More Awesome Than You!

Launcher Updates
 
♦ The Launcher will now show the Base Game version number instead of the highest installed expansion or stuff pack.

 
Base Game Updates
 
♦ Added a new spiral staircase object.
 
♦ Added a new ladder object.
 
♦ Added a new modular arch object.
 
♦ Added a set of new Stilted Foundation objects.
 
♦ Lots can now be partially placed on water.
 
♦ Holding down the Alt key while dragging out a foundation will now make a single step height foundation.
 
♦ Sims can now purchase additional homes using the Real Estate system.
 
♦ Sims can now move to a new Town using the Phone or Computer.
 
♦ New Pool Blueprints have been added.
 
♦ Players will now have more control positioning their lot when importing a lot from the bin to a larger empty lot.

 
Ambitions Updates
 
♦ Fixed a crash that occurs when selling a Sculpting Station and sculpture then clicking the Undo button.
 
♦ Makeover Room UI for the Stylist Profession now shows the correct text for non-English territories.

 
Showtime Updates
 
♦ Games that are saved when paused will now correctly load paused.
 
♦ Online In game messages now have headers to explain who the comment came from and where it was directed.

 
Supernatural Updates
 
♦ Sims will no longer freeze when trying to Awaken Bonehilda on Bonehilda's Coffin.
 
♦ The Durasoft Rocking Chair now has correct functionality in Aurora Skies regardless of The Sims 3: Supernatural installation.

 
University Life Updates
 
♦ Sims can now ask their romantic interests to be roommates.
 
♦ The ‘Invite to be Roommate' social is now appropriately available only with The Sims 3: University Life installed.
 
♦ PlantSims downloaded from the exchange can now use their powers and have the appropriate needs.
 
♦ Love letters received at University are no longer converted into unusable bills when returning to home world.
 
♦ Skill gain speeds influenced by the Increased Understanding moodlet have been corrected and are no longer ‘insanely fast'.
 
♦ Photos taken from the smartphone while at University are now moved to the inventory upon returning to the home world.
 
♦ The Murphy Bed has been made less lethal.
 
♦ Sims in the Sports Agent career can now Negotiate Contracts without receiving any errors.
 
♦ Sims invited to graduation are no longer duplicated in the relationship panel.
 
♦ Roommates in the home world have been motivated and will now autonomously leave the house and go to work.
 
♦ Teens who have maximum influence with a social group will now get the appropriate career opportunity when they age up.
 
♦ Sims that skip class activities or lecture halls will no longer have their needs frozen.
 
♦ Children can no longer gain influence with social groups.
 
♦ Fixed a crash that would occur when installing store content while audio is playing.
 
♦ The ‘Keep Me Logged In' feature on the launcher has been fixed to work with the latest patch.
 
♦ The Art Appraiser and Sports Agent careers are no longer available through cheats without The Sims 3: University Life installed.
 
♦ Sims selecting the Education Career will now start at a higher career level if they have completed a degree from The Sims 3: University Life.
 
♦ Having a PlantSim in a household and then uninstalling The Sims 3: University Life will no longer cause some PlantSim features to remain.
 
♦ Care Packages will now correctly show up in the gifting tabs.
 
♦ All Sims attending a protest in a group now have access to Podium interactions and will all receive the appropriate moodlet when the Protest finishes.
 
♦ The Social Networking Skill statistic: ‘Total Simoleans Earned from Blog Donations and Buyouts' now updates correctly in the Skill Journal.
 
♦ When a Sim is en route to class in the University world, the corresponding tooltip now appropriately describes where they are going.
 
♦ Selling a Bowling Lane from the Family Inventory and then clicking the Undo button will now correctly remove the Bowling Lane object from the world.
 
♦ The wish "Play Sports at the Stadium" wish now fulfills correctly.
 
♦ Sims in the University world will no longer get the wish "Talk About new Job".

 
70s, 80s, & 90s Stuff
 
♦ 80's prom dress now appears under formal wear

 
Store Updates
 
♦ Users who have a large amount of Store content installed will no longer experience their content disappearing from the launcher
 
♦ Store Sets can now be purchased on the Main Menu.

Super
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/TS3_1.55.4.0220xx_update.exe
Incrementals
Region 1
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.55.4.022001_from_1.50.56.021001.exe
Region 2
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.55.4.022002_from_1.50.56.021002.exe
Region 3
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.55.4.022003_from_1.50.56.021003.exe
Region 5
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.55.4.022005_from_1.50.56.021005.exe
Region 17
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.55.4.022017_from_1.50.56.021017.exe
 
 

So what did it break this time?

Damage level appears nearly expansion-grade, so the update will take a bit. Don't go rushing to install it yet.

I never install new patches until all my important mods are updated.

(http://i.imgur.com/PJZJf2X.jpg)

So Games4theworld released the expansion...is it an untouched copy with separate folder for their cracks or already an tampered copy?

Wait, what the fuck? Some of these additions and changes actually look more than decent.

Cracks are separate. Just testing it out on my laptop before I install on my desktop. I'm running an i5, with 6GB RAM and a Radeon 6470M, with about a quarter of my 750GB drive full, and the game takes forever to load to the splash screen, even when it's the only thing running. Might wait for a Fairlight release to see if it's just an issue with the Games4theWorld copy, as my game wasn't as slow before install. I'm running with everything, including Katy Perry's shit pack (I want the furniture for a kid's room).

Yes, it's bizarre. A solid update with new interesting features, many of which people have been wanting for a long time. (Moving to other towns.) Unlike other updates, which are simply an update of nothing much, but you have to wait either way for AwesomeMOD to be updated. However, it is worth waiting for this time, unlike any other time. I am surprised, because at this point I would expect less value while they push SiMMMORP4.

Therefore Evil Arts must be drunk and on drugs. How unprofessional!

@NoShitSherlock I tried their version as well, game takes forever to load before even hitting the save game load screen. Had to force quit it. So there might be something with their version of the game.

Edit: Now installing stuff from the launcher takes forever...I tried uninstalling Island Paradise and rebooting my PC, but it is still taking too long to install stuff. Is this a patch issue? I had trouble installing the patch, had to re-download the cumulative one over and over again until it finally worked.

The lengthy load times may be due to the shiny new .tmp files that you'll find in your dccache folder, a 'feature' of the new patch. Delete the .tmp files (they are duplicates of your .dbc files) and stay away from the launcher.  They will regenerate if you use the launcher.  In addition, check your SavedSims folder for a file called downloadedsims.index and delete that.

Also it can be due to me being an idiot and completely missing a mod. Once I removed said mod, the load times went back to normal for me.

I noticed those .tmp files and wondered if I could delete them.

You can delete downloadedsims.index? I thought that you couldn't? Shows what I know.

'Nuther 88 days, 'nuther shitty expansion...

Ah well, you'll buy it anyway.

Had some difficulties getting it to work but the torrent that's out now works. If I don't have the launcher open my game won't even start. I had to manually kill the launcher through the task manager then restart it; it took a while to load but it eventually came up. Once the launcher was ready the game started and loaded as normal. Only using NRAAS no cd at the moment.

After quitting the game and trying to restart it, it doesn't work. It automatically gives a black screen and nothing. Killing the sims with the task manager and trying again works. So something isn't quitting/closing right when closing the game. So the launcher has nothing to do with it.

Eh, It's loading quicker now, I Also forgot to remove an outdated mod, as I never had the shiny .tmp files. A few crashes, as I had to go edit my graphics configuration files, because the game is no longer recognising my card. Trying with a fresh game now, and only NRAAS mods.

Love EA's attempt at being hip with the T-Pain/Lonely Island reference.

To be honest I think this might be the worst patch yet; it's completely fucked up my custom content. Trying to manually fix it now but not having much luck so far. Definitely don't install it until AM have made their patch.

duh

I kinda jumped the gun and started playing with new patch, supplanting AM with some Nraas goodies. My impatience is costing me dearly however. One of the more annoying bugs i'm experiencing is that NPC Mixologists at bars and clubs just go dancing and playing darts, and any attempt at ordering from the bar kinda resets the sim ordering to a neutral spot nearby. Strangely though it does not affect the Mixologist For Hire over the phone.

Well the Arr'd version of IP that is out now was fine and now it's gotten so laggy I can't even play it. And NRaas mods keep throwing script errors at me, so I think that the patch 1.55 was fine, it's just arr'ing this early that is causing issues. And my sims still dance with the damn door. What is with that anyways?

Sims resetting from the professional bars is a reported bug, and I have that too. If you/we replace the bars it fixes the issue supposedly.

After installing the new patch,the lag while playing the game is a pain in the arse.

So if I already installed the patch and the EP my game won't work even if I update my AwesomeMod? Cause now it doesn't work anyway and I'm really hoping that the mod update will fix it..

there is no version of Awesomemod compatible with 1.55 yet, which you would know if you paid attention to the revision date on the file.

Would have been more fun to let them wonder why their game crashes on startup...

Oh well.

I share my game with my grandson and 6 days ago, while I was at work, he patched the game to 1.55.  He has just moved in with me and hasn't been playing the game very long and didn't know the dangers.  Still, he insisted that his game was running fine. 
After he quit his game, I ran my awesomemod updater, just to be on the safe side, started the game, and built a test family.  I've been playing my test family and he has been playing his reg. hood for about a week now and we haven't had a single glitch.  I even check with "showconfig" that awesomemod is installed and running.

So, maybe some of these people who are doing all the complaining about glitches and lags, etc. should look somewhere beside the patch and the lack of an updated awesomemon for the source of their troubles.

I fixed it by resetting my factory settings! Now I'll just wait for the updated AwesomeMod :) Cause my save games obviously aren't working.

Last time I looked there was a test version, for those game enough.

I wonder why they added that trash bed in buydebug? It was supposed to come with Late Night, IIRC. I assumed it would be placed around IP, but I haven't seen it anywhere.

Can anyone corroborate the newbie's report of broken CC, or was it probably a tight pants situation? Because some of these changes actually do look decent.

I am running 1.55 with IP and test AM. Not having any issues at this stage.

CC is working fine for me with 1.55 and the test version of AM, I had an issue with store content, but I think that was unrelated and it's fixed now.

Is awesomemod working with 1.55 update now?

Yes, I noticed it was updated in july 02, so should be, but, I've used the online config to edit and download and it isn't working in the game at all. Every other package is, so it's in the right place!
I've also tried running without my other CC, and still nothing, game won't pick it up at all.

please point out what I've done wrong?

You have not read the RTFM - always read the RTFM that comes with the AM download to see the patch level.

The July 2nd version was for 1.50 and just changed the expiry date because at that time, the 1.55 version was still in the test phase. Download the new version, and you should be fine.

It's not an "RTFM."  It's just an "FM."  "Read the RTFM" is redundant.

nope, wasn't that!.
Seems to have been an issue with core mods(game not recognising them...dk why..was very odd) I decided to uninstall and re-install to the whole game >.<'

Solved the issue..:/..ah well

Now you just have to solve the issue of your merciless abuse of English punctuation.

No chance, ;) .... I feel the "over punctuation" helps to bring across the emotion of a post. Admittedly it's something that stuck to me after I became a regular online chatter/messenger.

You're going to love it here.  "Here" being a forum which allows you the time to capitalize and construct evocative sentences.  Use that time wisely.

Get the fuck out of here and take that stupid ass sig with you.

Is stupidity an emotion?

For some people it's a religion, and religion can be very emotional.

<edit> fixed it - thankyou

Stupidity seems to be at the basis of MY religion, anyway.  How can homosexuality be a sin if their lord and savior is himself a player of the pink oboe?

You are wrong.  It just makes you look like a retard.

I hope I don't sound like a tard....

I downloaded the patch from MTS (I don't have any mods) to my flash drive (since currently I don't have Internet access at home), copied it to my computer...and the stupid thing told me "file missing" or some BS like that.

Really irks me.  Especially since I walk to the library whenever possible since my power steering system has a leak.  (Cue the violin.)

For the record I have all EPs *except* Ambitions, World Adventures, and Island Paradise, and the only SP I have is 70s, 80s, and 90s.

That's my whine for today, I'd like some cheese with it, please....

If you provide the actual error message it will be easier to get help.

It was probably just a bad download, re-download it the next time you're out and about. Or maybe a bad transfer, try recopying it to your PC.

It says Update Error: File not found.  Posting from my phone.  I'm going to wait until my 12 gets home from school, then we can go to the library and I can redownload.