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Sarah Sims

@simsarahsarah / simsarahsarah.tumblr.com

British. Female. Have been obsessed with The Sims 3 and NRaas mods for the last 14 years! Currently in hiatus (August 2023). Usually posts about mod settings and game-play pictures. Mainly original content with the occasional re-blog.
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Anonymous asked:

HI Sarah! hope you're well! I just have a question about your updated Retuner settings package file. I'm interested in importing it into my game. Do I put the file into my mods packages folder? Or is it done a different way?

Hi Anon!

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a bit hectic over the last few months. You've probably worked out the solution already but just in case you haven't, I'll answer it anyway.

The Retuner settings package file (and any other NRaas mod settings package file) go into the Library folder and are imported in-game through the NRaas Overwatch menu, as explained in the second paragraph at the top of my NRaas Settings page. More detailed instructions are also linked on the NRaas website here: How do I save my settings so I can use them in a new save?

I hope this helps! Happy simming! :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#NRaas Mod Settings
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Anonymous asked:

May I ask how to set up a Nraas Story Progression caste of "Degree required for Promotion"? (for active family), I would like to post my failed attempts but I don't know how to insert line break in here.

Hi Anon!

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a little hectic over the last few months. If you haven't managed to find a solution yet, please read on. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Story Progression#NRaas Story Progression Caste
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Anonymous asked:

Hello, I was wondering if you could make a file for all your NRAAS settings. I have all the modules but I’m just getting lost in all the setting options. I really like your style of gameplay and would love to recreate it in my own game.

Hi Anon!

Sorry, it's taken me so long to reply but life has been a bit hectic over the last few months.

To answer your question, I already have separate settings files available for download for each NRaas mod that I use. They are on my NRaas Settings page. I don't have a combined file with all my settings as a couple of them, namely Story Progression and Retuner, really need to be imported separately, in order to work correctly.

If that's not what you meant, please let me know.

Happy simming! :-)

#TS3#Sims3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Mod Settings
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Anonymous asked:

Hello, Sarah Sims. I was looking at your installed mods section and I knew every acronym for websites except NSA. Can you tell me what website is it?

Hi Anon!

NSA = Naughty Sims Asylum

The full title of the website is TFM's Naughty Sims Asylum.

Registration is required to view and download the mods over there.

Thanks for your question!

Happy simming! :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#Naughty Sims Asylum
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Anonymous asked:

Hi Sarah, I'm telling you, I switched to a mac only for the 64-bit version of the sims 3 and I didn't know more about error 12. I continued with the issue. I had to uninstall some things due to the incompatibility of mods and the difficulties of installing, as I see in mac it is more difficult to install the awesome mod anyway my problem is that I have a game with a family that I have more than 5 years and today for the sake of fate the game is removed as you recover it

Hi Anon!

I'm really sorry but I don't understand what you're asking for help with. Also, I don't have any knowledge of the mac operating system so I would be no help with that anyway.

From my limited understanding of the 64-bit version of The Sims 3 for the mac, it appears to be worse than the 32-bit version and I have not heard anything good about it.

However, please feel free to post over in the NRaas Chatterbox forum as we have a few mac experts over there or maybe someone else here on tumblr will be able to help you when they see this post.

Good luck! :-)

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katinksims asked:

I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question, but I'm trying to edit my retuner tuning file and I'm not sure if I am doing it correctly. I got script errors mentioning rows and try: tuningbooter? I'm not sure what I did wrong or if I don't have it set up correctly in the tuning file.

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Hi katinksims!

Do you still have the ScriptError xml files? If so, can you upload them at NRaas? For details on how to do this see our How To Upload page.

Alternatively, does my previous post about the Retuner tuning file help at all?

I hope this points you in the right direction. Good luck! :-)

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artisticsimmer01 asked:

Hello, I was wondering if you could make a tutorial on how to make your own Retuner tuning file. My mother and I tried and we cannot figure this out. There are a string of errors. So would appreciate if there was anyway of a tutorial. I'm sorry if that's such a big ask. Can you also send a screenshot of what the settings are supposed to look like in S3pe because this driving me insane. Sorry for bothering you if you cannot do these.

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Hi artisticsimmer01!

I'm not sure if you're asking about how to make a Retuner tuning file from scratch or if you want to convert your current Retuner settings from your game into a tuning file. As I don't know how to do the first one, I'm going to assume it's the latter one you're asking about.

So here's a very quick guide and the screenshots you asked for under the cut. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#NRaas Mods#NRaas Retuner#NRaas Retuner Tuning File#How to create an NRaas Retuner Tuning file#Asks
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Anonymous asked:

Hello! I saw your autonomous sit down to watch TV with baby mod. I was looking to make a mod where the baby is not put down for ANY interaction unless the sim is directed to do so. I understand that the animations may be off but im still interested. Do you know how I could do this?

Hi Anon!

I'm really sorry but I'm afraid I don't know how to do this. :-(

However, there are many, many great modders at Mod the Sims who know a thing or two, so perhaps you could post your question over there, in the Modding Discussion forum? Here's the link: https://modthesims.info/f/547/

I hope they can help you! Good luck! :-)

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faromir25-blog asked:

Hello, does compressing CC using the Compressorizer Redux reduce the quality of what is compressed? I ask because I've got bad looking hairstyles like pixelated, can see through hair and some have broken textures. Note that I increased "RenderSimTextureSizes" inside of "GraphicsRules sgr" to 4096. Thank you.

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Hi faromir25!

I'm afraid I'm not sure about this, sorry. Have you tried installing the hairs in question without compressing them? Are they still pixelated if not compressed?

I've never messed about with the Sim Texture Sizes in GraphicsRules.sgr so don't know if that would have an impact or not.

Sorry, I'm not much help on this subject but hopefully, someone else will see this and let you know. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#Compressorizer Redux#Pixelated Hair
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Anonymous asked:

Hello, the links to your NRaas Portrait Panel Settings, NRaas Mover Settings and NRaas Traveler Settings don't work. Would it be possible to provide the link to download them. Thank you.

Hi Anon!

Sorry about that. I'm not sure why but all those links had mysteriously been changed to "temp_url".

They've all been fixed now, so please try downloading again. If you still have a problem, let me know. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#NRaas Mod Settings
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heavensims asked:

Hey Sarah! I am going through and changing gender preference for sims for my bachelorette challenge. I thought I understood how it worked but now I'm not entirely sure. Purely straight or equal gender interest bisexual seems easy enough (super high numbers) but it feels a little more complicated for bisexual sims that still have a preference. Let's say I have a bisexual sim who still has a slight preference for women. What would be the optimal way to set their preferences with MC?

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Hi Heaven!

I'm afraid I don't have much experience in this area. The best I can do is link you to this post by igazor at NRaas which gives a good explanation of the settings:

https://www.nraas.net/community/post64057#p64057

From my limited knowledge, for your sim in question, I would say you need to set the preference for women to be slightly higher than their preference for men but if you're asking for actual numbers, I've no idea, sorry.

For a more detailed answer, you may want to post at NRaas in the Master Controller Discussion Forum.

Sorry I couldn't help further. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Master Controller#Gender Preference
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Anonymous asked:

Hi, I'm at the point of configurating story progression with most of your settings and I'm playing with no aging. When I enable story progression for the first time, it says if I want to adjust the manager speed to the new span. That changes every speed settings in the flirt, frienship, etc. I would like to know, since you play with very long span, did you keep the base speed or you let story progression automatically change it for you? Thanks for the help.

Hi Anon!

The short answer is, I keep the base speed.

The long answer is, I click the 'x' when Story Progression asks me if I want to adjust the manager speeds to the new age span. Otherwise, as you've noticed, SP will change all the manager speeds so that they align with the new Life Span you've selected. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Story Progression#Manager Speed#Life Span
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Anonymous asked:

Hi I’m trying to figure out how to use the Nraas Traveler Mod to take pets to the future, do you know how to?

Hi Anon!

I've never tried but according to this reddit thread, it should be possible if you just allow pets to travel in the Traveler mod. See the following FAQ for details:

Is there any way to remove the restrictions that prevent certain sims from traveling?

If they still can't after doing that then you may want to post over at NRaas in the Traveler discussion forum for some more help. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Traveler
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plumarbre asked:

Hi Sarah ! Thank you for your postings you’re a life saver ! 😭 I would like to know how to slow down relationships between npc… they hook up A LOT, get married, break up etc all the time 😭 and, most of all, they’re always moving to each other’s houses, I don’t want them to change houses that often 🙁 I also have the woohooer mod and I have the option for romantic relationships between teenagers and adults activate but it doesn’t work, I think it may be because of SP and the casts options but I can’t figure out what to change, I just want my sims to pursue their relation with their high school bf/gf after one them grow up 😭 plus, could you please explain the immigrations and emigrations options ? I don’t understand what it means at all in game 😅 thank you for the hardwork!

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Hi plumarbre!

That's a lot of questions! LOL!

This is going to be a long post so I've put it all under the cut. :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Story Progression
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Anonymous asked:

Hi Sarah ma'am how to remove meteor from falling

Hi Anon! :-)

There's a very simple setting in NRaas Retuner that you can use to stop meteors from falling but first, I have to ask, are you seeing a lot of these?

The chance of a meteor falling is very low by default, so I'm wondering if you may already have a mod that increases the chance, or perhaps a couple of mods that may be conflicting or out of date and causing the chance to increase.

You can test this by starting your game with only NRaas mods installed (if you normally use them), delete the scriptCache.package file from your Sims 3 folder in Documents and start up a new world, such as Sunset Valley. Play it for a few days (or just let it run by itself at fast speed) and see if the meteors fall at the same rate.

If the meteors don't fall at the same rate, I would suggest having a look through your other mods to see if any are conflicting or are out of date with your base game patch level.

If this is not the case, you can use the following settings in Retuner to completely disable the chance of a meteor falling.

Click on: City Hall or any computer > NRaas > Retuner > Settings > General > By Tunable XML > Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Miscellaneous > Meteor > > kRandomMeteorChance < 0 (Default: 0.0001) > kRandomMeteorChanceUsingTelescope > 0 (Default: 0.001)

Hope this helps! Good luck! :-)

#TS3#Sims 3#Asks#NRaas Mods#NRaas Retuner#Meteor#Meteors
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