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Patch 1.55 is now available. Patch Notes posted:Launcher Updates Still no fix for the "Building a second story in any season outside Summer will crash the game on saving" bug. 
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Omnicarus posted:Patch 1.55 is now available. Or fix the major bug: if you install all of the released expansions and extra content of the game, it will run like rear end regardless of your hardware.
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Jun 20, 2013 02:28
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Also no fix for the broken firefighter alarm bug, which is ages old by this point.
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Jun 20, 2013 17:24
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Give them a break guys. They need to shift their focus to The Sims 4 so that they'll be able to release a buggy mess six months after the original release date.
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Jun 20, 2013 17:42
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I wanted so much a playable Sims game so I went and bought a complete collection of Sims 2. Including all the expansions and stuff packs. After a bit of wonkiness because the videocard.sgr file doesn't detect my video card properly, I finally got it running. The game runs beautifully, however playing with the old CAS interface sucks. I can't make my Sims supernatural from the get go, making someone fat just gives them a ridiculous potbelly, every sim I create is butt ugly and I had forgotten how small the neighborhoods are. On the flip side, I can crank AA really high and the game still runs at 60fps. Its interesting to see how much of Sims 3 is just a natural evolution of features that were already in Sims 2. I'm wondering how much they'll screw up Sims 4.
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Jun 21, 2013 04:57
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Well - that was certainly an odd bug. I cast fire blast on a random empty patch of lawn, which caused a fire - when one of my sims put it out with a fire extinguisher, I got 300,000$ from insurance to cover the "damages". Apparently my lawn is priceless.
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Jun 23, 2013 17:53
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Whelp Island Paradise came out today. If you thought the game ran like poo poo before you ain't seen nothing yet. I'd love to comment on the new expansion but after 10 minutes per load screen with no mods or cc, I went and played ck2. poo poo king of turd mountain, this game.
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Jun 26, 2013 04:45
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It ran fine for me, I was only able to play it for 30 minutes or so because I was busy but it looks good so far! My sims bought a houseboat to live on which is pretty cool. e:I have a code for Barnacle Bay if anybody wants it. It has to be redeemed on the the Sims 3 website though. Bookish fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Jun 26, 2013 |
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Jun 26, 2013 11:44
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Darn, got all excited then but of course it's not out till Friday in the UK! 
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Jun 26, 2013 14:30
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Ooh Barnacle Bay code would be great if you can PM it?
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Jun 26, 2013 16:06
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The houseboats actually work pretty well (and can be designed to look a lot less ugly than the one in that EA video, though some of the prebuilt's are hilarious looking.) I did run into a bug though: do not add a houseboat barge to a pier already owned by your active household. It can cause a bug where you get locked out of all interactions with the game, including even the options menu. If you want to build one from scratch select a publically owned pier in edit town mode and the option to add a barge will appear. Then have your family buy that lot and move to it.
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Jun 26, 2013 16:13
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Gooses and Geeses posted:Ooh Barnacle Bay code would be great if you can PM it? Edit: done and done Bookish fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jun 26, 2013 |
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Jun 26, 2013 16:39
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I'm trying to switch from Awesomemod to NRAAS, but the NRAAS story progression mod is looking like a huge pain to setup - is there a recommended basic setup that won't require reading through the giant list of options and fine-tuning every little thing? Should I install all the modules or only some?
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Jun 26, 2013 20:36
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Wolpertinger posted:I'm trying to switch from Awesomemod to NRAAS, but the NRAAS story progression mod is looking like a huge pain to setup - is there a recommended basic setup that won't require reading through the giant list of options and fine-tuning every little thing? Should I install all the modules or only some? You don't really need any of the modules from my understanding. I've just ran the default. They just add more personality types for variety (like vampires that spread and slayer families that, well, stop the spreading) Newer versions don't need too much tweaking either. You just might want to disable the notifications for everyone outside of your active household/their family.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:39
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TerryLennox posted:I wanted so much a playable Sims game so I went and bought a complete collection of Sims 2. Including all the expansions and stuff packs. After a bit of wonkiness because the videocard.sgr file doesn't detect my video card properly, I finally got it running. I find Sims in 3 to be the ugly ones. Sims 2 had a great, charming, cartoony style. Sims 3 has fat-faced uncanny valley horrors. For what it's worth, there's mods for 2 that allow you to turn your Sims into the various supernatural life stages, albeit by a hacked object, not directly in CAS.
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Jun 26, 2013 20:41
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Mokinokaro posted:You don't really need any of the modules from my understanding. I've just ran the default. They just add more personality types for variety (like vampires that spread and slayer families that, well, stop the spreading) Well, it seems like there's two types of modules - the personality pack modules, and the ones like 'money' 'relationships' 'careers' 'skills' which seem to include functionality
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Jun 26, 2013 21:54
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Wolpertinger posted:Well, it seems like there's two types of modules - the personality pack modules, and the ones like 'money' 'relationships' 'careers' 'skills' which seem to include functionality The base functionality is in the normal mod for all of those. The extensions just add more variables to each (at the cost of system performance if you put too many in.)
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Jun 26, 2013 22:02
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I got the Island Paradise thing. Did an install without some of the lesser expansion packs this time to see if performance improved any. Helped a little but not a ton, though I am finding I don't miss the pets or supernatural people, really. I bought a barge for a houseboat but am basically just switching between living in the different resorts since they don't cost much more than a day's food cost anyway. Edit: Can't seem to interact with other people on the resort lots though. Probably an NRAAS thing though everything I'm using is supposedly updated for this patch level. Super No Vacancy fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jun 26, 2013 |
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Jun 26, 2013 23:06
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Scyther posted:I find Sims in 3 to be the ugly ones. Sims 2 had a great, charming, cartoony style. Sims 3 has fat-faced uncanny valley horrors. For what it's worth, there's mods for 2 that allow you to turn your Sims into the various supernatural life stages, albeit by a hacked object, not directly in CAS. The only thing Sims 3 has over Sims 2 in regards of skin replacements is that you can switch skins by just plopping new skins on a folder. Sims 2 on the other hand requires you to either use the modified skins BEFORE you create your sim or use a utility to mod the skin into your existing sims and then fiddling with the outfits so that the animated skeleton doesn't pop out of the skin.
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Jun 27, 2013 05:49
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Mokinokaro posted:The base functionality is in the normal mod for all of those. The extensions just add more variables to each (at the cost of system performance if you put too many in.) Is this stated somewhere on the site? I had assumed it was the case but I haven't seen it made explicit anywhere. Edit: OK, yeah, if you want the full functionality of the stuff in the extra modules you need them all, even if you're not changing anything. E.g., if you don't have the StoryProgressionExtra module, the Inheritance process doesn't trigger at all. Super No Vacancy fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jul 1, 2013 |
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Jul 1, 2013 01:59
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Does anyone get these weird periodic mini freezes where a Sim will be painting or something, then freeze while trees still rustle and some music still plays? I'm using Nraas Story Progression, Overwatch, Error Trap, Master Controller, and Relativity.
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Jul 1, 2013 11:27
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Vita posted:Does anyone get these weird periodic mini freezes where a Sim will be painting or something, then freeze while trees still rustle and some music still plays? I'm using Nraas Story Progression, Overwatch, Error Trap, Master Controller, and Relativity. That issue's been around for ever. If I remember right, it happens when you get AI sims stuck somewhere. Or rather, the game does that to itself. I think there's a mod out there that cleans up towns and should fix that, but I don't know for sure, sorry! I've been getting a weird and annoying bug myself, since last update. Any town with subways in it, if a sim tries to go via subway they'll walk up to it and then just cancel the action and stand there. I have to prompt them to travel a few times before they actually get in the subway. Sounds like a pathfinding bug to me, which wouldn't be much of a surprise considering how incompetent EA seems to be at coding sims pathfinding. Is there a mod to fix it or something?
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Jul 1, 2013 14:00
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I don't know if it will actually fix that issue, but Nraas "Go Here" mod makes some changes to how long-distance pathfinding works that seems to make it run better in general (even if you don't actually use the new interactions it adds), so that might be worth a shot.
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Jul 1, 2013 17:43
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The Cheshire Cat posted:I don't know if it will actually fix that issue, but Nraas "Go Here" mod makes some changes to how long-distance pathfinding works that seems to make it run better in general (even if you don't actually use the new interactions it adds), so that might be worth a shot. Go Here is amaizing in the Supernaturals town, suddenly everybody uses the teleporters that were placed all over town.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:02
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So, any verdict on Island Paradise yet?
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Jul 2, 2013 23:18
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:So, any verdict on Island Paradise yet? +houseboats + watercraft are great +uncharted islands and diving are fun -resorts currently suffer from some pretty severe AI issues (though this seems to vary from player to player) -performance is worse yet again
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Jul 2, 2013 23:47
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Mokinokaro posted:+houseboats + watercraft are great Also diving is buggy as hell and will randomly teleport you to shore while putting your diving on a long cooldown. Plus, it's mostly 'look around the extremely blurry lot for a few hard to see collectibles worth 20$'. edit: Man, this game has the most ridiculous bugs. I mix a bunch of gem dust to make about 10 cheap rear end soulpeace gems worth about 3k~ each. I heart-cut all ten of them, and then I mix 8 heart-cut soulpeace gems to make a large heart-cut soulpeace gem. However, somehow this transmuted the other two (small) heart-cut soulpeace gems into two more large heart-cut soulpeace gems, so now I have three, and one of them is inexplicably 350k simoleons. Then, when I'm already baffled, my other family member who has ZERO soulpeace gems or gems of any sort walks over to the gem cutter of his own volition and somehow pulls out a 1.5 MILLION SIMOLEON large heart-cut soulpeace gem - you can't even cut large gems. Inexplicably, the 1.5m gem was already placed on a pillow in his inventory, too - which isn't supposed to ever happen. This is after I had just placed the 350k simoleon gem on a pillow on a display case, so somehow there's some crazy rear end duping poo poo going on here. Then, I look at the 350k simoleon gem and it's somehow turned into a 1.5 simoleon gem too - and after placing the gem out of my inventory, a copy stuck behind in my inventory, but if I try to do anything with it, it just grabs the one placed on the stand - then it turns out that the other character has the same issue, so the 1.5 million magical self-perpetuating gem is in three to five locations simultaneously. I don't even know any more. 
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Jul 3, 2013 05:01
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Are there any new ways to die in the latest expansion pack?
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Jul 4, 2013 14:44
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Eruonen posted:Are there any new ways to die in the latest expansion pack? There's a Kraken that will occasionally eat you when your in a boat (not houseboat). Drowning while scubaing, probably too.
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Jul 4, 2013 15:02
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The kraken only breaks boats. It doesn't kill you. There's a cave monster and sharks while diving that can though.
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Jul 4, 2013 15:54
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Anyone else with Seasons had an issue where the festival seems to fire every day so you never have work?
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VGCW got me to fire up the game again after so long. Got Supernatural and Seasons, patched to 1.55, and started the game. CTD in the Create-A-Sim wardrobe. Three times. I can't say I missed this part. Haha, four times, now in the saved sims menu, gently caress you EA Raserys fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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Jul 9, 2013 07:22
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Steam has their Sims 3 inventory 33% off til July 22.
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Jul 11, 2013 20:37
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catfrog posted:Steam has their Sims 3 inventory 33% off til July 22. Sims is a popular daily deal entry, so hold off on getting the stuff until then or the last day.
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Jul 11, 2013 20:48
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I got Sims 3 from direct2drive, or whatever it's called now, back when it was released. Will expansions bought from steam be compatible with it?
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Jul 11, 2013 21:01
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Leggsy posted:I got Sims 3 from direct2drive, or whatever it's called now, back when it was released. Will expansions bought from steam be compatible with it? No. The D2D version would be the Origin version of the game. Steam handles the game differently so you would had to rebuy it all there.
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Jul 11, 2013 21:04
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You CAN register the keys from Steam with Origin and then install the games through there, the only problem is that Steam won't let you buy the expansions if you don't own the base game on Steam.
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Jul 11, 2013 21:25
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There's a pretty good chance of Origin having a sale also.
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Jul 11, 2013 21:36
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If anyone bought Sims 3: Island Paradise on Steam and hasn't used their Origin code that came with it it, I'll trade a Metro: Last Light (http://store.steampowered.com/app/43160/) Steam key for it, or something else bought with Steam wallet.  PM or reply with your Steam ID.Edit: Or you could just buy Island Paradise and consider getting Metro Last Light for free, for simply giving up your Origin code. Jesto fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Is non-modded Sims 3 still broken? I haven't played since 2009 and I don't know if its worth it.
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