That's quite discouraging to hear. 

Does anyone know what files specifically affect the skill rate ?
Maybe i can change the custom bookshelves' skill rate to match of Ctfg's faster skill building objects.

My inquiry is changing a custom bookcase's values to match the skill building rate of the education career reward bookcase.
I think instead the easiest way to go about this is to extract the career bookcase's properties (like BCON, BHAV, TTAB, please do add onto this list),
and overwrite the custom bookcase's with these values.

Does anyone know which of those specific properties i should change and which ones I shouldn't ?
any insight would be appreciated.

Twojeff's http://www.simbology.com/smf/index.php?topic=13.0

Jfade's http://forum.jfade.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25

Poke me, I like it.
-meow-

maxis never thinks their things through, always leaving shit for pescado to fix.
 

i will go hunt for a mod like that, thanks for the suggestion.

i don't think it has much to do with the ''vicinity'' of neighbhours, i was in bluewater and my angry townie came from the university neighbourhood.

not everytime but often when i use the telescope, townies i left in low aspiration would spawn in the lot i'm playing and start slapping my sims, and they've never even met each other!  
so i killed roxie sharpe (the angry townie from academie neighbourhood) and then her roommate jonah powers who i also left in low aspiration started spawning.
anyone else get this glitch ?

graphics options > hide objects on or off.
also there's a fade distance option under game settings.

i'm not familiar with the TS3 cheat but there's a setting to turn fade on and off in game.
if that's not to your liking you can look into ''enhacned gameplay'' camera mod at mts.