What is your favorite creative thing to do in Sims 3? «123...Next Go

cwaddell

Many of us like many creative aspects of Sims 3 so it will be hard to pick just one favorite. So in your response include those others also.

I started this poll as "what is your favorite thing to do in sims 3?" but the response list grew so I am split it apart into "creative things" and "play styles".

cwaddell

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

I like to do several creative things in Sims 3 but building is my favorite. I also like to create sims and makeover towns. One day I plan to take the time to learn CAW.

king_of_simcity7

Create worlds using CAW.

Create a World was and still is a great tool as you can combine that was building as well. It is the closest that we have ever had to having Sim City in The Sims although you could make TS2 neighbourhoods with SC4 it was not as in depth. I hope that in the future CAW could again be included in The Sims as the CAW community was busy back in the day and I have never seen so much hype since!

You could even say that The Sims was at it's peak around that time

gerefteast

Other.

I chose other because I just couldn't choose between two options: creating sims and building houses/landscaping gardens for them. And I want to makeover a town (probably Twinbrook or Sunset Valley) soon.

TreyNutz

Other.

I like to think up creative challenge ideas. Sometimes the challenges I come up with are original, sometimes they are mashups of existing challenges. Sometimes I play my challenge ideas and sometimes I don't (usually because they concept is too long).

Nikkei_Simmer

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

1. Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests. - just because I love "real estate development" I come from a background (career) of real estate sales so that's one of my favorite things to do. See how big of a property that I can develop and turn it into a million simoleon plus property. Of course, unlike real life, depreciation comes into the picture with regards to outside improvements such as trees and other exterior objects which don't usually depreciate in real life. I don't tend to build for contests because I just can't follow rules. I build just for myself.

2. Write Stories - As you can see, one of my favorite things to do is creative writing and I seem to have several sims stories on the go.

3. Create Custom Content: Clothes for the Sims mainly military stuff.

cwaddell

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

Nikkei_Simmer wrote: »

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3. Create Custom Content: Clothes for the Sims mainly military stuff.

Now I wish I had thought to include that as one of the choices.

Charlottesmom

Write stories.

Stories....My all time favorite thing. I also love building and CAP though.

BlackSand

Makeover towns.

I picked Makeover Towns ... Which heavily relies on the first two choices also.
Well ... At least the building/landscaping and creating Sims parts ... Contests are optional.

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BlackSand

Makeover towns.

TreyNutz wrote: »

I like to think up creative challenge ideas. Sometimes the challenges I come up with are original, sometimes they are mashups of existing challenges. Sometimes I play my challenge ideas and sometimes I don't (usually because they concept is too long).

My gameplay is kind of like yours @TreyNutz ... All the active Sims I play are in some sort of challenge.
They are either existing challenge mash-ups or something I just create as a challenge for a particular Sim.

Most of the challenges I create are not too structured outside of starting ideas.
I make rigid starting requirements ... Then "go with the flow" in respects to the Sim(s) in the challenge.

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CravenLestat

This is the hardest poll ever,I do them all equally.Cannot answer but will hit awesome because you know a poll is good when you can't answer.

BlackSand

Makeover towns.

cwaddell wrote: »

I like to do several creative things in Sims 3 but building is my favorite. I also like to create sims and makeover towns. One day I plan to take the time to learn CAW.

@cwaddell ... I thought about taking the time to develop better CAW skills.

In the long run ... Most of the EA worlds are decent ... Once you clean out all the EA stuff (buildings and sims) in them.
I mean I will take an existing world, bulldoze every lot and build it back the way I like it.

As much time as that takes ... I am afraid CAW would eat too much into my gaming time.

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bekkasan

Write stories.

I like telling stories and in the process of doing that I create sims, build or renovate EA stuff including makeovers to EA sims that are in the town I am playing in.

dreamerz13

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

This is actually the easiest poll yet for me. I'm hopelessly addicted to CAS. Bad day, make a sim. Tired but can't sleep, make a sim. Not feeling well, make a sim. Bored, make a sim. Got one piece of new CC to try out, make a sim.


I enjoy many of the creative aspects of course but there is no doubt CAS is my favourite.

Mikezumi

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

I like to create sims, although I do also makeover EA premades.

Kelvin

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

I love making new simmies I honestly can't build so I spend most of my time refurnishing premade houses for my sims >.>

PsychoSimXX

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

Build. I never got that much into actually playing the game. I've always end up abandoning a game to go and build something else...LOL

ZeeGee

Other.

Other - make machinima!

coco

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

This one is tricky. I had to go with creating sims because I can spend hours in CAS, I don't enter competitions but I like modelling them too. I also enjoy writing (when I can find the time) and building.

TinySpaceFox

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

Thanks to UL, my game allows for up to 7 traits per Sim, so I see a lot of creative potential within. I sort of treat my Sims like OCs (original characters). When I create Sims, in addition to trying to make them look unique, I try and make them full-fledged characters, with their own strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes.

I even try and expand upon some of my Sims’ traits. For example, my current Sim has the Perfectionist trait, and because of that, he can spend his weekend tucked away in his study, meticulously working on a painting. Well, I make him do it. You kinda get what I mean.

Maybe I’ll try writing stories one day, but they’d probably be short stories that fit into one play session. For the next few years, I’m gonna be away from home (and my game) for much of the year, studying in an overseas university. And that’s not exactly good for writing those amazing multi-chapter stories that I see on the forums.

suzses

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

Mostly this. I do like to makeover towns a lot, too, though.

TadOlson

Other.

I love doing a little of everything though I love setting up towns and making new worlds in CAW a little more than some of those things.I've been currently building city hall in Logan which was released from CAW not too long ago and was testing for stablility and will get live mode testing soon.

ilikethesims30

Write stories.

I love writing, so that's my favorite thing to do, Sims-wise. I also just love playing the game and sharing my Sims' adventures with you people.

kjkjkj123

Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions.

Create a variety of sims that I’ll most likely never play with.
I’ll sometimes upload them to the sims exchange if I’m feeling very confident about my work (yes, I still use that website).

Anthonydyer

Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests.

I love building houses. The building tools in TS3 have a lot to offer. You can almost make any house you want because it is so customizable. I should share some of my houses on this forum as they are beautiful. Can anyone recommend a photo sharing website? I used to to photobucket, but they did that third party sharing garbage back in july. Does google have a photo sharing platform?

I find TS4 to be "pretty", but the houses are very prefabricated and something that would take 3 seconds in TS3 would take up to a minute and a lot of effort in TS4. I'm having difficulty with vaulted ceilings.

JoAnne65

Write stories.

Since this is such a mean choice you threw in there, I'm going to adress them all (and will bold the one I chose)

• Build lots, landscape them and decorate them and/or enter building contests. || This one comes second, I love to build and decorate in the game. But only to use what I built, I don't build to build.
• Create sims and/or enter modeling competitions. || Creating sims doesn't give me as much pleasure as building, but I do take a lot of time in CAS because the looks of my sims is very important to me. I'd have more fun if I had more possibilities (mainly feature wise). I'm totally indifferent where it comes to modeling competitions, because I hardly ever see real sims in there (sorry). CC covered sims in poses that are not the game's are just not my cup of tea.
• Create patterns using CAP. || I never did that. I'd like to but only in service of my game and having more choice.
• Create worlds using CAW. || Never tried that and I doubt I'd have the patience.
• Makeover EA sims. || I do that quite often now that I have NRaas MC, but not because I like doing it. I just want them to look better.
• Makeover towns. || Too impatient. I wanna play
• Write stories. || That one's my choice. I've done that for seven years now and it's lifted my Sims 3 game experience to a higher level than it was before. Love doing it, with or without readers (I started doing it for an audience which was fun, then I continued writing for myself and it's equally fun in a different way).
• Other. || Trying to take screenshots for my stories in original and attractive ways. In fact I think that one shares the second place with building and decorating.