Is there something you often do in your Sims 3 gameplay that you don't think many other players do? Tell us what it so that we can compare our quirks and peculiarities, and possibly give each other ideas!

In my case, it bothers me that the game generates the same multi-coloured umbrella for all townies. So I try to spread personalised umbrellas across my towns. The households I created and keep in my library, as well as those I shared on the Exchange, all have individually styled umbrellas. When I move a sim out of the active household, I make sure they have an umbrella in their inventory. Also, if I have a sim with a high level in handiness and nothing important to do, I will go into buy mode, buy several umbrellas, give them all different solid colours, stripes, polka dots or tartan patterns, and let the handy sim upgrade them to unbreakable. Then I put the umbrellas in the sim's inventory, and the next time they're out and about they give the umbrellas as gifts to townies.https://i.imgur.com/dIjSSCP.jpgIt isn't really a lot of work, and it makes me happy when there is rain and I see townies in the street carrying unique umbrellas!

OMGoodness, If I made a written list of all the quirky things I do in game, this site would shut down from server overload!Familywise:1). I make certain the parents of my Sim children (and teens) meet the parents of the Sims they play/interact with. Sometimes things happen and when they do I like having the option to have my Sim parents 'complain' about that sim (usually a teen) to their parents.2). I have my parents pick their children up from friends' houses when it is late or dark outside. I just don't like seeing children peddling around alone at 10 o'clock at night. I don't care if the neighborhood is safe.3). Everyone must keep a piece of fruit in their personal inventory for when they become hungry.4). Walk! If they live close enough, I love having my Sims walk to the park or to visit neighbors in their neighborhood.5). Speaking of walking, teens are not allowed automatic use of the family ride. They are given bicycles as their 'mode of transportation' and when they get part-time jobs or earn money through other means, they can purchase themselves a scooter to ride on (or a sloppy jalopy if they really need a car).6). Use the WHOLE house. This place isn't just for eating, sleeping, using the bathroom and doing homework. 9 times out of 10 my sims have worked very hard turning the house they started in into a real home. I make them pay for everything, from upgrading furnishings to renovations so, every inch of that lot gets used.*Living rooms are for visitors of adults (or adults w/toddlers) and family-time (of course).*Front Porches/Basements/Dens/Backyards are spaces where kids and teens can entertain their visiting guests. I also keep a few toys on the front porch of families with toddlers.*Single guests of children and teens are allowed to hang out in their bedrooms if they want.7). I keep additional food in the fridge for the babysitter.8). I keep a toybox in the living room for visiting toddlers and childish Sims.9). I can all leftovers and keep the pantry stocked with ingredients (Needs the canning station & canning station overhaul mod).10). Create and stock medicines and rejuvenators for my families. This needs SN for some elixirs, canning station overhaul mod for double boiled ginseng to cure illness and, a healthy stock of sweet grass, life fruit and death flowers.11). This one is not family related. My sims who own a business with employees always host the annual holiday party (at a community lot).

I love all your posts. Such cool quirks and inspirational ideas!

Outside of my randomly torturing premades other than River McIrish, Bebe Hart and Samantha Gray? ?https://i.pinimg.com/200x150/48/f8/5d/48f85d9eb53bc10eeef704e22facf4b2.jpg

I always make my sims do their laundry at the laundromat, and i place one near my played households for convenience.

Little peculiarities of your Sims 3 gameplay

NikkeiSimmer
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
"mw1525;c-18146702" wrote:
@Nikkei_Simmer - Glad your Sims are enjoying the fruits of your dog's labors ;). My pets are treated more like members of the family. While I do have them max out the hunting skill, it's basically only used for point gain when the wish to hunt pops up.

I’m a cat person so my cats tend to get spoilt. Likewise with my Sims’ cats. ?
mw1525
Seasoned Newcomer
3 years ago
@Nikkei_Simmer - IRL, Me too :D!

Here's another thing I do in game, not for all my sims but mainly for those who have to travel great distances. I put a MP3 player in their inventory and turn it on while they are driving, it gives the illusion of having a radio in the car. I also do this with my long-distance cyclists as well.

Trust me, when you have the 'slow down' car speed mod in your game and your Sim lives on one end of Monte Vista and has to travel to the opposite end for work, having a few tunes playing does seem to make the miles go faster.
Mikezumi
3 years ago
@KNORear I also like to dress my sims in their favourite colour!

I am sure there are things that I do in every save that might be considered peculiarities but, off the top of my head, I can't think of any other than, as mentioned above, dressing my sims in their favourite colours.
Archivist
New Spectator
3 years ago
I put identical bathrooms all over my Sims' houses.

This is because I'm too lazy to make cool and interesting bathrooms just for my Sims to befoul with poop. I'm no servant, enjoy your exact same bathroom and stop desperately yelling icons at the sky like you didn't eat leftover pancakes straight from the refridgerator for every meal since Saturday. These little twerps are constantly pooping and almost always have to go at the same time, and if you're playing without mods it can sometimes take 40 in-game minutes or longer for a Sim to properly vacate their bowels. Your family has no time for that, Hank.

https://i.imgur.com/91kX9R9.jpg
So I give them bathrooms galore, as many bathrooms as there are living members in the household, and never a different bathroom: same exact bathroom everywhere, all the time. Sometimes if a premade bathroom is too large, I slice it into even sections like a Sicilian pizza and it becomes 3-4 identical bathrooms (maybe with different paintings, I'm not cruel). If there's no realistic way for every bathroom to have a door, I'll install a ladder up or down from another floor and watch a Sim navigate the house like a rat in a maze just to get to an available toilet in however much time they have. But there's no cheese reward for them at the end of that maze. Just poop.

Theirs.

What's that you say, I could just make it so my Sims never have to poop? What kind of god would I be if I used that power??? No, the weird twilight zone "there are identical bathrooms everywhere in town and I joyfully berate my Sims in front of my own daughter" thing is much healthier, I think.
karritz
Seasoned Rookie
3 years ago
Sometimes, when I have several children sharing a bathroom, instead of addjng the usual bssthroom fittings I add 4 or more all in one bathrooms. Saves me time and thgey can all go at once in a 4x4 room.
HillyPlays
3 years ago
Blue is my all-time favorite color and I tend to use that color a lot when painting the inside of my sims' homes or creating new sims. Mostly the powder blue though. LOL!
Evalen306
3 years ago

All my sims must have the Love the outdoors trait.
wendyyi1
New Spectator
3 years ago
Simmunity is always the first Lifetime reward that I buy for all my sims.
That Germy moodlet is just icky :cold_sweat:
TinySpaceFox
3 years ago
Often, while my Sims are asleep, I’ll navigate over to the gym, turn on the stereo, and jam out to some music. Until NRaas Overwatch shuts it off at 3am, that is.
NikkeiSimmer
Seasoned Adventurer
3 years ago
In one of my first games, I used to love the animation for when a sim is rudely woken up so I’d direct a sim (room-mate) to go “rudely awaken” the sleeping sim by turning on his stereo and walking out of the room. At least it’s a prank that someone of any age can do. The reaction by the woken up sims were hysterical.

I still wish that young adult and adults could still do the kids and teens pranks. Just because we’re older doesn’t mean we’ve “grown up”. ?

No, I’m half a century plus two and still haven’t grown up yet. ?