Well I'll go through and see which one it was, but one of them definitely mentioned about "Data Logging" and how it can be toggled through the Options menu. It's definitely very creepy. Not surprising though.

Ah, I recall reading about this in some of the previews. Yeah, they want to harvest data on player's gameplay habits now.

http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=4&selYear=2010#920859580

They finally fixed the lights? Say it ain't so!

Ugh, this is terrible. ETA: 2 years.

I'm almost tempted to spend money on this. Almost. I'm too cheap to ever actually do it though.

Yes. I wouldn't be surprised if the new Edit Town features in the next patch cause vanishing lots again.

There's your problem.

This sounds like my issue where sims suddenly spawn duplicates and become unlinked from the tree. Going on vacation seems to fuck it up. The button does nothing, except of course make that sound effect.

On a semi-related note, is a VBT for dead sims to appear alive in the tree while on vacation?

I wonder if there is a food chain defined somewhere. Would suck if it's just random, and Goldfish start eating Lobsters or whatever.

Definitely a surprising little feature.

Ah yes, it seems that only a Region 1 patch exists. Maybe they've realised what a nightmare this whole patching business is going to be when the inevitable 99 EPs come out.

Okay, got the direct links if anyone cares. Change last numerical value to match appropriate region accordingly. Patches are 23.8mb, 32.3mb and 21.8mb respectively:
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.10.6.004002_from_1.9.22.004002.exe
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_2.5.12.004002_from_2.4.7.004002.exe
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_3.1.7.004001_from_3.0.38.004001.exe

What is the full version number?

How about elders losing their facial hair. What's up with that?

This is MATY. If we don't have anything nice to say, then we're sure as hell going to say the mean things anyway, whether you like it or not. Grow a pair, or GTFO.

It's so simple to do some searches to find the answer you are looking for. Someone actually did go to the trouble of responding to your poorly written post, and you just completely ignored their suggestion and then flamed them for pointing this out. If you cannot help yourself, then we cannot and absolutely will not help you.

Show some respect, for fuck's sake. Being rude and then asking for help will not going to fly around here. It never does, and it never will do.

The inventory hand bug (where the game thinks you are still grabbing something, even when you aren't, so you end up with duplicate items and the inability to actually place anything) is back again with the latest patch. So now the inventory is once again a useless piece of crap. *rolls eyes*

Make sure the executable has been patched to the latest patch. I realised that I had used a crack (because AwesomeMod's no-CD didn't seem to work back when I did this) that was patched up to 2.3, but the original executable that I had restored was not. Hence "Invalid File Found".

Hm. I think the way I managed to fix this was by downloading the .world file from the .dbc torrent thread, and putting it in the same folder as the Riverview.sims3pack from the storeshit thread. There seems to be a decrapified version of it hovering out there anyway.

It means it shall work up to as many EPs up to whatever is defined as EP99.

Hopefully we won't ever need to get that far. But it's nice to know that we have one less thing to worry about.

I can't even get 2.4 to install. 1.9 did though. Blasted "Invalid File Found" error, despite having removed everything.

What a joke.

Patch is 27.3mb, and 33.1mb respectively.
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.9.22.004002_from_1.8.25.003002.exe
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_2.4.7.004002_from_2.3.33.003002.exe

Are you for reals?

I can't remember, but it might require more voodoo or clearing of files.

Of course, I sometimes get this error randomly, for no reason. Repeated attempts cause it to go away. *shrugs*

They did say something about new moodlets and the vibrating bed "having consequences". Could all be L&P though.

Lies and Propaganda!

Can you keep more than one fish in the aquarium? Is the vibrating bed still called More Romantic Than You?

I get it even when there are no sacred sims, so I don't think it's necessarily tied to that.

Alright, here's some more on my totally boring family tree saga. It seems to be turning into a sim version of Invasion of the Body snatchers.

I downloaded the doopercomputer, and had a look at some background stuff. It seems that what is happening at that particular moment is that the four Bagley sims are being duplicated with what can only be described as empty, if visually identical, clones. They seem to have little data tied to them, and no relationships. However, the other versions of them still retain the relationships (and presumably all the other data). Rhoda (the playable ghost) still seems to be the same sim, bar her portrait and age which is much older than it should be (and of course the borked family tree). Her "clone" (which I think is the original Rhoda) has the correct portrait and age though. So I can only assume that these mysteriously spawning duplicates are replacing the other sims, for whatever reason.

Case in point: At 12:09 am there is only one Ma Bagley. At 12:10 am there are now two. One with a whole bunch of data, and the other an empty shell.


Then I did some playing around with the old save, seeing if I could prevent it occurring or at determine what the cause is. I thought it was some sort of pre-determined BFBVFS, but the only time it didn't happen at all was when I did not send Rhoda on holiday. It seems that sending playable ghosts abroad (or, at least, my playable ghost) is causing some kind of fuck up. It's like BV redundancy all over again.