I *think* that sound plays when a Unicorn enters the world somewhere.

The .package files aren't so much of a compressed format, as far as I've noticed, but they are indeed a sort of "package" telling the game what it is and where it should go/how it should be processed. My own impression is that the game does a LOT of processing, I remember looking at saving/loading g...

Ìf I remember correctly, the problem with the spawners was that they do not actually go into the lot, but rather get "printed through" into the underlying world lot. So you can place them, but after placement they aren't part of the actual lot any more (and even bulldozing the lot does not help). I ...

When I did some tricky things in the past with my favorite household, I used to make a copy of my entire Documets/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 folder and kept that somewhere safe. If things would explode, I could always rename the The Sims 3 folder and place the copy back to go back in time. Of course...

I'm indeed still prohibited from pestering you lot, so enjoy the peace while it lasts but I really haven't re-installed the game yet -- I have a bewildering lot of stuff in my "what on earth was this again??" folder.

This was one of the few things I remembered, igazor! Mind you, that's not necessarily a positive thing. I really should get around to installing the whole thing again...

(but for the time being I'm back to Noob status!!)

I remember these as leftovers from the Gnubb game, when a Sim in your town plays Gnubb they leave a host of these objects. They should be safe to delete but unless there are thousands of them eating up memory, they are just a nuisance.