Welcome to the new forums everyone! I’m thinking it will be great to connect with TS3 members who made the transition especially since some folks have different forum names now. Perhaps add a brief intro and link to your studio / site / blog etc.
I’ll start…
soocoolsim … same name as on the previous sites.
Active since The Sims, became more of a builder than a player with TS2 and love building in TS3 the most.
Same username as the previous forum. I didn't really become active playing The Sims 3 until 2021, where I continued from a save I started in 2016 when I still only had the base game.
During 2020 I bought the University Life expansion pack, probably in anticipation of the younger generation growing up and going to university.
When I joined the forum in early 2021 I had just finished making (or was in the process of finishing) my first town using the Create a World tool, which I called Sprottenham - and that's where my username comes from.
Fireworks over Sprottenham.
Shortly thereafter I started my thread, "The People of Simbria" and placed my Sunset Valley save and the town of Sprottenham into a larger context - on a map of a country called "The United Kingdom of Simbria".
Then as the kids of Sunset Valley grew up and it was time for some of them to go to university, a new town was added to the map - Lake Onebega (University town). Somewhere in between here I also got the Seasons Expansion Pack, because, well, weather.
Inge and Oliver Freddy from Sunset Valley arriving at university for the first time.
Then the packs just began to pile on, and a few more towns were added, most importantly the town of Bewickton (Twinbrook), and I kept on rotating between these four places.
The town of Bewickton was first introduced to the storyline when Leya (who lives in Sprottenham) travelled over there to visit her family, summer holiday 2021.
A couple of years after that - in 2023 - I had my blog up and running. I had figured that rotating between four different towns in one thread was getting a little disorganized, and my blog was/is an attempt at doing that a little better. So my blog really consists of one 'Main Page' or 'Landing Hub' and then links to the other towns on a side panel.
On the Main Page I also make a new post for each post in the towns with a link to the actual post itself. So, here are the links to the Main Hub and the individual town blogs:
I also made another town called Lagash which I used for a supernatural story called "The Red Winged Angels", then a smaller town called Warenford which is mostly just an airport and some farmland a few km. to the northwest of Sprottenham.
Downtown Wad Nahadau during sunset. Old town of Lagash. Lagash is in a completely different universe from the 'The People of Simbria' story, and has no connection to it. Or does it?
And then I built the city of Wad Nahadau - my biggest project yet - which unfortunately will forever remain unfinished, because in the meantime the EA App was launched and made it so that I couldn't access Edit in Game to save the lots to the town itself....
My story thread was transferred to this forum, but it was all without the images, of course, so I don't know if I'll use it, make a new one or if I'll just stick to my blog...
So.. the old forum was a major contribution to me expanding the story as much as I did - and buying the expansion packs. If I had been met with this 'forum' back then, I don't think any of this would have happened.....
Hey there! I used to be thuggishsplicer. It's nice to change my nickname here, but I wish it were more gaming-related.
I used to have a thread with my buildings and it seems it was transfered to this forum: https://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-3-en/thuggishsplicers-buildings/1239883?after=MjQuNXwyLjF8b3wxMHwxNDowLDM5OjF8MTA
Most of the things I make are vanilla-style or EA rebuilds in different lot sizes. This is my exchange studio: https://www.thesims3.com/mypage/ThuggishSplicer/mystudio
Thought I'd say Hi 👋🏼 It's my first post on this specific forum, though we met in Cape Albacore collab on the closed one. I just didn't had numbers in the forum name. Hope I'll learn to move around here, cause it's a little hot pot and it's easy to miss some replies as I've already read.
Those lots are part of a larger project where I was (am?) creating a custom world for TS3 made up of the core neighbourhoods from TS1 & TS2. The world is unfortunately still far from finished, so I'm super glad to see Sprottenham 's blog post about getting the Create A World tool to work! I'll have to see if I can resume work on it now that I'm back to having some time for Sims projects. 😊 I know a lot of people were really looking forward to that custom world, so I'd love to finish it. 🗺️ If you want to learn more about the project or see screenshots of the lots, that's all available on my website: https://www.hannahcanada.ca/create-a-world-overview
In terms of Sims 3 gameplay I'm trying the Build A City Challenge but it's been on pause while I catch up on writing the SimLit story that goes with it 😅 Info on the challenge & all the story stuff is available here: https://www.hannahcanada.ca/build-a-city-overview
I also still play Sims 2 & 4. I like all the games but I miss all the lore and quirkiness that shipped with the first 3 (main series) games 💖
Hi, I'm happy to see some of my favorite people checking in here. Although I don't post much, I am on the forums every day and love to see what everyone is doing in their games,
For those of you who want your TS3 threads moved to the TS3 subforum, I've tried and failed to move a few longer ones already. I think the forum can't handle it or is blocking it. But I promise as soon as it's possible, I will go through the entire Franchise forum and move everything I can to the appropriate subforum.
Separately, please please please post your forum-related feedback in the Feedback section. This forum structure is not set in stone yet, so we have a window of opportunity to advocate for what we want and need here, as Sims players in general and TS3 people specifically. Separate GD/creative/tech sections, more tags, sort chronologically, pages instead of Show More, whatever—speak up and maybe, just maybe, things will change for the better.
Hello! I'm Caro and I still have the same username as before. I love building in the Sims 3 or just playing the game. I have a Youtube channel where I finished the Perfect Genetics Challenge a few years ago. I would like to start a new Let's Play there but I don't have much time to play the game anymore since my daughter was born last year. Hopefully I can get back to it though eventually and share some new creations :)
