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

Thanks WR! Well we got tornado warnings here in MD so I best get offline now. I hope you all have better weather.

I love futuristic and ultra modern, too, but we don't usually buy furnishings too modern for ourselves because of all the heirlooms and antiques we have inherited from family. It kind of clashes. We sneak modern in when we can though. Sometimes we are able to make it blend gracefully.

Hi Nilxis Thank you for that info. I'm really enjoying the pictures of the world so far, you did a great job with it.
I'm really interested in downloading it, but I want to avoid using anymore CC. I do use them, but i've really come to a point that I just HAD to stop myself for adding more to my game.
I'm currently using only deco stuff (clutter, paintings etc) hair and clothing..The only CC that is interactive and can't live without is FP cars.
I really want to see how your world looks without the CC. If it doesn't look too weird I'll download just the world file. But if it looks weird in some places and it's hard to "fix" I'll have to think about it.
It doesn't have to do with how much safe the CC are , since as you said they are only deco besides the rug, but mostly for the amount of CC I want in my game.
I've went through a whole trouble cleaning up my game from CC I no longer used, to minimize that amount as much as possible, and i promised to myself that I will no longer add any more CC to it.
But your world looks truly amazing and I might have to bend that rule just this once.
I just haven't decided yet...

Guys I'm currently freaking out and cannot thing straight... Please do me all a favor and check if you can access Crystalline Cove in my studio. I can't! it says it's no longer available because i might have been violating the terms of service??? Help???

Tangie I went back and reread some of the posts. after a nap, and I think I picked that even without the cc paks, Plav raj still has the rug for the theater. Is that correct? If so I won't dl it.
Gem I would love to help you I will go check now.
Gem I couldn't find it.Can you go to EA and ask what happened? Maybe one of the gurus can help you? That is so weird. I am so sorry.

i'm trying twitter and on Gurus pages...I'm so mad right now...I can't believe this i'm literally fuming

Thanks for that info Nilxis - it is very good to know. I do know if the rug is one of Jinx's - he does try and get to updating them as they never survive an update. But then they are a lot more than just a decorative object also - they are technically a mod and subjected to the rules of mods. So I do know an update would affect that.

I do wish EA would come out with arches we can extend or decrease as that would help builders immensely but if they did it would surprise me big time. We requested them more times than I can count in Sims 2 and it fell on deaf ears. We knew it was possible as many builders had the extendable items from modthesims that worked great - and because things like that was very stable in Sims 2 - I don't recall them ever causing problems with an update in Sims 2 - but unfortunately that is not the case in Sims 3. I do know other build items and decor - particularly plants for indoors tend to easily corrupt with updates. I know Lemon candy has had a ton of problems with her plants and decors with many of the updates or did anyway. I honestly got tired of checking all the stuff updates affect. But they are good at making quick lists of bad content over at modthesims even if they never have those items over on that site.

Jinx is a member of another site I belong to also, and last I knew he is pretty busy - so it is something to think about.

But enough talk on CC - all that aside you did a fabulous job on that world - from the pics everything is just beautiful and placement etc so well thought out. It is indeed a world to behold and admire.

Thank you for responding and the birthday wishes, both much appreciated.

CC is not in your studio, Gem. What in the world happened, I wonder? The only thing that came to my mind is that you had to change that number to put up the updated version but plenty others have done that, too, so surely that's not the reason. Do let us know what you find out. In the meantime, you might want to put it back on mediafire so people finding your thread can download it. It'll just be a good backup.

Seeing the discussion on the WE again. Knock on wood, all the lot additions I did for LL haven't caused any ripples in the world so far. There simply wasn't any choice but to make use of the WE to get everything I needed in there.

WR, next time you see me posting while you're playing, say "hi!". I was really anti the thought of the in game communication when I first heard about it but have to say that I've actually come to enjoy using it. LOL, half the time, though, I just have to check the wall for postings because for some reason not a lot seems to come through while I'm playing. Don't know why that happens. BTW, I was trying to simport because of wanting to test the user made coffeehouse and park I put in LL but no responses. Noone even wanted the level 10 Magician my sim married, so I guess simporting has had its day and been relegated to the back burner for most.

I love the house, Reg, and also love having Reg and Pete as YAs right out of CAS. I put the house on a 40X20 lot and the extra room is perfect to add odds and ends, like science table, telescope and inventor's bench for Pete. I've been having fun skilling them, too. AND...Reg is pregnant Crib fit easily into the second bedroom.

Pics:
Reggie is raving to her new neighbor and friend, Patricia Cross, about life in LL


Aliena Starr by jobug1015. This sim is absolutely gorgeous in game.

i did upload it on mediafire. It says it "may" be violating TOS. read it multiple times and there is no single term my world was violating. GuruRusskii seems clueless too. I'm byeond upset right now. The worse part is that it's Friday, and all the guru's are heading home for the weekend

Great DD. Aww - see that'll teach me to pay more attention to the posts as I was not aware you needed to have your sim hosted as I had the Poi Center and other ST Venues already set in SSV by the time I saw you, but then again I am still fearful of my internet cutting out on me while I'd have a sim imported in the hood I was in - so I probably shouldn't try that until we can do something about the net. They tell us we need a new satellite, but we have one of the most expensive as it is. I can't understand why they can't just make the parts availiable for Pete to fix this one. I know we don't have 3000 dollars to put down on another one of this catagory and I have enough Mountain blockage I can't even consider the standard satellites. Wish they had cable up here, but they don't. Aw well. But I will try and say hi next time. I thought you were talking with someone else, so I always feel funny eavesdropping - so I rarely check. I know - weird right? I'm on the net and worried about things like that, but I am so used to not listening to others conversations... well it's just the way I am.

Yes, that is another fact I noticed in LL that if you kept to the size lots they are already using in a world - mostly the smaller ones, you can generally get away with adding up to 6-7 lots and not corrupt. I am real careful and will only add one lot at a time, saving my game before I add it, then play test for several hours before I try adding another lot. I had good luck last night in SSV and did add 7 lots from 20 x20 to 20x 30 and 1 30 x 30 with no problem. It is just a pain because SSV has all those sims in it, and testing seems to take longer before you can finish building. I added in Rukaya's new sim as she has skills and money, and used her to test SSV as I added a lot at a time to put in a few clubs, as clubs is one of the things the game does not update. I also had to add the pet store, a laundry, and the movie studio. I used my 20 x 30 restaurant movie studio and it looked nice in SSV. So if any of you want an underground studio with the town life restaurant on top - the one I built is in my studio and only requires a 20 x 30 lot. I used that one or the one I also have in my studio with the diner above ground both play well and no sim ever complains of routing problems. That is unless you just want to see the movie studio in your hood or something. But it is so big and bulky, I tend to prefer it underground.

Good, I am glad there is plenty of room in that house for little Writins - hope they all behave for you DD. I know I am looking forward to playing LL again. I was having a ball with it when ST came. The only thing that held me back is it will need me to build it up again because it will not play my save I had made before ST was installed. That's also why I am redoing all my worlds as most are giving me grief about the saves made before ST. I think I will try Reggie and Pete in there as well. I sure hope EA comes out with a Computer Career eventually so poor Pete can get a real job. They are a bit of work at the no skill level to get them making money for a while. But both seem to learn eagerly especially with that new pod thing.

Gem, I sure hope it is not what I read about a while back having happened - because if it is - then Origin is the culprit and I do know Origin had a new Update last Saturday - but what I read is going to make a whole lot of Simmers ripped off mad if Origin does what they want it to do and it's all in the name of preventing people from using EA made stuff illegally but unfortunately there will be many people who are using the game legallly that is going to get pinched by Origin.

But I had been keeping up with the Origin Developers conference reports and he was talking about the cabilities of this system - as eventual goals - but what it came down to was 1- if Origin is not installed and kept up to date - EA stuff will not work. 2- If any process is used for users to use EA content that is not sanctioned by EA or made by EA that Origin could determine it had been changed and not original content and would be removed from use by either removing from games or declaring it in violation of the EA usage laws and disengage these item - etc etc but there was a ton of how Origin will be able to determine anything altered by any method but using an EA sanctioned method would consider the item in violation. At the time I thought to myself well mods change things, so does the decrapafy tool, as does S3p, as does porting in Sims and even as does a whole lot of CC content that use EA meshes. The problem comes from using EA stuff with tools not sanctioned by EA - they constantly clarify that by saying over and over they do not support third party content - etc - etc - But from the way I read it all it sounded like a goal for Origin far into the future - of course I did worry things might be escalated because the E3 starts in a couple day and it is highly possible that my worse fears have been enacted. But Orign would indeed see the use of S3P and mods in the product of your world as a violation if they actually got it to do what they planned. If they did we will surely hear a lot of screaming soon for people who have made their content work by decrapifying it as well. I don't know for sure - but it sure sounds exactly what I had read last winter about some of the distant plans they had in developement for Origin. I do know that ultimately one will not be able to play any EA game with anything Origin considers Violating the rules. But unless you used a map from one of the EA worlds besides Riverview or Sunset Valley, then it is highly possible they already enacted that ability in Origin. The Guru's are not going to be much help though, as they will no longer determine the violation of service once Origin is in full charge. It just seem way too soon for the developer to have reached that capability with Origin to me anyway, as it read like that was something much further in the future - but who knows - especially if the Guru's have no clue. If none of them pulled your world - then we will know who - or what - did.

Wow, Gem, I am so sorry! I can understand why you are so upset! Especially when you don't even know what you've supposedly done wrong! I hope it all gets resolved soon. Take a deep breath! :hugs:

the problem Reg is that I do no t decrapify my Store content. Never needed to. I did not either use S3P at all with the world. There also no CC either in that world. Everything in this world is PURELY EA... the only "NON EA" item is the DrPepper stadium, which i got legally and can be found in my purchase history... I have no idea what went wrong there. I keep reading the TOS and I can't find any violations what so ever.
The only thing i found was another Crystalline Cove on the exchange, that has no similarities with mine at all , and was uploaded a month AFTER mine by someone named ariasgemini.
Russkii has no clue at all. She promissed me she will have answers for me on Monday.

Hi

How very upsetting. I sure hope they fix it for you, Gem.

Then I would guess it was not anything Origin related then, I believe you need to try and contact Guru Hydra as she is the head one to do with content on the site. Maybe her or one of her team did it accidently while doing their Culling - thinking it was the old version or something. Try on their Tweeter page as all the big wheels hang out there all week end.

Rflong7 wrote:Hi

How very upsetting. I sure hope they fix it for you, Gem.

It seems that the world was taken down somewhere between the 25th and 27th. As someone did download on the 25th and someone reported that they couldn't find it on the 27th. I had no clue until today, when i tried to give the link to someone. I got no warning, no message , no anything at all. I was completely unaware. If i didn't try to link it, i still wouldn't know, till Monday when I was planning to check the CC thread... I'm upset, I'm sad, I'm frustrated I just want to pull my hair out... Feature, DL and rec Count all lost

Writin_Reg wrote:Then I would guess it was not anything Origin related then, I believe you need to try and contact Guru Hydra as she is the head one to do with content on the site. Maybe her or one of her team did it accidently while doing their Culling - thinking it was the old version or something. Try on their Tweeter page as all the big wheels hang out there all week end.

I did try to contact Hydra through her page , but she probably had already left her office as Graham mentioned that most of the Guru's had already left. I don't think she has a twitter page though, and usually they can't do anything when they are at home. I have send a tweet to a few Gurus, Graham has seen it already but he is on vacation for the rest of the week, and I managed to talk with Russkii who is already looking into it and promised to have answers for me on Monday