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New: Game Update for: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2010, 06:47:26 AM »
Hi guys,

Just been on the Sims 3 website and there's a new update patch. Here's the details:

This game update includes:

  • Dead relatives will no longer appear alive in your Sims’ family trees while traveling to Egypt, China, or France
    Sketches your Sims create using the Drafting Table are now valued properly based on your Sim’s Painting Skill Level and related Profession Level
  • Sims will no longer walk on water to view paintings placed on swimming pool walls
  • Fixed an “Error 13” issue caused by saving the game immediately before having your Sim give another Sim a makeover
  • Ghost Hunter Sims can no longer “Show Off Banshee Banisher” to child Sims
  • Fixed issue that prevented players from Changing Active Household while in Edit Town mode
  • Fixed issue that prevented Sims from fishing when certain seeds were in the Sim’s personal inventory
  • Optimized memory usage when deleting lots via Edit Town mode
  • Optimized memory usage for complex Sim homes created with Buy Mode
  • Sims will now exit the police station when doing the “Do Low Level Police Work” interaction when they are sufficiently stressed
  • The game will no longer temporarily freeze when routing on and off home lots placed by players using the World Editor in Edit Town
  • Sculptures on the Sculpting Station will no longer lose functionality when cancelling a drag interaction while in Buy Mode
  • The Styling Station will no longer lose functionality when going to the Main Menu while performing a makeover on a Sim
  • Kleptomaniac Sims are no longer able to steal the holes created by the Miner invention
  • Users are no longer able to place lots on top of the sidewalks when using the World Editor while in Edit Town
  • Sculptures completed by Sims will now function properly when players complete them at the sculpting station, then save and load the game.
  • Fire Engines will now maintain all functionality after Sims drive them in Egypt, China, or France
  • Fixed an issue that prevented Private Investigator Sims from completing cases with certain case steps
  • Sims in the Firefighter and Ghost Hunter careers can now continue their careers after the household has been saved to the Library, then placed back into the neighborhood
  • Fixed an issue that caused Sims to become invisible upon loading a saved game
  • The “Possession is 9/10 of the Law” Lifetime Wish now requires your Sim steal items worth the appropriate number of Simoleons before being completed
  • Junkyards can no longer be purchased as  Real Estate properties
  • Content from The Sims 3 that is uploaded via The Sims 3 Ambitions version of the Launcher now functions appropriately
  • Fixed an animation pop from the “Start Collecting!” interaction with the Harvester invention (63294)
  • An upgraded Fire Extinguisher will now remain upgraded upon saving, closing, and loading the save file
  • Fixed an issue that caused household members to disappear upon reloading a save file
  • The “Intrigued by Great Lecture” moodlet now has an icon
  • Neighborhood Sims that are not in the currently active household will now properly quit playing with the Sim Gnubb set
  • Sims that catch on fire from the Invention Workstation can now have the fire put out when the firefighters are called
  • Fixed an issue that caused Sim relationships to break when traveling to Egypt, China, or France
  • The magical laundry bear Abracadabra will no longer block Sims from moving after disappearing
  • Fixed a crash caused by setting the alarm for Self-Employed Sims
  • Create-a-World will now work properly once The Sims 3 Ambitions is installed
  • Small and Medium digital picture frames no longer float in the air after loading a save game
  • Sims will no longer cheer at City Hall forever when switching active households after a celebration
  • Holes created by the Miner invention can no longer be detonated or salvaged by inventors
  • Magical gnomes from Ambitions will now behavior appropriately
  • Fixed an issue that caused Sims to have broken or inappropriate hair styles after aging up
  • Inventions sold at the consignment store will now count towards a Self-Employed Inventor Sim’s promotion
  • Sim animations will no longer break when the “Offer Tattoo to…” interaction is used
  • Mac Only: Fixed an issue where text strings were broken in the Czech version of the Launcher
  • Mac Only: Fixed a launcher crash for the Mac Digital Download
  • Mac Only: Fixed several issues where icons were not properly lit in the Launcher
  • Mac Only: Fixed an issue to prevent a crash when users place a lot in World Editor mode via Edit Town

Unfortunately it looks like the relic digging issue hasn't been sorted out, which is very frustrating for my adventurer sim. Maybe it's more complicated to solve than they expected?

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Re: New: Game Update for: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2010, 07:33:03 AM »
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Unfortunately it looks like the relic digging issue hasn't been sorted out, which is very frustrating for my adventurer sim. Maybe it's more complicated to solve than they expected?

A workaround I figured out is to use buydebug to spread some excavation spawners around the unbuilt vacation home sites in each country: you CAN excavate on these sites.  I try to minimize the cheating aspect of it by limiting myself to 4 common, 2 uncommon and 1 rare spawner.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #27 on: July 09, 2010, 07:38:10 AM »
malteser60, thanks for posting the info. Staff had already done so yesterday in the Technical section of the forum, so I simply moved your post as well as Branr's reply there.


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Re: New Patch, New Problems
« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2010, 06:33:49 PM »
So I finished downloading the new patch, and I'm officially having problems... already. :(  Specifically one of my Wishmaster's is invisable.  And when I had him go and "plan outfit" I discovered why.  Here is what he now looks like, in all his glitchy glory.

It doesn't allow me to change any of his outfits or hairstyles (I tried the mirror too).  I have no cc or mods in my game, and I don't get any content from anywhere besides The Store and my game disks.  So that's not it.  My guess is that when they "fixed" the hairstyles bug they added some other bug that causes this.

For reference, here is what my guy looked like before this happened.  He's the third guy from the left.


I asked my b/f who knows more about this than I do, and he's seen the coding for this error. Basically it's a corrupted item of clothing that is messing things up.  Now he's written a mod to deal with said issue. Knowing that this place is mostly mod free, I asked if there is any way to fix it without using mods, and he said none that he could see/find.  Sorry.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2010, 12:22:34 AM »
Well, that's interesting malteser60.  Is there any way to figure out what clothing is causing the problem?  Because maybe I could just remove whatever it is.  Do you think something from The Store could be messing it up?  That seems really odd to me!

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2010, 01:01:19 AM »
Well, that's interesting malteser60.  Is there any way to figure out what clothing is causing the problem?  Because maybe I could just remove whatever it is.  Do you think something from The Store could be messing it up?  That seems really odd to me!

As I understand it, the clothing in question is mistakenly coded to be available for all sims: adults, children, babies, etc., which is exactly the problem.  A child is spawned, the game gives it the corrupted clothing, and it looks like a misshapen monster.  And if the game randomizes clothing for an adult sim (like pregnancy), and if the sim gets the child version of the adult clothing, the sim becomes invisible, but looks like a strange stretchy misshapen solid black baby when you go to Plan Clothing.  And all clothing will be available, male, female, adult, babies, all ages, but you can't change into it.

And, as I further understand it, the files in question have "nkd" somewhere in the file name.  And I've heard the clothing line "American Blonde" is also corrupted.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #31 on: July 11, 2010, 02:42:49 PM »
Wow, that's really interesting.  I don't have the American Blonde clothing line, so that's not it in my case. 

I'm going to try uninstalling the 2 items I have from the exchange, one is a house so I doubt that's it.  The other is a Sim, so maybe that's the problem right there.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #32 on: July 11, 2010, 03:05:18 PM »

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #33 on: July 12, 2010, 04:36:27 AM »
Well, I'm sad to see no mention of the excavation problem being fixed, but I am glad to see the Sim Gnubb game is supposedly fixed. I was just coming here to ask if anyone else had that problem, and I guess they have.

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Patch Problems
« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2010, 11:50:05 AM »
Just upgraded to the latest version, and now for some reason, the consignment cash register doesn't work.  It will let me choose the "buy" action and my sim goes and interacts with the counter sim, but then the action stops without the shopping cart showing up.  All the other registers work fine.

Also, for the last two patches, it seems like half the excavation sites (and nearly all of them in China) are inaccessible.  They show up, but if I tell a sim to excavate them, the sim just makes the "can't get to that" motions.

Anybody else running into these problems?

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Re: Patch Problems
« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2010, 12:02:05 PM »
I can get into the tombs but have had the I can't do that" problem and since the patch my trips will have momentary frozen screens. I don't have the problem when the Sim is at home,only traveling.

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Re: Patch Problems
« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2010, 12:04:14 PM »
Also, for the last two patches, it seems like half the excavation sites (and nearly all of them in China) are inaccessible.  They show up, but if I tell a sim to excavate them, the sim just makes the "can't get to that" motions.

Anybody else running into these problems?

Excavation outside of lots is broken for everyone.  A workaround is to use buydebug to add spawners to those empty vacation lots in town, and excavate from them.

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Re: Patch Problems
« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2010, 12:04:50 PM »
A lot of people, me included have had both these problems.  For more information, see the Can't Excavate thread in the Miscellaneous section.  The thread on the Consignment store in the Ambitions section has more information on that problem.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2010, 12:27:31 PM »
Simone23, I merged your thread into the Ambitions patch thread in the Tech section.

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Patch issues
« Reply #39 on: July 16, 2010, 05:16:29 PM »
I hope there's no other thread for this...

I updated my Ambitions game with the last patch and now the game is really odd. I load the neighborhood but my sims aren't there... I already tried eliminating all CC in case it was an incompatibility issue, but I still have the same problem. I also tried the instructions here http://carls-sims-3-forum.com/index.php?topic=6.0 but the same thing is still happening. No one else that I know of has had issues with the last patch (at least not so serious), so I'm guessing it might be just an installation problem...

So... I was wondering, is it possible to delete a patch somehow? I haven't played since I installed it so saved games wouldn't be a problem, but I have no idea if you can actually track the patch to the EA folder? If it were possible, would that cause any trouble to the game? It would be a pain having to reinstall the whole game  :P.

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Re: Patch issues
« Reply #40 on: July 16, 2010, 06:29:06 PM »
Ok, when you say that your sims "aren't there" what exactly do you mean?  Do you mean that your saved game files are missing and don't show up on the main menu?  Do you mean that when you load up a saved game that your sims don't appear on your control panel?  Are your sims invisible with plumbobs over their heads?

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Re: Patch issues
« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2010, 12:49:36 AM »
I'm merging this topic with the existing thread about the patch.  Also, it belongs on the Technical Help board.  :)
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Re: Patch issues
« Reply #42 on: July 17, 2010, 03:49:21 PM »
Ok, when you say that your sims "aren't there" what exactly do you mean?  Do you mean that your saved game files are missing and don't show up on the main menu?  Do you mean that when you load up a saved game that your sims don't appear on your control panel?  Are your sims invisible with plumbobs over their heads?

I am actually able to load the neighborhood but I can't play because my families and houses don't even exist. It's very odd because I had saved them several times before updating... I can see the saved game in the main menu, but when the neighborhood loads they just... disappeared. I guess I will have to uninstall, reinstall and try to copy & paste the saved game again without the patch? But I was really looking forward for this patch solving some of the ambitions issues :(.

EDIT
So... I gave up and uninstalled the whole Sims 3. I am now finishing reinstalling ambitions... and I hope it will be fixed. I hope I'll recover my saved games, but I doubt it :(.

EDIT 2
Great, now I can't even open the launcher to update it. I have had serious trouble after installing every expansion pack for the sims 3 and I am really getting sick of it.

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #43 on: August 01, 2010, 05:20:48 PM »
I've also got an issue with the patch. Mine is that when I patch my game to 1.14 (I only own the Base Game), the game loads everything, and allows me to select a save-game or town. The bar for loading the town goes to about 98% and stops there. After uninstalling and reinstalling it 8 total times, I tried once without patching and my game worked fine. Any solutions?

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Re: Ambitions Patch: 1.14/2.9/3.5/4.2
« Reply #44 on: August 01, 2010, 05:47:27 PM »
Hi Zamxus and welcome to our Forum!

If you have a Window operating system, I recommend that you do a complete wipe and cleanup of the game and your computer.  There some extra steps involved that you may not have done.  They do make a difference in getting a clean install of your game.

Click here for instructions on how to get started.
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