Test Center 3 Limits for free players?

[Grooby]

Hi all,

According to ea-land webpage, test center 3 is fully playable (no limitations) for non paying subscribers. Today after maintenance i logged into my account and found that i cant enter any money making lot. Game says that i got free account which is limited...

Does EA dont keep their promises as stated on main ea-land page?
Please help.

G. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[jnfr]

I am a free account right now, and can access money lots fine. The only thing non-working that I keep hearing about are jobs. Money and skills are okay though, so maybe you're bugged http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[tanyasharp76]

I was wondering if it meant it was free for 14 days or is it free for as longs as you want it

The Free Play account is for as long as you want. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[tanyasharp76]

cool b/c my 14 year old step-daughter is wanting to play this game but no money to get it for her.

[MellyChan]

Erm is there a reason that us users on TC3 can't work? It says we need to be subscribers. I thought we were able to play for free? And could make use of ALL features. It's been almost a week and a half I think...
Whats going on? And if its something on our end, what can we do? Because I KNOW it's not must me having that issue. http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/mad.gif http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/shared/images/graemlins/mad.gif

[KevinThom]

Got the same problem

I have been going to work the last three (rl) days at the club and having no issues with it. I'm not having issues entering any of the houses either.

[MellyChan]

EA is at it again it'd seem.
They totally screwed TC 3 up ..once more.

There is a discussion going on in City Hall about this topic.
Here is Parizad's post (http://boards.stratics.com/php-bin/sims/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=713946&page=0&view=co llapsed&sb=5&o=&vc=1) in that thread:

<blockquote><hr>

In TC3 right now, free players cannot go to skill lots, money lots, or go to jobs. We are testing this out on TC3 before we roll it out to EA-Land. After we finish testing this out, TC3 will revert back to the way it was.

Thank you for choosing to play on a test server and helping us to test out features.

Parizad "Maxis Sahara" Parav

[/ QUOTE ]

Part of what this means is that free players are the super testers in TC3. If you guys manage to get around the restrictions and let Lee and Parizad know how you did it, the team can fix the holes and move the version to EA-Land.

If no one pokes on it and the devs have to do the poking all on their own, it might take awhile to get that version moving.

Testing can be fun - it's why a lot of subscribers like to live in Test Center.

[MellyChan]

yaay i was right

[LindseyShaman]

So, will the skills locks be the same for free players in TC3 once it returns to normal or are the new changes to skills locks that limit free players to 20 permanent in TC3 also?