I was thinking it would be vampires who had recently eaten who would be less harmed by the sun, but of course I have done no testing on this yet.  For some reason, actually playing a vampire hasn't really compelled my interest yet.

Try NRaas Overwatch "recover missing sims"?  http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=0ca2ac9393ecf18b8eaa974098095c4e&topic=4685.0

Riiiight.

Actually, we managed to fix it, but we're still not sure what we did to break it.  We fixed it by deleting and replacing the guitar, bass, and drums and now they are un-stealable.  Thanks anyway.  By the way, this one is my favourite of the bars you've made and posted here; my sims go here all the time for happy hour and to jam together.

The thing I find annoying about food is that a sim could live forever on nothing but lettuce and suffer no ill effects, while a human being who tired that would quickly become severly malnourished.  We need variety in our diets, and more importantly protein.  I have no idea how one would implement something like that into the game, but the current system seems irritatingly easy.

On the subject of energy, I miss the espresso from ts2.  In ts3, there is no way to recharge energy other than sleeping.  Coffee is worse than useless due to the abismally short duration of the moodlet and the "buzz crashed" that follows.  The best I've seen so far is the mixed drink in LN that gives the "Wide Awake" moodlet, because at least that's a 5 hour moodlet so it's a bit more worthwhile.  And WA's Meditative Trance Sleep only speeds up energy gain and does nothing about the rate that energy is lost again once they're awake again.

My husband and I have been building a custom bar, and we ran into a strange problem.  Whenever a sim finnishes playing an intrament that we had placed when building the bar, they steal it!  I mean, they grab it and put it in thier inventory.  We're wondering what we're doing wrong that has made this possible, and I figured I'd ask here since the intraments in The Llama Lounge don't have this problem.  We must have done something Jesslla didn't, or not done something she did.

It doesn't seem to work for Mixology yet.  My sim had one point in Mixology and access to a professional bar in his home as well as mixology books at the library, but the option for skilling Mixology did not show up in SC.

That's because sims actually ride inside the bicycles.  I know it looks like they're out in the air and the sun, but they're not.  I noticed this in base game when sims who love the outdoors don't get their "one with nature" moodlet while riding a bike and sims who hate the outdoors don't get "plagued by nature" while riding a bike either.  I imagine it would be possible to fix this, though, since the game already must see a difference between vehicles and bicycles so that Eco-Friedly sims can be aware that they're saving the environment or wasting natural resources.

They are obviously not avaialbe here, so why ask here?

I'm pretty sure it's a completely differnt mesh from the regular juice box.  The regular juice box is round, as seen here (with a custom texture): http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=364110 while the vamp juice box is much more "box" shaped with all rectangular sides.

One change that would immensely improve vampires imo would be to change the word "plasma" to "blood" in all vampire related instances.  The only place I know of where this would look stupid is "blood juice box" but then again "plasma juice box" already looks pretty stupid.

As far as the juice boxes go, they'd be better if they gave some sort of negative moodlet similar to "tastes like fridge" or the WA one from eating low quality dried food.  In fact, you could just use "tastes like fridge"; that'd work for me.  Of course, I find the entire idea of free food from the fridge to be offensive, regardless of the type of sim who's eating it.

Of course some sort of unfriendly drink is a must.  Why the heck else do all non-vampires feel "hunted" around unfriendly vamps?

Of course I could be!    Anyone who's been on the internet for any length of time should know that human stupidity knows no bounds.

I was fully aware that I was using a sentance fragment.  As to my spelling, I do apoligise; I have always been a terrible speller.

I have donated $20.  Been benifiting from the site since TS2.

Yes, they at least did something.  Not usually what you wanted them to do, but something; in fact, I had to get into the habbit of putting most of my house's furnishings into sims inventories before the nanny showed up or she'd spend her whole shift playing with the stand-up base or the DJ booth.  I really only remember one case of brutal child-neglect by a nanny and that was in a house with twins, so maybe two babies was just too much for her poor little mind (she took care of one baby then spent the rest of the shift watching TV while the 2nd baby screamed it's head off while lying on the floor in a poopy diaper.

In TS3, the Babysitters don't do bugger all.  The most I have ever seen one do is maker herself a drink at the bar.  Usually, they just stand around in the same bloody spot compaining about the stink and they baby crying.  The only way I use babysitters now is by cheating to add them to my household and forcoing them to work (thanks to Twallian's career mod I can enroll them in homeschooling so they never ever have to leave the lot).

I think I've also seen the "first kiss" one disappear before it should, but I might be wrong on that one.  "First Love" always disappears before it should.  Stupid thing.

A feature in Twallian's Super computer allows you to see lists of all the sims in the hood who are of a given age.  I don't remember exactly what the path is from "Master Controller" but in the end you can get a nice list of everyone who is Adults, or eveyone who is YA.  Oh, and you can also click on the target sim and choose "Master Controller->Staus->Personal" and it lists a bunch of info about the target sim (I think it lists age since that would make sense).  You can also vew "Master controller->Status->Relatinship" to see how many sims they know and if they've been flirting with other sims.  You can also view thier family tree under the "Basic" menu.

Of course you are right, Dragon Slave.  I'm pretty sure (based on his posts here) that Buzzer isn't interested in accepting donations at present.  I guess as far as kmonica's post and my reply goes, I was thinking more along the lines of sites that have "donation" content that you can only get if you give them a "donation".

kmonica, charing for Sims 3 custom conent is actually against the EULA.  See here: http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/

I've decrapified everything (files, saves, sims, lots, etc) and the issue I'm still having is the store stuff stiill refusing to install.  It claims to install but even in the laucher it doens't show as installed (it just gives the "success" message, but it doesn't show up in "installed conetent or have that icon that meas it's already installed on the tab where you instal stuff).

I know I've accedentally decrapified the same files more than once several times.  Btwn my husband and me, we may even have recompressorized the same files more than once.  I'm thinking this might be part of the problem, as in ts2 anyway it was a bad thing to recompressorize files more than once.  So I'm thinking what I'll try next is downloaing fresh untampered with files and starting from scratch.

The recompressorizor we're using that we downloaded from this site appears to work in a drag and drop method.  I understand there is a DOS way to use it as well, but I'll leave that to my husband as I have never really used DOS myself (just for a bit in grade 8 and 9 and after that it was widows).  I don't know which method is "better," but Pes said in the thread where we downloaded it that the drag and drop method was there for the TARDS which I guess includes me.

This time I want to do it right so it actaully works.  Is it recomened to decrapifiy all sims3.pac files before even attempting to install them?  Or should I try installing first to see if it needs to be decrapified?  I gather from this thead that it is a good idea to disconnect from the internet before attempting to install sims3.pac files.  So then once I disconnect from the internet and attempt to install my files, I need to recompressorize any decrapified files that still won't install.  Do I use a new unmodified version of the sims3.pac and recompressorize that, or do I recompressorize the file that has already been decrapified?  Once a file has been recompressorized, if it still won't install, what is the recomended procedure at that point?

So if you just nuke the mailbox and don't replace it (or stick it in some inaccessable location as on Zazazu's lot), the mailcarrier and paper carrier will no longer come to the lot.  Does that have any actual negative effects?  Such as the repo man comming because I dind't pay bills I never got?

I think I'm going to have to try this.

See, now these are exactly the type of things that need to be in a "for dummies" guide!  I knew we must have been missing someting.  Thanks, btw.

This only happens with feral sims, right?  Not the civilized varity that live in houses.  Like if ASM got Claire Ursine married, her husband wouldn't murder her newborn baby, would he?

We actually tried that on Riverview and all the store stuff, but it still woulnd't install.  It would do the whole "success done!" thing, but it would not actally be installed.

I definately need a "for dummies" guide, at least for the Sims3.pac files.  Absolutely none of my EA store stuff will install since that stupid patch, including Riverview and quite a lot of CC is also refusing to install.  Some of the CC installs once I decrapify it, some still doesn't.  And decrapify doesn't seem to help at all with the store stuff.  My husband and I spent hours searching and trying to figure out how to make it work, and in the end I was so tired and frustrated I decided I could wait and just play the game as it is for now.  But I really do miss Riverview especally and some of the store stuff that I used to use all the time.  Saying "just install it properly" doesn't really help when I can't seem to figure out what "properly" is.