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What is your favourite TS3 expansion pack and stuff pack and why?
thepinkwitch
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Hey fellow simmers! Just wanted to know what your opinions were about your favourite expansion pack and stuff pack and why did you like it!
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I don't own any stuff packs, since you pay too much for too little stuff, not worth it.
And also, @thepinkwitch for some reason your avatar's face reminds me of Karen Gillan. I thought I might point it out.
I love having a large nectary. My sims grow the grapes and fruits in the spring and summer and make nectar in the Fall and winter from the produce stock pile. I do continue growing the important plants in a greenhouse during the fall and winter. So that's World Adventures and Seasons right there.
When I need a break from the Normal, I go to Supernatural for some magic.
I love my geeks and science freaks. University is a major contributor for that. My art sims get some love too. Throw in Into The Future and it's Nerd Nirvana.
I can't really pick one EP.
Of my stuff packs, I love Diesel and Master Suite.
However there is Supernatural with all those different life states. I watched a zombie attack an alien it was both horrifying and funny at the same time
Both those EPs are great for building as is the Outdoor Living SP.
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Ambitions, Supernatural and Island Paradise. Which one of these is my favorite depends on how I'm playing at the moment. So now that I have a beautiful player created cc world I like the outdoor activities from IP, tents and windsurfing etc. So my favorite right now is... ISLAND PARADISE!!
My favorite and thee only stuff pack I ever bought is 70's 80's 90's stuff.
2. Supernatural
I don't want to miss any of them though
As for Stuff Packs, I've always had a hankering for High End Loft Stuff. Diesel has ~some~ nice things but falls short overall.
For stuff packs... I don't have all of them anyway, but I do love Outdoor Living and Town Life. 70's 80's and 90's stuff is fun too.
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My favorite stuff pack is probably 70's 80's and 90's Stuff, love dem old school styles even though I wasn't part of those eras
I rarely play with other Life States, but I do enjoy Supernatural every now and then. Maybe in the future, I'll start up a family full of Supernaturals (if I don't forget about it or I'm not too lazy, lol.)
As for Stuff Packs...I enjoy them all. I'm not too too fond of Movie Stuff. There's maybe one female outfit I like and that's one of the horror movie themed ones. I can see that being used for a witch or maybe a vampire, but other than that, it's the stuff pack I use the least.
Of the stuff packs I have Diesel is my favorite.
Of the Stuff Packs, Master Suite Stuff is probably the one I use most, but I really like some of the objects and clothes from the Movie one--the Western theme in that pack recolors nicely. And say what you want about the Katy Perry SP, the clothes and hairs are indeed awful and weirdly inappropriate, but I really like the playful, colorful objects/build stuff from it. I don't use it often though; it's just so specialized that it doesn't lend itself to most of the stuff I like to build lately.
Maybe I shouldn't have set a long life duration, because the supernaturals still are young adults and do not really seam to grow older.
But I also love seasons, pets and generations. These are the ones I play most. What I like most is beeing able to play them altogether. This is what the Sims are for me: this giant world full of possibilities. This also is the reason why I haven't bought TS4 (yet). At the new Sims I would miss too many things. I think this will change one day, when there are a few more EP for TS4 with things like toddlers, pets, seasons and so on. But let's wait a year more and then see...
But ITF is probably my favourite
Although a lot of people disliked this one but I absolutely love it! I love the ultra-modern style of Oasis Landing, the build and buy content, hoverboards and jetpacks, plumbots and bot building, indoor/rooftop gardens and much more. Adds in a lot of fun stuff IMO
Close second is IP for the houseboats, scuba diving and Isla Paradiso.
University because I just love the whole "college" thing, even in TS2 I sent most of my Sims through university. And it adds plenty of new content.
And Seasons for the obvious reasons: weather and plenty of new gameplay
For stuff packs, I only have High End Loft Stuff and Master Suite stuff, because they were the only ones that really appealed to me at all, so it's hard to say which is my favourite, but I'll say Master Suite because I tend to use the furniture from that one more often.
Of the stuff packs I have H-ELS, FL, TL, Master S, and Diesel. Diesel is currently my favorite but Fast Lane has a sofa, love seat and desk I use in almost all my houses so that would be hard to give up.
I like to shorten the baby stage to the shortest - 2 days; the toddler stage to 5 days; leave the child and teen stage at the default; shorten the elder stage to 7 days; then lengthen the Y adult stage to 28 days and the adult stage to 27 days. All this leaves the life span at the same 90 days but lengthens the stages I like the most. I don't think I can do that without Generations.
Yes, you can. I don't have Generations and I have that option panel and change the duration of the life stages as well. They added this feature of Generations with the patch as well.
Thanks, I'll have to uninstall Gen again. The time I did it recently I must have done something wrong.
Edit to add: I know what the issue was - it happened yesterday and I still have Gen installed. When I went into options from the Main Menu / game selection, I could not move the life cycle sliders. But when I went into options after I was in one of my games then I could. That is probably what I did before.
In S3, there's bits and pieces here and there in each pack that I love so it's really hard to pick one pack over the others.
WA, I love the photography trait and the nectary. Sometimes I like the tombs as it provides a change of pace/scenery to my regular game playing.
Seasons, love the weather and some of the seasonal activities are pretty cool.
SN, love all the decor items, the clothes options, FINALLY elf ears and fairies. HATE the zombies, I knew I would and was really hoping this was a feature that could be turned off. Alas, I was wrong.
LN, the city aspect is new and cool. Usually games have been based in suburbia or the country side. Hated how they did the celebrity thing though, it's way too easy to get to 5 star.
University, I love all the new extra elements that came with it, though I hate the university campus itself. The social thing really annoys me too.
Ambitions, love being self employed and the other extra jobs like being a fire fighter, detective, etc. I haven't tried all of them yet, just the firefighting job.
Generations, the only thing I really liked about generations is the decor and the bunk beds. Some of the game playing stuff is cool too but most is stuff I can go without.
Pets, love the pets I just wish there was more to them. Horses & unicorns are awesome but I have to say I like the game playing part of S2 Pets more. Wasn't crazy about Appaloosa Plains either. Love the decor though.
Island paradise, love the ladders and Ilsa Pardiso as well as the mysterious islands scattered everywhere. The diving is pretty cool. I don't get to play this one much as my computer has a hard time running it smoothly.
Do not have Showtime or the Future pack. So i guess over all, Seasons would be my most liked packed
For TS3 my favorite pack would be Island Paradise. I was going to says Seasons, but reconsidered - I really love playing with houseboats, swimming in the oceans (and lakes) was great, Scuba Diving was a fun skill and I never had any lag in Isla Paradiso. In fact, Isla Paradiso is probably my favorite world (although right now I'm playing in Midnight Hollow). Seasons almost ties with Generations, though. Seasons beats out Generations only because most of the stuff in Generations should have been in the base game. Supernatural gets 4th place, which is a surprise for me because I only bought it for the objects - I was certain I wouldn't want to play any of the supernatural life-states, but discovered that Witch-Sims are awfully fun.
I'm not really found of the rest of the EPs that I have: World Adventures is too game-directed (and I hate how the tombs don't reset), Ambitions is the same (and the jobs are too repetitive), the pets in Pets take up too much of my Sim's time to be fun, University bored the pants off of me and while Late Night was good, I always had trouble with Bridgeport (plus the bars are empty). I never bothered to get Showtime (too much like Ambitions) or Into the Future (I'm not that interested).
The only SP I have is Town Life - and I only have that because it was free. I would have been interested in Outdoor Life and Fast Lane if they had been much cheaper - SPs just don't seem to be worth the cost.
You didn't ask, but my favorite pieces of Store Content are probably the Multitab 6000 (Premium Content), the Full Regal Living set (Sets), Midnight Hollow (World) and Serenity Retreat (Venue).
Interesting topic!
With stuff packs, I like Movie Stuff and Master Suite Stuff for the clothes.
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