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If you live in a neighborhood that is in the top 4 for visitor activity (you can see this on the panel that pops up when clicking a neighborhood) you will have an election cycle the last 7 days of the month. If you are nominated by enough people during those first few days, you will receive a...

FreeSO itself supports Vista (for now), but the launcher does not due to the underlying technology (electron) not supporting it. You would need to do a manual install which requires the following: 1. Ensure .NET 4.5 or later is installed...

Posting a screenshot of the error message would help us figure out what's going on. Also, if you haven't already, you may want to join our Discord for more immediate help.

As it's a game and people have busy lives, we have players who take long breaks or just play on and off as their schedule allows so we don't offer anything like this. Your only option is to get them to log in for an in-game trade.

Currently the grass tool only works on grass lots. However, there are some "grass" carpets that you might be able to use to get the look you want.

Looks like the Terminal can't find cabextract in your path. If you know you installed it for sure using Homebrew. Close the Terminal window and open a new one, run cd ~/Downloads/TSO_Installer_v1.1239.1.0 and then the cabextract command again.

This is a currently known bug introduced with the reconnection system and will happen every time you make a new character. Just close FreeSO and log back in and you should be able to join the city with your new sim.

macOS Catalina (10.15) was released today. I'll probably wait a bit longer before upgrading my computer, but please share any difficulties you experience and workarounds you find. EDIT: Just updated and can run the game without issue. If you use --arch=32 to run the game it will no longer work...

This is for a very outdated build of the game. If you're stuck after creating a sim in FreeSO, try closing and reopening the game. If that doesn't solve the problem, please make a new post in the support section of the forums or join our Discord and post in #freeso-support.

The launcher relies on a registry key named InstallDir at Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Rhys Simpson\FreeSO Is it possible that you have an anti-virus that is either deleting that registry entry or deleting the FreeSO folder itself on a scan that occurs when logging back into...

Always cool to have more guides for more desktop platforms! If you want to simplify your guide a bit you can remove all of the stuff about the version patcher as the client will do that automatically if it detects it needs to. You can also get a faster FreeSO download from the GitHub releases...

A fatal error can occur for many reasons. A screenshot of the error text uploaded here or posted in the freeso-support channel of our discord can help us solve the problem.

I believe your title on the forums account is tied to how many posts/comments/likes you have made on here, it's nothing to worry too much about.

That means the dependency is already installed. You can just close that window and continue with the rest of the install.

FreeSO Sprite Exporter Template & Script v2.0 Compatible with Blender 2.8 (also backwards compatible with 2.7) Fixed an issue where exporting would crash if not in Object Mode X and Y axis labels have been added for multitile exports Documentation button links to this forum post Z-buffer now...