A word of warning:

From the Bug Reporting thread -


I too am getting red boxes in relationship panels/all household members sharing the same relationship panels/Reward Points showing up on the wrong members/etc.  Hopefully, re-doing the Awesomeconfig to turn the 'testing cheats' and 'debugging' back to disabled might fix the problem.  (At least, that is what i'm going to try - if not, looks like i'll have a BFBVFS on my hands. 

I totally concur.  After I FamilyFunds/runstoryaction the 17 (yes, you read right, SEVENTEEN) homeless families to their own homes (most of whom seemed to be single parents with little children), my 1 AM pauses went from 20-30 seconds per, down to about a second.  It was such a relief to see it zip thru those pauses.  


Make sure you're typing those phrases correctly.  FamilyFunds will show up in the console box (type help) if you've enabled it correctly.  'FamilyFunds TheFamilyName amount' and 'runstoryaction Move In Household'.  If there's not an eligible home, the runstoryaction check box will have a 'move in where??' response, then you know you'll need to adjust either the homes (add beds) or make cheaper homes or set the family funds higher.

This challenge is forcing me to play several different types of LTW's (ones I wasn't normally playing in TS3), but I'm currently having problems getting the "Super Popular" one fulfilled.  She's showing 22 current friends in her panel (and Charisma info page is showing 22 friends).  She got the "Super Friendly" reward, but has yet to get her LTW fulfilled.  Any info out there, do household members still count against that 20 total?

Update:  She finally fulfilled the wish when she got her 24th friend (the 24th was a ghost).  5 of her friends are household members, so that makes me wonder if once again, Sims start with an Mystery friend?

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Damsel   
   Re: The Legacy Challenge for TS3
« Reply #150 on: Today at 20:45:19 »
I have had an issue with the rule about accepting the first lifetime wish that comes along. I understand why this exists, it's definitely much more fun and interesting to play with Sims of varying interests and personalities, but the problem with this is, all my Sims keep wanting is to become professional athletes due to the fact that my Sims all enjoy playing with the football and baseball together. There's nothing random or varying about that! I have since banned the use of said objects, but it's disappointing not being able to let my Sims play with them. It's a good way to increase fun and build relationships without having to micromanage them.  End Quote

I saw you deleted this post, maybe you figured out that there is no such rule yet, or mis-read a previous post about YA's being forced to accept a random LTW (if no LTW has previously been accepted).  YA's still get the 5 LTW's to choose from, if one hasn't been chosen yet, and there is yet no such rule about accepting the first LTW to pop up for children (or how to pick one for your Founder in CAS).

I actually have a feeling we'll need more than 4 each gen to get all 33 LTW's.  Even with waiting until YA to get the 5 LTW options to pick from, I'm sure there'll be alot of repeats (unless one gets really, really lucky).  Are those 5 choices at YA purely random or do their traits and/or skills learned influence it? 

From my experiences, Watermelons (and the Money Tree) show the effects of needing water differently than the other plants, tho they'll all show as 'wilting'


You'll also need a sim with a high enough 'Handiness' skill, to upgrade the sprinklers to 'Auto-water'.  I have yet to have a sprinkler actually break tho, when starting out a family and leaving them running 24/7.

With the lack of normal interactions while in the same house, and the rate their relationship scores plummet, those darn kids wil stilll be strangers to the rest of the family by the time they're teens. 


Shhh, don't give him anymore ideas. 

Just one more quick clarification.  Which "Birthday Message" must I wait for?  The one I get a couple days before, that say's it's almost their birthday, so start thinking about getting a cake (it's not like I have to call up a bakery, to pre-order a silly cake).  Or the one on their actual Birthday, when they have 0 days left of their current life stage?

I absolutely hate the way EAxis did TS3's Larvae/Sprog stages.  With TS2, having them at those ages was a joy.  And with 7 days as a Sprog (toddler), it just drags on and on.  With the 2-day pre-Birthday message, we're at least cutting it down to 5 days.  I still wait till the day-of for the Larvae's (no pre-message).  (I'd kiss the ground they walked on, if someone ever manages to bring the toddler-blanket forward)  

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This confused me for a bit, for when my Founder's Spouse got to skill 5, she still couldn't paint a portrait (which actually comes at skill 7).  It finally hit me that you actually mean a 'painting' showing an eligible family member, not an actual 'portrait' (I was dreading having to waste the time of this generation's kids, getting to skill 7 in order to do one of the starting spouse, now I won't have to)..  Since a still life could be of anything, I could have several eligible family members in the same 'still life', would I still get 1 point for each eligible person in that painting? 

I too await the separated parts of this mod.  I will be using everything you've included, except the 'faster eating' part.  The 'make out in bed' that just seemed to drag on and on, drove me up a wall.  --Presses thanks button--

If you only turn off the cell-phone ringer, the sim still gets the sound waves.  If you turn off the Main phone in the house, then no more sound waves.  And my sims still get those random opportunity pop's, without having to stop what they're doing to answer the phone.

Larva and Toddlers are no longer interesting to me.  I totally enjoyed having spawn and sproglets in TS2, but for TS3, it's a chore in order to get to the interesting stages.

I also miss genetics that actually produced something interesting to look forward too.  Now each generation is the same as the last generation, because they all look the same.  I've got one line of males that spans 6 generations and they all look exactly the same.  EAxis went and gave the "First-Born" effect a whole new meaning.

I concur.  My 5th gen male is clumsy.  His 2nd daughter is now a toddler, and even tho she doesn't have the clumsy trait, she's constantly stumbling over her feet, tho none of the toddlers in the past ever did.

If you're typing it in exactly as you've spelled it, then it's no wonder it's not working.   It's TestingCheatsEnabled true/false, with a D at the end.  Type help for a list of the cheats in the game, tho i can't recollect if the Debug mode cheat is listed or not.

Looks like my solution wasn't the best.  After the first night of my gnome moving again, he never moved again.  Now I'm starting to doubt even my own memories.  I also tried kicking him several times, and no go.  I'll wait on that paperboy to autonomously do his thing again (my NPC's are weird - the paper boy sat on the outside couch a couple of times and the mailman sat at one of the outside computer stations and logged onto the interwebs - tho they both only did it for about a minute or so before leaving).

Just noticed, that after my paperboy kicked my non-working gnome, and I stood him back up, the gnome started his hijinks later on that night.  So obviously the old saying "He needs a kick in the pants to get him moving" really is true. 

I had a teen, who was having big problems doing her homework.  It'd take her over 3 hours to do HighSchool homework, and this was if she was in a good mood.  Bad mood, 4 1/2 hours.   Finally able to get her the Multitasker, and the time to do homework dropped by half.  That was worth it in my opinion.  As far as Skilling or work performance goes, no idea.

Once again, TorrentSeed to the rescue.  ETA of about 3 hours.

Yep, my starting sim grabbed that after her LTW was fullfilled, and thank goodness it's transferable to other sims.


Nope, you can just grab/drop papers/plates over to the road-side trash can, no cheats needed.  The can will light up when the object is in the right place (like the fridge lights up when putting food/harvestables in).

I found the Money Tree Seed on the up-slope besides the Cemetery (it might also be found by that Dome of the Science Center).  It will be one of the Unknown Special seeds.  So it's pot-luck planting them and seeing what grows, tho once it sprouts, you can tell it's a Money Tree, then get rid of the rest.

Look moar, there's also Unknown Rares and Unknown Special seeds.  There's only one Unknown that you'll know immediately after planting what it actually is, and that's the Money tree from a Special seed.  You'll be able to deduce what it is by it's picture.

Edit:  Oh, i guess if you see a tree in a planted Unknown Uncommon, it'll be a Lime tree.  Unless besides Apple, Lime and Money, there's another 'Tree' out there, my sim has only planted 84% of the varieties.

That explains the missing ONE and ONLY Friend my starting sim lost.  This will also play havoc with any future planning on which family I might like to marry my spawn into.  Who's to say they'll even be there when my now teenage son grows up?

It's not only the doors, they could have a 2-tile wide hallway (or turning a corner in a larger room) and if two sims going in opposite directions meet, they'll stand in front of each other until one decides to go around the other.   grrr

I found SimSocial a waste of my time.  Played for a week and got bored.  The only thing I found at all interesting, was the sliders to adjust my sims clothes.

Google is your friend.

I have almost the same problem, tho mine is one of the waitress NPC's being mixed up with one of the maid NPC's.  I could have my sim go to a restaurant and interact with the waitress NPC, it would be her face/name in his contacts list, but everytime he'd invite her over to his home, the maid would show up.  She'd have the waitress's name and pic in his wants panel, even tho the maid looked nothing like her.  I ended up killing the maid, then the waitress showed up for dates with no problem.  This also happened in a prior install and i was surprised when it happened with this current install.

I don't mess around with SimPE (my phail at understanding SimPE, let me show you it) so i never use it.

I'm fine with that too.  As I mentioned before, I'd be thrilled just to see what someone MOAR talented than I, can do with that Duplex.