Perfectionists can definitely "point out flaws" too -- my newest Sim has that trait, but is not a snob, and he gets the option.

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Thanks for the answers on aging/story progression. For some reason I thought old existing games would continue, even if they weren't being actively played (like Virtual Villagers does) -- I guess I got confused because I kept reading about Sims getting married/pregnant/cheating etc. without the knowledge of the player and I couldn't figure out how you could miss something like that when the Sim is right there on your screen ... I now realize that's just how story progression works with non-active households in the currently active game. (this is why I keep stuff like that turned off)

I've been away from the sims community for a few months and now that I am getting a new computer, i would want to play sims 3. I remember when it first came out, people had problems with slow time & story progression.For example, the 3rd or 4th Speed for time was the same speed as the 1st speed, and for story progressions, male households would have a babies appear in their backyard. Has this been fixed yet with the patch and/or mods?

Yes and yes. Both work as promised now. But other patches have borked other things. I think my game is two or three patches behind. I by-pass the Launcher to play the game via a shortcut to the Executable. Just how I do it, there may be other ways that other players use. Also, I don't use mods. Just my thing, I don't have anything against those who play with mods added.

So I guess this would be a stupid question, but even if it isn't, I don't see a place where I can ask it other than here, so:

I got this CC- http://forums.modthesims.info/download.php?t=391737 for rabbithole recolors and I want to base the rest of my rabbitholes off those for an era-specific town I'm working on.
How on earth do I do that? I've looked everywhere I can think for some type of tutorial to tell me but I haven't found a thing. Can someone help me, please?

I finally have a sim who's a rock star in my game, and I thought they will then be able to sign autographcs for fans, but no interaction of this sort seems to be available.

Does holding an autograph session show up under work options? I've not had a rockstar before.

The other day I discovered that I had an 'enroll in school' option on the computer for Children/Teens that I assumed came with a Part Time Careers mod that I got from this site.
Then I managed to screw up my game and I had to re-install HELS to get it to work.
So, it all gets working again, but none of my part time jobs are there, and neither is the 'enroll in school' option.
I also can't find the mod again on this website, and even though all of my other mods work, this one doesn't.
I was just wondering if anyone else had the Part Time careers mod, and if they had it working? Because, I can't seem to find it anywhere :/

You should have the option at the community theatre once you are level 10 in the rock star branch.
I think it's only there once a week or something though, as in, you can't do it a lot, the option only shows up a certain amount of time after it's been previously clicked.

kellyann.x.X: Maybe you should update your mods, if it's the same part time job I have, it's Twallan's mod. And thanks for the info about the rockstar

When placing a pre-made home (EA created) on an empty lot, and it doesn't meet right at the sidewalk, does that mean it doesn't fit/ won't work?

Nope. It will work fine. If the new lot is larger than the old lot, the game centers the old lot on the new lot. Unfortunately, there's no way to change that (for instance, slide it to the edge). You'll just have to extend your front path to the street



You mean you want to make your own, additional rabbit hole recolors? Rabbit holes are large objects, and can be recolored the same way (AFAIK). You'll find recolor tuts in the tutorials section under Create, and you can get more help in the modding forum there. ("Creating for | Sims 3 | Tutorials" and "Creating for | Sims 3 | Modding Discussion")

Really? Omg thank you I was getting soooo frustrated. lol

Edit: I looked and apparently I need programs I can't even get access to. =[ And I'm not even sure which programs I actually even need.
Sad day.

Is there anyone that might be willing to do recolors similar to the ones in the link? http://forums.modthesims.info/download.php?t=391737 I desperately want them...

Awe boo. Thanks.

That greatly annoys me. Hopefully they fix that (although I'm sure they would have by now if they had that intention) because what a pain in the rear!
Bums me out. lol

Useless feature IMO

dizzy, MTS doesn't have a forum for requests. We do, however, have a thread in WCIF where creators who are willing to consider requests post: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=392614

If anyone in that thread indicates that they are willing to do object recolors, you should pm your request.

Actually they MIGHT fix it with Ambitions. They're adding the ability to place new lots, and "modify" them. Rodiek said "One of the features we're most proud of is adding the ability for players to add, remove, and modify lots in edit town." Dunno what's included in "modify", but that might be it

And even if you don't get ambitions, chances are these changes will be in the patch that comes at the same time, like they did with basements in WA.

In my most humble of opinions, they were stupid to do away with 'ploppable' lots in the first place. I hope that it returns (at least in some part) with Ambitions.

This, is the king of stupid questions

I went into Game the other day, because even though I cant afford TS3 yet -after a year D: But I need a new pc so that comes first- anyway I saw this http://www.game.co.uk/Games/PC-Game...a-Sim/~r346860/ and I wondered if anyone had it and what it does?
I looked on The Sims website but they didnt say anything about it. Is it like Bodyshop was to TS2??

It is to TS3 as the Creature Creator was to Spore: it is just the Create A Sim section - I guess you could say it is like Body Shop. So you can create a sim and design it and style it, but I'm pretty sure you can't do anything else with it.

Ahhhh that makes sence thanks
I feel like an idiot now, I sat there for ages on the floor going...eh?

I thought the gym, pool, library, and parks you can go inside of them? I can go into the library and pool, but I am unable to go into the gym. Does anyone else have this problem?

TheTasteOfInk - you aren't the only person confused by it. When it was announced there was a thread here and most of the people who commented were confused until we realised what it was.

etruxell - what neighbourhood are you in? Is it the default gym?

Im in the default neighborhood, sunset valley or whatever. and yeah its the default gym. Can you go inside it and interact?

You can go inside but you can't see your sim when they go in and they can't interact unless they are at work.

seriously? I thought you were able to see the work equipment and other sims

shouldnt I be able to see that? (I got that off of google images)