New cannons and ATM machines at the new Community Store!

New yellow, green, blue and red cannons have been uploaded and are in the new Community Store owned by MaxisLee in Test Center 3, without being announced. It is still unknown whether these will be given as gifts, will be added in the buy catalogue, just a recolor of the original cannon by a tool that will be introduced in the future or just exclusive objects that can be bought at only the Community Store.

Furthermore, the ATM machine that Sarah from the development team is currently working on has been already only added in the Community Store. Surprisingly, the ATM machine is not yet done and which explains why it is unclickable. We are still waiting to see what will happen in the future as the new cannons and ATM machine seems to be just around the corner.

Some pictures taken by the admin in the Community Store in Test Center 3 showing the new cannons and ATM machines:

Test Center 3: the Lag City?

Prior to the famous and successful merge of both cities, Test Center and Test Center 3, the lag was very nominal, at a normal level. However, after the merge, residents of both cities have been experiencing an abnormal, unbearable and long lags. The reason? Probably from all the new custom content pictures, but nobody knows exactly.

While visiting several houses in Test Center 3, I came across a few people naming TC3 “The Lag City”, which is currently becoming a popular nickname for the city.

Some simmers, on the other hand, are not experiencing much lag as others. That might have to do with their fast internet and computers with a great performance. Moreover, other simmers are regarding such lags as somewhat a fun experience, watching their avatar doing awkward poses.

The developers announced that they are trying to fix the lag soon.

Upload your chairs now!!

Luc has announced on the official blog on the 13th of December that the doors were open to the upload of sims 1 chairs by using the crafting tables in service lots. He also recommended the usage of the transmogrifier to make your own chairs. Not to forget that “In a blog in the near future, I will provide a tool for 3D artists to make their own completely new chairs!“

Please note that to upload custom chairs, you need to make a new folder in the EA Games folder in My documents (just like what you did for the images), and name the file “Chairs” next to the “images” folder you already created.
The location of the folder is more likely to be…
“My Documents > EA Games > EA-Land > Uploads > Chairs”

Many people are concerned of the need to re-install sims 1 and its expansion packs in order to be able to create and recolor chairs. However, all sims 1 objects are going to be provided in TSO/EA-Land soon, according to the statement of one of the developers in the Community Pub at Test Center 3.

For more help about how to make chairs and upload them, please make sure to check the following tutorial on the Wiki and the EA-Land Tutorials site by thrill.

Enjoy all the new chairs in the game, and remember to be creative

TC and TC3 merge is a success!

Test Center and Test Center 3 have been both successfully merged together on the 6th of December.

How to check it?
Zoom out further than the normal city view by using the
“-” button on your keyboard. You will then view the whole huge city that contains all cities. Later, press on the box around Test Centre 3 and you shall then be zoomed into it.

Enjoy playing with the new TC comers!

* Official source announcing the merge: http://tso-e.com/blog/?p=483