What happened in your sims 3 game today?
Hey everyone. :) I've been playing Sunset Valley (along with the W mod) and I just made some CRAZY things happen yesterday and today with the Langerak Family. Hee hee ;) Well, I thought I would pic...
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I've been very scarce on the forums since it opened. I have to get into the habit of coming here daily and trying to contribute more. What happened in my Sims 3 game today?
I am in the process of doing a complete reinstall of my The Sims 3 game folder. First I used ciane's method and organized my spreadsheet to install everything (I own the store) avoiding duplicate installs as much as possible. Once my spreadsheet was complete, I followed it and now have a "perfect copy" of my The Sims 3 folder with only store content. It is zipped and stored in my external drive on my laptop, my external drive on my desktop PC, and our family network on hubby's desktop PC. I contemplated putting it on the cloud but didn't feel it was necessary.
Now I am working my way through installing 92 custom content items to The Sims 3 (store only) folder. I have 4 worlds, 26 CAS + Pattern files, 5 buy/build objects (ATS3 typewriter, cameras, vegetable storage, and wicker trunk), 26 Sims, 8 households, 21 residential properties, and 2 community lots. These files are either my creations, downloaded from the Exchange, or sent to me privately by other Simmers.
At the moment, I am working on Worlds and realized that I downloaded and installed the wrong version of Legacy Island III (rflong13). I had downloaded the empty version when I wanted the one complete with homes and community lots. So now I have to uninstall that one and install Legacy Island III (Rflong7).
PS - For anyone curious, the worlds I am installing are Alryne Valley (my creation - link goes to latest version 1.2 plus empty and populated saves - more details in other posts on this topic - click the link for Alryne Valley at the top to see all posts), Glenvale County (Rflong7), Legacy Island III (Rflong7), and Sunset Valley Empty (sookielee).
That takes dedication! I tried following Ciane's guide once and it was taking too long and I got confused. XD
It took a lot of patience. I muddled through some of it and had to go back and figure out which compilations and sets I could skip. I created the spreadsheet before I even started to install the store items. It helped that I owned the whole store and could skip a lot of sets by just installing the compilations.
I might upload the spreadsheet to Mediafire for others to follow who have the entire store.
Dang it my update responded to you. Sorry
An update:
I have finished installing the worlds, CAS, patterns, and buy/build objects (37 Sims3Packs). For each of these Sims3Pack files, I have a folder where I store the Sims3Pack and DCBackup files. I also include a README text file that provides the item name, creator, description, upload date, URL, and names of the Sims3Pack and DCBackup files installed with the Sims3Pack file.
I will be moving on to the Sims next. Most individual Sims will end up in the Custom Sims bin in CAS. All other Sims and households will be placed in the Library folder. I will include either a Library file or a Simname.sim file with the files above. There will be a text file in each Sim or Household folder with the information above plus the name of a library file or a Simname.sim file.
When I get to lots, these will only be Sims3Pack, DCBackup, and Library files.
I have 28 Sims, 8 Households, 21 Residential lots, and 2 Community lots. I have other Sims and lots, but I will not use them for a while. I can always install them later.
I hope to be finished installing the Sims and Lots tonight. I might be done in time to play. I will zip the custom content with The Sims 3 folder to a zip file and store it in several locations first! Wish me luck!
~texansky-
PS I know I tend to get way too detailed in my posts. I can't help myself. LOL
Crazy how I can't use my traditional signature on here. I can use a ~ at the front with a - at the end. It's just not the same. If I use both tildes, the tildes vanish and it lines through the text in between like so:
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