I\'ve been fooling around with the CAP tool for the last couple of days.  I actually have only made six patterns so far.  The first five I have done something wrong. :(   The thumbnail pics were blank when I tired to see them in my game to use (the launcher also had a blank thumbnail pic).  I worked on that all night to figure out what I did wrong, sigh.  It was finally getting too late and I was tired so I gave up on that last night.

I fooled around with those patterns again today, but I can\'t figure out why they won\'t show up in the game and I still can\'t figure out why there is no thumbnail pic!!  So I decided to try another pattern to see if I could get the thumbnail pic to show up on my launcher.  So my sixth pattern Fall Leaves, the thumbnail pic shows up in the launcher and it\'s in my studio.  I haven\'t gone into my game yet.  I still want to try and fix my first five patterns, hopefully I can or I will just have to delete them and start over, sigh.

WOW, the lot I tried to build in Sunset Valley that was causing my computer to crash and go to a blue screen, I can build it in Twinbrook.   

I was nervous the whole time I was building it in Twinbrook, so I saved like every fifteen minutes   which was annoying and took me longer that it should have to build this Island lot.  So I guess there must be some type of issue with Ambitions and building in other town(s), well in Sunset Valley so far and for me it\'s a problem.  I have not read the technical or Ambitions sections of the forum in awhile and can\'t remember if I read anything about this problem.  I guess I\'ll have to check that out later.

Before Ambitions, I deleted all but one of my saved games.  Most of them were in Sunset Valley.  Since Ambitions has been out, I\'ve only been playing in Twinbrook.  Now I wonder if I can even play in the other towns.
Like I said before, why can\'t this game just work.

Happy Simming All!

After trying to build a lot in Sunset Valley for the last few weeks, I finally gave up because it was crashing my computer.  The blue screen of death, well in my case the screen went black and I had to turn off my computer manually.  Then of course when I turned it back on I got the warning about a serious error that my computer just experienced.

Sigh...so I gave up building the lot and started to play a single Sim in Sunset Valley, it was a little laggy and then it crashed to desktop.  I was so discouraged, was my crashing problem BACK!??  So I didn\'t play my game for a few days not wanting to deal with the crashes.  Then this last weekend I decided maybe it was Sunset Valley that was the problem.  So I started a new game with my single Sim in Twinbrook and played for hours without a crash, sometimes it would lag and the sound would seem a bit off (what\'s up with that!!??) other than that the game played well.

Now I\'m going to try to build that lot in Twinbrook instead of Sunset Valley and see if I get the same blue screen crashes.  If not then it\'s definitely some kind of problem with Sunset Valley and the new Ambitions EP, I haven\'t played Riverview since I put in Ambitions.  Twinbrook is OK, but my favorite town is still Sunset Valley and it\'s beaches.  Riverview has always come in 2nd and now 3rd.  So I guess I will have to check out building that lot in Twinbrook and see how that goes, I just hope Ambitions hasn\'t messed up the other towns.  This game is getting more and more complicated to play, it\'s like jumping through hoops and I\'m just to tired to keep up with it all.  Why can\'t this game just work!  :(

Gaaaah!!!  Some of that stuff was on a previous SALE, I know because I bought some of it on SALE.  The Ultra Lounge Kitchen and Bath are the only sets that weren\'t on sale before (I think), well I bought that set at FULL price already !!!!!!  How maddening.   I love a SALE, but one I haven\'t already seen or jumped the gun on buying at full price, waaa...

At least I checked the SALE items before I ran and bought points, cuz I don\'t have enough points left after buying gifts and non-SALE sets!

Just give me my Featured Badge Pleeeeeeze!

Happy Simming All!           

Yeah, yesterday I was finally able to access the forum!  I was needless to say very shocked and happy.  Although I am leery that the next site maintenance will invariably lock me out of the forum again.  Suppose that is a little paranoid, but this has been an ongoing problem for me on this site and it seems like I\'m caught in this vicious cycle of being locked out of the forum when it experiences trouble. 

I didn\'t discover the Sims until TS2 was out, so I missed/by passed TS1.  So I was really excited I would be able to experience the TS3 game series from the beginning to the end and it was their 10Th anniversary to boot.  The trouble with this site and the trouble with the game itself (after HEL\'s I couldn\'t play my game because it crashed all the time) certainly has quelled my enthusiasm.  With the announcement of the release of the Ambitions EP, I crossed my fingers about the update that was coming with it and yes, my game finally works.  Unfortunately, my enthusiasm has not returned to it\'s former self and seems to have been permanently dampened.  After every forum lock-out, it seems to take me longer and longer to participate and post comments on threads.  I guess being virtually muzzled has it\'s lasting effects.

Sometimes I think I\'m too old to be ( I\'m an adult) taking this game and all it has to offer to seriously, but then it\'s all about having fun, isn\'t it?  EA is a business and I\'m sure it\'s all about the money and my money is as green as the next persons.  I just don\'t think I\'ll be buying anymore points for awhile, as tempting as the cow plant stuff is, it\'s just not fun for me anymore.  Maybe tomorrow I\'ll feel differently. o~O

For cripes sake, I still can\'t see the forum if I am logged into this site!!!!  What\'s up with that???!!!  I\'m so tired of this and it always seems to be the same people who can post and who can\'t post.  I\'m tired of checking to see if I\'ve been let back in or not.

For the people who post stories on a forum thread, I log out of the site to check for an update on your stories, but I unfortunately cannot post a comment to give you feedback.  For the stories I follow on the exchange, I read and rec your updates, but also cannot comment to let you know I\'ve read and rec any of your new chapters.

Even if I got back on the forum, the next maintenance they do will probably knock me back off the site, it\'s like I\'m caught in some vicious cycle.

Oh yeah...and I still haven\'t received my featured badge yet, I suppose they can\'t get that fixed either.

Well whatever...have a great year all.