Bummer about making a world file.  I have the hood saved in a state I like, new buildings, lots etc.  all done from edit town without going into live mode, so hopefully it doesn't, or shouldn't become corrupted.  I use that to start fresh games, and periodically I'll go in and redo something.

What I wanted to do, was start a game in Isla Paradiso (or whatever the hell it is) so my sims can do the scuba diving and discover all the crap there, then move them to my saved hood.  I suspect moving to a new hood doesn't allow access to a saved world, but just the base worlds.

Is it possible to convert a saved game into a .world file to be installed and used like a base world?  I have modified the world I use with new lots, etc. through edit town, and would like it as a stand alone world for when I want to move sims between hoods. 

Which brings me to the next question, did Eaxis improve the method by which sims move between hoods?  The TS2 system would screw up your game, is TS3 any better or reliable?

Some extra information about what actually happens, other than just issues, would be useful.  Many things can screw with a computer.

My celebrity sims are being asked by random sims, and it queue stomps everytime, placing the "Be asked for autograph, or "have photo taken" action as the only thing in the queue.  I can requeue for after that, but should another random sim approach and ask, the new queue gets stomped and replaced with the actions for the next random star-struck sim.

If you feel so inclined at some point, would it be possible to stop the ask for autograph and have photo taken options from queue stomping and cancelling any and all queued actions?  I could live with the interaction either being inserted as the next queued interaction, while leaving the other queued tasks remaining, or placing it at the end of the current queue.

There are a couple of reasons, firstly, as posted previously, alot of people don't want Origin installed.  With TS2 and TS3 you could still play the game AND patch without needing to install Origin (or the older EA Downloader).  Secondly, for alot of people even $10 is too much to pay EAxis for how fucked up and broken they are leaving the games.  When you read all the complaints about what is missing with TS4 and how stripped down and fucked up it is, why would you want to actually pay for it, at any price?  Some might even argue that the time spent downloading and installing is too much to pay.

After all, they did leave TS2 and TS3 full of bugs and glitches when they walked away from them, so why expect anything different with TS4.

Basically it simply stopped working after a patch, didn't really do anything weird in game, just wouldn't work.  Which patch I can't recall, but was just before ITF came out.  Sounds like I might need to do some more research and reading to be able to have a crack at it.  Give me something to play with for a while.

Since the clothing issue with toddlers and children was fixed, I have noticed that the same thing happening with hairstyles.  That is the male and female hairs show up together, but only the appropriate gender hairs are actually selectable.  As there are less hairstyles than clothing, it really isn't that bothersome at the moment, but maybe something to check at some point.

I was wondering if anyone knew of an easy way to update an outdated scripting mod?  I suspect the mod is just patch outdated, but trying to find information at MTS is like getting blood from a stone.  They just refer to the tutorial for creating a new pure scripting mod, but it has no information about opening and updating an existing mod, any information would be appreciated.

If, by chance, someone here knows how to do this and believes it to be quicker to check themselves, go for it, I am trying to update the MODoor4 mod, Version 4.2.5, http://www.modthesims.info/d/485201

It has been out of date for a few patches and the creator appears to have disappeared and hasn't done anything with it for a while.

When was woohooing anything but boring?

MoonNight seemed to suggest there was a different outcome without AM.  I just ignore how stupid they look, and given that the game doesn't always change them to outerwear when it is really cold, I just accept it as more weird EAxian behaviour and be done with it.  If a sims chosen outerwear really bothers me, I just use editsim and quickly change it.

ETA: Just checked with newest AM and seed problem is fixed.

After playing for a while, I noticed that when planning outfits for toddlers, ALL outfits, that is male AND female, appeared at the same time.  While some people swing that way, I found it really annoying to have while trying to plan an outfit for my male toddler.  I haven't seen it with the adults, I even sent my two adults to plan an outfit and they seemed normal, I don't have anyone in the child or teen stage to check, if I feel motivated and have time, i might switch households to check those age groups.

I just checked, child appears to be showing both male AND female outfits, while the teen category appears to be working correctly.

I can confirm the latest version of AM makes plants/seeds unselectable other than to drag them.  Reverting to the earlier version of AM from Dec 3 they work fine.

I have been using AM since long before Seasons came out, so when I saw that, I just figured it was another EAxis fuck-up, to go along with all the other fuck-ups they left behind.  Given that most of the outfits from everyday also show up under outerwear, I am not surprised they wear the same shit.  I just ignored it.

I just fired up the game with the latest AM, didn't have time since installing it to play, and the problem now exists.  I can say that it is new, in my game anyway, with the previous versions of AM I did a lot of building and never saw the problem, after seeing it now I would have noticed it.

Interesting, but I haven't seen that within any of my games.  Maybe it is some EAxian bug that doesn't affect everyone, for some bizarre reason, like the one where some plumbots have a birthday and age up in some games, while others don't.

Is it possible there is a conflict with something else(maybe custom counters, mods, etc)?  I have never seen corner sections shown as being separate in my game.

I have a copy of TS4, but am in no hurry to install it.  While those that installed it, along with Origin, haven't been bitching about any bizarre behaviour from Origin, the responses from others about the game and its limitations, then add that to your bizarre love/hate relationship with the game (you seem to love it, but hate almost every aspect of the game play), it doesn't sound like anything to bother with for the time being. 

Maybe if/when EAxis produce a couple of EPs and the FOJ starts fixing shit, it might be worth while giving it a spin.  In the mean time I'll keep exploring TS3 and enjoy the improvements the FOJ is now able to make because there are no more patches to drive him crazy.

Why are you even playing TS4?  All you seem to do is bitch, whinge, whine and moan about anything and everything in the game.  Have you considered abandoning TS4 in favour of TS3 or even TS2?  It is as bad as everyone who played TS3 then bitched and moaned incessantly at every opportunity about how they hated the open neighbourhood concept.

So basically you're complaining that EAxis has actually made the traits of sims slightly more meaningful this time?

Are you sure the mod is incompatible with AM?  Generally XML tuning mods are fine with AM, in which case you could just make your own or modify the one that decreases the salaries into one that increases them.

I wouldn't mind betting that EAxis did this deliberately to reduce the amount of clothing they had to mesh, not to mention slightly different changes to animations due to the slight height differences.  Just sounds like EAxis being lazier than ever.

If you do make adjustments to AM in the future, would it be possible to exclude LTW's from being filled when the "fulfill wants without locking" option is enabled?  I had a teen sim max 3 skills, and when the renaissance sim LTW spun up, the game fulfilled it, and when my teen aged to YA and I selected a different LTW, it showed as being fulfilled even though none of the criteria had been met.

The only potential drawback to that is having to do a complete reinstall every time a patch comes out.

Not really, all that says is that they were probably able to incorporate the patch through Origin and then remove Origin.

I believe there is still an issue with patching the Arr'ed version without Origin, as I haven't seen anyone releasing or linking to a standalone patch.