THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
vikitty:
Quote from: Seolaeria on 2009 May 24, 17:32:42
Quote from: vikitty on 2009 May 24, 17:11:06
Question for those playing the game: Is there any sort of tutorial family similar to the one that came with TS2?
No dedicated tutorial family. There is a menu option called "Lessons" where you can read about all the features - but there's no interactive tutorial. Also, during gameplay, messages will pop up in the upper right hand corner pointing you to a lesson related to something your Sim just did. You can turn the feature off if you don't want it bugging you.
Thank you for answering my question! It does seem like there is a bit of a learning curve; soooo much more to do. Hell, I haven't even done everything there is to do in Apartment Life yet.
simsdesperado:
The only bug I seem to have come across is that once when I started the game, my saved game seemed to have dissappeared and I had to restore the back up save. And I think the cheap oven has the same thumbnail image as the bathtub,at least this is how it shows up in my game when the sim is using it. Other than this I'm quite loving it. I removed the sim's toilet from the lot, wanted to see if she will pee on the floor. No such luck of embarrasing moments. She went straight for the bathtub, even though she was clean and had the dirt defy perk. I thought she was going to pee in the tub, but the bladder meter was fully empty and in the red and staid like that until she reached her job. Also, i'm loving the new cute animations they have added. My sim closed the fridge door with her foot and at one time the dresser shelf got stuck so she pulled on it to get it opened and fell on the floor in the process.
For the person wondering where the gems are, I usually find them on the lawn near my house. The beach also seem to have plenty of those.
nahte:
Quote from: X-Phile on 2009 May 19, 20:09:11
To be honest I find that some hairstyles from sims 3 look like the hair Peggy makes in
Sims 2. As if a rat ate some hair.
Exactly! I think exactly like you. I hate this.
jrdseven:
First post, so do your worst!!
I've got my game on epic settings, but I've got a couple of helpful hints and a question in return.
1) Learn to play the guitar as an essential - as soon as you get to level 5 you can play for tips. This is beneficial for two reasons, not only increasing your funds but it also builds your relationships with the NPC's.
2) Parties, to ensure every party is a success just get there early and make sure you're playing the guitar when the first guest arrives and just keep playing for the duration of the party - playing for tips will also earn you shed loads of cash (invite rich sims) at your own party. My record was about 5k for a 2 hour party - good work if you can get it. If you do this in community locations, you will also get other people watching and "donating" to your income.
3) Buy the community businesses as soon as you can afford them - it's a big outlay but you're rewarded with between 1.8 (hogans fryer) and 15k (medicine/science) a week depending on the business.
4) Relationships - host party and invite all people you will want to smash through the headboard (or Woohoo with rose petals in this pleasant-valley-world) and play guitar for them till your relationship bars will be maxed. Once you've reached this point, it's only a skip and a jump away from getting jiggy wid it. I'm just trialling the game and trying out different things at the moment, but inviting over best friends cuts the time down in the courting process.
Invite them over and make sure you use the "invite inside" option and go from there. I've impregnated Agnes Crumplebottom, Claire Ursine and Cornelia Goth each in about 3/4 sim hours using this method.
Question
has anyone had any success with the guitar skill additional challenges? I've completed 2 but I can't clear the party/community venue challenge.
I must have played about 20 parties and performed the same amount of concerts at the stadium and theatre but I can't clear that one for some reason. Help appreciated.
phyllis_p:
Quote from: Inge on 2009 May 24, 11:36:53
Having analysed that a large part of my reluctance to start up Sims 2 to play comes from the complexity of managing all the families and remembering what they should be doing, I am tentatively welcoming legacy style play :)
This. I'm enjoying the one family very much. I'm just getting ready to split the family by marrying off two of the kids and sending them to live elsewhere. We'll see how that works out.
Something I like: When teens are going steady and one ages before the other, the relationship is preserved. They are still going steady, still boyfriend/girlfriend. They don't have any romantic interations, unfortunately -- can't kiss or flirt -- but at least they still are "attached."
Re: birthday parties at remote locations. Be sure to go to the location first and set down a kitchen counter to put the cake on. You'll have to bring the cake in personal inventory, but can then set it on the counter and blow out the candles and eat. Setting on tables won't work, or didn't for me, at least. When you arrange for the party, you don't get the option for "birthday party." Just choose "destination party."
Oh, and I thought this was funny: I had a birthday party at the beach for my teen twins. After they'd both blown out the candles, their father and another party guest died. One little girl was so frightened, she fainted. She later got up and got a piece of birthday cake. While eating, Grimmy came over with a drink and sat down with her! Scared her so badly, she got up and fainted again. The party was raited "epic" :-)
Quote from: FuzzySham on 2009 May 24, 17:43:13
I've got a bug, methinks. Someone already mentioned this problem before, but I couldn't find the respective post. (Yes, I did search.)
So perhaps someone already knows a workaround for this one: My children won't get the traits I selected for them on age-up (toddler to children).
When you click on the trait, are you then clicking on the "up" button to move it into the box with the traits? At fiirst I thought all one had to do was highlight the trait, but that wasn't the case.
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