#sims glitches

[weirdsimsinhistory]

Such a learned Sim at only 2 days old

[theozma]

seriously. i don't understand what happened. i never started having the 'failure to launch' but the last 5-6 months i have it with every fucking patch. the mods all work together. but the game itself corrupts or something. redownloading again. it's the easiest fix i've found. i've tried all the other options for workarounds. they all involve trying to repair what you already have. rather just 7z the entire ts4 folder and add things back in slowly.

[heathensimmer]

SIMS 3 IS MADDENING

My number one pet peeve in Sims 3 is not being able to FULLY control what can or cannot happen in an inactive household.

Rita and Mark Davis-Welles are a family in Sims 3 who are clearly meant to depict a lavender marriage.

That didn’t really happen because while I was off gallavanting around town with other households, Rita proceeded to become furious at Mark for having a love interest on the side. it makes me frustrated because I wanted to be there to see it happen!

but in the Sims 3, you can play a household, set up the story, and then play another household. MANNN when you get back to the first household, sometimes you will see moodlets that make you scream WHAT?! What happened and why didn’t I get to see it?

bottom line is, its nearly impossible to play this game rotationally EVEN WITH Nraas mods.

I even made sure I set up Story Progression properly by turning off flirting in Town Options but Sims will STILL flirt automously and ruin their marriages.

Next, I forgot about that issue and had Rita divorce Mark and move into a custom “Late Night” “Bridgeport” style apartment building.

There are tutorials on how to do this btw but I’m too lazy for that link.

Then, I had Rita click on the callbox to see who was living in her building...

i kid you not there were at least FORTY Sims living in her building which doesn’t make a lick of sense bc there were only FOUR apartments

yes, you read correctly.

FORTY RANDOMLY GENERATED NPCS TO BLOAT UP MY FILE

i remember why I left Sims 3!

But I’m having fun soo I did research and apparently this is just a common bug with late night apartments. evidently, they do not always function properly outside of Bridgeport. EAAAAAA WHYYYY

WHEW.

i forgot about this issue again but lo and behold, it caused a secondary problem (likely caused by the NPCS being randomly generated)

A new Sim I started playing could not order pizza.

Thank God for Overwatch and ErrorTrap. They told me that the NPC pizza guy was “unroutable” somewhere in the world.

If you’re ever having script errors pop up in the top right hand corner (make sure they are “unroutable” errors thrown by Sims) and then you need to make sure that “Stuck Check Auto Reset” is set to FALSE in Nraas Overwatch.

This just disables the feature of Overwatch where Sims who experience route failure are “reset” and Sims get sent back to their homes. Unfortunately, if the Stuck Sim is “homeless” i.e. a service Sim, then this feature just makes them disappear off-world.

I disabled that, which meant that now I could zoom out to map view and locate the stuck Sim!

(Download NRAAS TAGGER if you want to be able to locate any Sim at any time)

It was then time to find the stuck pizza man!

I zoomed out and found him surprisingly quickly.

Then, the weirdest shit ever. this pizza man proceeds to travel all the way across the world and guess what?

He didn’t come to my Sim’s house. Oh no fuck that. he went straight to the damn apartment building that I downloaded with the forty residents and DISAPPEARED.

Kinda wanted to cry but I pulled out all the stops. i evicted Rita from the apartment (sadly i had to redo her relationships panel using Master Controller) and reset the lot.

Then, I downloaded “Apartment and Resident Fix” on Mod the Sims. I moved Rita back in and Voila.... Not sure what else I tried but finally.

The apartment complex just has Rita and one other townie Sim.

Whew.

And the pizza guy made it to my house!!

He left it outside in the rain but still...

[hashimasims]

That moment when . . .

Let me set the scene here:

Minthe is pregnant. I send her to work and while she’s inventing goes into a t pose stays this way the entire work day to the point I have to reset her. When I do, her pregnancy just disappears like DAFUQ!!!!

Ok fine whatever add the father back to the household and have the two of them try for baby over and over and over for 7 sim days calling out of work UI cheating their needs whatever I gotta do to keep the two of them in bed and nothings happening

Frustration TO THE MAX!!!! But then! My brain finally kicks in and

Finally remembers I have mccc

And I could have just cheated her back pregnant that way from the beginning *le sigh*

I’m stupid

[cherisims]

Started a new save to get pics of my new sim, all the townies lost the face. This is your warning to watch what you download.

I ended up getting a Better Exception report for a broken trait mod, which was merged into a file just called "cc files"

[pinkmonsimblr]

This was the most disturbing glitch I've had in a while. Shane turned into this slenderman monstrosity after aging up from child to teen. (he's fixed now so it's fine) 😂

[shirecorn]

Just need you to know I think about your sims ant hill a lot. Like almost daily. It vexes me but like in a good way?

What compelled you?

What was it that snapped in you that made you do that? Why??

Making the sims live like ants is just how I play games. I have never possessed the faculties to "snap" as you say, like dry spaghetti. Consider me instead a box of couscous: Pre-shattered and only takes 5 minutes to cook

The Ant Farm is actually rather tame compared to my usual fare.

Let's see....

Turning every single sim in the world into a werewolf and killing the ones I can't turn:

The grim reaper on his way to collect sims from my pool like so many dead bugs

Replacing every sim in the world with the grim reaper:

Seeing how many chickens I can put on a lot before it crashes:

Luring the repo man onto my lot so I can give him rabies by stacking hundreds of violins into a single square:

Then continuing to drag every NPC I could into my basement and kill them via rabies:

Which in turn inspired the Gummybear Convention:

Killing a family in specific ways that influence their mood, setting every outfit a bear suit, and constructing an airborne prison packed with as much emotion-inducing decor as I could fit to keep them in a perpetual state of agony or bliss

painting cats to look like other animals:

Figuring out that the resize key's upper limit does not apply to cheated objects and gradually engulfing the sun:

my woeful attempts at modding:

Facilitating various mishaps

And eventually, of course, circling back around to populating the bug gijinka society. Here we have corporate girlboss and her devoted husband:

Mrs. and Mr. Mantis

That's enough sims for now. Time for a tired shirecorn to curl up in the dirt and pass out.

Only a small portion of this is on my gallery page (shirecorn) and most of it is various wild animals inhabiting the bodies of household pets.

But if you'd like me to perhaps record myself playing, help me buy a microphone and I'll show you endless wonders. Or horrors. Depending on which side of the screen you're on.

[laurademelza]

NEVERMIND, FERNTON IS CURSED

THE BIRDSSS