Sims 3 and the Mac - Patch Available

Edit: November 25, 2009. Mac users, update available. Check your Launchers. Hopefully this fixes the problems listed below. :)

It's enough to burn your butt. :(

When I put Leta up for download, my husband and I became aware of an ongoing problem with TS3 on the Mac and EA's seeming inability to fix it. After my husband spent the most of the day yesterday reading Mac/Sims forums, I asked him to do the following write up for me. It doesn't have any magic answers, but I wanted to pass it on because I think it's necessary to get the word out to Mac users who don't normally frequent the forums.

Please note: I play the Sims on a PC and my husband, although he does use a Mac, has a Mac incapable of playing the game and he has never played it. So we don't have anyway of checking this problem out firsthand. :)

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Sims 3 for Mac is afflicted with a number of issues related to the Launcher and its ability to update the game and the installation of downloaded content. The two issues seem to be related.

The updater issue is that it, the updater, is telling the player the game is up-to-date and there are no new updates. This is affecting the installation of the 1.5/1.6/1.7 update for the base game and the 2.2 update for the World Adventures expansion pack.

The installer issue is apparently related to the above in that when a user downloads content from the Exchange or 3rd party sites, the installer tells them the game needs to be updated, but there are no updates available as it also thinks the game is up-to-date and will not install the downloaded content.

If a player installs the World Adventures expansion pack from DVD, it will, apparently, update the base game (from the DVD) as well as install itself and be playable, but the updater/installer issue will still persist.

If a player has the downloaded version of the World Adventures expansion pack it will not install as it doesn't contain the updates that are included on the DVD version necessary for installation.

EA says that a resolution to some/all of these issues is forthcoming.

Here are a couple of links to discussions pertaining to this on the Sims 3 Community Forums:

The Sims 3 Community Forums - ggrrrrr - sim exchange downloads won't work

The Sims 3 Community Forums - 1.5/1.6 patch for mac - available?

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Leta Sim

Get Leta here. This is the one that was in my bin, so it's the first one I made, the only change is she just has long hair, not that this pulled back version.

Thank you Michelle for letting me know the link didn't work. I've tried a couple of things, and now I've got it working on IE as well as Firefox. :)

To give her the proper skin use this one at Club Crimsyn located under Default Replacements. Everything else is EA base game.

Thank you everyone who's interested in her. :)

Lachesis
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Yuri's Journal - Egyptian Vacation

(Some of the pictures were taken with walls down to show the most of the area Yuri is in at any given moment, so the full effect of the tomb is somewhat lost. Also, this solves the puzzles of the tomb behind the base camp, so if you're not interested in the spoiler, you might want to skip it. :) Frankly, the simplicity of the area is such that I'm sure even my pictures can't spoil it. -Lachesis)

Yuri's Vacation Journal

I had a wish to take the family on vacation. As lead guitarist I get quite a few days off, so off we went to Egypt.

After landing at the base camp, we took off directly for the market place to see what we could see and buy supplies in case we needed them.

For whatever reason, Aiden spent the entire time in the pool. I had no idea he was that fond of swimming, I guess we need to put the pool in the backyard I'd been thinking of when we had the house built. Leta bought a cookbook and then proceeded to stick her nose in every book she could find at the market.

Me, I decided to look around.

I stumbled on a stone shaped like a key and then found this stone in the wall the key-shaped stone would fit. When I hefted the thing up to the stone on the wall and pushed it in, I was covered by a blue light pulsating from it.

The chain on the door next to me disappeared, and in I went only to find a really cool treasure.

Once I took the treasure and found my way back up, it was getting late, so off we went back to the base camp where Leta and I shared a tent and Aiden had his own.

The next day I was dying to explore the tomb behind the base camp, so the three of us went in, but when I reached the bottom of the steps the door above me closed and locked me down there by myself. The skeleton in the pile of sand in the corner did nothing to make me feel better, mind you.

There was nothing to do but press forward in hopes of finding a way out. I moved through the only opening in sight only to find another locked door, a chest and another of those stones in the wall, this time shaped like a crescent moon. I found the keystone in the chest and put it in the stone on the wall; the door opened.

There was nowhere to go it was just a room, but I stepped on the square with the footprints and discovered it was a floor switch which opened a stairway.

Oh good, another skeleton; but also another floor switch. You know, now that I think of it, I should have taken a better look at that skeleton, maybe he had something cool on him. Dang, well, if we ever go back...

This time it opened the door in front of me and onward I went. Another floor switch, but this one didn't stay down when I stepped on it, so I needed something else. Oh good, the statue moves, so by pulling and pushing I was able to get it in place.

Through the door I found another room. This time another no step on switch and three statues. I had to find the one that moved. Once I shoved it in place, a step on switch appeared in the floor behind me.

This led me to an empty room except for another chest. I opened it and stairs appeared behind me. Finally, I'm hoping for a way out; but first, is that a secret panel in the wall? Just out of curiosity, I push on it.

It is, and other chest. This one was filled with an ancient relic.

I took the stairs, stepped on the pressure plate and out I went, the door back to my family had finally opened back up. Hours had passed, and they were starved, tired and worried.

Hey, look who I saw in the men's john.

So that was my great adventure. We did other things during our three days, but for the most part, they were just wandering around getting a feel for the place. Someday, we may go back and stay longer, but really, I think Leta and Aiden were bored since they spent most of their time reading.

Oh, and be sure to dress appropriately for where you're going before you leave home, because we couldn't find anywhere to change out of our hot clothes. Leta seemed to be the only one who came close to having the proper clothing.
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