Yeah, I don't think they're tied either.  I think Masterpiece must be tied to completing 25 books, bestseller or not, because the book you see in the picture as his highest earner was his 26th, and it was a Masterpiece.  But he's completed a couple of books since and still no vaudeville.  His next wish is for 40 books, so maybe it's at 40 books?


I've actually noticed the exact opposite.  The only plants that seemed to me to have low harvest rates was the Death Plant (two with a revival in between harvests) and the common produce types.  They died faster than any other type, even though the quality of all of them was perfect.


I've never had a money tree die either.  They do produce seeds though, you can see them on the ground underneath occasionally.  I've also noticed that the money trees increase in quality as time goes on too, but that may be because one of my sims is a green thumb and both have the super green thumb LTW reward.

I didn't get these perks directly after fulfilling the three writing challenges, because as soon as you mentioned this I checked my male Sim's options and he didn't have either Vaudeville or Masterpiece.  He got the Masterpiece after a couple more novels though, but still no vaudeville...

Yeah, I guess that's it.  One Sim is ambitious.  The other likes to work though, so I guess I thought they'd even out.

I don't understand why some wishes are worth different values.  I don't remember that ever being the case for TS2.  Anyone know why this may be?

It's also incredibly annoying that items in their inventory don't count towards their household funds, too, like building/business deeds/partnerships.

I think it is going to be all under the same umbrella of www.modthesims.com, from what I remember?  Maybe Delphy and HP have some specific domain picked out though, because it seems that one is not theirs.

Yeah, I figured that was the reason.  Which is why I was not so surprised (but pissed).

I hate the moodlet manager, my Sim used it a couple of times and it only seemed to work once.  Then it was gone from the inventory the next time I loaded the inventory (though I think I switched families in-between).

My Sim has finally gotten the teleportation pad.  He's currently updating it for perfect teleportation, since it's another unique upgrade (still trying to figure out what they all are).



After I plunked down the reward, all the members of the family could now teleport anywhere:

Sometimes rocks and gems that your Sims find also come back as magical gnomes when you send them away to be smelted/cut.

I've never found ore.  That's my missing metal too.  As for the pink diamond, check around the fishing holes since there's lots of gems around those, but they really can be anywhere.

I've gotten this far with gem cuts, and I think there will be one more at §500, and I think it'll be a princess cut.

My Sims are making ridiculous amounts of money, really.  Selling good produce, seeds, used books, gemstones, fish and then buying partnerships in the local businesses gives them dividends.  Writing novels, painting, playing guitar, the various money-making opportunities...the list goes on and on.  It's insane how much money can be made without their ever having to get a job.

Edit: I find I'm a lot more interested in gameplay now that I'm not worrying so much about what their house looks like.  I have experienced more in TS3 already than I have in TS2.

You can only get the heart-shaped cut once you find all the different types of gemstones.  The different type of gem cuts are related to how many you send off to get cut.

Well, I finally found the most elusive gemstone, which turns out to be something called a rainbow gem.  It seems to be worth far less than a pink diamond, but no matter.  Getting that allowed me to get a 5th gem cut type: a heart shape.

Edit: I realize there's got to be more types, but I just haven't sent enough off to be cut yet.

Oh, no...I didn't know you meant that.  Sorry

Every time I've ever looked, Break Up is in the Mean tree, even when their relationship is good.  So I'd try there in the future.

If your Sim has already fulfilled their LTW, the option to change their LTW in the rewards panel disappears and they can't get a new one.

So when do they start offering you different cuts for the gemstones, do you know?

I think it's a matter of finding more unique types of gems.  Once I found the pink diamond, I got the oval cut.  But I'm still only at 90% of unique gems, it's quite frustrating to not have the last 10%!

In other news, I thought this LTW was kinda funny:

All I've seen so far is emerald cut and oval cut.


You don't forfeit achievements.  You lose opportunities and wishes.

Questioning works quite well, and the funny thing is the more info you get, the more information there is available for the reports and the better they turn out.  I tend to line up certain interactions - greet, ask about career, get to know, tell funny story and then question.  If the Sim they're talking to is in the criminal track, I will make sure they get every single bit of information from that Sim that they can because those reports are worth the most.

A tiny thing, but the spelling mistake jumps out at me immediately like it was lit up with Christmas lights:



And my Sims are protesting the clowns at EA

Natural cooks can prepare bad food.  I had a Sim prepare ambrosia and when it was done it was normal quality.  Once she "kicked it up a notch" it went to perfect.  Maybe it has to be of good quality before it'll work to reset their ages?

I've had that happen on every new main family with the Reloaded version. (I've reset a few times).

I haven't had too much experience with stolen items, but I know that the Sim will usually get a good karma moodlet from returning stolen items.

No, you're right, you can influence their wishes this way.

Well, your sim may go stir crazy if you don't send them out in the neighbourhood sometimes.  And nothing bad at all happens if you don't collect stuff.