???I have had a problem and I don't know if you can help me but I figured I would ask. My Sim keep becoming invisible. I don't know why it happens. Also my entire Sim family's skills are gone. like i go to slick on the skills bar and the entire box is empty. There are no skills at all like not even the names of the skills just an empty box. My Sims keep getting stuck and are not able to move and my maid is invisible as well. PLEASE HELP!

Your decrapified files are installing for me so it is somehow that decrapify has stopped working on my machine.  I am not surprised since my computer and I have quite a love/hate relationship.  It does things that no one seems to be able to explain.  At least it is working with your files.  Thanks.

Thank you.  I was thinking it was my decrapifier as well but I have redownloaded it and still cant get it to work.  I will give the files that you uploaded a try.  I am sure others will also be able to benefit from the upload as well. Thanks again.

Those are unmodified files and I have them.  I have decrapified and still am having problems with the new sets.  The file I linked to was a package file that has already been combined which is the only way I haven't tried to add them to my game.  I have all the other sets in my game just fine but I can't seem to get the new ones to work.  Like I said I have tried decrapifying the sims3packs.  They still don't install for me.  I have tried adding the items as package files but my game refuses to load.  I haven't tried a combined package file and that is why I was hoping I could try that file.  I realize that the ways I have already tried should have worked and that it has worked for others and if I could make it work for me like it has before that would be great but I guess my computer or game isn't going to let that happen. Thanks for trying to help. Even though this is MATY I don't mean for this to sound bitchy.  I am just tired of doing what is supposed to work and having my game give me the finger. ( as well as Megaupload!)

Could anyone put a mirror of this file   http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U7V2IYEA  from Panama Crew somewhere besides Megaupload.  My IP just cant get along with Megaupload.  Mediafire or Box or whatever?  It is supposed to be a June super package of the new sets and I haven' been able to get them to work any other way so far. Thanks.

Those are names of FA's at TSR.  They are not downloads from EA.

And you should get rid of that sig.  It is huge, animated and bright.  That is like 3 strikes around here!

If you are running Awesomemod then you need to patch. 

Oh, I absolutely use ad block and no script now.  This problem at TSR goes back so long that I had issues before I knew about any of them.  The fact that we very recently had many people who had virus and other issues from their ads again simply means that it is a problem that they know exists and still have done nothing to fix.  I want people to understand that you do not have to click on anything or download anything to be at risk there.  If you visit thier site and do not have proper protection for you computer, then you are at risk.  Simple.

Just so you are clear, you don't have to actually click the ads there to get into trouble.  Just viewing their pages made my computer go crazy and I ended up with a Vundo virus and I have never clicked on any ad.  I was one of the people that was told it was my responsibility to report their bad ads to their advertisers, not to them.  I was also told that to avoid this problem I should just get a subscription so I wouldn't have to worry about the ads anymore.

Been done.

 http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=360739

Yep.  I was in the need it camp.  Guess I am in the don't now.

THey never really knew for sure which is what makes their behavior so much worse.  All they had to do was suspect that you might be sharing a file that they decided shouldn't be shared and that was enough to make all the other things they did to people ok in their minds. 

I had the CTD while trying to play a save.  I have the disk in the drive but I am running Awesome with no-cd enabled. (I just forgot to take it out of the tray) and I still had to test different versions of configurations to get it to work. I am still not sure what is making it work but it is.  Everything is the same so it reminds me of the first few builds of Awesome where you just had to keep trying sometimes.  By the time it was working I had Awesome in as well as Indie (mod not core) and a few other random XML's.  In the end I think that I left out the script enabler but I think it worked once while it was in as well.  Like I said, I just kept trying and it just worked finally.

Let us know what you think.  I wont be able to check it out until tomorrow.

Shows fine for me.

Found objects!  Stylist Sims has a modern set of furniture available.  Link- http://www.stylistsims.net/sims3/objects_01.html . I have not tried it in game yet but I wanted to pass it along anyway.

Note that these look like they are for Sims 2 but they are not.  They are definitely Sims 3.

Maybe she is actually respecting the terms on Wes' tool and is waiting to charge until she has a tool that she can use without breaking terms on.  The fact that she acknowledged Wes is making me hopeful.

So, is she trying to say she didn't use Wes's tool?  I see that she says that she used a Maya plug in but I don't know anything about creating, the tools or anything so I am trying to keep up.  I thought it was determined that it was Wes's tool that was used and it seems she is saying that she used something that was somehow independently created for her to create this.

 
See, that how I thought Pescado would deal with a virus as well.  I still like it better than others I have used.

Thats what my first thought was too.  I certainly am not surprised about the news but I do feel better about my chosen protection.

So, did she still use Wes's tool?  I know nothing about any of this but would like to understand.

I just re-read what they are actually saying and it seems to me they may have been trying to say something along the lines of "We got started and now we are stuck so we are going to open up our new tool so others can come in and help us fix/finish it."  They seem to be throwing out names like an invitation to come in and help them.  If you go through the statement they are trying to act like they are deciding to make the new tool open source so that the community will have the tool faster but knowing them, it seems less likely the reason than "we need help". 

They have no idea how to state things and seem to constantly cause misunderstandings with the way they say things but I think that based on what we know about them, the modders they are referring to and the situation at hand I would say this is a more likely explanation. (And the one I am sure they will use when they realize the way their statement was interpreted,)

Besides, their reputation has been so tarnished and I am sure that that has affected their subscriptions so I can understand wanting to snag as many downloaders for this tool as possible just so that they can try to bring in fresh meat who might have a "See, TSR isn't so bad now" attitude.  Plus, one of the problems that people have had with them for long is that they use the free tools that others have made and the knowledge that has been gained by the free community to create and SELL content.  This time they are hoping, I would guess, that by getting a tool out there they will at least not have to deal with that argument anymore.  I would still rather get a tool from some other source just because I would rather not support that effort.  If it works well and there isn't a freesite alternative I won't pass it by out of spite though.

But she was able to recolor it and add it to the game and get it to work without using the EADM or any other EA program so that should show that it will be possible to add CC without using their system.  People who think that EA is somehow going to be able to be the only ones you can get content from or that they will be able to control the creation or distribution of content seems unlikely.  I keep hearing people say that they are afraid that they will have to get their CC from EA or that somehow only content that goes into the game via the Download Manager will work in game.  That simply doesn't seem to be the case.