@chann: Even if you destroy all humans the game will start to generate at least some new ones. How many depends on which story mode you are using. With ASM and EA you'll get minimal ones but still get some, particularly when needed like coworkers and such, but also just some townies. With Indie stone new sims will be making a run for the border to your town like crazy.

And yet I continue to see a large number of extremely NON technically inclined people using it in spite of Rick explicitly telling them it is meant for debugging purposes only and not for the average end user.

Which just goes to show that if you put a shiny out there tards will use it even if they don't know what the hell it does or why they are using it. They will get it and use it just because. 'Oh someone posted something. Must download! Mmmmm brains'.

I have complained loudly and many, many times about the issue but he is stubborn.

However I still encourage others to complain about the cribnaziism.

I understand what Kyna is saying about allowing her to set up her neighborhood but the problem I have is that it forces me to do that and engage in Sim City style play which I don't particularly care to do. I don't want to mess with my neighborhood. That's why I wanted story mode in the first place. For it to deal with all that and just let me play my one family.

Which is really only an issue if you play multiple families for any significant length of time. Many of us don't. The game was also not designed to switch back and forth between multiple families so from EA's standpoint it was never really an issue either.


Why can't they be forced to spawn as single sims? They don't need to come with a family. They can find their own through story mode. Just doing that cuts down on a lot of superfluous sim spammage. I had one boss spawn once with 4 kids.

I think if there is no tombstone it would be hard to retrieve such a character.

You might be able to finagle something by playing around with the neighborhood workshop. Maybe there's an 'Is Dead?' flag or something you can switch off.

Even then I'm not sure where they'd end up. Probably they'd be assigned to lot zero which means homeless. Only they'd be off everyone's contact list so you'd probably have to cheat some sim to know everyone in order to call them over.

Of course this is all my hypothetical thought, I haven't tried such a thing mind you. I'm not even sure if Indie leaves a residue of that character in the save or completely shredderizes them, but I suspect the former so it's worth a look. If it's possible you'll have to jump through a bunch of hoops though unless someone else can think of an easier way.

Try moving them out via edit neighborhood, chose evict on their house then sell all furniture, then move them into a new place. I seem to recall it fixing the borked up inventory item preventing sims from doing certain actions that I had a while back.

If that doesn't work a more drastic solution is to go into neighborhood mode, copy that family (and the house if you want) to the library. Delete the family, place the copy of them in the library, then delete that library copy once you know for sure your family is placed and working correctly.

Doing the second option will delete ALL relationships those in the household have with anyone outside of it as well as yank anyone on the family tree who isn't in the household off. That's why it's preferable to just do the first option if you can get away with it.

If I recall correctly (and someone correct me if I am wrong here), sacred doesn't do squat with Indie Stone on but give a cute little halo. If you run Indie Stone then you must go in and select their household and set it to stasis, which is more or less the Indie equivalent of sacred.

Running Indie will supercede awesomemod for all story mode features. If you chose to run Indie Stone you must configure all story mode settings within Indie Stone (the cell phone). Awesomemod will not touch any story mode features while Indie is running.

Edit: Mire beat me to it. 

From C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe

You can create a shortcut to it on your desktop.

Also, while the launcher won't do squat but be slow and bloated, if you are really that worried you can block it in your firewall (one comes with Windows as of XP on) or just take the low tech route and unplug the modem when you run it.

You're paranoid. That crash is quirk of the game most of us have dealt with at some point or other when using mods. It's not EA intentionally doing anything. It's EA half assery.

Access Violation is Geekanese for oh shit something that shouldn't have happened happened. That's it. It's nothing to do with you.

Also, you do know that you don't have to run the game from the launcher, right?

You can:

Enable Awesome Story Mode (it's in the config)

Use the Indie Stone mod

Not use Awesomemod

Grab a cup of coffee when it hits 1am sim time.

Take your pick.

It only happens in Awesomemod with the default EA story mode running.

Nin do you know what mirror means? If something is 'mirrored' just think on that for a second and what the relationship between those two objects, or in this case files, would be.

That would be the worst marketing plan in history. Infect your paying customers while leaving those who leech off of you completely free and immune.

No you don't. The launcher will automatically update you to the latest patch from any version in one patch. There's direct links to those base game or 1.27 to 1.4 patches too. I don't feel like hunting them down again but they are in The incoming patch thread at The Horror The Horror and probably at MTS also.

Nope, just put them in the existing custom music folder and take out the mp3s that were there. Back them up someplace though in case some future patch or expansion complains about them not being there.

But no need to create a new folder, just use C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Custom Music\

Reserved

JAZZ


BIG BAND
Partially because I got lazy but mostly because I couldn't think of what other icon symbol to use I gave both Jazz and Big Band the sax icon pictured above

*****

And this last one is something I did for myself. I played sims in a island style beach house and the TS2 Surf channel was kind of Beach Boys-ish and not exactly what I wanted so I made a channel for Hawaiian slack guitar music called the Aloha Channel.

I found a pretty good torrent for instrumental Hawaiian music here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4972882/Hawaiian_Paradise_Record_One (again, not many seeds).

It's part of a collection from Reader's Digest in the 60s so it's a little loungy/kitschy, but it's decent and easy to listen to (in my opinion) while playing. All encoded in 320kbps so high quality. Of course it's again just a suggestion.

ALOHA


If anyone wants to use these icons to add completely new stations (that don't replace custom) or otherwise use them in any other way go right ahead. They are just icons and images I found on the net, though I did modify most in some way.

I may add more over time if I can decide on what sorts of icons and channels to add.

It's really easy to do yourself too, just open one of these packages in S3PE, change the string to whatever you want to call the station, replace the 54x54 icon and its smaller 24x24 version and you're done.

These files will convert the "Custom" music station to a new name complete with matching icon.

Note: ONLY USE ONE OF THESE FILES

I'm not sure how to add a new radio station so for now what these do is change the name and associated icon of the "Custom" music station. You then put whatever matching mp3s you want in the C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Custom Music directory.

Most of these are based on TS2 channels. If you don't already have the TS2 music mp3s you can get it here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4183399/The_Sims_2_Soundtrack (Note: Does not currently have many seeds)

Of course this is just a suggestion and you can always put whatever mp3s you want in the directory.

The files are attached to the bottom of the post. Just drop one of these in your mods/packages directory or one of its subdirectories. You can only use one at a time but you can change up and swap them out.

OLDIES


HIP HOP


WORLD


SURF

Or no god damned cribs at all!

Well when I complained to you in chat no one was breeding and the town was going to go extinct you said those features hadn't been implemented yet. And it's also been mentioned a number of times by multiple people that they weren't spawning, which you ignored, but whatever I'm just glad they are actually having kids now. Err, if they really are. I have to test it out.

Did the patch definitely say it went through or did it give some sort of error? It seems the problem some people are having is that they think they patched when in fact they have not or have not all the way. Your exe should definitely not be 11195 if you patched successfully, but I am not sure that just replacing the exe is good enough since the patch modifies other files as well.

What version of the game does the launcher say you have if you look in the lower left hand corner?

It's probably voodoo, but hell if it works who cares?

Just keep a backup copy of your original TS2.exe or any future patches or expansions will refuse to install.

Nothing. You wait. That feature hasn't been implemented yet. In the meantime you either manually make them do it or you can run Indie for a while then you will plenty of babies, trust me.

Some stuff to try:

Check the version in the launcher and/or on the ts3.exe. Make sure the patch really did take. In the launcher the version in the lower left corner should be listed as 1.3.24.00001, 1.3.24.00002, 1.4.6.00001 , or 1.4.6.00002. The TS3.exe version should read 0.2.0.18.

Take all other mods and custom content besides awesomemod out and see if it still happens.

Keep trying. How many times is every time? The standard crash on loading screen has been known to happen 5 or 6 times in a row for me, but if you're loading 20+ times and still no dice then definitely something is wrong.

Make sure you have the very latest version of awesomemod (updates that provide fixes but aren't a full new version are frequently posted without being announced)

Make sure your framework installed correctly when you reinstalled the game. Be sure you have d3dx9_31.dll in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin, a resource.cfg in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3. A mods\packages\hacks bla bla folder directoryC:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3. awesomemod.package in either C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\mods\packages or C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\mods\packages\hacks

Check here for more troubleshooting tips.

To me it is a big deal. It's forcing people to play in a manner which they don't want to play the game. I don't want to mess with the other houses. If someone wants to make a redux neighborhood with cribs (and while they're at it, just better houses in general) I will happily download it, but it's not something I want to be bothered with. He's modifying the game in way that really should have the neighborhood set up in a different way and I don't want to be the one to have to set it up.

If it means dingoes eat some of the damned babies so I don't have to be arsed with this crib nonsense then fine. Have it at dingoes. I support you. I just want the neighborhood to take care of itself while I play the one family and not have to run around playing Sim City mayor.

As we've said several times, awesomemod does not work with the unpatched game. Done. Period. End of story. Thank you drive thru.