These wants aren't new.  I've had sims roll them up before.  The "get stronger" want rolls up for sims who have some athletic skill, and the other two wants tend to roll up for sims who have the snob trait.

By "new version", I assume you are referring to the latest version of AM, uploaded on the 20th of May, and not the (withdrawn) patch for the game or the new EP?  AM won't work with Generations or patch 1.21.

BTW, the name of the command you are looking for is not spawnnewoverlords.

I wonder if the fugly sims are an attempt to make the hairs look halfway decent.

Not a problem with Jfadeworld, is a known EA bug.  Been discussed here before, so a search should turn up the solution.

You make your sims spend their lives grinding, and then you complain when their skills are too high and they are too successful.  You are complaining about the result of your own actions.

On the "good objects are too easy to afford" issue, the answer is simple.  Don't buy them good objects, even though they can afford them.  Edit and save the neighbourhood before you play it to remove the good objects from public lots.  Replace quality objects on public lots with Kewian-based objects or take them out completely.  Take out the shelves with skillbooks in the library (or take out the library completely).  Remove any other skilling lots, too - we didn't have skilling lots in Sims 1.  Use the saved version of this neighbourhood as a template for future neighbourhoods.

If your sims are grinding skills too fast and getting promoted too fast, then make them do non-skilling things: socialise more, or hang out in the park doing bugger all.  If being friends with co-workers and their boss is a career metric then make them become enemies.  If socialising will build their charisma, then only socialise with sims who are best friends already, or socialise by fighting.

If you are incapable of controlling your urge to grind your sims unless the game imposes a limit on you, then maybe the tweak you should consider making is to adapt the fatigue from the athletic skills to apply to all skills.

EDIT @BaronElectricPhaseTS2 had that.  If sims were "in the zone" they were less likely to drop out of an activity due to moods dropping.

Why do you think the absence of a Uni subhood is relevant to Mrs C?  She was added with the NL expansion (EP2), not the Uni expansion (EP1).

You need to patch every EP & SP you have installed.  The launcher doesn't do this.  The Sims 3 Patch Downloader utility over at MTS will check if you're missing any patches, download them and install them.  You can also use it to check your version numbers.

This may or may not solve your game issue, but at least you'll know your game is properly patched, and you will be able to give a direct & non-rambling answer to the question: what patch versions are you running.  Your tendency to  ramble makes most of us want to skip your posts.

BTW, don't presume you are alone in having health issues.  Many people live with health issues.  Having health issues doesn't make you particularly special and listing them doesn't make us feel sorry for you - it's more likely to make us point and laugh at your attempt to play the "speshul snowflake" card.

I've seen much the same thing happen when sims get promoted at the end of a shift that starts before midnight and ends after midnight (i.e. sims in the crime career and sims in the medical & law enforcement careers who get called in to work).

What I've noticed:
- it doesn't matter if the day would be a normal work day or not, the game thinks they are due at work
- if they don't go to work, their performance meter drops until I send them to work
- if they do go to work, their performance meter doesn't rise, unless the shift extends beyond midnight - at midnight they start gaining performance
- at the end of the shift I have to cancel the work interaction otherwise they stay at work

I have AwesomeMod and Twallan's overwatch and master controller.  All EPs / SPs up to Late Night, all fully patched.

If you're talking double beds then a §1000 bed is still crappy.  The cheapest non-crappy double bed is the LuxurLove at §2200.  Price alone is no indicator of quality, as there are some more expensive beds that are not worth using.

As for single beds, there are three in my game that are non-crappy.  The Single Sophisticate @ §1450, Topsy-Turvy (from the store) @ §1600, and the Iconic Ionic @ §1650.

AwesomeMod can tell you which beds are not worth using - they're identified as Kewian-based.  Accept no Kewian-based substitutes.

Agreed.  While we're on the subject of accessibility to skilling locations, please put roads near fishing spots.  It irritates me when a sim has to run across a lot of terrain to reach fishing spots, especially if it's a low- to mid-level fish they're after.  I know I can add the Riverview fishing lot to neighbourhoods where this is an issue, but that feels kind of cheaty to me.

Personally, I'd probably nuke all the characters you put in since I like to populate my hoods myself, so I can't give you any suggestions on that aspect.  I realise this is the core of your idea, but like you, I'm picky.  I'd rather play characters and families I created instead of someone else's.

I have an older, slower computer, and hoods with large populations are incredibly slow.  Keeping the number of unhoused sims down (i.e. how many bars and how many non-playable apartment doors would the neighbourhood have?) would be important from my point of view.

I'm not a fan of the EA terrains.  I like flat neighbourhoods, or at least neighbourhoods with flat lots.  To show you what I mean, currently I'm playing with myskaal's Bayborough neighbourhood.  It's pre-Ambitions, but there are plenty of routable spaces near roads where lots can be added for Ambitions & Late Night.

I do like hoods with plenty of cribified housing in a range of prices (a decent amount of starter homes, most of the houses mid-range, and a couple of mansions).  I also like having empty lots in a range of sizes that I can build on or that I can use to plop down some of the lots I built for my own use.  Additionally, I like to have routable space near roads where lots can be added as required by future EPs.

The mod issue wouldn't bother me, as I use AM and Twallan's MC.  I don't see why using them to construct the hood would affect the completed hood, since AM can be uninstalled using the uninstall command, and Twallan's mods can be deactivated simply by removing the downloads.

Adding in spawners for some of the new gems, plants, and fish would be nice.  I have a community garden I built that has all the WA plants added.  I use this lot in all of my neighbourhoods.  I haven't bothered to upload it anywhere as it's nothing flash, and most players could easily build a better version of it.

Has the Skill: Cooking macro been changed?

I know that couch potatoes will watch tv to skill cooking, but I'm finding other sims are also using the tv instead of heading to the library to read cooking skill books.  It's not because their fun is low, a sim with fun at 78.7 just sat down to watch the cooking channel.  If I send them to the library, they watch the cooking channel on the tv there instead of reading skill books.

It's a custom library, and yes, it does have all the skill books.

It's not just game changing mods that can cause game problems after patching.  Regular CC (hair, clothing, objects, etc) can cause problems as well.  Which is what Zazazu tried to tell you.

By the time the meteor strike happened the garden had every plant in perfect condition, a pond stocked with deathfish, and the house had been extensively refurbished/redecorated/recoloured.  I'm not in the habit of moving a family out, lotbinning the lot, and then moving the family back in after improvements, so I didn't have a copy of the house after the modifications.  Rather than lose all that and then having to redo it just because the mailbox lost its menu from the meteor strike, it is easier to spend a few minutes using AM's collect rock macro and then use AM's sell/refine macro to get the mail.

It's not a major problem for me.  Thanks to AM's billpaying feature, my sims don't check the mailbox very often.  I usually only send them to collect the mail when they hit level 10 in a skill, or in the case of this particular household (my robot-making household), when a pink diamond has been sent for cutting.

Fortunately I save every sim night.  Now that I know that meteors kill mailboxes, the next time it happens I can just go back to the last save and lose less than a simday of play.  It's just this one lot that is borken.

That one has been around since base game.  Someone once posted pics of it here.

A borkage I've noticed is that meteor strikes break the mailbox.  I had a meteor land in my sim's front yard and the mailbox on that lot can no longer be checked manually.  It can be checked by AM's sell/refine macro, so if one of the sims in the household hits level 10 in a skill, I send a sim out to collect some gems & rocks until they have something worth cutting or smelting.  Then I run the sell/refine macro to collect the mail from the borked mailbox.

I play a custom hood and I have seen some musical houses, mostly concerning the 2 lots that have 2 cribs.

I'll get a message that Family A has moved out, and that Family B has moved in for breeding room.  A day or two later I'll get a message that Family B has moved out, and that Family C has moved in for breeding room.  Another day or so later, and Family C move out and Family A move back in.

I noticed it (before Ambitions was released) while playing a custom hood that had quite a few houses with cribs and plenty of single beds, but only the two lots with two cribs, so the only pressure for breeding space was from households that had already had a baby or toddler.

I wonder how many of the people with this issue are playing Twinbrook?  Twinbrook doesn't have many single beds (21 spread between the 40 furnished lots*), so ASM would have a tough time finding homes for families when their 0s turn into 6s.  There are 5 cribs in Twinbrook, but I don't know how many of them are in houses with single beds.

If you're getting too many moves under ASM, try reducing the pressure for breeding space by adding cribs and single beds to some of the lots.

^{* For a comparison, SV has 7 cribs and 41 single beds in its 42 furnished lots.  RV has 6 cribs and 32 single beds in its 43 furnished lots.}

I had that happen in a neighbourhood the other day.  I assumed it was because my lone sim was a ghosthunter and needed occupied houses for ghostbusting jobs.

In my neighbourhood these other sims did get married under ASM.  After a sim-week or two of playing the neighbourhood another round of families were generated (presumably because the marriages meant there were no longer enough households for her job needs).

That's a WA problem.

Not long after I installed WA I had a holiday end prematurely because one of the sims who died at the Academy was apparently important in some quest (even though none of the sims in my game had any unfinished opportunities at the time).   My daughter suggested adding some way for non-playable sims to eat, so I added a fridge and table & chairs to the Academy lot (I put them in a corner of the lot that I was unlikely to focus the camera on, so they wouldn't distract from the atmosphere), and the Academy deaths stopped happening in my game.

Pescado hates queue stomping, so he'll probably be getting rid of this behaviour in AM.

I have a household of 2 simbots, one invented by the other.  I really don't like the "eek, a Simbot" reaction that stomps their queues whenever one of them walks past the other one.

I've had them roll up wants to eat at the bistro.  Sorry, but I don't think the bistro serves scrap.

They also roll up wants to become more muscular, which I don't think is possible.  If EA weren't going to block this want for simbots then they should have added a "change simbot body shape" interaction on the inventing station.

The reprogram option when they have shorted out is a nice way to change their traits without spending aspiration points, but it's a shame that it doesn't change their LTW.

I wasn't replying to Claeric, and my post didn't address the question of when AM will be updated for Ambitions.  I'm not sure why you linked my comments with a quote from Claeric.

I don't see how your post is in conflict with mine.  I said that Pescado would extend the expiration date when he felt the mod was stable.  The latest build has a longer expiration date, so I assume that AM is becoming more stable.

As for my statement that Pescado "often updates several times per day", that is fairly standard procedure for Pescado after an EP or patch.  I wanted to make sure that Miradne understood that they need to check before each play session that they are testing the latest version.

All you need to do is to check that you have downloaded the latest version.  There will be a new version before the one you have expires.

This is a test thread, and Pescado is uploading a new version of AM frequently (i.e. often several times a day).  This is how testing works: people download AM, we test it in a "I don't care if it blows up in a BFBVFS" neighbourhood, we report any bugs/issues, Pescado updates AM, we download the latest version, and the cycle repeats.

It has a short expiry period so that people don't use outdated versions and report bugs that Pescado has already quashed.

When Pescado considers that AM 1.2.7/2.7.7/3.3.11 is stable, he will extend the deadline before expiry.

If you're not comfortable with the short expiry period, then don't use AM until it's out of testing.

Look at where your sim is.  Is the sim standing next to the toilet that is on display in the art gallery when this happens?  Fix is simple: edit the art gallery and remove that toilet.    

It's been a while since I played SV, so I can't remember if it has any male only/female only doors, but they can also cause this problem.  AM sends the sim to the closest toilet, and this issue can result if the closest toilet is behind the wrong gender door.  Replace the doors with standard doors.

Will "regeneratebooks" work, given that the right bookcase apparently isn't in the library?

I had heard that the answer to the Twinbrook library issue was to edit the lot and add the bookcase named "The Book Corral".

What a patronising first post.