I found this posted by Niki in the thread titled. "new gifting game, are you playing?" I hope it answers your questions.
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Parizad said,
on February 27th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Goldie said,
Pretty cool! Do we receive EALand Founder Badges as well? And is it possible for me to play on my Sim that is currently waiting to be merged? (In AV, if that helps)
We shut off the legacy cities last week. If the sims have not merged yet, then you can’t access them, right? This only pertains to sims in EA-Land.
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smilz said,
I have a question, what if we are a homeless sim right now in EA Land?
How will we put out our pieces?
In the picture, we put the matching puzzle pieces out to show you what they looked like because it is bigger than the icons in inventory. You do not NEED to put the items out. You can keep them in inventory if you’d like.