Spring4Sims – The Best Finds, Downloads & Hints for Your Sims

I’m playing for the Altos and I’ve decided to make Holly an architect. She was in the Criminal Mastermind career before, but she’s a Good Sim and she’s Artistic, too, so why not make something more useful of her?

I found out the best solution for getting promoted soon in your Profession is to work on your skillpoints first. Meanwhile, I tried to do some small reconstuctions around the town, but so far no major luck. I always wonder how are the final results evaluated.

When I buy only the stuff I’m supposted to and I keep it up to the budget, I usually don’t get too good reviews. But when I play around the house, change textures, buy more expensive furniture and simply renovate the whole house, the customers tell me I cluttered the house and they don’t like it. Sometimes when I use decor objects, they tell me how nicely I decorated their rooms.

This is the most confusing Profession, isn’t it? What works for you best? I still don’t have that Prima Game Guide, I think I’m going to need it a lot, though…

ageupNPC
An NPC is an older age.

AlwaysBuyBuild
Buid and Buy mode always accessible (ie: even during fires)

DiscoMaptags on / off
The plot symbols flash with lots of colours!

Via

Duh, there we go. I can’t save the game. It says I should take a look at the readme file, but it doesn’t explain anything further than what I already know. It’s an error that occurrs while saving, how helpful.

Have you ever experienced this? Did you solve it? How? Let me know, please.

Few days ago, I was in a terrible mood. It wasn’t anything special, buy you know these days–something starts bugging you and when a few more things pile up, you’re simply annoyed. I think the last thing that made me angry that day was the limited edition of The Sims 3 Ambitions I’ve heard of at EA Games Singapore facebook fanpage (I know it’s silly to be angry for such things, but like I said, there was more than this that day…). It said: only 800 copies! And I was like: oh no, poor me, I’m never going to get it.

If there were two stickers, I probably wouldn’t mind, but the Commemorative Edition includes a 48-page hardback book about The Sims including special interviews, pictures and a few bonuses such as wall poster, sketch book, ‘Build your own Plumbob’ and SimPoints for TS3 Store. If there are two things in this world I truly love, then it must be the Sims games and books in general. A book about the Sims? You must be kidding me, that’s something I can’t miss!

Well, I wasn’t feeling good enough to make a full research on where this edition will be released since I thought it would be released only in Singapore, but thanks to Julie I took a better look today and found out it will be in fact released in the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Singapore. So far we know it won’t be available in Russia and probably not even in the USA. I feel a bit sorry for Americans — why is this edition not available in the country where The Sims was born? No idea, ask EA Games.

Anyways, I canceled my pre-ordered copy of Ambitions from Amazon UK immediately and made a research. I ended up with Game.co.uk. Here’s the good news: Commemorative Edition available and for the same price as the regular edition. Yay! Doble score! And what’s more they have a lot cheaper shipping to my country than Amazon has and it’s even faster (about £10 and 3-14 days from Amazon UK, £3 and 3-5 days from Game.co.uk).

Okay, now I’m jumping around the house with happiness. I actually saved about £6, so I bought one Retail Card with 1,000 SimPoints. I know, I’m a nerd. I need to get a life, hahaha.

More pictures of The Sims 3 Ambition Commemorative Edition after jump.

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Well, I did! I’ve been watching some gameplay videos, reading official blog posts etc. and I have to admit I’m really excited for the new EP. I really didn’t think I would like it so much, because I was never too interested in what would a day in Sims’ career look like, but it seems like the new careers can really have a big impact on the rest of the neighborhood. Oh and Servos, they will be finally back! I’m such a huge fan of theirs. They were my fav ‘creature’ in TS2.

I think I still need to do some more research. I’m curious about one or two things, maybe you know more than I do: is there going to be a new ‘hood? Are there any new ghost buildings?

Anyways, I pre-ordered the Prima Game Guide, too, because when I got World Adventures last Christmas, I was starting to feel confused with so many options. Of course, it’s a lot of fun exploring everything, but sometimes you just want to know this and that right now… so I hope the guide will clear my questions.

I also wanted to order two SimPoint Retail Cards, but unfortunatelly, I don’t have that much money right now. I hoped the shipping from United Kingdom would be lower, but Amazon UK keeps the shipping always pretty high (and it’s not that far to Slovakia, you know, I usually get lower shipping rates from other services…). My order should arrive sometimes between July 10th to 21st, I’m crossing my fingers it will be here after June 14th since my exams (if everything goes right) should finally be over by that time.

Let me know when you’re buying the game or if you’re going to buy it. Are you excided?

It’s a paradox that I don’t like the Sims parody for a movie that happens to be my favorite. I mean, I liked the SATC series a lot, the first movie was okay and I haven’t seen the new one, but you get the point. This parody is a little lame. Nothing beats the Twilight, Star Trek or Iron Man parodies, right? They were really funny! My opinion? People doing these parodies are geeks and they should stay true to sci-fi movies etc. Too much romance doesn’t do them good.

Just a few behind the scenes from the new video I posted yesterday. I love how everyone just uses ‘nooboo’ instead of ‘baby’ (I mean, it’s obvious) so you can always figure out at least one word from every Simlish song.

It’s been a while since EA Games has made such a sentimental video. I love it, though! The time machine looks exciting, I’ve heard that sometimes your Sims might return with relatives from the future or past.

I know I’m lame because I haven’t seen Iron Man but it seems like I’ll have to do some catching up because this parody is really awesome. Oh and once again, I love the new Servos!

I couldn’t leave out the picutures although they all can be seen at the official site with more information about the medical career, spy and fireman career. I think I’m starting to like Ambitions more and more. BTW notice the haircut of the doctor. It seems to be new and it looks really neat!

Read the blog post here!

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