You can find the "No Autonomous Pillow Fighting" mod by Twoftmama at Crazy Town. She also has many other mods that will make your game much easier and less frustrating.

http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?/forum/396-ep-tweaks-sims-3/

Okay, this is the error code I now get since downloading an electronic file of OLS from EA.  DasmX86Dll.dll not found.  After researching, I know this is not the reason that my game now experiences CTD's the moment I enter one of my sim's homes in a brand new game. I have uninstalled this electronic file and re-installed it. Also am fully patched w/all game patches and my graphics card drivers are updated. In reading the various posts on this topic, many players said that even after completely uninstalling the entire game, cleaning their registry files and then re-installing w/all patches updated, that they still had CTD's.

My question to players here is have any of you experienced this error and followed the above advice to have it work for you? Or does anyone here know of anything else I might try as a workaround? I will uninstall OLS if necessary since I was not having any major CTD's before downloading the electronic file.

And what pray tell is the value of a "paper" from the UfO neuropsyche dept. these days?

Check the "How to Install Awesome Mod and Framework" thread by coconner for an update on file placement with Ambitions.

Adding the info in this thread to coconner's stickied post might help in avoiding lots of noobs asking for help w/the new framework placement with Ambitions.

Check out the "Awesome Mod Just Isn't Working" thread to see Simius and morriganrant's visual tute and explanation of framework placement for Ambitions.

Just wanted to say that the screen captures by Simius and the breakdown of file placement by morriganrant were very helpful to me as well. Haven't played Sims3 since late November and was aware of the new Mod/Packages arrangement with Ambitiions but still did not have it quite right. This visual tute allowed me to get up to speed quite nicely. I now anticipate that the glitches I was having that were not listed by anyone in the bug threads will be gone.

It would be great if the time for the Robotic Hand of God could be extended to 30 minutes or an hour. I really like this feature but also have it disabled because of the guests not being able to get to the plate quickly enough.

No, most members here are very adept at performing online searches for information, whether it's googling or here in the forums. And yes, you are correct in assuming that many of the more senior members here are teachers and professors.


This is quite amazing given the fact that you often post with numerous spelling and grammatical errors. One would think this would make you more expert rather than so lacking in editing skills.


Also most computers have auto spell/grammar checks and underline words that are suspect, how can you not see this as you're typing your posts? These tools almost make it possible to be spoon-fed the correct forms and spellings so it's not a time consuming process since it occurs as you type. Your reasoning here for posting with errors makes no sense to me.

I think you're having more trouble with reading comprehension than the technical talk. Here are some answers for you to ponder:

1. If your previous mods have not been updated for the newest patch 1.7.9, then chances are you will need to remove them from your hacks folder.

2. How can you not know what the acronym WA stands for if you really have been using search competently?  It's the new EP, World Adventures. Directions for the Framework for WA are listed repeatedly in the Awesomemod tips/hints thread, go find them.

3. Re-read Wizard Merlin's post to you for clarification on your lighting and social interaction problems.

4. By Addon, Rockerduck may be referring to the new EP, WA -- got it now?

I have an odd problem occurring and haven't seen anyone else post about it yet. Just patched with 1.7 and do not have WA yet, also just installed most current build of AM and Config file. Also cleared all the 4 cache files. For some strange reason, my swimming pools are borked with the water being a dark blue and no longer transparent. I cannot place the pool ladders or the pool lights and it appears that the floor levels of the game are messed up. At the ground level when trying to place a pool ladder, it remains up in the air as if the game is keeping it on the next floor level. This has never happened with any of the patches or builds of AM and is quite perplexing.  

I have rebuilt several pools just to make sure that the game is seeing them as new builds with the newly patched game. Any ideas or suggestions would be very much appreciated at this point.

ETA: I also researched this situation on the Sims3 forums in the technical threads, and nobody has posted about it there. I read what the newest patch was supposed to correct, so really don't know what is up with my game. It is the same game I was playing before the 1.7 patch, and I have been using Awesome Story Mode since its debut.

Update: Just wanted to update this post as several simmers are having this same problem with their pools on the Sims3 site, so it's a known issue caused by the latest patch 1.7, and why am I not surprised?