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14th Apr 2011 at 8:59 PM
Last edited by alexpilgrim : 15th Apr 2011 at
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Simple, and hopefully useful info.
As I'm typing I'm thinking "who am I to say this?", but if this information is useful for just one player I'm happy. The fact is that many of us who are playing TSM have been simming forever, others have gone straight from TS2 to TSM, and others have jumped on the TSM bandwagon but have never experienced playing The Sims, so I thought this might avoid many weeping and gnashing of teeth, to use medieval jargon.
- Save, save,
SAVE, for the Watcher's sake! Just get the habit of saving every Sim night, so if the next day your King is stuck in the woods or your Knight was killed in a duel you can just go back to the main menu without saving and just start all over the day before, without losing your whole game, quest or whatever happened since the last time.
- Save some more. Every time you finish a quest or quit the game (or as often as you see fit) copy your Kingdom folder from Documents > The Sims Medieval > Saves, and paste in a special safe folder somewhere else on your computer. You can even do this while the game is running. I said
copy and paste, not
cut and paste.
- Delete your cache files: CompositorCache, SimCompositorCache and CASPartCache are generated by the game every time you launch and might store unwanted information. Deleting them can fix a number of things, grown-child midgetism and stuck Sims, among many others.
- If you decide to mod your game make sure the Resource.cfg and d3dx9_31.dll files are properly located. If they are the mods work. If they don't work double-check. If they still don't work... ask for help.
- You only need to modify the Commands.ini file
or install the "testing cheats enabled" mod, not both. If you have both they won't conflict, but the modder himself recommends using the mod (the .package file), as the modified .ini file might conflict with future patches.
- Don't use all your Quest Points unless you are
really sure you don't want to port your Kingdom into the next Ambition or continue playing with it. Spending all your QP "locks" it and makes it useless, and you can play Free Time anytime you want between Quests during an Ambition.
- And save even
more, back-up your game every time you test a new mod or think you are doing anything even mildly risky to your game.
- But most of al play and have fun!
"Deep down I'm pretty superficial"