Torrent delivery time is 8hrs 17 min from start of download. Should be a bit less, because things go faster in the wee hours of teh morning...I usually notice that real download time is about 80% of first estimate. Rapidshare file is in 26 parts. Each part has a 3 min waiting period before download starts. Approximate download time is 13 minutes (plus 3 minute waiting = 16 minutes). 26 parts * 16 min/each = almost exactly 7hrs. 80% of current torrent estimate is 6.6hrs. Add to that the fact that Rapidshare likes to crap out and say you can't download for another hour, plus requires more finangling on my part, and torrent always wins for me.

ETA: and 5 seconds later, I'm getting estimated download of 3hrs 52 minutes.

News is released about the first Sims 3 paysite (Sorry, Sims Store)

http://simmersnews.blogspot.com/2009/05/sims-3-store-set-prices.html

Some comments on there hint that perhaps the reason there is little content in the game people are seeing is because EAxis cut it back to enable them to sell it via the Store.  People are pissed.  Not exactly a surprise to cynics here but perhaps an indication that the copy of the game we're seeing is the final copy.

I had a freaky baby/child combo that turned out like this:

What the fuck.

[snipped because nobody wants to see that again]

You know you want it.

I use 'moveawayfromfridge' (I think it is by Squinge) and it is fine in my game-I don't use the Dizzy Leftover Hack though. Perhaps you just can't use those hacks together.

I occasionally have the same problem and it was happening before FT.  What seems to happen is one sim gets leftovers from the fridge and a fastidiously neat sim cleans up the leftovers before the first sims gets to the table with their meal.

Are they half-eaten plates of food or full? I've had that happen occasionally since BV at least, but it was mostly with pretty old leftovers that were only half-eaten. (Some hack I had in at the time had the Sims autonomously put away even half-eaten leftovers, so the fridges were full of that junk.) I liked it, whatever caused it, because it was a waste of time to make the Sims eat those two-bite plates, but I couldn't get rid of them any other way. I'd make them get each half-eaten plate, it would disappear, and then they'd get a serving platter and it was still good.

You don't happen to have Cathair's FinishCustomFood hack installed? That can cause food to disappear once removed from the fridge. I know you said you removed your hacks..but sometimes things have a way of avoiding detection. Just a shot in the dark.

Your food was shot to hell. This happens every time the game resets, like installing a new EP or a new patch. Some hacks also reset the game. You can't resume cooking, despite what the pie menu says. You have to get rid of all affected dishes.


Get dontshootfood included in FT Director's Cut. I always keep this hack in my downloads folder to prevent ruined food.

I use ACR to decide when they'll get pregnant - I send them to autowoo with ACR every day (if they're on similar work schedules/not busy) until they fall pregnant.  Once they've reproduced, my sims don't get any more woohoo action, unless they happen to get some down at a community lot when they're out of my control.

I haven't got Free Time yet-and with all these bugs I don't think I'm going to exactly rush to install it....

Well, I love the secondary aspiration, though I also wish it played some part in chemistry which it doesn't seem to. 

But the new lifetime aspiration bar is very very disappointing.  I like that they earn benefit points, and the rewards they can choose from aren't bad either, but it's just the way they earn them.  Like what does a romance or pleasure sim care about getting married, having babies, or graduating college?  I thought it would count up the wants that made sense to the sim, like 10 1st dates, or 10 loves, or whatever.  This does nothing to encourage a variety of gameplay, but does the opposite instead.  Now to get their stupid points, we have to take them all through this standardized life course - graduate, get married, have kids, max career, boring, boring, boring...

I really should have known it was too good to be true.  But who knows, maybe someone awesome could mod it to be the way it should be

I haven't had a chance to test it out yet though, but I was hoping that fulfilling fears would subtract lifetime points.  I don't think it does.

Considering how difficult it is to work with animations for the sims, I'd say she did a decent job. Most custom animations look like crap, but I see that as just one of the limits of modding for the sims. I like it when creators attempt it at all.

Yes, there are thatched roofs.

My biggest annoyance so far was when I tried to make some sims woohoo in their hotel room before they went to sleep. As soon as they were relaxing, one of them would turn on the TV. But with the TV on, they can't go to sleep afterwards. So I made them turn it off, for which they got out of bed (they can turn it on while relaxing just fine). By the time I had them relax again, the other sim would have turned on the TV... meh. I guess that always happened, but I don't normally put TVs in the bedroom.

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BTW that TSR billboard truly is the most pointless thing I've ever seen, who would ever pay for such a thing much less download it for free?