Help Choosing a Christmas Present?

"phantasmkiss;d-969733" wrote:
My best friend's seventeen year old daughter plays Sims 3 on a laptop, and the only expansion she has is Pets. I'm thinking about buying her another expansion or a stuff pack for Christmas, one that won't slow the game down too much.

She plays like a virtual dollhouse. She's got as many pets and Sims in a house as she can, she builds them shapeless boxes to live in, but spends a ton of time giving them custom hair colors. She tends to let them run free and watch, as opposed to micro-managing.

I think World Adventures adds a lot of gameplay, but since she's on a laptop, I don't want to give her anything that'll push performance into "unplayable" territory, so I'm thinking about a stuff pack instead. Is there a stuff pack that adds a little gameplay? Do any of you play on laptops?

Just knowing that she plays on "a laptop" doesn't say much since it all depends on what kind of laptop it is, an entry level/low end standard one, intended only for lightweight tasks, or a top class gaming laptop with super efficient cooling, dedicated graphics card, plenty of RAM and high level processor.

I have a few Asus ROG gaming laptops of different age, size and configurations with everything Sims 3 related installed on them, i e all EP:s, SP:s and everything from the Store, and they all run the game fine most of the time. I also have 2 basic non gaming laptops, and they seem to have enough to do with just running the base game.

I agree with the 2 previous posters, both Generations and Ambitions add lots of fun game play and useful objects, but Amb. also provides a new town, Twinbrook, with lots of beautiful scenery and interesting people.

Giving her some SimPoints to buy Premium Content from the Store, like PalmArrow suggested, is a very good idea too. :)