Surely that's not ALL it says?

Look at the opportunity (in the opportunity tab).  Is it one of those ones where you have to return to the science lab to complete it?

I did have a playable ghost for a short time, but that didn't do much for me.  I just like the NPC ghosts who come out at night.  It's kind of what I'd wished for with TS2 -- an extended family, interacting with one another instead of scaring the pee out of each other.  Of course, there are always the cowards.  One of my ghosts is a coward, and every time she looks in the mirror, she faints.  Too funny!

I wasn't sure at first what to think of these new-fangled ghosts, but I've decided I like them.  At the Goth house, there's one clean one who will go around and pick up after parties.  And Cornelia's dad, Simon Crumplebottom, is family oriented and will pick up the babies at night when their social is low and will play with the toddlers.  Once he even took a tired toddler all the way upstairs to put him in the crib!  Also, now that Bella is dead it's really cool that Cassandra can still talk to her, announce her current pregnancy and get hugs from mom.  It's such a nice extended family feeling!  Of course, I'm just F-ly like that.

It's just my habit not to use the scroll wheel, doubtless from having a mouse with no scroll wheel for so many years.

I have a scrolly-wheel on my mouse, but I do not use it.  I'm not even sure what functions it would fulfill.  Whatever they are, I don't use keyboard substitutes.  I use edge scrolling and point-click with the mouse.  Does this help?

Hmm.  Okay, let me look over the various points again.  I think you've done some editing since I read it early this a.m., and I'm more awake now, too.

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1. The most glaring thing, to me, is if you would make ThrowHouseParty actually work, or trigger more often or something.  I've played two versions of Sunset Valley to the 4th generation now -- one without Awesomemod and one with -- and have not been invited to a single house party.  This would have been particularly nice for my guitarists, since one of their challenges is to play at a certain number of parties.

2.  I like Gus Smedstad's assessment/suggestions.  It would be nice if AddSim could be tweaked somehow so that a) the YA+ who is moved into the household is one with whom someone in the household has a romantic relationship, and b) those in romantic relationships would spawn together more often.  I know you put the option in Awesomemod to kill parthenogenesis, which means that the addition of a baby to an existing household would require two parents, but it does not happen frequently enough.  My town always starts dying and I end up enabling parthenogenesis again for short periods just to increase the younger population.  I realize that children are not necessary to a stable population model, but I do think that for some of us this was an attractive possible feature of the game.  I know I can make new households to replace ones that go extinct.   However, I'm one of those folks that don't actually like making my own Sims.  I'd like the game to do it for me and to keep track of that sort of thing for me.

3.  It would be nice if GetJob would trigger more often, or if jobs were just automatically assigned when YA-hood is reached.  I hate that most of my town seems to be unemployed.

I think you're already addressed with Awesomemod the other things that annoy me, and whatever is left doesn't annoy me.

Are you going to fix it?  Just curious, because if you did it would, naturally, be awesomesauce.

Gunther Goth lasted unti age 126 for me.  He wasn't athletic at all.  I'm not sure why he lasted so long, but I missed him so much once he did kick that I had to bring him back.

Okay, apologies up front if I'm not understanding you.  But when I use the term "root directory," it means C:\

If that's what it means for you as well, then your framework is in the wrong place.

It needs to be in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3

This is all assuming that C is your hard/game drive designation and that you are not using a Mac, since I know the file structure for Macs is a bit different.

I just thought this was cute.  Mortimer Goth ran into his new sister-in-law in front of the bookstore, and while they were chatting she went into labor.  I clicked on her, and Mort had the option to take her to the hospital, so we took that option.  He drove her there and went in with her, staying even when his brother showed up, and then drove the happy new family back to the brother's house.  He even got the happy "new baby" moodlet out of it.

On a side note, I love how the game recognizes extended family relationships.

I've noticed that the Sims I actually play do not gain weight like so many townies do.  I'm wondering if it's because townies eat out more, or if it's because they're unfulfilled, or maybe both.

Example: In one version of Sunset Valley, an unplayed Mortimer Goth became quite chunky.  In another version, where I played the Goth family almost exclusively, he stayed quite trim though I did not make him exercise or anything.

You did read what I was responding to, right, dickwad?  I had no expectations of the ghost bringing back anything.  Someone else suggested it. I was confirming that, in fact, the item in question (car) went to the inventory of the son (with whom he lived) and did not stay with the ghost.

Thing is, I saw the car in the son's inventory, along with his dad's guitar, laptop computer, and a bunch of books.  Then later I actually brought the guy back, first as a playable ghost and then with ambrosia as a live Sim again, and he had nothing in his inventory when he came back.

Theft and kleptomania are two different things.  Kleptomania usually involves small items, often of little value, and is a compulsive and unpremeditated behavior.  Theft, on the other hand, is to achieve some sort of material gain, and while it can be impulsive, it is not compulsive.

That aside, your info on garage doors seems to rule out Sim-style kleptomania for at least one of my households.  They have an encolsed two-car garage.  However, they already had two cars, which means dead grandpa's car should have remained in his son's backpack.  Kleptos can't steal out of backpacks, can they?  I suppose if he took the car downtown and parked it in a parking space there, someone could have stolen it.  *sigh*  I suppose I'll have to pay better attention, or quit buying cars.

Bleh. I wouldn't mind if they took my bathroom ceiling light.  But a car?  That exceeds my definition of kleptomania.

My households had maids, but I didn't think they could take stuff during the daytime.

As the title states, I've noticed some odd monetary fluctuations that I can't account for.  For instance, in one family I noted with satisfaction that the had passed the $100,000 mark; I'd been watching because one of the family members had the lifetime want of having something like $131,000 in the bank.  Later in the same session I glanced at the money, and it was down to a figure in the $80,000s.  No one had purchased anything, so I'm not sure what happened.

In another family I was playing, they had money in the $60,000s.  Daughter married in a private ceremony and moved into husband's house.  Next time I looked at the money, it was down to in the $2,000s.  I'm using Awesomemod, so she should not have taken more than about $15,000 with her, if anything (it was a family of 4).  I looked at daughter's husband's family, and the money defenitely did not go there, as they only had about $20,000 in the bank.

Also:  after one fellow's resident father died, everything from dad's inventory went into adult son's inventory, including his very expensive car.  At some point much later, I noticed the car was no longer in inventory and was not in the garage, and no other family member had it.  Later when I played another family who had owned a car the last time I'd been there, their car was likewise missing.  If a klepto takes your stuff, do you get notified or does it just disappear?  I'm not sure if this part is a "feature" or a bug.

Anyone else with similar experiences?

Me, I don't overwrite the exe.  I rename it and leave it there (in case I ever need it), and just copy in the new exe.  The dll, I've never messed with -- maybe that's something one only does when using daemon? -- but I can't imagine why you would need to overwrite instead of just delete/rename/move the old one and insert the new one.

Did you look in the family inventory? (The third tab in Buy Mode).  I haven't tried it moving with furniture yet, but it was my understanding that the big stuff was to go to family inventory.

A magic that worked for me was to delete all files that were not in folders in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3.  The all regenerate.  If you had edge scrolling enabled or any other custom option settings, you'll have to redo that once you get into the game.

Of course, it also worked for me to just try again without doing that.  Anyway.  Just sharing my rabbit's foot with you.

If you've got Story Progression on, it could very well happen.  I can recount one case where there were two guys and the clone-daughter of one living in a house (from before Awesomemod).  With noparth enabled, the clone-daughter eventually married the non-parental father as soon as she was a young adult, even though he was quite elderly by that time.  He was a good friend of the active Sim, who got the option to congratulate him on his marriage.  When active Sim went over to do so a couple of days later, young wife was already pregnant.

Correct, I did not do "edit town" after moving them to the Bachelor house.

Perhaps it's as Zazazu speculates and that the move itself reset the pregnancy controller.  Michael and his wife have the same color hair, so there's no clue there.  I like to think that Tim looks like Michael, but I could well be deluding myself.  Ah, well.  I didn't have any intentions of making that family the active family at any point, so I don't suppose it matters hugely. 

Something I'm considering is turning parethenogenesis off and just going around and moving random men and women together.  I noticed when I had it off before that the few couples who seemed to marry and/or reproduce were already living in the same house.

I was using Awesomemod, yes, but I had parthenogenesis enabled because my town was turning into an elder resort.

When they eat their favorite food, they clap their hands and squeal.  This doesn't appear to affect overall mood, however.