Yet another question from me:

Though I am not a designer, I can grasp for the most part how each piece of CC functions. Except contacts. How, exactly, do they fit onto the eyes? Are they masks that cover the entire surface of the eye, the white and all? Or has someone managed to stick them onto only the iris/pupil part? Further, do they move along with the eye?

I ask because the one thing I love about TS3 eyes is their movement and expression.
If the contacts are simply stationary masks that sit over the actual eye and never change, then as lovely as they may be, I probably will not download them.
If they still allow for a broad range of expression and motion, then I might just consider putting sprinkles on my vanilla game.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me.

Are Super green thumb and extra creative worth getting of the sim dosen't have the corresponding traits?

You get the bonuses from these regardless of whether you have the corresponding traits, yes.

'Contact lenses' in The Sims are actually the same thing as 'eyes' - they're a non-default-replacement eye and are made the same way, by putting an 'eye' texture on a certain specific part of the face overlay. They look and behave exactly the same as 'eyes' - you can't tell the difference when looking at a sim wearing them.

The only difference is that 'contacts' can be changed whenever you like, and they are not genetic/inheritable - if your sim wears contacts and you want their kids to have the same eyes, you have to wait for them to get old enough to look in a mirror.

Wow, really? Huh, well why call them contacts? I guess because of the whole not-genetic thing. But I was really hoping to hear that the eyes would behave like, well, eyes. Thanks!

Interesting, because they don't seem to do squat for me. Super green thumb won't allow me to revive and talk to plants. Dunno bout extra creative.

Super green thumb is not the same as the trait. It doesn't give you the exact same things as the trait does; you don't get the ability to revive or talk to plants. IIRC the quality of your produce is increased by one notch, or something along these lines, when you acquire this Super Green Thumb reward.

Thank you good sir, i will go fix the Wiki, because that's where I got the information and it's wrong.

Can sims autonomously fight/become enemies and cheat on each other? Or is that something that I have to initiate manually, so to speak?

I don't know if your active household sims will initiate these, but I promise, another sim will initiate all of these with your sim. I have had fights, enemies and cheating occur that I had nothing to do with.

I was paying attention to another member of a household when all of a sudden I heard the ominous music and my married couple were not so happy anymore. The wife had accepted a kiss from her father-in-law ghost. The two had never even flirted or anything. I also have an evil insane sim that has acquired enemies from who knows where.

o.O Wow! That's very cool, I'll be sure to look out for "accidents" like that. I tend to control my sims constantly, so they never get any opportunities to slip up.

Quick question: How do you uninstall CC that you've had to install via the launcher? Things from the TS3 Store and things from TSR which are in Sims3Packs, or whatever that file type is?

If they are installed via the launcher you should be able to find their file in the launcher, tick the box and select uninstall.

Oh! Duh! Thanks. I didn't think the launcher's list of installed content was complete or had any real significance. It seems like a pretty short list for the amount of items I've had to install that way.

Forgive me for my ignorance but...
1. what happens to people you use the kick out option on? I thought they will move to any suitable lot, but I can't seem to locate my girl any more.

2. Mooching. When exactly do you get the mooch for money option? I have one girl, who as a teen was always able to mooch for food, and for money (once to a stranger) but always to her family that did not live in the house. But now I have not seen the money mooching option since she grew to YA.

Kick Out sims go to the homeless bin.

EA Story Progression will then move them into an empty home when it gets around to it... Usually on its next cycle, which normally runs at 1:00 am.

Cheers.

Two questions.

#1: Is there someplace that lists ALL known compatibilities and incompatibilities with the game patches? I haven't patched since 1.2.7 and want to run Awesomemod, but am told I need to patch. What else is that going to kill?

#2: I just installed a crapton of CC that I had downloaded over the course of about a month, and there are 10-15 items that are showing as invisible clothing. Like, I put it on my sim and the sim no longer has a torso, or no longer has legs, or both. Is there any way to figure out what the file is that is doing that, short of removing CC one bit at a time?

My questions are, is there a reason my sim suddenly received 100,000 simoleans? It just appeared in my sims funds with the symbol floating of +100,000 but I have no idea why.

Also, how many sim days are the sims pregnant? I would have though that it would still be 3 as in Sims 2, but it seems that they no sooner show symptoms that they are huge and soon after have the baby.

By default, sims are pregnant for 72 sim-hours... So yes, three days.

Cheers.

That's what I figured, but since there's no obvious stage change, I wasn't sure. Thanks.

Lots of people have had a similar problem, one theory is it's a bug related to royalties received from writing a book.

oh, thanks for the info. I don't have story progression on, so either I do a heavy update and turn it on for just a short time, or, let her be in the limbo untill somebody asks her to move on.

Why do my sims move into empty lots?

I just had two kids aging up to YA so I kicked them out (one at a time). But I couldn't find them in my neighborhood OR in the family bin, so I called one of them over and then followed her car when she went back home. Her "home" was one of the empty lots... Is this supposed to happen? I thought sims could only live in houses with proper appliances and stuff.

When you kick them out, don't you get an option of kicking them out into a house, or into an empty lot? Maybe they can't afford any of the houses in the town.

When you use the kick out option, they just run off to the distance.