THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[sanmonroe]

Someone asked what happens when you have a whole town that is related. Well I amtesting that.

Picture of a child playable ghost.

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and apparently this is what can happen if you have no jealousy (which TS3 does not really have) and a sim with all the romance/loving traits, perks, and the fertility perk (100% impregnation rate with high chance of twins/triplets).

Yes that is 4 pages of family tree babies.
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Apparently evil women hate noisy birthday parties and sneak up on their victims.

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[WearsHighHeels]

I kept trying to click on grimmy and plead for the dad's life....But there was no option to save his life,

If your Sim has some logic skill points there is an option to "Play Chess For Life" or something like that. Sort of lame you have to beat him at chess as opposed to beg. I didn't really want to save the sim in question, so I did not click it. Wonder how good Grimmy is at chess? Lol.

[Angelo]

I kept trying to click on grimmy and plead for the dad's life....But there was no option to save his life,

If your Sim has some logic skill points there is an option to "Play Chess For Life" or something like that. Sort of lame you have to beat him at chess as opposed to beg. I didn't really want to save the sim in question, so I did not click it. Wonder how good Grimmy is at chess? Lol.

At least you don't have to play Battleship and Twister with him.

[Chain_Reaction]

Has anyone else noticed the "Hey guis! Lets all go out in the yards and stares at teh tomatoes plants!1"? I built a house across from the Bachelor's and every evening the entire fambly piles out of the house and just stares at the garden for hours then when it gets dark, its back inside. It's like they have cannabis planted and are frantically waiting for it to mature so they can feed their addiction!

[Zazazu]

Twister with Grimmy would be great.

Yes that is 4 pages of family tree babies.
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Oh my goodness. Someone needs to learn to keep it in his pants.

Question: Is it a good sign when party guests end up passed out on your floor?

That's Kaylynn Langerak, sister of my starter-sim Olive's husband Parker. She did not transfer well to TS3.

[Chinaberry]

I had to come out of lurkingdom to tell of the bug I've found.  I have a family of 3 roomates that are pretty much unplayable due to a jump/freeze bug.  Invisi-sims with only footprints visible before they "jumped" outside, and objects saying that a sim is currently using them when they aren't.  The rest of the town had some issues too. 

This is what happened to my sleeping sim.......




At the library......




Some sort of Vulcan body meld???..........

[diskoh]

Since I'm conducting some genetics tests, I figured I'd take a moment to test the speed between zoomed on grass and zoomed in on Sims.

Zoomed in on grass: in one real minute, 4hours 16 minutes Sims time elapsed.

Zoomed in on Sims: (who, because their motives are maxed, were just standing around): in one real minute, 3 hours 5minutes Sims time elapsed.

Thanks for that info

[Soggy Fox]

I found for myself that keeping testingcheats enabled on borked my game by making sims go invisible, and making it impossible for the game to save and exit.  So, I have turned it on, tweaked, and then turned it right back off.  It might cause other problems as well.

[morriganrant]

I found for myself that keeping testingcheats enabled on borked my game by making sims go invisible, and making it impossible for the game to save and exit.  So, I have turned it on, tweaked, and then turned it right back off.  It might cause other problems as well.

It has been nothing but on for me, and I have yet to see any issues arise. I have played the game for at least 7 hours a day since I've had it installed. So maybe coincidence? Your configuration? Your copy of the game? Some combo thereof in addition to debug?

[CharleeRose]

I just wanted to let you all know that someone posted over at Snootysims that they have recieved the Prima Guide early.  I'm not sure how helpful it will be because I've only just started reading it myself but it can't hurt, right?

Here is the link http://snootysims.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29573

ETA: I just got around to reading the cheat code section in this post and saw "edit in cas - takes the sim back to Create-a-Sim allowing you to make full physical and personality changes".  I'm very cureious as to how this works.  Anyone willing to test it out on one of the horribley ugly demon spawn?

[TashaYarrr]

Hmm, I always run with testingcheatsenabled on. I have not had jumps or invisisims. Maybe it matters what you do with it? I pretty strictly use it for teleporting and dragging up motive bars, and I do both very frequently. Probably 18 hrs or so total gametime.

[LFox]

I just wanted to let you all know that someone posted over at Snootysims that they have recieved the Prima Guide early.  I'm not sure how helpful it will be because I've only just started reading it myself but it can't hurt, right?

Here is the link http://snootysims.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29573

ETA: I just got around to reading the cheat code section in this post and saw "edit in cas - takes the sim back to Create-a-Sim allowing you to make full physical and personality changes".  I'm very cureious as to how this works.  Anyone willing to test it out on one of the horribley ugly demon spawn?

It seems like all the options under testincheats had been changed into actual cheats that are typed in.  Some of those look to be very useful especially the throw into cad edit one.  DEATH TO FUGLY TOWNIES.

[CharleeRose]

I just wanted to let you all know that someone posted over at Snootysims that they have recieved the Prima Guide early.  I'm not sure how helpful it will be because I've only just started reading it myself but it can't hurt, right?

Here is the link http://snootysims.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=29573

ETA: I just got around to reading the cheat code section in this post and saw "edit in cas - takes the sim back to Create-a-Sim allowing you to make full physical and personality changes".  I'm very cureious as to how this works.  Anyone willing to test it out on one of the horribley ugly demon spawn?

It seems like all the options under testincheats had been changed into actual cheats that are typed in.  Some of those look to be very useful especially the throw into cad edit one.  DEATH TO FUGLY TOWNIES.

I was thinking the same thing.  Maybe EA decided to dumb down debug mode so idiots that didn't bother to learn how to use it properly wouldn't be able to explode their games with it.

[ciane]

A few have reported that the cheats listed at SnootySims aren't working for them; such as "shazaam" to give lifetime happiness points to the active sim. I wonder if they aren't typing the cheat correctly or just misunderstand the cheat, i.e. it might only apply to the active sim rather than the whole household. It might be nice to confirm if the cheats are all working or if there are problems with certain versions or systems. The "force opportunity" by clicking on a career building seems like a great way to recoup some lost opportunities while checking on a different family and the "make happy" for everyone in the household also seems like it could replace "maxmotives" as the most frequently used cheat.

[diskoh]

A few have reported that the cheats listed at SnootySims aren't working for them; such as "shazaam" to give lifetime happiness points to the active sim. I wonder if they aren't typing the cheat correctly or just misunderstand the cheat, i.e. it might only apply to the active sim rather than the whole household. It might be nice to confirm if the cheats are all working or if there are problems with certain versions or systems. The "force opportunity" by clicking on a career building seems like a great way to recoup some lost opportunities while checking on a different family and the "make happy" for everyone in the household also seems like it could replace "maxmotives" as the most frequently used cheat.

i selected a sim, opened up their lifetime happiness to see if it moved when i entered the cheat... opened the cheat menu, typed shazaam, and it says "unknown command: shazaam."

[LFox]

I was thinking the same thing.  Maybe EA decided to dumb down debug mode so idiots that didn't bother to learn how to use it properly wouldn't be able to explode their games with it.

People stupid enough to make their game expode with debug mode deserve it and should not be using it to begin with.

On the note of cheats i believe for some reason they may actually require debug mode on actually use them.

[CharleeRose]

Either the Prima is full of crap (which wouldn't shock me - EA does love to change things after giving Prima the information).  Or they just aren't working in the version that has been available on the torrents.

I guess we'll just have to wait until June 2 to find out if they work in that version.  I'm not holding my breath though.

[ciane]

Diskoh, are you using the Rzr or Rld version? I am curious if the version might make a difference.
CharleeRose, I also think it is possible certain cheats, initially planned, were taken out later.

[mandababy]

I tried having testingcheats enabled, and typing in some of those cheats, they didn't work, it would say what someone already mentioned, "unknown command" I was very excited to see the edit in cas one! I hope it will work with the final game, so I can fix the messed up genetics my children seem to get, like the multiples births coming out, with 2 very different skin tones.

[diskoh]

Diskoh, are you using the Rzr or Rld version? I am curious if the version might make a difference.
CharleeRose, I also think it is possible certain cheats, initially planned, were taken out later.

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[CharleeRose]

CharleeRose, I also think it is possible certain cheats, initially planned, were taken out later.

Yes, ciane.  That's what I was getting at when I said that EA loved to change things after giving Prima their information. 

[coltraz]

Well shit, that "edit in CAS" cheat would have been a god send for dealing with some of these fugly ass Sims populating the 'hood.   

[LFox]

I have tried the edit in cas cheat with and without debug mode on with and without spaces it doesn't work.  I got the reloaded version btw.  The idiots probably took the cheat out.

[Lum]

Well, if you have the Razor or the Reloaded to Razor versions and type 'help', a new command --at least, one I didn't see with the plain Rld version-- says something like 'toggle on/off toddler to grow up and become NPC'.

I'm guessing it means you can make a toddler grow up and make him uncontrollable? Sounds kinda interesting.

[EdenNintyNine]

I am getting the feeling that the difficulty of ‘epic' parties in TS3 has been greatly reduced. I've thrown a few now, including one wedding party, all of which have given been ‘near epic'- to paraphrase the in game dialog. Just to satiate my own curiosity, during my wedding party (the last one I held) I had one of the grooms ‘Play for Tips' before and after the marriage interaction; I did not decorate, cook food, or in any have my other sim socialize with the guests- one of which was one of my grooms ex-boyfriend, though how that factored into his enjoyment of the wedding I am not yet sure. In the end, every guest left and the party was a resounding hit.

So either the mastered guitar skill is amazingly powerful, or parties have become a lot easier. Has anyone else noticed this? Are your experiences similar or different?