Have you tried this after removing all of your downloads? I remember having this problem when I had a certain hack in my game. I don't remember what the hack was, but I figured it out by combing through my hacks folder.

A lot of toddlers animations seem to be glitched as hell. The first sim I played with a kid, I had her pick him up, snuggle him, teach him to walk and talk, and so on. At times, there were large gaps of space in between her and the child that obviously weren't supposed to be there. Other times, arms and legs were rammed through the other sim. 

Yes, but it may take longer than it did with the store objects for TS2 since currently, less is known about TS3.

Not sure if you've already checked this one out, Zazazu posted it a few pages back.

Alternatively, you can click and drag on the needs bars when above cheat is enabled, just like TS2. I find it more convenient if, say, I don't want my sim to pass out from exhaustion yet, but don't want to keep refreshing all of the motives for everyone.

Edited because I can't type.

AHA! I've noticed this too, and wondered if I was just going crazy. The speeds definitely seem screwy-- the game also drops down to three sometimes when I choose four, even though I usually choose this when my Sims are at work or sleeping.

I've also noticed this inventory problem. My main sim only had one object in her inventory, but it was gone after I switched back to her household. Damn irritating, too, since it was the most expensive laptop and she has the computer whiz trait.


This takes for bloody EVER. Maybe it had something to do with my Sim's traits or something, I don't know, but my Sim had the option to "try for baby" long before she had the option to "ask to be boyfriend" or whatever the option is. I was beginning to think they'd be elders by the time they got engaged.

Also try checking the comments on the torrent, if you torrented it. For some reason the one at demonoid had a lot of complaints about the keygen not working properly (although it worked fine for me) so it's possible other people have encountered the same thing.

Has anyone figured out how romantic relationships work? I've been trying like hell for about 20 sim days to get two sims engaged, and although they have the option to "try for baby" I can't find ANY kind of proposal option. Also, I think there must be some kind of a "boyfriend/girlfriend" relationship since both sims are living together but are considered single, but for the life of me can't figure out how to get that one to come up either.

Way to make the simple things bizarrely complicated, EA.

Unfortunately that makes sense, at least when you look at how money-grubbing EA is. I know it's just a base game, but even so there's only a handful of actual meshes for each section... it's pretty weak, especially when you've gotten used to having tons of CC choices in TS2.

I tried this and as far as I could tell, nothing major happened to my main family. However, the aging is an all-or-nothing deal, meaning that nobody was aging at all.

Actually, when I tried to play another family, I noticed something strange. One of my sims, Hank Goddard, is woohooing his female partner in law enforcement but didn't have her in his relationship panel at all when I played his family, and in fact had a completely different woman listed as being his partner. However, when I went back to play his partner's family, all the relationships were still intact.  Not sure what it means, but it doesn't seem to bode well.

ETA: Because I wasn't clear, I thought I should add that I played her family for about 10 sim days with aging and story progression on before I tried this, so she should definitely be in his relationship panel.

Yes.

Several other posters have already pointed this out. However, the leaked version DOES contain a disc image. Probably won't know for sure until June 2nd, though.

I didn't realize this, thanks for the tip. I'm all for having my Sims' houses coordinating properly, but don't particularly want to spend hours on end making sure the bedspread matches the curtains. 

Just remove the "boolprop".

As far as I can tell, there are no aliens or vampires, which admittedly sucks. Somebody else feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

So I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet so to speak,and download the game despite my original plan not to yesterday. I have to say, the similarities between TS3 and TS1 seem pretty striking, at least to me. Their faces have a somewhat creepy quality to them and are all extremely similar-- I played around in CAS for quite awhile, and had a very difficult time getting a distinct sim that I wanted to play.

The good:
-I like the "opportunities", particularly the ones for the career. My main sim biked over to the local Black Gnome Market at four a.m. and gathered intel for her job, which I thought was kind of cool.
-The customization options available-- sort of. The actual meshes available are very limited, but the fabric swatching tool is nice, at least at first. After the novelty wore off, I found myself wishing there were more pre-made options available.

The less-than-good:
-No memories. WHY? I realize they could be annoying and glitchy at times, but it bothers me that my sims will have no memories of getting married, giving birth, and so on.
-This is minor, but... no coffee maker? Much like my life, ALL of my sims drink coffee daily.
-Cooking now takes a REALLY long time, at least it did for my sim. She was two hours late to work and almost starved to death while trying to make waffles. I can see myself using the "quick meal" option a lot.

Those are just the things that jumped out at me. Honestly, it's not quite as bad as I thought it would be, but I can't see it replacing TS2 for a lot of players.

Since I haven't seen anything about it on this thread yet, I'm going to post this and hope I'm not screwing something up. *ducks* Supposedly, the game leaked early and a torrent is up at demonoid, though I make no claims about whether or not it is legit since I haven't downloaded it. Personally, I'm hoping to wait until CC is a possibility down the road.

Link: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1925148/41351368/

I find this particularly interesting, and potentially a smart move, if the thing doesn't suck (thoughI strongly suspect it will). However, I'd be interested in knowing just how much spyware crap comes along with this "free trial" before I'd try to download it. Interesting.

I'm currently using Comodo, and have used Zone Alarm in the past. I liked Zone Alarm but it seemed to be conflicting with PeerGuardian (no idea if it really does that much good, but it makes me feel better!) so now I'm trying Comodo. So far I haven't had any problems, though I'm noticing that it tends to give me more pop-ups than ZA did. I switched from the windows firewall because, as was already pointed out, it doesn't give you the option to block programs (looking at you, TS2) from connecting to the internet.

And even then, some of those sheeples might end up losing interest pretty quickly if nobody is out there making CC (well, except TSR and whatever shitty retexturing they are up to).

I'm in the "meh" group myself. If and when talented free creators are able to make the game less painful to look at, I'll probably consider ARR-ing it to see how it plays on my computer. TS2 is staying installed, though.

Just FYI, these only consist of the downloads exclusive to the store. They don't include the items separated from EPs or SPs. There are a couple of things available here originally from the Celebrations SP, but that's it. For the rest of the stuff you'll either have to acquire the SP or buy the item from the store.

This is a major pet peeve of mine. I am saving the diagram.

Normally I like MTS2 and Delphy well enough, but the deletion thing seemed uncalled for. Are they getting their moderation tips from TSR or something? Seriously.

To be fair, the advertising for TS3 has been kind of shoddy compared to what they did for TS2. The television commercials in particular come to mind, since I haven't seen anything that widespread for TS3 yet. Maybe that's what they're aiming for between now and June. *shrug*

Just... wow. Honestly, I've been playing with Seasons so long I didn't even realize the skies had ever looked any different. Now I'm definitely hoping there's a way to change it. *crosses fingers*

Well, I'm not surprised they delayed it, since I was kind of expecting one. I am surprised they delayed it all the way until June, however. Why such a long wait, I wonder? It's not like they showed a lot of concern for TS2 bugs, at least in the EPs.

I know a lot of people with this kind of attitude, myself included. Considering the current state of the economy, though, it's an outlook that I'm slowly getting over. It's kind of interesting to compare my friends' attitudes towards purchasing in comparison to, say, my parents, who come from the mindset of "keep it 'til it's no longer functional".

I'm really not sure if this indicates anything good or not. From what I understand, the base game was also delayed more than once before they finally released it, and it still seemed pretty buggy. (The random choking death of pregnant sims was my particular favorite. Pretty sure that was in the base game.)

Looks like there's a few different release dates floating around now. Spring4Sims has an article about it here. Personally, I think the March one mentioned in this thread is the most believable so far-- surely EAxis wants to throw it out there as soon as possible (since they can't be bothered with time wasting activities like actually testing the game).