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Why does this game run like poo poo on a brand new PC.
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Jan 5, 2013 05:14
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I bought medieval in for $2 when it first popped up in the sale, and I got a tool tip for Pirates and Nobles that led me to believe that they were packaged together. I still can't see it in the store.
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Jan 6, 2013 00:51
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The Sims is one of those games where the urge to play is extremely powerful, but interest drops off very quickly if you even get slightly bored of it. I'd urge anyone that's about to drop $150 bucks on it to think twice.
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Jan 6, 2013 09:39
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The only thing that really holds my interest is buying the biggest lot available and living as a homeless person. There's a new sleeping bag or something that came with one of the ex packs, build an outhouse with one of the public toilets and make everything rusty. It looks pretty cool. I played for 20 mins tonight and just hung out at the gym eating canned soup.
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Jan 6, 2013 11:29
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simosimo posted:drat, can I run two concurrent save games? This is making me want to re-roll a mad-poo poo character. I guess I do that on the screen as soon as you load the game, as there are 3 slots if I so recall? You can run infinite saves afaik. You can even run multiple households in the same town.
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Jan 6, 2013 12:20
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IAmTheRad posted:Only one at a time. The ones you aren't running are sucked into doing whatever story progression tells them to do. For example, if you are using the basic EA story progression for the game, your sims might move out of town to vanish into the ether, or they may become all vampires for no reason only because EA says so. Yeah, I thought that went without saying.
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Jan 6, 2013 12:42
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Oh dear. My homeless sim got abducted by aliens and I'm pretty sure he's pregnant now. I think the chance to be abducted must have something to do with time spent outside because it happened at a festival while I was minding my own business.
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Jan 7, 2013 09:43
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Ddraig posted:Your guy can literally be that crazy old man screaming about being abducted by aliens but nobody believes him. He just gave birth. It took every simolean I had from gardening to build a mini cabin with the cheapest door/window/lantern that could only fit a crib and the baby sitter (that I called automatically when I left to sell vegetables) took the lantern because I couldn't afford to pay her. He's literally a hobo raising a baby alien in the woods.
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Jan 7, 2013 09:57
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simosimo posted:Nope, my sim was sleeping, got out of bed, then was forcefully taken! Wow. That kinda sucks then, because I remember it being insanely rare in Sims 2.
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Jan 7, 2013 18:34
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Blackray Jack posted:I'm jealous of you all and your fancy alien interactions. I have three space rocks of varying size and have yet to receive a visit from beyond. I heard some semi-mechanical alienish laughter but after panning my camera all around it was for naught. Well don't worry about panning the camera because when it happens, your sim will go and get abducted by himself. I know this because my guy has controlled sim autonomy off.
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Jan 8, 2013 01:11
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My homeless sim's new wife (the town slattern) got abducted. I hope that the mods I have aren't messing with the chance to get abducted because it really seems a bit much, unless it has something to do with the Alien Baby I already have.
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Jan 8, 2013 11:17
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Protocol7 posted:Nraas' Overwatch has gotten rid of this for me entirely. Was there a specific setting you used, because I have overwatch and I'm still getting it.
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Jan 8, 2013 18:51
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Trademarked posted:I bought this and a bunch of the expansions during the Steam Winter sale. While I'm enjoying the game immensely load/save times are horrendous on a computer which can handle games with much more demanding requirements rather easily. Does Overwatch help with this or is there some setting I should be tweaking? I dunno man I'm in the same boat. My compy runs The Witcher 2 on Ultra with Uber-sampling enabled, no sweat, but this game brings it to a halt.
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Jan 9, 2013 08:23
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Elth posted:So I ran the game patched to 1.47 but with v1.42 mods installed and it seemed to work fine? Something will inevitably gently caress up so I made sure to back my saves up. Is that why the game runs like crap?
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Jan 9, 2013 08:51
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IAmTheRad posted:If you have Seasons installed, when they heat up too much they will ignite on fire. Another way to die is to participate in a eating contest while hungry, so you die from starvation. That's death by choking.
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Jan 9, 2013 11:31
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Seasons and supernatural makes gardening nigh impossible. 1. your plants are frozen for half the year, and 2. zombies spawn once a week and kill everything. My dude is an adult and I haven't even got close to making a second generation of any plants.
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Jan 10, 2013 04:40
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Yeah I dunno what they were thinking with the full moon zombies. Really loving stupid.
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Jan 10, 2013 04:46
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Trilin posted:You can also shorten or lengthen seasons in the menu. I really should shorten winter because I'm finally 2 days into spring and it's still bloody snowing.
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Jan 10, 2013 06:35
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I built a fence and I'm just gonna reset any that spawn inside the fence.
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Jan 10, 2013 07:22
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The reputation mechanics are so dumb. I confessed to cheating, because my aforementioned town slattern wife having completed her lifetime wish of loving people around town (no, seriously, that's a new wish) was building up a reputation for some reason. I didn't want her to leave the household at this point because the harsh winter and constant hordes of zombies weren't kind to Archibald Goonsire's bank account, and the wife's Journalism job was bringing in just enough money to get by (seriously, I started out homeless, and I'm almost and elder and I still haven't got anything more than the basic frills in my house). So I seek to avoid having the news come back to bite me, eat the bad moodlet for confessing, which results in an automatic breakup on expiration for some reason, and slowly rebuild my sim's lives so they can continue eking out their meagre existences in peace. Nope, the very crimes I confessed came back through rep and now the marriage that had already been through one divorce is utterly torpedoed. Not to mention my Alien son is a teenager that still talks to his imaginary friend.
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Jan 10, 2013 10:29
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The "features" in this game are so retarded and frustrating. I've managed one Harvest in Spring be cause of how long it took my plants to get back to non-dormant, and now they just turned dormant again even though it's 10 celsius in the Spring.. Without Seasons I would have already maxed out gardening long ago. edit: with all this garbage that you have to go through growing plants outside, you'd think they would have added a functional green house to the game with the ex pack.
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Jan 12, 2013 01:01
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Nettle Soup posted:You can always grow stuff inside in pots. I can't afford to build another room. I haven't had more than $1000 since I started and every time I get money I use it to buy frivolous things like beds or fridges.
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Jan 12, 2013 01:16
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I don't wanna turn things off, but I at least solved my money problems by checking the mail and finding that my famous wife had been sent $20,000 or so worth of gifts from her various lovers and fans.
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Jan 12, 2013 02:24
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Kenny Rogers posted:Saw this during work yesterday, forgot to reply. Yeah I've since gotten over my dislike of changing the default settings and shortened Fall and Winter down. edit: sometimes I've been getting massive lumps of money, like just before I got $20,000 and I've no idea where it came from. Knuc U Kinte fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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Jan 13, 2013 00:25
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The No Jealousy thing is bugged. I've had it on my wife for ages and her rep seems to override it if word of her old indiscretions gets back to the husband. I've had two huge fallouts since getting it, including a divorce and remarriage.
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Jan 13, 2013 02:11
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The Cheshire Cat posted:
I doubt it's from high level career. My dude is level 5 or so gardener and the wife is level 4 journo.
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Jan 13, 2013 06:04
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Can you actually get a butler? edit: Wow, you can have a butler. New play through idea: Homeless sim on the biggest lot with a butler. Knuc U Kinte fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Jan 15, 2013 |
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Jan 15, 2013 07:41
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Ardeem posted:You can hire one, but he goes home at the end of the day. Live in options are Bonehilda in Supernatural or just have one of you sims with the formal trait stay home and see to the grounds. I just checked, and you can get a real butler and he sleeps at you house if you assign him a bed.
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Jan 15, 2013 07:51
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CAS is where it always crashes for me, to the point where making a sim is impossible. I just create the sim with the basic look and traits and the use the master controller stylist to make him how I want.
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Jan 16, 2013 06:17
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Bonehilda also spends the entire Fall raking leaves.
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Jan 16, 2013 09:09
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Elth posted:Nothing is as aggravating in a small house as a large dog with the lazy trait. When they lie down, they seem to create a 2x2 forcefield around them which will gently caress with pathfinding. They also take way too long to get up, and their lazy trait ensures they'll be doing it a lot. I think pets is one of the most worthless expansions. I dunno what dogs can do, but I found that a cat was just one more annoying mouth to feed. I assume that finding critters can turn into something lucrative eventually though???
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Jan 18, 2013 23:54
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Ardeem posted:They will start bringing in rare animals worth 1,000+ simolions each. I figured as much. I guess that I couldn't really be bothered with socialising with the thing. Unrelated: How are you guys using Relativity? I have no idea how to use it.
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Jan 19, 2013 00:16
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Kenny Rogers posted:
Thanks, dude.
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Jan 19, 2013 06:52
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I've got Nraas mods and Union Cove, but one thing I've noticed is that the town doesn't ever populate with supernaturals. Is there a setting somewhere where I can change this?
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Jan 20, 2013 06:21
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Rirse posted:Is there a way to get Sims to visit the community lots more often? They hang out a lot at the lot with the dinner/movie theater, but the sports bar and several other community lots gets no visitors, even if my character is there. I think the story progression mods cover this.
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Feb 4, 2013 09:18
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