Plus you are guaranteed not to get a bad surgery that way

@PizzaPartyForever thanks for the instructions. I did have downloaded NRaas Master Controller indeed.

But I stumbled upon another problem where the sliders reverted to default when I was sliding things while the Sim was nekkid and only after picked clothes (see thread). Since I have both XCAS and MC, what's the best solution to prevent this reverting again? Should I just let the Sim wear their swimwear/underwear? (it must be noted that I've never used S3PE before)

I don't have XCAS installed anymore (only had it for like 60 minutes, then uninstalled it since Master Controller has its own max sliders setting). I edited one of premade Sims from Bridgeport, Matty Crewe in CAS and he never reverted back to the default when switching to naked outfit. I am using Master Controller with Cheats, and Integration modules (also Expanded Tattoos and Cmar Tattoo Locations but those two things are unrelated)

Perhaps try Chain_Reaction advise on that site you mentioned. Switch your sim to naked outfit, go to edit in CAS and make some changes, exit, then switch your sim back to everyday outfit in live mode and see if your sim is reverted to default or not.

@legacyoffailures I purely downloades XCAS for the max sliders bc it didn't work with MC.

But if I choose to use only MC, do I have to modify the Max Sliders in S3PE or is in-game also possible?

yes, you can change it in-game.
click either City Hall, Computer, or Sim - choose Nraas - Master Controller - Settings - CAS - Max Sliders in CAS.
Default is 100, if you install more than 100, you'll have to lay it out yourself.

I don't know if it's true or not, but you may need to install integration module if you intend to create a sim in Edit Town mode, otherwise the max sliders setting won't function well.

Without MC Integration, the EA version of CAS loads in areas of the game apart from direct MC commands instead of the MC version. The EA version doesn't know anything about MC settings or additional slider allowances, so yes Integration is required to get the MC version to load from Edit Town.

You can easily tell which version of CAS you are looking at by doing a shift+right-click on the "..." button that usually leads to EA commands like Save, Quit, Options, etc. In the EA version of CAS, nothing will happen. In the MC version of CAS, you will get a bunch of MC CAS Settings options (including, of course, Max Sliders).

Is it posible to reset or remove skill challenges? The benefits of the charisma skill challenges are so annoying and take the fun out of the game, at this point I'm tempted to start a new save and just recreate my family through cheating.

Which one of charisma skill challenges that irritates you? For me, Celebrity one is my pet peeve since everyone suddenly starts becoming your friends.

This is how I tweak it, assuming you're experienced in modding.
1. Open S3PE and GameplayData.package
2. Find Charisma xml file. Make a copy of it by either exporting to a file or another package (do not edit it directly on GameplayData)
3. Right-click on Charisma and choose Text Editor. Find <LtrBoostForCelebrity value="25" />
4. The default value makes your sim start as a friend with another sim upon interacting with them at the first time. You can lower it to 1 so they will start as acquittance instead.
5. Save your package file, and move it to your mods folder.

Of course you can edit it with Twallan's Retuner instead. But I don't use that mod, therefore I couldn't give advice on it.

What is a .pkg.sig file? My collections folder is crawling with them.

Celebrity, too, but also Super Friendly and Everybody's Best Friend OTL... Never tried modding in TS3, but I guess there's a time for everything, so thank you for this!

Thanks for proving that link!
Now to my question: Where can I find the manuals for the stuff packs(the stuff packs that have manuals, obviously).

What I could find:

The Sims 3: High-end Loft Stuff
https://manualzz.com/doc/55876201/e...es-owner-manual

The Sims 3: Fast Lane Stuff (Scroll down under Gallery and click on the Game Manual tab)
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Si...uff#Game_manual

If you go to the fandom wiki, most of the gameplay, backstory, expansion, and other questions you could possibly have are addressed somewhere there: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_3

What I usually do though is I start with one question typed in Duckduckgo, which will lead me to the relevant wiki article, from which I go on to read about all the other related things, which gives a much more edifying experience than the sparse little manuals EA used to provide.

Carls sims 3 is a good one also https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/

Is there any way of building outside the boundaries of a houseboat? I want to be able to put bridge wings or an overhanging stern on some of the designs I've started.

Players have reported that LTW behaves oddly from the near beginning of the game's history. Some find that the goal keeps moving upwards as their sims' net worth increases and they can never satisfy it. Some seem to think there is a relationship between that and lot item depreciation, other have been unable to find the pattern, so in the end most of us are not sure how it's really supposed to work. If it's a patch that is causing the goal to keep moving, it must have been one of the very early ones.

If you feel that your sim has done enough to satisfy the LTW and it's bugged, you could use MC to give them way more than enough cash (temporarily) to satisfy the immediate requirements and see what happens.

Are ads that get you simpoints still a thing?

I'm afraid someone left the window open and after a brief period of malfunctioning and annoying everyone, the ads flew the coop entirely many years ago.

(so that means no, not anymore)

Half a year later and I'm still having an issue with this , trying to hunt down the name of a pesky base game hair that won't stay hidden and this tool would help me out if it worked. Does anyone have a solution?

Recently I read about problems buying simpoints here, https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/di...valid-oh-no-way
and that got me thinking. Since I have moved since I created my sims 3 store account, how do I change the adress in my sims account?

My male sim got abducted by aliens and came back pregnant and I kept the baby. The alien that resulted from the abduction is now a teen. He has a want to dream in the dream pod, but it isn't fulling even though I have him dream in the pod. Since aliens have brain power instead of energy, can they dream? Or is it not working because he's a teen?

Recently my sim was close to an alien who did the brain compression thing (energy at lowest) but idk if this is related to that.

My sim fell and looked dead, then stood up after a while and got an 18h moodlet called ”near death experience”?
Never seen or heard of it before, found nothing on Google. Anyone know anything about it?!

Do you have the 9 New Death Types mod? I think it's part of that. Sometimes a new type of death doesn't kill the sim and they are given a chance to survive.

CAS ilumination problem
 

Hi, i have a problem in my sims 2.
At the CAS my sim looks so iluminated, in all the skin colors... it looks like a light is reflecting.

Ahh yes! Thank you

Sims 2 you say? I think one of us is on the wrong forum board...

This is the Sims 3 side of the forum. For help with Sims 2 go here: https://modthesims.info/f/558/

When I am at the sims 3 site, and click ''buy simpoints'', it redirects me to origin. Is this normal?

Origin is how EA chose to do that. However, if you are one of those nice people with CASH ONLY sensibilities -you can also use these cards you can purchase in stores with actual physical currency to redeem on Origin (if available in your country):
https://www.ea.com/game-cards

How many sims 3 prima game guides exists?

Alll I am sure of is that they don't exist for every expansion pack, and that they were extremely incomplete & often incorrect. However! If you need information about gameplay or anything, the sims wiki and Carl's guide both have systematic information that are almost completely accurate and pretty comprehensive.

SIms Wiki: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_3

Carl's Guide: https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/

They're fun to read, too!

What does the new EA app(the one that replaces origin), mean for the Sims 3?

I had downloaded the new app months ago, and while Sims3 was on it, the fact that I own the whole thing did not reflect on the new app, while a few others I also own did show up as owned. I haven't checked recently as I removed it because it kept trying to override Origin when I opened Sims and would fail to start the game.

Does the "eye candy" LTR still make sims sparkle? I haven't tried it in such a long time, I'm so out of the loop and cant check right now.

Yes it does.

It is one of a number of small annoyances I have to deal with when story telling. I usually use Nraas Master Controller to remove it from any sims that have it, since when use moveobjects to position them in a scene they start sparkling and I have to wait till they stop before I can get my screenshot.

I purchased Eye Candy for my sim and he doesn't look sparkle. Perhaps this mod I am installing removes the effect, https://modthesims.info/d/425036/ti...-combined.html?

How to make quickier friends when you play an open carreer please?
Just because I am tired my simself is lonely too much. I appreciate the fact we do not have friends so easily as in real life in this game but it's a long process.

you could simply type "testingcheatsenabled true", have your sim meet a new sim, then drag their relationship to the max. other than that, purchase long distance relationship and spam some sims with phone call everyday.

Is there any way to move the art appraiser career to a different rabbithole? I don't like it being located at the criminal hideout.

It'll probably need to do some scripting to overhaul the career itself. Have no idea if anyone out there ever made a time for it.

Yes, but you have to edit the job info using S3PE.

Info here: https://missyhissysjobcentre.proboa...fied-rabbithole

Does anyone recognize this painting? My sim painted it today (she is on level 7 of the painting skill) and I'm pretty sure that it's the first time I see it. I play the sims 3 since 2010 (and the sims 2 since 2014) and my sims paint a lot so I, pretty much, know most of the paintings in the game. This one, though... Could it be a reference that I'm not aware of? Thank you and happy simming

I almost never travel to the Future so I usually delete the Time Portal with testingcheats. However, now I'm thinking one trip would be fun for my collector sim. How can I get it back? Buydebug doesn't have it. Community objects in Build mode doesn't either. Any ideas?

I think it’s in the Vehicles section of Buy Mode. Also, instead of deleting it, if it spawns on your sim’s home lot you should be able to pick it up in Live Mode and sell it in you sim’s personal inventory. Otherwise, you can sell it in Buy Mode.

The Time Portal is available on the miscellaneous section of vehicle if you sort by category. You can drag and put it in your sim inventory so your sim is able to travel to Oasis Landing from anywhere.

Thanks, I found it! I don't think that ever would have occurred to me.

I usually stash it in the family inventory till I want it.

Thank you for the help, I will try it as soon as possible

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Now it's a bit complicated question but what is the mean for a sim to boo an other one even if the targetted sim does nothing? (autonomous)
Does the sims who is booing can't stand the presence of the target or is just to have fun, so say hi...I never understood

It could be a variety of reasons why a Sim might boo another. Such as when a Sim finds out or knows something that another Sim has done and condemns them for such action(s). Some traits could play a role in the frequency of a Sim using boo/heckle interaction as well but still can be used to have multiple meanings depending on the context and memories (implemented in base game/game engine, basically everything about your Sims' life and experiences) of said Sims involved. This can be difficult to find out the reason(s) if one is not observant of their Sims' behavior and so on.

Moreover, Sims can be very sneaky and actually hide quite a bit of information from the player through the use of rabbit holes and/or rabbit hole type situations (hidden in plain sight). The reactions of other Sims are a clue when something is amiss. If one chooses to investigate, maybe a lot more may reveal itself and one can learn more about their Sim(s). Though again, psychology or being naturally attuned to understanding people, motives, etc is needed to pick up on these kind of intricate details to understand what is going on and how the many varying A.I.'s are imitating human behavior. And of course knowing about the Sims' lives and experiences and how that may affect their future actions and reactions.

As an example, one of many reasons of booing is when a Sim cheats:

I think sims booing at another sim because that sim is wearing sleepwear. it always happens your sim gets booed when;
1. wearing sleepwear or swimsuit at community lots other than pool (sims with insane trait might get this a lot),
2. wearing inappropriate outfit at sim's party,
3. wearing skinny dipping towel.

there's a mod that stops that behaviour,
https://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.ph...tions-disabled/
need to register first.

Those who sleep as nature intended would be highly offended at such a reaction. Er...so I've been told, anyway. Yeah, that's what I meant to say.

I'm aware that uninstalling stuff from the launcher doesn't actually remove it entirely from dccache. If I wanted to actually remove everything, would it be as simple as just deleting the dccache or would I be better off regenerating the entire ts3 folder instead?

deleting the entire of dccache files should do it.

also files inside InstalledWorlds, Library, and SavedSims if you ever installed them through launcher.

Like many people, I don't want patch 1.69, what can I do to avoid it through every means possible?

Also, when I installed the base game, I did NOT accept EA download manager.

Only way to avoid it is by having a complete install via disks with a pre origin base disk, or through a steam purchase and install. If you have anything that requires download from origin you have no option on the 1.69

Is there any way to fix the glitched makeup? I just want to be able to use those ombre eyeshadows without having to deal with the annoying eyeshadow randomization that occurs with the other outfits.

Another option, I believe, after you’ve implemented the cheat above is to press shift and click on the mailbox. Then choose one or more of the friendship options. Turn the cheat off by typing false instead of true.

This is annoying. There is no water in the fishing areas in China. I don't even know where to even start trying to fix this.

Are there any custom EMPTY building shells? Like futuristic ones I could use for a custom alien world? Not apartments - Empty building shells.

you mean cc building shells or unfurnished lot with Maxis' own shells?

CC building shells. Empty cc building shells that I can place on a lot and build in, and look like futuristic buildings.

I have a weird issue. Whenever I want to audition at a local venue, the interaction string is always empty. Is there anyone else who experiences the same problem?

I get that too. My game is in English.

I've got to ask this. Are all the aliens in TS3 supposed to be elders? Or is it just some weirdness in my game? I never paid much attention before, but lately I've noticed all the ones that have been turning up on my lots have been getting on in years, some of them were using walking sticks. I can only suppose that even with warp drive it still takes half a life time to get to Earth, where they just potter about for a bit examining things and making notes. I hope they have plenty interesting things to occupy themselves with during the long voyage.

Not all, but most of the aliens I've seen have been elders, unless I make them myself.

I get elders and adults, both male and female.

Just to preface, I'm very stupid with computers. I want to edit the GraphicsRules.sgr file to improve my games performance but setting the levels higher scares me lol. I'm fine with a really ugly game, I just don't want to fry my computer. If I set the levels higher, will it put any strain on my computer?

I'd like to clarify the difference in performance vs quality. Or at least to me the way I understand based on NVidia's and other gaming lingo when discussing performance vs. quality.

Performance is when one is looking to have their game run better at the cost of lowering settings and the game looking less impressive. This is for those who are usually playing with minimum system requirements or less than. Also this usually causes a higher frames per second because of the more demanding options are set to either low or off. So smooth gameplay.

Quality is when one is looking, in some cases, to forsake performance meaning the gameplay may not be as smooth, lag-free, etc to achieve better looking graphics and/or other gaming features.

Balance is when one has the best of both worlds without sacrificing smooth gameplay but also still having a decent looking game. Usually not at maxed in-game settings but medium to high. Though it depends on the computer configuration and the game. Some games can be maxed out and still play exceptionally well.

If your computer cannot already handle TS3 playing with maxed settings with all you have installed without mods/cc with little to no issues, then forcing your computer to go beyond what it is capable of will usually cause issues later down the line or possibly sooner at a much faster rate. Anything that has to do with raising quality, will usually raise the workload and temperatures and it is not a good idea unless your computer is built to handle that kind of gaming. Otherwise, the accumulating damage may have you end up without a working computer at all.

PC gaming can be complex and it takes the user to be knowledgeable or at least learn how to properly take care of their computer for its longevity.

I feel I should know this after playing since 2009 but I don't think I've actually tried before.
I am at generation 10 of my Riverview legacy and want to play somewhere else now. However, I really like the look of my last generation and would like to save her as a sim file.
I don't want her long family tree and relations, just her look and traits. I can add those in CAS later again.
How do I do this?

Unless I am misunderstanding something here, all you need to do is bring the sim into CAS and save her. That is, create a Saved Sim out of her that can then be imposed upon another CAS sim at some future time within another game save.

Oh my.
This is what happens when you don't ever create a sim. I'm just bad at it and have no patience for it, so I always just download some or let the game create them with some additional help from various mods.

Thanks!

I have been developing and populating a previously empty town (Cottonwood Hills). I am creating families of my own, but at the same time the game has been creating an odd selection of bizarrely dressed families and moving into the various lots I've placed. It is my own fault for having so many medieval and Victorian costumes installed, and I don't mind moving them into CAS, improving their appearance a bit and dressing them properly: that's all part of the fun. But, although I have the satisfaction of seeing them about town looking more civilised in the outfits I gave them, I've noticed that the thumbnails that appear when I click on their houses in Edit Town mode don't appear to be updating: the sims still look the same motley shower they were before. Several days have passed and they still haven't updated. I tried deleting cache files before reloading the game, but that had no effect.

It's a trivial little detail, but it is irritating when everything else is working so well. Anybody got any idea how I can fix it?

A couple of possibilities... Clean your save, either with one of the save cleaners, or manually using s3pe. That deletes imgs, snaps (thumbnails), and icons. Also maybe deleting caches? Everything will regenerate, and current thumbnails made.

I tried using Save Cleaner, but that made no difference. The individual portraits that appear over lot in live mode, when sims are on the lot, appear to be okay, it's just the whole family thumbnails in edit town that are wrong. Well, so long as they appear okay in live mode I suppose it's just something I'll have to live with. Thanks anyway @LadySmoks.

EDIT: The only solution I've found is to move each of the families out, save them to the Library (where the thumbnail appears correctly) and then move that copy back into the house. It's a long winded way of going about it, and doesn't solve why it was happening in the first place, but it works.

I've never played with the band mechanincs from Late Night before, but I created a band with the two sims in my household plus one townie, and we cannot book any gigs for some reason. All of the band members have musical skills. I've looked up solutions all over the internet, and many people suggested jamming with the band in bars to get the attention of the owners. I tried that, so far, nothing. I've only been able to get money from individual owners playing on the street for tips, but even then it's not more than $100 per session since I hardly get more than a few sims pop over to listen. Does anyone know if I'm missing something here?

Also, an even stupider question...did EA just quietly disconnect the Exchange? It's the weirdest thing, I can view pages, but if I try to login, my browser says it can't connect. I've tried in both Chrome and Firefox with no luck. Because of this, it doesn't let me download anything either. I know the Exchange is dated as hell and I shouldn't really care too much when I can find better stuff on here/Tumblr, but I used to like downloading sims on the Exchange to quickly put custom CAS content into my game en mass.

The Exchange is still working for me.

You could try using these:
https://modthesims.info/d/532058/up...-band-gigs.html
https://modthesims.info/d/471502/mo...night-1-63.html
Late Night Gig scheduler:
http://simlogical.com/ContentUpload...e/uploads/1057/

I'm not sure what's wrong with my computer then, because it does not let me log in no matter what.

I even checked the link it sends me to when I try to log in on the down detector, and it tells me that it's down for everyone: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com...com?proto=https

What will happen if you use testingcheatsenabled true or MasterController to modify npc/townie all over? (I mean if you change all traits, age, gender etc.) I would create a wonderful inter galaxian family and I want male and young adult alien with specific traits for that.

Where do I put the downloaded schools so that they will show up in the lot bin?

If they are in Sims3pack format, into the Downloads folder and then install them like any other CC.
If they are packages, into the Library folder. I would recommend extracting Sims3packs to make packages in general.

Thanks and I will try that. The schools for Witches aren't showing up in the Community Lots Catalog. What do I do to make them show up?

Which mod or lot download are you using?

If it is this, it's a custom career (for adults- though using Nraas' MasterController you can assign a teenager an adult job, and then put the teen into home school). The rabbit hole for this career is the standard school one. Put the file in your mod folder and your sims can take the job like usual.

If it's this or the teen version, then it's a custom private school for kids that still has them going to the school rabbit hole (rather than being sent away to an EA academy). Put this one in your mod folder too and adults can enroll their kids in the school by phone.

If it's an actual lot, 310175 is correct on where the lot goes.

Thank you for replying and it the Schools for Witches.

Does anyone know the speed of the taxi? Asking for my kleptomaniac so he knows what car to steal :p

In order to get the 1000 simpoints for WA,(I don't know if this is still a thing, but at least I can try, right?), should I register the game, or redeem a code on the sims 3 store? Or both?

@candyboot - I should think just registering WA ought to get you the 1000 points. I'm assuming it still is a thing, it's a long time since I registered all my discs so I can't be sure. There's certainly nothing on the box that sets a time limit.

It's one of those things when you just need to try it. Worst thing to happen is they say no?

As far as I know, they are still selling all of the expansions and stuff packs with the exception of Sweet Treats which means that you should get the points for registering.

Is there a way or mod that lets sims to randomly switch between outfits within the same category? Like randomly chosing Everyday 1, 2 or 3 after showering?

Do you download sims 3 store worlds the same way as other store stuff?

Yes, you do.

I am unable to switch an active household. Seems that only one household in the town has this problem. Game has set the household an "neigbourhood pet center" (dunno what its name is in english) by random. Is this reason I can't switch into the household?

I don't know where to put this. It isn't a game problem or a mod problem, it's a hoarding / not staying on top of my shizz problem.

I have 2 external hard drives that have all of the TS3 stuff I've hoarded which includes what feels like countless folders of screenshots. It's the screenshots that I'm stuck in my head about.

The drives are acting up so they're going to be replaced which would make for a good time to clean out whatever needs to go. That being said, in a perfect world, I would have folders for each world and labeled them accordingly so I would know what is what. Because I use my computer as a digital dumping ground, there are some screenshots I know what world they're from, others... it is anybodies guess.

I would like to give these screenshots a home other than taking up space on hard drives that sit in my file cabinet when not in use. I've tried the Tumblr thing at least 3 times over the years only to find I can't stand all the drama, so I was thinking about putting up a pic site on Squarespace or something. I've downloaded TSR workshop, so maybe I could stick the scenic pics in frames and people could put them in their game if they wanted. I don't know who would want them, but perhaps somebody would like them. (?)

Here's the question:

Since I've created a colossal mess for myself, do I ditch all the pics sans my favorites and start over, or just skip the information what world the pics came from? I like to post those details as people put tons of work and hours into custom worlds and they deserve a shout out for it along with a link to the world and whatever else. This is just me wanting to give credit where credit is due.

I'm fully aware of how dumb all of this is, but sometimes it is really stupid things that clog my brain.

EDIT:

I slept on this, then looked into the Squarespace thing some more. There is no way I'm paying $192.00 per year ( if paid annually) so I can host 250 images. That's almost a dollar per image. To be exact, it would be 0.768 per image. If I paid monthly, it would be worse. It would be $276.00 per year which means that would come out to be 1.104 per image. Not to mention all the hoops a person has to jump through if they want to remove a image.

All these people / websites touting that Squarespace is so easy and comes with unlimited storage... https://forum.squarespace.com/topic...storage-limits/

I'll keep my crap to myself, thankyouverymuch.

When I loaded up my family, a got this popup saying that if I wanted a could move(and I think the pop up said I could move out of town).
And sure enough, there was this option on the cell phone that I could move out of town! I thought that moving out of town was only possible thanks to mods. And I do not have any mods installed.
Is this due to the fact that I installed hidden springs recently?

It has been a LONG time, but I believe the "move to a new town" option comes, either as part of WA, or possibbly when you add any other EA town, and is separate from other mods... I think...

I didn't know that. I'd always assumed it was because I had Nraas Traveller installed, but I assumed wrong it seems! I know I get that message every time I open a save that was made before I installed a new world. Well, TIL!

I know that if you dont install the sims 3 store content patch right when you are on patch 1.67, the sims 3 store stuff are not going to work correctly. But what does that really mean?

I am a bit worried that I might have done something wrong. My store stuff shows up and so forth, everything seems fine, but what if I have done something wrong with the sims 3 store content patch? IF I have done something wrong, what will then happen to my installed store stuff? The stuff will flash blue or...?