You might be mixing up wishes with opportunities? A sim will roll a wish for earning 100 simoleons in tips for instance. These wishes (up to four) show up just to the left of the Sim's avatar. These are not the same as the opportunities the game offers and which show up under the sixth tab to the ri...

I'm enjoying reading about your on-going experiment, thanks for sharing about it!

Settings changed in the TV itself?

I agree with igazor's advice about seeing if it works without mods first. Recently, for some reason my sims couldn't use the pizza oven anymore, so I used Nona's ccmerged file, and then it was usable again. Good luck!

A name list of whose names and for what purpose?

There is a "trick" to this as explained here: http://simension.de/sims-3-english-tuto ... shed-lots/

I can't help you with the your caste questions, but I do agree that there are inconsistencies in the trait system such as you note. Also Loner sims, for example, role the wish to make friends with someone far too often in my opinion. The game can also generate Sims with both the Mean-spirited and Fr...

"Decrapped" content is basically EA's store stuff made available to anyone so that they don't have to buy it. Personally, I think this is dishonest and robs EA  but some people don't seem to have a problem with it. From what little I do know there can be problems using it so I recommend buying EA's ...

Info here:  https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Instrument_skill Looks like 3 of the master tracks relate to the challenges, the fourth (the one you are looking for I presume), is achieved through a "certain" opportunity but it doesn't say which one. And since opportunites are random, I'm not sure how you ...

Mod over at MTS 3: http://modthesims.info/d/484590/writing ... -1-67.html

There's a couple of versions, one of which changes only the partial payments to zero