#ts3 adventures

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in the meantime, autumn has come to France 🍁

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S2. E15: China!

Arriving in China all together to take their minds off of their sorrows.

Lily the salesman went straight to the market place to hunt for some bargains.

Got some awesome relics and she obtained the recipe for stir fry for an oppurtunity back home but wanted to learn egg rolls too. Getting some novels for the family library and fish bait books for Laika.

Laika was keen to see the beauty of the countryside and catch some fish. Mario just wanted to party but no one to party with so he danced a, called friends and streamed video's until he got to the martial arts centre with his dad Dewey and Grandma Lily. They had a TV and a chess table to occupy him.

Laika spent most of her time fishing and reading fish bait books her Grandma Lily bought her.

After some chess matchs with Mario, Lola decided to go on an adventure. She wanted to gain some visa points.

So Lola spent a lot of time away from the family, exploring tombs and finding objects to get the family some visa points.

Dewey discovered martial arts and fell in love with the practise. He needs to gain the skill for work back home but he is enjoying it and found something to relate to Lily about.

Lily appreciates the art too. Being a master at athletics and starting yoga, this takes her skills to a new level. Something she has not yet perfected.

She offers to spar with Dewey one night after cooking dinner.

Dewey won this round due to him obsessing over the practise all day.

Dinner seems to be the only time the whole family spend together on this trip. Its nice that they get together to share their experiences for the day.

More sparring for Lily and Dewey with Lily winning 2-1 this round when they are on the same belt level. She is one tough bird.

Dewey leveled up by chopping boards. He really loves this.

On the last night Laika tells Mario to get everyone to meet her in the lounge area for story time.

Lily and Mario turn up for story time where Laika shares a ghost tale before everyone gets a nap in before the long trip home.

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Store Conversion Adventure...

So I promised a list... but before I share the list of the files the game required me to ‘re-convert’ before it would treat them as the same store item as before conversion to package files... first, I shall share my theory on why this happened.

I don’t think it has anything to do with Blam’s files at all. They’re all impeccably converted, showed up in the appropriate categories in the in-game buy mode, and worked just fine if placed in my game. The only issue was that my game wasn’t treating these 16 particular files as the same item as the already-in-use item in my game.

My theory about this takes several things into account: 1. All items on the list are items that can be obtained individually in the Sims3 store, but are also a part of one or more sets. 2. I obtained, downloaded, and used some Sims3 store content well before I acquired all the sets. 3. I assume that Blam went about her conversions very methodically, and either already owned all store sets, or acquired her original files from someone who did. Essentially, I assume that these 16 items were ones I owned, downloaded, and put to use in my game before owning the complete sets these items belong to in the Sims3 store, and that the game somehow tags items differently if they are owned/downloaded individually, or as part of a set.

Of course, I could be entirely wrong and it may have just been the game giving me a hard time about trying to remove/reduce my dependency on the Launcher... In any case, here’s my list of the 16 items I had to re-convert to package files individually before the game would accept them as the same item already in use in my game.

1. Japanese Inspired Artwork 2. Longevity Wall Hanging 3. Study In Fragments 4. Pastoral Practical Kitchen Shelf 5. Antiquated Correspondence Desk 6. Starlight Satellite Chandelier 7. Lovely Geisha Table Sculpture 8. Plants In Glass 9. Quelle Heure Clock 10. Country Carved Coffee Table 11. Timberland End Table 12. Fisherman’s Wall Lantern 13. Fin Table 14. Ceiling Lamp 15. Rustic Hanging Basket 16. Eleanor Chaise Lounge

All I did was redownload the individual sims3packs, extract packages, and run them through s3rc. Then I re-installed them in CCMagic, did a rebuild, and after that they all worked fine.

I’m super grateful Blam decided to share all their hard work with us. I’ve been putting off this project for YEARS because of how much time it would take, and thanks to @blamseastore I was able to complete it in a single long weekend over New Years.

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finally, Emily’s reaching 3 level of France visa, fulfilled her lifetime wish! 🥳✨time to go home!

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... Champs Les Sims!

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rainy

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autumn is so lovely here in France 💖😭