Morningstar fudz is yummy, and so is tofu if you cook it right. No, I'm not a vegetarian. I just like variety.

I think familyFunds only works if the household is already on a lot, which sort of defeats the purpose of using it, in the first place. Can anyone confirm if this is still true, or not?

I was able to restore my borked 'hood by uninstalling and reinstalling the game, but not choosing the option to delete saved games, saved content, etc. It worked for me, but may not work for you. Use this solution at your own risk.

*sigh* It's been a running joke at MATY since Apartment Life came out. In this instance, it really has nothing to do with wicca. I was trying to make a funny.

I do that, too. It's a trick I learned in TS2. The alarm goes off as soon as the burglar sets foot on the property.

Drakron, different places have different laws. It seems logical that garbage bins set out on the street would cease to be a person's property (they're throwing the stuff out, after all), but not all places will have the same laws. For example, some places outlaw dumpster diving while others don't. You really can't assume, just because the law in one area states that garbage is public property, that it will be that way everywhere. Different states in the US, and even different cities, all have their own separate laws about these sorts of things.

Edit to remove an extra "that."

Some of these exist under Decorations/Misc.

ETA: I want real pajamas for female sims. I hate that the only available sleepwear consists of either dresses or t-shirts and undies. It's sexist and offensive to wiccans.

When you type in "runstoryaction Move In Household" do you also have to type the household name?

Attention People having trouble with editSim: Do you have testing cheats and debugging commands enabled for AwesomeMod? If not, this probably has something to do with your inability to successfully use editSim.

Attention New People: Many of your questions and concerns have already been addressed in this thread, and in other threads, as well. If you read through the threads in this section, you will find the answers you need.

All I want from OFB is lockable doors. If only I could have them, my life would be complete.

I can haz raeg nao: Having to use a giant fucking garage door just to keep something from being used autonomously, or to prevent babies from being stolen, seems rather like overkill to me. Regular doors that can be locked are a much better solution. Too bad the geniuses who designed the game neglected to include them, when it would probably have been really easy to do so. I'm not going to put things that my sims actually need to use on occasion in a garage, that *I* have to open and close manually. That's just silly.

I understand that Zucabr and tngrspacecadet were, most likely, being facetious, here, but this has been suggested as an actual workaround in another thread. WTF?

Some of the Gorton's things are good, believe it or not. They'll never be as good as fresh fish, of course, but they aren't bad, IMO.

I think that "better" is a relative term. I've always preferred skins that don't have any painted-on shading or highlights, because the in-game lighting provides those things, for the most part, and the end result is overkill that ends up looking like stage makeup, IMO. To each his own, I guess. It's cool that you're figuring out how to edit the skin files, though. I'm always in favor of moar CC.

Ah, that makes sense. I had DLed to a different directory by mistake, and only moved the FPS_Limiter.exe file to the correct directory. Why, no, I'm *not* always the sharpest pencil in the box. Why do you ask?

I tried to install FPS_Limiter, and Windoze wouldn't let me. It gave me a warning about needing something called Hookhelper and then refused to install the program. I have no idea what Hookhelper even is. I'm new to Vista, and the learning curve has been very steep compared to XP. I've been running the game from the TS3.exe file, but would prefer to use 3booter. Both 3booter and FPS_limiter are installed to the root The Sims 3 directory under Program Files, not the bin. Plz halp, kthxbai.

It's a smaller neighborhood than Sunset Valley is. I've read in other threads, and at other forums, that the size of your neighborhood affects the ability to save properly. It appears that size really does matter.

Did you recently install any default replacements, such as skins or eyes? That's the only think I can think of that might cause a problem like this, but I have no idea how to fix it.

Me too. They actually make it *harder* to place things, as opposed to just eyeballing it.

None of my sims have had the Insane trait (yet), but the elder sims do seem to get some bizarre wishes. It wouldn't surprise me if this "senility" was just EA's idea of humor.

I've seen this option, and even tried to implement it; however, I've never gotten it to actually work. I think this mostly has to do with the "you're blocking my path and I have to stand here with my hand on my hip for five minutes until you GTFO of my way" issue. So, I just have them relax on the bed after all the standing-up foreplay. Tedious.

Not to mention that it would help you earn moar charisma skill points.

I get some of these nonsensical wishes, too. I chalk it up to laziness on EA's part. Stupid EA.

Save your custom color so that it will show up in the correct category (wood, metal, etc.), then apply it to the alternate counter that pbox suggested using, and it will match your custom-colored overachieving counters.

I've found that I have to delete old files before replacing them using the monkeytool. The new files won't overwrite the outdated ones, but I think this is due more to Vista being retarded than it is to anything else.

Edit for clarity and an extra space that didn't need to be there.

I forgot to add to my first post that I like the voice sliders. It helps give the illusion that sims are actually unique.

ETA: I just discovered that you can attach a ground level garage to a house on a foundation by using stairs. This, alone, makes TS3 superior to TS2, IMO.