What are the mods you find essential?

@GraceyManor yes, but I believe they said they didn’t care about the sups at all which is why offered that. I don’t care for them either so this works for me. As far as the moodlet goes, I can live without it so I can keep my game free of any sups ?

@GraceyManor and @JoBass24us thank you very much for your great imput! I'm very tempted to buy the remainig packs. I absolutelly love sims 3. Years go and years come and i value more and more this iteration :)

*i think I'll pass on the full moon. I really don't care about supernaturals. Btw, can i improve in alchemy skill even with witches off? Is the skill and the life form related so that you can't do one without the other?

@telmarina no the skill is not dependent on a life state! You can pursue it with a human sim. Tho werewolf’s have an easier time find ingredients.

I just came back to TS3 after playing 4 for a long time and like you I have this new found love and appreciation for this game and how much it provides! I’m currently in China making bank! Lol my sims are poor so finding collectibles is quite lucrative lol.

@telmarina
Yeah, you don't have to be a witch to use the Alchemy station.=) Its one of my favorite objects in game.(I do play with witches though, just cause I like to toadify sims... :D ) I haven't actually used the station in a while though, so I don't know all of the potions you can do.

@JoBass24us
There's so much in sims 3 that I haven't discovered yet.
Every day I spot something new lol.
I read somewhere that with one of the wardrobes a sim can go on a narnia like adventure(of course you can't see it but still)
Good luck playing the tombs! I always lose my patience with them...and cheat.XD

Witches just level alchemy much faster than others. The elixirs are useful for everyone though. Even the first one you learn, the Vial of Bliss, is already very useful for filling fun and social moodlets. For witches, the ingredient (any food item) comes free (they can summon apples and often do so autonomously), but it's easy for anyone with a garden. The Invigorating Elixir comes also at level 1 and fills your energy bar to some extent. Both elixirs have even better versions at higher levels. There are 44 elixirs available to make, and quite a few of them have their uses.

The combination of witch and alchemy can be considered cheaty. You have full control of all needs, can clean and repair everything with a single spell, upgrade objects, make friends and enemies at will, etc. You don't really need anything else, except gardening.

Many of the premade sims in Moonlight Falls, the town that comes with Supernatural expansion, are supernatural beings already. For non mod users who want to change all, or some of them, into human sims, there is a rather effective testingcheat described here at Carl's.

Also Grims lovely pet Emmie has her own way of instantly curing zombies! :)

@JoBass24us - Photobucket has really made a blurry mess of your signature picture :s :rage:

@SuzyCue72 really? I haven’t payed any attention towards it. It’s an old pic I took like 4 years ago while playing sims 4. Will have to find time to replace it lol ?

"GraceyManor;c-17421395" wrote:
@JoBass24us
There's so much in sims 3 that I haven't discovered yet.
Every day I spot something new lol.
I read somewhere that with one of the wardrobes a sim can go on a narnia like adventure(of course you can't see it but still)
Good luck playing the tombs! I always lose my patience with them...and cheat.XD

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I totally get it. I e had this game and all its expansions since their respective releases and I’m also discovering new things! It’s why I love it! The traits, and I always give a negative trait to all my sims, really do such a great job at providing unexpected situations! I’ve found myself laughing so hard lately.

The tombs can be a challenge but I do like the opportunity to take a break from everyday sim life to do something different. I’ll get thru those since I haven’t played them since they came out and then it’s in to ITF stuff! Which will be sooo much fun.

What sabe are you playing recently? I’ll have to figure out the photobucket issue I have but I’ll post screens when I do. My current sim in China had the brood trait so he Levite’s collects the stuff I ask him too and then broods over the existence of it all! It’s funny as heck! ?

"JoBass24us;c-17421452" wrote:
SuzyCue72 really? I haven’t payed any attention towards it. It’s an old pic I took like 4 years ago while playing sims 4. Will have to find time to replace it lol ?

It's not the fault of the pic, but of the image site you use for it. Look for a different one or pay the fee they ask for nowadays. Most people do the former.