So there's this fabulous dress from the Sims 3 store that I downloaded but never use because I find it slightly too long for my taste.



I don't know if it's a complicated thing to do or not, but what I'm looking for is to just get it shortened a little bit, so that it ends immediately above the knee instead of underneath the knee.

Anyone think they can do that?   

Ever since The Sims 3 has come out and I first played it, I've always thought that 16000 simoleons to start a sim-life is just ridiculous: I have to play on epic life span to be able to save a decent amount of money without my sims dying of old age in the process, just because I'm constantly spending money on repairmen, on bills, on food... 
I know I can kaching my way around it and all, but I don't want to have to cheat everytime I decide it's time to play with a new sim. And I don't want my sims to have a gigantic starter budget either; just a decent one like the 20000 simoleons in The Sims 2...

I've looked around, checked mod the sims, checked the sim wiki but I was unable to find a mod that changes the starter budget in the sims 3.

Has one been made yet? 

I am about to re-install all my Sims games(Base game & expansion) on a computer where they have never been instaled before.
Do I need to update and patch EVERY game or do the expansions automatically fix bugs of previous games?
They question is probably a bit silly, but I really don't feel like pacthing ALL of them... :smt120

Recently I've been having this weird problem: when I install a lot and then enter it, there are no custom walls, floors or pieces of furniture at all! But I am sure that Clean Installer must install at least SOMETHING since in my special "lots" folder I had more than a gig of CC(a lot of it had names like "c76hdisdhw8d", is that normal?) for about 60 lots I had just installed(I used to have them before but since I had to reinstall my game I had to reinstall the lots as well). When I search for the walls or the floors I saw on the screenshots though I can't find anything in build mode.
I have no problems when I install Sims or walls/floors with the Clean Installer though. Those work perfectly.
Custom Content is enabled and I encounter no other problems with the game.
What is wrong?

I have a question about Numenor's Unlevel Wall hack/thing/whatever. As you might know it is said to be somewhat unstable so since I'm not a builder I decided not to install it. But sometimes when I download lots I see that it says that unlevel walls is required. I'm just wondering why it would be since I'm not going to build/change the lot. Could it be that the lot still works as long as I don't do anything build mode related? And what happens if I try to install and load a lot that is said to "require" it without actually having installed it? Will my computer explode? I'm a bit afraid of finding out myself so I thought I could ask here, see if someone knows more about it.

Ok so I have all these gorgeous mediterranean lots I've downloaded before Bon Voyage came out and I think they would looks GREAT if they had their own private beach so I was thinking of doing some little adjustmenst with Simpe. What I was actually planning to do was placing them as close to the sea as I can, then expanding the lot size and then changing the lot type. Now this sounds very easy but there's one very important question I have no answer to: will it work? I mean, will the sea be swimmable and stuff? I know you're probably thinking "Why the heck don't you try then?" but I'm kinda worried it could make my game crash or I could lose my downloads or even my neighbourhoods...
So I thought I'd ask you guys cause I think some of you probably understand more about these things than I do. :smile:
I'll probably end up making a backup and trying but I thought I could ask anyway before I do.
Thanks a lot for your answers!

I just got a new computer that pretty much kicks ass(3.16GHz, 4 gigs of Ram, HD 2600 XT but I'll upgrade it) and I still can't see the moon! Is there any setting I need to turn on or something? And has anyone else experienced this problem? I mean: it can't be my computer or do I still need an even better one??

I downloaded several beach lots I really liked but I can't place them anywhere! I place them correctly, with a bit of water flooding them but it won't work. When I place an empty beach lot on the exact same spot it works but when I remove it and try placing a beach lot of the same size with a house on it it won't work. WHAT'S WRONG???

I wanted to ask: if my sims tan on the beach with a custom skintone, will they actually tan? I mean, does tanning work with custom skintones? Does it change to the darker skintone(the skintone that's "next darkest" to the one my sim has)?
You'll probably tell me that I can go and check but my computer is quite slow and making a "test sim", moving it to a lot and make it go on vacation is actually quite an adventure for me.
Also, my game sometimes crashes without any obvious reason. It doesn't happen very often but still; it happens. Does anyone know what I could do?