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.

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.