is there a way to turn off opporunities or allow the sim to decide themselves?

[tides]

so i can let the sim live on their own?its kind of absurb that i have to decide if kid a can go to kid b house or if kid c can come to my house :/
and when an opporunity pops out it pauses the game so i cant really do something else while playing the sims 3:/

[Bonzodog]

... keh?

[chaos]

You do realize that you can just cancel the opportunity, and thus you don't have to accept it, right?

[J. M. Pescado]

[tides]

i want to stop it from popping up , so i can get out of my house and my sims still continue with their lives.
so i dont have to "play" it, instead just let it run in the background.

[chaos]

Are you really so lazy that you can't click the X on a popup window? It's really not that hard.

[tides]

look, did you even bother to read the past 5 posts?
i said that i wouldn't be AT the computer. so how would i even beable to click on the X?!

[chaos]

You wrote that you couldn't "do something else" while running TS3; you didn't specifically state that you'd be away from the computer. Either way, it doesn't make much sense to me. Eh, to each his own.

[tides]

i want to stop it from popping up , so i can get out of my house and my sims still continue with their lives.
so i dont have to "play" it, instead just let it run in the background.

=/
i dont get why the game cant be like simcity where you can let it run in the background while you do something else.

[Inge]

Well lots of poeple are letting their games run by themselves so there must be a way.  Don't these popups time out?

[simsdesperado]

No they don't. They also come up when a sim calls your sim and the game asks you if your sim wants to take the call.

[gamb]

ISSPR allows you to let the game run infinitely without you doing anything.

[gamb]

Your link is broken, and Indie Stone conflicts with Awesomemod.

So it is, oops.  So far as I know, there's no other mod that allows you to disable opportunities and the like, so...there's not much else the OP can do.  He could always do a wolfing run on Indie Stone, and then swap Awesomemod back in when he actually wants to play.

[crunk]

Your link is broken, and Indie Stone conflicts with Awesomemod.

So it is, oops.  So far as I know, there's no other mod that allows you to disable opportunities and the like, so...there's not much else the OP can do.  He could always do a wolfing run on Indie Stone, and then swap Awesomemod back in when he actually wants to play.

Unless he's running with Supreme Commander, in which case doing so will bork his game irreparably.

[tides]

thanks , will try indie, sounds good cept that i read it makes decisions for my sim :/
i want my sims to make decisions for themselves >.< the mod says that it will make decisions that would make my sim another sim >.<
whats supreme commander btw?is awesome mod good? i heard that the new patch does alot of things that the awesome mod does so it isn't really that awesome anymore =D

[edalbformat]

I saw two xml mods that were supposed, one to make opportunities to happen more often by changing the number of days it will take between two opportunities. I also want to switch off those opportunities just because most of them are far too stupid and I also agree with the thread starter. My TS2 is modded that I don't need to make small decisions just the ones that affect the story board that I created. And sometimes I play both games at the same time (different computers). It is very boring for me to decide if my Sim is allowed to make every small decision. It is bad enough that I put two sims to talk with each other, they stop and shake the body and don't continue unless I tell them. Sometimes the questions are not even necessary and it is not 100% right that they do not make decisions by themselves. I got a message that a child would come from school with my sim and I agreed in the hope he got a new friend. Instead he went to play in the playground and didn't come home with the supposed visitor. The boy got bored and went home and they didn't even got to meet each other (very funny aren't they in the same school? You visit a school fellow that you never met?)

I changed the xml to be between minimum 80 and maximum 90 days in the hope it would never happen in a sim life time. It seems that I used figures beyond the reach limit.
It is not that I want to reduce opportunities, I don't want them to happen. Whatever done seems not to affect anything in game. Either mine or the downloaded xml mods.

[Motoki]

So it is, oops.  So far as I know, there's no other mod that allows you to disable opportunities and the like, so...there's not much else the OP can do.  He could always do a wolfing run on Indie Stone, and then swap Awesomemod back in when he actually wants to play.

Unless he's running with Supreme Commander, in which case doing so will bork his game irreparably.

Eh. I've run back and forth between the two and with running SC while using awesomemod and so far now issues.

[tides]

buuump, could anyone help out ? make a mod or something?

[Marhis]

BUMP?????

If nobody posted anything more so far, maybe nobody knows how or don't want to. Get over it.

DO NOT BUMP.

* Marhis smacks the n00b with a rolled up newspaper

[CheritaChen]

Did you try Indie Stone like you said you were going to do? The effect you want is available, in that form. If you want to make a separate mod that does this, I'd suggest starting by examining that one. I don't believe bumping your request for someone else to do the work is going to make it happen.

Aww, Marhis, why'd you abandon the swirling cock jock? What did he do to deserve this?

[jolrei]

I like the Pope Palpatine avatar.  I keep expecting the capshun to be "Unlimited POWER!!!11".

[kemowery]

I like the Pope Palpatine avatar. 

I second this.  Also, Pope Palpatine is SFW, which is where I usually end up reading MATY.

[CheritaChen]

Is THAT who that is? Damn...I guess it's not that surprising I'd not recognize him, me being sort of allergic to religion in general. [ETA: I'm afraid I'd have to include Jedi as part of my generalization, too. But I can still be entertained by their antics.]

Also, Pope Palpatine is SFW, which is where I usually end up reading MATY.

You've got me there. Good thing I saved that .gif for later use posterity.

[tides]

no indie stone works differently,the way indie stone works is that it makes a family run while you're not playing it,
i want the game to NOT pause.
like i want to have the sims 3 running and playing while i go out for dinner / play another game(say CS or dota) and come back to find it not paused.
right now , phone calls and opportunities will pause the game, so say like if i go out for dinner/play another game , i will find it to be paused with a "someone wants to go to your house/wants to chat/do this for boss(and so on)"

>.<

i dont think it would be hard to turn off opportunities as someone have already made an opportunity mod (this one increases the freaquency sadly.)
and to turn off the phone >.<

sadly , i have no experience in modding the sims and would like help.

[fatkitty]

Is this common...people running the game for hours without actually playing it?
I could see stepping away from the computer for a minute and letting it go by itself but for me, going out to dinner takes hours and I'd never let me game run unattended that long.  I actually like to play the game while I'm playing the game.   Just curious.