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[Motoki]

holy crap, could that live nation stuff be done any lazier? Square photo plastered on a shirt?

Not only that but it's not in Simlish script or pictures of Sims dressed up like those artists, it's just a direct copy and past of some real world poster.

I don't download user made custom content that uses real world pictures and contains English text so I won't be downloading this either.

Really, it looks like the most amateurish custom content in the community. It boggles my mind they think people will want to use their sim points for this.

[SNUGGLES]

Most of those live nation items do look like crap.  To top it off, I just read this following quote at the bottom of the live nation page.

" * To acquire these items you must have purchased SimPoints from The Sims 3 Store. You cannot solely use your promotional SimPoints on these items. Promotional SimPoints are points you received with purchase of a product or that were otherwise awarded free of charge. "

EA won't allow people to spend their "free" points on the items. 

[richardajoy]

Most of those live nation items do look like crap.  To top it off, I just read this following quote at the bottom of the live nation page.

" * To acquire these items you must have purchased SimPoints from The Sims 3 Store. You cannot solely use your promotional SimPoints on these items. Promotional SimPoints are points you received with purchase of a product or that were otherwise awarded free of charge. "

EA won't allow people to spend their "free" points on the items. 

EA are a crock of s**t, talk about trying to rake in the coppers.

[Lissy]

So you have to buy 1000 SimPoints if you even want to have the privilege of being allowed to download that crap? Sh*theads.

The Dr. Pepper stuff looks pretty good, though. I like that chair, and the hair isn't half bad for EA standards either.

[dragonic]

I stumbled across this Korean filesharing site this morning. And no, I can't read the Korean language.

Download

Code:

http://tiny.cc/fojdb

Source

Code:

http://tiny.cc/agunq

[pandora]

is there a way to fool the game into thinking that the sims3packs are normal ones and not pirated stuff from the ea store? can i e.g. install them with third-party launchers? package files don't work for me anymore since i installed ambitions.

[Motoki]

[pandora]

nice pic but that does not help me at all 

[pkmx]

The Search button will help you.

[richardajoy]

Has anyone been able to get the FREE special set: 2011 Ford Fiesta & Fiesta Urban Streetscape. It was advertised on Simprograms.

[PajamaRick]

Has anyone been able to get the FREE special set: 2011 Ford Fiesta & Fiesta Urban Streetscape. It was advertised on Simprograms.

*I am so going to Hell for this*   

Try 18 posts above yours (#145)...tickleonthetum has already posted it with several download links!

[Motoki]

nice pic but that does not help me at all 

I did help you in your other thread about your custom content not showing up which was also another case of you asking for information that was readily available because you are too lazy to search.

Packages do work. You just installed them wrong. You should address that first before attempting to add further items to your game.

Additionally, a method to bypass the checks on the store files and get the launcher to install them does exist. If you had searched and/or read these threads more you would have already known this.

Has anyone been able to get the FREE special set: 2011 Ford Fiesta & Fiesta Urban Streetscape. It was advertised on Simprograms.

You mean like this very post on the page before yours

New Ford Set: http://gb.store.thesims3.com/fiesta

Rapidshare (10 x only): http://rapidshare.com/files/406976311/FordSet.Sims3Pack
Rapidshare (10 x only): http://rapidshare.com/files/406977147/FordSet.Sims3Pack
4Shared: http://www.4shared.com/account/file/UzMdePlm/FordSet.html
MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PZXO7M88
FileFactory: http://www.filefactory.com/file/b28fac0/n/FordSet.Sims3Pack
DepositFiles: http://depositfiles.com/files/cafdvcsc2
MediaFiles: http://www.mediafire.com/?2tw5znnwk0ynyh2

Enjoy     

Again with the laziness. If you had bothered to check you would have seen it and not needed to ask.

[rum nate]

Most of those live nation items do look like crap.  To top it off, I just read this following quote at the bottom of the live nation page.

" * To acquire these items you must have purchased SimPoints from The Sims 3 Store. You cannot solely use your promotional SimPoints on these items. Promotional SimPoints are points you received with purchase of a product or that were otherwise awarded free of charge. "

EA won't allow people to spend their "free" points on the items. 

Apparently that disclaimer isn't true. JudHudson said that he was able to get the KISS pack and he's not bought Simpoints before.

[A Gorilla To Be Remembered]

Got the 7 new Dr Pepper items (thanks!). I ran across a thread on the Sims 3 forum about the new Dr Pepper promo stuff. There are a few items that I haven't yet seen anywhere. I did a search and nothing popped up for these items. Anyone know if they're part of the new promo set, or are these old and I just overlooked them?

[pkmx]

Got the 7 new Dr Pepper items (thanks!). I ran across a thread on the Sims 3 forum about the new Dr Pepper promo stuff. There are a few items that I haven't yet seen anywhere. I did a search and nothing popped up for these items. Anyone know if they're part of the new promo set, or are these old and I just overlooked them?

Yep, those are new items. I couldn't get them because I ran out of codes. Maybe tomorrow I get more.

[Lissy]

Yep, those are new items. I couldn't get them because I ran out of codes. Maybe tomorrow I get more.

I think there are ten new Dr. Pepper items in total. The gown, two shirts, the hair, a theatre chair, popcorn, two trophies, two wall hanging things.

[Motoki]

I think there are ten new Dr. Pepper items in total. The gown, two shirts, the hair, a theatre chair, popcorn, two trophies, two wall hanging things.

There's 3 wall hangings actually. The Golden Record, the Prized Jersey and the Starlet's Autograph, so there's 11 items total that are new for July.

So far they've all been posted except for the male and female versions of the shirt. pkmx and Drakron posted 7 of the items above and then I posted the dress and the hair.

I'm kind of meh on the shirt so I used my last two codes on the hair and dress instead, but if no one gets around to posting the shirts I will see if I can grab a couple more Dr. Pepper's with codes eventually.

[Zoltan]

Here are 7 Dr Pepper items. The chair, popcorn, llama award, football trophy, jersey, autograph and gold record.

Edit:
If you can't download the poster dragonic posted, here it is: Shakira Poster.

Those links dont go anywhere.

[masonxxx]

Dr Pepper´s Hot 

[Lissy]

With the old Mods folder set-up my game simply refused to read combined package files. With the new setup of the Mods folder, it does read them and chokes - it takes 35 minutes to start the game and about as long to load the 'hood with the combined package installed, while both take about 5 minutes when I take the package back out.

It's probably a Mac thing, but really annoying.

Anyhow, thank heaven for this site where I can get the Dr Pepper stuff without having to swallow the soda... 

[Indiasong]

Can anyone tell me what the BeachBedroom, Beachlivingsleep and Beachcas2set consist in? And where is the Islandvilla, and Beachbumming?Never mind, I downloaded them again, and I already had them with a different name.
And I have another question: the launcher used to be recursive, and now only sees what is in downloads, not in subfolders. Am I the only one with this issue?

[jezzer]

Can anyone tell me what the BeachBedroom, Beachlivingsleep and Beachcas2set consist in? And where is the Islandvilla, and Beachbumming?Never mind, I downloaded them again, and I already had them with a different name.
And I have another question: the launcher used to be recursive, and now only sees what is in downloads, not in subfolders. Am I the only one with this issue?

Why would you have subfolders in your Downloads folder?  The files are in your DCCache folder after you install a sims3pack.  It seems a little pointless to organize the sims3packs into little subfolders when the actual gameplay files are consolidated into massive DCB's.

[morriganrant]

Can anyone tell me what the BeachBedroom, Beachlivingsleep and Beachcas2set consist in? And where is the Islandvilla, and Beachbumming?Never mind, I downloaded them again, and I already had them with a different name.
And I have another question: the launcher used to be recursive, and now only sees what is in downloads, not in subfolders. Am I the only one with this issue?

Why would you have subfolders in your Downloads folder?  The files are in your DCCache folder after you install a sims3pack.  It seems a little pointless to organize the sims3packs into little subfolders when the actual gameplay files are consolidated into massive DCB's.

I assume they do it for backup purposes like I do. Although, if that is the case, I don't see why you would want it looking in subfolders, because your launcher would be all cluttered with everything, and not just the shit you are installing now. I keep non-decrapified store items in a subfolder in downloads, once every month or so I delete the old store.dbc and make a new one that includes the newer sets. I also keep a few of my more used objects in their own folder, in case I need to delete something and rebuild the .dbc. It's easier then going into my backup drive and extracting all of them all over again. Or maybe Indiasong extracts the rars straight to Downloads and is bothered by the fact that in order for the Launcher to see them, they need to go remove them from any folders they may have been in within the rars.

Since I've been keeping the sims3packs backups in downloads, which has been a few months now, it has never seen into the subfolders.

[witch]

I keep the original .sims3packs in subfolders on one of my HDDs. When I want to re-do the .dbc files I merely do a search on the CC root folder for *.sims3pack files, then copy/paste the whole bally lot to the downloads folder for processing with decrapify etc.

[richardajoy]

Hi all

I'm trying to minimise the size of my files and I've deleted the THUM parts from my packages files using S3PE, which I read on another site (the site said that even without the THUM parts, the game will automatically create thumnails). My query is, can the same be done with the DBC files in my DBCCACHE folder?

Thank you for your time.