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[rum nate]

New store set is up, Fifth Avenue Fashions. It's Mad Men inspired and costs 1350 simpoints.

[Capitaine Marie]

A new world, "Dragon Valley," is coming out next Thursday; it can only be purchased with Simpoint Bundles:  http://store.thesims3.com/dragonvalley.html?categoryId=12642.  The "Dukes of Bow Renn Faire" venue can be purchased separately with Simpoints:  http://www.thesims3.com/community/blog.  Premium content included with the Renn Faire will be the Armored Black Dragon, an archery range, and a violin. 

[iToxic]

Dragon Valley Gold Edition
Link by http://butterflysim.tumblr.com/

[rum nate]

Dragon Valley (which someone already posted) and The Duke of Bows Renaissance Faire are officially in the store now.

[Tyty]

Hello,

I do not know where to post this:

Dragon Valley:

 
http://adf.ly/PmiyD the fix
http://adf.ly/Pl2t9 the world

[INateYou]

What exactly is the world fix?

[witch]

Dragon Valley Gold Edition
Link by http://butterflysim.tumblr.com/

Can anyone confirm this is untouched and the correct download? I'm not sure about this comment:

This link is from My Site.. And you will not be able to download .. This unavailable .. Soon we will be with a new download option. =)

http://www.thesimstg.com/2013/05/mundo-vale-do-dragao-ouro-dragon-valley.html#more

Never mind, the link is dead anyway.

[notouching]

Hello,

I do not know where to post this:

Dragon Valley:

 
http://adf.ly/PmiyD the fix
http://adf.ly/Pl2t9 the world

Use the fixes here. This fix is unnecessarily huge (and also incomplete) because it's just the whole packages for some of the dragon stuff.

[Madame Mim]

Hello,

I do not know where to post this:

Dragon Valley:

 
http://adf.ly/PmiyD the fix
http://adf.ly/Pl2t9 the world

Use the fixes here. This fix is unnecessarily huge (and also incomplete) because it's just the whole packages for some of the dragon stuff.

I don't know about fixes, but the link is to what I think is an already decrappified copy of the world. It installs without complaint. I'm now going to check what it looks like in the game.

edit: Definitely installed without me having to decrap so it'll be good for Mac users but other PCers might want to wait for a clean version.

[Tia]

Is there a way to delete a mailbox and when you replace it not have it keep spawning non existent mail? I am having trouble with the mailbox spawning non existent mail.

[Capitaine Marie]

Can anyone confirm this is untouched and the correct download? I'm not sure about this comment:

This link is from My Site.. And you will not be able to download .. This unavailable .. Soon we will be with a new download option. =)

http://www.thesimstg.com/2013/05/mundo-vale-do-dragao-ouro-dragon-valley.html#more

Never mind, the link is dead anyway.

The link IS valid.  Just scroll down and select either "MEGA" or "4Shared."  I downloaded it, so I can verify it is untouched.

The Duke of Bows Ren Faire is also available at the Sims TG now:  http://www.thesimstg.com/2013/05/store-feira-renascentista-duque-dos.html#more.

This is untouched as well.

[virgali]

How do you guys verify if the files are untouched or not? I can only check if I have both decrapped and untouched files since there's a difference in file size.

[kissing_toast]

How do you guys verify if the files are untouched or not? I can only check if I have both decrapped and untouched files since there's a difference in file size.

If it installs no problem, if you can open a .package from it, if the group # is all zeros. Nothing too special.

[notouching]

How do you guys verify if the files are untouched or not? I can only check if I have both decrapped and untouched files since there's a difference in file size.

I just take the sims3pack and extract the package files from it, first thing after downloading. If the packages can be opened without having to do anything to the sims3pack, the sims3pack is not untouched. Like KT said, you can tell the difference between decrapped and s3rc because decrapped packages don't have any 0x01 group IDs.

[virgali]

*Facepalm* I knew I was missing something obvious. I appreciate the no sporkage.

[Jennel]

I paid for the Duke of Bows Ren Faire just for the violin : my mistake.
Indeed there's a problem with it : when my sim plays the violin, there is no bow.
Is there gonna be a fix ?

[notouching]

I paid for the Duke of Bows Ren Faire just for the violin : my mistake.
Indeed there's a problem with it : when my sim plays the violin, there is no bow.
Is there gonna be a fix ?

If you did not decrapify your Duke of Bows Ren Faire, you don't need a fix. Just keep re-installing the sims3pack until it shows up. It might take several tries. You don't need to uninstall first. See this post.

If you did decrapify your sims3pack, then you do need the fix here.

[virgali]

The link to the venue in this post leads to an untouched version of the venue. I extracted the .sims3pack no problem and the packages open just fine with s3pe.

[Frank]

Once again,here's my "cloud" of store files.

http://sdrv.ms/U3MPZO

The files are loosely organized by their type,such as Branded Content,Clothing (single piece items),& so on.
There's several files there that aren't in the store anymore at this time,off the top of my head.

Be sure to run them through the decrapify tool,as well as look in KT's section to see if you need additional files for missing items.
Has the 3 latest files,Dragon Valley,Renaissance Faire,& Fifth Avenue fashion.
Total file count as of June 2 is 606 store files weighing in at 6.75 GB

[coolkips]

Corrupt (Not a DBPF) when downloading items from The Exchange.

Is there any solution for that?

For example:

Dragon Valley Festival Lot
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7344881

I try downloading using _http://llnw.thesims3.com/7344881.Sims3Pack or using the link provided here.
And I actually got the same HASH

CRC32: 8C2CC238
MD5: 8E94CE7056DAE5FAF1DDFB7351DD46B7
SHA-1: E804560E76CB7425305B4B95303D5102685FE5F9

After that do decrapifying process, always result FAILED installing:

Installation failed: Please make sure your game has the latest Software Updates and try again.

Note: I'm using latest Patch 1.50 and all EP/SP installed upto UL. I'm able installing any sims3pack (including World and Official Store Items). The only problem is the items from the Exchange (and Festival Lot are there). 

[notouching]

This started happening on the exchange when they did something to lot the icons. It's not something that is going to harm your game. Just download the lot from the exchange, decrap and install via the launcher or extract the package to put in the library.

[rum nate]

There's a new set in the store, Nautical Living. It's currently on sale for 950 simpoints.

[Menaceman]

I'm expecting a sporking for this, or possibly just being ignored, but what would cause the concrete fence from Lucky Palms to show up in my catalogue twice?
It's a decrapped version of LP I have installed as well as the casino lot.
Both versions function as they should, they have a name and price in the catalogue. The only difference it that one is marked as store content and the other is marked as custom content.
To make sure it wasn't something in my mods I removed them all and ran the game again and I still get duplicate fences.
This was also happening with the Barnacle Bay barnacle fence but I've uninstalled BB and the fence now anyway as I have no plans on using them. The LP fence I would like to keep though.

[Sigmund]

I actually have the same problem, and just kind of ignore it. I assumed I installed it somewhere more than once. I'm using the decrapped LP, too. Do you have KT's fixes or anything?

[kissing_toast]

I was going to suggest maybe a patch is doing it. I've got doubles as well. No big deal.