+No assistance from EA
Hi everyone, I hope this will be seen by someone from the assistance team. I purchased the sims 3 in 2023, everything was working well until I recently bought a new laptop. I installed the game, the same way I did with my older laptop, everything seemed to work properly until I went to launch the game. The first page of the sims comes up, and when I click on play, it brings me back to the EA app. This is an infinite loop: the sims page, play, the ea app, the sims page, play, the EA app. In conclusion, the game can't launch. I tried everything I could, the compatibility, desinstalling the EA app and the game, installing it back. It is always the same. I tried to contact EA with their assistance page, and they closed my demand wihout even reaching to me first. Obviously, there is no email on their page to contact them, so I truly am disappointed in their assistance service. Is there anyone who had that problem before? Any ideas on what is causing that infinite loop? Could someone from the assistance team contact me? Thank you!Solved40Views0likes2CommentsWhere is everyone, the second time at University?
Currently, my sim is in her second round at University. The first time around the classes were filled, plenty of students to be found. For her to get her degree, she has to make a second trip to complete her credits. But now when she goes to class she is the only one there. There are sims around town, and plenty of them, but not during her class time. How do I get the classes to fill up like the first time she went? I do have NRaas mods if that helps. Also, I am playing in University with EA's story progression active. NRaas changes up too much in University so I leave it turned off in that world.50Views0likes2CommentsMerSims Tails or Lack of 🧜♀️
I started a new save in Isla Paradiso and I managed to fix all the dive lots and get my sim up to 9 in diving skill so far. When I first got this ep I remember my mersims having tails and at some point or update they lost them again. I just can't remember if anyone found a way to fix this. The most recent I could find involved having to bring them to a mirror and enter cas to change them by aging them down then back up. Also one using mc but for now they are being elusive so haven't had a chance to try that one. Would help if 3 didn't have a crashing issue every twenty minutes. 😒 I use a number of mods nraas and also shimrods for the dive lots. Can't play 3 without them. Has anyone anything more recent? TIA88Views0likes12CommentsSims forever drinking coffee
I've had this glitch for several years now, and it's just starting to bug me. Whenever I have my Sims drink coffee, they do not stop drinking that cup of coffee. They would drink it all day long if I let them. I had a butler who peed himself because he would not stop drinking his coffee. Is there anything I can do?95Views0likes1CommentSimshop Downloads Not Showing Up/Non-Pregnant Pregnant Sims
Want to apologize ahead of time for the long post. I was trying to keep it short, but I think I may have failed. So, I'm having two issues in my sims 3 game. I will try to give as much information as I possibly can that may help someone understand what is going on with my game, therefore they can help me understand what is going on with my game. :D Let's start with the pregnant sims. Recently I installed two nraas mods Story Pregression and Register, because I was starting to notice the lack of children running around and toddlers being carried to parks in such. I then tried getting my sims pregnant, because it was a want, and she was pregnant, not showing. She was in the stage where she should have been showing, but wasn't showing. There was even a random couple in town that I was just hovering over that were expecting (Story progression notified me of this), but she wasn't showing either. I thought it was the cc I was using at the time, (I didn't have more than probably 10 maybe less. Just make-up stuff basically.) So I removed all cc, uploaded a backup save, then tried getting the sims pregnant again to see if she still wouldn't show. (Never got to test that, because that's when the second issue came into play.) All the content I had downloaded from the simshop was removed. I don't understand how or why, but in the downloads panel on the launcher all the images were replaced with cardboard boxes. I did some research and, whether this was the issue or not, I learned that it could be the user data was corrupted? Something to that extent. The way to fix it was to move your old sims 3 folder to a different location, rename it, then boot the game back up, causing the game to make a new sims 3 folder and that I would have to just redownload every single item again. So I did all that, moved the mod folder to the new sims 3 folder, but removed story progression mod and set it aside (So I only had the RelationshipPanel, Overwatch, ErrorTrap, MasterController and Register nraas mods by this point), to see if it was causing issues with my game. Uploaded a completely brand save, played it like I was serious about it, got on again this morning and the shop content was removed again and showed the carboard boxes again. Here is an image of what I mean. https://i.imgur.com/tTI8ISB.png I can't speak on behalf of the non-pregnant pregnant sim bug, because I never got a chance to test out what was causing that issue, but I can say for certain that the whole content being removed issue didn't arise till after I installed StoryProgression and Register. I don't know if one or both of these mods are giving my game a fit or if its something else causing the issue. I try my best to do research, before asking for help, because I don't want to bother anyone with issues that have already been resolved, but I'm at a loss on this one. Again, apologize for the long long post. I tried my best to keep it short, but I can see I failed. :D Does anyone have an answer as to why my shop content was removed twice and maybe even why pregnant sims (not just mine it seems) weren't showing they were pregnant.Bridgeport bug
I removed all mods and even verified the integrity of the file. It's still like this. For example, it's Victoria Boxer, a townie from Bridgeport. These are her CAS body shape value https://s1.ax1x.com/2023/03/14/pp1mW3F.jpg If use Nraas, her body shape value is show like this. Both are 0, that's the middle of the slider. https://s1.ax1x.com/2023/03/14/pp1mIBR.jpg https://s1.ax1x.com/2023/03/14/pp1moH1.jpg If she is selected as a NPC such as a bartender or bodyguard, her body shape value will totally become all 0. When I tested this bug, Armstrong Diesel was selected as the stylist NPC, and his body shape became like this. https://s1.ax1x.com/2023/03/14/pp1nCUP.jpg But he is actually like this https://s1.ax1x.com/2023/03/14/pp1nZuj.jpg The solution to this bug is to enter the CAS, do nothing, and then press OK. However, it may cause changes in the default number of days of age. This is also the case with other NPCs such as police and thieves, as well as ghosts. It doesn't seem to be like this in other worlds.104Views1like0CommentsTechnology Degree Robe Refusal
Its a peeve of mine that sometimes sims seemed to not change into their graduation robes for the graduation, and I've always played in a way since the first time that happened, to be sure they approach the doors slowly and within plenty of time ... Now it happened for the first time since way back then and I tried again and again with different approaches, then I looked it up and found this: "venusdemilosims;d-724464" wrote: My main Sim's oldest son, Andrew, finally graduated from college with his technology degree (yay!) but there's one problem.... He never did change into his cap and gown! He went into the gym, came out with his diploma in hand, all in street clothes. This happened earlier with my other tech graduate as well. My fine arts major in the same household changed into her cap and gown. As it turns out my sim was doing the technology degree. It seems the game is making a joke, like Sheldon in the Big Bang Theory dismisses Howard's Engineering degree like its not a real degree. I found a solution though! My sim went back to an earlier version of his and her game and started university with a different degree, and graduated with a lovely gown. Then they went back to university, two more times for luck, and did Technology as their third and last degree. They then changed into a proper gown for its graduation ceremony. I think they might have had the same gown/sash (regalia) for all three. Anyway, I'm sure it would have worked for just two instead of three degrees. So there you have it. If you're like me and are particular about it, you can send them to get a different degree first, then Technology as well after, to ensure they wear the proper outfit for it. It only took one week full time to do the second, and then one full time for the third degrees, because of the skills and credits gained from the first degree. It wasn't much extra work. My sims retook the aptitude before enrolling each time, I'm not sure if that matters to get the credits or not. :) Another thing I did one of the experimental times was to copy outfit in MC from a townie/NPC while they were in there, and that worked, but I didn't like that I wasn't sure if the sash was the right colour. The 'sending-for-another-first' way feels better to me.124Views1like1CommentUnable to go to University
I am having a few problems with my game, the first problem being that I can't install any of my downloads, no matter what I do. They install on the launcher, but then when I go into the game, my downloads are gone. Another issue is I can't send my Sim to college. I'm playing Isla Paradiso, and I edited the college town before trying to move her because I wanted to make a specific house available for her to move into, so I moved the Female Roomies household into a different house. Then, after I enrolled her into college, I chose the house to move into, clicked "Rent", clicked the checkmark to start playing; then, the checkmark stayed grayed out and nothing happened. The game wasn't frozen, because I can still click on the Options tab, etc. I'm not sure if the 2 issues are related or not. Can anyone help me, please??67Views0likes1Comment