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Anyone here play Sims 3? Help me out? Be my friend? lol

Started by Kadana Sorano, October 17, 2012, 03:37:55 PM

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Kadana Sorano

Well apparently in Sims 3 you can have "friends" and send "gifts" to each others games.  I don't have any one that I know who plays, so no friends for me lol  I've considered just posting on the Sims forums but I'm not sure how much fun/enjoyment I would get from that.  I mean, I don't KNOW know you all either, but yet I do know you.. kind of.. if that makes sense o.o

Sooo yea.. anyone play Sims 3 and wanna be friends and swap gifts and such?


Also, if you play, do you know anything about backing up your game files, testing CC, removing CC, replacing CC etc?  It seems different form Sims 1 and Sims 2.  I did manage to make a back up of the files (I think I did it right anyway) and reset my game to a clean slate.  But I can;t seem to figure out where all my downloaded stuff is so I can test each piece.

Like, in Sims 1 & 2, if you were downloading CC, it was recommended that you download one thing at a time, test it in game, then get another.  So if something messes up the game you'd know what did it and could remove it.

But if you ignored that particular recommendation and downloaded a mess of stuff at once, and something messed up the game, all you had to do was remove the folder with the CC in it, and add the CC back into your game one piece at a time (like you should have to begin with lol).

Needless to say, I am of the latter group.  I am always too impatient to do it the smart slow way.  I didn't think anything of it with Sims 3, and went about playing and downloading how I always have i the past.  Only now when my game glitched, and I went to pull the custom contents folder to test everything, I couldn't figure out where it was.  So I ended up backing up the entire Sims 3 folder, and starting a fresh clean game.

But now I am running Sims 3 with nothing, no CC, not even any store content.  And it's driving me crazy!  So.. if anyone could help me out with that, I'd really REALLY appreciate it lol  I want to figure out which item/s was messing with my game, so I can put the working ones back in.
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Wildfilly94

#1
I play, but havent been on it in a long time because its been running slow and shuts off sometimes. :/

I have NO CLUE what the rest of your post is about though XD I've never heard of CC stuff before. I download things from the exchange, and delete them if they suck.

ETA: My 'persona' or usrname is Koi416

Bunraku

What kind of glitch was it? :D I play sims 2, not 3, but I may be able to point you in the right direction because I mod as well.

springacres

I play Sims 3 and have avoided installing any CC for ages, mostly to prove that the problems I'm having are NOT due to CC but are actual game glitches.


Kadana Sorano

Wildfilly I can't find you to add as a friend :(  I searched for members and got this..

Quote0 results for "Koi416" in Members
No records found. Please refine your search.

I've never actually tried searching for someone on there before though, so I may well have did it wrong lol  I'm Tychina on there :)


Bun and Spring..  I'm not even sure if what I have been downloading can be considered CC, as I got it from the Sims 3 Site exchange, and it is (I think anyway) just recolors of existing Sims stuff.  I did download some new hair colors, some different clothing colors/designs, and I downloaded a bunch of new fabric designs.  I did download some Sims, houses, and complete households.  As well as some store content of course.  Oh yea, and I got some new worlds, eyes, and skin tones.  But yea, not sure if those count as CC exactly, it's just what I am used to calling everything.  I didn't (or I don;t remember doing it anyway) go to off sites to download anything. 

As for the specific problem/glitch..  It started out slightly odd seeming, but ignorable.  When I went to play my game, I noticed some of the neighborhood Sims were running around half naked.  And I do mean naked, not in undies and a bra lol    For example at the gym, I saw this girl traipsing up the stairs wearing a midrift top and nothing else.  You could see her toned butt, and barbie front side, no blur!

At first I thought "Hmm that's odd, I don't remember downloading any nude mods" But then when creating a sim later I noticed a "Never nude" trait.  So then I thought Maxi had included the naked barbie "outfits" on purpose, but that idea felt odd, as much trouble as they have gone to in the past to make certain any mods people created for this wound up not working lol

And yes, I am one of those naughty people that in Sims 1 & 2 kept downloading mods/hacks to allow my Sims to be nude and have realistic skins/bodies heh  *Never did like barbie dolls*  But I  don't remember/don't think I did that (yet) for Sims 3.  I usually try and wait until I have all the EP's installed before getting a big mod/hack like that, and I only have a few of the EP's so far so..

Anyway, in create a sim, there was naked bottom, and naked top for clothing item choices.  I didn't notice them prior to seeing the sims in game randomly running around naked/half naked, but I was looking for them now, and they are there.

But this was ignorable, kind of weird to see sims randomly naked in town, but ignorable over all; especially since I don't spend much time in town anyway. 

But more recently, when I was trying to create a bunch of sims, to use for the chars in the Rp, I had much less ignorable problems.

I would randomize a sim, everything goes well, then at some point I decide I want to change something (hair for example), so I click on the appropriate button, and get the cursor turned into the wait/loading symbol.  I wait.  And wait and wait.  And hair options never do load up.  So I try and click a different option, but now I cannot click on anything else.  Not even the thing to exit the game.  I had to Ctrl+Alt+Delete and open task manager and close Sims down form there.  (And no, it did not say the game was not responding).

Alternatively, I would click on an option to edit (again, hair as an example) and it would act like it loaded the hair options, but the hair options box wouldn't have actually opened.  So I have a sim standing there waiting on me to edit its hair, and I have no hair styles or colors to mess with.  Now I will try and click a different option (clothes, face edit, whatever) and it acts like those load, when they actually don't.  So I now have the choice to keep the sim as is, or once again close sims out and restart it.

I spent several days trying to finish making the RP characters this way, before finally having enough.  I then decided to disable custom content (via the sims launcher) before loading sims again, but I was exhausted and so didn't actually try and run the game again right then.  Then I had work, and by the time I had another free day to try sims again, I completely forgot I needed to test it with CC disabled.  I bought ambitions (Origin sent me a nice 60% off coupon, so I couldn't resist), installed that, and went off to load sims.  I only remembered about the cc being disabled because it warned me any saved games I loaded would have any cc replaced for good with non cc things.

I left CC disabled and loaded the game, but disabling didn't fix the problem.  I dunno if there were still naked "outfits" available to make the sims wear, I didn't really check.  I was having too much aggravation just getting my options boxes to work.  I went looking for the custom content folder and couldn't locate it.  I finally just went to d:\My Documents\Electronic Arts and just renamed the (The Sims 3) folder to (The Sims 3 Oct-10-2012 Backup), then restarted my game and let it create a new fresh/clean (The Sims 3) folder.

Again, I have not actually checked if there are still naked "outfits" available, but I have not since had the other, more troubling problems.  SO I do think it is something in that folder, somewhere.  Probably something I downloaded heh  I don't mind losing an item or two, if it fixes my game.  But I mind a whole lot if I am stuck losing all of my items.  I want to somehow figure out exactly which thing/s in that folder are causing the problem/s so I can just remove the faulty files.

I'd like to get it "fixed" as soon as I can, not just because Sims clothing etc options is limited and sucky without the downloads, but because Ali pre-ordered me Seasons as an early Christmas gift, and I want my game sorted before that is installed.
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Kadana Sorano

And I now went and checked (while I had it in my mind lol) and the "naked outfits" are no longer available with the clean/fresh folder.
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Bunraku

I'm not certain what is causing your loading problems, but the "naked" outfits sound like something in your CC was missing a mesh that it was supposed to have, thus displaying the sim as nude instead of with the clothing because the skin of the clothing has nothing to load on. I have seen that problem in my game as well when a mesh is either missing or broken. I'm not sure if my problem is the same exact problem as yours, but it sure dose sound like it.

Do you know where all of your CC is kept in your game's folders? When you want to install CC again, just make sure the mesh file is there. Usually the mesh file will be indicated in big capitol letters, for example Pants_MESH.package. They may have named it something else, but if a file is showing like that, chances are a mesh is broken/not there.

Again I can't be sure if this is the exact problem because I've never experienced the kind of loading difficulty along with it that you are having, but its my best guess as to what could be causing your naked sims when you have no nudity mods. ^^

Wildfilly94

#7
I added you. ^^ I think I made two accounts... >.>
So now i cant register my sims pets game because I did it on a different account. How I got two accounts? I dunno

Eta: Yep, I have two accounts. wth. Pets is on one, sims 3 on the other.
Is there any way to delete an account and re-register a game on a different one? D:

SGA

Bun that's part of my problem, I couldn;t find the folder with downloaded content.  That's what I was initially looking for, but gave up and just renamed the whole sims folder and let the game create a new one.  Which meant all my saved sims etc were no longer there to play either heh  But yea, I did find a folder that said "Downloads" but it was wierdly empty for all the downloads i  know I have done lol

I wonder if Join Me would work on more then art programs, like maybe have it run while I was messing with sims, so someone could see wth I'm talking about rofl and say "you need to click THAT, and do THAT" lol  I may try and see if that works when my work week ends. (2 more days) right now, I'm just so tired -.-



Wild I dunno how you ended up with two accounts, but I;m sorry to say I don;t think you can combine them or such.  And I'm almost certain maxi won;t let you transfer registrations form one to the other.  I could be wrong, and it won;t hurt for you to ask, but I think their responce wnon't be very helpful :S

On the plus side, you do have them registered.  I'd make sure you save your account info somewhere, because if you ever need the registration keys you can retrieve them when you log in.



I'm not on my Sims computer right now, so can;t mess with anything (looking for folders or friend requests) lol  I'll maybe boot that comp up later, but more likely not.  I think I'm going to have an early night of it.. and hope I don;t wake up at freakin 3 am again :|
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Kadana Sorano

I actually had 3 friend requests lol Not sure who the 3rd is, but I accepted all 3 in case one was/is Bun :D

They must have named the files differently for 3 Bun, I ran a search on my comp for MESH and It couldn't find anything Sims related.  I suppose what I'll do next when I have the time, is to go back onto the exchange and download something, then check if I can find that one thing on my comp.

The problem is the built in game installer auto installing stuff, so I dunno where it's placing them; or even what the files are called.  In 1 and 2 I manual installed everything.  It was a huge pain in the butt, but at least I knew where everything was, and could keep everything organized lol
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Bunraku

The 3rd person wasn't me, but I'd love to add you if I can figure out how to from sims 2 ^^ I'm not sure we have a friends list on sims 2, though I know there is something like that on the launcher somewhere.

I wonder what the heck Maxis was thinking when they made 3, I really need to get my hands on that game and find out what's going on with it. With the auto installing I don't get how anyone is modding and creating CC anymore. But downloading one thing and checking sounds like a good idea.

I'm going to see if I can do some research on the auto installer of sims 3 for you. Maxis, what have you done to sims?! DX

And speaking of sims problems, I recently had a custom sim I downloaded go missing from create a sim, but all of the sims I have made using him as a base are still walking around just fine. >>; I can't figure that one out for the life of me.

Wildfilly94

Who is Maxis and how do I contact them? :O

And I added you from both Koi416 and XxSkittleFreakxX
I somehow created Koi416 without knowing the other day. Skittle was my original. I wish I could transfer the original sims3 register from skittle to Koi (I started hating the name skittlefreak a few years back.. XD), but as you said, its highly inprobable. But I'd love to try

Kadana Sorano

lol Bun  I actually found instructions online for how to download and install CC, so maybe it's just stuff from the exchange that get's auto installed via the launcher, I'm not sure.  I appreciate you trying to find out for me though, I really do! 

And yes, you need to get 3, it's freakishly awesome!  Despite the obvious issues lol  But hey, all Sims versions have had their issues so.. It's worth it :)  Go on you tube and check out some of the video's posted there, especially the ones posted by the folks at Maxis/Ea Games.  Ali pre-ordered seasons for me so I went and watched the vids, and am even more impatient for it to be ready now lol

Wild, I think you MIGHT be able to change your user name, not sure..  And Maxis is hmm I forget how it works, is EA Games the people who market Sims and Maxis actually makes them, or the other way around?  *always gets that confused*  But either way, Maxis = Sims, Ea Games = Sims lol  And I have no clue how to contact them :S
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Wildfilly94


hiyoko

I'm not sure if anyone answered your question Kadana, I'm too sick to read all the respones.lol

Did you make the folders for your CC? If not, you go to your Sims 3 folder, where all you stuff is, create a new folder labeled Mods. Then inside that folder create another folder labeled Packages. These folders are really just used if you download something from a site where the laucher is not prompted to open and download it. Which isn't very common, at least for me. I try not to download things if the laucher doesn't open, because since I got my comp fixed (I got a virus from youtube and it messed up a core file) I can't remember where I downloaded winzip (or was it winrar?) for free.lol Also if you have generations or newer, you can't use big mods. I can't remember any of the names, but ones like inteen or anything like that.

I hope that helps, I'd friend you guys but with my new job I don't even have time to play Sims 3. At least not until June. :(

Kadana Sorano

lol Not quite/entirely Hiyoko.

No, I didn't make any folders like that when I got my "CC" because everything I got auto downloaded/installed via the launcher.  I don't think (Really I'm about 95% positive anyway) that I ever even left the exchange to get stuff. 

I renamed the entire Sims 3 folder to Sims 3 bugged or such,and let the game create a new Sims 3folder, so I have a fresh clean game with nothing added, not even store content.  The game runs fine now.  But I miss my other families, and all the items I got, especially the limited clothing options are driving me nuts!

I want to add all the downloaded stuff back in one piece at a time to play test it,and see what works and what doesn't.  But since it all got added in via the launcher, I have no clue where those files are actually at.  I dunno if they are named differently then in Sims 1 & 2 or what,or maybe I am just being incredibly stupidly dense.. but I just can't find them.

And that's OK, you can friend me whenever if you want, I can't always play either.  I went a year most recently without playing, simply because the comp I play Sims on wasn't working right lol
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Pinkshadow

Well i do play sims 3 sometimes, but i did something bad and downloaded it, because i like having ALL of sims, but i cant afford to buy it so had to do something else :)

But i find it really annoying because often when i play it, something in it breaks and i aint able to save what i have done in the game so i lose everything i just spend hours to make, so kinda made me mostly stop playing it.
- Heard from friends who bought it that the real game does the same at times :/

So i'll stay with WoW for now :)
- Though the BF stole my account and now have to play on his :O evilness xD

springacres

VERY belatedly realized I didn't mention my persona name - it's springacres (as on most sites I'm on lol)  Sent friend requests to Wild and someone I assume is Kadana lol :)


Kadana Sorano

must have been lol accepted your request.

Not had time to play much lately sadly, my new manager keeps jerking me around on the work schedule :S
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springacres

Finally figured out what the rest of your post was about... and sadly, I think the custom content in TS3 just goes directly into the Downloads folder in your Sims 3 directory.  (Unless it's a mod, in which case you would need to create a separate folder in the TS3 directory for mods and make sure you have the correct resource.cfg file)

If you have no idea what I mean by mods, then you don't have any.  If you have mods, then this is a good guide to make sure you've installed them properly:
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/How+to+Install
It is written primarily for Twallan's mods, so mods by other simmers may have additional instructions, but I *think* it's pretty universal as far as mods are concerned.


Kadana Sorano

Hmm question, can mods be uploaded to the exchange?  I'm wondering if maybe one was included in something I downloaded form the exchange and I didn't realize, because I wasn't looking/checking for it.  Because I just assumed mods can;t be put on the exchange  heh

I'll have to boot my other comp up in a bit, and see if I can find all my files in that folder, now I know where to look.  Thanks Spring :)
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springacres

No, mods can't be uploaded to the exchange (that I know of anyway).  If all of your custom content was from the exchange, then the only reason you should be experiencing issues with it is if it has base objects you don't own yet (whether from the store or from EPs/SPs).

If you have CC from 3rd-party sites like The Sims Resource, though, then yes, that might be an issue.  Hacked objects and non-standard meshes can cause serious issues especially if they were created for an earlier patch version than you have.


Kadana Sorano

The missing ep/sp content might be it, I honestly don;t think/remember going off exchange for anything for sims 3 (yet heh), but yea not 100% certain either.  And I still haven't had the time to get back on my Sims comp and check for the files.  I've had a week off work nearly, and not got to play sims a bit of it.. so frustrating, this thing called Christmas, it's eating all my fun time up lol

On the plus side, most of my shopping is finished after today.. now I just have to get all the scarves finished being made lol  (making scarves for the bf and his family, and for coworkers as gifts) oh and the step dad.. 3 down and only.. 6 to go.  Yea It may be a while till I can play my sims again lol
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springacres

Yeah, I really wish EA would implement a labeling system on the Exchange that says WHICH EP/SP and WHICH store content the item contained that you were downloading.  I try to label my downloads so people can tell, but I always worry that I may have left something out (I have a ton of store stuff and it's hard to keep track of which items came from which store set).


Kadana Sorano

actually, if you look where it says that it contains store or expansion etc content, you can click the words (store) or (expansion) and it will open a pop up window listing the items contained.  At least for sims 3 it does anyway. 

But I only just realized that recently, and previously I was just clicking to download stuff, figuring if I didnt have the appropriate content required that it wouldn;t allow me to download and install.
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springacres

It does?  Wow, I never knew that!

Still wish EA would automatically put that stuff in the description though.


Kadana Sorano

Well, I remember in Sims 1, on one of the sites I downloaded cc form, they listed everything, might have even been the exchange, I cant remember now.. but it could often times be a LOT of stuff, and was a lot of stuff to read through, there were a lot of complaints about it there.  That could be part of why they do it this way now.  *shrug* but who knows with Management lol
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springacres

Could be, lol.  Then again with Sims 1, there were just the EPs and third party sites to worry about - no SPs, no store content, no promos.  I guess in that light EA's decision sort of makes sense.


Pega


Kadana Sorano

Have not had time to play with my sims in a while.. or Spore.. or NFS *sigh*  My games are so neglected lol  But I especially miss my sims.  Got the sims free play app for the kindle fire, trying to alleviate my angst of missing my sim families but.. SO not the same thing!

Have got to make time just for myself soon, so I can relax with my sim families.. or make new ones lol  You can add me if you want pega, and I';ll accept when I can play again.. or i cna add you when i have time to play again, either way :)
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Pega

Haven't played much, either. Trying to figure out how to add my sim as an avatar currently...

Kadana Sorano

#31
Finally got back onto Sims, just long enough to update game files, and accept friend requests though.  We'll see if I actually manage to play some now lol

Pega, I'll see if I can remember how I managed it, I remember it did take me a while to figure out.  I'll let you know :)

ETA:

Login to the sims3 website and mouse over the My Page link at the top, go down the list to My Account, then over to click on My profile.  Once it opens your profile page, there should be Your user name, hour long you've been a member, your location etc, and over to the right ner the top it should say "Avatar |Edit Profile".  Click Avatar, it will load some default sims for you to use.  Directly under where you clicked Avatar is a drop down box, where you can change your options from default avatars to uploaded avatars.  Click that and it SHOULD show you all the sims you have uploaded, then you just select one and click update at the bottom.
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