Patch 1.38

[TheTripWasInfraGreen]

I first took to CAS to see the new skintones. One of the rainbow sliders has the perfect shade of sickly green I need for a character.

And I can finally get sims looking like they were spawned from the Grim Reaper himself with that greyscale skintone, but without all that pesky game corruption.

EDIT: Nostril rotate slider! They don't know how much I needed this.

The jaw underbite slider is just like the jaw depth slider. I don't like redundancy.

[amyrose]

I like the new collection journal, but I'm panicking slightly over the gardening issue - it would end dynasties!

[cathyknits]

Gardening worked fine for me, except for one thing: it was 1 AM game time when I last saved, and nothing grew that morning, plus, some of my mature plants were reset to "Growing". They worked fine the next day.

Not only did they add the collection journal (bug: I had one sim that had never harvested a plant, and it showed the fish list under his plant tab), the graphics are different - I cut a couple gems and the picture on the inventory item was much bigger. I don't know if they accidentally changed all the graphics to the large version, but I liked it.

[CSquared2]

Loving the new skin tones.  I kind of wish they could show up at random on their own, but in CAS at least, they act like the red, blue and green skin tones did before.  You're never going to get them unless you pick them.  Oh, well, it's still nice to have them.

And wow, the ability to turn off celebrities?  And vampires?  And stray pets?  And just have a normal town?  It seems like someone might have been listening to their customers for a change.  If it works well, it will be the answers to a lot of players' prayers.

[Panacea]

I played with the light shade rainbow slider a bit and had a couple on opposite sides of the slider one was blue, and the other was red, and had them have a nooboo in game who turned out to be green. Oh, both had elf ears because I couldn't resist - just different sizes. Can't wait for Supernatural to come out. Sidenote: Hi, I'm new here.

[pallyndrome]

How do the population controls work exactly? If you have townies who are celebrities, and you turn on the control (tick the box) what will happen to them? And will there be no wild horses if you tick the horses box?

[CSquared2]

pally, I'm afraid I don't know the exact answer to your question.  There is a separate box where you can check to exempt your active family from the celebrity system, even if you choose to keep celebrities in town.  Whether checking the box and controlling the horses, vampires, celebrities, etc. removes the ones that are there or simply stops the spawning of new ones, I haven't investigated yet.

[Rainbow Dash]

I'm not keen on downloading this until they fix gardening, I want to start an Immortal Dynasty in a couple of months and this could really break a dynasty. 

[Ricalynn]

I played with the light shade rainbow slider a bit and had a couple on opposite sides of the slider one was blue, and the other was red, and had them have a nooboo in game who turned out to be green. Oh, both had elf ears because I couldn't resist - just different sizes. Can't wait for Supernatural to come out. Sidenote: Hi, I'm new here.

Welcome to the forum and thank you so much for the report.  One of the things I really wanted to know about was having nooboos of varying colors and this will clench it for me. 

For anyone getting the invalid file found error, try the super patch and make sure that Origin is up to date.   

Rainbow Dash - you probably don't have to worry.  The gardening bug only seems to happen to previous games not new games so creating a file should make it work just fine.

For all those that love XML files and/or do your own mods, there is a giant list of things that changed in the GamePlayData file.  I get the picture that some are fixes but I wonder what some of the others are like the genetics one.  That either makes me happy or doesn't.   

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[The Starlight Phoenix]

Oh wow that is a long list. Looks like modders may be quite busy these days updating their mods and such. Ouch. But yay, I can FINALLY get rid of celebrities and vampires overpopulating my towns!

[pallyndrome]

pally, I'm afraid I don't know the exact answer to your question.  There is a separate box where you can check to exempt your active family from the celebrity system, even if you choose to keep celebrities in town.  Whether checking the box and controlling the horses, vampires, celebrities, etc. removes the ones that are there or simply stops the spawning of new ones, I haven't investigated yet.

that's ok csquared. Let me know if you find out anything. Because I play with story progression off, I control all my townies at some point or another (not all at once) so I wouldn't want my celebrities losing their points or vampires turning normal. Though I have found that extra vampires and celebrities don't spawn with story progression off anyway, so maybe I won't need to worry.

[Ricalynn]

that's ok csquared. Let me know if you find out anything. Because I play with story progression off, I control all my townies at some point or another (not all at once) so I wouldn't want my celebrities losing their points or vampires turning normal. Though I have found that extra vampires and celebrities don't spawn with story progression off anyway, so maybe I won't need to worry.

The way the new system works is based on playing with Story Progression - however if you chose to play with Story Progression, every occult thing you uncheck will no longer spawn but it will not get rid of current occult person in a town.  So if you unchecked everything, Elvira Slayer and Williang Fangman will still be vamps but Suzy Strummer will never be turned.  (Just an example)

For the celebrity, i'm not sure it will get rid of stars but it may prevent you the option of gaining more than you have.

[CSquared2]

I knew someone would be along with that answer shortly.  Thanks, Rica! 

If the gardening glitch is here to stay for the meantime in existing files, I guess Aurelia will be spending her time painting instead.  I'm not about to go back on 24 weeks of sim time for this.  Sometimes the rules aren't the hardest part of the challenge.   

[pallyndrome]

Thanks Ricalynn! I am glad that I don't have to worry about those with story progression off. The funny thing is though, that I still get wild horses and stray dogs/cats with story progression off (not that I mind).

[Ricalynn]

How do the population controls work exactly? If you have townies who are celebrities, and you turn on the control (tick the box) what will happen to them? And will there be no wild horses if you tick the horses box?

No problem guys just another clarification


The options for the celebrity is that when you check it you're turning it off not on.    As for the Horses box, Thomas got a clarification via twitter. 

Graham Nardone ‏@SimGuruGraham
No, it controls horses that move into families living in the town. RT @samoht04 In the population controls do 'Horses' also affect Unicorns?

@CAW_Wiki @samoht04 I believe so, yes. It's for story progression - wild horses are a different system. RT @CAW_Wiki It doesn't prevent wild horse herds? Only resident horses?