Wow, what a corrupted "babby".

My Sim cannot excavate a dig site in China. Somehow their path is blocked for some shit reason. I read around and said the latest patch caused it.

What exactly are you selling?

...The pirates life for me. Arr~

The working launcher does not work. The launcher itself is operable and is able to install items, but the game, once loaded, does not show any towns and a black screen appears if you load up a save. Once installing the items from this launcher, I reverted back with the new Cache files. The items don't appear despite them appearing in the launcher.

EA really fucked up.

Thanks for the torrent, Witch. They work great! And despite the big file sizes, my game's speed is still pretty smooth. The problem with this method is that they need to be updated every time new items are released. And I doubt EA will come to their senses. 

Core mods are not compatible with AM because it is a core mod. Tuning mods are compatible, so long as one doesn't conflict the other, like, say, using two writing mods.

What are the mods that don't work?

Adjust the numbers in the Configuration Tool. As to what number you set it to, I have no idea. You'd have to make some tests to get a balanced number.

This is time-consuming, but you can always cut and copy your Packages folder to the desktop and slowly put files back (by 10 or 20).

As far as I know, there is no way to get rid of them. Hopefully Pescado will create a Family Inventory nuke command for these glitches.

Now that shoes have their own group, I wouldn't be surprised if shoes will be in every other category as well---but then, I think I've seen that already. 

If the green bar appears, that means they haven't finished the book. Once a Sim finishes a book, that's when the autonomy kicks in. The Sim autonomously does not reread that book ever again. And yes, it works for the playable Sims. Let the green bar fill up, and they won't reread it unless directed to.

Certain CC creators don't have a brain to begin with when making their shoddy creations.

That's quite all right. Mistakes can happen. =D

I can confirm this. Unfortunately there's no way I can prove it. I only used one CC. Now I'm not sure if this is related to the mesh itself, but shrinking it to an itty-bitty size causes sluggish performance. And that's with just one in the game. I had several compressed meshes in my game and it was so slow that I was practically ripping my hair out.

I used this CC/mesh for the test. It is a 2.5 MB file. Using the compressorizer I shrank it to 1 KB. I placed it in my game like normal. Startup went normally. Upon loading a house, however, loading took longer. I tested the speed of zoom in, zoom out, and of course, the elusive "gray mesh" I get. Both zoom in and zoom out were sluggish and froze. The gray mesh appeared but converted back to the object texture. It didn't last as long because only one compressed mesh was in the game. Like I said I remember I had plenty more and the meshes' textures took longer to regenerate.

Besides fucking up my game, the compressed mesh CC doesn't even show up in CAS. Having it compressed is totally senseless and pointless, to have your game run like a tortoise for an item that doesn't even appear.

EDIT: So far, cars I downloaded from MTS that have been converted don't slow the game down. I think it depends on the conversion and the mesh being converted.

I'm not talking EA's stuff--- stuff you'd find at MTS or the others.

Then I guess it is a coincidence since my speed and performance for the game has accelerated tenfold since I removed the compressed meshes and also while also testing it on a reformatted computer. I may have to do another test.

I found that using the Compressorizer or Pescado's compressor tool on CC with meshes included will make the game considerably slower, including save times. I noticed how slow it was becoming when I compressed these files. Packages that aren't meshes or aren't included in the package are safe to compress. Every time I would zoom in to a household, objects like chairs, couches and the like are gray and then turn back into their original state.

Save time with compressed meshes was 50 seconds or more.

Save time without compressed meshes was less than 20 seconds. A little more when loading a house. Times aren't much different with no CC installed.

I have 72 MB of CC in the game and load times are as described above. Then again I've recently reformatted my computer (but I know compressing CC meshes slows the game down for some reason).

Oh, and these are my computer specs:

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz
3 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT

I uploaded the newest store items sets from demonoid for direct download. Thanks jordi.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kzwadoiewzn

The JobDiffcultyScaling in AM's config can be increased so it can make jobs more difficult if, in the end, the workx10 is the cause of your crashes.

I hear they can sneak into houses at night past 12:00. But I'm not sure if they will do "rabbit hole" thievery or what when they sneak.

My Resource.cfg is in the correct location. I only mentioned that core mods don't work for me within folder layers. I have a folder for textured default replacements of female hair and that seems to appear in-game.

In my folder, AM and its config are in Program Files/Electronic Arts/Sims 3/Mods/Packages. Monkey adds four new folders to the Packages folder: Hacks, Patterns, Skins, and Misc. AM will work outside these folders and just in the Packages.

Having folders within the Packages folder doesn't work for me. So usually whenever I put core mods (not tuning mods, far as I know) into those folders, they don't appear in-game. I suggest placing them outside Monkey's pre-made folder and see if that works.

I'm no computer buff, but I believe you already have enough RAM. I think increasing from Dual to Quad would be more beneficial. I have about a 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor, 3 GB RAM, and a 9800 GT Nvidia Video Card, and my speeds are above average (with about 300 MB of CC installed).

It's really a matter of your processor, your RAM, and installed CC. Of course, the more CC you have, loading a save and ending the game takes a while. I just use Game Booster to terminate unnecessary programs to increase my RAM. 

Especially when this is never done in real life? EA obviously never heard of aquariums outside their offices.

I just want my goddamn jacuzzi in this expansion.