Thank you @Scobre and @MolliMontana what I find sad about it is the theme around the game is constantly doing things really cheaply, even if it means it affects gameplay. After how much the predecessors gave EA in terms of profits it makes me really sad and also annoyed that they aren't treating the game with enough reverence.
Something TS4 players can't have without modding the game: Massive family trees.
What is the mod called? I need it ^^.
Sorry for getting off-topic but this is bothering me: I really wished one time we could end this silly and childish war between S3 and S4 supporters. Every sims game is unique on it's own and has it's advantages (and disadvantages) over the other. This will never change; they are all (!) superb games. Right now I am enjoying TS3 and TS4. There is no point in arguing since this is a matter of taste. It's like to fight over which food or music genre is the best. There is no answer for this.
I use the "MC Command Center-mod". You can get it over at MTS. It does a lot more than just preserving the family tree, though. i'm not a rotational player, the reason my sims have so much relatives is that the mod also creates a form of Story Progression in your neighbourhood. There are different modules to cater to everyone's needs.
Something TS4 players can't have without modding the game: Massive family trees.
What is the mod called? I need it ^^.
Sorry for getting off-topic but this is bothering me: I really wished one time we could end this silly and childish war between S3 and S4 supporters. Every sims game is unique on it's own and has it's advantages (and disadvantages) over the other. This will never change; they are all (!) superb games. Right now I am enjoying TS3 and TS4. There is no point in arguing since this is a matter of taste. It's like to fight over which food or music genre is the best. There is no answer for this.
master command or no culling, they remove the cap of 180, sims however, this can "hurt your game" at long time, increase your load times and make you game become unstable(crash) or if already crashing can increase the crashing, sims 4 not was proper developed to support large populations or saves.
The mod i use doesn't stop ghost culling, it just spares the ghosts tied to your family tree. I delete townies manually if they get too many and it's not a great hassle (ETA: Although i would prefer them fixing the culling already, so you don't have to use mods). I'm on gen 5 and it doesn't hurt my game in the least.
hmm that is because how you are using, since you keep deleting new sims and use the mod to save only your family tree then really gonna take a long time to affect your game, but if you just break the cap and let the game "free generate new sims" and sims die all over the place and all bla bla bla then the effect can come more fast, if you let your game "rule" the population without any sort of control then you can start to notice pretty fast the trouble, while i played sims 4 i also used some mods to "reduce the player generation of sims" and also keep deleting myself new sims then i never had problem too, but thi was really annoying have each one or 2 days of playing had to check my population and delete unwanted sims this also started to make me get a little tired.
about the population in sims 3 if i'm not wrong is between 140 and 200 to 220, like they told is more based on your computer and some setting, the better the computer and large worlds can support more sims, but that limit is different from sims 4, he count only living sims and sims which are inside "houses" in the world, service sims which live in rabbit holes are not counted in the cap, them you can have like 400 sims in your world, counting the living + services, deads are only culled if i'm not wrong after third generation of "dead ones".
don't forget with having like 200 sims living around means which you gonna actually have 200 sims being "emulated and played and interactin in the world unlike sims 4 where only 20 can be at sametime and also count dead and services.
then you can easy end with much more sims than sims 4.
Could someone please tell me how many sims population wise you can you have in a sims 3 world? Is there any chance of losing player made sims like there is in sims 4?
@Pary might know. I know it was mentioned in the Den, but I forgot the amount. I think it was in the thousands. TS2 cap is much higher too.
As far as I'm aware, with a story progression mod, you can set the cap at what you like, though I believe some of it is dependent on your system specs, like the number of sims appearing in clubs, re. Later Night.
Without one, I'm sure I've seen the number 150-180 tossed around here and there. But, I've also seen it mentioned that a town over about 200 -250 begins to suffer significant problems, like bunching at schools, zerging on playable sims locations, causing blockages in doorways and such.
I'm sure many people have tried, or do run towns that have a high pop cap, and perhaps with no problems, so I'm not claiming to be an expert, simply repeating what I've read elsewhere.
Could someone please tell me how many sims population wise you can you have in a sims 3 world? Is there any chance of losing player made sims like there is in sims 4?
@Pary might know. I know it was mentioned in the Den, but I forgot the amount. I think it was in the thousands. TS2 cap is much higher too.
As far as I'm aware, with a story progression mod, you can set the cap at what you like, though I believe some of it is dependent on your system specs, like the number of sims appearing in clubs, re. Later Night.
Without one, I'm sure I've seen the number 150-180 tossed around here and there. But, I've also seen it mentioned that a town over about 200 -250 begins to suffer significant problems, like bunching at schools, zerging on playable sims locations, causing blockages in doorways and such.
I'm sure many people have tried, or do run towns that have a high pop cap, and perhaps with no problems, so I'm not claiming to be an expert, simply repeating what I've read elsewhere.
Thanks Pary. Yeah I saw 400 number mentioned before. Interesting about the 200-250 Sims. In the Sims 2, I never had issues with population cap. Performance always ran well no matter how many Sims I had for some reason. Then again, I've never been a huge legacy player. I usually only last until generation three.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
Could someone please tell me how many sims population wise you can you have in a sims 3 world? Is there any chance of losing player made sims like there is in sims 4?
@Pary might know. I know it was mentioned in the Den, but I forgot the amount. I think it was in the thousands. TS2 cap is much higher too.
As far as I'm aware, with a story progression mod, you can set the cap at what you like, though I believe some of it is dependent on your system specs, like the number of sims appearing in clubs, re. Later Night.
Without one, I'm sure I've seen the number 150-180 tossed around here and there. But, I've also seen it mentioned that a town over about 200 -250 begins to suffer significant problems, like bunching at schools, zerging on playable sims locations, causing blockages in doorways and such.
I'm sure many people have tried, or do run towns that have a high pop cap, and perhaps with no problems, so I'm not claiming to be an expert, simply repeating what I've read elsewhere.
TS2 only ever had to concentrate on one lot at a time. TS3 has to calculate sims activities in an entire world overall. That kind of thing can be a resource drain, especially if it isn't coded properly or your world is overstuffed I guess.
TS2 only ever had to concentrate on one lot at a time. TS3 has to calculate sims activities in an entire world overall. That kind of thing can be a resource drain, especially if it isn't coded properly or your world is overstuffed I guess.
yeah, that was most of the sims 3 problem a lot of spaguete code plus limited enginer being 32 bit only, but much more robust than sims 4 engineer which not was designed to have many sims walking around, if you use mods to increase the max of sims at lots you start to have a lot of crash if you have too much sims and is only recomended to do in mac cuz is the only 64 bits and even at mac i see peoples reporting crash tue do too much sims then in the end the sims is not really a game developed to have many sims around being emulated and actives.
So I just found out while playing TS2 that if you have one sim in the shower, and another sim comes into the bathroom and flushes the toilet, the sim in the shower will scream and jump out of the shower and run and point a finger at the toilet flushing sim.
Omg. That is so awesome. I never knew that. Little tid-bits like that is what made this game awesome
Edit/Addition; I was playing a sim family. Mom, dad, two children. Mom and dad work 9am-5pm. Kids get out of school at 3pm. Children were left home ALONE UNSUPERVISED for an hour and Social Services came and took both children.
As a person who works for Child Protective Services in real life, I was distraught that my Sim children got taken away for Inadequate Supervision. Then I became angry because my sim family could not get their children back no matter what. I'm yelling at the screen like "This is UNFAIR! My sim have a RIGHT to be able to get their children back! I DEMAND a Sim Attorney and be heard in Sim Court with a Sim Judge!! "
But I just ended up closing the game without saving. -_-
So I just found out while playing TS2 that if you have one sim in the shower, and another sim comes into the bathroom and flushes the toilet, the sim in the shower will scream and jump out of the shower and run and point a finger at the toilet flushing sim.
Omg. That is so awesome. I never knew that. Little tid-bits like that is what made this game awesome
Yeah I love doing that. They did that in the Sims 1 as well. It is a nice detail.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
Aww that's an adorable name and wow sorry didn't realize that was Don. XD He does produce cute kids. I guess I'm more used to him having brownish eyes.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
So I just found out while playing TS2 that if you have one sim in the shower, and another sim comes into the bathroom and flushes the toilet, the sim in the shower will scream and jump out of the shower and run and point a finger at the toilet flushing sim.
Omg. That is so awesome. I never knew that. Little tid-bits like that is what made this game awesome
Edit/Addition; I was playing a sim family. Mom, dad, two children. Mom and dad work 9am-5pm. Kids get out of school at 3pm. Children were left home ALONE UNSUPERVISED for an hour and Social Services came and took both children.
As a person who works for Child Protective Services in real life, I was distraught that my Sim children got taken away for Inadequate Supervision. Then I became angry because my sim family could not get their children back no matter what. I'm yelling at the screen like "This is UNFAIR! My sim have a RIGHT to be able to get their children back! I DEMAND a Sim Attorney and be heard in Sim Court with a Sim Judge!! "
But I just ended up closing the game without saving. -_-
Tid-bit surprises.
In sims 2, iirc, those kids taken by the social worker are then put up for adoption. I had a family that adopted the kids from another family that had had them taken, it was so bittersweet.
I really cannot abide the Sims 4 method of generating a bunch of single mother households and then stealing the kids for adoption. As someone who was a single parent for many years I find the implications a bit sickening.
I used to "seed" my town adoption pool with children and toddlers from a couple of sets of my own sims. I would give them half a dozen or so kids each, pretend the parents were useless no hopers, lock the babies and kids in a pen with no gate and wait until the social worker came to get them, without feeding or changing them.
I liked the fact that you could adopt them as other families. Sadly, sims 3 didn't work like that, which I thought was a little unfortunate.
I used to "seed" my town adoption pool with children and toddlers from a couple of sets of my own sims. I would give them half a dozen or so kids each, pretend the parents were useless no hopers, lock the babies and kids in a pen with no gate and wait until the social worker came to get them, without feeding or changing them.
I liked the fact that you could adopt them as other families. Sadly, sims 3 didn't work like that, which I thought was a little unfortunate.
That is a shame. Glad to hear that about Sims 2 though as that works with some storylines I want to do.
So, because some of you wanted me to post some pics from my prettacy, but i didn't know how to do that without copy and pasting whole episodes and/or explaining who is who in a rather boring text, i just searched for my favourite "bloopers" in my story and sorted it after the generations. I post one blooper per episode at my thread, so there are a lot and this is already a very short selection of them, but it's still a picture spam, so i apologize in advance to the people who have to scroll through all of this.
You still probably won't know who the sims are, but i guess it's not that important, because the bloopers are focused on the situations.
Gen 1:
Cassia: "Now that the girls are gone, i can finally reveal my superpower.. I'm a Cooking Ninja!" Valentina: "Mom...we've been back for quite some time now. Stop acting weird!"
Cassia: "No one is going to notice i farted green stuff, when everything else around is also green. Hehe!!"
Gen 2:
Ehm... WRONG PLACE, Alexander.
That you're at a bar while you're PREGNANT might be ok, Cleo, but ... did you just order a drink?!
Valentina presents to you: Selfie gone wrong!
Toddlers, anyone?!
Gen 3:
Eowyn:"And than there was the day i taught Hector how to swim IN the pavement..." Trudy:(Ok, now you're just messing with me!)
Penelope: "Hey, how about you join me at the dance floor... and in my bed?"
Poor Guy: "Um, oh, no... i.. i... can't. I...I just peed myself! See! What an accident, i need to go home like ASAP to change. So sorry i would have loved to!"
Seriously, is she even able to SEE with those eyes?!
Bill:"Mother, i'm a grown-up now! You can't make me wear an animal hat any longer!" Hailey:"I see. How about getting rid of those cake-crumbs, "grown-up"?!"
Hailey:"OML, you're peeing!" Greg:"You are really the biggest drama queen ever. Who are you talking to? An imagenary crowd or what?!"
Bill:"Oh, mum is dying. Better post this on Llamagram!"
Gen 4:
Lilly:"Well, well, well. As soon as some of the readers say i'm pretty, Amelia has to grow up to look gorgeous and distracts from me. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!"
Ginny:"Phew...at least i didn't turn out to look as ugly as THAT girl." Alondra:"You know i can hear you, don't you?!"
Morgaine has inherited Amelia's ability to levitate!
Amina:"I made a stunning 50 percent profit margin with the glitter sticker sale. Here is your share!" Morgaine:"Haha, those "My little Llama"-fans are so gullible, they pay any price! It's good doing business with you, cousin!"
Complaining about dirty diapers and blocking the sim who actually wants to change them...Classical Hailey.
I guess Valentina wanted to prove how much she and Amelia looked alike!
Grimmy:"They come to me younger and younger...*muhahaha*"
Hi guys! I´ve just been at MTS and I have the great satisfaction to tell you that @Nilxis world Barcelona is finished and avaliable to download. I highly recommend you to have a look on it as it is IMO the most beautifull world ever made for the sims
Wow thank you @junceda I noticed this early on and it looked like a real labour of love! So glad to see its finished and I will defo try to add it (if I cam work out how!)
Wow...that world is stunning! Can see how much time and effort went into all of that. I will definitely try and download that later when I am kiddie-free, only content I don't have is the carousel but just for that world, I'm tempted to get it!
Hi guys! I´ve just been at MTS and I have the great satisfaction to tell you that @Nilxis world Barcelona is finished and avaliable to download. I highly recommend you to have a look on it as it is IMO the most beautifull world ever made for the sims
Oh awesome world, i went 2 times already to Barcelona certanily a really awesome city. Its awesome how detailed you can create your world in the Sims 3.
Thanks for sharing
@pepperjax1230 Awesome picture and wow, I didn't know Don could look that good. I usually make my own. I may have to take another look at him.....or did you fix him?
@marce@anemone7 I just can't resist that. I do like your new name and am getting used to it and spelled it correctly the first time today. I'm nosy about names, does it have a special significance? Mine is just a combo of my favorite name (if my son had been a girl he would have been Rebecca with nickname of bekka and my name which is the San part. @anemone7 Love the blooper pics. Poor guy got the pee scared right out of him!!!
@junceda It looks like a beautiful world, but too big for my puter...until I get a job and get a new one. I've bookmarked the page though and may try it as a vacation world. Sometimes that works for the larger worlds...sometimes not. Then at least I get to explore them, just can't live in them as they build up too much something and make my puter lose memory and all that stuff I don't understand.
Pic of the day.
This was taken when I was building the toy store for @anettesb and had the store open to see how the routing was. These 2 npc's just started playing with the soccer ball I had on the floor. I just thought it was so awesome to see the spontaneous play.
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hmm that is because how you are using, since you keep deleting new sims and use the mod to save only your family tree then really gonna take a long time to affect your game, but if you just break the cap and let the game "free generate new sims" and sims die all over the place and all bla bla bla then the effect can come more fast, if you let your game "rule" the population without any sort of control then you can start to notice pretty fast the trouble, while i played sims 4 i also used some mods to "reduce the player generation of sims" and also keep deleting myself new sims then i never had problem too, but thi was really annoying have each one or 2 days of playing had to check my population and delete unwanted sims this also started to make me get a little tired.
about the population in sims 3 if i'm not wrong is between 140 and 200 to 220, like they told is more based on your computer and some setting, the better the computer and large worlds can support more sims, but that limit is different from sims 4, he count only living sims and sims which are inside "houses" in the world, service sims which live in rabbit holes are not counted in the cap, them you can have like 400 sims in your world, counting the living + services, deads are only culled if i'm not wrong after third generation of "dead ones".
don't forget with having like 200 sims living around means which you gonna actually have 200 sims being "emulated and played and interactin in the world unlike sims 4 where only 20 can be at sametime and also count dead and services.
then you can easy end with much more sims than sims 4.
As far as I'm aware, with a story progression mod, you can set the cap at what you like, though I believe some of it is dependent on your system specs, like the number of sims appearing in clubs, re. Later Night.
Without one, I'm sure I've seen the number 150-180 tossed around here and there. But, I've also seen it mentioned that a town over about 200 -250 begins to suffer significant problems, like bunching at schools, zerging on playable sims locations, causing blockages in doorways and such.
I'm sure many people have tried, or do run towns that have a high pop cap, and perhaps with no problems, so I'm not claiming to be an expert, simply repeating what I've read elsewhere.
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Omg. That is so awesome. I never knew that. Little tid-bits like that is what made this game awesome
Edit/Addition; I was playing a sim family. Mom, dad, two children. Mom and dad work 9am-5pm. Kids get out of school at 3pm. Children were left home ALONE UNSUPERVISED for an hour and Social Services came and took both children.
As a person who works for Child Protective Services in real life, I was distraught that my Sim children got taken away for Inadequate Supervision. Then I became angry because my sim family could not get their children back no matter what. I'm yelling at the screen like "This is UNFAIR! My sim have a RIGHT to be able to get their children back! I DEMAND a Sim Attorney and be heard in Sim Court with a Sim Judge!! "
But I just ended up closing the game without saving. -_-
Tid-bit surprises.
In sims 2, iirc, those kids taken by the social worker are then put up for adoption. I had a family that adopted the kids from another family that had had them taken, it was so bittersweet.
I really cannot abide the Sims 4 method of generating a bunch of single mother households and then stealing the kids for adoption. As someone who was a single parent for many years I find the implications a bit sickening.
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I liked the fact that you could adopt them as other families. Sadly, sims 3 didn't work like that, which I thought was a little unfortunate.
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That is a shame. Glad to hear that about Sims 2 though as that works with some storylines I want to do.
You still probably won't know who the sims are, but i guess it's not that important, because the bloopers are focused on the situations.
Gen 1:
Cassia: "Now that the girls are gone, i can finally reveal my superpower.. I'm a Cooking Ninja!"
Valentina: "Mom...we've been back for quite some time now. Stop acting weird!"
Cassia: "No one is going to notice i farted green stuff, when everything else around is also green. Hehe!!"
Gen 2:
Ehm... WRONG PLACE, Alexander.
That you're at a bar while you're PREGNANT might be ok, Cleo, but ... did you just order a drink?!
Valentina presents to you: Selfie gone wrong!
Toddlers, anyone?!
Gen 3:
Eowyn:"And than there was the day i taught Hector how to swim IN the pavement..."
Trudy:(Ok, now you're just messing with me!)
Penelope: "Hey, how about you join me at the dance floor... and in my bed?"
Poor Guy: "Um, oh, no... i.. i... can't. I...I just peed myself! See! What an accident, i need to go home like ASAP to change. So sorry i would have loved to!"
Seriously, is she even able to SEE with those eyes?!
Bill:"Mother, i'm a grown-up now! You can't make me wear an animal hat any longer!"
Hailey:"I see. How about getting rid of those cake-crumbs, "grown-up"?!"
Hailey:"OML, you're peeing!"
Greg:"You are really the biggest drama queen ever. Who are you talking to? An imagenary crowd or what?!"
Bill:"Oh, mum is dying. Better post this on Llamagram!"
Gen 4:
Lilly:"Well, well, well. As soon as some of the readers say i'm pretty, Amelia has to grow up to look gorgeous and distracts from me. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!"
Ginny:"Phew...at least i didn't turn out to look as ugly as THAT girl."
Alondra:"You know i can hear you, don't you?!"
Morgaine has inherited Amelia's ability to levitate!
Amina:"I made a stunning 50 percent profit margin with the glitter sticker sale. Here is your share!"
Morgaine:"Haha, those "My little Llama"-fans are so gullible, they pay any price! It's good doing business with you, cousin!"
Complaining about dirty diapers and blocking the sim who actually wants to change them...Classical Hailey.
I guess Valentina wanted to prove how much she and Amelia looked alike!
Grimmy:"They come to me younger and younger...*muhahaha*"
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I can play at last TS2 TS3 and TS4 So great that toddlers are here!!!
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I wonder if that was the same Barcelona that was being made a while ago?
Oh awesome world, i went 2 times already to Barcelona certanily a really awesome city. Its awesome how detailed you can create your world in the Sims 3.
Thanks for sharing
@marce @anemone7 I just can't resist that. I do like your new name and am getting used to it and spelled it correctly the first time today. I'm nosy about names, does it have a special significance? Mine is just a combo of my favorite name (if my son had been a girl he would have been Rebecca with nickname of bekka and my name which is the San part. @anemone7 Love the blooper pics. Poor guy got the pee scared right out of him!!!
@junceda It looks like a beautiful world, but too big for my puter...until I get a job and get a new one.
Pic of the day.
This was taken when I was building the toy store for @anettesb and had the store open to see how the routing was. These 2 npc's just started playing with the soccer ball I had on the floor. I just thought it was so awesome to see the spontaneous play.
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