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

We’re still in doubt what could the new EP for TS3 be. The newest information suggests that it might be called Ambitions instead of Hobbies & Professions. I’m holding my breath because I really miss everything we had in Open for Business, I think it was one of my favorite EPs. The great thing was that you could sell so many things — and with new EPs even stuff like magic potions or vacation souvenirs. I really hope for the best!

… and I cross my fingers for the best. Let’s hope no more broken sinks. Or anything even more terrible. Well, we’ll find out soon anyway, right?

Let’s hope I won’t regret this. Well, I’m dying to know whether all Sims that lost their traits will have new ones. I doubt it, though… we’ll see.

Eye of the Bolder ‘10 — Free
In the Dawn of Sims — Free
Gothique Living + Sleeping Rooms (950 SimPoints)
Old Town: Starter Kit (450 SimPoints) — totally love this one
Fanciful Fashion & Hairstyles (850 SimPoints)
Year of the Tiger (only 100 SimPoints)

I’m a little happy that there’s something free finally, like the two paintings of which I love the Gustav Klimt-ish one.

Fanciful fashion? You must be joking me, EA Games, right? Okay, okay, I like the hairs and I love the high-waist skirt, but I wish it was not an outfit, but a separate part. *sigh* Apart from that, nothing either fanciful or fashionable.

Year of the Tiger is super-cute, for that price it’s a must-have. Luckily, I have a few SimPoints, so I’m definitely going to spend some now.

Finally! Today I had some time to go on a download spree after a few months. Yes, it sounds so ridiculous, but my free time for downloading has been reduced to minimum. I’ve decided to play more and download less, because it doesn’t make sense to pay all the money for the games and then never actually play them…

So anyways, I’ve been thinking about custom content for TS3. As funny as it seems, I still feel very new to it because just like I said I don’t have too much time to download and read news about custom content. But today I got a lot of nice clutter, body shop stuff and some build mode essentials. With some little custom content the game starts making so much sense to me.

One of the things I truly love about CC for TS3 is that you don’t really need any recolors for the new meshes to make them show up. That’s so great! My game used to be cluttered with so many recolors I didn’t like, now I can just chose my own pattern on the go. And it makes the objects much more pretty, because they look more Maxis-like. No way-too realistic textures. I love that.

The drags: It’s such shame that you can’t delete anything from the game. Everything must be made manually. I also don’t like that some creators make their sets in .sims3pack files. I decided to donate to Around the Sims 3 today to finally get an easier access to her files (you can download all sets in one package), but also because Sandy has been doing a wonderful job all these years and I hadn’t had PayPal until recently so it was about the time to say thankyou even this way. But like I said above, all her files are in .sims3pack.

Luckily Delphy made this cool extractor that converts everything to .package file. It’s so useful! But still I wish creators didn’t use that format. It’s such a drag!

In the next few days, I’ll keep on de-cluttering my bookmarks with some older finds for TS2 so these will come first and then I’ll start looking for something fresher. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! :love:

Just a few quick links: Next EP Rumored to be The Sims 3 Hobbies and Professions, Bart Smit Confirms Sims 3 Hobbies Expansion. Never mind the title, it’s still only a rumor.

Oh and: Sims 3 Sells 4.5 Million Units while 3.2 million units were illegally downloaded.

Okay, here’s the thing: when I was playing The Sims 2 with all expansion packs and stuff packs, I thought there were too many things to do. Every single Sim in my ‘hood was very specific (or at least those who I created, including some of Maxis characters, which I loved), they would have specific style, work, personality, habits and preferred activities…

Now I only have The Sims 3 and also TS3 World Adventures, and I’m starting to feel the same. Sims can now gain new skills and it takes much more time, but every skill has also different challenges (like when you write you can be a best-selling author after publishing 50 novels–I made that up, but there’s something similar). Sims can collect stuff, which is really awesome, but one thing that intrigues me the most is that you always get the best results if you combine a few types of skills/career together.

The problem? It’s so specific with so many options that I can barely try everything in the game.

For example, I’d love to have a Sim that would be a great gardener and would produce his own nectar. Then I’d love to have a Sim, who could cook and grow his own veggies and/or fish, so he could make more types of recipes. Then there are the artsy Sims who might be great at painting/photographing, and others good at athletics/martial arts… the list goes on and on. Of course, they need to have friends, family, career…

At one point, I’m so happy that there are all those options. I remember The Sims 1 in all its simplicity and I loved it so much. When I tried it the last time, I found it boring. So I uninstalled the game and decided to keep the memories which remain absolutely amazing (and so nostalgic at the same time). On the other hand, sometimes I feel so overwhelmed with so many options. Do you know what I mean? Once you can do so much, it brings you to the point where you want to make the most out of the perfection.

So what do you think: the more options the better, or the worse?

Great EA Games, and thanks! It was hell about the time!

Read the small note by SimGuru_BGY_11 here.