I've had sims that I've made and sent off to live on their own find partners and marry, though I don't recall if they had any kids, but they did find partners and weren't just single sims anymore. Should give you at least a sliver of hope, yes?
Such things can not be made round, but diagonal they can, in the foundation part to the left of the two foundations(Foundation and Deck) there is two more icons, one is the current one open and the second is for diagonal foundations, same goes for walls and rooms. Hope that helps.
I'm sure you know this but pointing it out, your creation is still there: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4286 However its likely that within the exchange itself it got lost in the jungles of upload frenzies that's been going on since the game came out. Many of mine disappeared for sometime only to appear…
Steel has the daredevil trait. this means almost everything he does is EXTREME! Same as how evil people have evil sleep and the like. Sim humor for ya!
The music! Ever since I heard the new theme I was done, Hook, line and sinker baby! All the music in this game is amazing, sure I loved the music in the sims 2(hopefully there'll be a way to bring it back) but the sims 3 music blows it out of the water! Can't wait for some more real music to become simished for the sims 3
In the hair menu select the lock icon next to the custom item icon to unlock the hair, then go to the outfits, change outfits and then go back to the hair and select the hair for that outfit, rinse and repeat.
Traits play into this a lot more then expected, at least for speeding things up. Other then that you just have to set the mood until the option appears. At least that is what I've figured.
Once you zoom out far enough an icon will appear near your cursor to allow you to jump to the map view, beyond that you can only zoom out so much. This is to save CPU and GPU power I assume.
It alternates between a picture of clothing for your sims and the car, third picture below the main one in the shop. Keep your eyes peeled for other sneaky little things people!
You can also have sims move out, using the phone and have the computer find a spot for them by selecting the option of kick out. They will randomly pick an empty home lot and move in, though they sometimes can end up being rich when they were actually poor.
They announced that this feature was going to be coming still, it'll just be a while after the release before they give out the program/feature or whatever it is they use to make the new NH for the game.
Just a thought but have you redeemed your free points? If so have they gone through yet? When I got my riverview it wouldn't download until I redeemed my points and even still wouldn't work until the points actually were IN my account. Just a suggestion if you missed this part.