It's probably an issue with EADM. Try uninstalling, deleting registry keys, restart the computer and then do a fresh reinstall using your latest bought CD, and then update it if necessary. If it's any consolation, at the moment, after a fresh reinstall and no CC, the launcher works on my computer only if I have EADM open first, it otherwise crashes. I had issues before where I couldn't even download patches or download/upload things to the exchange or download the free things from the store if I installed any of the new EP patches that updated the game without having installed the EP as well. The download/upload issue would usually be solved after installing a new EP/SP.  

You can give your sim an extra nevernude trait and assign swimming clothing as "naked" with invisible clothes and body hair. it will appear as the sim in naked when showering. I did that with a sim yesterday and it works great. Now we need peens as accessories to have the complete package.  The only downside is they will go naked in the pool too but that's not too bad either.

I use Falcoknight's skins and I like that they look OK on both slim and fat ladies, without unnecessary details. For the males I can go with the shaved look untill there's better choice. I would love if someone just added nipples, pubes and body hair to maxis skins.

No they don't. They also come up when a sim calls your sim and the game asks you if your sim wants to take the call.

Would it be possible to mod foods so each fulfills hunger differently? We could then feed them on salads and stuff that don't fulfill their hunger meter fully so they will stay in shape for longer. Though it is good having all foods fulfill hunger fully, it's less time consuming.

Yes, but as I pointed above, the traits carry a specific set of interractions that sims will always perform so we can safely say the randomness level is 0 in their case for the interactions associated with their traits. However, it would be nice if grumpy sims will get a maybe 5% random chance that they will act nice, or childish or goof around. Or maybe a slob sim will get a 5% chance that he'll like to do the dishes one day and then he'll return to his usual self the next day. People don't behave the same all the time and it would be nice if sims would break the habits every now and then. 

Those behaviours will always be linked to just those traits, like the idle animations were linked to TS2 personality points, and this makes all traits very predictable in behaviour. Maybe they should have enabled all interractions for all sims, but randomize the chances of sims performing them based on their traits. Like childish sims have a 50% chance to do the goof around animation and all other traits have it on varying smaller degrees based on the trait description, so this would give even a grumpy sim the chance to goof around occasionaly.

TS3 skins look very bad in game, especially during strong outside light. In my game sometimes they look like zombies but with pink skin instead of green. And clothes and textures on all objects become blurry if you don't have the camera zoomed in on them. So meh about coustomability if you can't see it effects properly in the game.

Actually, there's no need for NPC bartenders, servers, chefs, cashiers because now everyone's busy reading outside. I swear, at times, I feel like the whole neighbourhood has been taken over by a sect of family friendly knowledge sims.

That's how it was in Sims2 and that at least gave me the possibility to design the look of my grocery store. As it is, it's either the yellow building or none at all. If you think about it it shouldn't have been too hard to code the vegetable stand outside to sell vegetables, and then they could have added separate stands for fish, one for meat, eggs and cheeze and one for the bathroom supplies. It would have made a lot of difference, especially for people who like to decorate their own lots. The yellow building looks nice but it doesn't fit well in a sims games. What's next? Rabbit hole homes?

Yes, and since there's not much difference between home delivery and hospital delivery, it makes you wonder why they went to so much trouble to add in the extra option. Why add it if I can't see it anyway? Same with the diner and the bistro. They are the same only for the bistro the sims change into formal wear and can eat outside. They are nice neighbourhood decorations but if my sims need to eat while in town they can munch on the things they have in their backpack, or they can grill, or have a picnic.

I put a double bed on the beach bar and my female sim had no issues with woohooing Gus Something. When a teen female sim showed up Gus went up to her and asked her to leave. It was quite funny. I am presently redecorating my hood and incorporating apartment like features in the community lots. It's like free hotel for homeless sims.
Anyway, I would really love to have back the possibility to stack stairs on top of another on multiple floors, like normal buildings have. Alternating the location on each floor takes up too much space.

Hmmm, let's see...
- a free standing shower like the one that came with university
- a shelf with many slots to display stuff on
- useable placement slots on top of the short bookcases
- a square one tile table
- clutter of any kind (more plants, kitchen pots and utensils, bathroom supplies, gardening tools, etc.)

I want a sparkly pony and Sims2 game with open neighbourhood and CASt.  

For me at least, the best part about OFB was the building and decorating of venues that were run by unplayable sims and which I visited often with my playable sims. I had everything, from an art gallery, comedy club, karaoke bar, bookstore, cakeshop, nightclub, cemetary, golf club, gym and cityhall. Running or controlling the lots as a business manager wasn't a priority, in fact I found it to be very monotonous and tiresome.

Maybe they should just add the coughing and choking animations the sims do while eating. My sims always do them and they're so annoying, especially considering the food is most of the time great, excellent or perfect quality. It would make more sense for smokers to have bad coughing fits, thogh I know most of them don't usually. maybe every now and then would be nice.

In my game some townie Molly French (or something like that anyway) always gets stuck in central park, on the pavement near where the toilets are. There's a kid with her there and at one time I just ignored her to see how long she would stay there, but after the kid's diaper got dirty I had to use resetsim on her because everyone started complaining about the noisy kid. The kid wasn't noisy actually, just smelly.

I've had my sim collect gems and sent them off to cutting on the most expensive cut. Expensive paintings were donated to the museum. Right now I'm in the process of buying out all the town businesses, but I'm not sure what my sim is going to do once that is achieved.

It appears they worked so hard on the town AI, to make it into a living breathing town. Just put random occurence everywhere and call it a day. It probably took them half an hour to write the code for that. They put so much thought into the traits and the create a style and then they did a very sloppy job on the real importat aspects of the game. I am actually contemplating reinstalling my Sims2 game.

Those version numbers make much more sense now. I thought they released some patch when the game was first released in the states but then they changed their mind and removed it before the game was released in the other parts of the world. 

My store bought game is v1.0.631.00002. Do people in the States actually have their game as v1.0.632.00002? Not fair...

I think you need to first plant using the omni plant from the science center. My sim did that and right afterwards got the challenge for the seeds.
Anyway, in my game the opportunities have been few and can't say that they bother me much. Except when this old fella got an opportunity from the stadium that he's got talent and that he should skill up. Or when my loner sim got an opportunity to befirend some rich old guy to improve charisma. They are weird and I agree with the OP that I could easily do without them.

She just placed it inside the basement under the barn buildings. 

That looks spooky.    I find it quite frustrating trying to give some personal touches to the neighbourhood seeing as it's no longer possible to remove the neighbourhood decorations.

I have the same issue with toddlers that need to go to another room so that their parent can pick them up. It seems like they generally need more room than in Sims2 to move around. It's a bit annoying but I've gotten used to it. However, I got a baby that got two traits on birth and no trait upon aging to toddlerhood with the cake. Weren't they supposed to get one trait on each birthday?