Returning to The Sims 3! Super Excited!

Welcome and enjoy being back in Sims 3. I make up my own stories and post in the creative corner as well as in the 'what happened in your game', sims 3 thread.

I love your "Happiness is always a plumbob away."

Hi @lunasysims . I've just recently came back to 3 on a similar situation to yours. I have been playing challenge after challenge, as that's my favourite way of playing. Atm i'm playing a prettacy legacy challenge. It's a regular legacy challenge, with the same kind of normal generational gameplay, in which i started with the ugliest sim i could make and wait to see how my last heir will look like :lol:

I too like challenges and story telling and BUILDING! I never bought into Sims4 after finding that it wouldn't have the color wheel and textures. I did try the free game play, but wasn't interested in the trait limitations that seemed much like the old sims 2 way of boxing sims into categories. I really like the mix of sim traits in sims 3 and the way there are so many different aspirations or LTWs. And even then, the sim isn't really defined by the LTW.

I've currently been building lots for an English world - Ackney-upon-Sherne, which is based on a Riverview base world.

Welcome back to Sims 3 gameplay. I hope you enjoy exploring it more.

(blows whistle) New/Return player(s) in the house! Everyone line up for the hazing ritual! :p

We will jeer at you, point and laugh at your sims, make you do silly party games while blindfolded and carrying an egg on the end of a spoon in your mouth...okay, no we won't do any of those things. But we're here to help with your games, if needed. :)

@lunasysims welcome back to Sims 3!! I am attempting a legacy family, although I have a family with 9 kids, and it's a touch tiring to keep up with everyone. LOL. Although my teen had a great prom and was announced prom queen! She has her crown on her shelf.

I feel like a Sims hazing should be carrying out that green diamond over your head for a few days....

It's always great to see someone coming back to Sims 3 and feeling delighted with the game all over again. There's often a crash though, usually when the player realizes how many issues the game has. Most of them are entirely fixable though, so if you run into something that doesn't work, or just doesn't the way you want, please do ask for advice.

I'm currently playing rotationally for the first time, and it's very different from what I'm used to. I'm about 60 weeks in and have played most of the households in town, and I may or may not let some of them loose to be managed by NRaas StoryProgression going forward. I'm also trying to get better at building, which never happened in my first decade of playing, nor did it ever happen with Sims 1 for that matter.

Welcome back to the best Sims game.

I'm currently playing a second generation sim who is a professional photographer, adventurer, and travel writer. Of course he can't really be in more than one career at a time, so he's self-employed as a photographer, and with no travel book option, I'm using whichever one fits the title he's working on each time. He's currently using the mystery genre to write about Queen Hatshepsut's secret. His wife is also second generation, from a different, long ago save, who I added to his world for him. She is a master acrobat with the clumsy trait.

He grew up in Hidden Springs, and is now living in Moonlight Falls, but thanks to NRaas Traveler, both worlds are still connected in one save, so he can go back to visit his parents and siblings, and chat with them on the phone. Also thanks to Traveler, he is able to travel to many different worlds for his photography, not just the WA ones.

As someone who came back after a year or so, welcome back!
I'm doing "challenges" but with completely arbitrary rulesets that can and will be broken.

@bekkasan Thanks! :D Storytelling is always the best! I'm always impressed by people who are able to craft such elaborate narratives for their Sims!

@texxx78 That sounds fun! I think most players unintentionally do a legacy style game play anyway, though I usually never make it past gen 2 haha. I'm super excited to explore EPs in depth that I haven't really dug into before. Showtime looks like a lot of fun!

@ciane Thanks so much! :) I made a Sim last night but had some technical difficulties that will hopefully be resolved today lol I think TS4 has some cute features, but they're largely superficial. I can't think of more than two or three moments in six years that I actually felt intrigued by what was going on in the game. it was always a huge chore to try and make anything worthwhile happen. All my Sims just did the same default actions, and the interactions we can choose use most of the same animations and have no real impact on the story. I didn't mind living without the color wheel but now that it's back, I never want to live without it again lol

@StephSteb Thank you! :) <3 I agree, it is the superior Sims title. Roofs are always such a challenge, it's a good thing we don't usually have to look at them in gameplay lol. If it's not a square or L-shaped house, my talents quickly dwindle. That does sound like a lot of fun! making worlds in TS3 always seemed difficult to me though because of having to place the rabbit holes?

@igazor hahah thanks! I've been playing for 18 years, so I think I've earned an exception from the hazing ritual? :p

@bookwormbeauty Thank you! And 9 kids, holy cow! I usually start to feel the strain at 3 lol. That's so cute though, congrats to your teen prom queen. Having to carry a plumbob around for a while would feel a bit sanctimonious, sort of like I'm carrying a torch to the Olympics hahah

@puzzlezaddict Thanks so much, I will! I have played TS3 a few times over the last few years, so I'm definitely no stranger to its imperfections. I have the nrass mods I need to conquer the biggest issues and gameplay has been pretty smooth for the most part. Rotational gameplay sounds cool, I've always intended to do it but usually just wind up sticking with one or two households per save. 60 weeks is a huge accomplishment though! Ah building, I think I'm okay at it, but I realized the best way to enjoy it is to just have fun and let it be weird lol

@IreneSwift Thanks! That sounds lovely, I love how diverse his background is. And a clumsy acrobat sounds like a fantastic Sim to play haha.

@D3xt3r249 Thanks! I love that - if I ever take on challenges, I also tend to just use them as a loose concept and make up my own rules along the way.

You have to upload a sim and then, on your "my page" you click on the pencil in the top right corner of your avatar to edit it. The auto options are default avatars, but clicking on that box will give the option for custom avatars.

If you use Zinda's free Upload Image Changer before uploading your sim, then you can replace to sim pic with any image.