I still play the Sims 1,so I will definately get the Sims 3 :-XI still have 114 gb of free space on my drive,so I won't have to uninstall the Sims 2

I have a Sim with a small flower and gift shop that just won two best of the best awards(it all happended last night,actually)The building is very small, on a 3X1 lot,everything is contained on 1 story,I made sure to use good floor coverings and wallpaper,everything is well lit,plus my Sim has a top reputation.But the major factor I think could be gold badges,my Sim has practically every gold badge available,this allows them to be more efficent at the cash register,stock shelves better,and sell items better(they gain the dazzle interaction)I hope these suggestions help,and good luck:angel:

I spend most of my time in my custom hood,but when I'm bored I'll pop into Pleasantview for awhile,anyway,here is what I've done so far:

Goth:Cassandra married a reformed Don Lothario,they have a lovely teenage daughter named Cassidy,she still hasn't broken up with Darren yet(UH OH)I aged Mortimer back down to adult and he had a daughter with Dina named Tina and another daughter with Nina named Nena(they are "aunt sisters",LOL)He is still single,Alexander is still a child because I don't care for him very much,I may grow him up and pack him off to college.

Pleasant:Mary Sue caught Daniel cheating with Kaylynn,she smacked him around a bit and then divorced him and booted him out of the house,Daniel moved into a trailer next to Brandi and married Kaylynn,Kay gave birth to a truly ugly son named Skeeter.Mary Sue mended her broken heart with a brief romantic encounter with Mortimer Goth,she gave birth to my only set of twins in the neighborhood,Dino and Britney,they are surprisingly nice looking teens.:angel:Angela and Lilith are young adults in college,enjoying their mended friendship

Caliente:Not much yet,just the births of Tina and Nena,they both broke up with Don,I may set Tina and Nena up with Dustin and Dirk,I'm not sure yet

Lothario:Don is currently enjoying his new life and his marriage to Cassandra,they both love little Cassidy very much,I may remodel their house

Broke:Not much yet,I haven't really played them

Dreamer:I may ressurect Darleen,other than that I have little interest in them

So,there ya go,I love the Goth and Pleasant famillies so much I forgot about the others,LOL

I have all EP's and stuff packs installed up to AL(minus Free Time)and in my custom hood six males were abducted by aliens,all six of them became pregnant,and one even had a set of twins(LOL)But when Daniel Pleasant was abducted in Pleasantview(using no hacks)he was returned non pregnant,I thought it was a glitch,but then I realized he was four days away from elder.Apparently,the age rule also applies to males(i never knew that)So maybe it's his age

I am simply loving this EP,I especially love the playground equipment and the new toddler/child interactions,but I am also having a little fun with the witchcraft,in my game Mortimer and Bella Goth are a neutral witch and warlock respectibly:angel:They started out as good and evil though,just to learn all the spells,here is a pic of Mortimer casting a spell and Bella in her brief moment as a good witch:happy8:

Great,I'll try it out:happy8:

Hello,I have a very strange(and annoying)problem in Free Time,it seems like my Sims' interests are impossible to keep at a normal level,I have used boolProp and the InSiminator to set them all at 100%,but they instantly revert back to default,which usually results in most interests bars being empty.My Sims can barely talk to each other due to all the negative conversations:smt120 At first I thought it was a problem with the interests adjustor in the InSim,but no,boolProp won't even fix it:smt120I have no other hacks besides InSim,and when boolProp woulden't work my CC wasn't even enabled,please help,I want to play Free Time but I can't with this problem.

I absolutely adore this,very funny ingame(LOL)I was wondering if you could make some recolors of this,specifically a darker one for gothic Sims

I agree,Apartment Life is worth it just for the many new interactions,and the playground equipment for the kiddies,another wonderful thing about the EP is that Maxis seemed to have toned down the pillow fights and waterballoon fights.I have Bon Voyage and this will make vacations a breeze,before I had to leave certain vacation spots because the lag caused by townies waterballon fighting was too intense.

I had this very same thing happen to me once after I downloaded a default diaper replacement,once I deleted that my Sim baby returned to normal:happy8:I also grew a "shadow baby" up once and he returned to normal as a toddler,hope this helps

I don't have many hacks or mods in my game,just the InSiminator and some no NPC respawn hacks,in addition to the Simsky faster homework mod from MTS2.My last stuff pack was the Ikea one,so now I'm thinking that these game mods aren't compatible with it,but I didn't think that a new stuff pack was the same as an EP.I guess I'll have to delete them and see what happens,thanks for the help.

I'm not much of a fan of Don Lothario,sorry:happy8:He broke up with all of his women,I aged Mortimer down to an adult and he had a lovely daughter with Dina named Breanna,he also had a son with Nina,I forget his name(LOL)I may just change Don's aspiration and marry him to a townie or something

No,I have the unpatched version of Bon Voyage,also,every once in awhile my Sims will just be booted off of their sofa when they are watching tv.I get the same weird jumping animation and all of a sudden they are standing up in their living room,they aren't reset or anything,just standing up.

Last night I sent one of my famillies on vacation to Twikki Island,they stayed at the Twikki Beach Hotel,I had them woohoo in the hotel bed,the first two times everything was just normal,but after the third time when they went to relax on it to watch tv the canopy curtains turned flashing blue,and well,sorta kicked them off.AKA,there was a weird jumping animation and they ended up just standing in the room:smt120I have no recolors of this particular bed in my game plus I have the updated CEP,this is the only problem I am having,and I wonder if someone could help me sort it out.

The only reason I kill townies off is to stop them from tormenting my own Sims,it seems like my teens always like to bring them home,and the townies usually end up picking fights or even automonously flirting with them,causing trouble.I am not a bully,and I doubt anyone else who kills a townie is too,I agree that the nannies are the worst,I had a Sim kid almost taken by the social worker because the nanny refused to feed her.The teenage Ivy Copur even joy buzzered one of my Sim's parents.I do nothing to the adult neighborhood townies,I just max out their bars of nice so they won't kick over trashcans.Besides,everyone plays their game differently,and it's a little wrong to jump on a soapbox and judge others.