How do you propose to get your downloads to your computer then if you're not connected to the internet?  Do you plan to download them from a different computer and then use a flashdrive to put them on the computer without the internet?  I guess it also depends on who you're getting them from - the Sims 3 website or modthesims3.  If through the Sims 3 website, you'd have to have registered your game in order to get on it.  But if from forums like this one or MTS3, then they'd just be zip files that you could transfer from the computer that is connected to your computer that is not connected.  Either way, an internet connection has to be involved in there one way or another.

I got the fertility reward for Agnes Crumplebottom because I wanted to make sure she had a baby (when I was trying for a ghost baby).  It did not cause her to have multiple births.  She did not eat apples or watermelons, as I was too busy cheating her motives to keep them up.  I did feed her spaghetti once because she wished for it - don't think that has in fruit in it, but with this game, who knows?  Anyway, she has now had two boys in a row - one normal and one ghost.  (What fruit does french toast have in it, cuz she did eat that during the second pregnancy?)  I'm going to try for a third time tonight before I uninstall this version to install my storebought one tomorrow.

Lol!  I made up my own advantage from the mailperson through CAST - when you change your options to show career outfits in CAS, one of them of course is the mailperson outfit.  I was playing around and discovered that I could recolor it and make it look like an outfit with a pocketbook hanging on your shoulder!  LOL!  Just a few recolors of fabric/color here and there and viola - you have a fashionable handbag hanging from your shoulder and a cute shorts n top outfit!  =D

Only problem is the stupid nametag on the shirt!  Although I'm sure somebody will figure a way to get that off of there!

Looks like a poor man's Kevin Spacey.  
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HA HA!  I was thinking something more along the lines of a less-than-hairy Robin Williams!  

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Ghosts, they sleep...

they play,

they answer the phone,
 

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Heck! Everytime I turn around, my ghost dad is scaring the poop out of people!  Yes, he is playable, but I never have told him to scare anyone, he just seems to get a big kick out of it!
He wanted to be a police officer and so I made that wish come true, and what does he do to thank me?  He scares people he's supposed to be getting to know (to help his job along) and makes people po'd at him!

 

Unfortunately, my Agnes Crumplebottom had a regular baby boy.  I had so wanted a ghost baby!

Anges' pregnancy walk:


Don't just stand there preening!  Do something!


Home birthing looks different now:


Alas, it's just a regular baby boy!


But that's okay, cuz we're already working on the next one!


Father and son:


Agnes comes out of the catacombs after being "mauled by a bear":


. . and she's so distraught she immediately sits down to read a book!  =\ :

There's a tab on the upper left corner of inventory items with more than one in the slot. Grab and drag that to the fridge and it should move all of the type at once.
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OMG!  Thank you so so much for that info!  I thought there had to be a way, just hadn't figured it out!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

My Agnes hasn't given birth to her baby with Erik the Ghost Dad yet, but yes, I believe so.  Once your ghost is controllable, he works just like a living sim, so I would assume the babies you have will work the same as regular ones too. 

One unique thing about the ghosts:  Instead of hearing sim-like talk coming from them, they always have a ghostly-aura sound - sort of musical ghostly sound - coming from them instead of voices.  I think this is kinda neat, but I suppose might get boring after a while.  Hasn't bored me yet though!

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So true!  I also must say that I don't see how people can look at these pics and not like the game.  I'm discovering new things I didn't know existed yet just by looking at them!  The money tree, the gnome, awesome stuff!  I cannot wait to discover these things too!

Here are a couple from my game (hope I do this right):

Agnes Crumplebottom Before:


Agnes Crumplebottom New:


The Kitchen:


The Livingroom:


Jealous much?


Pretty Lighthouse Scene:


Pretty Scenery:


I LOVE this feature:


AH! To catch a fish!


The baby's coming!


I like to paint


Learning new recipes:

So did I but all I can do is look at the forums and read other people's stuff.  It won't let me interact.  It says I must register my game first to use it.

As far as I know, my sim did not eat apples or watermelon with the first 5 pregnancies so therefore, it appears that the sim will have boys UNLESS they eat watermelon. So avoiding apples doesn't do it.
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That can't be correct.  My Sim had a girl before and after my game crash (same pregnancy, the first birth was just lost when the game crashed) and she has never eaten watermelons at all.  She's grown them in the garden, but so far I haven't had her eat them.  Her pregancy wasn't affected by any foods really, because like I said earlier, I mostly used the cheat to keep all her motives leveled up and therefore she ate waffles one time and the "goopy" meal one time.  She hasn't even eaten apples or watermelons before she was pregnant.  She has had pancakes before she was pregnant though.

Seriously? Or is this just a theory.  Remember the whole spaghetti/twins thing in Sims 2? I thought EA/Maxis said there was no basis to that, that it didn't determine the type of child you had.

All I know for now is that I had my game crash after having a girl baby and thankfully I had saved it while she was still pregnant, so when I started playing again, she wound up having the baby sooner than she did the first time, but it was still a girl.  I've been spending so much time fishing and collecting, that I used cheats to keep up her health.  I don't think she ever actually ate anything the whole time she was pregnant, other than maybe the goopy garbino (or w/e) and pancakes, one time each.  She has harvested both apples and watermelons, but I can't recall if she did that while pregnant or not.  Like I said, I kept her busy with fishing and collecting - oh, and reading books to learn stuff too.  I figured once the baby was born she'd have less time for that.

On a side note, while the baby is still a baby, I've been using cheats to keep it totally happy, but tired so it would sleep while my sims were busy doing other things.  I thought that would be helpful, but then realized I was not building any kind of relationship with the parents because they were not interacting with the child.  So I started making sure the parents took time to play with the baby and feed it.  I dont want the child to be on a starnger level with its parents.  I thought you all might want to know that in case you hadn't experienced it yet, or thought of just keeping the kid happy till it became a toddler before you started interacting with it.

As for whether or not the "wishes" affect the gender, my dad sim wished for a boy, and mom sim wished for a girl (this was both before and after the crash), and of course, mom got her wish both times.

I agree with this wholeheartedly.  I don't really understand why some people have such high expectations of what a game is able to do.  I've been "testing" it out and other than my game suddenly dissappearing from the screen right in the middle of gameplay (which I surely hope is fixed with the final released version and/or patch), I am enjoying the game just as I enjoyed TS2.  I think they've done wonders with the abilities to decorate and match everything to your own desire.  Sure, the base meshes are limited, but with the thousands of color/text combinations you can use to change the base game items, it seems to me your choices are limitless. 

And it's just a base game, so I don't expect it to be "all encompassing".  I know I'll have to put out some bucks later to get expansions, but I'm okay with that.  I'm not okay with the Sims Store, but then I never did like that with Sims 2 either.  I just wont use it, but I'm not going to gripe about it - some people actually like it and that is their preference.

As for the collections part, that is a fun side thing to do, but yeah, you don't have to if you don't want to.  You can also make money at it if you find certain rare items and they're fun to look at too.  Oh, and I love being able to catch a fish and then place it in a fish bowl if I want to.

All in all, I am enjoying the game play as it is and that is my opinion.  The OP should just go ahead and downlad it for now and try it out for themself.  If they like the game, the buy it, if they don't, then just don't buy it.