I set up my DEP to bypass Sims 3 stuff months ago and this is the first time it's started acting up.

I find it suspect that you had access to generations months ago. Or perhaps you don't know what you're doing? I wonder which is more likely.

Just realized that the game highers an entertainer matching the gender of the bachelor or bachelorette's fiance/fiancee, meaning a gay sim will get a male entertaining, lesbians get females, etc. Glad they got that right.

 You should know not to use out of date mods with a new patch or expansion. That's just how it works.

Is anyone else having problems with the age sliders? I set my ages up and then moved in a family, and they have the default Normal length set to each of their ages. Do I have to wait for them to age up again before it goes proper?

You likely have clothing unlocked in CAS. The reason those clothes are in the boy sectio is because teh costume chest is not gender exclusive- both boys and girls can be princes and princesses, so there are boy versions of the princess outfits.

The game considers dating and outings the same thing, it seems. If two sims in a relationship go OUT, just to go hang out somewhere, they get a message saying "Looks like it's just X and Y now" and it becomes a date, as if there was a third or fourth and they left the group.

I guess it's realistic in a way but it'd be nice to go out as friends witohut it having to be a date.

Divorce and Break Up are not shared, must be a bug.

Sitting in it is not the same as playing in it. Only children can build sand castles and play in the sand. Teens can sit in it and run their hand through it as they do so.

I don't believe I said they're new, did I?

The difference between "Rolling wants that any sim can roll" and "Midlife crisis" are that these wants don't have the same requirements (the sim doesn't have to be athletic at all to want to become stronger) and the wants cannot be deleted if you choose to approve them until the crisis is over (it lasts a week). It's not like "Haha they let your sim GET THE SAME WANTS AS ALWAYS!", the wants are stuff that you have to work for (unlike, say, "Eat waffles"), and they're wants your sim might not usually get (A frugal sim doesn't really often want a new car for no reason) or might not EVER get. That's the whole point.

Pregnant bellies always grew gradually.

Yes. Sandboxes are children only. The animations do not exist for any other age group.

Also, the expansion seems very bare until you really start getting into it. Imaginary friends, field trips, teenage rebellion, mid life crises, these are all very little things that make a big impact on the day-to-day boredom of sim life. My teen wanted in three days to beat up another teen, insult another teen, dye his hair, learn to drive, invite someone to prom, egg an enemy's house, sneak out once he got grounded, sneak some TV before his parents got home, and skip school. His dad is having a mid-life crisis and wanted to get stronger, buy a car, plan a new everyday outfit. It's a big collection of really little things, and it does get fun once you get really into it. Without the wants from the teen rebellion/midlife crisis, I never would've made a teen skip school for no real reason, or played with egging a house, or initiated fights. Prom is a good excuse to start a relationship early, when before I'd wait until adulthood since there's more to do. Mid-life crises prompted me to change my sims clothes up, which is good since he wore those same clothes all through young adulthood. It's nice.

Sandbox is children only which is fucking ridiculous. The animations would be a little wonky for teens and older, but hopefulyl with all the work on animations people have been doing somebody can enable it for all ages. I tried enabling it to see if it would stretch sims, but sims just plain don't do the animations if they're not children.

They do all teh work to make it so that you can PAINT a usable object on the ground (sims can play in the sand on any sand terrain on a usable lot), and then they go and make it children only. Ridiculous.

I didn't say it was a late night jingle, dipshit, I said the bug started with late night. The late night patch fucked something up. Just like in the other topic- if you fucking senators would get your heads out of your asses and actually read the things you respond to instead of being so hell bent on trying desperately to enlarge your internet penises maybe you'd understand something the first time for once. "Ever since late night it happens" does not mean "This noise came with late night".

I was getting it 0% of the time, so yay. Is it seriously not supposed to come 100% of the time?

No, I said I *haven't* encountered it *since* installing Generations. It came with Late Night. Generations seems to have fixed it.

Generic positive jingle, ever since Late Night it happens for positive and negative events and it plays for things experienced by inactive families sometimes.

I haven't encountered it after installing generations though.

Haha, what? There's a cheat that basically works like the animation objects people have only recently started putting out? That's awesome.

Has anyone found a first person camera cheat? I can't imagine a use for it, but Sims 2 had one.

Some of the new features (llike the forced off-world vacations meaning a sim can throw a secret party) are a nice way to add life to the game. I had a friend of my child sim's mom call and ask if the kids would like to  have a play date. I said yes and the mom and kid showed up and hung around for a while. I don't actively go "Hm, maybe I should call a neighbor kid and his family to hang out" so it was a unqiue situation that I otherwise wouldn't have experienced.

Field trips are cool too.

Doubt it, my sims are married and all I got was a tickle.
Were they babies when this happened? Toddlers? I have my baby age as 1 day, maybe the game stupidly decides to take a day or two to send them to you even if your babies only last a day.

Sims being able to play in the sand on any sand-textured terrain is interesting. Not sure how EA managed to get it to work, but it does. Allows for custom sandboxes and functional beach lots. Pretty cool.

Still no luck getting an imaginary friend though.

You probably clicked woohoo accidentally, because I have done it a few times and all they do is tickle, except it's romantic. Somehow. That or it is supposed to lead to woohoo automatically, but it's not doing that for me. Busted?

I'm not experiencing that. Memories that should be shared are being shared just fine.

I am getting absolutely no children with imaginary friends, though. At first I thought it was because the kid was adopted, so I adopted a baby and let it grow to a child- nothing. Then I had a legitimate child- nothing.

Also,

Oh, how silly of me to have not noticed that it was called a Lifetime Reward. All those context clues! How could I miss them? Next time I will be sure to remember to be psychic.

What is a Clone Voucher?

You can give pretty much anything as a gift. Clicking on sis gives a Give Flowers interaction where the sim buys/produces flowers from hammerspace and gives them to the sim (who actually recieves flowers in their inventory as a result).

If a sim has commitment issues they are not happy with gifts over 200 simoleons, and if a sim is a snob, the gift must be worth at least 400 for them to be satisfied.

It feels like Mansion and Garden stuff, but with more EP than Mansion and Garden Stuff.

Like, "Kids and Playtime Stuff", but as a half-EP like M+G was.