Basically, if you need and like kids ' stuff, there is a way to get sets worth thousands of points from the store by spending only a few hundreds. But you have to do it in the exact order described in the first post, by using complete-a-set to get the Animals Abound Playground. I did it and it worked!
It worked. I got all that stuff for less than 500 points!
@Katofhyrule12 Do you know about the daily deal rotation thread? https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/866448/daily-deal-dd-2018-rotation-list-and-sales-help/p1
It's updated pretty much every day. It's worth reading all the info on the first page and keeping an eye on the tracker spreadsheet linked there as you can make your Sim points go way further. I got Sunlit Tides (the world) for something like half price! I think that's the only world that is on the daily deal but so much of the other store content is there!
@Katofhyrule12 , I think they will all still work! As far as I know, the only thing that has changed in the Store is that the weekly sales used to change every week, and now they are always the same offers.
@FreddyFox1234 mentioning that Sunlit Tides is the only world that appears in the Daily Deals reminded me of another useful store quirk: Barnacle Bay will sometimes randomly be available to some people for free. It happened to me too! Discussed here:
I found the daily deal this morning, eventually landing there after clicking through threads that linked to threads.
I have enough points to waste on experimenting, but I still do not totally understand something about all this. I have no idea what the spreadsheet is about.
Somehow I have Barnacle Bay. I bought a combination pack at EA, and ... I am a bit confused about what I bought. After I bought the "complete" pack and base game at Steam, I bought some stuff at EA, including a combination pack, and I thought I finally had it all. Then I found out that there was more at the store and that what I bought at EA came with some points for the store. It is all so confusing.
I have Riverview, Monte Vista, Hidden Springs, and Dragon Valley listed as "free". Barnacle Bay is not listed as free, but I can download it.
I found the daily deal this morning, eventually landing there after clicking through threads that linked to threads.
I have enough points to waste on experimenting, but I still do not totally understand something about all this. I have no idea what the spreadsheet is about.
Somehow I have Barnacle Bay. I bought a combination pack at EA, and ... I am a bit confused about what I bought. After I bought the "complete" pack and base game at Steam, I bought some stuff at EA, including a combination pack, and I thought I finally had it all. Then I found out that there was more at the store and that what I bought at EA came with some points for the store. It is all so confusing.
I have Riverview, Monte Vista, Hidden Springs, and Dragon Valley listed as "free". Barnacle Bay is not listed as free, but I can download it.
Yeah, it is all quite complicated when you’re new to it. I don’t know what you got on Steam but I guess it may have been the base game plus all the expansions and stuff packs except for the Katy Perry one (which I don’t think you can get any more). You probably know there are no game packs or kits like in Sims 4, but instead there is the Store to buy extra content using Sim Points, including more worlds, venues, BB and CAS, plus the exchange (like an earlier form of TS4 gallery). So there is loads of content on the Store but it’s pretty expensive at full price and Points get used up quickly if you don’t make the most of deals etc. You can buy more Points, but they cost a lot.
The Daily Deal rotation thread has loads of info on page 1 about how to make the most of your Sim Points, but it is a lot to take in and I had to read it over and over again to get the hang of what I wanted to know. Basically, every single day a number of Store items are on sale at a reduced price, each one for a limited number of hours only (2 or 3 hours, I can’t remember which). I think most (but definitely not all) the Store content is included in these deals, which rotate in a rotation that has been fixed since around 2014, so some very kind Simmers have worked out when exactly (day and precise time according to your region in the world) particular items will be on sale, and for how much, and they keep this list updated almost every day in the Daily Deal rotation thread, and also for the coming months on the spreadsheet so that you can plan ahead for upcoming deals. A lot of the items are included in the rotation multiple times but with a different reduction each time, so the colour coding on the spreadsheet shows you which is the best deal (I think green is the best and red is the worst). So I was tracking Sunlit Tides a while back and found when it would next be at its cheapest, and at a time when I was actually awake and not in the middle of the night (!), and then I bought it. It’s a great way to get more Store content for your Points.
You can also use Make Me An Offer on the Store to get reduced price content.
Sorry if you already know a lot of this already, or if this makes things more confusing than they were already! But hopefully something here might help a little, and hopefully you’ll get yourself some really good deals!
Sorry if you already know a lot of this already, or if this makes things more confusing than they were already! But hopefully something here might help a little, and hopefully you’ll get yourself some really good deals!
I own everything in the Sims 3 store and even purchased many expansions and stuff packs a second time to switch to disk-only install to 1.67. According to my records, I have spent a total of $1019.04 for everything. I did use the daily deals and got a lot of stuff for cheap and free. According to my spreadsheet, I saved 67% doing this.
I own everything in the Sims 3 store and even purchased many expansions and stuff packs a second time to switch to disk-only install to 1.67. According to my records, I have spent a total of $1019.04 for everything. I did use the daily deals and got a lot of stuff for cheap and free. According to my spreadsheet, I saved 67% doing this.
Thank you for sharing!
Today, I bough the Ballet barre (full price) and the Gentleman's Lounge (Daily Deal). I have a long wishlist, but I am not paying full price for these things. I do not trust that this game will even be working in a year. If I could save store content and install it to an offline computer, that would be different. All our games are ticking time bombs just waiting for a Windows update to break them and EA deciding not to fix it. These prices are too high for such an old game.
The Ballet Barre cannot be applied to a discount towards the larger package. The package is full price despite owning part of the pack already.
I want the tea set, but I cannot buy it unless I purchase the entire Brunch set.
Maybe they don't want us stocking up on things for a ticking timebomb, that is also competition for the Sims 4.
Today, I bough the Ballet barre (full price) and the Gentleman's Lounge (Daily Deal). I have a long wishlist, but I am not paying full price for these things. I do not trust that this game will even be working in a year. If I could save store content and install it to an offline computer, that would be different. All our games are ticking time bombs just waiting for a Windows update to break them and EA deciding not to fix it. These prices are too high for such an old game.
The Ballet Barre cannot be applied to a discount towards the larger package. The package is full price despite owning part of the pack already.
I want the tea set, but I cannot buy it unless I purchase the entire Brunch set.
Both the Brunch set and the Ballet Barre lot set go on sale during the daily deals. I've bought everything on the store on sale at one time or another.
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Both the Brunch set and the Ballet Barre lot set go on sale during the daily deals. I've bought everything on the store on sale at one time or another.
I am still confused by the DD lists. I was using ctrl F to try and search it, but because it is so many pages, things are listed that did not come up in my search. I see now that more things do go on sale than I realized.
I am very frustrated by all the premium items that are not for sale individually. I'll just wait and see what is for sale each day, and take it day by day.
For me, I’d say the Sky High Roller Coaster is my favourite store object, I used to play Theme Park World (also published by EA and made by Bullfrog maaaany years ago) a lot and the roller coaster when I saw The Sims 3 Store had it was really cool! I do kinda wish you could use an additional Loading Zone on it though so like you could do multiple stops, like a train station or a minecart, but oh well it’s not intended to be used like that lol. I also really like the Renault stuff too, I missed out on the branded stuff like the Toyota or Ford cars though and the Katy Perry poster, among other things since I didn’t get the game until 2018 on Steam.
Ooooh if you like supernaturals then the cauldron & fortune tellers crystal ball. The garden set with new plants is also great. if you play with families and like toddlers, the walker and the play pen, two really great objects. And lastly if you want your sims to have new fun hobbies or activities There’s two i recommend: The prism art studio comes with a glass blowing machine with new craftable items and a skill. The studio itself is really nice but i think you may (?) be able to buy the object by itself, not sure. Or the casino objects. There’s the slot machine, and a roulette/blackjack table set! Ok I am done now
Ooooh if you like supernaturals then the cauldron & fortune tellers crystal ball. The garden set with new plants is also great. if you play with families and like toddlers, the walker and the play pen, two really great objects. And lastly if you want your sims to have new fun hobbies or activities There’s two i recommend: The prism art studio comes with a glass blowing machine with new craftable items and a skill. The studio itself is really nice but i think you may (?) be able to buy the object by itself, not sure. Or the casino objects. There’s the slot machine, and a roulette/blackjack table set! Ok I am done now
Omg YES, I forgot about the casino and the objects! I still want to make a casino lot!
There are no tabs on the spreadsheet when I open it in the browser. I need to download the spreadsheet and open it with MS office to have access to the tabs. NOW I understand. Without the tabs, I did not have access to a LOT of information that people assumed that I had access to.
I also wanted to say, I really wish that stuff like the pre-order bonuses were available to buy for SimPoints on the websites and especially the branded content that I missed, I’m gutted I missed out on more content because I didn’t get Sims 3 until 2018 lol…
I bought TS3 for $20 in 2016 and it came with the Late Night expansion pack. That pack is so much fun, I make almost all of my households in Bridgeport because it's my favorite map. I love the ability to make my Sims celebrities and/or vampires, there are so many aspects in that pack that make the base game way less fun to me.
I can believe that if you went through the store and added up the individual price of each item it could come out to that much. But nobody buys stuff that way. Even just buying sets will cost way less than that. And use of complete your set, daily deals etc, you can get a lot of stuff for way less.
I haven't added up all the money I've spent on Sims 3, but it's easily between US$1,000-2,000. Spread out over an 8 year period with thousands of hours of play, I feel it was a good value.
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It worked. I got all that stuff for less than 500 points!
So there are more cascades? These might still work?
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/809797/cascades-daily-deals-getting-the-best-bang-for-your-sp/p1
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/866448/daily-deal-dd-2018-rotation-list-and-sales-help/p1
It's updated pretty much every day. It's worth reading all the info on the first page and keeping an eye on the tracker spreadsheet linked there as you can make your Sim points go way further. I got Sunlit Tides (the world) for something like half price! I think that's the only world that is on the daily deal but so much of the other store content is there!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/917441/barnacle-bay-free#Comment_15740022
I have enough points to waste on experimenting, but I still do not totally understand something about all this. I have no idea what the spreadsheet is about.
Somehow I have Barnacle Bay. I bought a combination pack at EA, and ... I am a bit confused about what I bought. After I bought the "complete" pack and base game at Steam, I bought some stuff at EA, including a combination pack, and I thought I finally had it all. Then I found out that there was more at the store and that what I bought at EA came with some points for the store. It is all so confusing.
I have Riverview, Monte Vista, Hidden Springs, and Dragon Valley listed as "free". Barnacle Bay is not listed as free, but I can download it.
Yeah, it is all quite complicated when you’re new to it. I don’t know what you got on Steam but I guess it may have been the base game plus all the expansions and stuff packs except for the Katy Perry one (which I don’t think you can get any more). You probably know there are no game packs or kits like in Sims 4, but instead there is the Store to buy extra content using Sim Points, including more worlds, venues, BB and CAS, plus the exchange (like an earlier form of TS4 gallery). So there is loads of content on the Store but it’s pretty expensive at full price and Points get used up quickly if you don’t make the most of deals etc. You can buy more Points, but they cost a lot.
The Daily Deal rotation thread has loads of info on page 1 about how to make the most of your Sim Points, but it is a lot to take in and I had to read it over and over again to get the hang of what I wanted to know. Basically, every single day a number of Store items are on sale at a reduced price, each one for a limited number of hours only (2 or 3 hours, I can’t remember which). I think most (but definitely not all) the Store content is included in these deals, which rotate in a rotation that has been fixed since around 2014, so some very kind Simmers have worked out when exactly (day and precise time according to your region in the world) particular items will be on sale, and for how much, and they keep this list updated almost every day in the Daily Deal rotation thread, and also for the coming months on the spreadsheet so that you can plan ahead for upcoming deals. A lot of the items are included in the rotation multiple times but with a different reduction each time, so the colour coding on the spreadsheet shows you which is the best deal (I think green is the best and red is the worst). So I was tracking Sunlit Tides a while back and found when it would next be at its cheapest, and at a time when I was actually awake and not in the middle of the night (!), and then I bought it. It’s a great way to get more Store content for your Points.
You can also use Make Me An Offer on the Store to get reduced price content.
Sorry if you already know a lot of this already, or if this makes things more confusing than they were already! But hopefully something here might help a little, and hopefully you’ll get yourself some really good deals!
This helped a lot. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing!
Today, I bough the Ballet barre (full price) and the Gentleman's Lounge (Daily Deal). I have a long wishlist, but I am not paying full price for these things. I do not trust that this game will even be working in a year. If I could save store content and install it to an offline computer, that would be different. All our games are ticking time bombs just waiting for a Windows update to break them and EA deciding not to fix it. These prices are too high for such an old game.
The Ballet Barre cannot be applied to a discount towards the larger package. The package is full price despite owning part of the pack already.
I want the tea set, but I cannot buy it unless I purchase the entire Brunch set.
Maybe they don't want us stocking up on things for a ticking timebomb, that is also competition for the Sims 4.
Both the Brunch set and the Ballet Barre lot set go on sale during the daily deals. I've bought everything on the store on sale at one time or another.
I am still confused by the DD lists. I was using ctrl F to try and search it, but because it is so many pages, things are listed that did not come up in my search. I see now that more things do go on sale than I realized.
I am very frustrated by all the premium items that are not for sale individually. I'll just wait and see what is for sale each day, and take it day by day.
Omg YES, I forgot about the casino and the objects! I still want to make a casino lot!
This is where I learned that the spreadsheet has tabs.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NIeS9yIMAw-fA7VhseLilqCOV5XfKoSJXwbyyKQLJP4/edit#gid=882235701
There are no tabs on the spreadsheet when I open it in the browser. I need to download the spreadsheet and open it with MS office to have access to the tabs. NOW I understand. Without the tabs, I did not have access to a LOT of information that people assumed that I had access to.
I can believe that if you went through the store and added up the individual price of each item it could come out to that much. But nobody buys stuff that way. Even just buying sets will cost way less than that. And use of complete your set, daily deals etc, you can get a lot of stuff for way less.
I haven't added up all the money I've spent on Sims 3, but it's easily between US$1,000-2,000. Spread out over an 8 year period with thousands of hours of play, I feel it was a good value.