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Game Update for 1.12/2.7/3.3
POSTED ON 05/28/10 05:34 PM

To install this update, please start your game and use the "Updates" tab in your Launcher.

This game update includes:

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      This game update enables dynamic ad serving capabilities in The Sims 3. However, there are no immediate plans to activate any content of this kind. The Sims 3 EULA has further details. See http://www.ea.com/1/product-eulas.
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      Lights placed on residential and community lots will now properly display onto the neighborhood
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      Sims may now walk and stand on bridges
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      Players who play The Sims 3 with game modifications can now create a folder in which to place their game modifications. The folder should be located here:

C:\Documents and Settings\YourComputer\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods

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      When Mods are placed in the official Mod folder, a notification will appear to remind players that Mods are installed.
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      Placing Mod packages into the Mod folder is an officially sanctioned way to bypass assembly signing verification. The Resource.cfg file must be placed in this folder in order for the modifications to work correctly.
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      When Mods are installed that are incompatible, the player will receive a message notifying them of the error.
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      Additional bug fixes to existing features

Edit Town Mode

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      Players may now add, delete, and move residential and community lots from the Edit Town menu
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      Players may now add, delete, and move neighborhood decorative objects from the Edit Town menu
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      Players may now purchase and upgrade neighborhood community lots using the new Real Estate system via the Computer
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      When using the Library in Edit Town, lots will now display their venue type (i.e. Park)

Gameplay Changes

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      Story Progression has been improved to prevent Sims required to complete Opportunities from changing.
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      Sim genetics have been improved so that children now better reflect their parents' skin tone and hairstyles.
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      Sims can unlock outfit choices and share them with household members when using the "Plan Outfit" interaction on the Dresser.

Build/Buy Mode

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      Players may now use Create a Style on Ceilings or add and delete them when in Build Mode
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      Players may now use Create a Style on the edges of floor tiles
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      When placing walls, rooms, foundations/decks, floor tiles, roofs, pools, fences, and basements the measuring tape tool will display to aid in more precise building.
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      Wall Covering sets can now be found in a tab in Build Mode
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      Players may now manipulate the roof pitch for individual roof sections when in Build Mode
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      Sculptures can be found in a new Sculpture sorting category when in Buy Mode

Create a Sim

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      Players may now use the Tattoo feature to customize Sims when in Create a Sim
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      Players may now select the Fiancé, Girlfriend, and Boyfriend relationship settings when in Create a Sim

UI & Controls

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      The user-interfaces for Sim View and Map View have been merged to provide more control and consistency between the two modes.
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      The Opportunity interface has been improved to clearly outline the fiction, gameplay objectives, rewards, and Opportunity location for all Opportunities and Adventures.

World Adventures

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      Certain Adventures and Opportunities will properly display in the Opportunities Panel when traveling between worlds

When Mods are installed that are incompatible, the player will receive a message notifying them of the error.

Huh. Does this seriously mean that the game is now fully funcitoning with mods(as in, the game "supports" them), to the extent where it will indeed tell us when X won't work with Y? That's pretty awesome.

Installing it now.

And they finally added the dynamic ad serving. We knew that was coming.

I don't know the full version numbers of the other patches for WA and HELS, so I couldn't post them here yet.

Do we know yet if the new patch, no matter how brilliant it is, has borked installing decrapified store content or not?

Well, I managed to reinstall and patch fully every time, but wasn't really thinking about it- I have no way of determining if the game is running properly, because I can't use awesomemod to bypass CD checks, the game doesn't seem to accept a mounted iso as a CD being in the drive, and there are likely no cracks for this patch yet!

:|

This game update enables dynamic ad serving capabilities in The Sims 3. However, there are no immediate plans to activate any content of this kind.

Is this the same thing they were supposedly going to do in the base game, but decided against it? I hope if they do decide to put ads in the game, they allow an option to disable them. I don't want to see ads in the game at all.

Non of my "body slider" mods are working with the new patch. Anyone else experiencing this?

Looks like the lights still do NOT work. No light exits the lot, nor goes to another level. This with no mods installed.

The same advertisers who advertise ONLINE where people can turn off their ads and not see them.

Though I dont know where they'd put ads in-game anyway,

All the sliders work for me and I have most of them.

Looks like the lights still do NOT work. No light exits the lot, nor goes to another level. This with no mods installed.

The same advertisers who advertise ONLINE where people can turn off their ads and not see them.

Though I dont know where they'd put ads in-game anyway,

I hope the ads won't be mandatory when they implement them, or if there'll be a way to hide them. Awesomemod maybe will be able to block them when they're implemented.

Opt-out is what some companies do. But EA is greedy for money, and probably won't have that as an option

I tried Delphy's breast sliders and they didn't initially crash my game. Now I'm crashing once I pick the family I wish to play. I can't figure out what is happening now...

I wonder if the Dynamic Ad Serving feature can be hijacked and redirected to the site of our choice, like, say, AwesomeMod updates, or sims community advertisements.

I wonder if the Dynamic Ad Serving feature can be hijacked and redirected to the site of our choice, like, say, AwesomeMod updates, or sims community advertisements.

I don't mind ads as long as they're realistic. Like if the highway signs had huge billboard ads for strip clubs and furniture factory blowout sales.