Check the setting at the Sim Options level to ensure that the caste option is flowing down to them as it should and that there isn't another caste interfering.

If it were not possible to play rotationally, then we wouldn't support it and I would have been imagining things in my own game for quite a number of years.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Story+P...+Caste+Settings

Sorry I was just so upset that I exaggerated my despair. Of course you wouldn't be imagining things.

Anyway I don't know what happened, but after I checked those sims, they didn't have new jobs. Apparently I got fake messages about new jobs. It's a little strange, but at least they didn't change them.

Understood.

The important thing about sophisticated SP caste arrangements is to have a sense of humor about the whole thing especially when things don't seem to work as you thought you had them arranged. Happens to all of us.

newlibertysims, when I want that I save the sims to the bin and add them to an inactive house in Edit Town.

When you click on that house and select MasterController there should then be the option "Evict". That will make them homeless. They might still stand around for a while but eventually they will all leave the lot and return "home" into limbo.

If you have Overwatch or StoryProgression set up to Manage or Clean Up the homeless, or even without that, and these sims aren't assigned anything fairly quickly, they may just wander out of your game entirely. The homeless population can be very volatile. If they pick up Service or Role assignments, or you give them Role Assignments using NRaas Register, they do tend to stick around. Different players have different experiences working with homeless NPCs. What mine do seems to vary by world.

Yeah, I thought about doing that as well. Does the Salon lot type attract sims with particular traits? Ideally, these traits (if any) should make sense for spa frequenters as well.

On a related note, do NPCs get tattoos autonomously on Salon lots?

On an unrelated note, with Ani's Shop For Clothes Pedestal mod, when a sim purchases the outfit currently on the pedestal, does this purchased outfit delete and replace the one that the sim is wearing, or get added as a new outfit?

I don't know whether the Salon attracts specific traits, all inactives seem to go there once in a while. But it's all defined in the Venues.xml. The spa building, however, doesn't seem to attract visitors at all. At least in my game I have never seen an inactive visit the building.

They do, in a way. They will chat with the tattoo artist and use the chair then but they don't end up with an actual tattoo

I don't have this mod, but if it works like the autonomous use of the stylist station by inactives then it will not be registered as an outfit at all. They would wear it but the outfit would not be saved to the outfit selection and once they change into a different outfit category the outfit will be gone.

@Don Babilon



Thanks for the hint. Took a look at the Venues XML and there doesn't seem to be any preferred traits for Salon venues. In my game, NPCs do visit the lot but don't do much other than hang around.



I was rather hoping they would get themselves all kinds of hilariously bad tattoos...



Figured I'd answer my own question; it seems like the purchased outfit is added as a new outfit in its category--whatever the sim is wearing at the time of the purchase is not deleted. I've tried up to five outfits in a single category, but don't know what will happen beyond that. Also, I've only tested with an active sim, so can't say what happens when the "Suggest Outfit" interaction is used to make an NPC purchase an outfit from the mannequin.

Thanks for all your help!

@igazor
Story Progression has the ability to use custom names for newly spawned/born sims. I would like SP to use both custom names and EA names. However, the only option I found on the wiki is "Use Custom Names Only". Is there a way to use both types of names? Thanks!

I name all of my sims by hex code. Don't you think "00:0a:95:9d:68:16" is a nice name for a baby girl?

It's all or nothing, either the replacement custom names tuning file is used for all sims in the category under consideration (births, immigration, service sims) or it isn't. If you are trying to get a blend of EA and custom names in a world, one approach might be to keep switching the Custom Names options and and off throughout. Another might be to build a custom names file that includes both "kinds" of names you want to see randomly appearing on new sims.

Or have I misunderstood what you were trying to do?

I am looking at kurasoberina's skins and I am very tempted. There are HD and SD skins with quite a difference in file size. I am wondering if the HD versions would be taxing my system a lot?

It depends? I recently upgraded to 16GB RAM and picked on of kurasoberina's skins and grabbed an HD one. It looks good in my game (high Sim detail), although the rest of my PC is not the greatest.

Thanks! I have 16GB RAM as well, so that helps in the decision making!

@igazor



Thanks for the reply. You've understood my query exactly. Just to clarify, if "Use Custom Names Only" being enabled means only using names from the tuning file, what's the source of names used by SP when this option is disabled?

I have a question about Cupcake as well: can it be made to stock the shelves with single servings instead of group servings?

00:0a:95:9d:68:16 would make a good plumbot name.

If the option is not enabled, then EA names will be used. Where in the game files those names actually are is I'm afraid beyond me. At least, I'm pretty sure that's how this is supposed to work.

No on the single servings except for recipes that only exist in single servings. But the current version of Cupcake (v6) allows sims both active and inactive to purchase single servings of food from the group servings on the racks and displays instead of having to buy an entire group serving each time -- in other words, a slice of pie or one sandwich, whatever it is, instead of the entire pie or platter. Or they can buy the whole thing at a much higher price. What's also different here is that inactive sims will shop the racks and displays to relieve hunger and they actually get to eat the food they bought, as opposed to the EA way where inactives shop to relieve fun and the food just disappears after being purchased.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Cupcake+Revision+Notes

That's perfect, igazor; thank you! I didn't realize Cupcake has been updated to have serving options and now makes NPCs eat (the latter is a major beef many players have with the bakery set). Now if only the next iteration of GoHere would come along--there are many venue ideas in my head waiting for it.

Yeah, he'll answer to "Mac" too.

I'd kill for knowledge about how to disable music in Town View...

@Babahara

Anach's NoAnnoyingMusic (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/s...p?topic=17647.0) removes music in several contexts. I don't recall exactly which ones, but it's worth a look. Open it with S3PE to see which situations are covered and delete the modded resources for music you'd rather keep

Sometimes, when I go to town view, the music is so good I just don't want to go back. I just let it play and try and run my sim from Town View.

Steve Jablonsky did a great job on the Sims 3 music. I bought many of the Sims 3 music albums. Mind you, he does go off track, imho, when he did the rock version of the Sims 3 theme... but if you slap a saddle on Steve so he doesn't go off on his own, he can write good music.

Twoftmama has several Shut the Flock Up mods, including this one that stops annoying music (free TFM's Sims Asylum registration required to view and download).

http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php...d-june-29-2013/

I run TS3 in a window and often switch to, say, watching movies while something is loading. As you can imagine, TS3 music IS annoying while you're trying to watch something else! And it's really loud.

So I'm definitely trying out the hacks ppl offer

Or you could, you know, pick to mute the music of TS3 in the options. It's what I do, so I can listen to LPs or other stuff while playing. (100 Baby challenge with children's music playing all the time? You will murder someone in the long run if you don't mute the music...)

When I travel in World Adventures, I get a task to cook x meals for a restaurant in France. But whenever I put food in the fridge in home base, it vanishes after a few minutes! But if I put it in my inventory, it goes bad before I can make all 4 or 5 dishes! How can I remedy this? I really wish I could get them in one at a time...

what i love is when i'm in town view and the build music from the original SimCity comes on! <3