Awesomod discussion/questions/helpful tips thread

[Belfire]

I'm new to the site, but I found the Awesome Mod a couple months ago. I enjoy it alot, especially the Add Trait code. But lately, when I start the sims, it said it expired. I've tried reinstalling it, but it keeps saying the same thing. What do I do?

[coconnor]

I'm new to the site, but I found the Awesome Mod a couple months ago. I enjoy it alot, especially the Add Trait code. But lately, when I start the sims, it said it expired. I've tried reinstalling it, but it keeps saying the same thing. What do I do?

You go to the AwesomeMod thread and download a new copy.  You might also want to redo the Aweconfig file.

[kuronue]

coconnor, your icon just seems perfect for all these "too stupid to read" bullshit questions lately XD

[coconnor]

coconnor, your icon just seems perfect for all these "too stupid to read" bullshit questions lately XD

Thanks, Kuronue!  You had one with a pirate's hat not too long ago, right?  I remember thinking how fitting for the site it was.   I did a Google search on avatars, actually, and of those I liked, picked the one I thought fit the situation. Patience is not really a virtue of mine, so I thought it fit; besides "MATY" like cats, etc. 

I do, however, usually try to give everyone the "benefit of the doubt", which often does not work in my favor.  I think I shall refrain from speaking to the hardcore Retardolanders ... I prefer to ignore them, but was recently "sucked into the vortex" with "Qwueefbum".  Stupidity on my  part.  I just need to learn to be "meaner".  Should "sharpen my claws" for real life situations in these forums with those that have proven themselves unredeemable.  Otherwise, "meaness" is also not one of my virtues, although sometimes I wish it were.

[Inge]

I'm new to the site, but I found the Awesome Mod a couple months ago. I enjoy it alot, especially the Add Trait code. But lately, when I start the sims, it said it expired. I've tried reinstalling it, but it keeps saying the same thing. What do I do?

Troll!!  Sockpuppet!!!

[kuronue]

coconnor, your icon just seems perfect for all these "too stupid to read" bullshit questions lately XD

Thanks, Kuronue!  You had one with a pirate's hat not too long ago, right?  I remember thinking how fitting for the site it was.   I did a Google search on avatars, actually, and of those I liked, picked the one I thought fit the situation. Patience is not really a virtue of mine, so I thought it fit; besides "MATY" like cats, etc. 

Yeah, my old one was from back when PMBD launched and everyone had them. I don't change often XD

[kittie]

I have a child sim in my town whom I want to adopt into my household. When i go to adopt her using the awesomemod it says that she already has parents. Is there a way I can get around this and adopt her anyway? I have looked throughout the town for a household that now lists her as a part of their family to no avail. I figured the game must "pretend" she has parents so she cannot be adopted back into my family (accidental child neglect).

[IreneDAdler]

I have a child sim in my town whom I want to adopt into my household. When i go to adopt her using the awesomemod it says that she already has parents. Is there a way I can get around this and adopt her anyway? I have looked throughout the town for a household that now lists her as a part of their family to no avail. I figured the game must "pretend" she has parents so she cannot be adopted back into my family (accidental child neglect).

I would just track her down and, with Testing Cheats enabled, Shift-Click on her and select "Add to Active Household."

[kittie]

I have a child sim in my town whom I want to adopt into my household. When i go to adopt her using the awesomemod it says that she already has parents. Is there a way I can get around this and adopt her anyway? I have looked throughout the town for a household that now lists her as a part of their family to no avail. I figured the game must "pretend" she has parents so she cannot be adopted back into my family (accidental child neglect).

I would just track her down and, with Testing Cheats enabled, Shift-Click on her and select "Add to Active Household."

Thats the thing. I'm having trouble tracking her down! I found I could invite her over to party when I threw one, but couldn't add her to active household.

Nevermind i got it figured out. i invited her over for a party and did the testingcheatsenabled thing. thanks for giving me the idea

[Gastfyr]

Is there a way to force the game to believe a want has been fulfilled when it has in fact been fulfilled, but the game is being stupid and pretending it hasn't been?  In TS2 we could just ctrl+click on the want, but that doesn't seem to do anything in TS3.

[Buzzler]

If a member of a non-played non-sacred family gets pregnant due to player's intervention or the player adds a Toddler which was made in CAS, will the family (try) to move to a lot with a crib if there's no crib on the current lot? With ASM enabled, I mean.

[J. M. Pescado]

Yes.

[shinygobonkers]

I've a question...was lurking around the site and read on another thread that Pescado had added new traits to the game? Is this besides the pedo related and chosen ones, and if so, would anyone care to edumacate me as to what they might be?

[Gastfyr]

I've a question...was lurking around the site and read on another thread that Pescado had added new traits to the game? Is this besides the pedo related and chosen ones, and if so, would anyone care to edumacate me as to what they might be?

Teeldeer, TeeldeerImune, Narcalepsy, and Incontinent AFAIK.  Don't quote me on those spellings, though.

[joefish]

Someone told me that the awesomemod allows you to force a pregnant sim to go to work. Is this true? and if so how to you do it?

[Pywakit]

A CV to post to a game site? I think I just lost control of my bladder at that one. What are the prerequisites, graduate degree OK?

[Marhis]

A CV to post to a game site? I think I just lost control of my bladder at that one. What are the prerequisites, graduate degree OK?

No. Too many idiots have one or more degrees. The problem is to discern fucking idiots from tolerable people, but hey, that's an everyday problem anywhere.

[moosemonk]

Someone told me that the awesomemod allows you to force a pregnant sim to go to work. Is this true? and if so how to you do it?

Ctrl-shift-c to open the cheat console,then type 'backtowork'

[Sniegparsla]

I'm not sure if it is the right place to ask my question, but I thoght its better than open a new thread:

When I'm trying to play my game with the awesomemod the game crashes to desktop after 5 or 10 minutes playing in Live mode. No error, nothing.
I have deleted the Cache Files, the scripterrorpackage, there are no other mods in my game, only some patterns and custom hairs. I have the newest version of the awesomemod and the newest version of the EA patch.

When I start my game with the same custom content as mentioned above and without the awesomemod everything works fine and there are no crashes.

I would be very glad if somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong or what I could do to make my game accept the mod without crashing all the time.  

[J. M. Pescado]

I have not seen any sudden CTDs in the current version, so check that you have it. I will look out for this, though.

[Sniegparsla]

thanks for your answer.

I couldn't figure out what the problem could be. Twice i was able to play for more than several minutes, but it still happens every time after a while. Maybe some kind of voodoo again.... 

[Steele]

Hi,

Just wanted to ask what does the setting "AutoSavesToKeep" do.

I'd like to make assumptions but the description "Autosave Every X Minutes (0 to disable)" does not seem to match the title. My first impression that it keeps 2 saves before overwriting the previous hence the "2" setting. Just wanted to verify this.

Thanks.

[Rockermonkey]

Where can I find the traits?  

They don't show up in the section for traits in CAS...


EDIT: Dang, I am stupid. Never mind, found it.

[kimmyfrmtx]

Hi,

Just wanted to ask what does the setting "AutoSavesToKeep" do.

I'd like to make assumptions but the description "Autosave Every X Minutes (0 to disable)" does not seem to match the title. My first impression that it keeps 2 saves before overwriting the previous hence the "2" setting. Just wanted to verify this.

Thanks.

AutoSaves = how many saves to you want to keep

AutoSave Every x minutes = how often to you want it to save?  every 20 minutes?  Hour?

RockerMonkey = that question is answered several times a day hour.

[J. M. Pescado]

AutosavesToKeep selects how high the autosave number will go to. So if you select AutosavesToKeep as 2, the game will actually keep 4 autosaves. Autosave0, autosave1, autosave0.backup, autosave1.backup, although only 2 will be loadable outright.

Autosaveinterval controls how many real-minutes seperate an autosave. If your game is paused or in build mode at the time, the autosave will occur after you unpause.