Sims 3 Goals

"@Pary;c-17438569" wrote:
@Rflong7, if you're looking for world stories, why not pop over to MTS and look in the challenge section? Most of the time, people there write a short story to go along with their challenge, so perhaps they might give you some inspiration? :)

Thank you, I'll go look into it. :mrgreen:

Hearing all about you guys' goals makes me excited to get back to my own simming! Unfortunately, it'll have to wait for a little while longer still. *screams*

Hey @Pary,

"Devolution of Sims - a once customisable open world sandbox which has become a DLC Party catalog in a shoebox", where does that quote come from, if you don't mind me asking?

It was from an article I read when Sims 4 was in its first stages of release, but now I can't remember exactly where I read it. I do remember now, but I don't know if this safe space forum will like the link so I'm not going to post it.
It was just so true, that it really resonated with me, so I used it.

Edit - I've posted most of the little article below - the funny parts, but also very sad, because I feel it is very true.

You can't sell DLC if everything is included in the basic game, so they decided nothing would be included in the base game. They stripped out everything but the word "Sims" and a few models that word could refer to, but far fewer models than were included in Sims 3. A customizable open world sandbox became a DLC catalog in a shoebox. Replace your Netflix with a VHS player and you'll have some idea of the "upgrade" and more freedom than Sims 4 players because you're still able to record your own tapes without paying EA.

Get to work (so that you can afford the rest of the game)!

The powerful Sims 3 Create-A-Style was removed, because making your own home perfect might be the entire point of the game, but it doesn't generate microtransactions. They didn't just find the minimum line for a sequel, they erased half the line and offered players a $40 marker. This sequel didn't build on the previous game; it mugged it, stole its identity, and is busy emptying its house for short-term profits.

also on topic, I'm still trying to achieve my goal of having a family of all ghost colours.

@Pary Wow! How true that all is! I tried playing Sims 4 for a while, but just couldn't stick with it. There's not enough for me to do in it to keep me interested. Plus, I already have all the expansions for Sims 3 and the only reason I would have to get all the Sims 4 packs would be to get the features I already have in Sims 3, but everything plays better on the computer .. maybe.

My goal this week is to make good progress on the Disneyland Paris resort I’m creating for the Orient Express community world collaboration. Haven’t gotten further than creating the flower garden of Mickeys face and the front facade of the hotel so a long way to go.

"soocoolsim;c-17441325" wrote:

My goal this week is to make good progress on the Disneyland Paris resort I’m creating for the Orient Express community world collaboration. Haven’t gotten further than creating the flower garden of Mickeys face and the front facade of the hotel so a long way to go.

I so have to see it when its finished.:o I love anything disney related.

a goal was just finished

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I have several ongoing games with different goals and I record them and post the videos on YouTube.

Isla Paradiso Bunch - Part 1 got me started on YouTube. It was about trying to get a badge for having sims make 300 elixirs. It was my second attempt at this badge and after the sims made over 400 elixirs the badge still hadn't triggered. I then decided to try for a variety of other badges that came with Island Paradise EP. My sims completed the tasks for all but one of the badges and none of them triggered.

Isla Paradiso Bunch - Part 2 I decided to continue with the game as I liked the sims and I decided to forget about badges and do something else. I started a quest to get the household to find all of the tomb objects for each of the three World Adventures worlds. This series includes lots of walk throughs of tombs. So far they've collected all of the tomb objects for Egypt and China. They have two objects to collect from France - for the two huge tombs under the nectary in France. I'm still working on that and will post the videos when I get to it.

Caroline and Friends Part 1 - I did some research and found the badges I failed to get in Isla Paradiso Bunch Part 1 can generally only be achieved by a single sim household because they need to be achieved by an individual sim and the achievement of the badges is allocated randomly by the game regardless of which sim in the household does the job. So it is technically possible to get the badges with more than one sim because it should be possible for one sim in the household to be randomly credited with the achievement, it isn't going to happen often. So I started this new game and made a video series of it. Caroline got all the missing badges for me. Except for the 300 elixir badge as I didn't bother with that one. Her friend Wilma moved in with her and together they got the final badge for Island Paradise - the badge to have 5 parties on a houseboat.

Caroline and Friends Part 2 - Then I moved them to Sunlit Tides where they live now in a much larger household. They are currently working on the University Life badges. Plus a few other random badges they might do.

The Perfect Genetics Challenge - self explanatory. It is another video series. Currently on Generation 1 Episode 30. The heir is a teen and lots of things are happening in the ever growing household.

The Story of Oscar and Louise - this has evolved somewhat and there are a few different video series on this one. The series I'm currently working through is Oscar's Teen years. I have completed Oscar's childhood. Louise's childhood and teen years have already been done but they weren't as complicated as Oscar's. Oscar's childhood and Oscar's teen years takes place in a Big Game with about 13 worlds and over 800 sims.

The McFluff Story - I had a silly idea based on a skin I came across - it made my sim look like a cat in human form. So I made myself a witch, Gertie McFluff. She has 15 cats. She is working on trying to find a way to turn the cats into humans because they were her least favourite friends that she accidentally turned into cats and now she feels responsible and wants to fix the problem but currently has no idea how. This is a multi generational story and takes place in the same Big Game as Oscar's Childhood and Oscar's Teen years.

30 Granchildren - this is another video series based on my attempt to get the Head of the Household badge - have a sim with 30 grandchildren.

Cake Island Mermaids and Colourful Mermaids - two video series all about mermaids and dive lots and sims in general.

That's about it for now. I hope you get the idea - I do lots of different things with my sims and each story has different goals. The mermaids are mainly just for fun and enjoying the colour. They also live in the Big Game and show up as townies in the McFluff story and Oscar's Childhood/Teen years.

- to get a computer that doesn’t go belly up so that I can actually play the Sims 3 again.

Then I’ll figure it out from there.