Wouldn't it be easier to make a default replacement, rather than a new option?

Did your mouth shrink?     Your TS2 sim looks different.

*BastDawn kicks Zazazu

Where's the .sim version?   

It appears in the family inventory.  When my cop sim got it, I moved it to a desk, and then decided to put it in her husband's inventory instead.  Then it broke; any time I attempted to do anything with it, a message popped up saying that it could not be used on the lot.

Try using the hot pink as a accent color, and decorate everything else in seafoam, dark teal (like seafoam on the dark end of the scale), and white wood or steel.

Actually, I think TS3 still does that.  I just glanced in the game manual that someone uploaded, and under "Key Commands" it says:

Zoom in/out    Z/X or =/- or Num Pad + / Num Pad -

EDIT: And testing in the game, all three do work.

No one cares about your requests.  But if you must ask for something, do it in this thread.  Requests will be periodically deleted: if no one wants to make it after a month or two, you'd better learn to do it yourself.

You can also post "Where Can I find" questions for TS3 content here.

What are the titles?

I would like new children, but there should be a cap.  For instance, there don't need to be more than five or so babies at once, and there should be a breeding freeze if the number of children goes up to ten.  That will prevent overcrowding at the school.

I agree with Gus Smedstad and phyllis_p's posts. 

In my opinion, AddSim is desirable only for new babies with two parents (pregnancy is preferable), ChangeRelationship is useful for making new marriages (and maybe a few enemies), GetJob seems fine, MergeHouseholds is good only for sims who marry (using SplitHousehold if they initially belong to larger households), and ThrowHouseParty is fine at any time.  Everything else needs to be killed with fire.

Well, yes.  Half of the TS2 expansions were remakes of the TS1 expansions, and they sold well.  Why wouldn't they do it again?

Deleting from the Launcher removes it from your game, but it won't give you your disk space back.   

Take the Sims3Packs you downloaded and put the ones you don't want aside.  Then delete your DCCache folder.  Then reinstall the downloads you want to keep.  Because it is such a hassle, it's best to avoid installing anything with the Launcher unless you are completely certain you want it.  To test something new in-game, back up your DCCache folder before installation to make the process less painful.

The framework doesn't need 3.5 NET.  I refused to install that shit (even though I won't be able to make custom patterns without it), and I have installed both the framework and Awesomemod, which works in my game.

Yeah, if you try to put a 20x30 lot in a 30x20 space, the front door will never face the right way.  As a compromise, I've tried building on the smallest lot I could find in the game.  In Sunset Valley, the bistro (I think) is on a 16x18 lot.  Move it or bulldoze it, change the zoning, and build your house there.  The result will fit on just about any other lot in the game, although it will end up centered and you will have to extend paths and terrain paint to make it look right.

Look at the description of the opportunity and see what the first line says.  Does it say something like "deliver steaks to complete this opportunity", or is it stuck at an earlier step?

The Prima guide might have been accurate months ago when it was written (long before going to the printer and appearing in stores), but now it is full of lies -- many things were changed before the game was released. 

Kleptomania does not allow you to steal from any houses unless you have been invited in.

Yes, that is mostly the point of doing it.

The no-favorites thing is weird, but fat sims who lose weight tend to gain it quickly, just as thin sims who gain weight tend to lose it quickly: the game works to keep sims at their "natural" body weight.  It's surprisingly realistic.

It's PMBD.  The booty has been good for the community in my opinion, but the forums are far, far less Awesome -- although you'll still want to lurk for a bit to get the feel of things before posting.  Get your game help here, and go there if you want to rant about paysites.

Does the sim have any perks related to writing books?

All of the files are hosted on MATY, using links the in the first post that immediately follow the link to Emma's 4shaded account (although you can certainly use the 4shared if you prefer).  Patches should be irrelevant to these defaults, and you should always back up game files before replacing them with mods -- but if you don't, the replacements are in the last link in the original post.

You can read this stuff I tested out in the game, but the text file pbox attached to her post below is the best guide possible, because it uses the actual game data.

My learnings, let me show them to you:

Genre	av. pages	§	actual royalties earned
Fiction	90	$	66, 81 (hit), 123 (best seller)
Non-Fiction	90	$	58, 56, 95 (best seller), 59
Science Fiction	150	$	158
Trashy Novel	190	$	146, 265 (best seller), 169
Drama	305	$$	398
Children's (req. 4 painting)	105	$	265 & 339 (best sellers), 66 (flop)
Humor	345	$$	450
Historical (must be Elder)	345	$$	919 (best seller), 782 (hit)
Mystery	510	$$$	904 (hit)
Romance	675	$$$$	1603
Fantasy	440	$$$	1059, 1028 (best seller)
Satire	350	$$$	1216 (best seller), 1044 (hit)
Vaudeville	1250	$$$$	1155 (flop)
Biography	400	$$	308
Masterpiece	2000	$$$$$	5788

"Average pages" and the § numbers are taken from the Skill Journal; the "actual royalties earned" numbers reflect the weekly royalty my sim received, not the total.  I did not notice that skill level made any difference in royalties; it only seemed to unlock genres.  Most of this data was gained with a YA sim with the Clumsy, Good, Loves the Outdoors, Workaholic, and Vegetarian traits.  Some traits are alleged to give bonuses to related genres, and the traits I chose for this sim were not represented on that list.  Three novels were written by an elder sim with the Bookworm, Genius, Good, Hot-headed, and Workaholic traits: one non-fiction book with a §59 per week royalty, and the historical novels.  The elder sim had a skill level of 6, while the main test sim had maxed the writing skill before I started collecting royalty numbers.

In keeping with the spirit of this thread, I will note that the royalty information could use more data to allow us to make a reasonable average for flops, average sellers, hits, and best sellers.  Additionally, I have no information for the Autobiography.  Please feel free to post additional data, preferably noting the sim's traits and the performance level of the novel.

EDIT:  It would also be good to know if the sim has any lifetime rewards related to writing books.  (Neither of my sims had any.)  With more data, we can figure out how much those perks are really worth.

The idea is to add value only for players who have a legal, registered game.  Too bad for them that Riverview was made widely available to everyone, pirates and all, within days.

I've been assuming that YA is 18, Adult is 42, and Elder is somewhere between 60 and 66.  But I'm only a few years away from that Adult mark, and I don't have wrinkles either.   

Just last night, I was furnishing a house and had problems with getting a chair to attach to the chess table; it would go in the right spot, but it wouldn't snap into place.  I was able to get it to work after picking it up and putting it down a few times.

Real blonde hair is slightly more to the orange side than EAxis has ever made it.