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Mad Poster
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#1 Old 22nd Feb 2020 at 11:37 PM
Default Stuff you like to do in the game?
As the title asks - feel free to share! I'm bad with intros

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
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Mad Poster
#3 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 2:38 AM
On a more global basis, I allow my sims to perform complex behavioral experiments on me, take note of my reactions to various scenarios, and manipulate me to do their bidding. I know many players see the point of the game as the exact opposite of that, but such is a common misconception and it is they who have things backwards.
Mad Poster
#4 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 4:47 AM
Play any adventure offered from every add-on pack.

That and make use of the CC and mods to make it an interesting world.

Personal Quote: "I like my men like my sodas: tall boys." (Zevia has both 12 and 16 oz options)

(P.S. I'm about 5' (150cm) in height and easily scared)
Top Secret Researcher
#5 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 12:24 PM
I like editing other people's stuff and turning it into other things. Sorry, I just can't help myself.
(I take no credit for the original work done by so many creative people, thank you!)

https://imgur.com/a/nptoUlq
Test Subject
#6 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 4:17 PM
City planning! I'm currently saving up for a nice PC and have been using my ancient "craptop" for years now ($50 used from a friend, if that tells you the quality), so I can't actually play right now, but I can prepare. Part of what I love so much about The Sims 3 versus other games in the series is the massive choice you have for community lots/lot assignments. I've decided after playing for years in EA or custom pre-built worlds to finally bite the bullet and BUILD ALL THE THINGS! myself. It's daunting but also super exciting figuring out what architectural styles I want to use, what the layout of the town will be like, and gathering reference photos for some inspiration.

@KatyFernlily, I really love your building makeovers!
Inventor
#7 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 5:47 PM
I enjoy playing without ANY cheats or exploits. I love the challenge of starting with 16K and earning enough money to live in a mansion through honest means.
Top Secret Researcher
#8 Old 23rd Feb 2020 at 10:12 PM Last edited by KatyFernlily : 23rd Feb 2020 at 10:32 PM.
I got bored and compiled some more pics of remakes as that is what I like to do in game. There is even one from the famous Murfeel!

https://imgur.com/a/rm353QT
Theorist
#9 Old 25th Feb 2020 at 9:03 PM
I like placing things into the game that the official games dont have, like bus stations, religious buildings, brothels, tennis courts and stuff like that.

#BlairWitchPetition
TS3 NEEDS: TENNIS COURTS > BUSES > PIGS/SHEEP
Can't find stuff in build and buy mode? http://www.nexusmods.com/thesims3/mods/1/?
Mad Poster
#10 Old 25th Feb 2020 at 9:43 PM
I've never, ever, seen a vacuum cleaner in any Sims game. Must be sweet living in ignorance.

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Field Researcher
#11 Old 25th Feb 2020 at 10:59 PM
Create a family with one sim and try to have them accomplish everything in the game. Eventually, I get bored and do the same thing with a slightly different sim.

Today I think I will challenge myself and play a family with TWO sims!
Lab Assistant
#12 Old 25th Feb 2020 at 11:37 PM
Diving. I like living in a tropical paradise and enjoy messing about in the water. My sim also supplements her income at the casino.....because there has to be a reason to go to town for loner sims.
Top Secret Researcher
#13 Old 26th Feb 2020 at 12:45 AM
Quote: Originally posted by AGuyCalledPi
I've never, ever, seen a vacuum cleaner in any Sims game. Must be sweet living in ignorance.


Here is one. Is this what you had in mind?
Screenshots
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#14 Old 26th Feb 2020 at 1:30 AM
Quote: Originally posted by AGuyCalledPi
I've never, ever, seen a vacuum cleaner in any Sims game. Must be sweet living in ignorance.


The stuff you like doing is living in ignorance? Sweet

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
Mad Poster
#16 Old 26th Feb 2020 at 4:06 PM Last edited by AGuyCalledPi : 26th Feb 2020 at 4:22 PM.
Ah yes, those are some of the same electronics I regularly use for the lower end of my households in the 1988 save. Your poor students, to be using that stuff in this day and age!
But those large-screen CRT televisions will always be cool. I have a slightly more high-end model I use for retro gaming. I bet anyone with a TV that large must've felt real cool about it 25 years ago. Back when 32" was not the smallest size you could reasonably have in your living room, but the largest. Mine is a 24" model, but the benefit of that is that I can actually pick it up and move it more than a foot without dying.

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Mad Poster
#17 Old 26th Feb 2020 at 5:58 PM
The Sims you sent me, for which I'm still very grateful.....I may or may not have turned them all into boomers. One of the side effects of that save of mine is that everyone in it aged about 25 to 45 is a boomer. In fact one of the things I like to remind myself of is that at least 1 in every 4 Sims I have in that save is now dead, anno 2020. That's not a problem at all, but it does help me to create a different sort of people to what I would normally have in other saves. They look different than modern Sims, and because they don't carry cell phones, like yours, they also interact in a different way.

Besides, the whole digital thing's never worked in The Sims. After they added cell phones and online dating and multiplayer games and social media into the game, people are still sending their Sims to clubs several times a week. That's why there have to be so many community lots in such small worlds, because The Sims isn't fun if you just keep them indoors every day.

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Lab Assistant
#18 Old 28th Feb 2020 at 1:59 AM
I like to play with big families from the start. I like creating big families and then move them on and see how they struggle to make their dreams come true. Yes, most of the time I use the "freerealestate" cheat, usually excusing it with some kind of silly behind-the-scene story, like they inherited the house from a family member or some sh** like that, but trust me, it's still quite challenging playing big families from the start even with this cheat. And I just love that. On the rare occasions when I am playing just one or two Sims, I will always get bored and either leave the family altogether or will expand the family one way or another pretty quickly. That's what I like to do in the game.
Lab Assistant
#20 Old 28th Feb 2020 at 5:10 AM
Quote: Originally posted by nitromon
btw, anyone know how to create plantsims? I clicked the icon in the CAS to choose and i have human, vampire, and ghosts (I don't have supernatural). Plantsims came with university right? I remember seeing premade homeless ones in the population.

Yeah they came with University Life. If I remember correctly, your sim has to eat a Forbidden Fruit to become a plantsim. Or you can just use Master Controller if you have it.
Scholar
#21 Old 28th Feb 2020 at 9:26 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Naus Allien
I enjoy playing without ANY cheats or exploits. I love the challenge of starting with 16K and earning enough money to live in a mansion through honest means.


Does chatting up a rich sim, asking to move in and then kicking them out, count? To be fair, the kicking out happens after moving to a mansion through honest means. And they get my starting money.
Top Secret Researcher
#22 Old 28th Feb 2020 at 2:10 PM
I use the buyable forbidden fruit.
http://www.modthesims.info/d/530064...fruit-quot.html.
I have forgotten how to get one by normal means. Science station?
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#23 Old 29th Feb 2020 at 5:17 PM
Quote: Originally posted by mithrak_nl
Does chatting up a rich sim, asking to move in and then kicking them out, count? To be fair, the kicking out happens after moving to a mansion through honest means. And they get my starting money.

Well morally, I guess it could be count as cheating in rl too. But, I guess it is cheating since the way finances are handling with the household splittings being unfairly divided. Like I mean, I think splitting a household of two roomates should reasonably split their funds evenly in half, no?

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.
Mad Poster
#24 Old 29th Feb 2020 at 5:29 PM
I think everyone should reasonably have their own separate finances unless they're some sort of married. It doesn't make sense that a household of 3 young adults, who are friends but little more, would share all their income and expenses.

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Forum Resident
#25 Old 29th Feb 2020 at 5:35 PM
I tell stories, especially romances. I play generation style and each heir gets a love story! I like to use cheats and mods to set up the worlds exactly the way I want them to fit my characters and storyline.
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