Suddenly have a store world I didn't install. (Lucky Palms)

[michelou]

Basically, the situation is:  I have all expansions, all but last 2 stuff packs, all legit. I also have all of the store stuff from here except any of the worlds, in a complicated mix of Moyire's packages for the earlier and decrapped sims3packs of the stuff that came after along with KT's fixes for stuff. I do have the extras from the worlds, like the blackjack table from Lucky Palms and the massage table from Sunlit Tides, etc. I do own Hidden Springs (legit.). My CC is installed both manually and by the dreaded launcher, I don't question why my system of doing things works, it just does.

So, after not playing for a few months, and then recieving Supernatural and updating my game installing it (having removed my mods first) I started up the game, mod free, just to make sure it worked. I then plunked in my CC (no mods yet, just the "stuff") and on booting it back up I noticed I was then missing some content, like the pet shop from Pets and Riverveiw and Hidden Springs. I went onto the EA site, redownloaded my missing stuff, booted my game back up and I now suddenly have a working Lucky Palms.(I've tested - played some of it- everything in it works perfectly and is named appropriately) I did not buy this world, nor did I ever download it much less install it.

So, my question is why did this happen? I can't imagine that EA has suddenly, generously sneaked a hidden world into one of my other ones, and even if EA spyware was detecting the items from the world and had mistakenly listed it as available, it surely shouldn't work. Oh, one other thing, I stupidly, stupidly, signed into my EA account while in game (until that point I hadn't had the ridiculous "ads" in buy mode and now I do, even though I signed back out and disconnected from the net for a bit, along with rebooting not just my game, but my computer too - all done before I installed my legit worlds) so I don't know if that would have any bearing on it.

My only thought is that I did actually somehow do this myself, that Lucky Palms was included in a sims3pack of the stuff of the world, but if that is so, I was under the impression that just decrapping it and installing through the launcher would either not let the world work or the world would have gibberish instead of lot/place names.

Any info would be appreciated.

[kissing_toast]

My only thought is that I did actually somehow do this myself, that Lucky Palms was included in a sims3pack of the stuff of the world, but if that is so, I was under the impression that just decrapping it and installing through the launcher would either not let the world work or the world would have gibberish instead of lot/place names.

This had to have happened, there really can't be any other way around it, right? As for the gibberish that's only with packages of worlds, sims3packs work just fine.

[michelou]

Well, I'm more than willing to accept that I did this myself, my only caveat on this whole thing, which I forgot to mention is that in my installed Worlds folder there only exists Riverview and Hiddensprings, no sign of Lucky Palms. Which is what led to my befuzzelment.

But, since I now know that just decrapping and launcher installing can work for the worlds I just may give the other ones a go.

[jezzer]

I have all the worlds installed, and I've always just decrapified the sims3packs (with the exception of Riverview, which was a free Store item, and didn't require decrapfication).  Bear in mind that if you have the worlds' catalog items in Moryrie's package files, you will create duplicate entries for them when you install the world sims3packs.  This is mainly an issue with Barnacle Bay, which added a metric fuckton of nautical-themed items, including a bunch of pirate outfits that are poorly categorized and valid for random.  So if I were you, I would skip Barnacle Bay.  It's an extremely unattractive world, for starters.  And if you have Moryrie's packages, you already have all the clothing and build/buy content, with the added bonus of Moryrie's catalog fixes.