THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[Inge]

You can use any mesh in any Sims game, it just has to exported and imported the right way.

[Mixreality]

and why the hell can't you make their eyebrows thicker or thinner?

You can... Look in CAS.

Where?!? There's a bunch of eyebrow options (under the Eyes I think), but no thickness.

If you go under Hair and choose Eyelashes and Eybrows, they have a bunch of different thicknesses of eyebrows.  Then you can go under Eyes, choose the Advanced option, and click on the eyebrow to adjust the height, curve, and ... something else, I forget. Not thickness.  So you should start with an eyebrow of the thickness you desire, then modify it for shape and placement.

Ah, yes. Good thing there is a roundabout way, but it would be nice if they included that simple, little option. Thanks!

So, what about getting sims a new set of clothing, is it possible?

And the launcher? We shouldn't run it, right?

(I could further investigate the clothing thing myself, but I'm in a lazy/busy mode to actually start the game. If someone already knows a simple answer it would be nice to hear it.)

[J. M. Pescado]

If you go under Hair and choose Eyelashes and Eybrows, they have a bunch of different thicknesses of eyebrows.  Then you can go under Eyes, choose the Advanced option, and click on the eyebrow to adjust the height, curve, and ... something else, I forget. Not thickness.  So you should start with an eyebrow of the thickness you desire, then modify it for shape and placement.

It's not so elegant, though. The eyebrows themselves define the SHAPE of the eyebrow. The male and female analogues have entirely different versions that do not appear similar. As a result, you get some WEIRD, FUCKED UP SURPRISES when you breed them or flip them. The effect is much like Buttolino nose syndrome, only it happens for ALL bodyparts. Before you commit a sim, particularly a male sim, I suggest you flip it over to female just to check what the "analogue" face is. This is where the fug comes from.

[cynconzola]

Long time lurker here, I haven't arr'g the game, don't intend to for personal career reasons, but have a few questions for those of you who have;

1. does it look possible to replace all ea made sims with ones I make myself?

2. is the merge option in this version? I had read earlier reports that we should be able to merge the saved games into one another. I thought this would give us the ability to make our game more like ts2's saving lots.

3. advertising? any signs that the game we buy will be overwhelming with billborads etc.?

4. testingcheatsenabled - is the option for "set to birthday" there? if so, if aging is off, can you age up the sims you are playing?

thanks

cyn

[J. M. Pescado]

1. does it look possible to replace all ea made sims with ones I make myself?

No. EAxis will make more.

2. is the merge option in this version? I had read earlier reports that we should be able to merge the saved games into one another. I thought this would give us the ability to make our game more like ts2's saving lots.

There's no such thing as a "merge saved games", but it appears the game MAY be more tolerant of attempting to export sims between neighborhoods. All friends will be lost, but without memories, there may be less detritus following you around.

3. advertising? any signs that the game we buy will be overwhelming with billborads etc.?

I have not seen any attempts to phone home on my firewall, so if there's any advertising, I'm not seeing it.

4. testingcheatsenabled - is the option for "set to birthday" there? if so, if aging is off, can you age up the sims you are playing?

Yes. In fact, that's the ONLY OTHER OPTION THERE. Testingcheats is really a misnomer now, it doesn't enable anything testy, it's purely woolprop.

[TrapperJohn]

I don't think the trees and shrubs will look nice in sims 2. Basically, they are a set of polygons, that always turn their face towards you as you move the camera. By this they actually make up the lack of  detalisation. In sims 2 they can't do this, and so will look strange and poor.

OK, I sort of suspected it might be a "trick".

[Kralore]

After 9 long years (since Sims 1) Sims can FINALLY watch tv from any angle.    This has always been one thing that irritated me .

[vcpink]

4. testingcheatsenabled - is the option for "set to birthday" there? if so, if aging is off, can you age up the sims you are playing?

Yes. In fact, that's the ONLY OTHER OPTION THERE. Testingcheats is really a misnomer now, it doesn't enable anything testy, it's purely woolprop.

Actually Pes, Shift-Click the mail box... More options.

Shift-Click the ground you can teleport.

[Piffle]

A few random thoughts:

Hats separated from hairstyles in CAS - FINALLY.  But since when do simple braids or a ponytail constitute a hat?  Also, I thought the advent of create-a-style would mean the end of having to scroll through thirty-seven screens of the same damn hairstyle, the only difference being the color of the barrette.  Ditto for outfits; I want ONE of each model displayed, and I can take care of my own colors and patterns, 'kay thanks.  Of course if they did that it would be even more obvious that we only got fifteen actual outfits with the game.

Add some more hate for the round faces.  I like to make sharp-faced, pixielike Sims; the best I could do here was vaguely heart-shaped.  So not impressed.

Some of the buildings on the map don't seem to have flags.  My test Sim had rolled a few wishes to take Handiness classes and gain skill.  It took me forever to discover the unmarked army base in the lower left corner of the map that housed the classes.

One thing that initially amused me but is getting old:  the test Sim has the Evil trait, and whenever I click on an object, I get "Take Evil Shower", "Fiendishly Eat Quick Meal", "Evil Dance", etc.  As far as I can tell, the actions aren't done any differently than the regular kind, so why the distinction?  It just seems silly.

Overall, I'm enjoying myself, though I'm not sure how entertaining it will be once the shiny rubs off, especially if mods are out of the question.  I guess we'll see.


Oh -- one thing that made me laugh.  I had a burglar show up on the lot and just as he was getting ready to walk in, my neighbor raced over from her house, beat the piss out of him, and drove him off.  Awesome.

ETA:  That was metaphorical piss.  No actual pee was involved.  It occurred to me that, being a Sims game, I should clarify.

[Inge]

After 9 long years (since Sims 1) Sims can FINALLY watch tv from any angle.    This has always been one thing that irritated me .

YAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!  Bene!

[Caz]

An update on the random death of Kaylynn:

I cannot find her gravestone, not in her house, nor in the cemetery, and I slowly scrolled around Sunset Valley trying to find that dratted gravestone, but to no avail. I even looked in the inventories of the other residents of her home and nothing. (Speaking of the household sims, none of them were grieving for her. Heartless bastards.)

So, while it may seem cool for a Sim to get randomly killed off without warning on another lot, you may have a very hard time finding their gravestone, if ever. Not too good if you want to make them a ghost Sim or take them to the cemetery.

[phyllis_p]

So, what about getting sims a new set of clothing, is it possible?

I haven't bought any, but "plan outfit" is available with the dresser/wardrobe, so it seems like it should be possible.

And the launcher? We shouldn't run it, right?

Do not run. Ever. I set up my shortcut to go straight to the cracked exe, bypassing launcher.

(I could further investigate the clothing thing myself, but I'm in a lazy/busy mode to actually start the game. If someone already knows a simple answer it would be nice to hear it.)

Lazy ass.    But you've always been helpful to me (to many, actually), so I'm happy to reciprocate. 

[J. M. Pescado]

An update on the random death of Kaylynn

I think this may actually be the behavior of the game culling an overpopulated hood. There is no actual lightning in the game. Anywhere. It's just making up excuses for why it decided to delete a sim.

[X-Phile]

Does anyone know where the weddingarch is? 

And is throw a party in sims 3 the same as a wedding party/birthday party?

I'm just stupid. When you throw a party you can select everything.

[nekonoai]

My thoughts on the Horror, after getting hypnotized by the shiny for most of the night and nearly failing to make dinner or go to bed in a timely fashion.  


*I really like the super fast load time. Even base game TS2 didn't load this fast.
*I REALLY miss macrotastics.
*I made a morbidly obese family of four. Dad with a bad temper. Overly emotional mom. Nerdy boy. Toddler clutzy girl. Took a really long time to get the couple to the point where they wanted to woohoo/try for baby, but I finally got her preggers. \/ So far, the boy is best friends with Bella (take THAT, Mortimer!)[/li][/list]
*The CAS options were a little bit strange to work with. Where are the face sliders (if any) hidden? I kind of like the pattern swatches, but some of them are hard to tell what they are from the swatches.
*LOVE that shoes are seperate. Also, SOCKS! No more wearing sneakers without socks for my simmies!
*After being used to going places with my sims, I'm finding the rabbit holes kind of strange. Here's hoping they'll open those up in future packs. I even wouldn't mind going to work/school to see what's going on. I do like the fact that you can tell them how to behave at work/school.
*I like that kids can make simple meals for themselves, or have leftovers from the fridge. Spoiled food is kind of annoying, though.
*I like that you can tinker objects to make them do other things, like self-clean, prevent-fire, etc.
*I'm not sure I understand yet what you need to do to get promotions at work.
*Will the toddler NOT drop to sleep on the floor? Stop whining and do this!
*I like giving them different voices, and choosing how long the lifespan will be.
*I REALLY MISS MACROS!
*The kid does his homework on his own. Is that because he has the ambitious trait?
*I don't really care about the only one family at a time thing, because I tend to play a single family til I get sick of them and then make another and neglect the originals. It'd be nice if they went on with their lives.
*Buy mode didn't really take long to get used to. Sure, it looks way different, but it's not un-useful.
*Reading to toddlers is REALLY CUTE
*Macro/clean is SORELY MISSED. I kept trying to use it and then remember it's not there!
*Toddlers can leave the home lot. This is nice. I need to explore the hood more to find out what is there for toddlers to do.
*We definitely need to be able to provide/procure new clothing and hair meshes.
*How do you take screenshots? I gotta look around more and figure this out.
*Custom eyes would be nice.
*Can we PLEASE get rid of the mosaic?!
*I also miss my sim wardrobe auto bill payer. I had the repo guy show up because I was too busy to pay bills

you don't REALLY want to get women with HUGE EYEBROWS, either.

I might. I might also want bearded ladies and unibrows!

The weekend can't come fast enough for me. There's only so much you can dive into in these short spurts.

[phyllis_p]

*Where are the face sliders (if any) hidden?

There's a button for Advanced on each of the appearance screens. It opens the screen with the sliders.  For some, it also has a picture of the face area with circles on it.  Click the circle to get the slider for that individual piece.

[noretus]

Moar points of interest(?)


Newborns are now selectable and you can see their needs.

Toddlers' motives seem to dimnish about the same rate as adults ( no more 2-hour naps every 2 hours ).

Babies/Toddlers got Social need that goes down fast even while they sleep.
 
Toddler's cry is about 137% more annoying then in Sims 2. It also seems to wake up the whole house if the baby is desperate enough ( stop telling me how to live my Sims EA )

Sleeping is HARD! If you let your Sims baby go to motive failure over energy, what does it do when it gets to a crib? Sleep? OH NO! It starts wailing it's little lungs out and all your Teen+ Sims will proceed to swarm it )(&")=#(/=)¤("/¤=)(&=) FUCK.

You can adjust the brightness of the lights ( low - med - high ) per light, per room or all. This is pretty nice.

Walking is HARD. Sims have much more trouble getting around each other like I mentioned before. I hadn't yet noticed just how much 'personal space' they need. They do wait and dodge each other but it takes a lot of time to do so.

Brats generally do their homework on their own and aren't quite as pissed off about it as in Sims2.

I also miss Macrotastic

[nekonoai]

*Where are the face sliders (if any) hidden?

There's a button for Advanced on each of the appearance screens. It opens the screen with the sliders.  For some, it also has a picture of the face area with circles on it.  Click the circle to get the slider for that individual piece.

Cheers, Phil. I'll look for this when I finally go back to make myself.

[bowrain]

I don't know if this has been posted before but what is wrong with this?



Is it my graphic card?

Also, once I bought a bike and then a sim came over and he had a blank icon and when I hovered over the action icon it read "default unallocated come and see action" or something like that. Can't remember the exact wording. Perhaps it's a glitch or maybe it is an earlier build. I don't know.

[Sigmund]

My crack doesn't seem to be working for this game. I generated the code, used it for registration, and now the game keeps asking me to enter it again and it won't accept the code. Does any one else have this problem ot knows how to fix it?

Also try checking the comments on the torrent, if you torrented it. For some reason the one at demonoid had a lot of complaints about the keygen not working properly (although it worked fine for me) so it's possible other people have encountered the same thing.

Has anyone figured out how romantic relationships work? I've been trying like hell for about 20 sim days to get two sims engaged, and although they have the option to "try for baby" I can't find ANY kind of proposal option. Also, I think there must be some kind of a "boyfriend/girlfriend" relationship since both sims are living together but are considered single, but for the life of me can't figure out how to get that one to come up either.

Way to make the simple things bizarrely complicated, EA.

[seanachai]

I don't know if this has been posted before but what is wrong with this?

Is it my graphic card?

It almost looks to me like it's his reflection on the water, but I can't really tell from the picture. Did you look at it from the front and it looked the same way?

[cyperangel]

I don't know if this has been posted before but what is wrong with this?



Is it my graphic card?

Also, once I bought a bike and then a sim came over and he had a blank icon and when I hovered over the action icon it read "default unallocated come and see action" or something like that. Can't remember the exact wording. Perhaps it's a glitch or maybe it is an earlier build. I don't know.

That happens to my sims as well, any time you look at them from behind the sim, out over the water.

[bowrain]

I don't know if this has been posted before but what is wrong with this?

Is it my graphic card?

It almost looks to me like it's his reflection on the water, but I can't really tell from the picture. Did you look at it from the front and it looked the same way?

No it's fine from the front. It's like it's a problem with the way the game renders the water.

[seanachai]

Interesting thread on Snooty: http://www.snootysims.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29100

No way of knowing if the OP is making it up though ... pics or it didn't happen!

[Kyna]

That Snooty thread is funny.  Now they're saying "This glitch PROVES it's a beta!".

Heh, I have three words for them: original jump bug.