Wait.





So these weren't big enough clues? I don't know if it's possible to dumb that down any more without speaking in Tard.

Have you played the game? Damn near everything turns radioactive if you have more than one light in the room. And in some cases, having one light or even no lights causes radioactivity. Try making a white (or variant of) kitchen or bathroom; everything becomes a white haze as soon as you add a lamp with normal brightness or a window. Depending on the material/colour, some objects will realistically have a subtle glow to them, but there is no "subtle" in this game.

EAxis apparently don't follow the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality.

Does the house have a pool? I can't remember the specifics of the problem, but I've had an issue like this as well. It was something like plopping down a house with a pool or basement causes basement and pool building tools to break. Only solution I've seen to this is sledgehammer-ing the pool/basement, moving the house to the bin, and re-plopping it. I've had to do this to several houses and haven't had problems with them since.

If it is an existing house, it couldn't hurt to try, but I've never had this happen to one that wasn't yanked from the bin.

Also need a 64-bit version of windows for more than 4 gigs (more or less 3.5 actually) of ram to be used. From what I've gathered Vista and later will see the ram but not use it. If you have 4 gigs installed but it is only seeing 2, that's another problem.

As for long save times, my machine (which is a bit of a beast) has only experienced long saves if my 'hood went BFBVFS. Although that's probably not much help to you.

wizard_merlin: Your/You're: You're doing it again

I just have to ask, has anyone complaining about framework/AwesomeMod install instructions actually read the thread? I just read through it; no repeated steps, no critical grammatical errors, clear step by step directions, tells you where to download what you need (except AwesomeMod, but one would think the thread with "AwesomeMod" and "Download" in the title in the same forum would be a hint). The only thing I can see that may be confusing is that it only states base game and WA, but how hard is it to figure out from the WA instructions what to do with HELS and future expansion packs?

In a perfect world, everyone would search for their answer before posting. Assuming everyone did this first, there would be no redundant threads, and thus no "SEARCH MOAR!!!1!!1" posts attached to them, making searching much more efficient. Call me crazy, but I've been under the impression that searching first was general forum etiquette and not just MATY specific. Only difference I really see is that forum etiquette breaking redundancies are followed with "Please use search next time, OK, Kitten?" instead of "LERN TO SERCH MOAR N00B!1!!" I favour the latter as it usually prevents that same person from refusing to search and cluttering the forums with another useless post* the next time they fail to read instructions, yet fails to prevent new users from doing it.

If you buy an entertainment center/desk/whatever else from Local Furniture Shoppe, are you going to throw away the building instructions and phone Local Furniture Shoppe demanding that they hold your hand through the entire process? The instructions may be somewhat difficult to follow at times (looking at you, IKEA) but they certainly are not something to curl up in a corner and cry about. In fact, if you did call Local Furniture Shoppe, I'm almost positive they'd give you their equivalent of "SEARCH MOAR" and ask if you read the instructions. If your answer was no, would they be willing to walk you through it? I know I wouldn't.

*There is no need to point out that I'm complaining about useless posts in what is essentially a useless post.

If people would learn what that bar at the top labeled "Search:" is for, or even read the thread you cited (and actually following the instructions), an AwesomeMod installer would be useless. I already think it is, given that installing it is just copying files to the proper directories. I cannot find what is so hard about doing this correctly. Hell, there are step-by-step directions.

Again, if people would learn to use that bar labeled "Search:", or the link "Advanced Search", people wouldn't have to answer the same questions over and over again. Sadly, these elusive super-secret forum tools remain hidden to those that don't seem to see the top of the page.

Why bother? Is it really that difficult to copy files? Maybe someone without these most basic of computer skills should not be using AwesomeMod. Or a computer, for that matter.