There is most likely a pre-made hack/mod for the forum for funding support, I know there is for other forum software. Surely someone else has done it already. The benefit is that everyone will always know the current state of funds and no one has to remind them.

Another one of those issues that everyone but me is having

I plan to go over that area in the next update, but with my recent look over that area I was unable to find anything amiss. All my Sims enter and exit that building perfectly fine. Did you uninstall the previous version of the world before attempting to update to the newer version, and clear your world caches? (you can't install over the top).

I've not encountered anything like that. All I can think of is it could possibly break if you applied the tweak when the Sim was already pregnant. You will know at the end of the term either way.

Great! Need to update my tuning file for Dresser. It doesn't surprise me though, the CAS categories are probably worse than the buy mode categories in terms of correct placement.

Done.

I had a few things that simply wouldn't install from the main set, so for those I have individual items. However, most are simply that I've no idea what set they come from, so I've not removed them.

I had hoped that someone would have replaced the launcher by now, with something easy to use, reliable for installing and uninstalling, has proper categories, and search.

Even doing it with less files, who is to say there isn't some stuff still missing. Unless you use every item, it's not easy to tell. I only noticed it after a reinstall and happened to get the "objects have been replaced" type message on a couple random items. Took me a while to work out what it was, as the messages aren't particularly helpful.

DCCache is 2.94Gb, 12 items. I probably have a couple duplicated items in there, such as individual items from sets for bug fix reasons and while I usually attempt to avoid duplicate sets and only cleaned them out recently, there might be a couple duplicates from compilations, simpoint bundles or naming differences.. I'm pretty sure I have all the Dr Pepper stuff and all worlds are installed. So based on the size of our installed content, It seems we have pretty much the same, and the difference might be simply compression from running s3rc, or possibly you have more actual items than me, and if so, I MUST HAVE THEM!

I did just notice that my more recent backup on my server has 5.62Gb and 612 files. I'll do a compare later and see if I can work out why that is, and I'll post a directory listing so you can compare that against your own directory.

*edit*
Ok my server had some fixes in the folders and I had 2 custom lots in my local folder, so that explains the differences, however, allowing for the duplicates and extras I found, I have only managed to get it down to 582 files, so possibly some duplicates there still.

I have attached the current directory listing.

My directory of official sims3packs is 5.42Gb 636 files and that is almost everything I could get my hands on. So I guess the OP has a lot of CC installed via sims3pack. I learned a while back that trying to install even 636 files all at once will cause the launcher to miss a lot of content, requiring reinstall. So I did it in groups of 20, which the crap-launcher was able to manage.

Would it be possible to change the outfit copy/move command to specify a sim:  "outfit[cp|mv] [sim] <source category>[.#] <destination category>[.#]" and maybe even a different sim as destination: "outfit[cp|mv] [sim]<source category>[.#] [sim] <destination category>[.#]"?

If you open up in s3pe and click the hex button, you can see the name of the collection in the top few lines.

Something to do with the way the early hairs were made before tools were updated. I don't recall exactly what the problem was though, or if it caused problems in-game.

Definitely!

Your filing system sounds similar to mine. My non-merged files are sorted into folders based on what file I merge them into, so I always know which file I have to re-merge if I want to change something.

If you can find an example of which hairs wont merge, post the links to the files on my merging support thread in the s3pe forum at simlogical. Is it an error you get, or simply that they don't work in game? Personally if a file is even slightly suspect, I tend to throw it away, but if there is a problem with the merge process, it would be good to track it down.

There is probably a file in the downloads folder with manifest of owned sets. If that is the case, it would make editing it for decrapified sets very difficult, as there is no where to get that information. Best to stick to standard collections, much easier.

It's not necessary to merge everything, it depends how compulsive you are. So far everything I've tried to merge has worked, but remember, most NRaas mods need to be higher priority than core mods like Awesome, or you may get problems.

Just an FYI.All my stuff is decrapified, and installed via the launcher. I did not decrapify my ccmerged, nor am I using the one provided here, and yet all my premium store content works perfectly fine.

Wow. Before posting, maybe you guys should look into things for yourselves, instead of spreading someone else's idiotic conspiracies.

The advertising of store items that you do not own has been in game for a while now, and that is turned off via an option. The new feature comes with the 1.36 patch, not the Diesel Stuff Pack. It isn't advertising, it appears to be automatic collections of the stuff you do own, albeit unreliable as usual. However, for most of you, this will probably be an empty and useless feature.

It would require some testing, but I'd imagine they would have disabled ccmerged entirely to make sure it doesn't conflict with the new xml. Which makes sense, as people often delete DCBackup, as well as the issues with different methods of installs, it would be far less painful the new way.

As long as they are under 4Gb you shouldn't encounter any problems. However, for sanity and speed, I would suggest keeping them under the 200Mb mark, as anything over that will make it painful whenever you wish to re-merge to remove something. As Painkiller pointed out, the best package size will be limited by your system specifications, so everyone shouldn't expect the same success at merging larger packages. Just remember to use autosave, and if you encounter any packages that wont merge, then throw them away, as they are most likely bad.

Updated for 1.36. Untested yet, as I'm also waiting for other mods authors to update.

On a similar note to incest, but not quite as illegal. Could I request that the unlocking apply to the vampire interactions that are blocked for related Sims, so we can drink from and offer to turn relatives?

There are examples provided in my s3sr thread. Otherwise you can always ask in that thread. If you are already doing it via s3pe, then you have done most the work.

The only steps it cuts down on is having to use someone else's ancient revision OBJD/OBJK/CASP file, and you can make alterations to existing edits quickly via script, and reapply all changes easily after a patch.

This is how I decide what to keep and what not to keep. Anything that is crap quality, missing features, or doesn't work properly, I avoid. Hard enough keeping the game running smoothly as it is, without adding crap. There is an amazing amount of crap out there, yet people install it because it looks ok, and wonder why their game crashes. I also refuse to install CC as sims3pack, but that's just my preference for sanity.