THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[Exiled]

Four-month delay and they still didn't include an option to totally disable global aging?  EAxis fail.

[Acid_fairy]

Hello, long time lurker, first time poster.

Is anyone else having problems with the music playing in their game? I can't hear any music in build or buy modes, although options tells me there should be some there. (It also won't play via the music tab in options). It doesn't play from the stereos either, although when I fired up the game for the first time last night there was some playing.

[Rhayden]

Four-month delay and they still didn't include an option to totally disable global aging?  EAxis fail.

Aging and story progression are two different options.

Edit: Zazazu, did you try changing the autonomy levels?

[Aner-Dyfan]

You seem to have to hover on top of the stereo to hear the music coming from it. Not that you're missing much, the selection is very short. They should have ripping the music from TS2 and actually give a proper selection of favourites for our sims. I recommend muting the music, getting a stereo for the happy mood, playing in windowed mode and listening to your own pirate cat music.

[nekonoai]

I recommend muting the music, getting a stereo for the happy mood, playing in windowed mode and listening to your own pirate cat music.

I have a particularly lovely collection of Sea Chanties, by the Tabby Cats.

[coltraz]

This is so sad... it's as if EAxis is encouraging players not to give a hoot about their Sims and if they die or fall in love or get fired or buy shit you don't want them to have, then it's all just a bit of a laugh.

What was EA thinking? WHY do they have to do the stupidest things possible?

And on another note, how the hell do you get your Sim to bike? I bought one and placed it in all kinds of different areas around the lot. Nothing's working, when I click it it says there's no interactions available. What am I doing wrong?

[kennyinbmore]

Four-month delay and they still didn't include an option to totally disable global aging?  EAxis fail.

Aging and story progression are two different options.

Edit: Zazazu, did you try changing the autonomy levels?

I was thinking that too. My game should finish downloading by the time I get home this afternoon. The reviews aren't making me happy. I still doubt I'm going back to TS2 though

[jolrei]

And on another note, how the hell do you get your Sim to bike? I bought one and placed it in all kinds of different areas around the lot. Nothing's working, when I click it it says there's no interactions available. What am I doing wrong?

Just a guess - in TS2, sims needed to gain skills in order to do things.  Do they need to skillinate on anything to learn how to ride the bike?

[Frankenbeasley]

And on another note, how the hell do you get your Sim to bike? I bought one and placed it in all kinds of different areas around the lot. Nothing's working, when I click it it says there's no interactions available. What am I doing wrong?

Just a guess - in TS2, sims needed to gain skills in order to do things.  Do they need to skillinate on anything to learn how to ride the bike?

Or, alternatively, it could be one of those actions you initiate through clicking on a Sim, like going for a hike in TS2.

[DigiGekko]

The bike has to be in your inventory, then they should use it automatically to go places except work/school most likely. Yeah, it's weird.

[literatebse]

Let me guess: fishing in the pool is a "feature" too?  From this guy's inventory, you can tell he's actually catching stuff, too.

http://www.gamesguide.nl/artikel/10352/de-sims-3---doorspoelen/

[Kyna]

WARNING!!!
I would make this flashy, but then it would be annoying.

Guess what? Unticking "Enable Story Progression" does not work. The household I'm playing is right across the street from the first one I started, which had two singleton women. They had a guest come over, so I took the chance to spy inside. There was a toddler on the floor. A toddler named Haeju Schmoe (awful name), meaning he was the son of one of the roommates. Neither roommate had a romantic relationship, and they certainly hadn't been getting busy when I left them. Now I find out that Ms. Schmoe was getting it on with Milton Townsend.

Traditional Legacy play is fully enforced, it would seem. Not happy.

Yuk.  Now I wonder if it's even worth torrenting.

Going back to the pics you posted on the previous page - I'm really starting to hope that this isn't the gold version.  I mean, they are kidding right?  They didn't really give the repo man one of those horrible backward baseball caps, did they?  *Wonders if it will be possible to kill the repo man and replace him with a sim that is smart enough to know how to wear a cap*

[Acid_fairy]

Right, I tested all the music and the only one that actually works is custom. Odd. I have found that folder but can't find where the other music is stored, does anyone know? May have a play around in there if I can get to it.

[kennyinbmore]

Let me guess: fishing in the pool is a "feature" too?  From this guy's inventory, you can tell he's actually catching stuff, too.

http://www.gamesguide.nl/artikel/10352/de-sims-3---doorspoelen/

Oh snap 

[Zazazu]

The bike has to be in your inventory, then they should use it automatically to go places except work/school most likely. Yeah, it's weird.

Bike will work from the rack for going to community lots. I haven't figured out how to change the transportation mode for work. You're supposed to be able to, but for the life of me I can't find this fabled transportation options menu of which they speak.

Let me guess: fishing in the pool is a "feature" too?  From this guy's inventory, you can tell he's actually catching stuff, too.

http://www.gamesguide.nl/artikel/10352/de-sims-3---doorspoelen/

It's a trait perk.

Edit: Zazazu, did you try changing the autonomy levels?

No, because that shit is global. I don't want the sims I'm watching standing around staring at the air until I tell them what to do. Will look at it, but if it's going to create zombies, forget it.

Dawnkay, mount the .iso and then open it through My Computer. You should see a folder called "Crack". The .exe crack is there, as well as another file. That other file is a keygen.

[Rhayden]

WARNING!!!
I would make this flashy, but then it would be annoying.

Guess what? Unticking "Enable Story Progression" does not work. The household I'm playing is right across the street from the first one I started, which had two singleton women. They had a guest come over, so I took the chance to spy inside. There was a toddler on the floor. A toddler named Haeju Schmoe (awful name), meaning he was the son of one of the roommates. Neither roommate had a romantic relationship, and they certainly hadn't been getting busy when I left them. Now I find out that Ms. Schmoe was getting it on with Milton Townsend.

Traditional Legacy play is fully enforced, it would seem. Not happy.

Yuk.  Now I wonder if it's even worth torrenting.

Going back to the pics you posted on the previous page - I'm really starting to hope that this isn't the gold version.  I mean, they are kidding right?  They didn't really give the repo man one of those horrible backward baseball caps, did they?  *Wonders if it will be possible to kill the repo man and replace him with a sim that is smart enough to know how to wear a cap*

All signs point to this being the final version. Anything you read about "beta version" smells of shilling or wishful thinking by bootlickers.

Right, I tested all the music and the only one that actually works is custom. Odd. I have found that folder but can't find where the other music is stored, does anyone know? May have a play around in there if I can get to it.

I've found two locations, unsure which is more important than the other:
\ts3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\CustomMusic
\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Custom Music

I have the game downloaded but cant find the registration code. Could someone please post a code?

Check the crack folder, you stupid noob.

[DigiGekko]

Bike will work from the rack for going to community lots. I haven't figured out how to change the transportation mode for work. You're supposed to be able to, but for the life of me I can't find this fabled transportation options menu of which they speak.

I doubt it exists. My teenagers and adults use the family car to go places sometimes, but other times use a taxi, and they will always carpool for work unless you tell them to use the car yourself.

[Rhayden]

Bike will work from the rack for going to community lots. I haven't figured out how to change the transportation mode for work. You're supposed to be able to, but for the life of me I can't find this fabled transportation options menu of which they speak.

I doubt it exists. My teenagers and adults use the family car to go places sometimes, but other times use a taxi, and they will always carpool for work unless you tell them to use the car yourself.

When your sims are in transit, there is a dropdown menu from the action. Click that instead of cancelling the action and you can modify things.

[DigiGekko]

Oh, well, that's a genius spot to put it 

I guess it makes some sense, but seeing as how you're usually in a car for maybe 10 seconds at most, it's easy to miss.

[dawnkay]

Thanks so much Zazazu.

[coltraz]

OK my Sim started automatically taking his bike when I told him to go somewhere. He still runs to work if he's outside his house and he's late, even if his bike brought him into town.

I had the realisation when playing just now, how awesome the game would be if it behaved as it was advertised - imagine if you had control over every house at once, and all you had to do was zoom out and click a new house to play it. I think it would make all the little annoyances even littler, and all the difference in the world.

[ttech]

The people making it sound horrible are over exaggerating, IMO.

One post Tasty Tourist knows more than KBC, news at 11.

The sims don't have shadows.

Your tea cosy is boiling your brains again.

Yes, in stating my own opinion, I know more than this 'KBC' character.

So, ttech, are you going to "spoil" us?  What kinds of social interactions does your absent-minded, insane, inappropriate, evil, grumpy sim have?

The 'spoil' tags I was referring to was something to hide the pictures, because I didn't know if they would stretch the forum for people using small res monitors. Also, he wasn't that exciting.


Meant to post back earlier but I was too busy playing the game. It's pretty fun, but I can understand if the same people who are going of heresy already want to deem it a 'horrorshow'. Anyways, figured I would register to give people good news but I see that y'all are all just EA haters at heart and stuck on the thought that this game is trash, so I think I'll be going. It's just a shame I won't be around whenever you try the game for yourself and have to eat your words... Yes the game may have a few problems, but overall it is a good game and worth playing over TS2.

[Rhayden]

The people making it sound horrible are over exaggerating, IMO.

One post Tasty Tourist knows more than KBC, news at 11.

The sims don't have shadows.

Your tea cosy is boiling your brains again.

Yes, in stating my own opinion, I know more than this 'KBC' character.

So, ttech, are you going to "spoil" us?  What kinds of social interactions does your absent-minded, insane, inappropriate, evil, grumpy sim have?

The 'spoil' tags I was referring to was something to hide the pictures, because I didn't know if they would stretch the forum for people using small res monitors. Also, he wasn't that exciting.


Meant to post back earlier but I was too busy playing the game. It's pretty fun, but I can understand if the same people who are going of heresy already want to deem it a 'horrorshow'. Anyways, figured I would register to give people good news but I see that y'all are all just EA haters at heart and stuck on the thought that this game is trash, so I think I'll be going. It's just a shame I won't be around whenever you try the game for yourself and have to eat your words... Yes the game may have a few problems, but overall it is a good game and worth playing over TS2.

You smell like a shill or at least a bootlicker. Perhaps if you were less stupid and managed to read the entire thread you'd know that many of us actually ARE playing the game.

[MaximilianPS]

if you check the .exe date, you'll notice that it's about april !
that's means the version around the net of ts3 isn't the final release, but probably and RC. (Release Candidate)

anyway, the fact that all sims look like a children, the old one too, remain
i think it looks too children style for my taste -.-

[aqualectrix]

Anyways, figured I would register to give people good news...

MATY is not exactly a place where you can bounce in and say "No, it's great!".  If you really want to convey your positive impression of the game you're going to have to do better than that.  Why are the things that bother everyone else not bothering you?  What are the things that make it worthwhile?  People are posting these sorts of impressions, and they're interesting to read in a way that "This game is good, losers" is never going to be.

but I see that y'all are all just EA haters at heart and stuck on the thought that this game is trash

Most of us hate EA because 1) They install nastyware on our computers in a futile attempt at copy protection and 2) We see the potential in the Sims games, and hate to see how badly EA screws them over with lack of bug-testing, listening to the community, etc.