Time for Chardonnay to age up! No-one celebrated because they were too busy squabbling outside.
[This will be the last post from my Amberville save for now. Unfortunately I had put some high poly hairs (both 30k plus) in my packages folder to use in screenshots and forgot to take them out, stupidly! Even though they were not used in this save, it still caused crashing to desktop due to exceeded memory issues and damaged my Amberville save file (and I had to delete the save the hairs were in because it was crashing within minutes of opening it). This was really sad because I have put so much work into Amberville over the years. So, before the save got completely corrupted I made the decision to move all Amberville residents to Woeford, something I have had on my ‘to do list’ for a long time. I will dearly miss Amberville but I’m looking forwards to the change. It will take a little while for me to get things up and running.
So my friendly advice is, don’t put high poly stuff in your game if you enjoy playing your saves, folks! If the creator/ converter/ re-texturer doesn’t state polycount please please do check yourself before using it, especially hairs (even if they look Maxis Match-y) and decor items (https://mspoodle1.tumblr.com/post/138971769880/checking-polycount-for-sims-3-package-files-in) To check CAS items select and then right-click on the GEOM files in S3PE and choose ‘GEOM preview’]