It didn't seem to work for me. Seriously, nothing happened. But my game has become so screwy it probably needs reinstalling...

I didn't think so either, but literally just this minute my sim visted her neighbors at about midday and swiped their bathroom ceiling light. So I guess they can do it autonomously during the day. Hm, I must keep a closer eye on my maids now...

All my lots seem to rotate 90 degrees upon placing them onto an empty lot, resulting in driveways and paths leading to empty grass spaces. If that isn't complete fail, then I don't know what is.

If you enable the testingcheats, you can look through the window to see inside their house and teleport into it, then you can sneak around and steal shit. That's the only way you can do it without having to be invited in.

Incidently, is there any difference between the "Sneak" and Burglar trait "Sneak anywhere" actions?

Would NPCs be able to steal stuff during the day?

I get that too. Sometimes they will actually get to do something, but then get stuck and just stand there for hours.

And I thought the butlers in TS2 AL were useless...

My sim got absolutely nothing for becoming the Emperor of Evil (Level 10, Criminal, Evil). Although he does get to wear a snazzy black and green outfit, I would have liked some sort of great reward. But no, he didn't get anything at all.

However, his Master Thief wife did get the golden fox statue, which shall go nicely with the rest of the loot in their mansion.

Is anyone else finding that saving the game takes about 5-10 actual minutes?

I swear it didn't take this long yesterday, when I fired up the game after installed it. But then again, that was when Sunset Valley in my game actually appeared normal; before it mysteriously split into two separate planes of existence making it practically unplayable.

Nope. Only relationships. It annoys me too. But then again, the entire UI in this game is just atrocious.

Maybe it's her calling card?

It may not be the perfect hood, but at least it's different from everybody else's...

Makes you wonder why they're actually giving it away for free.

Are you kidding? This is practically The Sims 2: Retard Edition. The same game, but with crappified graphics, gameplay and broken new features. It's pretty obvious that they've just injected their "new" code into the TS2 engine and trashed it.

They're not even meant to be used as monitors. The VGA port really only exists for compatibility with things such Home Theatre PCs.

I'm pretty sure the roof slider is in M&G and not AL.

Unless something has changed recently? Because I certainly don't have the slider...

I can't wait to see how hideous some of the previous default sims look in this game. I know we've seen one or two already, but the rest shall be eye opening closing.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3/news.html?sid=6204057&mode=news

JR mentioned it in a conference call to analysts: "In the case of The Sims 3, Riccitiello said, "We see this as being one of the most important launches in our company's history, and certainly in the upcoming fiscal year." He added that the delay was called in the interest of investing more time and effort to make the marketing campaign for the game more innovative."

I too personally think it's because it's in an unfit state for release (but since when has that ever stopped them before?) but then again, something like this seems very typically EA.

Turns out the game was delayed simply so they can "market it better."

They must be getting worried... 

It did look interesting, but they said it seemed too boring. Maxis had the ingenuity to put it to rest before they made a mistake. EA only thinks "Oh unreleased game? We'll mix it with shit, slap The Sims label on it and sell it. Damn the consequences!"

I was pleased to hear of their $641m loss though. They had that one coming for a long time.

It's great to see all these fantastic houses. I don't know what happened, but everyone seems to have crawled out of the woodwork with some great ideas.

Makes me wish I could play my game, so I could use them.

I agree with the comment that this is looking to be the "SimCity Societies" of The Sims series. There's the same thought process behind it "Let's take everything everybody loves about the previous games and get rid of it, and then we can replace it with new half-assed crap! Everyone will buy it, because we're EA!"

I guess it's a punishment for being so foolish. When they get the game they will realise it doesn't work/is slow/is crap/not as fun as The Sims 2, but when they go back to play they will have realised that they destroyed countless hours of work on the game. When The Sims 2 came out, many people couldn't get it to work very well on their computers and some, like me, kept playing the original game in the mean time. Kind of indicates the level of enjoyment one receives from a game when they erase all trace of it seconds after hearing of a sequel. Especially when they've done it for a clearly inferior sequel...

Worse still are the people who seem to be under the delusional belief that some show-stopping glitches are features (and I don't mean in a sarcastic way.)

Apparently there's a delay. I'm guessing they've come up with a bunch of other bugs, glitches and advertshit to put in the game. They are also probably taking the extra development time to make the sim faces look worse and ship the game with a couple of TSR crap that you will be prompted to pay for upon installation.

I assume they'll sell overpriced speshul tools for doing that, much like the Spore Creature Creator.

Blargh, this game is looking more and more questionable by the day. I honestly think it's going to be a buggy, more unstable, dumbed down version of The Sims 2 (and by that I mean they will slap their "new" AI onto TS2 engine). It reeks of half-ass too. It doesn't appeal to me at all, which is a contrast to when The Sims 2 was first announced and I was ecstatic.

I've had that skunk glitch before. It's really strange. I might have taken a pic or vid of it somewhere, but I can't remember. I guess they really like ballet or something.