This happened to me without awesomemod installed so I don't think it's an awesomemod problem. I found a little discussion on the problem elsewhere on the internet so other people are having the same issue. It's just something that is broken with Ambitions. It happens with the ghost hunter career as well. I exited and reloaded the game and future firefighting missions worked, but then stopped working. It seems kind of random when it breaks but once it's broken you have to exit the game and reload before it will be able to work (and that is not always a guarantee).

Purely for information gathering purposes, I would like to add that I got mine not crash on load screen only after deleting all the *cache files and adding the enablescripterror package. I'm working on Vista 64-bit. I loaded many many times, not deleting and deleting *cache files and it always crashed on load screen, until I added the enablescripterror.package.

Is anyone else reading the forum.thesims3.com and getting errors about how they don't have sufficient security access or something to read this thread? For a second I almost thought I got banned after 2 posts. LOL. They've found me out already...

ROFL from the Gun Hero.

I broke down and bought the game during my lunch break today. I have a good job. I can afford it. Plus this way I can actually use the TS3 community. I can ARR all the expansion packs.

Obviously I haven't DLed the new city yet, but I'm guessing that's where all the other pre-mades form sims 1 and sim 2 are hiding that were claimed to be in the game on the sims 3 wikia. Most this is based on seeing that Don clone... but wouldn't you think that maybe the Pleasants/Burbs/whomever is missing from Sunset Valley might be in this new neighborhood?

I just had two gorgeous sims that were actually the 3rd generation. I just wanted to share for those of you who are absolutely terrified of how genetics work in TS3 (as I am). The family tree was that the paternal side is completely CAST but the maternal side is completely EAxis. Their maternal grandparents were townies who spawned a girl that became a maid. This maid married my second gen CAST sim. The second gen CAST sim and maid had twins. This is the GORGEOUS result. I was just so impressed. They are not identical, they have different hair color, and the black-haired sim has different cheekbones than the red-brown haired sim. But they are pretty similar.

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I thought that maybe this was a coincidence but I've decided that it's definitely not so I have to share. My sim who has been 'Neat' since birth grew up always having wishes to befriend the maid. I thought this was cute but likely a coincidence since maids seemed to be the only people outside of his family that I let him spend time with. As a teen, he became best friends with two of the maids (they were both teens at the time... maids seem to be able to be teens or adults). Now that he is a young adult, he is constantly rolling wishes to flirt/massage/kiss the two maids that are serving his house. Clearly I will have him marry the prettier one since it's just so easy. He doesn't have any romantic traits at all either, he is brave/loves the outdoors/neat (he only has three traits because of the bug, i'm just about to give him more with the mid-life crisis reward). Anyways, I think this is an extremely adorable trait of the 'Neat' sims. Anyone else seen this?

Yeah, Bethesda really gets it's community. They even gave away the expansion packs on facebook, if you were a fan of Fallout 3 on facebook. Granted, you had to be really quick to get them (whoever entered in the key first got it), but they make the move towards MORE free stuff as opposed to abolishing free things all together. Plus their games are just infinite quality.

Ah yes, outstanding is what I am supposed to be getting. However, at 8 gardening skill I seem to be stuck in "Very Nice". Will I have to find some 'outstanding' seeds, or is there a way to get outstanding somehow else? Also note that fertilizing with outstanding things won't work because clearly, I don't have any!

I'm starting to feel confused and dumb. Bested by a video game... Prima is going to make a killing

Do the number of different qualities of plants/fish bother the crap out of anyone else? Why can't we just have 'Bad', 'OK', and 'Spectacular' as opposed to like 'Horrible', 'Bad', 'Kind of Bad', 'OK', 'Normal', 'Good', 'Great', 'Awesome', 'Really Awesome', and 'Perfect'. Honestly, I couldn't name for you what all the real levels are. My sim has an opportunity to deliver some sort of quality to a lady, but I can't figure out how to get it. Apparently, whatever it is is better than 'Very Nice' because I think that is the best I have.

I really hope fertilizer is there just to lengthen the life because my gardens tend to be giant and fertilizing each one of those freaking things individually is really not fun. I moved in a sim to be my fulltime gardener. I make him sleep in the shed. So let me know if you have any more updates/observations.

This thread has murdered me from the laughing.

Yes, I think as someone else mentioned, my sims always have to resort to stalking attractive teenagers until they turn into YAs. It is really creepy, but I've never been succesful at the "ask X to break up with Y" option.

PS - Hello all!