Then you can send them via mail to cut. Option appears on them in the inventory screen.

To make a picnic you need to buy a picnic busket from buy mode and put it in the sim's inventory, then sim can serve picninc anywhere in the neighborhood.

Check my posts on page 30.

It now acts as a normal cd-rom. Look in My computer. If there is no autorun, then enter cd and run setup.

I have Nvidia 8600 GT Gygabyte and no problems so far.

But he can't, cause it's  inappropriate. And the hosts eat perfectly well when they need to,  just don't serve to the guests  

I have speckles too.

Great!!! Thank you! I was starting to lose hope, that there is such an option.


I find this strange too. They are sleeping over after all, aren't they expected to shower in the morning and eat breakfast? And it seems that it is a two-way street, the sim you invited to sleepover won't shower and will starve to death unless you serve him something. And while you can serve to the guest, no one will serve to you, when you are a guest

Fridge needs to be highlighted, when you point at it, then it means you are putting fruites inside. The same goes for books and bookcase, garbage and garbage can and objects to sim.  Alternatively, you can "open" fridge and drag supplies into the opened window.

I read that you CAN plant eggs and cheese as well as fertilize with them, but need high gardening skill, very high. Didn't try it myself though.

ETA: I find it very very frustrating, that you need to drag supplies one by one. When I have 6 apples, 8 tomatoes and 5 grapes I'm thinking about eradicating those trees for good and never do gardening again. Maybe someone knows a shortcut, like holding a specific key?

I could choose both traits after going to hospital, thanks to sim's happy pregnancy.

I tried to figure out, how available funds are calculated and here’s what I found out:
Variables:
A = House unfurnished – see in buy mode. This is NOT a price of a bare house. It includes kitchen and bathroom furniture, similar to AL, includes also trees, bushes, flowers, driveway, ceiling, wall and outdoor lights.
B = House furnished - see in buy mode, includes everything.
C = Free cash.
D = House value - from moving out menu. There is a slight difference from B sometimes, but I can’t figure out why.
E = House value unfurnished - can’t see from moving out menu, but it is the price of a bare house, with NO furniture, includes trees, bushes and flowers.

Calculation:

Available funds to buy a new home with furniture packed and selling only a house: E+C
Available funds to buy a new home with selling furnished: D+C

So if you want to change a house, you should not base your decision on buy/build mode number, but instead try to move out with the computer and check numbers there. And when choosing a house keep in mind that unfirnished house still includes appliances and lights.

Main folder takes 5.59 GB. And save games and crap folder that's in My documents takes about 700-900 Mb. I also suspect that there are hidden folders with temp cache like in Spore, and god knows how much space they might take.

Edit: It seems as cache file is in saves folder for everyone to see. At least I didn't find anything hidden away.

ETA:
I am confused.
I tried to move my family to another home. I used a computer, checked “pack furniture” option, and then I had to choose a house to move in, but I can’t buy it unfurnished.
I also tried to evict them and then to move in (through “edit town”), but I can’t pack furniture  

Also I can’t figure out how available funds are calculated:
A: House unfurnished: 12782; number from buy mode
B: House furnished: 17402; number from buy mode
C: Free cash: 7649
D: House value: 16759; number from moving out menu
Available funds to buy a new home with furniture packed: 17349 (A+C = 20431. 3000$ difference!!)
Available funds to buy a new home: 24408 (B+C= 25051; D+C= 24408)

Numbers just don’t add up  
Maybe I don’t get paid for bushes and trees? Maybe the numbers from buy mode are without depreciation? I have no idea.
Still it seems impossible to move out with packed furniture and to move into an empty house, unless you pack furniture manually OR empty the destined house manually.

You can still do it wil testingcheatsenabled true and then shift click the mailbox or drag motives bar.

It says that the neighbors will stop doing things on their own, not your family. To be sure I checked and yes, it is global.

No cheat, just hold Alt while moving and turning as usual.

I did the same thing, only left houses. No townies regeneration. Also I spotted a couple of thieves.

This is intended behavior.  I don't think speed 4 is even faster then 3. It just goes on until sim finishes his current task, then it automatically goes on 1 (or maybe the previous speed). It helps if you don't want to watch sim sleep or task closely, but don't want to miss something later.

They get more.

There is an option, at the same screen as other capture options, to include or not include UI.

I have a little question.

In Sims 2 when you went through CAS or used a mirror you could check, uncheck or scroll through options pretty fast. For example while browsing blushes or hair, you could just click, click, click and preview was available right away. That was not the case with accessories. You had to click, wait while game updates and shows you a sim in glasses, then choose another glasses, wait again and so on; or when you scrolled though pages of glasses. That's why I rarely used them and never downloaded anything for that section.

Now in Sims 3 I see that behavior with everything and especially CAST.

Now the question: Is this behavior depends on how fast computer is, and with strong enough one you won't notice this, or, like with glasses from sims 2, will always take a little bit of time?

I don't think the trees and shrubs will look nice in sims 2. Basically, they are a set of polygons, that always turn their face towards you as you move the camera. By this they actually make up the lack of  detalisation. In sims 2 they can't do this, and so will look strange and poor.

Well, I can live with this whole process of reverting back, just don't want it to happen THAT fast. I t would be alright if say my sim will workout three day in a row, finally become fit, then won't workout three days and become chubby again, similar to sims 2. Right now all this happens in a matter of hours, literally eliminating the need to workout, cause what's the point, if sim will be fat again tomorrow. And with the rate sims get tired in this game it’s almost impossible to workout everyday and still have time for something else.

Well, I played the game too, and surprisingly I like it very much. Still, there are some huge things that bug me.

The biggest one so far, is that sim can go from fat to thin and from week to strong in one workout. But even more, they return to their genetic weight in half a day.
I read about returning to your genetic weight and created chubby sim, so there will be a need to workout. I send him to workout on day 1. Next day he eats one, ONE pancake, and here he goes chubby again  I just hope that this wil be fixed somehow by patch. Or this will be my number one want hack.

Another thing that really bugs me is planning hairstyle. In Sims 2 you could go to the mirror and plan hairstyle to every clothe style right away. In Sims 3 you can have separate hairstyle with every clothe SET (which you can have 3 per style), but you have to be wearing that set when you use the mirror to change hairstyle for it. I want to preplan. And I want to do it the easy way, damn it.

Of course there are also little annoyances, like I can't expand catalog to see twice amount of objects like I did in Sims 2. And apparently you can't move paintings up/down the wall. Please tell me I missed this option.

And as a little treat, so you won't think it's that bad:

My own little FortNox:



Apparently butterfly cages are stackable, hurray:



Photo made by my sim of his first not burned food, and his goldfish Alvin:

Tasha, try torrent from isohunt. It gathers almost all big trackers together and gave me a nice speed. And I don't get nice speed often.

I really love your avatar, it's very qute  ^__^ !