I can relate to that. But even so, don't you sometimes get the urge to defend that very same side?

Well, that would be considerable, if I had money to waste, but no, I think I'd rather keep it for a better purpose.


Thanks!

Is there any way to get these three items separately from each other, not the "March2011" all-in-one?

I have a reason to believe that something in my game was broken with this patch... I have no EPs or SPs, only base game, and since I patched to 1.22 it is lagging terribly. Sims wait for a long time to start an action, then wait to realize it's completed... They also lose time (the clock skips a few sim-minutes once in a while). All this effects in them constantly being late to work/school and not having enough time to complete most of the stuff they used to in a day.

Things tried:
Overwatch - used before, using still, no effect.
Fixall - seemed to make it better for a while, but it's worse again and this isn't helping.
Master Controller "Reset Everything" - no effect.
Resetsim * - no effect.

Even lowering settings has no effect. And the game was running perfectly smoothly before the patch, nothing else is new in it.
I think it could be because of townie sims earning memories constantly, but it's only a guess.

Can there be anything done with it, so it doesn't automatically start the game after updating?

I am having a crash to desktop just a second after I click the icon to open the game, nothing even starts happening, it just crashes immediately. The weird thing is (it sounded completely impossible to me at first, but it's proven to be consistent) it starts when I have TS2 running. At first when it didn't load I just thought "ok, I'll play TS2 now and figure what's wrong later". Then after a while minimized TS2 and tried TS3 again. It loaded so I thought that crash was random. But when the next time I turned on my computer again and tried to run TS3, it crashed again! I tried a few times, then loaded TS2, minimized it, and TS3 loaded just fine. I have no idea how this could be connected as they are in different folders, but it obviously is connected somehow.
I have only TS3 base game, using Windows XP and I'm not sure it started to happen immediately after that or some time later, but it's after I have reinstalled windows.

Oh, so I'm not so lonely (unique?) in my ideas and attempts. I have also recently rebuilt Bob's and Betty's house in the Sims 3. I will upload a few pictures later today. Nice solution with the two-tile table, I actually put three one-tile tables, since there originally was a four-tile one. I also made Bob in TS3, but still working on Betty, her face is harder to make.

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So here are the pictures of my version:

After a long time of living with a "I hate TS3 mood" I decided to give it a try again, installed the newest awesomemod, killed all sims in riverview, moved in my own family and haven't switched to any other ever since. Now the first sim in the family died, he was at home at the moment of death, and the tombstone is nowhere to be found. It's not on the home lot, it's not in the cemetery. It's the first time I have a sim die in this game, so maybe I just don't know where to look?

Not sure if it fits under the "population out of balance", but I play with story progression on, aging on and "no one gets out alive", but families keep moving out until after two sim days of playing I'm left with 2-3 families, one of them being the one I'm playing and the other 1-2 the ones my sim happened to meet. So basically I'm left with an almost empty neighborhood and I said it in the buggedness thread but was ignored... Um, save files? I haven't saved actually. I just quit the game, triple-checked my config file, tried again and when it all happened once more I also didn't save. Off to try once more and save this time... Be back with a save file.

EDIT: Ok, false alarm here... I didn't think of deleting cache files and when I did it works properly now.

One of my sims fulfilled that when I was first playing the game. But I don't remember how... But I remember it was fulfilled for sure.

Am I the only one who thinks toddlers gain their skills faster than in TS2? And even the lifestage is longer, so they have more time! The only annoyance is that the bladder need bar doesn't really show the truthful info. One second it's still yellow and looks like I can wait a little more before clicking to potty-train the toddler (I like to wait as much as possible, so that it takes lesser amount of trainings in total) and just a second after it's already full with hygiene red.

But thanks for this one!

What if they happened to become romantic interests before the relationship hit the maximum?

BFF is a "best friend forever". I don't know how to get it though, the wish description says "find something in common" or something like that. I've had two teens, one of them (the one that had the wish of being a BFF with the other) discovered the other is also a snob, just like him. No BFF. Haven't tested this fully yet.

The Prima Guide (I know, I know, lies and propaganda...) says "Use the BFF social and stay above 60 in the relationship. This is a teen-only LTR." I have no idea what's a BFF social, never seen it.

Gender can be altered during the pregnancy. Not sure about appearance.
When having a baby from a ghost, the ghost or non-ghost (normal) baby is determined at birth. Tested and proven.

Forgive my blondness if I say something stupid now, but... you're running the pirated version, so the exe file with which you start the game is the one that doesn't ask for a cd (the one that's in the crack folder somewhere, or something like that). So you disabled the nocd since you don't need it. I'm running the original, not through the launcher but directly the TS3.exe, but since mine is the original install from the cd, I'm keeping the nocd in the awesomemod, because if I disable the nocd it will ask me for a cd?
So somehow the TS3.exe that comes with the pirated version works better with the mod?

Oh, sorry, I only understood what exactly you meant when I read your post for like a tenth time.
Your statement that you haven't found anything on this thread about NoCD distracted me in the wrong direction.
Well there are solutions here how to make the game not to crash, loading not from the launcher, so now I'm not sure I understand, what exactly your problem is?

From the awesome mod thread:

The pregnant Agnes Crumplebottom was not pregnant when naked. She was soon to give birth, but somehow took her baby off with the clothing when going to take a shower and put it back on with clothing after showering.

I would like opportunities to come up more often. Or at least some of them. Like the "make a playable ghost" one? It would be great not to wait a whole sim's lifetime to get that one.

Rebooting also doesn't always work. I find it more useful to remove the awesomemod, load the game (don't play, just let it load to and quit without loading any neighborhood), then install the awesomemod again and it works. To me this worked everytime, while other things seemed random. But it looks like it's different for everyone.

Edit - this seems to work too, perfectly, every time:

Ever heard of shift+delete?

Don't put anything in the recycle bin. Just delete it. REALLY delete it. I never use the recycle bin, what's the point? I actually don't even use the windows explorer, I prefer file manager. When it deletes, it actually deletes. End of story. Makes life easier.

You are lucky. Doesn't work.
The game worked fine yesterday. Today it crashes. I delete all the files that include "cache" in them. Works. I played. Had to quit. Deleted all the files that include "cache" in the name. Crash... Check - they didn't re-appear. Read this post. Reinstalled the awesomemod and the config file. Crash. Not working.

Not that I know for sure, but since the girlfriend/boyfriend is shown as a "partner" that other sims can learn if you have or not, I guess it would be logical that there was only one girlfriend/boyfriend available at a time. Not that I'd like that...

Well I didn't buy any previous Prima Guides, but like I said, since the game was free to me this time, I decided to try. I might regret that later, I don't deny the possibility.

And um... Go ahead and laugh at me, but I love lists. I mean I LOVE lists. I have a notebook with all TS2 careers, all 10 levels of each with workdays, work hours and payments written down. And stuff like that. And I have lots of lists from snooty sims printed or written down. And I like having it somewhere not on the internet when the site can be down or I just might not want to alt+tab or something else. You have no idea how much time I spent with the reloaded (aka free trial) version, going through ALL premade families and making a list on excel with the names, ages, traits and lifetime wishes of each sim. Guess what, I've seen on a free preview pdf that the Prima Guide book has that list. That fact alone makes me love that book. Means I won't have to print or write down that from my pc, I'll have the paper version of the list in the book.
(I wonder what trait could represent this weird thing about me, but I'm a Knowledge sim for sure.)

Edit: Oh and by the way, one of the dead guys in someone's family tree (maybe the gay guy? I don't remember... gonna have to check) had "Artistic" and "Can't Stand Art" traits, which are (are they?) impossible to have both.