Tried that, to no avail. The same 'processing' continues on returning to the game.

So I have an interesting thing happening in one of my saved games. Every time I enter buy or build mode, even if I don't do anything at all, the game freezes when I try to return to live mode. The little circular 'computer is processing' animation happens with the mouse, but it will sit there happily for hours. Toggling between buy and build mode is fine. Toggling back to live mode is not fine. The game will respond only to a forced shut-down from the task manager. It is possible to build and buy things, but not to go back to live mode.

Tested with no mods or custom content in-game. Another saved game still allows me to exit buy/build with no trouble. No family in the first saved game, not even newly-created Sims plopped on a lot, can exit buy/build. If the save's completely borked, so be it, but if anyone knows why then I'd love to find out what the hell just happened.

The only mention of something like this I saw on my crawl through the boards in search of help involved the question mark walls, but there are no walls on my Sim's lot and I was not attempting to place or wallpaper walls when the freeze occurred, and have mostly not attempted to buy or place anything in testing since.

Thank you very much, I was under the impressions Sims 3 was just like the last few Sims 2 EPs...this is a relief.

So it turns out my brother bought Sims 3 for my niece and is planning to install it. If I provide him with a crack, is he going to be able to avoid the horror of SecuROM, or am I going to have to remove the damn malware from his computer? I are confused about when exactly it's activated. Halp?

Thank you! Looking in completely the wrong place, go me.

If I may ask...those sound shiny. Where did you get them? 

While it's obviously not going to be everyone's cup of tea, I think if such a mod is indeed possible (and was created), there'd be a fair few Simmers who'd love it. I know I would... 

It did work at one point, I'm reasonably sure...I could swear it was an acceptable adult-to-child interaction, as well as adult-to-adult.

Not as bad as some on here, but for sheer rarity value, I quite like this one. Boy kiddie hookers? That's...different.



Full outfit:


He and his sibling (in 'bondage pants') come from here on MTS2.

No, I checked:

'On the other hand, you may ask them to join you in activities or use influence (or as I like to call it - mind control) to get them to do things. However, there is a bonus if you never use influence.'

Hurrah! Yummy Channel is go.

I've tried this challenge twice. The first time, my sane Sim had a career-related LTW. It took twenty-one days for the sane Sim's desired job to come up in the paper. Surprisingly, the mad Sims were doing incredibly well - only a few breakdowns, no deaths, no fires. It was boring and I gave up.

Second time, made a house full of characters from my favourite novel and tweaked the rules a little so that rather than randomizing personalities, they got the ones that suited the character. That was a lot more fun. And also extremely creepy because one Sim, Elphaba, developed an obsession with her novel boyfriend, Fiyero, and began following him around unprompted. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep, wouldn't do anything except follow and stare at the poor man. Which, in the end, was making me laugh so hard I couldn't play, and that one died a horrible death too!

Tip for anyone considering it: The Yummy Channel + 'invite (Sim) to join' is your friend. They'll happily watch for some hours, and there will be skill points and less fires.

Thanks DrBeast and Theo.

Theo, it's almost exactly like that, except removing the downloaded hair does nothing. No hairs appear. I'm thinking it's just this Sim that's messed up - can hair be changed in SimPE, or something? She can be used in CAS without any issues, and the hair will change there, but...it needs to change for the package in Bodyshop.

Changing the age didn't help; she became bald and the hair couldn't be changed. Changing the gender didn't help either.

Hi all,

Got a problem with Bodyshop. I have a Sim I've been tweaking to make into the likeness of an character, and it was all going beautifully until just recently. I changed the Sim's hair from one custom hair to another, and the next time I opened Body Shop her hair could not be changed.

What happens is that in the hair area, no hair shows up at all. The colour choice does (black, blond, etc etc), but if I click on any of the choices, it simply lights up as though it were showing the hair. Clicking more than one choice means both buttons light up simultaneously.

Like this, for example.

-All other Sims in Bodyshop responded normally to having any genetics, including hair, changed
-Both custom hairs have worked perfectly prior to this incident
-Deleted the cigen.package, which was huge, in hopes of fixing it. No dice.
-I've tried yanking my downloads folder before loading Bodyshop. Did nothing.

Problem!
Is there any way I can make it change my poor Sim's hair? I would just do it in Bodyshop, but she's meant to be getting packaged up for other people's enjoyment too.

Any thoughts would be very much appreciated as I am becoming convinced this thing is trying to make me toss the computer out the window.

Edited for hot picture action! Cookie if you can guess the character.

I'm pretty sure that just means your ghost was a Family Sim.

Reggikko, I thought one of the rules was that uni grads had to take their diploma? At least, if we're thinking of the same challenge...

Swiftgold, if you don't want to take the mod out altogether, there's a workaround I've found: the hot tub. If you can convince the Sims to develop a crush on each other, they stop rejecting flirts, but obviously you can't get them to develop a crush without flirting. But it seems like the mod ignores the hot tub, for some reason; it's possible to get them to cuddle and kiss, and then the little pink hearts appear, and bam.

My game is often very weird, but that seems to work. Maybe it'll work for you too? 

Chee-Z - the robots are sneaky. Make sure you're trying to grab the base rather than the robot itself. Don't use moveobjects on it, or you will have a fubared robot.

From personal experience: Maybe twice, if the shop is busy and two people are trying to simultaneously serve customers, and the cash drawer is situated just below the bench on which the non-using-cash-register-person is trying to wrap a customer's purchase. And there is no warning.

Were you able to put it on the ground without using moveobjects? I managed to kill two robots by moving them and their bases separately. It seems that the hand's 'grabbing' is weird with robots and you have to aim at the base rather than the robot itself. But if you did all that already, I'm out of ideas...

A boy can hope, though... Even though hoping doesn't change anything.

There's only one CD, MissDoh. My machine's new so I can't help with how it's running on older PCs...

Welcome back Motoki!

To my great delight, the kitten killer appears to be present and correct. Woohoo! It doesn't like some of JM's hacks, but since they're on the 'dirty' hack list my next step is gonna be removing all of the 'dirty' ones and seeing whether lots start hanging again. And whether the loss of some of the Awesomeness is going to make me go on a killing spree (Veronaville's my testing grounds, I'll be quite happy if it blows up).

Edit: Spoke too soon. Spoke muuuuuuuch too soon. Lots are not hanging, but Sims are frozen and nothing can be selected. Damn it!

It's starting to drive me insane, although I'm not sure if that's just because the Sims are acting stupid now I don't have any hacks making them behave. Step away from the baby, sir! Do not feed the baby! There are customers queueing and they are ANGRY NOW. Agh!

It arrived in EB Games in Australia this morning. Something in my hacks folder definitely hates it, now it's a matter of working out what exactly that is...

For those of you who have it: whaddaya think? The new clothes and hairstyles amused me, one in particular...the 'opening a business' bit is driving me insane, though. Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way.

No, LFox, just the teleporter painting I've been using to send people back where they came from.