Ideas for quick game sessions?
I have my long, old, ongoing save, but I don't really like to start the game when I only have short time. I am looking for ideas for game challenges or build ideas or anything that can be fun even i...
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"cwaddell;c-16849263" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-16849215" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-16844014" wrote:
...Reading something and going into the game to try it out/test it. In my own case often to prove a point ahem, meaning defending Sims 3 in certain sections here ;) (“no, sims in 3 don’t just stand there reading a book at a party” for instance, and “no, they don’t leave their babies lying on the floor and ignore them when there’s a crib in the house”)
This seems the appropriate topic to post such a test in now, because I don't want to derail the topic any further where this was brought up: do sims in TS3 lose any weight and gain muscle when working out? Definitely not, some said. So, let's do the test and let the game speak for itself ;)
Meet Fausto, our guinea pig for the occasion. Just arriving at the gym with his 'slider all to the right' body shape.
https://i.imgur.com/0RPV8bR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vZB0bvE.jpg
9:19 am: let's start.
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20:30 pm: after 13 hours of working out.
https://i.imgur.com/BBH8RHg.jpg
I think it's clear we can conclude that yes, working out matters to sims in 3.
He looks healthy now but if he doesn't workout every day he will gain it back, at least that has been my experience playing Malcolm Landgrabb.
Yes, I experienced that twice. I played a chubby sim once who’d become chubby again when I wouldn’t make him work out and I played an extremely thin sim (still don’t really understand why but that was how he was born) who’d become thin again. The game apparently pulls the sliders back to the way the sim was created when you don’t make them workout. My point however was: working out does influence their body shape, be it temporary.
"Lilypink79;c-16849290" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-16849215" wrote:"JoAnne65;c-16844014" wrote:
...Reading something and going into the game to try it out/test it. In my own case often to prove a point ahem, meaning defending Sims 3 in certain sections here ;) (“no, sims in 3 don’t just stand there reading a book at a party” for instance, and “no, they don’t leave their babies lying on the floor and ignore them when there’s a crib in the house”)
This seems the appropriate topic to post such a test in now, because I don't want to derail the topic any further where this was brought up: do sims in TS3 lose any weight and gain muscle when working out? Definitely not, some said. So, let's do the test and let the game speak for itself ;)
Meet Fausto, our guinea pig for the occasion. Just arriving at the gym with his 'slider all to the right' body shape.
https://i.imgur.com/0RPV8bR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vZB0bvE.jpg
9:19 am: let's start.
https://i.imgur.com/RHdRSUi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/s6YxevJ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/4sPvMyM.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0LOzKVk.jpg
At 12:32 pm Fausto's exhausted and automously gets off the tredmill.
https://i.imgur.com/4OlG5IW.jpg
Clearly not there yet though, please proceed.
https://i.imgur.com/rptpSMQ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/02KUYSR.jpg
4:13 pm: the ladies are clearly beginning to notice a difference, that's for sure :mrgreen:
https://i.imgur.com/2hdp2L9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/RwHwhmU.jpg
20:30 pm: after 13 hours of working out.
https://i.imgur.com/BBH8RHg.jpg
I think it's clear we can conclude that yes, working out matters to sims in 3.
Wow I wish my body would tone that much in the space of 12 hours LOL
I commented on that thread earlier. When you go all out and focus on working out for a sim to go from "fat" to "muscular" then yes the difference is obvious. I myself have never noticed any dramatic change in a sims appearance when playing in a general way that doesn't focus on altering body shape. I have noticed the subtle aging changes just not the few extra pounds or abs starting to show :)
where all the body sliders set to the right? as that would already give the sim large muscle size and definition hidden under the body fat mass slider (can't remember what the top slider is called)
edit: on my phone so autocorrect is having a party
Introducing Alfie Sheldon - a pink haired, grey eyed Nerd
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rk6yZgn9k76u5AyJ8
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Rk6yZgn9k76u5AyJ8 - I still can't post images
Working out influences two sliders: the thin -> fat one and the no muscles -> muscular one. This sim was pretty muscular to begin with (I just pulled that first slider all the way to the right, didn’t touch his muscles) but my point here was showing that working out does influence those sliders. What triggered me to test it was the statement (not yours, you just said you never noticed and I indeed can imagine you haven’t when it wasn’t something you really paid attention to): Sometimes I think I see them become slightly more muscular, but I think to myself at the time maybe I'm seeing what I want to see. Definitely though, not fatter or thinner. Not in Sims 3. They most definitely do get fatter or thinner, also in Sims 3, it’s not imagination ;)
