THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[Peggy_Leggy]

Here are mine, if you'd like to look at more screenies.

Those countertops are seriously rocking my world.

[rufio]

How do you "Donate money to undermine a charity"?  My Evil sim rolled that wish, but I don't know how to even start fulfilling it.  Is it a random event, or something?

[Zarifeke]

If it is anything like the "Good" trait's option to donate to charities, then you click your mailbox and it should have some donation options. Otherwise, I dunno!

[coltraz]

Cheers for those Zazazu. Interesting viewing for those of us still lacking in TS3.

Here are mine, if you'd like to look at more screenies.

Great pics. Thanks for sharing them. Are the Sims in your pics yours or pre-mades. If they are yours, you did a very good job. I am thinking I will get used to the new look. But we really, really, need new hairs and make up. 

Those are my Sims, except for the guy in the bed on the left, this one and these two. Yeah, being able to make your own tends to result in nicer looking Sims than what we've seen.

Still don't enjoy them that much, but they're not as bad as I feared they would be.

Here are mine, if you'd like to look at more screenies.

Those countertops are seriously rocking my world.

Thanks. CAST is rocking my world. I never thought I'd use it. But I do, all the time. I used to worry that EAxis would include fewer meshes because they thought "Well you can just recolour the same ones so they won't get tired". I was pretty annoyed they would do that, and I think they did include fewer meshes, but, ahem... they were sort of right...  .

[msalwaysright]

My favorite, seemingly insignificant thing so far is the 'no auto handrail' option on stairs. Any handrail can go with any stair=pretty cool.

[Zazazu]

It'd be even cooler if we could texture those. It's an odd choice not to include that feature.

Has anyone checked the library after having a book written? I just had my bookworm hit the library for some new books to read, and found her son's first novel "The Secret Life of a Degenerate Path".

[TashaYarrr]

Hmm, no. Will have to have my writer sim make a vanity visit.

It's kind of awesome that the bathtubs have surfaces where you can place candles/bubble bath/rubber duckies. (Ducksworth of Bathington, heh. I approve.)

[rufio]

I have noticed the writer sim's books showing up in the library, however they don't seem to show up in the bookstore.  Maybe it's because my sim already owns them and it wouldn't make sense to buy more copies?  Or because the game can't figure out how to price them?

[Acid_fairy]

My sim was level 3 in the science career and one day he got offered a job at the same level but in the medical field. I think that's a pretty cool feature.

[vagabondher]

I like that you can sit on the edge of the bathtub. I had created a John Connor Sim out of boredom (Terminator was on at the time) and I put him in a house and didn't supply any new furniture, to keep it as desolate as I could, and when he made himself a sad little PB&J sandwich he went and sat on the edge of his tub and I thought it really fit with a sad image of someone who can't even afford a table.

[phyllis_p]

Neat tip - apparently, you can age a sim at -any- time.  Just put down a cake and have them blow out the candles. 

Thought I'd mention that this works for any Sim on the lot.  When my twin teens became YAs, one of their boyfriends was a YA already and one was still in high school.  I wasn't sure how long the one in high school would take to age naturally, so I put a cake down for him and had him blow out the candles too.  Just have any active Sim click on the cake, and a dropdown list with everyone on the lot except elders should show up.

[coltraz]

Is it impossible to put items in a Sim's inventory? They put things in their own, but can you no longer put, say, a sofa in their inventory? If so HOW?!

[daisywenham]

How do you "Donate money to undermine a charity"?  My Evil sim rolled that wish, but I don't know how to even start fulfilling it.  Is it a random event, or something?

It's done through the mailbox. 

[jello]

hahahahahaha

One of the townies is named "Gobias Koffi"--and he's a nevernude that looks just like Tobias Funke. That's awesome.

[vagabondher]

hahahahahaha

One of the townies is named "Gobias Koffi"--and he's a nevernude that looks just like Tobias Funke. That's awesome.

Gobias some coffee.

[BlueSoup]

Is it impossible to put items in a Sim's inventory? They put things in their own, but can you no longer put, say, a sofa in their inventory? If so HOW?!

Well, you can drag stuff into their inventory, but if it doesn't fit, you can put it into the family inventory.  That's done in buy mode, and right underneath the sort items by room and function, there's a box.  That's the family inventory.

In other news, it sucks that the Death Flower plant goes barren after two harvests, but I guess you can always replace it.  I actually do like that the other plants and trees go barren after a few harvests so you can replace them with better quality plants.

Also, where is the money tree seed found?  Anyone know?

[alli]

Can you recolor everything with the color wheel? Not just in CAS but in actual playing? (I'm sure thats stupid, but I'm wondering about the logistics of how it works) Any chance of a screen shot or something?

My computer won't be able to run the game at all, so I'm living through y'all right now! At least until I can justify the cost for a new rig. Which will be a while.

[Mixreality]

hahahahahaha

One of the townies is named "Gobias Koffi"--and he's a nevernude that looks just like Tobias Funke. That's awesome.

He's a playable, and he's gay (btw, is there any sexual preference at all?). There's also a Funke family in the bin.

[J. M. Pescado]

He's a playable, and he's gay (btw, is there any sexual preference at all?). There's also a Funke family in the bin.

As far as I can tell, there is no attribute for this. In TS2, there was an attribute, but it did nothing out of the box. I have not found such an attribute in TS3.

[coltraz]

Is it impossible to put items in a Sim's inventory? They put things in their own, but can you no longer put, say, a sofa in their inventory? If so HOW?!

Well, you can drag stuff into their inventory, but if it doesn't fit, you can put it into the family inventory.  That's done in buy mode, and right underneath the sort items by room and function, there's a box.  That's the family inventory.

In other news, it sucks that the Death Flower plant goes barren after two harvests, but I guess you can always replace it.  I actually do like that the other plants and trees go barren after a few harvests so you can replace them with better quality plants.

Also, where is the money tree seed found?  Anyone know?

I must be pretty dense, but how the hell do you drag anything into their inventory? The only way I can move a sofa around is if I'm in buy or build, and if I'm in either of these modes, the inventory is stuck in the live mode UI and thus inaccessible.

What am I missing ?

[literatebse]

Can you recolor everything with the color wheel? Not just in CAS but in actual playing? (I'm sure thats stupid, but I'm wondering about the logistics of how it works) Any chance of a screen shot or something?

Everything but stairs and fences.  Check out YouTube -- it has some videos showing this off.  One you may enjoy is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28g9uProQc

When checking out Sims 3 videos on YouTube or Google Video, be sure to sort by date -- older ones will usually have been removed for "copyright reasons".

[DaBuschckah]

hahahahahaha

One of the townies is named "Gobias Koffi"--and he's a nevernude that looks just like Tobias Funke. That's awesome.

YES. When I heard there was going to be a Nevernude trait, I had hoped to make me a Tobias...EA gains points in my book just for this.

[BlueSoup]

I must be pretty dense, but how the hell do you drag anything into their inventory? The only way I can move a sofa around is if I'm in buy or build, and if I'm in either of these modes, the inventory is stuck in the live mode UI and thus inaccessible.

What am I missing ?

Switch to the inventory tab in live mode, and then just hover over the item in live mode, left-click and hold down the button and drag it to the inventory window.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Can you recolor everything with the color wheel? Not just in CAS but in actual playing? (I'm sure thats stupid, but I'm wondering about the logistics of how it works) Any chance of a screen shot or something?

Everything but stairs and fences.  Check out YouTube -- it has some videos showing this off.  One you may enjoy is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28g9uProQc

When checking out Sims 3 videos on YouTube or Google Video, be sure to sort by date -- older ones will usually have been removed for "copyright reasons".

I think the mood candle can't be recolored either.  At least I can't get it to.  I think there are a couple of other small things, too.

And I see that the game crashing after enabling the testing cheats is still a staple.  Trying to age my toddler (because the damn cake doesn't want to age him) resulted in a crash to desktop.  Sadly, my sim had just had the baby girl she wanted, so now I get to go through labor all over again.

[alli]

Can you recolor everything with the color wheel? Not just in CAS but in actual playing? (I'm sure thats stupid, but I'm wondering about the logistics of how it works) Any chance of a screen shot or something?

Everything but stairs and fences.  Check out YouTube -- it has some videos showing this off.  One you may enjoy is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28g9uProQc

When checking out Sims 3 videos on YouTube or Google Video, be sure to sort by date -- older ones will usually have been removed for "copyright reasons".

Thanks for the youtube link. Looks like a blast. Finally being able to have matching wood grains! About friggin' time.