Hmm I didn't think about the desk thing, thanks... I'll try that next time I play.

However bed time stories really seems to be borked in my game, because the adult sim had books in his inventory (and I kept choosing books from his inventory) and was in the same room as the child. I might try putting a bookcase in the bedroom next time, perhaps that'll work.

This was the first time I could order omni seeds, so I'm not exactly sure how things usually work... all I know is that if I clicked on the mailbox (while having selected the sim who completed the special challenge), I got the option to order the seeds, the sim would walk all the way over to the mailbox and then the action automatically got cancalled from the queue.

I have read on another site that you can fix teens that suddenly come back from boarding school by deleting them using the 'moveobjects on' cheat. But since this has never happened to me, I cannot guarantee its succes, so I recommend saving your game before doing this.

What annoys me is that, supposedly, graduating from boarding school guarantees sims a headstart in certain careers (depending on the school). One of my teens has just graduated from military school, which should have given her a headstart in the law enforcement and military career, however she started as a snitch, like everybody else. Nevermind the fact that she didn't get any skills from the school, she only received the handy trait.

Another thing that is that I can't order omni seeds, write thank you notes or read bed time stories.

No. You can go now, "no one likes a thread-bumper."

Yep, deleting the building and lot itself seems to have worked.



I let them stand around there for a while, but then I became nervous and I hit resetworld. Everything seems to have returned to normal, but I'll watch out for any problems.


ETA:
Interesting enough, everytime I try to load my save it crashes to desktop without any kind of warning. As in, it loads everything, I can see my sims for a second, then the screen freezes only to then crash to desktop without prompting me with any error. Every time.

Any news?

That happened to me too. They were inside the City Hall, and it became obvious they weren't dead when my sim finally visited the Sports Zone and they immediately swarmed there. And by that I mean they didn't even take a taxi, they just ran there.

Mhmm, I had also never noticed any sims hanging around the bar before. I think I only noticed a sim hanging around there, for a really long period, about a simweek (or less) before I finally used radar all and saw how big this error was.

No, they weren't hanging around their work place. As detailed in my first post (screenshots included), they all hang around Bridgeport Sports Zone. My AM enables swarms; however, I don't think my sims had ever visited that bar before - I don't think I've ever even looked inside that bar. Scratch that, I think my sim visited that bar when she was single and about 1-2 week old YA (I play with long lifespans). Anyway, after her boyfriend moved in, they usually went to Eugi's, The Grind and that bar next to the criminal workplace.

Since you already have my specs, I'll only update with this info:

EPs: WA, AMB, LN
No Stuff Packs
Mods: AM + conf, MasterController, Overwatch, SolaceInSound's X5 Lifetime Happiness Elated Gain
And some CC: clothes, hair styles, furniture, etc - all merged together.



Hmm, I don't know if any Sims died in my game, as I didn't check. And out of the two sims I actually checked up on, only one of them was actually stuck on an action, the other was just standing there.

True, true. Although this information is somewhat useful, you know, in case I win the lottery or something so I can actually afford a better desktop and/or laptop and/or graphics card.

Meh. Lesson learned.

Ok, let me revise that: it worked much better before I installed LN. Happy now?

Yes, I am using whatever came with the computer. So I guess it IS an integrated chipset.




Surprinsingly, Win7 runs much better than XP on my computer. (and, by this, I mean the game itself also works better)

2GB RAM, 2.00GHz (I run on Win7, so I guess I should have more), but I'm not sure about my graphics card etc. I'll have to find my user manual.


I run on low quality graphics to, you know, improve performance (make the game move faster).


Exactly.

Is that so? I don't know what to say, it's not like The Sims 3 hogs all of computer's memory since sometimes I can run other applications a-ok.

I temporarily changed households, and this is what I found:
http://i56.tinypic.com/28c0rq9.jpg
Bar situation hasn't improved either: http://i54.tinypic.com/23kcls0.jpg

But I suppose you're right and that's the same reason service sims have been acting up, too. As in, they just show up to my house and then leave without their cars just so they can charge me at the end of the day.

I know something similar has been talked about in a recent thread, however this doesn't seem to be related to Rabbit Holes, nor have any solutions been listed there.

I think this has been going on for a while. At first, I'd notice a sim or two (who for some reason showed up on map view) hanging around Bridgeport Sports Zone. I thought nothing of it, until I noticed that one of those sims just stood there next to the building for days on end, until finally he went home when my sims visited his wife. I thought maybe he was moonlighting as a mixologist or something, I didn't check. However, for a while now I've trying to get a butler to work for me and, like with many other players, my butlers would (literally) run away from home after a few days (they'd also never return). Using Master Controller, I found them standing next to Bridgeport Sports Zone. I eventually typed "radar all" (or w/e) in the console, and a few strange things have been brought to my attention.

1. There were quite a few sims hanging around a few spots in town at all times for many days: http://i53.tinypic.com/wwaqs8.jpg
2. Zooming in revealed the sims outside the bar were just hanging around, doing absolutely nothing: http://i53.tinypic.com/9sbc4x.jpg
3. Everybody at City Hall was, ahem, taking a tour of the building: http://i54.tinypic.com/1zd0uhg.jpg
4. Some (up to 5, I didn't count) sims at Sports Zone were had "Doing: " in their information box, although nothing followed the colon: http://i54.tinypic.com/17uur8.jpg
5. Apparently I could join a protest, although there were no sims outside the city hall protesting: http://i51.tinypic.com/15qx10z.jpg
6. As soon as I unpaused the game and sent one of my sims to Bridgeport Sports Zone to dismiss their butler, the Sports Zone became a hotspot, and all sims who were weirdly hanging around in City Hall and the cinema immediately moved their butts outside Sports Zone, resulting in even more Sims just hanging outside the bar. I have the anti-swarm option off, so it might be just the game stalking my sims, but still, what's with all the sims there standing around there, for days? http://i54.tinypic.com/k9ds1d.jpg

@Magwitch: My sims used to get stuck and/or go invisible all the time after I installed LN and started a brand new family in Bridgeport. Fixall did nothing and resetsim only worked temporarily. I have since developed a habit to save very often, and so every time I see a borked sim I simply quit without saving. The game used to work fine after that, for a while at least. Gradually, stuck and invisible sims became very rare. So that's my fix, although I may have misunderstood your issue.

I have a different issue regarding service sims. My family lives in an apartament, and none of the service sims are willing to take the elevator to their place. They do make sure to charge me though, although they haven't actually done anything, nor have they been in the apartament for that matter. Maids, repairmen, babysitters... I hire one of them, then sometime later I receive a notification saying that they're done and that they've taken my money. On the bright side, even though the babysitter hasn't set foot in the apartment, the game still considers someone is in there with the kid, so at least my sims can go to work/out.

Put your mods back in one by one (or 5 by 5, w/e works for you) until you find the one(s) that is(are) causing this problem.

Remove your Mods folder and see what happens.

My sim in Bridgeport keeps getting stuck. As in, I managed to have my sim invited to a celeb party, and when she showed up, she basically got stuck outside of the house and wouldn't move. Hovering my mouse over the house said "No interactions available", and although I tried to have her interact with the sims outside, the actions would just stay there in the queue and she wouldn't move. Then I tried "Go here", nope, didn't work; whatever I wanted her to do, she'd just stand there, until I typed "resetsim ...". In this case, I was able to cancel her actions, however, when she goes home and I send her to sleep in her bed, she just stands next to the bed. If I cancel the action, it stays there in queue with a red X on it, and nothing happens until I reset her. She only goes to sleep if I first have her relax on the bed, and then sleep. Ever since, the game has been doing this a lot. Almost third or second action, I have to reset her when she's at thome (and I can't drop actions from the queue). If she goes to a venue, she'll go in and just stand there (I can cancel her actions if she's not home BUT she won't move anyway).

Ok, that's one a big, annoying glitch.

Another annoying thing is, some sims just seem to be invisible. I can see the stuff they're interacting with, hear them and see their speech/thought bubbles, but my sims can't interact with them, and their picture doesn't even show up in the relationship panel, or anywhere.

And again, all public spaces are empty at all times. I once sent my sim to a bar and there was only one other person there (except for the bartender and bouncer). Otherwise, I haven't seen one sim, anywhere, except residences and the movie studio. The first time my sim visited the movie studio, there were like 6-7 celebs staring at the spaceship; and that's it.

The game still asks for a game disk when trying to run without the image mounted in Daemon tools, although I have AM, so I'm sticking to what I think.

Actually, I've managed to find out what was causing this. It was the crack. I uninstalled everything and reinstalled everything, but I didn't crack Late Night, I kept the image mounted in Daemon Tools and that solved the problem. All custom content and my old saved games work again. Generally speaking, the game runs smoothly (if you ignore all the glitches).



Well, I didn't rename it, I blatantly deleted it (I had a backup on another drive anyway) and the game generated a new one. Still, it wouldn't work.



I keep them in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Mods, but when I was trying to get the game to work, I removed the 'The Sims 3' folder altogether.

I got carried away in this particular topic ( http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,19367.0.html ), but I'll detail the problem here.

Right, so I installed The Sims 3 Razor version, World adventures - reloaded, Ambitions - vitality and Late Night - reloaded. Installation went perfectly, I encountered no issues. However, I first tried to play the game with my old custom content (hairs, clothes, stuff like that) and saved games in place, but the game crashed while loading one of my saves. I thought it was because of my custom content, so I deleted the Sims 3 folder in My documents, and tried to start a new game, but the game crashed yet again while loading the neighbourhood. And this doesn't happen just with Bridgeport, it happens with the other neighbourhoods as well. I reinstalled Late Night, but nothing has changed.

Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance!

Sorry, I'll start a topic of my own. I was just really passionate about playing that game already.