I do have the notifications enabled. I see lots of antagonizing and befriending, some new jobs, and some new babies, but no promotions, demotions, firings, or moves. It's a new town, though. This will probably change over time.

Being the paranoid person that I am, every time I go to Edit Town in order to save whatever lot I've been working on, I also save a copy of the unfinished lot to the Library (just in case). When I'm completely finished with the house, and all is satisfactory to me, I delete the earlier builds. This method has saved me a lot of work after game crashes that interrupted my building process.

Edited, because I knew I had a point in there somewhere. My point is that, perhaps it's a good idea to start saving lots, especially the finished ones, to the Library before moving in a family.

Story Mode has been working pretty well for me, with Awesomemod as my One core mod, but I started with a new town using an empty template, so maybe that has something to do with it. After the initial setup, I moved some of the premade sims from the Library into houses, as well as a few custom families. Some of the Library families already had children, or were pregnant already, but they've also been regularly popping out babbys. Some of the families never spawn, but the ones that do seem to make up for this, having 4 or 5 kids apiece. I've noticed a pattern with jobs. After I cheat the game-created sims into houses, one sim in each household gets a job after a few days to a week (sim time), but not immediately, and I've never seen more than one sim per household get a job.

When I first started playing the neighborhood, Story Progression was creating a new family per night, some small, some OMGsixchildren!!! Now, it's every second or third night. Many of those are singles or couples, and I cheat them into houses. Some of the original Library sims have turned elderly, in the meantime, and I expect to see death notices for them soon, but the majority of story progression notices that I get are befriendings, antagonizations, and jobs, with a few "new baby" notices mixed in. Not once have I seen a notification that a household has moved. It's possible that the sims just aren't far enough along in their careers to afford new houses (yet). My town doesn't seem to be stagnating, at all, and is keeping a good balance. I must admit, though, that I'm surprised to see procreation from some of the households. I created a roommate situation with a few of the MATY self-sims. Typpi now has a perpetually spawning harem.

You didn't need to delete the entire mod. Simply changing the configuration file would have sufficed.

Haha, in the American release of Trainspotting (the book), there was an entire glossary of terms that one had to learn in order to understand the Scottish slang and much of the brogue. I had no trouble understanding the dialog in the film, except for a few of Spud's lines.

That's an EA bug. Awesomemod addressed the age disparity in newly created CAS sims, but I don't know if it addresses the weird aging anomaly with pre-existing sims.

Edited to correct a plural that didn't need to be plural.

Carrigon has a mod that slows the rate of decay for all motives. Get it here.

It's supposed to be more efficient.

AFAIK, "spelt" is correct as a past participle, but only non-Americans seem to use it. Americans always use "spelled" whether it's past tense, or past participle.

I get annoyed by the "ding" whenever there's a popup window notifying me that my sim has found a collectible. When I'm using Supreme Commander to hunt for rocks, the dinging is constant. I have to mute the sound when my sim is auto-collecting. I, too, wish there was a way to turn off only this feature.

Games I was playing a decade ago had better AI than TS3.

*chaos hiss at EA

I just tried this, and it's broken for me, now, too. I suspect that the patch may have broken it. That, or my memory is phail. I could swear that it worked at one time, though.

I don't know of any mods for this, but if you enable the debugging commands in your game, you can simply drag up the motive sliders for each individual sim.

In my game, the first song that should be playing when you first turn the stereo on, or in build/buy mode, never plays, but after that song ends, and the next song begins, I can always hear the music from then on. I've given up on trying to figure it out.

I'd love to have a mod for better townie names. When my townies give birth, their children get some really goofy names, sometimes.

It doesn't matter which mirror you use. They all lead to Awesomemod.

You got me there.

@loopsydoo and others: In order to sell sim-written novels to the bookstore, they have to be in the sim's personal inventory. After a sim writes a novel, the novel gets delivered in the mail the next day. The sim can then take it from the mailbox and sell it to the bookstore, and then the bookstore can sell it. I haven't done this since installing AwesomeMod, so something may have changed, but I don't know why AM would alter it, so it should work.

Don't you know? It's just not "cool" to be smart, and commercial television caters to the masses, which are largely of the troglodyte variety. Not all Americans make these sorts of egregious errors. That privilege is reserved for the uneducated and the terminally stupid.

And that debugging needs to be enabled.

Sims don't have to be outdoorsy in order to learn gardening. There are books! And television!

Flash drive? Wireless network?  How do you get the AwesomeMod from one computer to the other? It'll work the same way.

You wrote that you couldn't "do something else" while running TS3; you didn't specifically state that you'd be away from the computer. Either way, it doesn't make much sense to me. Eh, to each his own.

Are you really so lazy that you can't click the X on a popup window? It's really not that hard.

Something's definitely changed with AwesomeMod, though. When I played the vanilla game, all careers except for the part-time ones had bosses. Now, not so much.