It will be interesting to see what damage the architecture incurs with the cc arch removed from the world, Tangie. Ack, I have a feeling it might not be a pretty sight but I'm really curious to see what happens.

Color me slow, Happy Belated Birthday Reg! Perfect timing on your putting up the new YA version of you and Pete. I snagged them and Reggie's Tomorrow House from your studio and will add them to the LL game I'm so immersed in right now. I hope you put a crib in that house in case Pete and Reggie still tend to have children at an incredible rate of speed.

Egads, Sofia and Mike T were not meant to be. The game turned him into a vampire for some reason. He no sooner arrived at a party at Sofia's house when he grabbed his throat while showing the hunger bubble, got part away across the kitchen and had Grimmy show up to claim him. Even though my jaw was on the ground in surprise, I saved and she'll have to start looking again after the mourning period.

Hey Tangie! I'm glad your sims are enjoying their honeymoon. I hope they don't miss any part of the world

Gem, The absence of the CC is more noticeable in the town centre, where I've used Awesims' corncies and Luna's arches mostly. The other parts of the world use less CC

Reg, belated happy birthday. Your new avatar threw me off. I thought to myself who is that? I will go to your studio and download the new you and your hubby. I really like the new you. Like everybody else seeing so many of you confused me when I checked out different threads. Sometimes I think of changing mine, but my granddaughter Amalie designed her so it has great sentimental value.
Tangie that is too bad about no library. Silly question, but couldn't you put one in one of the empty lots. I am a bit confused about the CC paks. Is it possible to play this world without dl'ing the CC paks? It really is a lovely world.
I hope to find the time to plop all those houses I dl'd from Masonjackson's blog in Creative corner and put some of my sims in them and play them all. They are all so gorgeous that I can't decide which one I prefer. Then I think to myself , wait up I have made a commitment to test Alexspooms13's new world Suburban Spring come Sunday when he makes it available. Also want to work on another house, and I have a bunch of my sims YA children to upload sometime. I might upload some of their parents that I had drink the youth potion so now they are YAs again too. Question, should I upload them with all their skills and lifetime rewards in place, or should I put them in the bin and bring them out without skills or maybe just a few and no lifetime rewards such as fireproof protection and bladders of steel? My 2 favorites.

Rukaya, the world is playable without installing the CC, the objects I used are only decorative

Nilxis thank so much for the info. This world is so lovely I know that I will enjoy it.I don't use rugs that I know of is that OK?

I did use the Theatre Rabbithole Rug. My plan was to keep the rabbitholes in basements but when I tested the world I saw that for some strange reason the theatre wasn't working, so I decided to use the rug. (If you weren't talking about this tell me, my English is not as good as I'd like and I didn't understand exaclty what you meant )

Beautiful Avatar Writin Reg! Yes now I also won't confuse other people who use the previous avatar with the one and only WR. Also belated Happy Birthday from me, too.

I hope your new self-sims stay up in your library awhile. I'm going to go downloading everything as soon as I get Windows installed. I'm making mental note to visit everyone's studios to pick up the new items they've added.

I also want to see Grey Meadow. There is much world exploration I need to catch up on.

My husband has reserved the condo for the beach vacation. After what happened last year, he was being considerate and letting me have a chance to say no. But my kid and in-laws were kind of breathing down my neck about going again. So I agreed to go. But at this point I feel like I'm being dragged to that particular beach year after year. So one thing is for sure, when I do download some worlds to play, I will skip any worlds with beaches as their major feature for awhile! If a world happens to be an island, I'll just focus inland!

I'm kind of itching to build in non-winter Ridgeview again!

Hi Nilxis! Yes I'm enjoying your world very much. And I believe that Rukaya was talking about the RH rugs, yes. Do you have any idea why the books register doesn't work for me? Has anyone else experienced trouble getting it to work?

Rukaya it's not the library that is missing, it's the bookstore. I took out the cc and played a short while last night. The buildings look ok without the arch. I'll post pics tonight or tomorrow. I was also able to place the EA Studious bookstore RH on the same lot as the business bldg; just moved some trees and placed it behind the diner. Tested and it works. I don't know what to suggest for the theatre yet, though. It might fit on a small empty lot out where the business bldg (along with movie, science, warehouse, etc) is located but I'd prefer to keep it in the town center if possible.

Edited for spelling - more about Plav Raj when I get home later.

DD that is too bad about your vampire. I had that happen to me while I was play testing Rflong's Once Upon an Isle. I had never had that happen before to one of my vampires. They have become very sensitive to hungar, Too much so I think.
Nilxis, Tangie is correct, that is what I meant.
Tangie my head is mush. I have had real trouble sleeping this week, and my brain is so foggy. I am going to have to take a nap soon. I am glad you wrote down those ideas for placing those venues in Plav Raj. When I am more alert and oriented to time and place I plan to dl it, without the CC of course. Thank you for the info.
JM I sorry about your upcoming summer vacation. I hope it won't be too bad. I've had times like that in the past. There is not much you can do. Maybe bring a bunch of good books you have been meaning to read? Hang in there.

Tangie, I tried to buy books and it worked for me. I did it on both versions of the world. First, there was nobody in the book register but i waited until 10:00 am aprox. and the seller came, and then i bought a book with no problems. So it's very strange that isn't working for you

Thanks everyone. A birthday wish for happiness is always good in my book and never too late.

DD I saw you several times last night doing ST shows - I am still busy updating all my worlds and was working on the EA ones for a while last night. I noticed that EA worlds that do not have all empty lots filled added a lot of the lots from EPs I hadn't updated. Beware as many of the lots are either in really weird places, or are backwards or worse may take a saved legacy lot and place a tiny ep lot on it. But at least 4 of the ST Venues were in EA's Sunset Valley when I opened it up last night and the smaller Equestrian Center was there as well. That version of SSV I hadn't touched any of the empty lots left after the game placed the Ambitions lots itself, and I had moved some and had added some more empties before the WE started messing up - so basically all the original empties were still empty and the game had a field day putting Pets and ST lots in all the odd places there were empty lots. It placed - the ugly blue warehouse Venue, the coffeeshop Venue, the Karoke Venue, and the Poi Center ST Venue. I also found out - at least in SunsetValley so far - the game also adds ep related spawners because I was testing the world after I fixed all the updated add ins, and because I removed a SSV lake - the one that is in the Center across from the Altos house in order to put the bigger Equestrian Center there instead - I needed to replace a couple fish spawners that was just in that lake to one of the other lakes in SSV and was surprised to see fish spawners from Pets and ST - one each in the lake I removed. (I check the spawner types before I remove a lake or body of water and keep notes on it, so I can add them elsewhere in a world). To my surprise one of the fish in that lake was the Starfish and I am sure that came with ST. So that was a surprise as I did not know EA had the hoods capable of adding new spawners besides the Pets collectibles. Maybe they added that ability when they added the programming for collectibles from Pets to spawn in all worlds. I thought I would share that here in case you guys were not aware of that as it is new to me anyway.

Yeah DD, apparently my internet was coming on - off and on during the whole evening - which is actually good to know - as it is working just barely in the daytime if I mess with the signal booter enough - but at night I am lucky to get on line at all - but for the first time all week we had no rain last night - so perhaps that is what allowed me to actually see contact from the outside world during game play.
Made me smile to see you DD pop in every now and then. I didn't say anything of course as I wasn't actually playing - just building, fixing and testing. But it gave me a warm fuzzy moment to see a friend (you) playing too. I also wasn't sure if you were simporting in or out, as I really didn't pay the conversation at hand that much attention, it just had a strange sort of comforting feeling. It is odd as I originally thought of the "connected" idea as intrusive and have never been especially happy about it, but I found myself smiling everytime you popped in there.

Unfortunately I can't trust my connection enough to simport in or out, so I just tend to stay quiet. But I do enjoy seeing others ingame after all.

Tangie - your pics are lovely, as is that world, but the fact it has CC is enough to keep me from having it. I just can't take the chance on CC - it's just too much hassle I am not willing to go through and still test worlds for people. If CC in Sims 3 was not so unstable and so possible to corrupt with even the slightest update it would be worth trying such a lovely place - or if I didn't test worlds and lots for others - I know you test too and seem to handle CC just fine - I just can't bring myself to take the chance of messing things up. Heck I am still chugging along without OW and ET as I can't get pass the fact there is even a slight problem with Premium Content with Twallans wonderful mods - but anyway, it is nice to see that wonderful world anyway.

Out of curiosity why did the creator choose to use that CC arch as we have both 2 and 3 space arches just like that ingame from EA? Or did this world get created before we got the latest arches. I know I have at least 3 styles of the rounded 3 space arches. Not sure though if they are store stuff or ep stuff as I now have all of both. Just curious though.

Does anybody know if rezoning a residential lot to commercial still causes lag or routing issues? I did exactly that in Hidden Springs so that I could accomodate the western style club from Starlight Shores that has the mechanical bull in it. I hadn't realize I'd forgotten to include it. I should be able to answer my own question in a few sim days but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Oops, sorry about that DD, actually I cannot recall if there is a crib in that house or not. I was actually testing either LL or ST when I created that house I think it was, and I was using it also to test the glass fence from the BauHaus set, and prove it was not disappearing to Zeke over on the store thread. I also did it so Zeke could download if he wanted to and see if his fence wouldn't reappear as his kept disappearing along with some of the other content I also used in the house. I never have had his problem, so I was hoping somehow the house would help him keep his content in his game. He seems to have the worse problem with disappearing content of anybody and we can't figure out why.

But My houses are generally created for a particular Sim that I am using to test and try out a world or something as I always choose an empty lot and builkd on the spot. They are nothing grand or elaborate for sure - but if you like simple - with everything added into the houses according to the sims budgets, then my houses are for you. There is nothing special or fancy about them and none were built for any purpose but for the sim living in them and the stuff from the store being tested. If some content is missing it is generally because the user doesn't have certain store content. I test it all, so there is no telling what content might be there. But I do know I was playing a single Sim when I first built the house and I did add him a roommate - female - possible mate material when the twin bedroom future set came out - which I did add to that house to test - but I cannot recall if I uploaded it before I added that set or not. I do know there is plenty of room to add a bunkbed set and crib in the second bedroom easily if they are not there. It is also easy to add another bedroom just by adding a wall in the middle room where the stairs are for a decent size nursery if you want or you can always add a third floor easy enough. But yes, Reggie and Pete would actually be right at home in a futuristic house like that - if they could afford one in real life. The real ones I mean. Pete loves anything futuristic and ultra modern.

Nope, no trouble rezoning. That, at least they fixed JM.

Writin_Reg wrote:Tangie - your pics are lovely, as is that world, but the fact it has CC is enough to keep me from having it. I just can't take the chance on CC - it's just too much hassle I am not willing to go through and still test worlds for people. If CC in Sims 3 was not so unstable and so possible to corrupt with even the slightest update it would be worth trying such a lovely place - or if I didn't test worlds and lots for others - I know you test too and seem to handle CC just fine - I just can't bring myself to take the chance of messing things up. Heck I am still chugging along without OW and ET as I can't get pass the fact there is even a slight problem with Premium Content with Twallans wonderful mods - but anyway, it is nice to see that wonderful world anyway.

Out of curiosity why did the creator choose to use that CC arch as we have both 2 and 3 space arches just like that ingame from EA? Or did this world get created before we got the latest arches. I know I have at least 3 styles of the rounded 3 space arches. Not sure though if they are store stuff or ep stuff as I now have all of both. Just curious though.

Hi Writin_Reg, I'm glad you like my world. Although I used some CC, it is not included in the world file. All the objects I used were in .package so that means they don't attatch to the world, the file is clean of CC. I revised it with Sims3Pack cleaner to make sure any unwanted objects are attatched. Also, the objects I used work fine and cause no problems, and since they're only decorative, I don't think they would get corrupt with an update. Maybe the rabbithole rug would but i'm sure the creators would fix it soon. I totally respect your opinions, but I wanted to clarify this so anyone gets confused with the CC

I decided to use the CC arches because they're bigger (4-5 tiles)that the ones in the Store. Also they don't work as an arch so they are more flexible at building and I can create some different effects with them. Another reason is because they are free to download, and the ones in the Store aren't (at least the ones I've seen).
Thank you for your interest and I hope you had a great birthday