No store.  Yes in Downloads folder.

Store is evil.

Y'know, you seriously have to love a place where people from all over the world come to discuss the fine points of color differentiation  on pixilated ghosts.

 

Also, EA really, really means it when they say you should shut down all background tasks.  Found that out the hard way.

I suspect the slapping Sim is the Sim with the lowest number --the one in the name of their character file--who is still alive in the neighborhood.  Hence the fact that it's Mortimer Goth in P'view, and was Eve Prime in one of my custom hoods. 

The TV commercials look like the models are actually sticking them straight down into their skull to keep them on.   Perhaps they're actually devices for performing home pre-frontal lobotomies.  This would explain a great deal.

If you've got the EP that included it, try the sledgehammer tool.

Anyone else-- especially those of us who don't have Sims 3 and are hanging out here only for the spectator value--find it hysterical that they're now advertising their fix for the Story Progression problems after spending the last two months touting it as a "feature" and fun, Fun, FUN! ?

 

Does anyone else have the problem where you can't place a lot that's been built on, but you can put an empty lot of the same size in the location?  And I'm not talking about beach lots, BTW.

And there have been a lot of complaints recently that many of the third party ads on TSR are apparently themselves infected with viruses and trojans of various sorts.  So if these are the ads that the launcher is opening you may be in danger of malicious infection even if TSR itself isn't doing it.

I dunno why. I wish someone did.  This happens to me a lot and I've never figured out what the problem is.

No one's saying that Indians aren't human.  They're saying tech support workers aren't human.  I've know a few.  They're not.   

I stopped having any problems with the Headmaster when I discovered that he'll like a turkey out of inventory as much as a homemade one.  So I just had one of my OFB businesses make and sell turkeys.  Than and not using the stupid light bamboo floor or anything cloned from it.

I keep getting told that I'd love Sims 3 if I just understood that I'm not supposed to play the game the same way as I played Sims 2.  I enjoy my play style--rotating families in houses I built for them and decorated for them, in a neighborhood I designed for them.  When I try to explain this--or when I bothered--I get told, "Well I never built houses/played any family but a particular Maxis-made family/played any family past the second generation", etc. etc. with a strong sub-text that I was playing wrong all this time and I should just straighten my thinking out and do it the One True Way.

In Sims 2 if you wanted to play the way I do you could, if you wanted to play any other way, you could.  With Sims 3 you seem to be channeled into one playing style.  Why the hell should I bother with it?

Only if EA ditches the set neighborhood system.  Sorry.  If all neighborhoods have to look alike then the game will always be fail as far as I'm concerned.  I love being able to make the neighborhood look exactly as I want it and as far as I can tell this is impossible in S3.

Sticking with Sims 2 for all the above mentioned reasons.

I didn't want to pay $50 for the game, now I'm supposed to buy a $1500 system to get it to look right?

I don't think so.

iInge's own words in this topic:



Sounds to me like she doesn't give a shit who she helps. 

and jfade? go look up his rant about how Pescado is lying about TSR putting a Trojan in their downloads.  It was posted right about the time that TSR hacked MTS2--which jfade still claims never happened.

So, by the timing, super honest TSR is using pirated versions of Sims 3 to make it's new tool?

Either that or they've been given a copy early by good old EA.

I'm not surprised that Inge is in on it.  She's basically said that if TSR got every other Sims site in the world closed down she wouldn't care cause it's only a game and jfade is a moderator over there, so why anyone here is giving him help is beyond me.

I've decided that it's not worth the bandwidth to download free or not, and now that we know TSR is going to dominate all CC, with the help of shills, I'm sure of it.  I'm only coming over here to watch the trainwreck.

I'm still waiting for the Sims 2 Content Creator they promised us.... 

Yep, you're remembering right.  Sims 2 did have that bug until the first patch.

It's a feature!  You're going to learn to love it, honest.  Real Simmers keep assuring us that you should only play one Sim at a time anyway.    

The straw hat for adult men is scarey.  

And I thought hats were supposed to be separate accessories?

Oh, I wasn't banned on N99, and I'm still posting and hanging around the Sims 2 board, but basically I wasn't saying that Sims 3 looked like the greatest thing in the world and snarked at for it.  Barb had absolutely nothing to do with it.    The reallly funny part was when someone asked a serious question about modding I was one of the only two people on the board who knew the answer.  At this point, though,  I wouldn't go back on the Sims 3 board over there if it were the only source on the game on the internet.  However, I wouldn't miss NoCommente's postings in the Sims 2 Pictures and Videos section for anything.

I'm trying to convince my husband that it's safe to Arrr! Sims 3, but he has veto power because he's the one who will have to clean up any messes.  And I don't want him to have to deal with that because his regular job is doing computer stuff at a large university.  He doesn't, thank Ghu, have to deal with students, but staff and faculty are capable of sufficient stupidity to bring him home grumpy.  (My favorite is still the faculty member who, upon sitting down at her shiny new computer for the first time decided to free up HD space by getting rid of all the expendable files.  You know, the ones ending in .exe.  I leave the aftermath to your fertile imagination.)  And on weekends he works on the computers at his Dad's business.  It's a motorcycle dealership and repair shop.  Envision  biker employees with internet access using the computers with the inventory information, and a father who 1. keeps putting AOL back on his system though it's not necessary (AOL is a virus) and 2. will click on any popup even if it says "Get your hard drive wiping virus here in only one click!".    Now do you see why I don't want him to have to take some virus off my system when he could be out having fun planting bamboo in the backyard?

Gee, and I thought one of the selling points of Sims 3 was that meeting needs was boring and the Sims would spend less time on them.   

On consideration, the timing of TSR's announcement is what bothers me.  They say it's been in the works since about the time of the Creators' Camp.  So, how do they know what the file formatting and stuff is?  I don't see how they could have started developing a tool without having a copy of the game available.  And they seem to imply that they're working on it even now.

Either they're blowing hot air out their arses--very likely--and have no idea what they're doing.  Or they've got pirated copies--also likely and really funny considering.  Or they've got inside access--which I suspect is what they want us to believe.

But that isn't really what I wanted this topic to be about.