Your favourite things in The Sims 3

I love the open world of sims 3 and walking outside and seeing the neighbors out in their yards hanging out and playing with the kids or pets. I started out playing Sims 3 so I have some very fond memories of it!

P.S. had to add this also, when sim children/teens are in school its realistic and they aren't out on the streets during school hours, I super duper love that about Sims 3.

I love the open world because it’s more realistic to me. You actually get a big area to explore and you’ve got a lot of room to expand, depending on the world you use. Some people don’t like the occult’s but I love playing them. World Adventures is fun to do, especially the tombs. However, I’ve done them so many times that I know which one is which. I know Sunset Valley is the base works but I love all the townies there and I know where everybody lives. I can’t really say I have an absolutely favorite world because they are each unique.

I also just recently moved back to TS3, after taking an indefinite break from TS4 until some critical bugs get fixed. That was six months ago -- still waiting.

Anyway, I forgot how much fun TS3 is. It's always been my favorite of the series, and now I remember why.

To answer a few of your questions: Favorite EA world is Midnight Hollow (with Supernatural). Second favorite is Dragon Valley. Favorite non-EA world is Legacy Island 3.

Favorite mods: Everything by NRAAS is mandatory for me, but absolutely Master Controller and Overwatch. Also, Retuner lets me "fix" some interactions where I don't like the standard behavior. Another that is almost mandatory for me is No foot tapping while waiting for a route to clear", by Stevebo77 (from Mod The Sims). Others that I enjoy: Auto collect (by douglasveiga at MTS), Enhanced Witches (by PuddingFace at MTS).

Favorite thing to do: almost endless. Swim in pools, swim in ocean, run, play chess, play pool, ride horses, fish, collect insects, brew nectar, ride the fairy train, garden, cook, bake cookies, dance, break space rocks, brew potions, channel surf, cook outs, train other sims, sim-watch on community lots, spar, ... I think that's about 1 percent of it.

Edit: oh, and my favorite expansion is Pets, but sadly I can't play with pets in my sim household because the dogs in my real household go crazy when they hear the sounds.

Playable babies!

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I'm also back over from Sims 4, finally gave up hope of getting content with any depth to it. I'm starting to rediscover so much of what I missed about it, but mostly being able to send every member of your household to a different lot & still be able to play them all.

Welcome back, @ldmarko

@Kkffoo - I used to be a wildlife photographer, so Photoshop was an ever-present thing for post-processing my images...now I get to "post-process" my sims images. :D For my apocalypse sims fic, I wanted an actual visual of Sunset Valley getting nuked; so I had to go into my Photoshop and cook up one. And luckily someone did a post-apocalyptic Sunset Valley wasteland so that helped too. I wish there were hidden elements of SimCity disasters like tornados, fires...etc. in the Sims game.

@capgal - Bebe Hart is one of the successes for the devs in Sims 3 who created those characters. She turned out pretty nicely even as a base sim.
River McIrish on the other hand...is a diamond in the rough. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/sims/images/b/be/River_McIrish.png
EA Base Sim.
What I turned her into:
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If you tweak her she's stunning.

There's a lot of favourite things in the Sims 3 that I like but I'd be here all night listing them.

Hi! Favorite world is Sunset Valley. When I started playing Sims 3 in Sunset Valley in 2014 I thought I'd play until I was tired of it and move on to the next world. Six years later I'm still there! I have played briefly in other worlds but Sunset Valley is like home, so familiar and I love the townies or pre-mades, whichever they're called.

I love the Cornelia, Gunther and Mortimer Goth, Agnes Crumplebottom, Claire Ursine, the Frio brothers and the Wolffs. Those are my favorites.

Favorite non EA world is Cake island by Rflong7. Her worlds are awesome and she has many.

My advice is just boot up the game and start playing. Next time you look up it will be 4 am :)

My favorite things in Sims 3 are:
Time Machine
Genies
Fairies
Werewolves
Generations
Moonlight Falls
Bridgeport