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…

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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.

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!

The new renders look pretty cool. They also remind me that the game will be released in only 45 days! And that reminds me I should start preparing for my final exams. The plan is like this: pre-order the game and get it by June 15th and make all exams so I can play it.

Also, new True Blood series will be out on June 9th so I can’t take any risk! The sooner I’ll pass the exams, the better for me. Something tells me this will be a long summer with endless nights taking care of my Sims. Yay!

Oh and the Servo looks really great. At first I thought I didn’t like it, because the original Servos in TS2 were so damn good (TS1 Servo was also good, but a bit more simple). But I really love it now. Look at his eyes! They look so freaking emotional and touching.

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I thought that they should come up with something like Would you like to save this design? option, otherwise it won’t be working that well. If I had a tattoo artist, I sure would like to play around with all kinds of possibilies offered. So I could make my own tattoo design, style the Sim and then not save his new “enhancement”. Do you know what I mean?

What do you think? Will there be an option like this? It goes for architects, stylists, firemen and other new careers, too.

More info here. I haven’t had time to read anything yet, but I will tomorrow. (I’m so busy ATM. )

It looks really neat! I think I even like it better than the one for World Adventures. And yay for Servos! Well, at least I hope it’s a Servo.

More info from SimGuruLyndsay at forums:

Several of the active jobs have been designed to allow your Sim to still progress while you’re busy with a different Sim elsewhere. For example, a Private Investigator can do low level police work or stakeouts while he isn’t working on an active case. The Firefighter is not always fighting fires so there are times where you can let him hang out and socialize at the Fire Station or work out when you aren’t controlling him. Both the Stylist and Architectural Design jobs will take you into a mode that will pause the game, but if you don’t want to do that you can still have your Sim research their field on the drafting table. Every career has responsibilities and its own active jobs. Each active job will require your full attention, but there are still options that allow your Sim to progress and level up while not controlling them. The most efficient progression will be with you controlling them but the balance is up to you. Similar to how World Adventures worked, it will be a challenge to control more than one Sim with multiple active jobs but we’ve offered many other avenues to help make it easier, and it can be done.

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Alright, I’m excited and slightly disappointed at the same time. No retail shops like in OFB. Which means no bakeries etc. Read this. Shame. BUT the good news is really exciting: the new careers will allow the players to modify the town. Like an architect / designer can create new buildings or design rooms for other families. Stylists can make Sims in the ‘hood look better or worse, depending on what you want.

So if you’re not expecting everything we had in OFB, I think you’ll be excited. Well, I’ve never really wanted to see my Sims at work, but these jobs look pretty cool. I like that the careers have a big inpact on the ‘hood. What I really do want to try is to have an inventor, detective and a stylist.

How about you? How do you like the EP? What would you like to try?

“The variety of careers to choose from is unmatched and we’ve never given players the opportunity to follow their Sims to work and affect their actions on the job,” said Scott Evans, General Manager of The Sims Studio at EA. “The Sims 3 Ambitions changes that. Players’ actions at work now directly affect their lives, community and neighbors and become an extremely important part of how the game is played.”

Read more!

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Oh yes, my dear readrers, new expansion pack is coming out… well, we don’t know just yet, but most likely in three months. I’m so excied! But very intrigued at the same time, because I’m still not sure what to expect.

There are some hints that there might be ice-sculpturing, Servos, some form of Ghost Busters and… firemen? I thought we already had them. *shrugs* But what I really dream of is the same kind of business we could have in TS2. Or is that too much I’m asking for?

Foto: Infinite Sims