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I was today years old when I found out...

sims can have drinks in the hot tub in TS3 80 

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A little Randomness

I entered live mode in TS3 to do some play testing and am now back to being excited to enter the game. Haven’t been able to make as much progress as I would have liked, as I’ve been juggling lots of adult stuff.

During testing I had a couple “oh: moments. 

First, you can’t get a mod to work in your game if you haven’t actually downloaded the mod yet, lol.

For a couple of weeks now I’ve been trying to figure out why I couldn’t get Arsil’s Professional Massage Table to spawn masseuses. I went back and forth between the description page, then checked NRAAS boards, then got the notion to check to see if it was actually in my mods folder. Turns out, it wasn’t even on my computer or external drive. I never downloaded the mod, only @aroundthesims’ compatible mesh edits.

Second, the register for the Deliciously Indulgent Bakery is crap. Most of the sets are wonky, like they have great ideas but no follow through so you end up with more frustration than enjoyment. 

To be honest, I totally knew that, but I wanted to try to use it anyways, only to delete it and put in another savvier seller register and a small display.

Once that was over with I had to accept the fact that nothing I do seems to fix the fact that I can’t get bartender’s to spawn for Rebecca’s Cafe. So I tossed the two bars, put in the cotton candy and snow cone machines from generations as well as the small roller rink, then added the tropical barbeque stall from @aroundthesims​ and another food register, which meant making over yet another NPC.

I made that sound like a complaint, but I actually had a lot of fun with the makeovers.

I’m now calling the lot Rebecca’s Roller Rink, and just like Cruzita’s, there’s no Rebecca to be found.

Finally, after actually viewing Isla Paradiso in live mode I have to say I am impressed by the ridiculously jagged, janky landscape and hope whoever it was that built the world has realized that CAW is NOT their strong suit. I totally, one hundred percent have never used CAW myself, and super suck at using the terrain tools in build. HOWEVER even I could have done a better job smoothing out the damn hills. There are whole sinkholes beside the road on the Island with the Ichtaca gardens, like how..? 

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technicallyswagpizza said: Oh my gosh that’s hilarious! The roads must be super slippery 😂 never seen that happen ever before

I actually didn’t even realize this kind of glitch/situation/routing issue or whatever it was, was possible and that I caught it on camera.... 

To really understand how amazing it was that I got these pictures I should note that this did not even happen on the side of the neighborhood where I was testing. I was going back and forth between the science facility I built and your town hall lot and the police station is still where you put it. I can’t even say for sure how I ended up checking the station. I just remember getting an NRAAS notification, and only reading it because I was getting mad that I kept getting notifications for other households when I thought I’d customized Stories to just update me about relatives (I hadn’t, lol). 

I think I remember seeing something about taxis right before I deleted the message, and I went to map view and somehow ended up zooming in on the police station. Before I got the shot there was another empty Taxi present. Like the abandon ones the game sometimes spits out that NRAAS cleans up. So I used Testing cheats to delete the first Taxi cars were just stacking there for some reason and then noticed there was a sim in the other car.

I have absolutely no idea how the “crash” happened, but yeah, we’ll go with the roads were super slippery, lol. That still, however, doesn’t explain why Demeter didn’t use her own car to get to work. It was literally in her personal inventory. Maybe my emergency dispatcher is a kleptomaniac. I didn’t give her any criminal leaning traits though.