It’s that time again! If you’re fairly new to the site, when fan events take place I create one big sticky post containing all of the news, previews, reports, images and videos. This makes it easier for everyone to get all Ambitions information from one main post and also keeps the site free to include other non-fan event updates. So, with that being said, lets get started!
The latest updates:
- 5/16/10 at 9:35 AM – added part 2 of BlackGarden‘s TSR Sims 3 Ambitions preview
- 5/12/10 at 8:13 PM – added interview with Grant Rodiek from SimFans
- 5/12/10 at 8:11 PM – added list of lifetime achievement awards from SimFans
- 5/11/10 at 9:52 PM – added 3 more links to SimTime’s report
- 5/11/10 at 8:17 AM – added link to Molly360’s impression
- 5/11/10 at 6:09 AM – added link to part 1 of SimFan’s report
- 5/11/10 at 6:02 AM – added link to SimTime’s report
- 5/11/10 at 5:59 AM – added 2nd batch of information from attendee Molly360
- 5/10/10 at 9:44 PM – added information from attendee Molly360
- 5/10/10 at 8:43 PM – added part 1 of BlackGarden‘s TSR Sims 3 Ambitions preview
- 5/10/10 at 8:35 PM – added link to SimFans article about new Education career
- 5/10/10 at 12:42 PM – Posted hands-on report from Tidus
- 5/8/10 at 8:44 PM – Added SimFans request for questions
- 5/8/10 at 8:44 PM – Mega Post Created
The sites of which who are attending:
(banner by Simillion)
Ghost hunter
There’s a strange new kind of entity wreaking havoc around the neighbourhood. There are spirits on the loose. Luckily, your Sim is pretty business-minded and they’ve spotted the opportunity to make some money a mile off.
In the ghost hunting profession most of your jobs will involve going round to another Sim’s house and hunting down some spirits. And then when you find them you can zap them with your big gun. Grant told us that as you get more skilled at ghost hunting, you might be able to talk them into leaving instead.
As you arrive at a job, the lot will be filled with fog and spooky music will be playing. All you have to do is look around the lot for signs of spirits. Spirits are a little different from ghosts. So don’t worry, you’re not going to be zapping away the ghost of your great aunt Betty. The spirits don’t look like Sims, they look a lot more like Casper the friendly ghost, and just like Sim-ghosts, they are all different colours.
(Quick note: some of the pictures we’ve seen seem to show the ghost hunters hunting real ghosts, like the one on the right here. I’m not sure if this is because higher up the ghost hunter career you do hunt ghosts instead of spirits, or just because EA are using a bit of artistic license.)
When you “banish” a spirit, your Sim yanks out their big zappy gun, and sucks the spirit up. From there, the spirit appears in your Sim’s inventory, and at this point they’re just like any other collectable. You can find out a little bit about the spirit, like their age, and what kind of spirit they are (“friendly”, “lonely”, etc). You can collect them up, or sell them for a tidy profit at the science lab, to supplement your income.
In addition to these “normal” jobs, your ghost-hunting Sims will also get some sort of “special event” jobs at rabbit holes. These are pretty cool, because despite your Sim disappearing inside and going out of your control, a bunch of special effects appear around the rabbit hole, and it looks awesome.
Check out the other cool bits of information at Blackgarden’s TSR Blog (part 2) – thanks GeorgeOfPlay!
SimFans.de: Why can not always change the color of Rabbit Holes to the Create-a-style tool?
Grant Rodiek: These buildings are very complex and structured differently than regular objects. But with The Sims 3 dream careers, many color options are added to existing Rabbit Holes. In addition, there is a new Rabbit Holes, like a new stage, or the new restaurant! This is a disused train. That looks really great.
SimFans.de: If I want to place in Sunset Valley, a fire station or a salon. Is this easily possible?
Rodiek Grant: Yes! In the houses ton of Sunset Valley are already pre-new building. This can easily be placed on empty land. Or you take the new neighborhood tool and placing it out of hand new plots in Sunset Valley, and then build your own fire station, a junkyard or the salon.
SimFans.de: The fans constantly asking us for new objects for children. Now dream career is not really a suitable add-on for children’s toys and furniture. Are there still new things for children?
Grant Rodiek: Of course! We have a fire truck toys and a music box, which you can raise. It then turns a small garden gnome to appropriate music. This is really cool. In addition, the inventors produced toys. But this caution was called for. If inferior materials used, may ignite them. There is also the previously mentioned Children’s Back-station.
More questions and answers with Grant Rodiek at SimFans (scroll to the bottom for full interview)
If you meet the desires of your Sims in The Sims 3 Ambitions, you’ll be able to get new lifetime achievement awards. Here’s a list of the new ones featured in the expansion:
- “Profession Simoleon Booster“ 10,000 (more Simoleons for completed jobs)
- “Efficient Inventor“ 10,000 (faster completion and less need material for inventions)
- “Suave Seeker” 18,000 (?)
- “Artisan Crafter” 20,000 (faster and better creation of sculptures)
- “Fireproof Homestead” 30,000 (no more fire on home lot)
- “My Best Friend” 40,000 (spawns simbot / servo / robot)
Source: SimFans
The greatest innovation in Create A Sim mode is the ability to give your Sims tattoos. And not just one that no one sees. Numerous body painting in different location are possible.
Choose The Sims 3: Ambitions you can, where you want to place the tattoo. That you are the first choice of the four regions of the body back, arm, chest and abdomen and feet are available. Is your selection made, you can refine them still. If the tattoo, for example, in the upper arm and shoulder area or would you rather be lying on the biceps, the forearms adorn or be seen on the back of the hand be? These four positions you can select the arm and prove to wish all of them. In the back you can, for example, the neck and shoulder blades, or decorate your Sims miss a dead smart ass antlers.
Have you found your desired location, you can already choose the first motif. Many motifs are available to you. bishin of animal motifs on Chinese characters to graceful scrolls much is there. This is also good because you can not own motives unfortunately add.
Here you can customize existing motives in many ways. So you can freely determine the size and transparency. The colors can change it. The tattoos will always have a stroke, can determine the color of her, as well as a main color and a side suit that shape the visual appearance. As with the change of a pattern, you can define the colors available.
On five different levels you can join the many motives to an entire tattoo. At each level, you can here the size of the subject and also determine the colors and designed so as countless combinations. This you can then load in the official Exchange, and so are other players also available.
Existing Sims can miss her about the tattoo chair a tattoo. Whose body jewelry at some point no longer suits need not worry: The tattoos are removed at any time.
‘All about Tattoos’ from German fansite SimTimes (roughly translated to English)
Such a hat would do well
So many innovations in the general gameplay is, there are so few extensions in Create A Sim mode, apart from the possibility of tattoos. Who is on headgear, which is fully at his expense. Three construction workers are helmets and Detektivhüte it that are different but not formally. Added to this fire helmets and motorcycle helmets.
At hairstyles can look forward to five new haircuts female sims, all of which are about medium and modern look. The gentlemen can adjust to six new hairstyles. The new hair never goes beyond the shoulder and is quite varied.
Less varied, however, is the new fashion. Except for new skirts and outfits for architects in the everyday clothes we could find nothing. The aprons are planned for the inventor. In the women is exacerbated by a rather old-fashioned apron that can attract the modern housewife of yesterday like.
Character embossing
In The Sims 3: Dream careers are added just seven new characteristics. In addition to ambitious, eccentric, dramatic, environmentally friendly and torn your Sims can also be the born businessmen and-women or cracked sculptor.
Born businessmen, for example, receive more money for selling things. Torn sculptors have a flair for fashion and know what is in and what is out. Dramatic Sims are very emotional. All of life will affect their moods and feelings.
Eccentrics are born inventor, because they have the natural tendency to invent crazy things. Acumen pays the other hand, for the detectives. Environmentally Sims is very important to recycle and save energy.
Did you create your Sims, you can in the relationship now, the options “Select Fixed friends Festivals friend” and “fiance / fiancee.
‘CAS and Traits’ from German fansite SimTimes (roughly translated to English)
What’s new in buy mode
The acquisition mode was extended with particular objects, which are primarily focused on the new professions. Among the many volumes of work is also a copy is for children. Here the little ones can make the funny bricks from The Sims 2: Open for Business.
Many objects are also only added by the sculptor or the inventor, so the buying mode this somewhat slimmed occurs, as usual. The highlight of the normal, non-career specific objects, the bike and the trampoline. The latter acts as a veritable magnet for Sims want to have fun. We are still foremost a Bodensprinkler in memory. The decoration objects you can move on each floor and it injects a small curtain of water up as soon as a Sim enters about him. The whole thing happens even in different colors.
Realism fans can make leaps in the air, for the washing of laundry is moving into the world of the Sims. Dirty clothes can wash her in the domestic washing machine or in the local laundromat. After a few moments (about 90 sim minutes) you can either pack the clothes in the dryer or hang on the clothesline. Clean laundry makes for your Sims to short-term good mood.
The build mode
The building mode has been enhanced by some new windows and doors and of course walls and floors. There are new multi-story columns, for up to three floors high. New is also that the angle of your roof you can now determine more accurately and more individual. With just a few clicks it determines the roof slopes of individual roof parts.
New Cheats“Oh my God” – that was the reaction from us on one of the new cheats. Shocked, we stared at the monitor in front of us. And Sims developers Rodiek Grant said dryly to us that the purchase of the expansion pack if only for this cheat code worth altogether. What had happened? Not knowing we gave one in the neighborhood on the cheat DiscoMaptags and suddenly all the icons began to plot in different colors flashing. Our problem was that we just right over the city center were and were mostly a by flashing.
The Cheat Code AllowBuyBuild allows you to access at any time on the buying and building mode. Even if it should just burn. Thus it bypasses the barrier, which occurs in such cases normally. A third cheat allows you that you let an NPC at an older age group.‘New Features’ from German fansite SimTimes (roughly translated to English)
NEW OBJECTS
It turns out I’m not very good at this, because I didn’t write the names of everything down.
So you’re about to here the ‘thingy’ a lot!
Yes you can now do laundry! New object include a washer, dryer and clothes drying rack (thingy). If your sim has a shower or changes clothes, and dirty washing pile appears on the floor, if you have a nest sims, they should go place these in the laundry basket, if not they will stay on the floor getting a negative moodlet. Also if you are not a fan of this new addition to the game there’s good news, just don’t place any of these items on your lot and there will be no dirty clothes….. This is a fantastic feature!
Trampoline! Yay! Rex went off and had a play, and it was fun! Although he is a clumsy sim, so kept falling off, resulting in a negative moodlet. Yes you can invite others to join although I only invited one other and I’m not sure what the maximum for it was.
There was a lawn game I didn’t really like, I also don’t know what it was called, and it took up a lot of space but was a great social object.
Lemonade stand……. No I saw this object right at the end and didn’t find out the name or see it work! It’s an object for children, so they can now make money, it very similar to the lemonade stand in Sims 2 but they sell baked goods instead!
FOG EMITTER – OMG this was one of the best things I came across! I’m not too sure where I found this, because I turned the BUYDEBUG cheat on, so I may have found it there! While in build mode it looks like a green ball, but once in play mode it disappears and emitted fog! It’s very cool, and gives a brilliant eerie feel to your lot!
Digital Photo frames – Now the photo’s you’re your Sims take can go it these frames and some of aren’t small!
Music box – These were lovely; again I got it using buydebug. But the little dance the sim did to it was adorable!
BUILD MODE!
Although I didn’t look to see if there was anything new, there were two new bloody brilliant tools!
NEW ROOF PITCH TOOL! – This enables you to adjust the size of different parts of your roof! It’s very easy to use!
COLUMN SIZE ADJUSTER – Again easy to use! This allows you to adjust the size of the columns you use in your builds, up to 3 stories high!
There is much, much more to read about. Check out Molly360’s impression for more!
It wanted details and it gets details. I have taken the tattoo tool under the microscope and answers all fan questions on this subject.
The tattoo is a very powerful tool. Virtually infinite combinations are available. First it decides you for a part of the body. The SIM body was divided into 4 areas for placing tattoo. The chest and abdomen area, the back, arms and legs. I want to make a tattoo on one arm, I chose this area. Now I get four more sections. Where will I place my tattoo on the arm? On the back, on the upper arm, forearm or wrist? I choose the upper arm and plus the right arm. Now I’ve found my desired location. Now do I have an extremely wide range of subjects available. We have done to include the cost of all, there are 42 tattoos in the game. For each match is something and tattoos may be made even one above the other to get to even more combinations. A few examples of themes: Animals dolphin, rose, birds, and Tribles in the forms and Blumenmuster, and and and. Clicking the tattoo at the predetermined location is appropriate – Alternatively it can be deleted of course.
I choose a red Rosenblüte to some green leaves are created with black outline. These are the three standard colors of this subject. Red as primary color (flower), and green as a secondary color (sheets) and black as stroke. Now, I can change these 3 colors at will. I choose the red and click on the color wheel for a yellow tone. Now my flower is yellow. Just as easy as with clothes in the match. Two things I like but still with the tattoo. It looks somewhat pale and small and my SIM wants a most conspicuous tattoo. I move simply both slider bar, one for the size of the tattoo and one for the transparency of tattoo to top. Now fits all dignity I have the game home could I save all on the Sims 3 Launcher in my upload SimFansDE account to the official exchange on diesims3.de and show all my friends there which can download my tattoo design in their game, if they the expansion pack have dream careers. Class!
There’s more info at SimFan’s Part 1 of The Sims 3 Ambitions report (English roughly translated from German)
And that, when the Sims in two different ways. If your Sims earn their support by writing, painting, or fishing, must they are no longer called “” unemployed”settle.” You can register in the City Hall as independent. Surprisingly, it is about that there are other job titles for self-employed Sims according to ability and their skills.
Also your Sims now have the option to acquire community land. As owner, the Sims on land in the purchase and construction mode switch and enhance their own property. The estate is valuable, more quality you can achieve it with the site. We bought a park as a test and saw the upgrade matrix, that to the next stage a few picnic benches we lack. They placed fix and already our country was a level more valuable.
Your land are valuable, the more they earn. Who is expecting a new open for business, but is disappointed. You can set employees nor otherwise great business things do. You can sell items from your inventory or sell directly in new shops. Other Sims to automatically manage the acquired land and you as the owner then periodically receive your profit. Thus, behind only another share purchases to previous rabbit hides holes. We could not unfortunately striking differences during our time.
SimTimes – hands on with The Sims 3 Ambitions (English roughly translated from German)
Twinbrook consists of numerous properties located settled to a reservoir. Heart of the city is a great place just before the Town Hall, which directly up to the reservoir extends over a wide staircase and draws an idyllic picture there.
Twinbrook built the most land. Here you can find all new land, such as the fire station, the beauty or the laundry where the Sims to wash their dirty linen. You can import existing families from other neighborhoods, relations with the former Sims are lost but.
Twinbrook reminiscent of his style forth to the South of the USA. Everything is still somewhat ländlicher designed as sunset Valley and everything seems to be from wood. Therefore, there are also new representations of rabbit holes. The military building, for example, looks like an old rental barracks which fits perfectly in a forest.
SimTimes – what’s new with Twin Brook (English roughly translated from German)
- Doctors can give shots, only sims (I think!) that the doctor is treating.
- The trampoline was about 5×6 (in sim-tiles) i think!
- It’s is (upper part of the firehouse) a living quarter, there is a gym, kitchen and pretty much everything your sim needs while on call.
- No new foods, because they added loads in WA.
- Q: What happens to Sunset Valley and Riverview when you install this ep? A: The new career buildings like the fire house should just pop up and be there.
- No hot tubs
- New pre-made houses that are nice ones, and some…. the one on the marshlands that look like shack’s
- Firefighter, doctor, private investigator, tattoo artist, architectural designer, these are all career’s. But inventor, and sculptor you have to go to city hall and become self employed.
- I didn’t see a pier but the are some lovely new bridges (in Twinbrook) and reworked rabbit holes as well as a errie bog/marsh lands area, with flog covering the floor, this comes from a new object called the fog emitter!
- The fog is for effect! and works well! also if your in the ghost hunter career and go to a hunted lot it suddenly appears as you arrive.
- There are about five new hair styles for both males and females, also uniformed head ware, and……..yes crash helmets.
- Played the career of the ghost busting (was touched on little). I loved it, to start with you catch or help cross-over spirit’s which look like these little whirls of color. I then progressed to poltergeist again swirling colors but they are possessing furniture.
- My favorite object was a music box, there a little interaction the sims do, they rock in a very loving way to the music, it’s very cute!
- With the ghost hunting career, I started off a bit confused! There was no car pool, till grant told me to look in map mode, and then tags come up on lots, that’s where you have to go and ghost hunt.
- New traits…. I didn’t try them but here they are: Born salesman, Eccentic, eco friendly, dramatic, perceptive and savvy sculptor
- There are a few new features adjustable columns up to 3 story’s high and the new roof pitch tool, which allow you to adjust the size of different parts of your roof.
- The trampoline is very cool, and yes you can invite others to join. I didn’t try the motor bike, because i became distracted by a new interaction,,,, Detonate, which just means you can pretty much blow up everything!
- I didn’t see any new rabbitholes, but there are some reworked one like a new dinner. there are new community lots like a laundary place thingy, and fire house…oooo and a junk yard….. nearly forgot that one!
- Yes it’s still a rabbithole (hospital), for that career you work mainly on community lots around town.
- New lots, more so two new gnomes, which i’m not going to talk about, because some should just be left a secret
- Robot is not servos it is …..SIM BOT! No he can not fly, that was an effect in that movie, done with sony vegas. I’m sure you could recolor him, but i didn’t get long with him. You can buy him with your life time rewards…40,000 of them, and i just got him at the end of the sesion, He eat scrap mental, smash objects by turning his arms round really fast like a helicopter and he doesn’t shower.
- Yes you can make your own (say, Firestation), some object like the sculptor thingy (i really should have wrote names down), inventor bench and the architect’s workplace you can buy and place in your own home.
Posted by Molly360 over at the official Sims 3 Forum (thanks Tea_and_Blues)
The stylist has the power to transform your townies’ clothes from threadbare to designer flare, their hair from looking like hay to “hey good looking” and their makeup… is also something you can edit in this particular profession.
As a stylist your Sim will have working hours when they should head down to the salon. How much or how little work your Sim does is your choice. You could just hang out with your co-workers, and mess about all day. Or you could wait for a potential client to come in through the door. During your working day, you’ll get special assignments to make over certain Sims. These pop up like opportunities.
The client will come along with a story about why they want or need a makeover, along with a list of requirements. These might be something like 3 x everyday clothes, 1 x formal wear, 1 x shoes, 1 x accessory, new hair style, new hair colour, new makeup. That’s not a restriction, that’s just the minimum you need to do to complete this client’s makeover. So if their swimwear was offensively hideous, you could change that as well.
So you get your client to step up to the new stylists’ object, and you’ll find yourself in something that looks a bit like Create-A-Sim, but with a slightly different background. It allows you access to change hair, facial hair, eyebrows, makeup, and clothes. There are also some extra hair styles that are only available from the stylist, including a really cute new ponytail style for women. After you’ve changed all the different things the client asked for, they pay you for your work, and off they go.
As a stylist, your Sim will also have a couple of new socials available to them. They can compliment a Sim on their style to increase their relationship. Conversely, of course, you can also insult their sense of style, which will upset them.
SimFans shared with us a new career which will be introduced in The Sims 3 Ambitions – the Education Career:
New Career! “Education”
Level / Title
1. Playground Monitor
2. Teachers Aide
3. Substitute Teacher
4. Elementary School Teacher
5. Middle School Teacher
6. High School Teacher
7. Department Head
8. Assistant Principal
9. Principal
10. District Superintendant
How interactive are the new careers?
I’d spent my time playing on the investigator, stylist and architect careers. The new careers are fully interactive, there are tons of new objects for each of the “professions” (as they are called in-game) for example there is a large desk to draw up designs for new houses and styles (architecture and sylist). For example, if you are a “Private-eye”, you can break into people’s homes and snoop around. Dig through their trash and mailbox for blackmail evidence. You will get calls with different job offers, for you to accept them.What new hairs are in the game?
There is around six hairstyles per gender (not sure how many with hats), most of the female’s are shoulder or lower-neck length are kind of wavy. The male’s are short and stylish. I like both sets of gender hairstyles.What new traits are there – what do they do (description of them)?
There is a new trait named “dramatic” which I gave my stylist, and she pretended to faint on the shop floor, which was quite funny . I’m pretty sure there’s one new trait for each career, although that could be debatable. There’s also an “eco-friendly” trait, with new recycling bins to put into your homes, and will get a positive moodlet if they carpool with other sims or take their bike to work/venues.What’s the new furniture/plants like?
There are TONS of new objects for the home, including modern and stylish new lounge sets. I’m pretty sure there’s about 3 new beds available. OOH, and there’s a new laundry system. This is optional, you can put in a washing machine and dryer (or go to the new laundromat in town), and when your sim changes or hops in the shower, they will leave a small pile of clothes on the floor which your sim can pick up and drop into the hamper, washing machine or washing line (for eco-friendly sims). Should you choose to have a washing machine and dryer in your home, your sims will get positive moodlets for each time they do a batch of laundry.How is the tattoo system?
I hadn’t played around with the tattoo system much, but Grant did. He showed us where you can put tattoos (there are about ten different places you can put tattoos). You can scale the size and customize them fully. I put a llama tattoo on my first sim’s arm.Is the Renovation mode good? How have they combined everything together from build and buy?
Renovation mode is just like build/buy mode in my opinion, although you get either interior or exterior design jobs depending on your client. My first job as an architect was to install new windows and doors to fit the inside of the house. Overall I’d say the renovation mode is no different to the buy/build modes, but the gameplay is extremely well put together. Such as taking photos of your projects for your portfolio.Is CAS in the game good?
Assuming you’re referring to the stylish career, CAS in-game is basically a wardrobe with your customer in. It’s just like the normal CAS but you choose outfits and hair. My first job as a stylist was to put together a senior citizen’s outfit for a new elder. I’d put a couple of outfits together, but having little to none experience and artistic skill my first customer had stepped down from the block looking like a clown; literally! .Is Twinbrook a nice town? What style does it follow? Are the new rabbit hole styles more modern?
Twinbrook is a huge new town, which had been flooded (if I read the town description correctly this morning), and is now half-swamp half-town. The swampy areas are very dank and misty. The other side of Twinbrook has brand new shops such as the Laundromat, The tattoo parlour and stylist shop and much more. I really enjoyed having a look around Twinbrook, and the place looks really great.There has been talks about a consignment store – does it work well?
There is a consignment store in-game, although I don’t know much more about it. I didn’t visit it. Sorry!How does the self-employment work?
Grant said something about going to city hall and registering yourself as self-employed, I don’t know much more after that. Again, sorry!Is the portfolio you mentioned like the skill journals?
Nope, it’s like a small inventory for snapshots and ideas for your profession, for example once you’ve completed a look or a new interior design, you go into camera mode and take a picture of it. The pictures will end up in your portfolio which you can show to your new customers and improve your overall score.Other
I also just remembered that Grant Rodiek said that your sims can “woohoo” in the time machine, and if a child is conceived it may come out older (or younger) than your couple! I thought this was such a funny and clever idea.Grant told us about meteors (and the new “death by meteor” ) and earthquakes. He showed us a small house fire (what the scale of the event was totally random).
Posted by Tidus over at the official EA UK Sims 3 Forum
Ask your own questions! That’s right, SimFans is accepting your questions as they’ll be a part on the event come on Monday. Better hurry though, they’ll stop taking them on Sunday night!
Is the hands-on event going to be held today??
Its on Monday 🙂
let there be earthquacke??
How exactly are the German sites going to an English fan event?
Dunno ConnorJack but i’d bet it’s going to cost them a bit 😛
we will take a flight… monday morning to london, UK – in the evening back to germany…
cause there is no fan event in germany for ambitions EP, cause of producer visting problems.. and so we go to london a day if the **** lol ASH CLOUD around europe dont cancel our flights.. -.-
But surely the UK fan events should be kept for the UK?
I want fan events in Greece.. :'(
-.-
Why all the Nationalism, ConnorJack? Germans are just Britons with different accents. And Britons are just New Zealanders with speech impediments.
Fan event will be in Moscow on 21 May.
Awesome, a Russia event! Hope you’ll be able to make it 😀
i want to know more about the natural disastors such as the earthquakes!
What does it matter what countries go to what events? Oh and Connor considering all the Brits that come statesides for events I wouldn’t be criticizing 😉
let there be fires….. let there be earthquakes….. let there be pain….. let there be ghosts….. let there be sims 3 ambitions
Let there be working lights!
Well, one can dream…
LOL!
“Heh…” 🙂
Can you please try to find out how many grids the trampoline(s) will be? Thanks. :o)
Sim_Me
@Jud it isn’t a Mega post yet… plus how can I contribute to this article when I’ve found something new?
When people get back, content starts to pour out fast. I’m not sure on how exactly you can contribute…I didn’t even think of that. 🙁 Usually during these events I keep a real close eye on RSS feeds, all the sites, forums, twitter, facebook and google so I’ve pretty much got everything covered.
It’s always funny how Brits are accused of speaking ‘wrongly’ when we were the ones who founded all the countries who accuse us of such. xD you’re welcome by the way. 😛
I kid, I kid! Peace and love guys. *holds hands*
I’m really looking forward to this event! I gotta be out and about today, no day off for me alas, but when I can I’m grabbing me a computer and staying tuned right here for developments! *crosses fingers for Time Machine and Robot info*
Create-A-Pattern press release + screenshots
http://sims3fan.ru/
Create-A-Pattern Press Release + Screenshots on Sims3Fan.ru
Thanks Ethan, posting now!
So it’s today? :0
Indeed it is.
Gosh I wish I had remembered to ask whether there will be new roofs. I am hoping for gabled. =P
So lots of updates, i like that. YAWN…
Where the “mega” post you are so big about. i guess by now the event have been going for some hours now. Or will the updates comes when the event are finished ?
It is only 5pm over in London, so the event couldn’t have been over that long. It takes time for people to write up their reports and post them online. Some sites will have their reports up in a few hours, others may not until tomorrow or later.
well still. just heard of the site here and the latest update was from 2 days ago. Whats up with that? when i heard mega i was thinking finaly some place with a good information. But i guess i was wrong.
That or i misunderstand something and that i should return tomorrow when the thing has ended and the reporters have done there video feeds or screen’s of the game If ofcause they are alowed to post anything about the game other than words…
Mega Posts are usually fairly big. See the past Mega posts:
World Adventures – http://www.simprograms.com/the-sims-3-world-adventures-october-28-30th-hands-on-mega-post/
GamesCom 2009 Event – http://www.simprograms.com/gamescom-2009-sims-spore-more/
The Sims 3 Dutch Fansite Mega Post – http://www.simprograms.com/the-sims-3-dutch-fansites-sneak-peak-fansite-event-in-holland-mega-post/
The Sims 3 Creator’s Camp Mega Post – http://www.simprograms.com/the-sims-3-creators-camp-mega-post/
As for your concern, there isn’t anything I can do at the moment with Ambition news. The people in attendance have yet to publish anything. You have to remember, they’ve got to travel home (and some traveled from afar), write up their time spent on the game, and possibly may have real life things to take care of before publishing their reports. 🙂
hmm ok. i just though it would be going along at the same time the “show” was on. But maybe i should just come back tomorrow then.
That may be your best bet. I’m *hoping* that we’ll see something by tonight, but that’s just wishful thinking.
OMG!
The WA mega post is….well… MEGA! 😯
I really hope we’ll get news today….
Great preview from Tidus!
Woohoo in Time machine!!!!
Waiting for more 😉
“For example, if you are a “Private-eye”, you can break into people’s homes and snoop around.”
I’d use this opportunity to create a klepto and clear out whole rooms.
BTW nice banner Simillion!
‘Death by meteor’
Sounds cool 🙂
Oh my sweet Spode, that Time Machine anecdote is hilarious! I clearly don’t have the naughty mind Maxis have to even think about considering that idea! Having a Sim step out of the completely wrong age will be hilarious. xD
why thank you Jinx ;D
Da’Ja Vu* 😀
Wow, this expansion pack will be really, really great! Let there be robots, Let there oblivion! :>
Spotlight on Ambition on Gamespot
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3ambitions/news.html?sid=6260981&om_act=convert&om_clk=newsfeatures&tag=newsfeatures%3Btitle%3B1
let there be laundry and let there be dirt! 😀
I like psting mtple commnts IM GONE MAD OMG ICANT WAIT nd let there be meteorites LOL 😀 hahahah muhahahahah some body take me to the mental hospital!
Is there still no word about ghost hunting?!? It’s driving me insane like the insane trait!…………………:(……………. Why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What?
bleep u!
JudHudson FAKE you are stupid enough to redirect your name to your utube channel…
So stupid… -.-
Ha-Ha….. *Bad Thoughts*…
The second JudHudson is a fake, obviously. Note how they spelled their name and compare it with the One and Only Original Judhudson with the avi.
I just read on SimFans.de that there is going to be an Education career in Ambitions. Are they serious? Why hasn’t EA said anything about it?
I just read it to. I hope they’re right!
EA probably hasn’t said anything about it because its a closed career, like the ones we currently have. They’ve probably wanted the main focus to be on the new, open careers.
Closed or not I’m incredibly excited. I was so incredibly bummed when the Education career wasn’t in the base game. I had a lot of pre-thought-out sims in that career and now I can make them.
Michael (***email address removed***). You are hereby banned from posting comments for impersonating. I gave you a warning about this before.
Very nice job on that banner, Simillion!
And some great tidbits so far… Laundromats! Piles of dirty clothes! and, yes, the time machine woohoo 😀
Judhudson, a user named Molly360 has provided a lot of feedback in this thread: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/199743.page
Might be worth linkage. 🙂 Great work.
Thank you, Tea and Blues. Went thru the thread and pulled the important bits out!
Any more information in the TSR link other then the bit you posted? I don’t go on TSR and refuse so just wondering 🙂
No. Black Garden just links to her preview and says she’ll provide more info later, which is fair. But ugh. Yes. I added to TSR’s traffic.
Rockermonkey, tea_and_blues: thought about posting the whole article…but then I remembered this isn’t actually a staffer from TSR, just a regular person with a blog over there. So it just wouldn’t be right to lift their whole article from the site. 🙂
@Micheal no faul language please
@Srikandi Thanks 😀
@Michael, watch your language, and learn to show some respect
@Simillion, the banner looks great
Michael should now be dealt with. If I set it up the ban correct, he shouldn’t even be allowed to see the site anymore (that is unless he’s on a different IP, but I’ll ban those too).
Anyone else that wants to play the same game is welcome to join him. Harsh but I won’t tolerate this non-sense. There’s news to post.
Molly is up and answering questions again 🙂 She’s inexhaustible!
what did michael do ?
Impersonating me, using foul language, impersonating others (in the past).
oni za dużo piszą, i tak tak jak w WP połowę opisanych rzeczy nie będzie w dodatku ! Kiedy w końcu dadzą foty z gry i gameplaya ?
somebody knows if the acient careers have new interactions??
A Big Thanks to Judhudson, Simillion, Luke, Frankie, and everyone else for finding all of this information and consolidating it here for us!
😀
Great Work, Guys…it is much appreciated!
Yer welcome Rick 😀
Thanks for the quote…I think!
I’m still in and out of the main sims 3 forum giving the Q & A so pop in and ask away.
xxmolly
LMAO…… i just read Srikandi comment!
your welcome.
No pics :'(
sorry No picture, we weren’t allowed :-(,
but we were talking about sneeking some out, but then were told they would be holding other events in the future, and desided to wasn’t worth it. sorry
Never mind.
I like waiting…lol
hands on event has been finished nd i didnt hear an alpahabet from it!
Hmm, reading that the “career” outfits being available in CAS from the off has me worried that randomly spawned sims in addition to having the option of dressing up in mismatched clothes as before (top hats and t-shirts for instance) can no also appear in mismatched career outfits too.
@ Molly – You didn’t happen to notice if the lights were working properly by any chance? By that I mean lights spreading all the way up the walls like in the base game before the patch broke it, and beyond the lot edges out into the roads?
there is this new bed car (whatever) set on the sims 3 website
http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?categoryId=11488&scategoryId=12519&pcategoryId=12518&index=0&productId=OFB-SIM3:21401
nd new poll please!
tire of seeing old poll
nd hud cant we change our profile pic! im new to this one 😀
LoveGTAandSims, the profile picture is taken care over at Gravatar.com. Setup a pic their with the same account name and it’ll appear on any WordPress site that you comment from.
JUD omg look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8fc3VkBygU
@roco Yep, another batch of awesome music from Steve Jablonsky!
jud, its michael. (***email address removed***)
im super sorrry! 🙁 can you please unbann be. im SO sorry. i have been a fan of your site before the realese of the sims 3! 🙁 please! i wont impersonatte! im only 10 and a half.
I’m normally a forgiving guy…but I shouldn’t be the one to have to forgive you – those that had to read your comments should be allowed to make the decision to forgive you and to see whether you should be un-banned.
Was that the guy who said he was you and said he was “shutting down the site”
Yes, I gave him a chance before after he mimicked one of the SimGurus. Then banned him after mimicking me.
Banned as in – can’t even see the site (unless he logs into a different computer/phone).
Let this be a lesson!
I’d rather see Michael stay banned. He’s also a bit of a troll on the official forums, from what I’ve seen, but more cautious there, which makes me think he knew exactly what he was doing, and should live with the consequences.
BTW, Jud, the second part of SimFan’s coverage is up. Including a great interview with Grant Rodiek.
Thanks for all this new information about the new exp.
Today at Spain there’s a fan event about The Sims 3 Ambitions too.
Fantastic, that one slipped under my radar. Can’t wait to see what comes out from it!
I highly doubt that you’re 10 and a half, due to the fact that u dropped the “F-Bomb” in one of your comments
Good lord, Mikey, don’t give out your email on a public forum — especially after you’ve offended a bunch of people!
You’re just asking to be cyberbullied. It’s possible that you deserve it, but a lot worse can happen to you than you’ve done to anybody else so far :/
And yeah, having the bad judgment to do that totally makes me believe he’s a kid, heh. Although it’s possible one of his “friends” or a sibling posted that in his name to attract abuse, sigh.
Moral for parents reading: monitor your kids’ internet use, please!
@Srikandi, good point, I have removed the email address from the comment
Just to add…the same e-mail addy is posted about halfway up the page where JudHudson mentions that Michael is banned! XD
@PajamaRick, thanks for pointing that out, that one is now removed as well
im truly sorry. i miss the full site and everyting else. i miss coming home from school and checking the
latest news about sims on my macbook1 🙁 plzzz forgive me everyone1 i miss the full site1 i love simprograns! im on my moms iphone so spelling might suck
I’ll lift the ban in order for you to view the site, but as far as commenting goes, you’re going to be monitored very closely before I allow them.
I’m really excited for this game. My world that I’m working on will have all kinds of new community lots with this world in the town area. It would be cool If there was an option for pond fog in the mornings. They should’ve added rain too. With the business thing, I’m going to sell gems at my store. Can’t wait. 😉
This game is going to be like “Livin’ It Up” for the original series. It really brings a lot of new features to the game!
=)
jud ur a really good hearted person GOD BLESS U nd thnx fo letting me know to change the avatar! congrats for so many comments on this thread (whatever)
checking my new avatar,checking my new avatar,checking my new avatar!
YES!!! thx juddy 😀
nd it didnt appear 🙁
Your avatar seems to be working 🙂
but i cantt see it and this site has bo graphics now! its all white with everything arranged on the right nd the text is only in black blue and purple!
ok now is normal but i cant see my avtar!
This post is great! Thanks for creating it Judhudson!
@LoveGTAandSims I can see your avatar.
@LoveGTAandSims Don’t worry, we see your avatar 🙂
What are the sizes for the new community lots?
PLEASE anyone know. It is needed for world building!
ok so idk i just updated my firefox and restarted my pc and TADA!!! thnx everybody
below its written in yellow (nameless person) *striked*
and in red (now i got a name)
Took you that long to get an identity 😛
yeah !! im a sim so iwas waiting for my creator to give me an identity!
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! why isnt it stikey!
I’ve noticed that this mega post is much shorter than most. I guess there aren’t as many news articles floating around. It’s funny, too, because this EP has features that are better than the ones in WA. You’d think there would be more. And the release date is just around the corner. Speaking of which, when do you think the game goes gold? I forgot about that. Isn’t it a month before the release or is it two weeks?
Yes, I agree there is not too much information about this expansion like the base and W.A. There are not many screen-shots, videos, and trailers so far. There were tons for W.A.
The game will probably goes gold this week. I think it went gold appropriately two weeks before the release for W.A. I am not sure.
55/16/10 at 9:35 AM
Something tells me that date is just a BIT off :p
That dang Flux Capacitor has been acting up again… XD
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