Sims 3 Things you didn't know!

There's also the LTW potion that makes a sim unaging, turning Aging off and deciding when a sim ages up yourself, some Supernatural life states have longer life spans then a normal sim, an Opportunity that brings a ghost back into the household as a controllable sim, and probably a few I don't know about.

"KATENESS;c-16443594" wrote:
@KatyJay88 Well honestly I'm starting to think she's glitched. :D I do have the lifespan set to Long, but other generations have died. She did complete the Marathon athletic achievement and that says she will enjoy a nice long life. But really it's feeling a little too long, if you ask me. B)

It's been nice having the extra help around the house. And I don't want to just adjust the lifespan and essentially kill her. But at the same time I just don't know how long she'll last. It's definitely weird.

Ohhhh I see! When I did a similar aspiration like that in Sims 4 my granny lived forever. So I guess that has something to do with it, but yeah she may be glitched. Keep us updated when the day comes!! lol.

She finally died! I really didn't think it was going to happen. She made it to 191 days. She outlived her sons and her granddaughter and lived to see two of her great-great granddaughters born. And she died doing what she loved, fishing. :smile:

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She seemed happy to go. <3

@KATENESS Although it's always sad to lose a sim, it sounds like you kept her happy from our previous conversation in another thread and to die doing what they love is always a bonus.

"TinySpaceFox;c-15746559" wrote:
The number of pop-culture references (especially the references to other games). In Ambitions, if you use the time travelling thing, you may get a pop-up talking about "some sort of shepherd saving the galaxy" (a reference to Commander Sheppard, the main playable character in the Mass Effect series).

There's a Futurama reference in Oasis Landing from Into The Future, with a household made up of a man named Fryderyk, a woman named Lilah, and a robot named Bend0. There's also a household with a lady named Chelsea and a robot named Gladys. A pretty obvious Portal reference.

One of the movie posters on the cinema building in Sims University looks like the Iron Man poster. Isla Paradiso from Island Paradise is also full of references to Disney's "The Little Mermaid", including a red-haired Sim named Ariel, another Sim named Ursula, and a message in a bottle that asks for the instructions for a dinglehopper.

Oh, don't even get me started on book titles… :P

Like one book is called 'Oh, the Destinations You'll Visit' or something like that. Based on Dr. Seuss's 'Oh, the Places You'll Go'. Plus there's 'Jimmy Sprocket and the Squishy Stone'. Probably a spoof of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'?

"clue1234flo;c-15880725" wrote:
I discovered some cool ways to make easy money in the game without cheating. I enjoy it because it still feels like my sims worked for it. One easy way is to head to the park every day and pick wildflowers. Some of them can be worth decent money, my sim easily made a few thousand dollars in one day off of selling flowers. The only bad side is that it give you small negative moodlet for an hour or so because of allergies or something (can't quite remember).

Another money trick is through life time rewards. If you get 30,000 you can obviously get the Inheritance reward which give your household 30,000 Simoleons or so. Another option is to get the dusty lamp reward which comes with Showtime. You have a variety of wishes (including bringing a deceased loved one back from the dead) one of them being fortune. Each time you wish for it ( you are given three wishes) you get 100,000 Simoleons. I'm not sure if the amount varies but that's how much I've always gotten. And it can be used at least three times and costs the same amount of lifetime happiness points as the Inheritance.

My sims, who had less than $1,000 in funds, went to the park in Starlight Shores and came home with over $3,000 in flowers!

"Karritz;c-16415541" wrote:

"ShySimz;c-16415495" wrote:
Lol @Avatarit I didn’t even know that Don was short for Donald and my first language is English.

Don is also a reference to fictional characters where Don is a title. Don actually has a lot of varied meanings but can also be short for Donald. In the case of Don Lothario in the Sims games, I've always taken it to refer to the saying 'He's a real Don Lothario' which means a seducer .

I haven't been able to exactly find the origin of the saying but have a feeling it has something to do with the fictional classic 'Don Quixote'.

Like in Zorro. 'Don Miguel' or whatever Antonio Benderez's character's name was. All I remember is 'Zorro'!

"HillyBeth;c-16445526" wrote:

"TinySpaceFox;c-15746559" wrote:
The number of pop-culture references (especially the references to other games). In Ambitions, if you use the time travelling thing, you may get a pop-up talking about "some sort of shepherd saving the galaxy" (a reference to Commander Sheppard, the main playable character in the Mass Effect series).

There's a Futurama reference in Oasis Landing from Into The Future, with a household made up of a man named Fryderyk, a woman named Lilah, and a robot named Bend0. There's also a household with a lady named Chelsea and a robot named Gladys. A pretty obvious Portal reference.

One of the movie posters on the cinema building in Sims University looks like the Iron Man poster. Isla Paradiso from Island Paradise is also full of references to Disney's "The Little Mermaid", including a red-haired Sim named Ariel, another Sim named Ursula, and a message in a bottle that asks for the instructions for a dinglehopper.

Oh, don't even get me started on book titles… :P

Like one book is called 'Oh, the Destinations You'll Visit' or something like that. Based on Dr. Seuss's 'Oh, the Places You'll Go'. Plus there's 'Jimmy Sprocket and the Squishy Stone'. Probably a spoof of 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'?

The entire *library* of toddler books is pretty funny when you lay it out.

general: Jimmy Sprocket and the Squishy Stone, JS and the Chalice of Lichens, JS and the Escape from "Fun" Land
logic: Counting for Those Who Cannot, Squares are Not Triangles, Being Smart for Fun and Profit
painting: Finger Painting 101, Handprints of the Masters, Don't Stay Within the Lines
writing: Bluish Eggs with a Side of Pastrami, Frank I'm Not, Oh the Destinations You'll Briefly Visit

There are also quite a few general reading books with punny titles, like Game of Thorns, The Adventures of Raymundo, and Where's Bella?

But what I really enjoy is how the game simulates new books being published as time goes on. These books appear in the library bookshelves and are often available at the consignment store. And if your own sim writes books, the titles will show up at the library as well.

For those so inclined, the NRaas WrittenWord mod allows books written by your sims and others in town to appear for sale at the bookstores.

(Hey, look at that -- an NRaas mod that begins with "W" that we can actually talk about!) ;)

"clue1234flo;c-15880725" wrote:

Another money trick is through life time rewards. If you get 30,000 you can obviously get the Inheritance reward which give your household 30,000 Simoleons or so. Another option is to get the dusty lamp reward which comes with Showtime. You have a variety of wishes (including bringing a deceased loved one back from the dead) one of them being fortune. Each time you wish for it ( you are given three wishes) you get 100,000 Simoleons. I'm not sure if the amount varies but that's how much I've always gotten. And it can be used at least three times and costs the same amount of lifetime happiness points as the Inheritance.

The only issue with using the life time rewards is, by the time your sim has saved up that many points, they're already rich from working their regular job and/or collecting other things.