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What features in TS3 have you not tried?
TinySpaceFox
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So, I've owned this amazing game for something like 8 years now 
Even though I don't have all the packs and I only own a fraction of the store content, there's still so much in this game that I've yet to do. Here's a short list of features that I haven't fully tried, or haven't touched at all, that I would like to try someday:
• All the active careers in Ambitions. I'm currently working my way up the firefighter and medical tracks, but would love to have a crack at the others, especially the ghost hunter one!
• The performer careers in Showtime. I've only tried out the singer career, and didn't manage to get to the top.
• The acting career in Late Night. Also the celebrity system in general, and clubs and that sort of stuff.
• Tomb-raiding in World Adventures. As fun as they seem, I haven't tried many of these at all. Same thing goes with the traveller reward system (I forget what it's called exactly).
• There are a number of skills that I've played with over the years but never managed to max out - logic, martial arts, charisma, and all the instrument skills besides guitar come to mind. Others I've never touched at all - like sculpting and mixology.
Of course, that list is not exhaustive, but we'd be stuck here forever if I was to try and type out a full one. Moving on, we have the flip side. Here are some things that I'm personally not interested in trying, or have tried but wouldn't really want to try again:
• Pretty much... the whole of Into the Future. Back when it first released, I feel like the main reason I got the pack was because "ooh look, shiny and modern and cool". But these days, I don't bother enabling it when I start up my game, because the gameplay honestly doesn't appeal to me all that much. Except dip kisses. Dip kisses rule.
• The horseman career from Pets. I've only played it once before, and personally felt it was quite a lot of grinding. Not too different from other self-employed careers in that sense, but this one had rabbit-holes involved on top of all that grinding (taking part in racing and showjumping at the equestrian centre), which made things that much more boring for me.
• Running a resort in Island Paradise. I've tried it before and it was fun, so it wasn't really an issue with the mechanic itself. It's just that the world these resorts came in had so many issues, and I'm not sure I'd enjoy just lifting these resorts out of Isla Paradiso and putting them straight into another world. It's not quite the same.
• The social networking skill from University Life. I've tried it before, but found it quite tedious to gain skill levels. And it would always annoy me how making a "good" post could cause loss of followers.
• Quite a number of the occult life states, including mummies (I'm only interested in taking them down!), aliens, PlantSims, and genies. They might be cool to interact with in-game, but I personally just don't see the appeal in playing them.
How about you? What are some things in TS3 you haven't tried but would (or wouldn't) like to?
Even though I don't have all the packs and I only own a fraction of the store content, there's still so much in this game that I've yet to do. Here's a short list of features that I haven't fully tried, or haven't touched at all, that I would like to try someday:• All the active careers in Ambitions. I'm currently working my way up the firefighter and medical tracks, but would love to have a crack at the others, especially the ghost hunter one!
• The performer careers in Showtime. I've only tried out the singer career, and didn't manage to get to the top.
• The acting career in Late Night. Also the celebrity system in general, and clubs and that sort of stuff.
• Tomb-raiding in World Adventures. As fun as they seem, I haven't tried many of these at all. Same thing goes with the traveller reward system (I forget what it's called exactly).
• There are a number of skills that I've played with over the years but never managed to max out - logic, martial arts, charisma, and all the instrument skills besides guitar come to mind. Others I've never touched at all - like sculpting and mixology.
Of course, that list is not exhaustive, but we'd be stuck here forever if I was to try and type out a full one. Moving on, we have the flip side. Here are some things that I'm personally not interested in trying, or have tried but wouldn't really want to try again:
• Pretty much... the whole of Into the Future. Back when it first released, I feel like the main reason I got the pack was because "ooh look, shiny and modern and cool". But these days, I don't bother enabling it when I start up my game, because the gameplay honestly doesn't appeal to me all that much. Except dip kisses. Dip kisses rule.
• The horseman career from Pets. I've only played it once before, and personally felt it was quite a lot of grinding. Not too different from other self-employed careers in that sense, but this one had rabbit-holes involved on top of all that grinding (taking part in racing and showjumping at the equestrian centre), which made things that much more boring for me.
• Running a resort in Island Paradise. I've tried it before and it was fun, so it wasn't really an issue with the mechanic itself. It's just that the world these resorts came in had so many issues, and I'm not sure I'd enjoy just lifting these resorts out of Isla Paradiso and putting them straight into another world. It's not quite the same.
• The social networking skill from University Life. I've tried it before, but found it quite tedious to gain skill levels. And it would always annoy me how making a "good" post could cause loss of followers.
• Quite a number of the occult life states, including mummies (I'm only interested in taking them down!), aliens, PlantSims, and genies. They might be cool to interact with in-game, but I personally just don't see the appeal in playing them.
How about you? What are some things in TS3 you haven't tried but would (or wouldn't) like to?
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Ambitions: All these years, I never had a sim that had Stylist or Architecture as their career. I do not enjoy designing sims or homes in this game. I am probably like the only person who only plays for gameplay so I don't think I will play with those careers anytime in the future.
Late Night: I had Sims Jam with all the instruments with all maxed skills but never really tried the band feature. That's the only thing really. I will get around to it eventually because I really enjoy jamming and why not gain some simoleons alongside.
Generations: Daycare career is something that seems interesting every time I think about doing it but I never actually tried it for some weird reason.
Pets: I tried every pet type at least once but I don't really care about pets or animals in general. I don't think I will return to it at any point.
Showtime: I got a computer that can at least meet the minimum requirements of TS3 back in 2012 so this pack was my entry point to The Sims 3. This was the last EP for a long while which is probably why I tried everything that came with it.
Supernatural: This is my absolute favourite pack so I think I tried everything that came with this. Still play with features that came with this pack in every single household of mine.
Seasons: Probably tried everything here as well.
University Life: Never played with a Sim that is oriented around a single social club. In fact I have them disabled in my game. They are too annoying. Also never tried Street Art skill. I tried some features of the Science skill but didn't really try every possible thing that is there. I will probably do a Science oriented playthrough at some point.
Island Paradise: Isla Paradiso actually performs better than Bridgeport on my PC (after I fixed it of course) so I got around to playing with everything in this pack like last month and I loved it. (except sims resetting when exploring underwater caves)
Into the Future: My 3rd favourite pack and because of this I tried everything except the Arena Official Branch of the Bot Arena career and Astrophysicist branch of the Astronomer career.
Ambitions : havent tried most of the features except Inventing, Sculpting, and Firefighter
Late Night : Havent tried band
Generations : Daycare
Pets : Havent collected all small pets and havent tame unicorn
Showtime : All of it
Supernatural : Fairy
Seasons : Already tried everything
University life : Science and Plantsim
Island Paradise : Atm trying every features
Into the Future : the new career.
I haven't done much with the criminal career or vampires. There are a few lifetime wishes I've never tired, or haven't done anything with once I had a sim with that wish.
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Ambitions : Never been a firefighter, architect, tattooist, or stylist
Late Night : Never had a band and I don't play musicians much other than with the violin. I wish we had an electric bass (not a stand up one) and that violinists could join a band.
Generations : I don't play a ton with kids and never played as a daycarer.
Pets : I've never done the horse career or actually tamed the unicorn.
Showtime : I've never used these careers.
Supernatural : Never played a fairy, vampire, or werewolf.
Seasons : This is one of my favorites, but I'm sure I have more to do.
University life : Working on doing all six majors on one sim, but I've never had a PlantSim or really participated in social groups (other than cheats to get the career!). I finally have a pretty social Sim, so she's autonomously getting social points.
Island Paradise : I've done a lot of this, except all the hidden islands.
Into the Future : Visited, but haven't done much otherwise.
I have sent sims to the future, and they've learned the skills there, but I still haven't gotten around to having any of them live there long-term, join either of the ITF careers, or raise a family there.
I've never had a sim in the lifeguard career, but I've had 2 professional scuba divers. I've found some of the islands in IP, but never all of them. I've never had a self-employed photographer.
Most of these are things I want to do one of these days, hopefully soon.
I also have not had sims in all of the university majors. Most of the sims I've sent to Uni have been in Fine Arts. I really want to get around to doing more of the others, especially business, which I think is the only one I've never done.
There are a lot of LTW's I've never used, and traits I've never used yet that I would like to. I can't think of anything else at the moment that I haven't done but want to do, but there probably are some things.
Oh, I haven't had a sim repair the classic car from RH, but I'm planning on doing that one soon.
Basically I have all EPs but I never actually played World Adventures or Into The Future
When I started to play the sims it was about 4 years ago, at some point I purchased all missing EPs on a sale.
I did use items from those EPs in other saves, but I really want to explore those EPs in a special save but don't have enough time for this...
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I believe I’ve tried all the other stuff at some stage.
Ambitions: Haven't played as the Stylist, Tattooist or Architect
Late Night: Haven't played in a band or went in the Acting related Careers
Generations: Haven't played as a Daycare
Pets: Haven't done the horse career or caught any animals
Showtime: Haven't played as a Singer or Magician
Supernatural: Haven't played as a Werewolf or Witch
Seasons: Haven't collected every Gnome
University Life: Haven't sent any Sim to College yet (I was planning to send Medea to College in The Molyneux Redux Save)
Into The Future: Haven't got the Legacy Statues or had a Sim in the Robotics Career
I haven't had a Sim in the following Base Game Careers: Medical and Criminal (Before December 2018, it was Medical, Military and Criminal Careers that was the Base Game Careers I hadn't tried at this point)
There are some Traits I haven't used yet
I haven't played a historical-based storyline
However some of those things (such as sending a Sim to College and the Robotics Career) I am hoping I will do at some point in the Legacy
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Ambitions : I don't do a lot of self employed careers so I haven't tried being a gardener, fisherman, painter etc. I like a lot of the active careers in this one, though.
Late Night : Never had a band, never tried any vampire LTWs.
Generations : I have never used the chemistry set or the baking table thing. I didn't even realize parents could read the children to sleep until recently. I've never tried having a daycare as a career.
Pets : Pretty much all, I have to choose between Pets and Seasons for my game to work and Seasons wins every time. I played it for a bit when I first got it but now I don't even install it. I think the only LTW I tried for that one was the unicorn one?
Showtime : I have never finished the Magician career but I love the acrobat and singer ones. This is another one that I have but it's not installed.
Supernatural : I have never played as a ghost. I haven't tried a lot of the werewolf LTWs (Leader of the pack etc) but I love witches and fairies and have tried all of those LTWs.
Seasons : I've never played as an alien or had my sim have an alien baby.
University life : Plantsim, a lot of the social stuff and LTWs. I mainly only use UL for the extra traits, CAS, and build/buy. I haven't had one of my sims go to University since I first got the EP.
Island Paradise : I am never, ever going to finish the Seaside Savior LTW. I have tried so many times. I haven't tried the Grand Explorer LTW yet, either but now that I have the fixed version of IP, I'm going to try it soon.
Into the Future : I have tried everything in this one but like UL, I only use because of the features not the LTWs or activities
It's amazing that there is still so much to try in this game after years and years of playing!
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Plant Sims from University Life
Aliens from Seasons
Genies from Showtime
Acrobat career from Showtime
Ghost Hunter from Ambitions
Detective from Ambitions
Pretty much everything in Generations
I’ve never finished college in University Life
Never found a Hidden island in Island Paradise
Never got a gig in Late Night
Never reached 5 star celebrity level from Late Night
That’d all I can think of that the moment
I've dabbled in a lot of stuff, but I'm a Jack of all trades; master of (almost) none.
Stuff I've never done is the following:
1. Supernatural. I played as a vampire for a couple hours and that's all I've done with the life states. I like the build/buy objects, but the occult just isn't my play style. I like realism.
2. Pets. Never had a horse, nor a unicorn. I have a family with two dogs, but I honestly never interact with them except to fill the bowls. My sims do autonomously, and that's the only reason they haven't been neglected. I had a cat in a save that I played one day and then never touched again.
3. Gold digging. I've never married a rich sim, let alone killed one. I should do that some time.
4. Scuba diving. It sounds pretty cool, but I just haven't gotten around to it.
5. Anything other than Sunset Valley. So many worlds to choose from and I always choose SV. I love Midnight Hollow for spooky builds, and I've built houseboats in IP, and that's not to say I haven't dabbled in the other worlds...but it's never been more than checking to see what the world has to offer.
There are still a million things in TS3 that I haven't done, but that's what comes to mind.
Anything Evil (Evil/Mean/Kleptomaniac trait, Criminal career, Gold digger/Criminal LTWs, etc)
Jack of all trades and Heartbreaker LTW
Death by Starvation
World Adventures:
Anything Related to Mummies
Ambitions:
Ghost Buster Career (I did it once when I first got the pack but only for a few days)
Simbots
Late Night:
Becoming a five-star celebrity
Owning a bar
Generations:
Teaching a teen to drive
Pets
The LTWs to befriend 15 dogs/cats
A pet saving a sim from death
Showtime:
Acrobat career/LTW
Box of Danger Deaths
Supernatural:
Werewolves
Alchemy
Any of the LTWs
Supernatural skeptic trait
Seasons:
Freezing to death (had a few close calls though)
Spontaneous combustion
University Life:
Plant Sims
Reaching the top of a social group
New careers
Vending Machine/Murphy Bed Death
Island Paradise:
Mermaids (I may have played them once or twice, but rarely and for a short time)
The Kraken
Owning a 5-star resort
Any of the new deaths
Reaching the top of the Lifeguard Career
Any of the new LTWs
Discovering a hidden island
Into the Future:
A few of the legacy statues
That one career involving the bot arena
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I barely "completed" anything in The Sims 3 so the list is too long
Horses/unicorns, Simbot, mummies, werewolves, aliens (I've tried to get those however), all small pets. Horses just DON'T fit into any of the worlds I play. (that and I don't want to see horses getting around the ocean on boats in Isla Paradiso.)
For gameplay features
Never did chess tournaments, martial arts tournaments (I just train MA to 10 and thats that), any of the showtime careers, all ambitions careers BUT firefighting (yeesh to using the stylist a few times a Sim day as a job, the loadtimes VS playtime would be horrifying), aging. It's always been off since Day 1. Pet breeding, Pranking, WA photography, EA story progression (I opted for mods to do its job). And the police career.
As for worlds, basically any world but Bridgeport, Isla Paraidso, Sunset Valley and the sub worlds like the WA locations (even thats rarely), the Uni CAMPUS and the future.
It's a shame, so many features look cool to me. But then it's still hard to try out a lot of the features when your families larger than 2 Sims with how often you need to then mulitask. I already find it hard enough to have my Sims leave the house nowadays so even the open worlds verging on almost never used by me!