Not really. The game can only simulate one world at a time, the actively being played one, while others remain in suspended animation. Foreign connected worlds only get loaded up and use RAM and other resources when traveled to. During the travel transition, the first world is released before the second one loads up.

That's great news! Thanks for getting back to me.

Could anyone point me to a mod that randomises voices for in-game born sims? Always having voice 1 is driving me mad!

(Sorry if this is wrong thread)

Do you mean the NRASS feature "inherit voices"?

How do I add NPCs to a new community lot? Specifically a stylist and a tattoo artist to my new salon. I never built community lots myself before and just assumed they spawn automatically when you have the objects/lot assignment but so far there's no one to be seen.

Your assumption is actually correct, the game should either assign an existing Sim from your neighbourhood or create a new one for these roles if none are available. They don't spawn next to the object, though, like in previous Sims games. They are full Sims and will either be residents or homeless Sims that will have to commute to the objects every day.

There are several possibilities why you haven't seen any stylist and tattooist yet:
(1) The lot has to be designated as a Salon in Edit Town; just placing the objects on some random community lot won't work.
(2) The Sims are already assigned but are stuck somewhere (in an apartment building, for example)
(3) The lot is built such that the assigned Sims cannot reach the lot and wander around aimlessly in the world instead
(4) Your world doesn't have enough Sims and the game is too busy to do other things that it hasn't found the time yet to create a stylist and tattooist.

If you use MasterController you can check whether the world has a stylist and tattoo artist already. Click on City Hall or a computer and choose NRaas/MasterController/Sim/Status/Personal/Type of Role.
If you use NRaas Register you can also select a Sim manually and/or determine what type of Sim can be assigned.

Have you tried removing their degree and dropping their social group level (the ones that came with uni) below 8? I'm guessing if anything the game is seeing 'this sim has a degree so they have a trait slot to fill, and they're over 8 in this social group so there's another slot to fill'.

If you are also using NRaas StoryProgression, you could direct it to stop automatically filling in traits that it sees as "missing." The downside is that you might end up with other sims in the world who have less than a full set.

NRaas > SP > General Options > Options:Sims > Options:Traits/Lifetime Want > Add Missing Traits > False

Hi, where do I find these images on my pc?

They're better than many of pics I try to take of my sims and so I'd like to add them to my chronicles of my legacy ;D

You can find them if you open the save file (the one ending in *.nhd) with S3PE. The resource type that contains these images is called SNAP.

You star! Exactly what i was after, thank you.


ETA quick follow-up question: any idea why some of my families don't show up in the SNAP 'files'?

Maybe they want to keep their privacy?

Seriously, no idea. But as you are using Kuree's Save Cleaner, from my experience, in .nhd files that see a lot of Save Cleaner use you will only find those SNAPs of Sims and families that you actually played or modified. So, if for example, you moved a family from one house to another via Edit Town chances are high that their family SNAP will then get stored. So, my guess is that the game stores only those SNAP resources that needed updating or of families that are in constant use (i.e. that get updated regularly, too). You can also notice that if there is a pre-made family in your world and you edit their appearance but leave them untouched otherwise that their family SNAP will still show their old look.

I also don't know why these family SNAP pictures tend to appear in Kuree's program initially but after a while will disappear from SaveCleaner's UI the longer you play a family.

Other places that might contain household SNAPs are the Export files if you travel a lot and the world caches when playing custom or Store worlds.

How do I add names to shows in the theater, like adding movie titles, so that there is more variety to the shows my sim attends?

Does somebody know how to prevent my sims to burn by heat?
I don't have awesomemod .

Like a cheat?
Click on Sim->NRAAS->Master Controller->Advanced->Traits->Change.
Scroll down to "fireproof". It's a hidden trait you get from being a fireman.
Give it to your Sim.
edit: Of course, everyone as NRAAS Master Controller and Master Controller cheats!

Well, everyone *should*.

The family I'm talking about are Criminals, so yeah, maybe they are being 'discreet' lol

Ah, that makes sense.

Thanks again.

1. How does vanilla Story Progression work and differ from default NRASS SP?
2. How to do "Rapid Immigration"?
3. How do you suppress or turn off the spam of SP newsfeed thingy?

1 - Badly. That's why Twallan, and Pescado before him with his AwesomeMod's StoryMode, were so hot to make their own versions. Actually, if EA's story progression really worked the way it was meant to for more than a generation or so for most of us instead of breaking down and doing nothing or freezing births and emptying out the entire town of residents that it incorrectly thinks is in need of emergency depopulation, it wouldn't be such a bad choice for at least some players depending upon where their focus is. But it would still be totally not customizable and the prospects for playing different active households in rotations would be far more limited.

2 - Second FAQ from the top.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/StoryPr...FAQ+Immigration

3 - On City Hall or an in-game computer, NRaas > SP > General Options > All Stories > (select some subset of sims to report on by category or choose None as desired). Story reports aleady in the queue will need to run out before any changes made here are implemented, so that could take a sim day or so.

That would be a job for NRaas Retuner or a standalone tuning mod.

The Retuner way: NRaas > Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.Opportunities > Opportunity Manager > kMaxNumOpportunityCallsPerDay > (and set all three types to 0). Save (as) and reload game.

Have no idea how effective this will be, but seems pretty harmless if it doesn't do what logic suggests it might. It's all or nothing though, Retuner and other tuning changes like that are on all sims at once.

If I want to travel to a world that starts out with no lots, can I copy files from an entirely unrelated save where that empty world has been filled already? If so, which files would I need? Using Traveller, of course. I've tried some things and must be missing something really obvious, or maybe this just doesn't work... thanks

The only file to copy over from the other save would be the .nhd file of the world in question. Note though that doing this will bring everything about that world as it was over to the new game, that includes sims and their progression, not only lots. If that's not what you had in mind, you might want to start up a new game in this world off to the side and throw (or gently place) some lots down on it, then save and use that nhd file instead.

Also note that some custom worlds, due to the way they were ID'ed in the CAW stage, are very resistant to be worked with this way and in fact some will not work with Traveler at all. In these cases every time the player travels or permanently moves sims back and forth, new instances of either or both worlds keep getting spawned instead of the expected ones and sims can get stranded unable to get home that way. The most recent version of Traveler helps some of these worlds, others just cannot be fixed, so it's best to test these things out with the world in question before devoting too much time to the project.

Thanks. Manage to figure out the second two, but needless to say appreciate the help nontheless.

Thanks for your input. It's okay.

I don't have AwesomeMod and am considering getting it, since I've been having trouble with kids accessing their school. Can someone please tell me what is in it that makes Pescado say "This content is not suitable for those under 18"? I've read the manual, and it seems like the only thing that it would apply to would be disabling the censor blur.

I guess that warning is just obligatory for mods that unlock things that would raise the rating from T to M. AwesomeMod was, after all, for a long time one of the few mods that enabled same-sex pregnancy, teen romance and other things before the advent of Nraas Woohooer (and I think that until today you must not mention Woohooer at the official forums because of that). It is just that you needed additional tuning mods to see this happen in your game, but without AM, these didn't work. It also had a noCD check, which is considered a violation of the ToS.

But with regard to your issue, I'm not sure whether you really need AM for just that. There are tuning mods at the Simsasylum that help with kids accessing the school rabbithole, IIRC they are by blugenjutsu. I'm not even sure what AM does there.
If your problem is that there are too many children who get into each other's way, my solution has always been to simply not watch the school at 9am. Having the camera elsewhere at that time means that the whole process is not done in high detail, which seems to ease the whole thing massively.