THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds

[TashaYarrr]

[BTW, it took WoW for-freakin-EVAR to implement achievements.  Warhammer's Tome of Knowledge is great though.  I wish I could have persuaded some of my WoW guildies to jump ship with me.

ToK was my first introduction to that kind of concept, yeah. We played a bit at launch, got sucked back into WoW because of stupid Lich King and blew a few more months there. I think I may be over MMOs but I do think WAR deserved more credit than it got.

And this is on-topic because...um...skill journal achievements! I need to go cook 6 perfect dishes.

ETA: I just did a search on 'gnome' and it came up with way fewer results than seems realistic, so I guess I'm asking: has anyone *seen* the evil gnomes move, or that part of their creepiness? Mine has definitely changed position several times since my sim kicked him and then picked him back up, but I never see him move. Reminds me of that Doctor Who episode "Blink".

[Zazazu]

They teleport into the new movement. It's pretty instantaneous. Yes, I've sat there and watched them for hours to catch it.

I like the achievements, but then I used to go after those dumb "stickers" on MSN Games and such. I just want my control back. I now suspect that Dusty, who I left when I decided to follow Hunter & Eugenia, is pregnant again as she was thinking about nausea at a birthday part for Hunter & Eugenia's daughter. Dusty was only supposed to have one spawn.

[TashaYarrr]

Ah, thanks.

Has anyone been able to get kids to garden? My outdoors kid had a wish to buy some produce and the text said something about gardening, but she cannot plant them, interact with the family garden, or read gardening vol. 1. Suck.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Out of curiosity, I've seen several people say that the free neighborhoods are up for download already as long as you register.  Has anyone with the 'arred version been gutsy or stupid enough to register the serial they used?

[Trinity]

Has anyone looked into adoption at all? Specifically, I was wondering if you could put your own sims at the front of the adoption pool by having them taken by the social worker, like in TS2. Thanks.

I have only seen it once but I don't think it works like that anymore. Last night I was playing a family that had twin toddlers, and they were taken by the social worker. I wanted them back as they were spawn of the fireman and I wanted to test the pyromaniac trait. I switched houses and had a neighbor try to adopt, she got a new toddler girl.  I was looking through the hood and saw one of them through the neighbors window, I found the other one at another neighbors house. I cheated to get them back, all their relationships are the same, but I seemed to have borked them because they can't be aged up with the cake, only with testingcheats.

[TashaYarrr]

Out of curiosity, I've seen several people say that the free neighborhoods are up for download already as long as you register.  Has anyone with the 'arred version been gutsy or stupid enough to register the serial they used?

I can say with 99% certainty that keygen'd serials will not work. It's pretty harmless to try, though. This is where people will really have to decide whether to plunk down that $50--if CC is limited to the exchange for a while, it could get tempting.

[Skadi]

Sublime Sims will have TS3 content once the Australian launch occurs (June 4). So I don't think you will be limited to the exchange.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Well, that's certainly nice to know!

[LauraW]

My house is stuck in a moving mode. I can't go into edit neighborhood and change families. Michael Steel married Darlene Bunch and I moved him and his spawned motherless baby to the Brunch house. The baby never moved but stayed suspended in air in the empty house. I decided to see if the social worker would take him and sure enough after about 12 hours, the social worker took him away. But the hood is still stuck in move mode. I can't even move out Darlene's ugly brothers.

Anyone else have this problem or have a suggestion? I guess I could start over but was hoping there might be a way to get out of move mode.

[BlueSoup]

I find it very weird that my Sim's lifetime wish is only to make it to Level 9 of the Science career, not level 10:

[DigiGekko]

The career based LTWs are a bit scattered. The business one is only level 8, while others go up to 10. The higher ranked LTWs give a little more points, too.

[lingeringviolet]

It would be really nice if they kept a tally somewhere of the number of books a sim has read for the wish to read fifty books and similar ones like it. Apparently a small counter on the wish is too much to ask for.

[J. M. Pescado]

Oh, those all seem to be printing errors. They are actually level 10, IIRC. For instance, the military "astronaut" one, I believe claimed to be level 9 (Astronaut was L9 in TS2), but it is L10 in TS3.

[Roflganger]

It would be really nice if they kept a tally somewhere of the number of books a sim has read for the wish to read fifty books and similar ones like it. Apparently a small counter on the wish is too much to ask for.

I'm seem to remember that the writing skill journal keeps track of the number of read, which led me to wonder if the number of books read increases the quality of those written.

[DaSpecialone]

Out of curiosity, I've seen several people say that the free neighborhoods are up for download already as long as you register.  Has anyone with the 'arred version been gutsy or stupid enough to register the serial they used?

I can say with 99% certainty that keygen'd serials will not work. It's pretty harmless to try, though. This is where people will really have to decide whether to plunk down that $50--if CC is limited to the exchange for a while, it could get tempting.

What they're offering so far on the exchange isn't at all impressive.   They'll have to put an ounce of effort into it if they're hoping to tempt anyone.

Mine had that one two BlueSoup.   I wonder if anyone has a lower level LTW?  It would make sense that a slacker wouldn't care about succeeding.

On another note, it's ridiculous that you can hire a maid but not a gardener.    It takes a sim hours to keep several healthy plants or a lifetime to grow them all.  Really would you miss work or hire an assistant gardener?    Hobbies (like gardening exotic plants) could be interesting if it wasn't for odd quirks like that.   Like ladybugs.   Great for a garden--but you can only donate them to science not release them into your home garden.   Couldn't anyone connect those simple dots?

Oh, those all seem to be printing errors. They are actually level 10, IIRC. For instance, the military "astronaut" one, I believe claimed to be level 9 (Astronaut was L9 in TS2), but it is L10 in TS3.

I thought that at first too but then she reached level 10 of that career which is "Mad Scientist."

[BlueSoup]

It would be really nice if they kept a tally somewhere of the number of books a sim has read for the wish to read fifty books and similar ones like it. Apparently a small counter on the wish is too much to ask for.

They do have a counter, in the skills journal under writing.

Oh, those all seem to be printing errors. They are actually level 10, IIRC. For instance, the military "astronaut" one, I believe claimed to be level 9 (Astronaut was L9 in TS2), but it is L10 in TS3.

Mad Scientist is Level 10 though, and this wish is indeed Level 9.

[lingeringviolet]

I'm seem to remember that the writing skill journal keeps track of the number of read, which led me to wonder if the number of books read increases the quality of those written.

You're right, it does; I just went in game to check. I suppose I should give my self sim the absentminded trait.  

[J. M. Pescado]

You don't want to do that. It's the most annoying trait in the game: Actions will randomly drop from queue.

[Caraleede]

You don't want to do that. It's the most annoying trait in the game: Actions will randomly drop from queue.

What happened to the most annoying trait in the game being "Pescado"?  Actions are randomly interrupted to replace with more awesome actions?

[J. M. Pescado]

Are you trying to be funny?

[dorquemada]

Hit my first bug, seemingly harmless -- the sim hit teen years and  his pop's icons everywhere now shows him as a kid. Sometimes it reverts back, but just for a short time. Looks like visual annoyance, because the game treats him as an adult, but -- not sure if it's connected -- opportunities completely stopped coming for him.

Also, Marathon Runner achievement is a waste of space. The guy with it dutifully kicked the bucket on his 90th day, but his sister with no skill lived well into her 95th. Haven't noticed any benefits from Dirt Defiant perk either.
 

[lingeringviolet]

You don't want to do that. It's the most annoying trait in the game: Actions will randomly drop from queue.

Unfortunately, I've done that already, although not a self sim as I tend not to make them. I made an evil / mean-spirited / insane / brave  / absentminded sim to be the emperor of evil in the criminal career track. She was pretty fun except for the random queue stompage and that irritating "duuuuuh" sound they make from the absentmindedness.

(The self sim comment I made previously was a lame attempt at self-sporkage.)

[Quill]

I've been playing for about a week now and I've been reading the thread.  I've seen a few of the bugs others have reported, but I've got one that's really pissing me off.  I just noticed today that the daughter of two of my sims is missing one of her traits.  I distinctly remember being able to choose her traits, since I'm annoyingly controlling and generally pretty good at keeping them happy.  I created her with Excitable and Friendly as a toddler, and when she grew from toddler to kid she got Bookworm.  She's still got the toddler traits, but she's missing Bookworm.  Her brother has all of his traits, and he went through the same process, including being created as a toddler. 

It could be that I somehow canceled her traits after adding them.  It's very easy to not add a trait you think you've added to the list, but I think it warns you if you try to leave the window without filling all the trait slots.  Anyone able to confirm or deny that vague memory?

Also, a request for a mod - Gardening for idiots: macro - Fertilize all that need fertilizing with X.  It's very difficult to see which leafy green plants need to be fertilized without clicking on them, and I've got a gardening sim.  If it turns out that different types of plants do better with different fertilizer, it could be based on plant type instead of all types.  Also, as someone mentioned before: macro - Turn on all sprinklers.  Which idiot thought it was a good idea to make us click on each of them to turn them on, and to turn them off?  It's an exercise in frustration. 

[LFox]

Missing traits is a known bug.  It tends to happen most often when the window with traits on your sim is open when selecting them.  However my last kids a set of twins for some reason when aging up to young adults only had the option to add a 4th trait and not a 5th.  Overall the trait selection is screwy.  Always check your traits after selecting them and if some are missing use debug mode to click on your sim to open the trait selection again.

[Roflganger]

Haven't noticed any benefits from Dirt Defiant perk either.
 

Dirt defiant significantly slows down hygiene decay for my Sims.  My nonathletic Dirt Defiant Sims only need a shower around every 3rd day.