Thanks, everyone. I thought I'd already replaced the cracked TS3.exe with the original, but it turned out I didn't. *facepalm* Everything is in working order now.

Also:
Heh, my bad. Fixed now.

I waited a few days to install the patch so I could play with awesomemod, and everything went fairly smoothly - until I booted up the game.

This is what happened when I opened one of my saves:



The sim in the UI appears to be from TS2. What? I tried opening the 'Options' menu, but nothing happened after I clicked the button. Opening the Sim/Trait panel reveals only an empty age bar - everything else seems to be have been nullified. Inventories, relationships, lifetime rewards and wants seem to be intact, and I can still switch between sims in the household by pressing the spacebar, but everything else seems to be borked. Hovering over the mood meter displays a blank message (as seen in the screenshot).

I've tried creating a new game, but I get a Flagrant System Error every time I try to enter a household. CAS seems to be functioning as usual.

EDIT:
Solved. I thought I'd replaced the crack with the original ts3.exe, but for one reason or another, I didn't. Odd.

I took out indiestone, cleared caches, etc. Nothing seems to work. Does anyone know what might've caused this?

There's no need. All you have to do is hold the Ctrl (or was it Alt?) button when you're dragging objects to freely move it around.

Actually, ambrosia does work on natural-born ghosts. I have revived several of my ghostborns and given them a chance at life this way. Maybe your ambrosia wasn't prepared properly?

Perhaps introducing the 'mean-spirited' trait will help you some. I have a household of 3 mean-spirited and one good sim, and they all pretty much hate each other - even the fairly compatible pair I tried to couple together.

Wow, extensive. Thanks for the information on various traits and how they effect the painting! This will come in handy.

I'm pretty sure the new awesomespec is a simple shack. Since your sims can essentially get everything they need from the world around them at no cost, there really isn't a need for skilling objects and the like in your house.

See, this would actually be realistic had EA implemented the 'socialization trees' correctly. In real life, if you don't want to get romantic with a friend, you'd joke around and try to ruin the mood. This is probably what EA had in mind. Of course, they manage to screw it up impressively and annoy their players to death.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15363.0.html

Ctrl+F "Lucky".

The game was programmed for similar sims to 'get along better'. This might not be true in real life, but it's how EA programmed the game.

Does this affect the EA store beds?

I'd actually love to use some of these, as the in-game traits don't really suit me as well as some of these: I'm stubborn, not hotheaded. And just because I'm a dreamer doesn't mean I have to be absent-minded.

A little OT, but I kind of prefer the second face as well.

The first one feels kind of alien-esque-looking.

Um. Why don't you just mute your speakers?

Nope. Actually, young adults' faces are smoother than the adults', and have less aging detail. The cheeks are also firmer, I think - but they're definitely not teen faces. I can most certainly confirm this, because I've taken screenshots of my YA sims before and after they transition to adult.

Ooh, looks like they've got a bunch of stuff up already. I'm going to give the unlocked traits hack a go.

That blows.

It would've made an interesting, reliable tool for purging unwanted fugly sims.

I've heard that the child of a fireman has the 'Pyromaniac' trait (namesake) and the option to set things on fire. Hoax or not?

My Documents -> Electronic Arts -> TS3 -> Custom Music

^ The correct file path. Not the one under C:/Program Files/.../GameData. (Assuming you made the same mistake I did when I first tried to load custom music in the game ).

Wtf are those? I can honestly say I've never encountered bright-red roaches before in my life.

Of course, maybe the developers purposely gave them a ridiculous colour. They're a lot more conspicuous than the TS2 roaches (and a lot less gross).

This is a 'feature'. Max your sim's painting skill and the portraits should turn out (a bit) better. I'm assuming the crappy cellphone pictures are 'features' as well, so EA can include a fully-functional camera in future EPs.

@beear:

I seriously envy your graphics card. My game slows to a crawl if I set Draw Distance and Tree Textures to anything other than the lowest setting, so when I pan over the town, all I see is faded buildings. Oh well; at least it makes for realistic 'foggy' weather.

I had my first-gen sim spawn with Gunther Goth. The offspring doesn't look...half bad:


Gave her a makeover, because her traits were 'Charismatic, Daredevil, Genius and Light-Sleeper'. Daredevil is pretty useless, imho, save for the occasional moodlet from 'being daring'.


Spawn of my other first-gen sim posing with his ghost father. He was born with the fat slider maxed, I think, but after he reached level 10 Athletic (from various cardio/strength exercises), the fat turned into muscle.


Taking a bath. Apparently if your sims have the 'Never Nude' trait, they take baths/showers in their swimwear - which is why the mosaic censor isn't showing.


My original first-gen sim - she has the hopeless romantic trait, and does this a lot.

Screenshot of the crappy bungalow I built in under a minute.

Click 'buy groceries'. The Buy window should come up, along with an accompanying Sell window there somewhere. That's how I remember it, anyway.

I use Orbitfiles myself. Not sure how reliable it really is in the long run, but it hasn't failed me so far.