Sorry, out of valuable thoughts, today. Please have a free related macro instead (cows can be cute).

Question about the Supreme Commander.

The fact it's a no-return point, is valid for the game (neighborhood) actually played or for any other existing saved games, providing they aren't loaded while the SupCom is active? Do TS3 (and the linked SupCom) "touch" all the saved games when runs, like TS2 did with all the neighborhoods, or leaves them alone until loaded?

I'll make a backup anyway, but some more infos beforehand would be useful (so I can pretend to understand and looking smart).

It also works if you ctrl-shift-click on it (i.e. move cursor on sim, wait for 6 months for the tooltip with the name, then ctrl-shift-click), then choose "Edit in CAS". Its name will be truncated in the name field, and you can edit easily the bugger.

I bet on runstoryaction too; same thing for me. Somehow it screws a random (?) sim or household.
I deleted townies households one by one and the 5th was the borked one: red square gone at once.

I think you might have your browser incorrectly configured: you shouldn't have downloaded a config.php file, but an aweconf.package. Althought I suspect the content is the same, the name is different, and that could explain why it's not recognized by the game and maybe why it crashes.
Try renaming the config.php in aweconf.package, and/or redownload.

Oh dammit. I bet it's fault of the FUCKING STUPID Mac OS X feature which keeps the extensions hidden by default. One of the best (worst?) examples of überidiocy bumped back and forth between Microsoft and Apple at least twice for NO LOGICAL REASON, besides fucking idiocy.

(sorry guys, I needed to rant. Carry on.)

I have a magic gnome and that filthy slacker hasn't moved once in the whole week.

Quite probably we have different game habits and different things we like/dislike; apparently they're quite the opposite. I want max autonomy and unpredictability, even if it results in stupid social actions; "safe" social autonomy is only boring, to me.
And again, I'm not saying that traits don't affect their way to socialize, I'm saying that - at least so far - they affect the socialization in a fixed way, not compound. Hyperbolically, I would roughly define it like the difference between binary and analogical.
In TS2 I had sims who flirted a lot and sims who almost never did because of their different personality ensemble, not because they had the flirty or unflirty trait, and the rest doesn't matter.

That's why I was specifically referring to socialization (not clear enough, probably, in my previous post). The way they approach each other, the frequency of their autonomous choice of socials, the romancing style - there were many, and different each other, depending on the personality combination. I had a sim which acted like a stalker, when in the same lot with her crush; another one apparently didn't give a damn about his girlfriend and was always busy around his friends - different combinations of outgoing/slob/nice and other points together lead to different overall behavior.
Just in romantic actions, some sims tend to always smooch at first sight, others will never do it autonomously for their whole life, others will grab asses and never give peck kisses. I loved to watch them.

In TS3 the differences are sharper: flirty sims will always flirt, inappropriate sims will act inappropriately, fine, got it. My point is that all flirty sims seems to do the same, there are no other traits that modify the flirty trait. The same is for inappropriate, and such.

Oh yes, just what I was hoping for. Where's the teen raped and pregnant with twinz (angst optional)? I MISS HER SO MUCH!!!!!!!111EVIL!!!!!

My actual game is lurking in the awesomemod thread and testing the stuff. Following various modders, too, is fun; playing the game in itself, not so much.
I've found all the rocks, all the metals and all the gems, and had every gem cutted in every shape. That sim's house looks like a Geological Museum - that part is finished: no way I'll have another sim doing the same, ever; there's no purpose.
Fish: finished.
Garden: finished.
Cuisine: finished.
Object upgrades: finished.
Music: finished, both Rockstar and Symphonic (I don't even remember what's its name)
Athletic: finished.
Criminal: finished (Master Thief)
Once I finish the other careers and hobbies, there's not much more to do with them.

The traits should give them a higher differentiation - instead, they all behave the same. Look at them socializing autonomously: they look like robots, programmed to run a specific (pointless) task every x ticks, nothing more. In TS2 they had personality: I remember all my sims, each one had its own unique behavior; I could gave them a facial surgery and still recognize them. I guess the personality points system allowed more combinations and more subtle variety. A better variety, to me. All these traits sum the shticks, don't merge them in some unique combination.
I'm at the 4th generation and still don't give a damn of any of those fuckers. They have no depth.

Well, I have now a young adult - soon adult-to-be - who still has the "out past curfew" moodlet (+15). It had to be a really shocking experience.

As far as I can understand, EA sucks as usual. They threw in a Mac version of TS3 which actually is the regular Windows version stuffed in a wine wrapper, and hope for the best.
They have noone over there who has the slightest idea of how a Mac/Unix system works, let alone troubleshooting the issues with their crappy mac software. The only help you can have from EA is about Windows, if ever. If you're on Mac, get on with it and GTFO.
Well, nothing new for us Mac users, amirite?

Specann, just go here, download what you need, install the usual way and leave those fuckers alone. It's all good for your sanity, trust me.

And please, after you got a screenshot with Grab, convert it in jpeg or png in Preview; tiff is not a format supported by web browsers.
Also, please, use your shift key.

Wait, I just used it in neighborhood view, and it worked.

I wonder if he has a boombox in his inventory, turned on.

Seeing that their unlucky life should be miserable, I guess that giving them more of it is quite sadistic.

Babby BBQ.

That's actually a clever move; they spit out the less liked expansion first, so we both have an expansion and drool MOAR on the others to come.

Oh wow, it deleted its post. What a dumbass.

Ok, I have nothing new to add, but I need to chime in to post: Rosemary's Baby citation FTW.

Meh, don't you know that "lol" is the new period/full stop? Be MOAR hip!

I had that too! I'm almost sure there's a template for NPCs somewhere: I also had three identical maids spawned in a row.
Anyway, that guy in the picture is one of the worst; he leaves the houses a mess. I would suggest to fire him at once.

It might be related to beds ownership. According to some tests I did, they need to have a double bed already owned (i.e. where the sim had already slept at least once) or a double bed where noone had slept yet.

If the sim sleeps in a single bed, and all the double beds in the house are owned by other sims, the woohoo/try for baby option appears and is selectable, but it doesn't work when selected - the couple does nothing. In this case, if you plop down a new double bed somewhere and choose the option again, they will make a beeline to the new bed and proceed as designed.

Ask to move in doesn't work?

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