Sims 3 Site Update – 9/21/11

 

The Sims 3 website has (and still is) undergoing maintenance, and so far they have added a premium content tab to the Store.  Besides the category section – which now has become part of the side tab in the store -, they have a “Learn about Premium Content” section which helps explain this content better and will keep it organized for your spending pleasure.

There seems to be new recipe/food options coming soon as Premium Content! Check this out!

 

Some Premium Content items will allow your Sims to learn and cast spells and to play with magic. Others will allow your Sims to prepare and enjoy all-new culinary creations!

 

New food? Will EA Stop adding new recipes to Games and make us pay for them? 🙄 Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea..but not when it’s at the expansion’s expense.  Time will tell I suppose.

 

 

They have also added new information to each Premium Content.  How large & who can use it to be exact.

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Reminder: Sale Price Ending Soon for Hidden Springs!

 

So you know that awesome $2.00 discount EA gave us for Hidden Springs?  Well, it will be included back into the price this Saturday.  September 24th, 2011 Hidden Springs will no longer be on “sale” so if anyone still wants to grab it at that discount <– 😛  Go right ahead!

 

 

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Whisker-less Cats in Pets?

 

Until someone brought it to my attention, I had not noticed that the Cats in Pets do not have any whiskers.  I am a super Cat lover (I have 8!) and seeing all the photos of Cats without whiskers is starting to look a bit gross.

You can see an album full of Cats here, and even check out this up close photo provided by Edenstyle. All these photos show whisker-less Cats, both on their mouth and eyebrows.
 

 

I am not one to complain about small detail…but this is not small in my opinion.  Cats have whiskers and there are only a few breeds of Cats that do not have them.  I hope they add whiskers in the final version of this game. Gurus have not answered this question (asked many times) via Twitter, so if anyone can try spamming the chat tomorrow with this question of whiskers..please do. 😆

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The Sims Hub – Sims 3 Pets Q&A with Producers

 

There were many interviews yesterday with Pets producers and with translation errors playing a big roll, I am only going to be posting the English versions.  Here is a Q&A from The Sims Hub!  Check it out!

 

Chris: Hi everyone!

JoAnna Lio: Hi I’m JoAnna Lio and I’m the producer for The Sims 3 Pets on console.

Ryan Vauhgan: I’m the producer on the PC team for the Pets expansion pack.

Kelly Mondragon: And I’m Kelly Mondragon, producer for the 3DS version of Pets.

C: Let’s start off with the unicorn. The unicorn looks really interesting and new for the franchise. What can we expect from it? Who’s idea was it initially?

R: We’re actually going to be doing a live demo during the digital town hall event and show off the unicorns and the really cool stuff!

C: Can you teach a parrot or any other type of bird to talk?

R: You can. That’s actually another thing we’re going to be showing off during the event.

J: (Laughs)

R: There’s a whole assortment of different birds with really cool interactions you can have with them.

C: How can Sims and pets interact with wild animals such as deer? And when is the best time to see wild animals in the world?

R: They come by quite a bit. One of the things that stands out to me is the raccoon that comes into the yard and tips over the garbage. Depending on the traits, if you have a dog with the aggressive trait he might bark and want to be let out and might get into a fight with the raccoon. So there are lots of different ways to interact with them. Your Sims can befriend wild horses and befriend a unicorn after a while, so there’s lots of different ways to interact with them depending on their traits and relationships.

 

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NRaas Industries – The Traveler Mod!

 

Alright Simmers, a new type of game play awaits!  Twallan has done it again!  This time around he has created the Traveler mod!  What does it do?  Besides the long list of things below, it allows you to travel within any world installed in your game and if you want, you can also move to any of the (World Adventures) Sub-hoods..Permanently!

Live in Twinbrook but want to take a short trip to Bridgeport to bar hop?  Done.  Live in Sunset Valley and need a relaxing weekend in Hidden Springs?  Done! Sick of all the Expansion Worlds and want to move to Shang Simla and live? Done!

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Head over to NRaas Industries and get this mod! :mrgreen:

 

THE MOD

This mod replaces the travel code, and re-enables the script error logging. If the travel system fails, the logs will make things easier to track down the issue and repair it.

Oh yeah, it also has the capability to load any World as a Vacation destination.

  • Change Hometown
    • Allows you to change your hometown and permanently live in a vacation world
    • The option is only available while playing the travel family on a vacation
  • Pause Travel
    • Whether to pause the travel clock while on vacation
    • The option is only available while playing the travel family on a vacation
    • Default: False
  • Prompt To Save
    • Whether to display the “Save As” prompt just prior transitioning between towns
    • Default: True
  • Remove Travel Restrictions
    • Removes the restrictions applied to babies/toddlers, pregnant sims, and sims who traveled recently
    • The option is only available while playing the home-town
    • Default: False
  • Show Debugging
    • Enables the notices and logs used to debug the mod. Do not enable this unless requested by the mod’s creator.
    • Default: False
  • Traveler World Cost Per Day
    • How much to charge for each day to visit a custom destination
    • The option is only available while playing the home-town
    • Default: 200
  • Treat As Vacation
    • Whether to act as if the sim is on vacation when visiting a custom destination
    • The option is only available while playing the travel family on a vacation
    • Default: True
  • Total Reset
    • Resets the mod’s settings to their tuning defaults
  • Version
    • Displays the version of the mod

 

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Horse Poo Anyone?

 

…well sorda! 😛  Platinum Simmers has just posted a Q&A with Sims 3 Pets Producers and guess what?  Horse Poo will be a new type of fertilizer for our plants!  Yum! 😆

 

H: And what about horses? Do they prefer to sleep in the stables than in the garden – we’ve seen them sleeping just in the garden from some demos.

R: Yeah, they will have these – we’re calling them box stalls – and that’s a really good place for horses to go to sleep, or they can go in there and eat. And then your Sims can go in there and clean up the stable, and as they do that they can collect fertiliser for their garden – they’ll grow better quality fruits and vegetables in their garden if they use the fertiliser out of the box stall.

 

Read the Full Q&A here!

 
 

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Poll Results & New Poll!

 

Now that all the Pets Previews are out of the way, here are the results for the last Poll.  I asked you what you would pay for in the Sims 3 Store (as far as premium content), and the winning type was Life States & Creatures with 555 votes!

I chose Recipes/Foods.  I personally think we do not have as many as we could have in all the packs, and it seems they keep skimping on them with each new pack. 🙁  Heck, Sims Social has more food!

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The new poll up today is asking which interactive objects you would like to see back in the Sims 3 series.  I have put up a few objects with the help of Twitter peeps, so go ahead and select your favorites!  Multiple choice is enabled for this poll. 🙂

 

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