People keep saying that, but in your game did no family every have more than one child that grew up.  I take it you just moved out surplus kids and deleted them?  No one got divorced or broke up?  If they did, again, the Sim who left was just bit-garbage?  I'm sorry, but I can't imagine deciding to play only two Sims for the life of the game.  It would get so fucking boring.....

Well, I admit that posting this topic is partly a way to cut through about 9 million contradictory posts on this and other sites--especially those made during the 3 days I couldn't access this site at all--and get some actual answers, I got this impression from the announcement by TSR as quoted somewhere or other and the commentary in the topic on this forum.  If it's wrong, I guess that's one positive note.

Having been invited, oh so politely, to fuck off and die on N99 for not joining in the cheering section for Sims 3, someone give me some reasons to not think it's a total waste of hard drive space.

I have gathered from this forum that:

You're stuck with balloon faced Sims.  And second generation Sims are even worse.
You're stuck with nasty dead-looking eyes.  (About 80% of my reason for thinking I'm going to hate this.  All I can think of when I look at them is a Victorian porcelain doll in a horror movie.  You know the one that tries to strangle the hero the minute s/he falls asleep.)
The Story Progression Toggle is either borked, not borked, or works for a while and then stops.
You can only run one family at any given time because the game will randomly delete them if you run any other family.  This problem is either fixed or not fixed by aforesaid SPT depending on whether it's borked on purpose or not.
Most of the game consists of chasing all over the open concept neighborhood collecting stuff which has no use in the game other than display.
Relationships are either too easy to make or too hard.  Or both at once.
All public areas are rabbitholes.
EA has given TSR some sort of perk which has allowed them to make their own content creator. (Which accounts for a good chunk of the remaining 19.56% of the reason I'm avoiding this turd.)

So. Anyone want to address the .44% that still thinks I might buy Sims 3 once the price drops to $1.98 US.

You realize that it doesn't matter what you name it now.  Pescado will refer to it as jfadetool anyway.

Yep, that's been reported a lot in the other thread.  Entire families up and move out of town.  Cute, ain't it?

So the game is randomly creating unwanted, ugly, random Sims and tossing them into families.  Then it suddenly looks at the numbers, decides there are too many Sims for your system, and deletes ones you've made.

What the Fuck are those idiots at EA smoking, inhaling, injesting or shooting up? 

Sounds like it would be easy to do a "Chucky" Sim then.

Has all the earmarks of someone in PR having been told, "Cover our Arse!" and kermitflailing to follow orders.  Someone who has absolutely no idea what a beta-release is or is afraid that the 12s who want the game won't understand the one-syllable word.  The fact that this idiot firmly stated that the second neighborhood, which EA has repeatedly said will be released separately, will be included in the final "real release".  Unless she/he/it means that the neighborhood is dormant on the final DVD/CD and only needs to be activated, of course.   (Somebody might check through what they've got to see if that's the case....)

It is?  Oh, coooool!

I just asked my husband if I could dl it--he's the one who'll have to fix any messes I make in the course of so doing and he said he prefered not to have to de-virus me if I goofed up.  Now, I understand his reluctance.  We spent most of Thanksgiving weekend removing something called Vundo from my machine, and he spends much too much time on weekends fixing his Dad's computer because if his Dad see's a popup saying, "Want a virus that will wipe your hard-drive? Click here." he will click on it."  (FIL also doesn't believe in firewalls, or rather he believes in them until a virus tells him to turn it off.)  So, I think I'll give it a miss.

This is awful.  I'm a respectable coven-going middle aged lady.  And I'm seriously considering downloading pirated softwar.  (Of course 80% of the software I had for my C vic-20 and C65, and my Amiga was pirated, but that was different.  Sorta.....

Yes, I meant actually making new ones--meshes and patterns--not just recoloring.  And, my husband says I'm a she.  But that's ok, it's hard to tell.  Especially as I eschew avatars.  (it's a religious thing.)

THe one that changes toddlers to the everyday or pj's after they get a bath.  Yes, I do.  I'll take it out and see if I get--horrors! naked unblurred babies without it.  (You understand I'm utterly horrified at this development don't you?   )

As I understand it, it looks like making stuff like clothing and objects is doable.  What is going to be difficult is more advanced modding, like, I guess, Macrotastics and FFS Lot Debugger.

But as stated above, they're working on it.  (And it's not like it hasn't taken 5 years to get SimPe to the point where it can do what it does now. So patience is a virture.)

Might be a difference between your monitors.  I just upgraded from a 5+ year old CRT monitor to an LCD and it's amazing how different everything looks.  I just discovered that the "black" roses in S2 are actually blue....

Doubt I'll download it as I'm in my late 50's and I'd like it to finish downloading before I'm too senile to know what it is.

So, can someone answer a question?  Is it possible to wipe the neighborhood clean and start over with a new family\families?  I realize that it will spawn nameless random horrors on its own but I'd just like to know if there's some way to get rid of the original neighborhood.

Is anyone else having problems with babies suddenly losing their diapers after using the baby stuff?  I even had a case of a set of twins turning opaque black--luckily they went back to normal as soon as they aged up.

This is in my hacks and EAXIS content only game, so no custom skintones are involved.

You say that like it's a good thing.

The idea of playing any EA game without hacks to make it bearable is just terrifying.

Are we talking about a Kewian-based version of the coffeecuphack or Kewian version of the coffemaker?  If so I'm not sure which I 've got, but I'll go look for the Awesome version, because they're still dragging the mugs all over the house with the March 11 version of the coffeecuphack.

I'm using the Awesome version, and I check the booty every day for updates, but just in case I missed it I'll install the latest one and see if that takes care of it....

Would it be possible to include the mugs from the "Eclectic Coffeemaker" from LS or PS in the coffeecuphack?  I use it a lot more since it gives a bigger energy boost, but the stupid Sims are back to going all over the house to find a table to put the mug on.  And I can't be the only one having this problem.

When I got my account on TSR it was still part of Mgon, and free with ads.  When they transferred to the new system my account went with it.  And, as has been repeated, you can't delete any account with them and they don't winnow out unused ones.  This is probably to keep their advertising accounts fooled into thinking they have more actual traffic than they have.  "We have a million bazillion members!!  Pay us monies!!"

Your main arguement appears to be that LyricLee is too stupid to know what a .rar file is.  Last time I bothered to look her stuff was .rared so that doesn't hold  up.

Doesn't speak well for either your gullibility or IQ. 

Just a simple one--could you make it possible to move a single garment to another folder instead of having to move everything you've found in the sort.

Otherwise I love WW.

Been mentioned before, but I thought I'd bring it up now as you seem to know your way around windows-- M&G broke the triangular "Pythagorean" window from OFB.  It will no longer place on the diagonal.

And there was and is no M&G folder there, BTW.