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[simfan]

Its not a  question of being lazy, I have a mac and no access to a PC. I would gladly do it myself if i could.

Wrong. This has been covered numerous times. You are being lazy. Learn how to search and stop expecting the rest of the world to cater to you.

Oh dear, I thought the world would stop turning and help me, but I guess I only managed to get peoples kitties in an up roar.

[Whisper]

Howdy ho!

Have there not been made a .package or a set of packages (that do not come in 20+ parts) containing all the Store items? After Fast Lane most of the packages started conflicting.

[Moryrie]

I finished making one last night (I was mostly making sure the clothing categories were correct, because townies in speedos, kilts, leiderhosen and wedding gowns at inappropriate times annoyed me), I think mine is between 7 and 10 packages total, but I haven't gotten the chance to test it yet, and I'm not sure I want to upload it.

Have you tried merging them yourself? It's not that hard. Or you could go the decrapify route, which is 'easier' apart from the fact that you can't fix things.

[Whisper]

Well, if you want a tester *wink wink nudge nudge*

[Moryrie]

I'm not using that computer at the moment, but I'll see about uploading when I get home later.

[OmegaStarr]

Or you could go the decrapify route, which is 'easier' apart from the fact that you can't fix things.

what do you mean "fix" things? I thought going the decrapify route was the thing to do now, over package files.

[Tingeling]

Sims3packs decrapified before Pescado fixed the program doing so are unusable. The only way to go about it is to find the original files and decrapify them using the newest version of the "decrapifier". As for merged package files, I suspect what Moryrie is trying to say is that there is no way to reverse the process. That is, if you merge package files once, you can't unmerge them and erase single files. You have to find the original package files and merge them. This information is readily available to find on the site when performing a search. If you ask again, be ready to be sporked.

[Thunderwolf]

Thank you Moryrie!

So let's see, what is not included in the files for sure.

Toyota ECO set 1
Toyota Set 2
Shakira Poster
Sport Jersey from football events
And what other stuff?

I'm asking it to have a full collection... and maybe someone else is interested as well.

[Moryrie]

I'm not including those, the free sponge t-shirts, the orange t-shirts (Though I did include the patterns from that shirt) the Dr. Pepper concert shirts, or  the two free T-mobile shirts.

They're all free, they're all readily available, and I don't have any use for those specific files. The Toyota stuff is all crappy duplicates of the Renault stuff, so everyone SHOULD just use the Renault stuff. The 2nd Toyota set is plastered with ugly, 'Buy Toyota' ads, and unless someone replaces the textures on all that with blankness, I see no worth in including those.

If you want them, grab someone else's set, not mine, decrapify and install, or just do a normal launcher install, because they're all free anyway.

edit: I May consider including the extra Prius stuff, but only the stuff in the celebration pack that isn't duplicated in the Renault pack. But only if other people want it as well. And I won't include it until I need to update the packages again for new stuff.

[ejk]

Thanks Moyrie for the excellent work of reclassifying all the clothes!  I'm really looking forward to testing it all out tomorrow. I do not normally reply to posts on MATY, but I thought you especially deserved comment for your efforts.  Thank you.

And if you do not mind a quick question, that I'm going to ask even if you do mind, the "Never the Bride" (blue dress with pink bow on the front) dress from the "Romanza Bridal Party"set keeps being assigned to my pregnant Sims despite it not having a pregnancy mesh; Has this been fixed in your packages?

[Moryrie]

Ah, yes, I noticed those being classified as pregnant, and I didn't know about a lack of mesh, so I left it as is. But, you'll never see it if it is chosen unless your pregnant ladies wear formal wear often. I will see about fixing that if I can find what file they were in, eventually.

[ejk]

Hey, I'm good with not seeing it on every damn pregnant Sim as everyday wear!  It's funny for non-pregnant Sims with the Insane trait for random giggles, but otherwise that dress is pretty nauseating.

Thanks again!

[MegAnne]

And I won't include it until I need to update the packages again for new stuff.

Moryrie, any chance you could upload a zip/rar/7z of the directories with the single packages, before the merge?

[Thunderwolf]

Actually I'll use your set Moryrie. But I'm a completist, so I'll download the few things, you don't want to have in your set.

[Moryrie]

And I won't include it until I need to update the packages again for new stuff.

Moryrie, any chance you could upload a zip/rar/7z of the directories with the single packages, before the merge?

I didn't think to do that. The names are all listed in the packages, so I could, create such a file. I'll see about doing that in the near future? Faster if you don't mind sloppy snips instead of a nicely typed list.

Also, about updates. I plan to more or less, take the smallest file, merge everything new with it after fixes, upload it, and delete the old file, just so the number of packages stays small. Does anyone object to this method or have any better ideas?

[rum nate]

Well, Barnacle Bay is now in the store, and it does cost 1650 points.

[Claeric]

Are the objects and clothes included as part of the world, or are they a separate file?

I know there was already a pirate pack but I am sure it didn't include the pirate ship rabbit hole or anything.

[Moryrie]

It's an all in one thing. I'll extract all the items, and make the clothing un-random and merge it with the file that has the (now disabled for maternity) bridesmaid dresses and upload it in a bit. Anyone who actually wants the world, is strongly advised to decrapify and ignore my method entirely as package file worlds don't work so well.

[Claeric]

Oh, I was just curious. I'm excited for the world.

There's tons of bitching and moaning on MS3B that it's "too plain" and "too expensive"(they're all going to pirate it anyway so what the fuck do they care?), but I can guarantee you it'll be solidly put together.

[igottapi]

There is also a Refer-a-Friend thing going on. There are 2 clothes set for participating in it. Too bad Im broke/cheapass to get some simpoints lol.

http://store.thesims3.com/referAFriend.html

[Claeric]

The world's okay. It has a lot of campground lots, and lots of the parks are "unincorporated", that is to say they don't have edges and look like they're built into the landscape. There are some cute houses too.

The color of the beaches...is actually my biggest problem with it, it's ugly as hell.

[Lissy]

There is also a Refer-a-Friend thing going on. There are 2 clothes set for participating in it. Too bad Im broke/cheapass to get some simpoints lol.

http://store.thesims3.com/referAFriend.html

Actually the whole point is that you have go sucker a non-cheapass friend into buying SimPoints through your referral link. If it all works as it should, you will both get one of the outfits, and you as the referrer will get 'free Simpoints' (they don't say how many, so it's probably going to be something laughable like 50 points...)
I think it has to be their first bundle, though, for you to get any of the sets.

[Roobs]

Too bad the beaches are that sickly pee yellow colour.

[jezzer]

Too bad the beaches are that sickly pee yellow colour.

That might actually get Puddingland started up again.

[JaneCrayon]

Problem with Barnacle Bay... I cannot install it in launcher. I decrapyfied *.sims3pack, put it into downloads folder and installed through launcher and then closed it. But when I launched that stupid launcher again, Barnacle Bay wasn't installed and it isn't in game. What did they do with that tool of E(A)vil? I can't install any of *.sims3packs...