There is no interaction called "error!" in the game, as far as I know. So I'd rather think that this is a bug in PortraitPanel, Maybe you should report that at NRaas.

Most nerd interactions, btw, are autonomous.

A quick question - When two different rabbitholes are placed in a single lot, would both of them work as intended?

Yes, Sunset Valley has a single lot with a Supermarket, Theatre and Bookstore on it.

I have a household of a guy and his plumbot.

Do the usual stuff to get an alien abduction - get space rocks and use the telescope.
Every single time the alien grabs the plumbot. But what we're doing here is trying for an alien baby.

I tried sending the plumbot to the library during promising alien abduction hours... but then nothing.

Is my human sim that ugly? How can I get the alien to grab my human male sim?

Why not try splitting up the household before trying the abduction scenario? Since the aliens only try to abduct the actives and not the townie ones?

I actually have the opposite problem. The aliens always try to abduct my Sim, and what's funny is, they only try it when my poor Sim is making love with his wife. They only do it just for laughs. Is it the WooHooium metal that my poor Sim picked up the culprit in all those love-related abductions?

I was working on debugging it and found that there were problems with the mods I have installed that messed up game play. I had NRAAS retuner set so that if the telescope was used it was a 100% sure that I'd get an abduction event. Send the plumbot to the library at Midnight to read for 3 hours. No aliens. Remove another mod and try again.

Then it was just a matter of removing mods that might be messing it up. The mod causing the problem was a work in progress thing, just a matter of finding a prior version of it that still worked.

Is there a mod, other than Awesomemod, that allows better genetic blending of two Sims' offspring? Because that's pretty much the only AM part I really use and if I can find a 'smaller' alternative, that'd be cool. (I don't want a town full of clones of either mom or dad...)

Yes, the other contender in the field of genetics is NRaas StoryProgression. Its Advanced Genetics feature comes with the SP Population add-on module. But I'm pretty sure you have expressed some level of aversion to using SP for progression in the past, and although not a Core Mod like AM it's not a standalone feature so not sure it would qualify as a "smaller" alternative. Just a different one.

With or without Advanced Genetics though, I still get a fair amount of parental clones as kids in my worlds. Maybe around 10-20% of the time? Different players' experiences seem to vary. Using MC to re-roll the genetics (PlayWithGenetics) a few times on an existing offspring sim can help resolve that, but it does take some player intervention once the offspring is old enough for this effect to be noticed.

My stupid question of the day is: Why are people hopping mad at EA for now? Something about Starwars Battlefront (ugh! Not my kind of game) being DLC greedy and some jurisdictions are saying it's gambling?

Sounds like EA is turning into a band of pirates. I want to see a decent Sims 5, but hope for that is dying...

Ever since The Sims 4 came out, I've been looking forward to and hoping for a decent Sims 5.. But it seems it might be a bit naive to think they're actually gonna make something better than Sims 4, unfortunately :/

Because EA thought they could make a AAA title a "freemium" game and no one would notice or complain.

They were wrong.

ETA: I haven't seen them get hell like this since the borked-beyond-belief release of Sim City 2013.

For me, in all it's un-optimized glory, Sims 3 is the last Sims game. Even though Sims 4's Build Mode (aside from the pool fiasco) is the best in the series, its gameplay is too bland and the Sims too lifeless for me to enjoy it.
Who knows? Maybe in Sims 5, the base game would only be composed of Create-a-Sim and Live Mode. Then the Buy Mode and the Build mode would be bought separately.

Don't give them ideas!

I have some apartments I built myself, using shells from Late Night, but my Sims (both NPC's and ones I've made myself) seem to get stuck a lot inside the hidden rooms. There aren't any doors or anything to the hidden rooms, I don't quite know how they get there. Has anyone else experienced the same, or have an idea how to fix it?

Yes, sims are known to spawn in the hidden rooms. The easiest fix I've heard of is to go into Edit Town mode and add regular doors to the hidden rooms so that the sims can get out. Or you can remove the Hidden Room marker and just paint the floor and walls black. (This requires going into buydebug and looking for them.)

It's almost (maybe exclusively) always ground floor hidden rooms where this happens. Sims who are not part of the active household, whether they be true NPCs like Service/Role Sims or members of a different household, often go into a state of hibernation when they are at home. They instantiate (materialize) when the game calls upon them to do something, it's time to go to work/school, etc. When they do so in a locked out or hidden room with no doors, they unfortunately get stuck and need to be reset -- this is a frequent source of lag for many in worlds with LN style apartments as the game constantly keeps trying to re-route them.

I usually remove the private/hidden room markers, put a public room marker there instead, and (at least) give them a regular door so they can get out when I catch this happening otherwise it will continue to do so. Or maybe tear the walls down if the hidden space is very small to begin with. Others who do want a range of private/hidden rooms for NPCs to retreat into with proper NPC doors will choose to put them all on higher floors when they can. The ground floors of most of my apartment buildings have laundry and rec rooms in them now in place of the once darkened out traps waiting to mess things up.

Ah I see, that makes sense, should be a fairly easy fix then, thank you both!

So if I download baby clothes CC can I just use MasterController to dress the baby or do I need any other mod to enable non-burrito baby clothing? I would try it out myself but my sim hasn't had her baby yet

I don't have it myself, but I have seen AshleyBPlays use CC baby clothes and she used MC -> Stylist Room to 'put the clothes on' for babies.

If I have Seasons and IP installed, is there a way for me to avoid having my active Lifeguard Sim not get affected by temperature? I had moments where I had to 'take a break' from lifeguard duty, to send the Sim into a house because they had the Sweating Profusely moodlet.

Does the BFF Skill Award work.
 

Supposedly, if you match 30 sims on the Relationship Transmorgifier (that comes with the University Social Networking skill) with the Romantic Interest or Partner relationship you unlock the "Best Friends Forever" (BFF) function. Well, I matched 30 different sims with "romantic interest", and now the whole town is about to break out in civil war (opps... some of them had other Romatic interest or Partners... but I need the BFF, ya know? And I could fix the problems as I found them out.)

So I have the "Star" in the Skill Journal showing it's unlocked, but no BFF function. Anyone know how to work this?

I am not sure MC alone can do that unless a default replacement skin is installed. There are links to mods to replace the default skin for babies that will let you see your babies arms and legs. See Babies and Toddlers Here Default Replacement Baby Skins.

To change clothing you can do that using MC or Stylist. I am not in game right now so can't provide a path to the mod but have MC HotKey for"Outfit" which allows you to click on the Sim and then in the pie menu under NRaas Outfit. I believe the cheats module is needed.

Is there any way of changing the color of a fairy's wings? (Not when creating them in CAS, as I know how to do that. I mean in play.)

If I remember correctly, you can turn testing cheats on, then shift+click (or possibly ctrl+click) on the fairy sim to enter CAS from play.

What is "forbidden fruit" and why do my gardening sims keep wanting to plant some? I've never seen it even in buydebug.

Ooh, it's delicious. Your sims should try some, they'll love it!

Okay, just kidding. When your sim harvests forbidden fruit, they either get an edible/plantable forbidden fruit that if eaten has the potential to turn them into a Plant Sim or, if they play their cards right, they can harvest a Plant Sim baby.
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Forbidden_fruit

That's really weird. I've had them work for hours on that thing and never had that thing pop up. I had a sim turn a seed into an enchilada once though.

Nraas SP question... I want the basegame school to be the elementary school for kids; I went into Lot Options -> Cast: Disallow and locked Teenagers out. I went into Caste: Require, but I saw no 'Children' option, so I just clicked the basic ones (male/female/homeless/young adult), so as to not lock any adults out from an opportunity there or from not being allowed to take skill classes. (The other school I have in, the IP one, I put Teenagers into Caste: Require) I put a family into town with one child and used MC to Choose School. It lists 2 elementary schools... did I do something wrong? I don't have a teen in town right now because I'm still populating.

And the Showtime careers of Acrobat, Magician and Singer... do they have a 'schedule', too, like Ambition-profession NPC Sims? Will they have a schedule to follow or could they appear on any lot, any time of the day/night because of free time?

OK, I'm not allowed to cancel a wish once it's promised. But I accidentally promised a wish to play the piano at a party. It looked easy enough: he was just invited to a party. Playing the piano at that party didn't fill the wish. Granted; the party started with him helping himself to a quick meal from her fridge and using her laptop while he waited for the hostess to actually arrive at the house, and when she got home she went straight to bed, so it wasn't really much of a party. (It might have been more of a party if he had joined her, but he didn't.)
Then he threw a party of his own. Playing the piano for his two guests didn't fill the wish, either.

What do I need to do to fill that wish?

Hi CatMuto - There are more settings and or mod modules that will factor in to assign schools depending upon how you want them in your game. See I would like to have different sims attend separate schools in my town and Add more Schools - Add more school types - Assigning Schools on the Education and Schools Page at NRaas

I play with an Elementary School, High School and have some sims going to venues to learn a trade which is their official school.

If you need more help with SP and school assignments members at NRaas play all different ways and you mignt find a better answer than what I have provided.

Is there any way to stop the generation of performers and paparazzi in a unpopulated world? It doesn't make any sense for them to be there in my first gen of Nothing is Free.

I fulfilled this wish not long ago, and if I recall, my sim did the "Perform song" or something like that, so maybe it depends what type of music playing action you choose, jamming might not do. My other tip is, if you have been "Performed" without fulfilling, that maybe at least one sim has to stop and "Watch" or "Dance" by the piano because this qualifies as an audience?

OK....
So I'll throw a party with one guest and no entertainment of any kind other than the piano. Food, etc. will come out after the guest has watched him perform.

Did EA really leave the children out of using the electronic gate from LN, or is something broken in my game? Because when I click on it with a child sim, there's no option to ring, just the greyed out Visit/Visit with... Now the kids can't even visit their grandparents unless they linger in front long enough for someone from the house to come out and then ask them to go in.

Hello @Ghost sdoj - Hope I'm not missing the point here but I often cancel wishes by putting the mouse on the wish while holding down the Ctrl key and right click on the mouse.

You can remove and stop paparazzi/Special Merchant/Uni Mascott from spawning using Register
From City Hall or a computer>NRaas>Register>Global Roles

Also in Register Service you can change the settings for Acrobats, Magicians etc. I have those set at 0 but often see one or two that the game itself pushes in.

There are also settings in StoryProgression to disallow some career types:
From City Hall or a computer>NRaas>Story Progression>General Options>Town Options>Career: Disallow
If you are using Castes you can disallow certain careers as well.
In some games I also set the Career:AllowFind Job to False in Town Options as well as within their castes

My experience has been the game will always generate some service sims in the service pool. That can be annoying but those sims do not use resources and hibernate if they are not needed. Role Sims will automatically generate sims to work the cash registers etc. I usually assign sims to those roles as needed.

Disabling Immigration also cuts down on sims spawning.

You might need to play for awhile or restart your game for the settings to work.

Take a look at the Town Management FAQ for more tips manageing the town population.

This is more of a curiosity, and I'm not going to be upset if it isn't possible, but is it possible to see which sims are wearing a certain CASpart? Sometimes I remove skins, hairstyles or clothes and find sims who were wearing them have turned black or reverted to the basegame hair that the CC hair was cloned from. I don't know what happens to clothes, but sims might turn invisible.

If the Sim was wearing a clothing piece that you have since removed from the game, I know that it simply substitutes them with some basegame clothing piece. So, unlike Sims 4, you won't have someone suddenly strutting around with nothing but underwear on their bottom.

I (rarely) do that myself, but in this case the rules say that if I promise it I have to fulfill that promise. I can't cancel it. I also have to keep him with the "fulfilled" moodlet at all times. (Which is an interesting challenge even for someone who hates canceling wishes. )

Can you cancel them if they're completely impossible? (Target is dead, for example.)

What causes stairs to have partial walls? I have a second level staircase with it but cant replicate it on the first floor.
*Wall/room trick isnt working
does this work on platforms?
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no. solved

Why is it that, despite a romantic moment being consistently romantic, options in the romance tab come and go wildly? Like one second the "give great massage" option will be there, but if I don't use it, it vanishes. I've been trying to get my sims to propose for a while now and the option rarely shows up! That's the same for BOTH of them.

AFAIK they show up during irresistible, because just either flirty and amorous is not enough. sometimes on irresistible they stop talking a bit and if they interact again it'd change back to just flirty. otherwise, idk why that would be either.

You gotta keep doing romantic interactions (though not the same one over and over, unless the Sim doing them has Never Dull). It can take a while to go from Flirty to Amorous to Extremely Irresistible; depends on traits, too.

Is it normal that to put my toddler into a highchair I have to be holding them first? Why cant I just click on the highchair and choose to put one of my toddlers in?

No, the wish needs to stay in the slot until it is filled. If it can't be filled then the slot is wasted. (Meaning that you need to be careful about what wishes you promise...)

Yeah, I do it then and the option doesn't show up.

Does the fact that one sim is Flirty and the other is Unflirty matter?

It might be. Unflirty require some extra, extra, extra persuasion to go on.

I try to just do the stuff that doesn't have the Flirty icon next to it, and that limits his options even further.

I don't know if you can try this, but since you mentioned that it's with both sims you might be able to have the unflirty sim be the one to initiate all the romantic interactions, and queue them up so that there are always at least 2 of them in the queue. (You also need both sims to be best friends with each other if one is Unflirty, but I assume you've already managed that.) When they have completed one interaction and started the next one, queue up another one, and if the romance level has gotten to a point where a higher level set of interactions have appeared then you should go with those and not use the lower-ranked ones anymore. As soon as you see Propose, go for it!
This might not work either, but it should help reduce the problem of the unflirty sim getting uncomfortable and not wanting to continue.

Would it be safe to use this on DCBackup folder? Or would it affect ccmerged.package? Just is a pain to clear out that folder every time.

This worked! Alexis finally worked up the chutzpah to propose! And in front of the art museum too.

That's...creative. (don't you hate unhelpful comments like this, it's like when your doctor suddenly says "Oh, that's interesting" in the middle of a physical exam)

I think it might work until the day comes when for some reason you have to re-install some premium store content for whatever reason and forget to unlock the folder so that ccmerge can update itself. But DCBackup only gets written to and filled up with stuff when new things are added to the game, at least this has been my experience, and clearing it out again just becomes reflex when doing so. Are you seeing it do so more often than that, or is it the case that you add newly downloaded and installed store and custom items to your game before every game session so that it's really impossible to tell?

I don't know. It gets new files every time I load up the game. I knew it had something to do with store stuff, or at least I assumed, but I wasn't sure. Thus I don't know if it'd be safe to proceed. I mean, I do have store content in, but I won't be installing anything for the next... well, forever. I really only have a few odds and ends, like a wedding arch and some nursery items.

What can cause the game to crash when switching Households? ErrorTrap is not popping up with anything. I haven't altered my mods. Only change was some hairstyles.
Or do merged packages just increase the chance of the game crashing?

I need to alter my question: what can cause a SIM to be corrupted? Because I did a new file, and the game still crashed when I put that Sim into a house and switched to it. As said before, no altered mods between her creation and that of the previous household. She was one that I made by using randomize the whole sim in CAS.

Other question, is there a mod or so that allows pregnant sims to use the Beehive?

How are stepchildren treated by the rest of the family? If a single parent marries would their spouse's niblings count as first cousins for their kid in the eyes of the game? For example, if one of my game born were to marry Leighton Sekemoto, could her nephew marry Sam?

if they aren't shown as related i'm pretty sure they can marry

I'm planning for the future of my Nothing is Free game. Gen 2 is aging up to YA soon and I've got to find them spouses in the vacation worlds or Uni. If marrying a single parent gains a child or two allowed to marry into the family, that makes things easier for gen 3.

If you use Traveller, they can travel to any world you have installed, which gives you more options. And, as long as you have the money for houses, you can move more families into town as well to give even more future spouse options.

Recruiting families from other worlds is definitely something I'm interested in doing down the line, but right now I've got 7 people in my house and I've somehow got to fund 4 houses and 5 lots for my kids. We've already secured the grocery store and I'm sending the wife to work there for a double income whammy. We've got the money for the diner, but the husband is only at level 7 in cooking.

Save freezing at the middle of the night (I've tried twice, game froze up between 3 and 5 in the morning both times) - just a sign of a corrupted save file, or something worse?

If you have Nraas MasterController installed, it generally does a sweep-check of the entire town around 3 AM. It removes any vehicles that might be slowing the game down; turn TVs or stereos off; reset a Sim that might be stuck; etc. For 5 AM I am not sure... do you have the Cupcake mod from Nraas installed? I read that that one gets checked at 5 AM, though it might also have to do with a different mod you have.

The NRaas mod that does the overnight sweep at 3am for regular worlds and 5am for urban worlds is Overwatch, not MasterController. MC doesn't actually do anything on it's own, it's essentially a player-controlled command center.

The issue could be related to that, yes. Indirectly anyway, the real issue if this is the case is why does the overnight run have so much to cleanup that it's apparently locking up the game. I would recommend NRaas Traffic with its option to disallow celeb performance limos in case that seems to be a contributor here, this is a feature that can get stuck after a game progresses long enough for there to be any sims ranked high enough to earn a limo and thousands of them end up getting spawned each day behind the scenes. Same with the snack and ice cream trucks, Traffic will limit those to more reasonable numbers to prevent the over-spawnage.

Or it could be just about anything that is scheduled to "go off" at that hour of the morning. Overactive/too many spawners, for example, or an inactive sim somewhere in town having a baby and getting stuck in the infinite birthing loop that Woohooer fixes by its mere presence. Or indeed, some scheduled task arranged for by a different mod.

My own stupid question about the Showtime professions. If I have NPC Sim households set to be Acrobats, Singers, etc, do they actually do some performances at times? Or would I have to use MC to turn them into Service Sims? (Though I think that would make them more into just the Sims likely to be picked when I choose the call one of those professions for a party)

And any tips on what to do when I multiply the body/facial sliders with MC? I try and can't manage to make any somewhat-decent looking Sim with them multiplied, because one tiny tick with the mouse on the slider and the entire facial structure I want to change is completely different, when I just want to tweak it a bit.

Depends on what you mean by an NPC. If they are in proper resident households with families of their own, then sims have careers. I'm not entirely sure that SP pushes progression on the performance careers as strongly as it does the others, though it certainly seems like it should provided they have a place in town to actually perform other than on the street or in parks. You're not seeing this at all? Actually, going back a step, are you using NRaas SP? With EA's progression, I believe that all bets would be off regarding anything career and inactive sim related.

Service Sims are different, yes those are the ones in the service pool that you can call to your house to provide their service or perform, not the ones that progress through a career in town. You can't actually make a sim into a Service Sim, well you sort of can add them to the pool but there's no guarantee those are the sims who will show when you order one up, and Service Sims are always homeless. With LN they may appear to "live" in the darkened out private rooms in the non-usable portions of LN style apartment buildings, but they cannot have their own proper household.

On the slider question, I think I know what you mean. Not in my game at the moment, but pretty sure I've been able to work well enough with the slider multiplier not set higher than 2x together with a generous offset to allow for more negative values. Or maybe it's 3x? What kind of multiplier value are you using there?

It would be interesting to see what other players have to say on both questions.

Adding my own stupid question re:sliders. There are some pre-mades in EA worlds with a negative value for the chin depth slider (example is Justin Kayes from Twinbrook). The lowest possible value in-game is 0, however, and when I increase the slider range I still cannot go below 0 with that particular slider. Why?

Yes, they should, even with story progression off.
The last time I started a fresh game in Starlight Shores, initially I had quite a lot of solo performances by the local resident performers, plus the Simfests, of course. These became rarer though over the course of time. No idea why.
You should in any case increase the chances the more locals are in those professions and the more stages of all types you have. The performers also need to have the required levels.

I mean just regular households I populate the world with, before switching to my 'main' household. In my previous file, the only stage was one I set up in a big park on my own (not using the Showtime pre-established one in the bin). Maybe having the coffehouse or so as another stage might do more. And yes, I am using Nraas SP right now.

I have the multiplier set to x2 so far, because with anything higher, I feel like the change is too drastic. Kinda wish there was a little tab on each side of the slider, so I can click that to go down only 1 or 2 'points' (with MC letting me see numerical values on the slider) instead of how many a simple mouse movement can do.

I'm used to it sitting and thinking for a little at about 3 AM (I have both MC and Overwatch, but not Cupcake); but these were hard freezes. You could come back 5 minutes later and it was still frozen solid.

I reverted to an earlier save, and things seem alright.

I have Traffic, and think I have blasted celebrities to oblivion, but will check the options there.

Anyone know if the Children Can mod opens those actions to teens too? I have an artistic teen sim who would probably like to go sketch in the park but he can't interact with the blinking sketch pad! His stoner brother would probably enjoy hacky sack too.

I caught my sim playing a game on console I have not seen before. Something with wild animals. But when I click on console myself no new options exept the 3 normal games show up. Whats going on, how can I make them play the mystery game?

That's the online game. If your Sim has friends who also have a console, they may play it together.

Friends as in NPC's living in town, or like within the household?

Is compressing package files a thing for ts3 files? I know cc magic does it when it is also combining them but could I do it without cc magic? Just the compression part, not the combining.

You can do it with S3PE. Select the resources within a package that you want to compress, then right-click and select 'Compressed'. It should show a tick next to the 'Compressed' option afterwards (in the same right-click menu); if it shows a dot or nothing at all, it means only some of the selected resources were compressed, or that none were. Simply select the 'Compressed' option until it displays a tick

Alternatively, you can run the package through the compressorizer (s3rc.exe, not decrapify.exe), which has a similar (if not identical) result.

yesss, I was hoping for a program

edit: it doesn't work. I suspect because im on win 10

I'm on Windows 10 too and it works for me. Maybe you need the framework?

Edit: just to clarify, you drag-and-drop the package files over the s3rc.exe file only.

So I don't have to open the exe first? I made a folder, put the exe and cc in there. Selected the cc and im trying to drag and drop them on top of the exe but nothing is happening?

I very likely have the required framework already since s3pe, texture tweaker, cc magic etc. work on my computer

Can Sims gain / lose LN muscle definition in-game? Sims can gain muscle by doing strength exercise or lose weight by doing cardio exercise, but what about LN muscle definition?

@nikel I believe so, my sims that have mastered athletics and do weightlifting are usually jacked.

Nope, you don't open the .exe, you just drag-and-drop packages over it. You can drop sims3packs too; I do this for store items prior to converting them to packages, to preserve in-game descriptions.
A black window is supposed to open, then close by itself (for smaller files, the window can stay open even less than a second; I usually get about 1 second/MB).
The only noticeable effect should be the decrease in filesize of your package. If nothing happens, it's possible that the file has been compressed already.

The Laundry - the ability to wash clothes. That came with the Base game in Sims 3, right? Seemed kinda... useless. When my sim wants to meet other sims he/she always go to the Bookstore+Bistro+grocery store. That's where the action is.
I gave up chasing after "hot spots" from Late Night and the Laundromat is always dead.

I may be asking because it appears EA thinks I'm gonna pay $9.99 for what was a fail in Sims 3. That's 3 gallons of gas for the DeLorean.

Laundry was a "feature" of both Uni and Ambitions. I shift+click delete all the washers and dryers I see. It's unclear if just having them in the world creates laundry or not. Maybe it's the hampers?

Pretty sure the laundry item is tied to hampers but don't quote me on that I do know that as soon as there is a hamper in a home laundry starts appearing, and also the animation on the hamper looks a lot like the laundry pile, so that's why I think the two are connected, but I've never put a hamper in the house without washer/dryer to confirm.

You can also buy laundry items from the Store, if you have neither Ambitions or University Life and want laundry.

Laundry is one of the things that I'm slightly jealous of my simmies over. Drop a bag of unsorted laundry into the washer. Then move the dripping wet bag to the dryer. Then pull out a stack of folded clothing which you sniff once and put into your pocket. Presto: all the sheets are changed and everyone has clean laundry. And if you get tired of dealing with laundry, just sell the hampers and ignore the wishes for anything to do with laundry.

If you have a hamper and no washer/dryer you can take your laundry to the laundromat, so I'm pretty sure it's the hamper that triggers whether or not you have laundry.

This is exactly how I've been doing laundry for decades, EA must have been following me around and taking notes when they designed this system. It was good enough when I was at Uni, so it's good enough today. And yes, all of my clothes are the same shade of grey now and my once thick fluffy towels are as thin as my tee shirts and feel more like steel wool, thanks for asking.

The only thing that's changed is that in real life I am forced to use these newfangled front loading washers while TS3 sims still get to use top loaders.

I just hated all the laundry Seasons provides. Sims come in the house? Costume change! About to leave? Costume change! That's not even counting working out, swimming, or going to sleep, so then you need to have hampers in the front hall, the study, the side of the pool, every bedroom, every bathroom, and by any exterior door. Then the maid or designated cleaner spends half their life shifting around laundry instead of doing other things. I don't even want to think about what Pets would add in to that because of how they feel the need to "negatively react" or "neutrally react" to every single dish. I swear the dogs spend every spare second barking/growling at the dishes in my game!

I think having any laundry related item (so any hampers/washers/dryers/clotheslines) on the lot will trigger the creation of laundry piles. I'm pretty sure you don't need a hamper, because I'm like 90% sure I've played households that did laundry but didn't have a hamper to collect it in.

As for the pets, I'm very familiar with their need to react to every single plate or bowl to ever exist, but I don't remember them ever reacting to laundry piles.

I use these any time I want to have laundry in game: http://www.simlogical.com/ContentUp...e/uploads/2266/

If you can explain how you get a pile of folded clothes straight from the dryer without having to fold them as you remove them, I would settle for steel wool towels and grey clothes. This would prevent every sock from weighing 35 pounds because my friend's 4-year old wants to help with the laundry and can't reach.

Sure, that's simple. Every bit of what I posted above about the way in which I do laundry was total nonsense. Except for my not really liking front loaders in real life, that part still stands.

But while I'm here again, I'll cast a vote in favor of Nona's Super Hampers that orose mentioned and linked to. Those things are great and in most cases you only one of the super variety per lot.

@sweetdevil ah they must be compressed already then because nothing chances. Thank you.

Uuh I do my laundry exactly how igazor jokingly said. He even got my towels part right, and let's not forget the t-shirts that have forgotten their original shape long time ago. Also most of my socks have extra holes in them which reminds me to visit Kmart.

Folding? pffft, staight to my floordrobe they go in their untamed, free form.

You described exactly how I did laundry in Uni. I stopped ironing the grey masses of clothes when the Dorm janitor would come down to the basement where the ironing boards were and tell me of the wonders of Esperanto. I'd rather wear wrinkles.

But what I really mean is the laundromat community lot. You just go there, click on a machine, do laundry. No hampers at home needed. No need to bring dirty clothes from home. It appears to be all the benefits of the at home clothes washer with none of the negatives of stinky clothes.

What is the point of carrots?

What's the point of gnomes?

Hey! *shakes fist*

They make a good stew surprise with potatoes!

I do hope you mean the carrots and not the gnomes. Or was the ambiguity intentional?

This is the Sims 3, not Dwarf Fortress! (FTR, I was referring to carrots, but whatever floats your boat!)

If a teen completes a LTW, what happens on their YA birthday?