Has anyone here patched and managed to get CAW to work?  I know the forum at TheSims3 is full of people who say it hasn't worked, but I'm not convicted it isn't just user error.  That place is full of whiny 6's and 12's who can't even tie their shoes.  I thought I'd give it a shot myself, but I'm curious if anyone here has also tried.

Yes, I'm glad I thought to read the forum before doing anything… Well the Champagne is already open; might as well get drunk! 

The patch = "It's a trap!"

It's about time!  I've been having CAW withdrawals something fierce.  Normally I'd wait until AM updates as well, but I think I'll just remove AM for a bit and get right to adding Ambitions lots to my world.
First the champagne!

Have you tried hitting it with a hammer?

You're kidding me right?  You choose this forum of all places to fill in the blanks of your search fail.  The internet has tons of dictionaries at your disposal and you choose to ask that here? 

I'm just going to sit back and watch.

I believe if you go to edit a lot that a sim has left something on; it pops in to their family inventory.  Just go to edit each of the places she has visited since you last saw it.  You don't have to do any actual editing, and then check the family inventory.

This is good news, I've added 3 neighborhoods to my world and was worried after hearing all the complaints.  I will allow my little Sims to continue to spawn like mad and fill my town.

Do you have a recommended population amount or is it more subjective to the type of computer you are running the game on? 

I can't believe how silly this sounds.  My freezer has roast in it in the morning and eggs in it in the evening.  That doesn't mean I will cook up a roast beef for breakfast, or an omelet for dinner, but it is nice to know that it is not against the law to.  If you don't want spaghetti for supper, don't select it.  You are one of those people who get angry when your co-workers have cereal for lunch, aren't you?

Check under the bed.

It helps if you populate your town with several households of unemployed Sims, specifically for these roles.  I tested this extensively when I created my world with a liquor store, book store, and market.  The game will grab your unemployed Sims to fill these roles.  Now with the fire station, consignment store and salon, also needing to be filled with workers the need for more unemployed Sims is greater.  I added the new households before adding the new buildings and have had no EA creations spawning.

There isn't a mailbox in buydebug, but yes you can get one from, TSR.
http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims3-objects-furnishing-decor-miscellaneous/title/buyable-mailbox/id/983362/

I would just move my Sims to a new house.  Then I'd bulldoze the house and set it back down again.  If it is a house that came with the town rather than downloaded one, you can package up a fresh one by opening a new town.  I save all of the houses I make to the bin before moving any Sims in.  If you are worried about paintings and stuff the family has accumulated, it can all be put in the family inventory.  After the new house is set, you can move right back in.  This does not take in account the depreciation of the old house but it is an option.

Here is a strange one.  I never noticed this before Ambitions.  Maybe someone else has, but this is a first for me.  The ghosts in my graveyard are driving around in NPC Motor Pool cars at night.  They are hopping out of their graves, walking to the road, snapping their fingers for a car, getting in and going for joy rides while the town sleeps.  I guess I should send my ghost buster after them.

I had planned on looking into that to add to my Fargo update.  Until EA fixes CAW I can't poke around and see if there is an option that allows for it.  The guide doesn't have anything about it.
http://www.thesims3.com/content/en_US/promo/gamepages/worldtool/help.pdf

Did you combine the world files too, because you shouldn't?  If you did, you should start over and possibly re-install.

It couldn't hurt.  I'll try it at night so none of my Sims leave work early.



Edit:  It didn't help.  Fixall and Resetworld did not have any noticeable effect. 

Do you have a massive amount of CC?  Perhaps you should try compressing your CC. 
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15129.msg485447.html#msg485447

This has been mentioned extensively in this thread.   They are gathering for a ceremony in which a hero is awarded the key to the city.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18646.msg539785.html#msg539785

I have noticed the freezes last longer in the world I made than they do in Sunsetvalley and Twinbrook.  My husband gets them in all of the towns.  The only thing I can deduce from this is that computer specks play a large role in it.  I've never had to shut the computer down when it happens.  It always comes back after awhile.  Last night my husband had one that lasted 10 minutes.  Some of the things I do that seem to help are; clicking the pause, clicking page up or down, and zooming in or out.  They seem to help, but I can't be sure it is not just a coincidence that the game returns to normal after doing so.  My freezes don't last long enough or happen often enough to be a concern, but my husband was not pleased by his long pause.  It would be nice if we can find an answer to this and lay this issue to rest once and for all. 

Use MotokiBoot.  

No I didn't say that.  I said I started a brand new game as well.  Then compared what had happened in my previous game.   2 completely different games.  

The game spawned firefighters, but they do not show as co-workers, in my relationship panel only.

This might tie in with this person's problem as well… 



This is just a guess, but I think the game is adding Sims to the neighborhood in order to man the cash register at the consignment store and work at the salon.  I'm wondering if this will continue to happen if you bulldoze the salon, consignment store, and fire station.  You can add them back in after you have populated your town and no longer need the game to provide them.  In one of the games I tested the expansion pack in, the jobs were populated by unemployed Sims that already lived in my town.  No EA generated Sims were added. 

I had heard as much.  The thing is, the game did spawn the co-workers, they just don't register as such in the relationship panel.  They show up for work every day and sit around playing video games and braking things.  I wasn't sure if this was the same as what I had heard mentioned before.

I couldn't take it anymore, I had to install AwesomeMod.  I started a brand new game as well.  Prior to installing, my firefighters had co-workers.  Now I have people dressed in firefighter gear, at the fire house, but when I talk to them, they do not appear as co-workers in the relationship panel.  They tell me they are soot stripper, and hose handlers, but still appear as acquaintances.  I could care less about this problem as firefighting co-workers are useless mess-makers, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.

It isn't the athletic trait triggering this.  I have a lazy, fat, couch potato that runs from the refrigerator to the stove; 2 tiles away! Another suggestion was that playing tag triggered this.  That is all well and good but this slob of a man also hates children, so I doubt that is why he runs.