Try these:

Castle Interior

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?krgxinzlwj4

Ultra Lounge Youth

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qwfymyjywjq

They've already been run through the s3rc and I've successfully installed them in my game via the launcher.

Gastfyr: I am curious how many sims you have in your neighborhood including homeless. I tend to notice the more sims I have in the neighborhood the more I tend to start seeing such behavior. I would bet that if you started a new clean neighborhood everyone would be fine.

destroying all homeless might help. If it doesn't you could try destroy all npcs and then it should just generate more as needed (imo the game generates way too many of them to start off with). If that still doesn't work it might be BFBVFS territory for your hood.

Uh, men don't get pregnant in the base game. Also toddlers and children, in theory, should not be doing things they don't have animations for in the base unmodded game.

I will happily blame EA for many things, but having things not work right when people mod the game to do things it was never supposed to do in the first place is not one of them.

Is this AM forcing the issue for the sake of realism though or default game behavior? I've never noticed such things on the default EAxis story mode, they just sort of go and I never see them actually walk in.

Seconded.

What version info is it giving? Where are you getting the patch from, the launcher/EA updater or direct download? If the latter, which link/file are you using? If you run the launcher, what version of the game does it say you have in the lower left corner?

Ah yes, the infamous jump bug. Wasn't that ultimately tied to the memories and once your sims started accumulating too many it ended up in a BFBVFS?

No wonder they ditched the memories feature.

Updated my earlier post. The whole pack including all 4 sets and the 5 stand alone clothing items all compressorized is up at a couple more (public) torrent sites now:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5045881
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2828853

Be absolutely certain you updated. That behavior is symptom of running an old version of the game with the current version of awesomemod.

Look at the images above and check your TS3.exe in the C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin directory and be sure the properties on it match those in the picture. If you aren't showing File Version 0.2.0.18, DEBUG version 2009-07-23-1859 (by codebuilder on SIMS-BUILD124) then your patch did not take and you need to patch again and make sure it goes through this time.

I like my childish sims. They sleep with their teddy bears every night and get a bonus good mood from it. I will have to add you in as one of them. 

Meh, the store crap.

I know there's some back end ways you can avoid it using the JFade tool or some such to extract them to package, but it's too many hoops for me to jump through.

And actually, I will confess though I don't at all care for the launcher itself, I prefer the way it installs custom content because they are clearly noted as such and I can view and delete them in the CAS or buy/build mode.

The Delphy method of installing custom content frequently leaves me going. Wait, did that come with that game or did I download that somewhere?

Ugh, my sim will be Porky Piggin' it through everyone's hoods now. Yikes.  

I noticed those damned patterns didn't take, same for the nanny ones when I did a reinstall. It's silly because they're just recolors of EAxis defaults anyway. Maybe it was because I tried to extract them to a package instead of the dreaded sims3pack and the game didn't like that.

Ah well.

Yep that's all I did so either something the neighborhood workshop does when it saves or else something particular to my configuration vs hers fixed it. *shrug* To be honest I have no clue how it worked I just had a hunch it might.

This game is screwy sometimes.

No don't use that one from your system folder. I have no idea what version it is. Get the version from Pesacdo's framework here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15184.0.html

Note that Delphy's Monkey Installer was supposed to automatically install the right version of that file and put it in the game directory so something must have gone wrong.

Ah good. I'm glad it worked for you. I figured if I could load it and get it to work then resave it might salvage it for you too or at least it was worth a shot and it worked. 

Oh good news! If you get a chance can you explain how you did it? I'd rather not have to include a whole string table just to change the name of one radio station. 

If you think that is bad I switched away from my main house for a bit and when I came back the one sim had dropped her kid and named it Kermit.

Well, he's a toddler now and does do a lot of flailing.

On a semirelated not to modding the names, it's not possible to replace some of the default string table values without replacing all of them is it?

I ask because I have tweaked a couple of things like changed the name of the "custom" radio station and changed the babysitter to nanny to match the elder babysitter mod I am running, but when I tried to yank out just those values and put a string table in with them I lose all my other strings. I guess it's an all or nothing situation.

Sounds like Peggyitis. And she doesn't mod for elders so her hairs will just appear as a bald black cap on them.

Just like the good old days.

Do you have:

d3dx9_31.dll in this directory C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

resource.cfg in this directory C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3

A mods\packages\hacks bla bla folder also in this directoryC:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3

The latest version of awesome mod in either C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\mods\packages or C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\mods\packages\hacks

The 1.34 patch installed. (Don't assume, check your version see here

Okay get Delphy's Installer Monkey tool from Mod The Sims http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=344611 and install it. It will set up your game to use mods.

Get Pescado's 3booter tool or just keep trying to reload if it crashes on the load screen. It's a known issue, as he pointed out on that page. Eventually it will load. You just have to keep trying.

IF you installed the installer monkey program and it set up your game to use mods (ie you have a resource.cfg, mods directory, d3dx9_31.dll in the game directory and IF you have been continually reloading the game like 20 times or more and it always crashes and never loads, then come back and we'll talk.

Torrent of all 4 sets already compressorized is up: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/2023845/

And yeah I know Demonoid is private, but my logins at at couple of the others site are giving me issues. If someone wants to put the torrent up elsewhere please do.

EDIT: Okay it's up now at other torrent sites that are public:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5045881
http://www.mininova.org/tor/2828853

We would. :p


Yes, it could be added.


Or you could just, you know, add a config option to turn the crib check off. 

Anyway, doesn't going to all their houses force them into high detail mode? Or are all the townies in ASM running in high detail anyway? I know it forces them to roll wants they didn't previously have and then save and track them all.

I am glad it runs!   I'm just worried everyone is going to grow old and die and not have enough damned kids to keep the hood going.  

The wolfrun thing is really more for testing the long term viability of a story mode driver than for actually playing it, so I think right now it would be useful. Later on down the line probably not as much. So far what I found is this:

No Bills is one of the Cyberops mods http://www.customsims3.com/forum1/YaBB.pl?num=1247107086

If you shift click on the mailbox you can select make needs static (for just that house)

Veezee has an xml hack to stop opportunities and phone calls (not sure if it's even needed for a sim with no job that doesn't know anyone) http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15908.0.html

The one thing I couldn't find was a way to turn off aging just for an individual sim or household. You can turn it off in the options of course, but that turns it off for the whole town so it's all or nothing.

Indie must have finagled something so that any sim with the last name "Wolfrun" wouldn't age, but everyone else would, but I'm not sure what they did. Their source is public domain now though.

Anyway I'm turred and off to bed, was hoping to set something up and let the game run ASM all night and see what happens but I'll do it another day. I'll poke into chat tomorrow.

You know, what you say makes a lot of sense in theory, but in practice here is my experience with top down vs bottom up:

Top down:

Pros: Stuff gets done. Neighborhood will run on its own mostly.
Cons: Things sometimes appear to not make sense or have a good reason. Sometimes too much gets done.

Bottom up:

Pros: Everything that happens makes sense and has a reason. You can watch some of the events happen.
Cons: Because of all the rules not much happens. Progression is slow. Neighborhood may require some maintenance and editing.

At the end of the day, if nothing else at least with top down stuff gets done.

I need to try and figure out a way to do a wolfrun on the fastest speed with ASM and see what happens long term.

Hmm, got to think about this. I know there's a no bill mod. And there's ways to keep an individual sim/selected household with again off and static motives while the rest of the town functions as normal, right?