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1. Post your tips for other players here about anything having to do with the sims: gameplay, building, creating sims, organizing cc, etc.
2. Write your tip in 2 sentences or less.
3. One tip per post.

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  • QueenofMyshunoQueenofMyshuno Posts: 1,506 Member
    Pro Tip: Lots tend to be long rather than wide, which doesn't leave enough room for a garage, among other things. To build a house with a sufficiently wide front on a smaller lot, use a lot on a corner and build so that the front of the house faces the side street.

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  • ChazzzyChazzzy Posts: 7,166 Member
    peragogo wrote: »
    Pro Tip: Whenever you make a sim, swap their frame from masculine to feminine and vice versa to double check their proportions. Their offspring will look better and the sims will look a bit more realistic.
    Bonus tip: use an unnatural or opposing skin tone to double check faces when making sims of colour to ensure you’re not using just using skin tone and hair texture as shorthand for ethnicity. :)

    I don’t understand what you mean in your bonus tip.
  • SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,644 Member
    School projects (Parenthood): Have the entire family assist the child/teen, not just one parent. There is room for at least 3 sims to assist, and I think it goes quicker the more assisting.
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  • peragogoperagogo Posts: 223 Member
    @Chazzzy Some simmers have trouble making sims that aren’t their own ethnicity- that tends to be a little more noticeable on the subreddits though. Swapping to green for a minute, for example, might make it easier to spot ways to be a bit more accurate with the kind of sim you’re trying to create. Basically, kinda like how Gamora still essentially looks like Zoe Saldana even though she’s green with prosthetics.
  • stilljustme2stilljustme2 Posts: 25,082 Member
    If you have a Sim complete the Painter Extraordinaire aspiration, they can also write the emotional books (Romance, Workout Guide, etc.) without having to be in the specified mood.
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  • QueenofMyshunoQueenofMyshuno Posts: 1,506 Member
    Pro Tip: Closeup shots, when added in with regular shots, can add visual interest and mood to your blog or screenshot collection. The following screenshot was for a post where sims were slow dancing.

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  • SimAlexandriaSimAlexandria Posts: 4,845 Member
    Fastest Ways To Build Toddler Skills:
    Movement: Slide from toddler stuff or the ‘wander’ interaction
    Communication: Blarffy (sooooo quick!)
    Imagination: Toys, TV or Doll house (ANOTHER TIP - if you don’t want parents to keep playing with doll house, make a small pocket in the house with a pet door. Toddlers can get through but adults can’t)

    For movement having an adult "PLay" with the toddler (the interaction where they toss them in the air etc. builds it SUPER quick too!
  • imhappyimhappy Posts: 1,988 Member
    If you want to increase your Get Together Club Points quickly, buy a radio. And then add “listen to music” as an activity. The sims will multitask and get double the points.
  • kusurusukusurusu Posts: 971 Member
    Fastest Ways To Build Toddler Skills:
    Movement: Slide from toddler stuff or the ‘wander’ interaction
    Communication: Blarffy (sooooo quick!)
    Imagination: Toys, TV or Doll house (ANOTHER TIP - if you don’t want parents to keep playing with doll house, make a small pocket in the house with a pet door. Toddlers can get through but adults can’t)

    Communication: talk to then hug (level 2+) stuffed toy
    Imagination: watch parent playing an instrument
    Thinking: watch parent
    Completing those should take 1-1.5 days only, leaving enough room for movement.
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  • kusurusukusurusu Posts: 971 Member
    Koteyka wrote: »
    Step 1: make sure testingcheats is enabled and create a pool on your active lot. Send your photographer into the pool.
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    At first I thought you're gonna drown the photographer.
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  • QueenofMyshunoQueenofMyshuno Posts: 1,506 Member
    Pro Tip: Many countries have fraternal organizations, such as the Moose Lodge in the United States, where people go to socialize, drink, listen to music, and dance. Instead of a Moose Lodge, use the many bear-related objects in game combined with the club system to make a Bear Lodge.

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  • duhboy2u2duhboy2u2 Posts: 3,290 Member
    Putting your outdoor electronics in your household inventory when there is a thunderstorm will save you a lot of simoleons worth of repair and replace bills for them.
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  • GordyGordy Posts: 3,015 Member
    Spellcasters are good at committing arson. Just go into other sims' houses and set startegic fires in various places around the house. Just make sure the fires are far away from the sims, so they don't notice them and prevent you from burning more things.
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  • babajaynebabajayne Posts: 1,866 Member
    To get a tense moodlet down fast, back float in a pool.
  • joRN1414joRN1414 Posts: 1,669 Member
    Pro Tip: To increase your 'fun' bar, buy earphones.

    The Sim can listen to them and do all other things and Fun will increase quickly. Works great for writer Sims that you're forcing to write for 23/24 hours a day. LOL.
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  • QueenofMyshunoQueenofMyshuno Posts: 1,506 Member
    Pro Tip: You know those group photos you force your family to pose for during the holidays? They're nice to have for your sims, too (use poses for best results).

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  • calaprfycalaprfy Posts: 3,927 Member
    If you sneeze, burp and fart at the same time, you'll die.
  • AnnLee87AnnLee87 Posts: 2,475 Member
    Quick ways to make good friends with celebrities... When you see a celebrity fishing send your sim over to fish and then click on the celebrity Sim and ask them to mentor fishing. When the famous Sim is walking by have the kid do a school project. With the kid Sim selected and ask celebrity to assist with project. Anyone working on the project will make goods friends quickly. For normal friends have the gym trainer mentor your Sim. Also, after an introduction, taking pictures with a camera of any Sim makes instant friends fast.
  • duhboy2u2duhboy2u2 Posts: 3,290 Member
    @AnnLee87 great tip(s)! I'll most certainly be using your techniques in the future. I've used mentor fitness to increase friendship with sims at the gym but hadn't ever thought of using fishing or school projects!
    Loving yourself is the most simple and complicated thing you can do for you.
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