Turning off memories and sharing?

[jennaberry]

I don't care about them, honestly. Is there any way to turn them off or will I have to wait for a mod? :luff:

[murf1291]

I don't care about them, honestly. Is there any way to turn them off or will I have to wait for a mod? :luff:

Yeah...I would like to know about this as well...it gives me a headache for learning a skill that I get about 200 messages asking me to share...or it seems that I get over 500 messages when one of my sims gets married...so annoying!

[jennaberry]

"Your sim just-" SHUT THE HELL UP I KNOW

[el_flel]

I've not tried it yet because I've only just gotten the game installed, but there's something in Options to turn off notifications for memories. Seems like that may do what you want?

[jennaberry]

oh my god thank you. i didn't even notice it even though I looked through the options menu a million times

[Johnny_Bravo]

I don't have generations yet, but with the update you get the momories, too. They're annoying as fvck, with every single small happenening you get the message: ''Your sim just...''

Your sim just made pancakes, keep as memory?

[SimsLover50]

you can turn it off in options. the bummer is it won't just turn off the annoying sharing messages, but any other memory message.

[jenieusa]

mine has shut down completely.....but.....you still here alittle chime when an important "thing" happens....and if you look in your memories you'll find
new ones....

[lisfyre]

I don't care about them, honestly. Is there any way to turn them off or will I have to wait for a mod? :luff:

Turn them off in Options.. one of those tabs, I forget which but you can turn it off. You don't have to turn them on again if you want to share a specific memory. Use the Capture this Moment button and you can share that one memory without turning it on.

[redwolff]

I found this to be annoying too, I shut off the notifications in options, and was still annoyed by the stupid book.
There is actually a good use for the memories book, you can see what your non-active Sims have been up to while you where working on a task for your active Sim.
There have been times when I think all the Sims are home, and one comes strolling in from who knows where.
Now with the memories book, I can see what the culprit was up to.

[haricots]

Just hope a modder make a mod to turn off memories completely...

[lisfyre]

Just hope a modder make a mod to turn off memories completely...

I thought everyone wanted memories back?!?!?! LOL :) Doesn't turning it off in Options turn it off completely? I have mine on to get the freebies so I haven't turned it off yet.

[secretsim]

I really want the stupid little memory sound to stop. Even though I turned off the notifications, you still have the dumb little "ding" noise every two seconds. Urgh.

[DeLoure]

...or at least make it reminiscent of the Story Progression mod. When I don't want to know every single thing about every single Sim in my 'hoods, I set the stories to "friends" so I can keep tabs on those that matter. It'll be nice to have a mod that can control the memory system like that: only record memories that matter (death, kids, relationships, rare achievements); not every time Simmy Sue takes a shit, pukes or visit the neighborhood park.

GAH! EA is always so half-ass. It's like having Kool-Aid with no sugar, peanut butter & jelly with no bread, cereal with no milk, hamburgers with no buns.

[Srikandi]

I have notifications turned off too, and the system definitely needs some tuning in terms of what gets remembered. But I like having them in the game :) And I was pleasantly surprised to find out that non-active sims get memories too... even service sims. I get a kick out of it when I see a bartender get a memory from serving a drink to my celeb sim, for instance :) Or the butler get a memory from picking up the baby for the first time.

And saving custom memories can be fun too... yesterday for instance managed to grab this lovely moment, sim falling out of elevator on the way to his bachelor party:

http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/28083_110605031827-Screenshot-4.jpg

[lewisb40]

I agree, the memories need to be tuned. Wish I knew how. Don't need all the simple stuff like walking into the library or going to the store, think that may be a problem down the line, like when the world is several weeks old and what happens to all the inactive's memories? Do they pile up, or do they get a cleaning?

I make custom ones too. Pick and choose which happening are important in my sim's life. For the sounds, I turn down the game sound effects down in the options tab for sound.

[SimsLover50]

I find the memories a bit too much like advertising for EA. (IE post that your sim fell off the trampoline on your facebook page etc.) I was hoping more game impact. I think the memories should have some impact on the sim's actual life- but so far I haven't seen anything other than it is something 'cool' for the player to review. I'm sort of meh on that feature, but apparently some love it.

I liked how in sims 2 sims would think of their memories (Such as failing to graduate college or whatnot) and cry.

It also isn't especially saavy. A sim can break up with a perosn, and then get together again, and the memory is like its the first time the sim has ever been a couple.

[tomomi1922]

Sit still, there will be a quick mod to come out pretty soon to disable this, or to filter it, I am sure.

The first time I saw it, I thought it was pretty neat. It reminded me of TS2 where sims actually kept memories of exactly what is happening around them. Such as Sim A saw sim B died. Even I used mod or editor to revise sim B, sim A always remembers sim B as a dead person until I went in sim A's memory to edit out that portion of his memory. Now I am not sure if TS3 is going this route. But these "memories" are simply features begging you to share stuff on social network (the Sims 3 page to be exact). Or can we share with Facebook now too? I click off Memories too quickly to even bother to see what sharing option it gives.

Yes, sim had a promotion, care to share this memory? NO, sim .... literately made pancakes, care to share? I am not joking either, I DID get that pop up asking me to share memories of making pancakes. And for a person who doesn't even like pancake to begin with, this is completely annoying. And yes Memory pops up every other interaction until there are like 20+ notes, spamming up the notifications area causing me to miss the important notes.

[paigeturnersims]

I turned off the notification after two seconds gameplay, but what bugs me the most is the stupid, utterly annoying smiley face symbol above their heads, which doesn't go away even though I always play with "hideheadlineeffects on"

[Sprue]

I get bothered by the huge "share memories" button on the memory notification panel. that needs to be removed.

[Deestar]

Typical EA giving us what we want but messing it up so it seems like punishment. Memories are kind of annoying right now, how many times does my Sim need to record a memory for "Woohooed with Celebrity Edward Sedgewick" the guy she is married to ? Really certain memories like using the toilet on your own for the first time, or woohooing your spouse, you only need one memory. I've turned off notifications and it still annoys me

[Ranissa]

So I have a tengential question: if we already have a ton of pictures taken from the game for memories before Generations, I'm assuming there's no way to add them to the in-game scrapbook?

[lewisb40]

So I have a tengential question: if we already have a ton of pictures taken from the game for memories before Generations, I'm assuming there's no way to add them to the in-game scrapbook?

Probably not the ones saved in the memory book, but if you shared them to your Sims 3 studio, you can click on the picture and a larger view comes up. Right click and save to your computer. I've done that several times.

[Ranissa]

Probably not the ones saved in the memory book, but if you shared them to your Sims 3 studio, you can click on the picture and a larger view comes up. Right click and save to your computer. I've done that several times.

I asked it backwards. Hee. I have photos from in-game on my computer (taken before Generations was released). Can I put those into the in-game scrapbook? Again, I'm not holding my breath, just wondering. Thanks!

[tomomi1922]

I also found out that we can, and we should, open the scrapbooks and delete unwanted memories, like "Late for work", "went to a hot spot", "went to a bar" .... All my sims have about 2 pages of these useless things. This is the major reason why my save time doubled. It was already 8-10 minutes save on average before this EP, now with added memories (and especially screenshots), it goes from 10-20 minutes on average to save.

Don't try to tell me I am wrong. But I often watch Netflix on 2nd screen (I got 2 monitors) while I play TS3. I started saving and started a new anime episode. The 20 minute long episode was done with credit rolling, I checked back to TS3, and it still has the hourglass. Imagine that! I usually click Save and go on to do something. But seriously at the present time, I could finish 1 chore and the game is not done saving. I would have to do 2 chores now. And I only have about 400Mb of .package files combined.

[lerssijorma]

I also found out that we can, and we should, open the scrapbooks and delete unwanted memories, like "Late for work", "went to a hot spot", "went to a bar" .... All my sims have about 2 pages of these useless things. This is the major reason why my save time doubled. It was already 8-10 minutes save on average before this EP, now with added memories (and especially screenshots), it goes from 10-20 minutes on average to save.

Don't try to tell me I am wrong. But I often watch Netflix on 2nd screen (I got 2 monitors) while I play TS3. I started saving and started a new anime episode. The 20 minute long episode was done with credit rolling, I checked back to TS3, and it still has the hourglass. Imagine that! I usually click Save and go on to do something. But seriously at the present time, I could finish 1 chore and the game is not done saving. I would have to do 2 chores now. And I only have about 400Mb of .package files combined.

Huh? Seriously, you need to stop (or at least seriously limit) your posting, especially with the useless and/or completely wrong "advice", as you clearly are clueless. If your game takes that long to save, there's something very wrong with it or you just don't have big enough computer for it. And just in case, no, I'm not talking about physical dimensions, or number of monitors.

With very big world (Los Aniegos), assload of added custom sims and some lots, I remember it taking several minutes to save, but nowhere near 10. With moderately fresh Sunset Valley, maybe 10 or so added sims, and few lots, it's under a minute.

Then again, I don't have Generations, or even the new patch yet, but even if it somehow doubled my save times, I wouldn't state as a fact that it's the memories or screenshots, without having slightest evidence.

And no, it's not our job to delete these unwanted totally useless memories. They simply should not exist in the first place. So yes, as EA probably never fixes this, I'm hoping there will be a mod to filter them, if that's possible. Maybe they have some sort of priority number or something internally, that can be used. If not, they should be killed completely.

[tomomi1922]

You do not even have Generations EP and you are trying to tell me I am wrong.

Every computer is different, seriously. Why do you even bring "physical dimensions or number of monitors" in this? I never mentioned it as making it faster. I merely stated I have 2 monitors as a fact as I use it for work, game, and whatnot.

- My save time is about 10 minutes long on average, whether I have CC or vanilla (tested a couple times).

- After Generations installed, my first 2 save clocked 21 minutes and 16 minutes respectively, without a single CC.

- What is the difference between the 2? Now each and every sim carries around a Highschool diploma and loads of Memories including "late for work", "visit a lounge", ...

- My computer: ATI 5800s GPU, Quad core CPU, 8Gb RAM, about 3TB of Hard drive space total, running very clean on Windows 7 (I am an IT consultant). I am able to play several latest games with max graphics and no lag.

Please understand that whatever is going on in your computer does not necessarily compare to what can happen in the next computer. Just because your save time is faster than mine, and you don't even have Generations EP installed, you can 100% state that my save time is .... wrong? When did you visit my house to see how long it takes for TS3 to save?

Semi proof: After reducing half the useless memories on all my active sims, my save time is stable at 15 minutes on average. I am glad I use this "useless and completely wrong" advice to reduce my save time. I never said it was "our job" to delete useless memories. It is a suggestion, take it or leave it. It had helped me a great deal, so I am suggesting it. If you do not like my advice, then simply don't do it, it is rude, immature, and childish to insult people for advices that is not even directed toward you (no Generations installed and not even patch).

[Silencer]

Huh? Seriously, you need to stop (or at least seriously limit) your posting, especially with the useless and/or completely wrong "advice", as you clearly are clueless. If your game takes that long to save, there's something very wrong with it or you just don't have big enough computer for it. And just in case, no, I'm not talking about physical dimensions, or number of monitors.

With very big world (Los Aniegos), assload of added custom sims and some lots, I remember it taking several minutes to save, but nowhere near 10. With moderately fresh Sunset Valley, maybe 10 or so added sims, and few lots, it's under a minute.

Then again, I don't have Generations, or even the new patch yet, but even if it somehow doubled my save times, I wouldn't state as a fact that it's the memories or screenshots, without having slightest evidence.

And no, it's not our job to delete these unwanted totally useless memories. They simply should not exist in the first place. So yes, as EA probably never fixes this, I'm hoping there will be a mod to filter them, if that's possible. Maybe they have some sort of priority number or something internally, that can be used. If not, they should be killed completely.

You, sir, are very rude. You said it yourself you don't even have the expansion pack, what qualifies you to say other people advices are useless?

[Maranatah]

Aaand...Back to the subject. I was disappointed with the memories, I expected something similar to S2 memories. Or better. But not worse. So I just disabled them from options and delete all the stupid ones or just ignore the whole system. Atleast those pop-up's won't disturb my gameplay more than that anymore.

[Redhead Creations]

I'm pretty disappointed with the "scrapbook". Half the time the pictures the game takes automatically are pretty useless. Getting a memory for EVERY TINY LITTLE THING is pretty annoying. And there's no physical object of the scrapbook in the world (like in TS2). I used to LOVE the TS2 scrapbook and would use it all the time. And the system was so much easier for actually telling a story.

Right now I'm just sharing all the memories I get until I get the 200 memory free object and then I'll be turning off this "feature".

So disappointed.

[lerssijorma]

- My save time is about 10 minutes long on average, whether I have CC or vanilla (tested a couple times).

- After Generations installed, my first 2 save clocked 21 minutes and 16 minutes respectively, without a single CC.

- What is the difference between the 2? Now each and every sim carries around a Highschool diploma and loads of Memories including "late for work", "visit a lounge", ...
Difference between the two? It's that you now have new EP and patch installed. The patch happens to include the memory system. That's all. Just because memories might be the most visible part to player does not mean it's the (only) thing causing problems. Of course it could be, if it's done badly, and there are many things done badly in this game. I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I'm just saying you don't know. Certainly memories must add something. Maybe the thing that's causing your bad save times just multiplies it. What normally would be few seconds, becomes few minutes?

- My computer: ATI 5800s GPU, Quad core CPU, 8Gb RAM, about 3TB of Hard drive space total, running very clean on Windows 7 (I am an IT consultant). I am able to play several latest games with max graphics and no lag.
Your computer is about the same as mine, even slightly better. Not that it really should make that big a difference, unless it was some very ancient machine. So there's definitely something wrong in the game. 10 to 20 minute saves aren't normal. Is it only saves or loading also? I've read about bad packages causing very long loading times, maybe that goes for saving too. Maybe you have some bloated (anti)virus running. Some of them can be pretty bad, or so I've heard. Anyway I guess you know all that better, being IT consultant and all.

Semi proof: After reducing half the useless memories on all my active sims, my save time is stable at 15 minutes on average. I am glad I use this "useless and completely wrong" advice to reduce my save time. I never said it was "our job" to delete useless memories. It is a suggestion, take it or leave it. It had helped me a great deal, so I am suggesting it. If you do not like my advice, then simply don't do it, it is rude, immature, and childish to insult people for advices that is not even directed toward you (no Generations installed and not even patch).
Of course I don't have to take that advice. And I likely won't. Even if it turns out to be true, it most likely has been fixed (in Awesomemod, would be my guess) when I patch. And obviously I wasn't even looking for advice. I really haven't been reading this forum that much. I don't even know why I have registered here, I guess for the occasional download. I was just checking opinions for Generations. Never intended to post. It just pisses me off for some reason when I see people giving wrong/useless answers to questions. You certainly aren't the only, or worst, example. Probably you just post so much it sticks out. This is a web forum, not some popularity contest. If you don't know the answer, is it really necessary to answer with guesses and baseless speculation, and acting like they were some known facts.

I'd say your advice is in the common "voodoo" category. Things that people keep repeating as solutions to every possible situation. Might occasionally work, but not for reasons you think. Somehow I've managed to keep the game working (for some definitions of working at least, this being EAxis after all) from the beginning without reinstalling and constantly deleting caches and things like that. I guess I'm just lucky.

And yes this is off-topic, sorry about that. I'll be getting back to not-even-lurking soon.

[el_flel]

I like having memories back, but do agree that it needs a bit of tuning.

I get memories for the most random things, like visited a hot spot or repaired a toilet - why would my sim want to remember that forever?!

I also get duplicate entries for the same event, for example, the sim I'm playing now is married to a celebrity and whenever they kiss I get two memories: one saying they kissed and one saying they kissed a celebrity.

The pictures the game takes are pretty awful so when something big is going to happen I try and get my own picture and then copy and paste the text from the EA memory into my custom one.

[Silencer]

90% of memories are useless, safe to say. I wish I could tell the game to stop recording useless entries like fixing a toilet like el_flel said. Another problem is that inactive sims also create entries as they go, bloat up the town exponentially every moment we play.

[SimsLover50]

I just wish memories had game impact. So far I haven't noticed they have any, and while it is somewhat entertaining at first, I can see by my second or third game, I won't care. Plus, I don't like the fact it is being used to generate sims related spam on sites. There is enough game spam already.

[tomomi1922]

I haven't played enough with this EP yet, but my current understanding tells me Memories have nothing to do with the actual games and thus have no impacts on your play game. They serve as a blog, a journal, a log book for us players to keep tracks of a sim's record. Some of us may find this rather helpful, others may feel it is redundant, useless, and even annoying. Although with notification turned off, we can pretend it is never there. Though, for me personally, I will continue to keep clearing it to avoid it getting too big. Knowing how inefficient EA is, these extra links will cause my save to take forever and corrupt my games some day.

But for the sims, I don't think they even "know" of the existence of these scrapbook entries. This is unlike TS2 (or was it TS1) that they have actual memories of each and every event (in place of moodlets). They do remember things like house was on fire, saw someone dead, first woohoo, marriage, etc... I think I mentioned somewhere else that I when I used Neighborhood editor (3rd party tool to edit save game) to resurrect sim A, but I also had to trade down all the "witnesses" and erase that entry "seeing sim A die", or else, whenever sim A meets those witnesses, he may be dead again. An easy way of resurrecting sims turns out to be a very hard way, especially if this sim died in public with lots of witnesses. This totally does not apply to the current memories in TS3.

I just hope for a mod to block memory entries to even form at the first place. Or at least block on certain sims. Most of us only play 3-5 households we care about, while the rest of the sims (non NPC) serve like background extras, we definitely don't care about their scrapbook entries.

Update: My save is averaging around 10 minutes now. But I don't know how long I can handle putting efforts to manually clearing entries on all non NPC sims.

[lisfyre]

Well, you do know that if you leave Memories on, once you do everything for the first time, you don't get the memory thingy again unless you decide you want to Capture the Moment right? Or do something for the first time ever that your sim hasn't ever done before. I've noticed that unless my sim does something new for the first time, their lives go on as normal without that notification popping up.

I haven't gotten Generations yet but I did get the patch and... as I am trying to play all my families and get all those "first" out of the way, I'm keeping it on. Also I did notice that the saving times on my games have at least doubled since the patch and I was wondering why. I'm with you in attributing this to that memory system. I still can't wait to get this EP... my sims need it :)

[tomomi1922]

Well, you do know that if you leave Memories on, once you do everything for the first time, you don't get the memory thingy again unless you decide you want to Capture the Moment right? Or do something for the first time ever that your sim hasn't ever done before. I've noticed that unless my sim does something new for the first time, their lives go on as normal without that notification popping up.

I haven't gotten Generations yet but I did get the patch and... as I am trying to play all my families and get all those "first" out of the way, I'm keeping it on. Also I did notice that the saving times on my games have at least doubled since the patch and I was wondering why. I'm with you in attributing this to that memory system. I still can't wait to get this EP... my sims need it :)
You brought up a good point. Maybe best to leave some of those memory entries in because they will just be created all over again anyway. Some even reported duplicate entries.

I however found out something new about Memories system: Entries created while household is not active will not contain a screenshot.

With the way EA handles things, text is bad enough, but having also to save the screenshots is worse. During my testing, I used MC to promote one of my sim from rank 1 to rank 6. TS3 created an entry of "Got a promotion" and took the screenshot of whatever the sim was doing (which was sleeping). So in her scrapbook, she got a picture of her sleeping in bed and it says she got promoted. I switched to another household and use MC to change her to a different profession and promoted her. She got the "Got a promotion" without a screenshot. Yay!

[prettiammie2005]

What I'd like to know about the memories system is what it does to your game in terms of slowing down neighborhoods... I know I'm only halfway through my sims lifespan and the neighborhood has become stupidly slow, to the point where I'm not sure I can even play it. And my computer is above the recommended requirements, too, so idk. :/ I'm also hoping for a mod to disable this "feature" entirely. I don't want it. I take pictures on my own (like a madman, too, I have above 600 pics on my new neighborhood), I don't need the game taking pictures for me. Especially of trivial crap.

[Drguyks]

Wow, what an interesting and lively discussion. Normally I just stick to downloading, but in this case I felt I should post. I just got the Sims 3 right when Generations came out...suffice it to say I am new to this fun. Having said that, I was kind of hoping to find a file section for my Sims memories/scrapbook. I don't want to share my Sims memories with people on my Facebook...most of, if not all, could give a flyin' frak about some computer generated memory (no offense). I would prefer to load it on Twitter; crazy as it sounds there is logic to this: Facebook more or less forces your friends to see stuff; Twitter says only people who follow (people who might actually care about this game) get to see it. What's the diff? Followers come and go...friends are forever (my policy on Facebook friends? If we are NOT friends in real life or have not met, what makes me think I'd add you to my Facebook?). Again this all sounds a little harsh, but it's the truth. If only there was a way to access memories and Twit post them without having to download them from the EA site or Facebook. Oh well...if wishes were horses then beggars would ride. :rolleyes:

[acorbe2001]

I have tried cleaning the file travelDB.package using s3pe I got rid of all the img entries, so I was able to keep my save file a decent size. Going back in game I found out all the memory entries where still there with a default icon, text but no images. I am satisfied with it this way untill there will be a mod to handle it. My main problem was the save game size.

[Amaira]

I really do hope they come up with a mod soon. I have been having error code 12 pop up and it got to the point were even the suggested work arounds were not working. It makes it fairly pointless to play if you can't even save anymore. Then I realized the whole memories thing was probably taking a huge chunk to save because I had never had this problem till I got memories. So then it got me wondering if townies got memories and if I deleted them would the problem stop. I have currently gone through house by house and deleted half of my towns memories (I intend on deleting the other half soon but my wrist started hurting so I had to take a break :faceslap: ).

Anyways turns out townies do get memories, a whole lot of memories in fact. The smallest amount of scrapbook I had to delete was a toddler with 4 memories. Kids seemed to average at about 10 and teens averaged between 10 and 25. Then young adults and adults ran anywhere from 20 to over 100 and elders almost always had at least 80 to well over 100. Since deleting just half of this pointless memory stuff my saves are faster again and I have not had error code 12 issues. Granted I obviously haven't tried this after extensive play but I highly doubt that memories is not to blame for my recent error code 12 issues.

So please please someone get a mod that prevents those pesky memories!

[simittaret]

I hate the smiley face that shows up everytime sim has their memories moment. Is there any way to turn that off ?! I already turned memories notification off, but It didn´t have any effect on the freaking smiley face :rolleyes:.....

[KaiRuh]

There isn't much I prefer from TS2, but the memories system certainly falls under that category. They could have lazily copied that system entirely and I would have been much happier about that than I am about this. I think my complaints about it are a little more superficial though.. after turning off the notifications in options, I'm fine with it. I haven't noticed any increased save time (though I've gone through and deleted useless memories from the start, so that may be why). I just don't like the way it looks. Why do all the pictures look like they were thrown haphazardly across the page? I get that they were going for a scrapbook look, but it just looks like a mess. The inconsistency of pictures vs icons bothers me a lot too, and it takes up so much space. I liked being able to just open the tab and skim through the memories while the game was still going. I don't like having to stop everything and open this gigantic book that takes up my entire page just to look through it.

[Redhead Creations]

Kai, the icons are there because the memory happened while you weren't focused on the same lot the Sim was on at the time...

And I agree, EA just has no idea what it's players want, do they?

What I also don't like is that even with "hideheadlineeffects on", the memory icon still shows up. Grrrrr...

[tomomi1922]

Kai, the icons are there because the memory happened while you weren't focused on the same lot the Sim was on at the time...

And I agree, EA just has no idea what it's players want, do they?

What I also don't like is that even with "hideheadlineeffects on", the memory icon still shows up. Grrrrr...
I am bothered about those icons as well. But I don't think it was that easy to copy and paste TS2 system over TS3. They wouldn't just "fit" because of entirely different file structures, input and output, to say the least. So I guess it was easier for them to build new codes on top of TS3 than pulling a TS2 design over to duct tape it into TS3.

Yep, EA just has no idea what players want. They have a tons of ideas of what "they think" we want. But I believe the current memory system is a way for them to test integration with social networks because EA does want us to be more active with our gaming (which in turn attract our friends into playing too).

[severedsolo]

The "Share this memory?" message is easily fixed... just don't sign into your EA account from the launcher/game. I appreciate this isn't an option for Digital Download users (or so I've heard) but personally I avoid the launcher like the plague, I refuse to use the EADM and I have never signed into my Sims account from the actual game, (in fact I have all that socialy/shop crap disabled) and I don't get those messages.

On the whole lag thing, I admit there is a definite increase in load times, but I don't think it's that bad. Normally my load times begin to degenerate around about Generation 4 or 5 because EA in their infinite wisdom save all the Family Tree's ever... despite the fact that the game only references 2 or 3 generations before at most anyway. I'm now coming to the end of Gen 1 and already there is a noticeable increase, so certainly I would say memories are probably not helping. I'm hoping (praying?) that when Sims die, their memories are wiped out, although I wouldn't be completely surprised if they are not, EA don't exactly have a great record on cleaning up after themselves.

[lisfyre]

You brought up a good point. Maybe best to leave some of those memory entries in because they will just be created all over again anyway. Some even reported duplicate entries.

I however found out something new about Memories system: Entries created while household is not active will not contain a screenshot.

With the way EA handles things, text is bad enough, but having also to save the screenshots is worse. During my testing, I used MC to promote one of my sim from rank 1 to rank 6. TS3 created an entry of "Got a promotion" and took the screenshot of whatever the sim was doing (which was sleeping). So in her scrapbook, she got a picture of her sleeping in bed and it says she got promoted. I switched to another household and use MC to change her to a different profession and promoted her. She got the "Got a promotion" without a screenshot. Yay!

Well I finally got my 200 memories needed for the freebies and proceeded to go thru my 1 saved game that has like 10 families and deleted those memories because I read in a post somewhere... can't remember where... these things take up space and slow down your game so I'm not deleting them.

[RadicalWonderWorm]

Right now I'm just sharing all the memories I get until I get the 200 memory free object and then I'll be turning off this "feature".

So disappointed.

First clue you've made a bad feature: You decide to bribe players to use it.

I thought memories sounded neat, if you could adjust how many the game took. Or why not just let us caption and view our screenshots in-game, instead of picking screenshots and captions for us?

[Velve]

I also found out that we can, and we should, open the scrapbooks and delete unwanted memories, like "Late for work", "went to a hot spot", "went to a bar" .... All my sims have about 2 pages of these useless things. This is the major reason why my save time doubled. It was already 8-10 minutes save on average before this EP, now with added memories (and especially screenshots), it goes from 10-20 minutes on average to save.

Don't try to tell me I am wrong. But I often watch Netflix on 2nd screen (I got 2 monitors) while I play TS3. I started saving and started a new anime episode. The 20 minute long episode was done with credit rolling, I checked back to TS3, and it still has the hourglass. Imagine that! I usually click Save and go on to do something. But seriously at the present time, I could finish 1 chore and the game is not done saving. I would have to do 2 chores now. And I only have about 400Mb of .package files combined.

It also makes your save file grow to ridiculous size really fast.

My new-ish save went from 12 megs to over 100 just from memories and one attempt at using the camcorder.

I've been deleting the file that contains memories from my saves, as I really don't care about them and would rather save on save time.

[Flaygor]

Pointless memories that have nothing to do with the gameplay. :blink:
25% of memories missing pictures :faceslap:
Tiny pictures that often have the target Sim hidden by a roof/car/tree :faceslap: :faceslap:
Crazy camera angles. :rolleyes:

I mean seriously.... even if you create your own they are still miniscule and limited for comments.

Do what I have always done since TS2, pose your Sims or freeze a funny moment, take a full screen shot, and edit the screenshots into Powerpoint or similar. I use a template that I can add a screenshot with two clicks and then go to town with speech bubbles, etc and bring my Sim memories to life.

[SimsLover50]

very true. it seems merely an advert gimmick for EA, rather than a true memory system. And the size of the photos and awkward camera makes it even tougher to catch any good moments.

[anie_1981]

Actually I never liked memory system in The Sims 2, but at first I even liked it in Sims 3 Generations. My game started to run very slow after installing this EP, I didn't know why. I have short pauses every few seconds. I looked into memory book and I saw, my Sim has about 150 memories, it took 10 or 11 pages. After deleting usless mamories, he stayed with.... 10 memories. The rest was completlly unimportant for me. After that deleting of memories, game started to run a bit faster. So I really need the mod for killing, or tuning memory system, like most of the people from this threat.

[Flaygor]

It wouldn't be so bad if there was a toggle for the automatic memories so you could ONLY add your own story to the scrapbook and take a decent picture at the same time.

I don't understand why they would add one to stop the notifications, thus assuming you may not want them to occur at all, but still carry on merrily filling up your memory with pointless trivia.

A lot of games enable you to customise just about anything and I feel The Sims 3 would benefit from this, so instead of slowly running out of memory and processing power with each expansion, we could remove features we do not use and get some performance back.

Rant over, thanks for listening! :rofl:

[~MadameButterfly~]

My save game size was 313 mb yesterday...after deleting memories of 3 or 4 families, most of them created by the game itself...my save file went to 240 mb. I still have several more families to go, since most of them are my self-sim's relatives that I play at random.

So watch your save game size..is all I am saying. This kind of bloat is just asking for trouble.


(I don't use much custom content. I probably have a couple of house decor plants imported from the sims 2 and a few men hairs from medieval.)

[anie_1981]

I have deleted few families from my town, cause I'm to lazy to jump from one to another and manually delete their memories... I'm tired of EA ideas. Like those vampires created by themselves every night. In the sims 2 I had 2 or 3 mods, cause the game was done almost perfect. In the sims 3 I need mod for almost every little detail, cause EA doesn't care about doing something good.

[~MadameButterfly~]

I have deleted few families from my town, cause I'm to lazy to jump from one to another and manually delete their memories...

Yeah I am going to have to do that for the families who aren't related to mine, because they are racking up memories too...they just aren't getting the cutesy photos.

[geiona]

With Generations I started a new legacy hood. After 2 sim weeks' time, my hood is getting a lag fairly often. So I quit the game and went to check my save file... 90.6MB... that's even bigger than my previous legacy hood, which I played for 7 generations!! (FYI, is 90.1MB)
I am certainly not going through every Sim's scrapbook to delete useless memories just to make my game playable! This is ridiculous!
I really really hope a mod for disabling this feature will be coming out :(

[lisfyre]

Guys.... after you have 200 memories posted on the official site (for the freebies), just go to Options, turn off memory notification and delete all those useless memories from your sims scrapbooks. Unlink Facebook and you won't be bothered with it anymore. Of course you'll have to check and recheck the scrapbooks because the game will throw a memory or three in there while you have your back turned but its manageable. It's not rocket science!!!

[skmt999]

See, that's one of the problems. I like the IDEA of a memory system, and don't really want to turn it completely off - since making my own custom memories would be great for any story families I want to make. I just HATEHATEHATE the constant memories on things that no person in their right mind would actually remember ten years down the line.

If we could turn off the AUTO memory making - or if someone could tweak them so only the really 'memorable' memories stuck - like meeting people or getting married. Then I'd be all right with it.

[SimsLover50]

even if it worked right, the pictures are just way too tiny. if I really wantd to preserve my sims 'first kiss' or whatever, the tiny thumbnail just doesn't cut it- for me.

[lisfyre]

See, that's one of the problems. I like the IDEA of a memory system, and don't really want to turn it completely off - since making my own custom memories would be great for any story families I want to make. I just HATEHATEHATE the constant memories on things that no person in their right mind would actually remember ten years down the line.

If we could turn off the AUTO memory making - or if someone could tweak them so only the really 'memorable' memories stuck - like meeting people or getting married. Then I'd be all right with it.

Well.. nothing you can do about Auto Memory (I'm sure someone out there is already creating a mod for it) but since I've turned it off, I use the Capture This Moment button to preserve the memories I want. I wish that EA made it so that when we hit that button, it would freeze frame so we can centre/angle/zoom in or out and take a half decent pic of the memory you want. That would be awesome.

[Shimrod101]

I have a mod which disables the generating of the memories and auto-memories:
http://gnautylilgnomes.com/forum/index.php?topic=2428.0

[anie_1981]

Thanks! I will use it for sure! Pitty, you can't make your own memories, but I already love this mode, it will let me play without lags in the game (I hope so :P ).

[~MadameButterfly~]

I have a mod which disables the generating of the memories and auto-memories:
http://gnautylilgnomes.com/forum/index.php?topic=2428.0

Thank-you!!! You are really the best...

[simsample]

*simsample kisses Shimrod101*

[velocitygrass]

I've just uploaded a mod that disables all auto-memories, only auto-creates important ones, and a tool that lets you create your own custom mod where you can select which memories you want to still have created automatically. You can still make custom memories as you wish.

[anie_1981]

I would like a mod that disables auto-memories, but let's me create them manually. Is it even possible?

[Velve]

With Generations I started a new legacy hood. After 2 sim weeks' time, my hood is getting a lag fairly often. So I quit the game and went to check my save file... 90.6MB... that's even bigger than my previous legacy hood, which I played for 7 generations!! (FYI, is 90.1MB)
I am certainly not going through every Sim's scrapbook to delete useless memories just to make my game playable! This is ridiculous!
I really really hope a mod for disabling this feature will be coming out :(

You can delete TravelDB.package from the save to remove the pictures from the memories (this will also kill your camera pictures, camcorder videos, and prom pics though) and reduce your save size.

I haven't noticed any side effects for doing so other than blank memories in the scrapbook.

[Spiritbw]

velocitygrass, does you mod stop the memories for all the non-active sims as well? Seems to be where the vast majority of the save game errors come from so having a stop on those while having the ability to choose the active sims memories is a plus.

[velocitygrass]

velocitygrass, does you mod stop the memories for all the non-active sims as well? Seems to be where the vast majority of the save game errors come from so having a stop on those while having the ability to choose the active sims memories is a plus.
I have to admit I wasn't even aware that non-actives also accumulate memories.

The mod sets the IsLifeEvent tag of the dream nodes to nothing, so the game doesn't think they're memories. This should be the case for all sims, including non-actives.

However, I haven't tested this so far. I will do so now, because I'm curious.

ETA: Tested it, and it also works on non-actives. I had a sim who should have gotten a "I'm pregnant" memory at the very least but she (and her husband) had no memories at all when in my test before she had five and her husband had two.