Oh sooze. You were born too late. When I was six we gamed all day on Macs. Oregon Trail was awesome.

1. FEWER, not less. Grammar Cat has his eye on you.
2. If your CC is from the Store, and you didn't pay for it, I'd love to see you try to install it through the launcher. Decrapping requires a desire to READ MOAR and follow
    instructions.

FIFY.

I'd love to tell you what's up with the carpool drivers, but I'm afraid you won't like what I have to say and delete the whole thread in a flouncy fit. But you wouldn't do that, right? Not like the "preggo" outfit thread that recently disappeared...

Dark Author tried using sarcasm to make itself smarter. I don't think it worked.

I think you should stop trying to play your game while driving. When was the last time you had your BRAKES checked, anyway?

You'll know you need to download a patch when you see a thread here about a new patch. These threads always contain a direct link to the patch. Keeping your launcher off the interwebs won't stop you from having a fully patched game.

The garden moodlet must be pretty powerful if it maxed a skill in one short vacation. Were you using the dummy, board breaker, or meditating?

I'll have to send a Sim to China and see if I get the same results. I'm also going to kidnap some French locals and test their nectar skill rates.

If you don't want to wait to go back to work, you could always try asking your boss for a promotion if your job meter is full and you have a good relationship.

None of my non-French Sims have learned the nectar skill at an accelerated rate. I haven't had any Sims learn photography, but I did have one max Martial Arts. He didn't seem learn it any faster than a regular skill, and he was using a training dummy at the library with the Disciplined trait. I never sent him to China, though. I wonder how or if that makes a difference.

I had a Sim marry a French local, Manon Godard. She comes with level 6 Nectar skill. I moved the family into a house with a basement and set her to work. She leveled up to 7 in fewer than 2 Sim hours. She read a Nectar skilling book while waiting for the machine complete the bottles. She kept leveling up at an insanely fast rate - she went from 9 to 10 in about 5 Sim hours. She wasn't a Genius, didn't have any Logic, and didn't have the Fast Learner reward.

Do all French locals learn the Nectar skill super-quick? Did skilling Nectar in the basement have any effect?

I've been playing the Goths for 5 sim days, and Gunther still doesn't have a portrait. When the Crumplebottom ghosts appeared, their family tree portraits went blank too.

Sims who die in-game don't have a portait in the family tree, but dead sims who were already dead in a fresh, never-played neighborhood (Goths) are fine. If I kill Gunther and look at Mortimer's family tree, all of Gunther's info is on the tree, but he has no picture - just a white square. Guther's and Cornelia's parents' pictures are intact. I get the same results with other families. If I summon the ghost, a portait appears in the relationship panel, but the family tree portrait remains blank.

This problem persists in a clean install of the base game, mod-free. I can't figure out what could be causing this. If it were a graphics card issue, wouldn't all of the family tree portaits be blank?

You may be onto something here. The last time this happened to me, the sim who lost the moodlet was the only one who left the house and interacted with other sims that day. She went to the park and played for tips, and picked up a couple of friends that way.

No, the moodlet HazelEyes is referring to isn't "My Love." It's a moodlet that sims get when they start a romantic relationship. I have noticed, too, that it randomly disappears before it is supposed to expire.

I'm seeing this, too. I also assumed it has something to do with the new basement feature.

"Feh. Patience is damn near impossible when you're tweaking on pseudoephedrine and an entire pot of coffee (lol), but thanks anyway."

Happy Grammar Day!

I recently reinstalled the base game, and preserving my Store stuff was easy. Before uninstalling TS3, I moved my DCCache folder and its contents to my desktop. After I reinstalled, I put the DCCache folder back in its original location. All Store items appear just fine in-game.

You probably didn't notice the moodlet (Fiendishly Delighted) if your sim was already lulzing over someone's misery. The icon is the same.

@fatkitty -- Have you seen Pescado's shark tank?

I bet she used his razor.

I thought touring rabbit holes was just a way to torture sims and give them "bored" moodlets    I look forward to having sims do it in horribly inappropriate places now!

You can "try for baby" at the science lab? Is this part of a mod?

I doubt the wishes to garden and find seeds (triggered by advancing gardening skill) would eventually stop appearing if totally ignored.