THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[Inge]

Having analysed that a large part of my reluctance to start up Sims 2 to play comes from the complexity of managing all the families and remembering what they should be doing, I am tentatively welcoming legacy style play

[brownlustgirl]

Remember the screenshot at Snootysims, the couple that were expecting and the hospital in the background? Oh man, the family is growing in leaps and bounds! My sim is trying to befriend her cause she is his boss, but visiting her house sucks. Everytime I go, she got a new baby. The weird thing, she is at work everyday and never looks pregnant. I think they have 5 kids now, an infant, a toddler and one kid and 2 teens. WTF!

I am glad I am playing the torrent and not the purchased game, this will piss me off. In need of awesome fix definitely.

[daisywenham]

I saw some questions about the money tree seeds before.  Not sure if it's been answered but I got a money tree seed from an opportunity where I had to bring 10 very nice fruits/veggies to the restaurant in exchange for some stuff. 

[Ryslin]

Interesting I will watch for that to show , as it is I dropped that "wish" for growing one til I come across it.

Money is a pain, but this is a good thing. Thus why I was playing the get stuff for food mini game. It is likely that one can tailor this to cheapy style by choosing the favorite food to be something extremely simple. My fault for choosing steak.

mm steak.

Anyway..Relationship is taking it's sweet time. Friends with benefits is what I have so far. Book writing for fun and profit is reasonable. Hacking is amusing but not much different than writing for profit, as far as what you are seeing. I wonder if we can get arrested or found out by the local superspy.
I have a bit of difficulty swallowing this small bedroom community is has not only a super spy training facility, but a space program and an elite science lab.
However this saves me loading screens so I will deal with it.

Anyone else getting a comic book vibe from the setup?


My major worry is I see no means of feasibly having sims from other time periods functional in this neighborhood. One of the damned addon packs better be neighborhood creation or I will find a pitchfork and shove it up EA.
The lab changed to the Sorcerer's training hall , the military building into a keep, Town Hall could be redone cosmetically. I don't mind the rabbit holes at all. SimCity Societies was the same way if you followed a sim around.

[simsdesperado]

Has anyone found the money tree seeds or the death tree seeds?  My girl wants to grow those stupid things and I haven't found them yet.  I guess she needs to go back to the catacombs, where she found the Life Tree seeds.  Not really sure what the Life Tree plants do for you yet though.  I let her eat one and nothing happened.

ETA - I love gardening, esp not having to plant after every harvest

Eating a Life Tree fruit added a day to my sims's life. As for the money tree seeds I got them from the random scattered seeds around the ground. My tree also dropped a seed after some time.

[teaislovely]

I really love tea, Inge

Can anyone help me with the collecting business? I had my sim collect a crap load of gems, metals and space rocks. He's getting them cut and smelted etc but what do I do with them now? Is there anything more interesting to do other than sell them?

[vilia]

Raise the environment of a room?

[teaislovely]

Oh yes, I didn't notice they where doing that. I wanted to put them on display somewhere else I suppose. They are cluttering up my house!

[asmadasrabbits]

I read a few people saying that the genetics are now 50/50, but my red-haired sim and his black-haired girlfriend somehow managed to pop out a brown-haired baby. Anyone else had something like this happen to them? Their other two children have red hair and black hair.

[mistyk]

Has anyone found and unknown seed? My sim found a seed that was unknown and uncommon, she needed level 5 gardening just to plant it, it is now a sprout but still says unknown.

[simsdesperado]

Has anyone found and unknown seed? My sim found a seed that was unknown and uncommon, she needed level 5 gardening just to plant it, it is now a sprout but still says unknown.

I found that with the unknown seeds you find out what they are only when it's time to harvest.

Oh yes, I didn't notice they where doing that. I wanted to put them on display somewhere else I suppose. They are cluttering up my house!

I put mine in the family inventory as cause I had a burglar attempt to steal them. If they bring an OFB type of expansion I will try to use them to make a shop. It would have been nice if they allowed us to make them into jewellery or something, or at least give them away as presents. The meteorite rocks are displayed in my yard, they make nice lawn decorations and the stupid repoman sometimes takes those instead of the more useful stuff off my sims house.   

Anyway, I noticed the frame paintings option is back. Was anyone able to remove or recolour the stupid frames?

[J. M. Pescado]

Has anyone found and unknown seed? My sim found a seed that was unknown and uncommon, she needed level 5 gardening just to plant it, it is now a sprout but still says unknown.

I just wanted to mention that your avatar looks REALLY STUPID and that I HATE YOU.

[teaislovely]

I thought you might be able to make jewelery also! Maybe in an expansion, that would be pretty cool.

Not sure why but I'm really loving how my sim has ended up with a million things in his inventory. I have a Dr sim who is also a writer, she's constantly stressed and never gets to speak to her husband/kid. The dads unemployed but fishes all day and then looks for gems the rest of the time. The kids totally neglected which is bad because he has the friendly trait which apparently means "your social bar will dive into the red if no-one speaks to you for 30 seconds".

In conclusion, I am really enjoying this game.

[Fun]

I don't mind the rabbit holes at all. SimCity Societies was the same way if you followed a sim around.

Being like SC Societies really isn't a good thing though.

[TashaYarrr]

Just verifying a couple of basic things:

--In the create-a-style mode, it is loading the individual materials etc every single time? It's okay on PC, takes forever on some of the other crappier machines in the house. Didn't this kind of thing used to get cached?

--No recliners in game yet?

[simsdesperado]

Did anyone had the pop up message appear about the repoman coming for not paying your bills, and then inspite of being able to pay your bills BEFORE the guys comes, he still shows up and takes your stuff? It happened to my sim twice and I hope they fix it even if it's a "feature". I mean that's double the damage, my sim paid the bills, why take her stuff away anyway?

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Ah, about that diaper changing ordeal, I should have mentioned that the bladder level was all the way down.  It's been a while since any couple of mine in Sims 2 had a toddler, but I swear that you could change their diaper once the level was all the way down?    Geez, at the very least, if you have to wait until they're a stinking mess, the game could try letting me know that I can't do that option (like graying it out, since it seems to like doing that with everything else) instead of having her throw her child into the air again and again without success.  Or brain damage.

Did anyone had the pop up message appear about the repoman coming for not paying your bills, and then inspite of being able to pay your bills BEFORE the guys comes, he still shows up and takes your stuff?

Well, actually what I had happen to me was I'd paid my bills two days before the bastard came to my house and took my stereo.  Obviously, bills paid in full =/= repoman taking things.  Unless he's a klepto or just an assclown.

[coltraz]

I'm not sure if anyone else is as irritated as I am with how ridiculously complicated it is to merge fresh families. As in, making a family and then deciding later that I wanted to move in a long lost lover, relative, or what-have-you. For some reason, I also did not have the option to pack my stuff while combing the households, do I have to buy moving boxes or something?
In TS2, I moved out and merged sims left and right, trying to keep my households fresh and enjoyable. This is an irritating step back for me.

Also, I'm a little concerned about the "Copy To Town" option. It seems to be available for sims I already have placed down. Would this create a highly unwanted townie clone of that sim? It smells like a VBT.

Sort of related to that...

How do you put objects in Sim's individual inventory? I had one Sim moving out of his parents house and I wanted to bring furniture. All I could do was put it in the fambly inventory, and when he moved out he obviously didn't have it.

[bubbs]

Open the kids backpack and go into buy/build to drag whatever you want him to have to the backpack.  That is what I did to move things from one backpack to another.

[kattenijin]

Huh, apparently my first "issue"; on the gems and ores you send out, how long does it take to get them back? I've sent a bunch out, but haven't had any returned.

[TashaYarrr]

Huh, apparently my first "issue"; on the gems and ores you send out, how long does it take to get them back? I've sent a bunch out, but haven't had any returned.

Seemed like it only took a day or two--make sure you're checking the mailbox for "Get Mail" and not just "Pay Bills".

[daisywenham]

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet:  I'd motherloded a family up to around $200k so I could move them into a house I'd built.  Sent mom into town to go shopping, clicked on the theater and there's an option to become a partner for $18k.  Apparently she gets a share of the profits and some other junk and also has the option to buy out the other partners for $40k now.  Kinda cool.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Hm, changing diapers is still not working correctly, it seems.  Kid soiled his diaper, so I tried to have her remove it to boost his hygiene back up, but no go.  Still not changing, and apparently, I can't give the little bastard a bath either.  Had to max motives so she could stop being disgusted by the stench.  Well, even if I hadn't picked the insane and neurotic traits, he'd definitely have them after all of this since he's been left to swim in his own filth.

[daisywenham]

Update on the money trees: they produce bags of money which can be cashed in but not planted (boo).  My first harvest got me I think $433 from 3 bags.

[GayJohnScarritt]

Has anyone found and unknown seed? My sim found a seed that was unknown and uncommon, she needed level 5 gardening just to plant it, it is now a sprout but still says unknown.

Look moar, there's also Unknown Rares and Unknown Special seeds.  There's only one Unknown that you'll know immediately after planting what it actually is, and that's the Money tree from a Special seed.  You'll be able to deduce what it is by it's picture.

Edit:  Oh, i guess if you see a tree in a planted Unknown Uncommon, it'll be a Lime tree.  Unless besides Apple, Lime and Money, there's another 'Tree' out there, my sim has only planted 84% of the varieties.