You do realize that you can just cancel the opportunity, and thus you don't have to accept it, right?

The thing that annoys me most about this scenario is that the game implies, upon your sim having invited all of the guests, that your sim needs to have a lavish setup in order for said guests to enjoy themselves. Nuh uh! If the guests bring their own food, why even bother having your sims serve food or buy a buffet table? The whole setup is retarded. Retarded, I tells ya!

You have to configure the AwesomeMod in order for all of the features to work. To enable certain console commands, you need to enable debugging. There's a configuration tool available on the same page where you downloaded the AM. Just click the link, enable/disable options as you see fit, and then click the big green tyrannosaurus to save the aweconfig file to your computer.

As long as your playable sim knew the dead sim when s/he was alive, your sim can click the mausoleum and do the "manage the dead" interaction. AFAIK, you don't have to have the urn in inventory or on your playable lot.

The ghost pen is genius! I'll have to try that.

I've learned a way around the expensive foundations. You can actually use the design tool on them, rather than putting a wall texture on them, and it doesn't cost anything. Just pick a texture (masonry, stone, wood, etc) and customize from there. It's not ideal, but it works.

Are you using AwesoemMod? If so, then this is likely to be a feature, not a bug, if you have the RequireValidBosses option enabled.

You can have your sims sell their novels to the bookstore, and then the bookstore will sell them, but your sims lose their original copies, in the process, and would have to buy new ones, if you want them to have their own books.

Edit to remove unnecessary word.

Assuming that only a clone of your sim is homeless, I don't see why the destroyalltownies command wouldn't only delete the clone, since the non-clone is obviously not homeless.

I had my magic gnome inside of a fenced garden, and he stopped moving after a few days. It was a small garden. Maybe he needed more space to roam about in.

The only thing that bothers me about the moodlets and having only six bars is that comfort is no longer a factor, when it comes to furniture selection. Depending on where I place a bookcase, the sims will choose a cheap and uncomfortable-looking patio/dining chair over a comfy sofa, which is illogical. At least in TS2, furniture had a comfort rating, and sims would choose the most comfortable item over what happened to be nearest the bookcase. I just make sure that I place bookcases close to the better furniture, but it's silly that I have to do that in the first place.

AFAIK, NPCs are maids, mailpeople, newpaper deliverers, repairpeople, repomen, and the like. I also recall reading that the game will create them to use as coworkers for your playable sims. NPCs are not the same as townies AFAICT. I used the console command "destroyalltownies" with debugging enabled, and the NPCs still showed up under "listhomeless."

Edit: ninja'd!

Installing/uninstalling the enablescripterror.package file sometimes helps. I had the non-loading problem, plopped it into the Mods/Packages file, and my game loaded fine. Next version of AwesomeMod, I had to take it out, because my game wouldn't load with it in. I'm not the only one who has reported this phenomenon, but it could also just be voodoo.

I use Firefox, and experience occasional page load errors, but they're rare, except when there's a memorial service for Michael Jackson, and everyone and their dog feels the need to tweet about it.

Doc, that makes sense. I had recently used the runstoryaction command when I got the red square in my game. I destroyed the 'hood, and started over, this time using destroyalltownies instead of placing the homeless in houses, and have had no problems with red squares.

Not in my game, it doesn't. I had my sim name her gnome right away, and it still moved periodically, though it did stop after about a week, sim time, and then I sold the bugger.

I've got one sim in a household of five that constantly hears music. None of the others have the stuck moodlet.

Alas, I can't seem to place a household on an empty lot. I have to go put a bush on it, or something, so that the game sees it as being habitable. Stupid EA.

Actually, it was the first sign of my game becoming a BFBVFS. The apocalypse is nigh.


That's what I did. I stated clearly in a prior post to the one you quoted that Zazazu's instructions worked just fine. It's using the familyFunds cheat on a newly created household from the neighborhood that I can't get to work. My syntax is correct. For some reason that I have yet to figure out, I can only use familyFunds from inside a lot, but not in neighborhood view.

Edit to fix typo.

Actually, I did, but I obviously missed that part. Mea culpa.

Who the fuck are you, and why are you telling me what to do? I take pity on them sometimes. It's my prerogative to do so.

Edit: Apparently, the person I was responding to with this has been banned, or something, and this post now makes no sense. Wheeeeeeeee!

My PC is high end, with a very powerful (and expensive) graphics card. The case is practically a giant fan, plus the graphics card has its own fan and heat sink, so I'm probably not in any danger of burning out my graphics card but, I figured, why take any chances? I've been loading the game from the TS3.exe. I think I'll just stick with that.

I've never gotten it to work in my game. Testing cheats and debugging are both enabled. This makes no sense.

My 3booter isn't even working, now that I've installed the FPS_Limiter. I moved all the needed files to the root directory, installed FPS_Limiter, and created a new shortcut for 3booter that points to the new location, but nothing works. I give up.

Zazazu's instructions worked perfectly for placing homeless bums, but familyFunds still doesn't work from neighborhood view with newly created households. In order to actually use the cheat for a new fambly, I have to briefly play an existing fambly, and THEN use familyFunds to give money to the new fambly. This is very cumbersome. Can it be changed, so that the cheat works from the neighborhood, like it did in TS2?

Are you talking about patterns and walls, and stuff like that? I'm not sure if it even has anything to do with AwesomeMod. I do know that these things (patterns, etc) contribute, in some way, to the size of your saved neighborhoods. The bigger the neighborhood, the more things start to go haywire, apparently. I think there's a way to delete them out-of-game, but I'm not sure how. Maybe someone more awesome than I can provide this information. I recall seeing a similar question in another thread, but I don't remember which thread, or if a solution was given. That's why it's a good idea to read all of the threads in both the AwesomeMod section and The Horror!The Horror! section. I know it's tedious to read all those threads, when you're trying to find out about a single issue, but really it's the best way. You learn lots of things!

ETA: It just occurred to me that, if a pattern is in use somewhere in your game, you may have to change whatever is using the pattern to something you don't intend to delete, and THEN delete the pattern.

If you're talking about Store items, you have to use the Launcher to uninstall them.