Yup, along with lot edges, wall edges and the occasional "newly-placed lights don't actually give off light" glitch.


Doesn't surprise me. I wonder what this patch actually breaks this time?

I'll bet they still haven't fixed the broken, crappy lighting.

It's well-known that chat logs posted as "evidence" are usually doctored in some way in the interests of moar fight, and I would've dismissed it outright had I not read your blog (originally linked to from your own Wikka page before it was deleted) at the time as well. . If you had not said that you were Jewish, I would have took your anti-US and anti-Israel rants in your blog and outbursts of "Jihad!" and "Jewhad!" as typical examples of far-left anti-Semitism dressed up as anti-Zionism and anti-Westernism. Here's a hint - I'm also Jewish and if I'm finding your ramblings on your own blog to be borderline anti-Semitic, then you're doing it wrong.



If she fled, then why am I getting punished in the Chambers?

The Shiv Gorilla Wikka article is usually enough to remind me what a paranoid, anti-western, anti-Semitic muppet Amatard is. Why am I not surprised she can't even play a computer game properly without thinking the rest of the world is to blame?

Two questions:

1) Is there a mod out there that actually makes the fire pits autonomous? I know there's plenty of old ones that prevented sims from autonomously putting the things away, but I've never actually seen any sims actually using these fire pits unless I direct my own to.

2) Is there also a way to bypass the hard-limit of 8 high detail lots in the options screen? I've tried fiddling around with the different ini files but all these do is crash the game. It's annoying that this game used to handle 12 lots with ease (much in the same way as it used to handle lot boundary-crossing lightsources before EA fucked that up) but now we're left with 8. It's all the more annoying that I know my PC can handle more high detail lots than this, but EA seems to think otherwise.

The answer to that is no. Just like muscle tones, freckles, tattoos and breast size, the game completely ignores these things when generating random sims. Instead, we get 90-odd sims (using AM's spawnmoreoverlords on a newly-cleansed 'hood) with exactly the same faces, hideous eyebrows and a wardrobe malfunction that would make the most dedicated fashionista drink him/herself to an early grave.

Ah, I thought I did, but come to think of it my sent PMs history isn't showing anything. Arse.

Will do - once I've found evidence to back up my claims.
PM sent!

Pah. Never mind 12s not getting titles. I never got one either and I'm old!

Incidentally, I'm also skint. Sorry

THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN

Don't people actually switch off their computers at night? Unless you're running a server or torrenting dodgy porn, I don't see the point in wasting all that electricity, really.

It seems that Mac users are easily offended.

Only since XP in my case. Windoze 95 and 98 were steaming piles of shit, and Vista's a bloody nightmare. Windows 7's ok once you have God Mode enabled, but SP1 is shit and buggers up internet access.

I miss the old days of my Amiga and Workbench 1.3.

Pah! You don't even need to do that. Just replace MacOS with Windoze XP and you'll get a 200% performance boost* right there.

*Not a guarantee. Figure may be speculative and/or plucked out of thin air. Still, it's a Mac. What did you expect?

Why? Do you leave all your newborns lying around on the floor or something?

Why, thank you for volunteering.

Oh, look. We have our very own special snowflake here.


And another one. This must be a BBS love-in or something, complete with flowers, sparklies and glomping.

And would you look at that? I managed to respond to two totally different people without making two separate posts.

The fact is, if you want to act like some prissy, spoilt brat, then do us all a favour and piss off back to the official forums where you can be all cute and sparkly-covered as much as you like, where everyone is nice and is drunk on that Kool-Aid shit. Here at MATY, we have rules - rules you two decided were beneath you (or more likely, you hadn't bothered to read). Either get with the program or piss off.

We don't do nice here.

Did this ever get implemented?

The lovely, wonderful, helpful, incredibly intelligent AND good looking people in this forum are going to tear you a new one for double-posting.

Although apparently, according to Jud over at Simprograms, there wasn't a CD. Just a plastic case and a redeemable code.

I would like to see such an option too. In Twallan's Master Controller, there's an option to open up all lots, with the side effect of this being the game literally running all households in high detail mode. I've never noticed any lagging on my i3-equipped PC, so on an i5 or i7 it should be smooth as anything.

I seem to recall there was an AM command for displaying AI latency, though I've long forgotten what that was (and for some reason, search as come up blank).

Kewian got a starring role?

Definitely Princess Leia on a bad hair day. People actually pay for this shit? Still, at won't stop the sheep over at MS3B from fawning over this crap and demanding retexes.

Bone idleness is your problem, not ours. If you can't be arsed doing something as simple as using the search box, then why the fuck do you expect us to take you seriously?

Promo videos tend to be too lo-res to really make out any detail anyway, and those promotional screenshots - the same ones that show perfectly functioning lighting that doesn't exist in the game, are almost always photoshopped to hell. Ignore them.

There is one way to get your sims (and backgrounds for that matter) to look better, and that's to override the game's internal anisotropic filtering settings. If your card's suitably fast enough (8800 or higher for nVidia and whatever the equivalent is for ATI), go into your card's control panel and change the anisotropic filtering setting for The Sims 3 from "application controlled" to "16x" (the nVidia control panel lists games via their *.exe rather than by name, so change your settings for the latest one). You might want to override the game's AA setting too. I normally have mine set to 16x, though this is on a GTS 250. Your mileage may vary.

The gravity-defying sixhead hair along with the photoskinned painted-on clothes just oozes class.