The thing is, I'm not seeing any moves.

What I am seeing is lots of failures to move or split households and failures to place townies, multiple times per day.

- There are plenty of lots that homeless sims can afford that are suitable, but AM attempts to place them and fails.
- I am no longer seeing any messages that a family was moved for breeding space, so I assume those moves are failing too.
- I'm not seeing any breeding taking place, even when families have spare beds & spare crib, so again, I am assuming their lots aren't suitable.
- In a town with plenty of singles, I am seeing maybe one romance interaction a week.  Usually at least one (if not both) of the sims involved are homeless.  I think that the aggressive pushing of move interactions may be shutting out romance interactions.

I had this happening with the AM before the most recent one, and it is still happening. I didn't play for a while, so I don't know how far back this change in storymode's behaviour goes.

Have the rules changed for AM's story mode when it comes to putting sims in houses?  Story mode is pushing the action to move sims around far more aggressively than it used to (to the extent that it is barely pushing romance or breeding actions), and is trying to move households out of lots that are suitable for them.

The rules as I understand them are that each lot must have as a bare minimum:
- sufficient beds (a mix of single & double)
- a crib for each toddler/baby
- toilet & shower
- fridge & stove & food counter

What am I missing?  Do the beds now all need to be non-Kewian based?  Do I need to add a washing machine to each lot?  Do I need to add a bath instead of a shower?

After seeing this change in an existing neighbourhood I was playing, I started a new neighbourhood in JFade's world (where the houses all have at least one crib and the neighbourhood was designed to be AM compatible), and I'm still seeing the same issue.

WCIF a mod that prevents invisible limo spam?

If a sim I'm playing (or one of their near neighbours) is in a career where their work car is the limo (e.g. in the upper levels of the music or business careers) I end up with thousands of invisible limos created every day.  This slows down my game.

AwesomeMod will remove these limos if I use "towderelicts".  Twallan's Overwatch will automatically remove them at 3am every night.

However, prevention is better than cure, and I'd like to prevent these limos from being created at all.  Does anyone know if there's a mod that does this?

You'd probably be better off moving the sink to outside the bathroom, and then putting the shower where the sink is.

Mim wasn't talking about the door, and your response about the doors closing automatically wasn't relevant to the point she raised.  Mim was pointing out the obvious: your sims are not going to be able to get to the toilet or the sink while the shower is in the way.

The same thing happened with her son when he grew into a teen.  I was trying to squeeze out the last point of mental skill for his childhood aspiration, so didn't want to age him up until the last possible minute.  Aging up a sim using cake takes my sims away from whatever I've told them to do, and is a waste of time since the sim will age up anyway without one, so I'd really like the "sad moodlet because I didn't get a party/cake" thing stomped regardless of the sim's traits or age.

I gave him the loner trait when he turned 12, but his social is draining faster than anyone else in the family.  I would have thought a loner would have had a slower social drain rate.  This is my first household in the game, and this is the first 12 I've played so I don't know if the faster social drain is a glitch with the loner trait or if it's because he's a 12.  If it's a glitch, it needs to be stomped.

IIRC, there was a mod in the Director's Cut for Sims 2 that would stop sims from traipsing all over the house to find a chair to sit & drink coffee, the mod forced the sims to use a closer chair.  I think we need a version of that for eating in Sims 4.  Don't take your food into the living room to eat sitting on the sofa just because there's someone to talk to in there, when there's a perfectly good chair & table in the room you're in.

My geek sim was sad because I didn't throw her a birthday party.  I never throw birthday parties for my sims - the last one I threw was years ago, in TS2, for Johnny Smith the last time I restarted Strangetown.  I only threw that party because it's unavoidable if you want to play the Smith family.

Can we have a stomp on that moodlet, I don't see why a geek sim (who doesn't know anyone outside her household anyway) should be sad because I ~didn't~ invite a ton of strangers around to help her celebrate her birthday.  It seems to me that not having strangers about is a reason to be happy.

I have no problems downloading AM from here but there isn't any point, since it's the version I'm already using, which started giving me the core mismatch expiration message yesterday.

I was suprised when I got the message - I thought Pescado had taken the expiry thing out of AM, since now there are no more patches/SPs/EPs it isn't necessary any more.

EDIT: To fix stupid error caused by posting before my first cuppa for the day.  A shame I didn't catch it before this post was quoted.

Will AwesomeMod be updated to take into account some of the new objects from ITF?

- AM doesn't recognise the holo-Computer as a computer when skilling writing or when building fun.  This is a portable computer that doesn't need a table & chairs (sims stand up to use it), and can be kept in a sim's inventory.
- The Sonic Shower isn't recognised as a shower.  The upgraded version of this object has power cleanse, which gives a 5 hour moodlet where the sim's hygiene won't drop.
- The all-in-one showers aren't recognised.  They are a quick way to deal with bladder and hygiene at the same time.

There's a new collectible, nanites.  Could we have nanites added to the collect macro?

Also, can we have the skillinator updated to take into new skills from the last few EPs, including bot building from ITF.

A workaround for the first problem is to removed the chosen trait from your sims while they're at uni.  They don't need it there anyway, as story mode doesn't apply there.

The second problem is not an AM problem.  I've had it in two neighbourhoods now, both times when a sim went back to uni the second time (or a second sim went to uni).  Try putting Twallan's Traveller mod in your game, and then using the phone to drop the sim out of university after they've graduated and received their extra trait, or after they've received their results for the term.  If that doesn't help, take a look here: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/03/sim-cant-return-home-after-graduation.html

I no longer send sims to uni because the game glitches out when it's time to leave.

You're doing it wrong.

Both the links you posted take me to Jfade's forum (not to "some coupon website") although the first links to a topic that doesn't exist.  The second link is to the wrong topic, but if you can navigate a forum you can get to the thread you were looking for in two clicks.

Don't use the launcher to patch.  Use the patch downloader available at MTS.

AM will come out when it's ready.  Pescado has a good track record for getting new versions of AM out quickly following patches & EPs, but sometimes it can take a little longer depending on what EA have screwed up.

I can't find the following saltwater fish for my sim with level 6 fishing: anchovy, jellyfish, tuna, clownfish, blowfish.  I can't see any saltwater spots using the collection helper, and AM's "fish for" macro can't detect them either.

Three lots seem to have been affected by that bug where if you put down a lot that has spawners, the game places spawners in every rotation you try before you place the lot.  Some of the fishing spawners on these lots are on land.
- Willow Acres Park
- Landgraab Industries Science Facility (the spawners under the building are confusing AM's fishing skill macro, as they are unroutable)
- Manning Memorial Cemetary

I like the way you've presented your lot:
- you've provided the floor plan.  I won't even consider downloading a lot if I don't know the floorplan, I want to see how many bedrooms and bathrooms and how the traffic would flow; and
- you have not photoshopped the hell out of it, so it looks like it would look in my game.

I do have one quibble with the lot - the low-end beds, although I understand that you wanted to keep the price down.  I don't use Buzzler's "Same Energy Gain for Every Bed" mod, so if I downloaded this lot I'd replace all the beds with better quality ones.

I suppose you could use it as a visual warning to remind you that "this sim is a dork, other sims are not to romance him" when you're playing other households.  Or as a "must get around to killing this sim one day" reminder.

What nice little hypocrites they are over there.  If that's an example of a nice forum, I'll take MATY's meanness any day.

A sim is looping, repeatedly trying to cure a negative moodlet with the Moodlet Manager.  He has no negative moodlets, and is fully greened up.  He does have the Midlife Crisis moodlet - is he trying to get rid of the moodlet and is this a bug or AM working as designed?

Also, I've noticed that sims with the Imaginary Friend trait rarely have any positive matches.  When I type matchall it seems the best I can get for most of them is -1.  This has occurred in different neighbourhoods with multiple sims.  As a result of this, most of them never get any romance action from ASM.  Is there a big negative hit for the Imaginary Friend trait when trying to find a match for them?

Since no two players will have the same requirements from a world (system specifications vary, as do the personal choices we make in how we play the game and what we want from a world), I decided to pick a couple of worlds that were close enough to what I wanted and edited them in-game.

I saved them before I started playing and I always have fresh unplayed versions when I want to start a new neighbourhood.

The world I use most is Bayborough by myskaal, which I found here at MATY.

It has plenty of room to add lots - I've added all the Ambitions lots (except the laundromat), the film set lot from Late Night, and the cat park, dog park, and 2 horse lots from Pets.  I've also added a few community lots I built myself.

Quincy is probably some random sim playing with the VR goggles.  If you're playing in Appaloosa Falls there are VR goggles in the consignment store.  To stop it, edit the consignment store and delete the VR goggles.

Could someone translate this into something readable, please.  My stupid-to-English translation fu is weak today.

You were told in the second post how to start the game without the launcher.  Why did you need to ask how which program you needed, when you had already been given the answer?

So the part I've bolded from the first post is incorrect?  It's not "instead of", it's "in addition to"?

Is this all that is needed to add Riverview to my game (i.e. no sims3pack needed, as implied by the "use this instead")?  I ask because it's not working for me.

I've just installed & patched TS3 (up to & including Late Night) on my new computer.  I downloaded the Riverview.world file from the first post and put it in C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Worlds.  Since this is the first time TS3 has been installed on this computer there are no Riverview related files anywhere else.

I launched the game, and started a new game in Riverview.  I found that some lots are missing (such as the town hall).  Is there something else I need to download to get Riverview to work properly?

Given the OP's lack of punctuation and appropriate capitalisation, their inability to find the right thread to post in, and that they didn't bother to read the FAQ, I suspect they may like Peggy hairs.

The stupid trait is added by AM.  If you are seeing the stupid trait after deleting AM, then you haven't deleted AM.

You implied they were new when you said this:


I wouldn't say changing when pre-existing wants roll up is particularly exciting or worth raving about.  Don't say you weren't raving about the feature since you were trying to tell us why at second look Generations is more zOMG AWESOME than you first thought.

Is there anything for adults in this EP besides more of my sims getting the wants I tend to control-click away (you can't have a car, you've already maxed out athletic, and if I wanted to change your look, I would have done it already) and buggy dates?