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9 years agoRising Adventurer
Acquiring SimPoints
Buying SimPoints & Mystery Bundle Items
You can purchase SimPoints from the EA App. As posted by Puzzleaddict, "Open the EA App, click My Collection, then Sims 3, then DLC, and "Sims 3 Currency" should be the first listing. This is the same as SimPoints." If you still have the Origin App installed, SimPoints can be purchased through that app. (See this thread in the EA forum on how to purchase Simpoints since October 2022.)
In the past, point bundles came with a Mystery Bag item for free. You can view pictures of the items available in each bundle, on the Mystery Bag Items page in Crinrict's Sims 3 Help Blog. With the introduction on January 6, 2016 of the new system to purchase SimPoints, it appears that the Mystery Bag Items are no longer offered.
If you have purchased points through the new process, please post in this thread whether or not you received one of the Mystery Bag Items.
Bonus Ad Points
Note: As of July 2017, the Bonus Ad feature has been disabled because the ads were not paying out simpoints. See this post for further information.
Click the spoiler button to see detailed, but for now, no longer relevant information regarding bonus ad boxes
Buying SimPoints & Mystery Bundle Items
You can purchase SimPoints from the EA App. As posted by Puzzleaddict, "Open the EA App, click My Collection, then Sims 3, then DLC, and "Sims 3 Currency" should be the first listing. This is the same as SimPoints." If you still have the Origin App installed, SimPoints can be purchased through that app. (See this thread in the EA forum on how to purchase Simpoints since October 2022.)
In the past, point bundles came with a Mystery Bag item for free. You can view pictures of the items available in each bundle, on the Mystery Bag Items page in Crinrict's Sims 3 Help Blog. With the introduction on January 6, 2016 of the new system to purchase SimPoints, it appears that the Mystery Bag Items are no longer offered.
"Karritz;14459936" wrote:
I just had a quick look at the buy sim points process. It seems the free gift with purchase is no longer available.
If you have purchased points through the new process, please post in this thread whether or not you received one of the Mystery Bag Items.
Bonus Ad Points
Note: As of July 2017, the Bonus Ad feature has been disabled because the ads were not paying out simpoints. See this post for further information.
Click the spoiler button to see detailed, but for now, no longer relevant information regarding bonus ad boxes
Spoiler
Clicking on the blue bonus ad box
https://i.imgur.com/3D528qg.png
will open an ad. You will be rewarded with 5 simpoints for every ad you play. The blue box will pop up in the left navigation frame on any of the web pages in the Store section of the Sims 3 website. It appears in the space between the link to My Page Goodies and the Make Me an Offer link. The number of ads that will appear depends on your location and the number of sponsors in your area. This is a link to the Sims 3 FAQ on Bonus Ad Points
Browse for the ads on all pages under the Store section. That includes the main store page, wishlist pages, gifting pages, purchase history, Best Sellers, Complete Your Set, Make Me an Offer, Sale page, Daily Deal, the Shopping Cart, the content pages, and My Page Goodies.
Q. How many videos ads can I expect to watch daily to earn sp's?
See responses from a number of DDers in this post on page 11
For certain ads that don't play
Unfortunately some of the ads don't work. Cogitotoro posted advice on how to make one type payout points
And another excellent tip from Cogitotoro
https://i.imgur.com/3D528qg.png
will open an ad. You will be rewarded with 5 simpoints for every ad you play. The blue box will pop up in the left navigation frame on any of the web pages in the Store section of the Sims 3 website. It appears in the space between the link to My Page Goodies and the Make Me an Offer link. The number of ads that will appear depends on your location and the number of sponsors in your area. This is a link to the Sims 3 FAQ on Bonus Ad Points
Browse for the ads on all pages under the Store section. That includes the main store page, wishlist pages, gifting pages, purchase history, Best Sellers, Complete Your Set, Make Me an Offer, Sale page, Daily Deal, the Shopping Cart, the content pages, and My Page Goodies.
Q. How many videos ads can I expect to watch daily to earn sp's?
See responses from a number of DDers in this post on page 11
For certain ads that don't play
Unfortunately some of the ads don't work. Cogitotoro posted advice on how to make one type payout points
"Cogitotoro;13649642" wrote:
PSA time!
Today I've been getting a bunch of our old friends, the smallish square black "broken" ads, after a loooong time of not getting them (I think I have only gotten a couple since the end of "The Big Blue" when ads were almost literally infinite). It struck me that it's possible some of our new members may not be familiar with these, and we've certainly had heartbroken simmers before who didn't know how to cope with them and missed out on many Simpoints.
So just in case any of our new members don't know the trick for these guys, here's the procedure:
Step 1) When it looks like this, click on the arrow:
https://i.imgur.com/RwqMxWv.png
Step 2) It will pause for a few seconds, and change to this (notice the 00:03 countdown, seen when you hover the mouse over the ad). Click TWO times (not a double click) anywhere:
https://i.imgur.com/iiAWyvv.png
Step 3) Wait through whatever it does next. You're likely to see it "play through" those 3 seconds, and to see a "Play again" button like this, but ignore it:
https://i.imgur.com/j68LOFI.png
Step 4) Profit!
http://i1056.photobucket.com/albums/t367/ClementineM/broken%20ad%20step%205_zpsjvp0bpz7.png
Note: if the ad box disappears, leaving your whole screen "grayed out," I don't know of any way to make the ad pay. Reload the page and try again.
And another excellent tip from Cogitotoro
"Cogitotoro;13370874" wrote:
I've been using a method that gets quite good results even when my usual pages (main category pages, venues, worlds, MMAO) aren't giving me blue buttons.
Open up a set page, then arrow through 10 or 15 items at a time, clicking "View full item details" when each item comes up as you arrow through. This will open up 10 or 15 new tabs. For me, most of these will give 1 or 2 (sometimes more) blue buttons; if they don't, a refresh will sometimes do it. When one seems tapped out, click on "gift this item" to get the gifting page. This will usually give 1 or 2 (sometimes more) blue buttons. (Edit: again, give refresh a try before giving up on them.) When they're all tapped out, close the tabs and repeat on the next bunch of items in the set. Some sets seem to work better than others, for mysterious reasons, but I've been getting very good results with this. Hope it works for someone else!
Oh, and the other thing that often works is going to people's wishlist pages. The gifting threads are great, because most people put their wishlists in their posts or signatures.
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