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TO SET IT UP:

1) Download the .msi file at the EA Land website
2) After that's done use the shortcut (window or not doesn't matter) on your desktop
3) When it comes up SELECT TEST CENTER 3 for the 851.kb patch. The updater will update.
4) When it restarts you have a choice: Patch to EA-Land or Test Center 3. Right now there are a few bugs with this. Sometimes you can't go back and forth between the two. If EA-Land doesn't patch you to download a 1.2gb file, then Test Center 3 will. However it might not work if you want to go hang out in EA Land. For the new launch purposes, try to download the 1.2gb client where you want to go.

The differences between the two:
1) EA Land is limited to FREE TO PLAY PLAYERS ONLY. This is where subscribers go (9.99 a month). They have access to all lots, making huge lots, etc. This is more populated right now than Test Center 3. EA Land however has been EXTREMELY FRIENDLY towards free to play players by making lots that would technically go under "skilling" lots, but name it skilling and put it under a different type of lot so free to play players can access them. =)

2) Test Center 3 is where all new patches go to "test". Test Center 3 allows all players (subscriber + free) to use EVERYTHING. However, Test Center 3 has frequent wipes now and then.

If anyone needs any help, let me know. I'm an avid player in EA Land, and absolutely LOVING IT.

Oh one other thing.

IF YOU'RE GETTING 'CORRUPTED FILE' ERRORS IT IS NOT YOU. WIPING YOUR COMPUTER, REINSTALLING, ETC WILL NOT HELP. THIS IS A KNOWN BUG AND IS IN THE WORKS. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.

If it is giving you the corrupted crap use Test Center 3. You should get everything, client, updates, etc. with ease. However for now you can only play in Test Center 3. Right now it's being the works, so soon we'll be able to go in and out of both TC3 and EA Land (sometimes you can, but like I said that patching system is a bit buggy).

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