weapon.  Unfortunately for him, those criminals are sneaky buggers, and the Outstanding Citizen Warehouse Corp. is now masquerading as a park.



The building on the lower left with the park icon, left of the building with the pool icon, is supposed to be the criminal headquarters - and was earlier.  My sim has raided it a couple of times since he hit the top of his career.  It is now, as can be seen, a park, although it still has its correct name.

Sequence of events (in case it is relevant): Opportunity came up.  I accepted it.  Had to go do real life stuff, so I saved the game & exited.  When I got back to the computer I updated AwesomeMod.  Went back in to the game.  In this particular neighbourhood I have only played this family, now on 2nd/3rd generation.

Can my neighbourhood be saved?  Or is it fubared and time to go back to the previous save?

Servo?  The servo was never a decent replacement for the TS1 robot.  I still miss the TS1 robot.

Actually OpiumGirl, I think the "before" sim is prettier than the "after" sim.  I like the longer distance from nose to mouth in the "before" sim, for instance, as I think it works better with the full lips.  I'm definitely not seeing the fug that you're complaining about.

Some of the prettification changes you've made (such as a hairstyle that suits her face, and the eyebrow thickness) are cosmetic, and could be applied to a sim in-game.  If you want to compare before and after pics of facial structure it might be better if you didn't include cosmetic changes.

Lucky you.  My daughter and that other person we know both had to replace their CD/DVD drives as a result of SecuROM.

Not quite the same page.  I refuse to install or pay for a version of secuROM that installs itself on my computer.  It's a fine distinction, but an important one.  This difference means that while you are happy to pay for an ARRed game if you find you like it, I know beforehand that I will *never* pay for any TS2 EP or SP released after they started including SecuROM.  I won't pay for malware.

Keep in mind that the average simmer is not your average gamer, we're a unique demographic in the gaming community.  We tend to be bitten by the "gotta own them all" bug (so yes, we want the EPs & SPs that come with SecuROM, but preferably without the SecuROM), but we are generally less likely to ARR until something like SecuROM comes along and changes our perspective on ARRing.

No shilling.

Your earlier suggestion that the price is the reason most people ARR is missing a point that is very relevant in the Sims community.

Many of the simmers I know that ARR their games (myself included) did not start ARRing until BV & SecuROM.  For this group of simmers, it's not about the cost of the game or not being able to afford the game, it is about refusing to pay for spyware that damages computers - including the computers of my adult daughter and at least one other person we know in real life.

As TS3 does not come with a version of SecuROM that installs itself onto your computer, my daughter and I have returned to buying the game.  Yes, we ARRed the pre-release version, but on release day we headed down to the local computer store and each of us handed over our $100 AUD to purchase the game - that's about $80 USD each.  We could each have paid for a couple of nights out at local restaurants for that.

Thanks Zucabr for finding the code that confirmed what I was seeing happening.  Also, thanks for the fix.

*Struggles to think of something to keep this post from being moved to the Thanks, This is Great thread.*   Maybe I should take a swipe at all the sanctimonious smug people who claimed they had a non-existent option in their game, and who were posting that anyone who didn't have the option just needed to try doing it the right way.

If anyone else wants to join the "it works for me in my game, so you must be doing it wrong" group, please supply proof in the form of a pic.  Your pic would need to show the simology tab, so that we can see it's definitely a child that is currently selected, as well as (obviously) the option on the chessboard to play the ranked opponent.

McCrea, I feel your frustration.  I have the same issue. 

In my game (legit version installed over the RELOADED version): If the sim is a child, the option is not available on the chessboard.  Period.  It doesn't matter whether the chessboard is inside, outside or on a comm lot, and it doesn't matter whether the opponent has been greeted or not, has been invited in or not, or is a household member.

This is why I got so frustrated with Brownlustgirl with her ambiguous remarks along the lines of "I guess it was autonomous ..." and "I think it was autonomous ..." instead of stating clearly "this was autonomous behaviour".  It turns out that the behaviour in her game was autonomous, so she can't tell us whether the option was there when she clicked on the chessboard with the child selected (since she didn't click on the chessboard).  Also, we really didn't need the red herrings she dragged through this thread about wishes maybe being satisfied or maybe they rolled away, when wishes have almost nothing to do with the central issue of this thread.

That could be the result of AwesomeMod, if you have it installed.  After the update to AwesomeMod that fixed the bug with the enforced day off whenever a night-shift sim got a promotion, I started seeing the same thing with sims who got a job or promotion shortly before their new work hours started.

You guess it was autonomous?  Surely you would know whether it was autonomous or not.

Either you told the sim to play a ranked match (non-autonomous behaviour), or you didn't tell them to play a ranked match and they chose to do so under free will (autonomous behaviour).

I'm getting frustrated here as your answers keep skirting around the issue.  I've asked you the same direct question several times now.  Could you please give a direct answer, not something vague and uninformative that starts with "I guess ..."

So you don't know for sure that your sim child had the option of "play <ranked player>" (or whatever the text is) as an option when you clicked on the chess board, as this was apparently autonomous behaviour.

That's the central issue.  Whether the wish was satisfied or whether it rolled away on its own in your game aren't the issue here.

It sure would suck if the only way to get a child to satisfy this wish was via the sims' autonomous action - i.e. putting them in a room with their opponent and a chessboard and nothing else to do, taking away the door, and waiting for them to decide to play a ranked match (not just play a game) of their own free will.

Just to clarify, as your posts are a little ambiguous:  Was the option to play a ranking match available when your child sim clicked on the chessboard?  That's the part people are having trouble with.

Upgrading the stove to be anti-fire carries a risk of setting the stove on fire.  Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately?) the house had a fire alarm - it was my first day's play and I hadn't been checking to see if the houses had the basics such as fire or burglar alarms.

That is a very limiting view of the role of the professor.

I live in a city where there are 3 universities.  The city itself is quite small, so the universities compete quite aggressively each year to attract the interest of students and their parents.  All three of the universities run very similar advertising campaigns - they all advertise that they teach critical thinking and that their graduates are expert problem solvers with employable, transferable skills.

Professors aren't just teaching the subject matter (which is their field of expertise), they're also teaching how to analyse the material, as employers are far more interested in whether a graduate has analytical skills than on whether the graduate is an expert in a very narrow field, such as a thesis on outliers in data mining.

How do you know this is possible, with such sureness, if you haven't done it yourself?  If you know because someone told you they've done it in their game, then perhaps you should ask them how they did it.  OTOH, if you know because "the Prima guide says so", may I suggest you rip that page out of the Prima guide and leave it in your bathroom.  It may come in handy if you run out of toilet paper.

"Have to do"?  You make it sound like a chore or hardship.

I think it's one of the plusses of TS3, that I can click on the sim's inventory and have them start playing guitar wherever they are, whether at home, at a comm lot, or visiting a friend. Not to mention that I know the guitar isn't being used by some random sim when I want a particular sim to use it.

Not sure if it was worth giving up pianos (and 6's music skilling) for, but I love the feature.