I had the same problem and this solved it.

I don't tend to live on these sites - only checking them when I have a specific issue, and people call their issues the weirdest things which can make it hard to know what to Google for.

Credit of course to Motoki for the original reply to my issue

Thank you for the link, I will look into that.  However if you look a couple of posts back you'll see I stated this happens even when AM is the only mod/cc.  I also stated in that post that I made sure, before ever installing the update, that it matched the current release of the AM.

It also worked fine until the latest update, so unless that update deleted files when it installed I can't see why it's done this.

I will follow the steps in the link you gave and report back on whether this solves the issue.

Edit: Thank you very much.  Changing the place where the mod was held, as in the instructions, got my game loading again.  Phew, no more EAxian rules.

How strange, that's exactly what had happened, yet I have no idea how.  Literally all I did was install the update, it shouldn't have touched the framework files.

Unfortunately, the load bar is still not moving with AM in the folder.

I had a fresh install, including World Adventures and Ambitions (first time I'd installed Ambitions).  Updated my game, grabbed the newest version of AM and was good to go.  The game loaded and I was able to play no problems.

Next day, I open my launcher and there was another update.  I checked the EA website for the date and saw it was before the latest AM update, and also checked the version number next to that listed on the AM download thread.  They matched so i ran the update and went to load the game.  It gets to the screen with the load bar and does nothing.  I have the spinning circle and the bar doesn't move atall.

It's definitely the AM causing the issue, as the game works if I remove it.

Now obviously I can reinstall and just not install the offending update (4.2.32), but I wanted to try here first to see if there was an alternative.

Posted here as it's not really a 'bug'.

As I say, I never managed to install Ambitions before a couple of days ago so don't know if this would have been an issue if I'd been updating as I went along.  Also making an assumption it's not an install error on my part regarding framework etc as it worked before the EA update.  And it all fails even on Vanilla.  No CC or anything.

I don't know how possible this is, but I'd love the option.

Most age groupings of stranger sims are obvious, but especially for a male sim trying to find a female of child bearing age, it's difficult to know if the potential partner is suitable.  Short of moving them in, or switching households, there's no way to determine if the sim is young adult or adult, never mind if they're only a few days from becoming and elder.

Would it be possible to have an 'ask age' option, or even better, for the age grouping or age to show when you hover over a sim in the friends panel.  Unless one has a sharp eye, it's not even discernable if a 'high school' friend has become a young adult as it shows their information from the last time you talked to them.

Thanks for clarifying, I couldn't find anywhere where it said it was a part of the mod, so I was beginning to think I had imagined it.
My question was more along the lines of having thought it was a definable choice in the mod at one point, the quip about being bored with the choice was misplaced, as I'd already pointed out.

I searched for 'food', 'any food' and 'food time' none of which brought up the information I needed.  As he's probably usually replying to someone rather than detailing something, and the fact that it's a long thread about many issues, short of trawling through the entire thing, it's unlikely I'd have come across these comments.  It's generally regarded as impossible to remember something you've never experienced, unless of course one is delusional - in which case it's not really a memory, is it now.

Unlike some people on here, my post count does not indicate my IQ level, I've been on these boards for years, I just only post when i need to, which is incredibly rarely.

Where in Hades did it appear from then, because this is the only mod i run.

MATY mods have always been the only ones i run.
Gah that was my stupid fault, don't make quips when you genuinely want a proper answer - stupid del.

In one of the previous iterations of the AwesomeMod, I'm fairly sure we could choose to have any meals available at any time of day - of course subject to the sims cooking skill.

At the time I chose this option, and it's in my game.  However it doesn't seem to be in the mod in anyway now.  Yet it's still in my game.

I'm currently running the version from the 9th of July.

The thing is, that I'd rather like to go back to having normal meal availability, do i need to remove the mod and then re-install it?

I know it seems like a very small point, but salad for breakfast has become annoying.