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The free set from 15 januari - 12 februari is the Baby Bottle Replacement. No more green stuff for your baby's and toddlers, you can give them some real milk now!
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TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 4, 12:30
Time for me to spill the beans about another feature of the game for those folks hungry for more juicy details about the game. Ok enough clues.. Food! Food and groceries actually, another deep feature of the game for which details are only just starting to emerge.
I already blogged about gardening so you know that Sims can harvest fresh ingredients already, but they can also obtain them from the grocery store. They can also buy goods for the home and fish to restock their goldfish bowl should 'swimmy' meet an untimely end. The list of ingredients that you can load into your cart at the store is impressive. I listed 24 so far which include anchovy, links (sausages), cheese, potatoes, steak, roast (turkey), tuna, eggs and all of the harvestable items too.
After buying all these ingredients I sent my Sim to stop by the library on the way home. Here I was able to acquire 3 skill books; Cooking Volume 1: Too much salt, Cooking Volume 2: Why you need baking soda and Cooking Volume 3: Yummy and delicious. I also picked up recipe sheets for some popular dishes like Fish & Chips, Cookies, Fruit Parfait, Cheese Steak, Eggs Machiavellian, Baked Angel Food Cake and Ambrosia. Some of these require higher cooking skills as well, but once your Sim reads one of these recipe books they have the required knowledge to be able to make it in their kitchen, as long as the current food stocks allow.
The Sim food looks great, and there are far more variants of dishes that can be prepared than in previous base games. I think the process of obtaining individual ingredients rather than just stocking the fridge with an undefined $50 worth of food is a welcome detail for my game too.
Other items that you can buy from the store for your home include Worlds Brew Bubble Bath, Mood-Lite Candles, the Birthday Inferno Birthday Cake and the Ducksworth of Bathington (a little rubber ducky).
/Steve
TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 4, 10:00
I guess it might not be completely clear to everyone what's actually going on here at EA and what the creator's are actually doing, so I figured I'd take some time out to tell you.
The groups of creators have been split into 2 rooms, one room for Machinima and the other for Custom Content. Everyone started out by creating their accounts at the new Sims 3 Exchange and then got right into the game, playing around with the new features and getting used to the new user interface. Since then it has been all about creating content and uploading it to the Exchange, populating their profiles with the very first content that will be available to you when the game ships.
The Machinima Artists have been writing stories and shooting in game movies, while the CC Creators have been putting "Create A Style" through its paces, matching colors and textures to generate some great looking alternatives to the stock game objects, hairs, furnishings, walls and pretty much everything else in the game, given that there is hardly anything that you can't restyle in the game now.
In between creating they are being whisked away to a studio for a quick makeover and PR briefing before being interviewed at length about all things Sim. These interviews will be used to generate a kind of documentary about the event and the creators, just like they did way back with the first Sims 2 event. You can expect to see this posted online or bundled with something on disc very soon.
The film crews have been following our every move all week as well (as I write this there is someone filming me blogging… how freaky is that?). They are moving around the room grabbing shots of people playing Sims 3 and creating content.
More detailed blogs later, although I also have a few commitments to interviews during the afternoon.. I'll tell you about those tonight or tomorrow.
/Steve
TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 3, 17:15
Just time to throw something completely new into the mix!
The Sims 3 has a Party Planner for your Sims! When a Sim uses a phone to throw a party the Party Planner screen pops up. Here you can choose which kind of party it should be (currently just House Party or Birthday Party), the day and time the party should start and the dress code. You can opt to have all your sims arrive in casual clothing, formalwear or swimwear. Then you just add the friends you want to attend in the invite list.
Of course not all guests will turn up but later in the game you can acquire the status of "Legendary Host", guaranteeing that all of your invites will be gratefully accepted with attendance guaranteed.
Party on!
/Steve
TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 3, 16:00
Sims 3 has gardening! Really, detailed gardening! The gardening system is huge and quite similar to Sims 2 Seasons, but you know what? Sims 3 had it first! Of course we didn't know about it because it was so long in development, but the Sims 3 team developed the gardening system for their game before the Sims 2 team took it for their EP.
This is evident early on in your game when creating Sims as the Green Fingers and Loves the Outdoors traits lend themselves perfectly for Sims who wish to tend their gardens, grow their own fruit and vegetables and spend quality time in the great outdoors.
Sims can collect fruits and vegetables as they explore the neighbourhood. These can then be taken home and either used right out of their inventory for cooking great new dishes, or they can put them in the refrigerator so the whole family can make use of them. Alternatively, plant these gathered fruits and veg at home to provide a crop for the family, or to sell at the local "Everfresh Delights" supermarket.
Some of the harvestables include the apple tree, lime tree, grape vine, watermelon vine, bell pepper plant, wild garlic, lettuce plant, onion plant and tomato plant. There are also some rare flowers including the death flower and the life fruit. A sim in possession of a death flower at the time they meet their untimely end are able to deal with the Grim Reaper who will gladly take the death flower instead of a Sims soul! The life fruit can be used to extend the life of a Sim, but if used in cooking to make a quality Ambrosia, it can be used to bring ghosts back to life.
Planted fruits and veg can be tended, weeded and watered. Sim gardening skill levels increase as they study or practice gardening too. Plant and harvest quality can be improved with fertilizing, a by product of all that fishing your Sim can engaging (rotten fist seem to do the trick). Fruit quality can be perfect, nice, poor, foul, putrid or horrifying! The rarity of certain plants also adds value to them when selling at the local market.
Its perfectly possible for a Sim to make a comfortable living from their gardening skills, meaning they can become a recluse and life their quiet little life at home!
I hope that throws a new play details in your direction, its certainly new to me and I haven't seen it mentioned before in any of the previews. I've been playing the system today, picking wild garlic in the graveyard (well duh) and looking around fishing lakes for rare flowers. Loving it already!
/Steve
TS3 Creator's Camp: Day 3, 15:30
Sunset Valley is packed with locations that Sims can visit, use, work at and more! These include Papyrus Memorial Library and the Sunset Institute of Modern Art. Lets look at some others in more detail.
The local hospital is called the Sacred Spleen Memorial Hospital. As well as this being one of the work locations which Sims attend (the medical career kicks things off with the Organ Donor job), they can also attend for other reasons. Pregnant Sims can visit the hospital to have their baby if they choose, and later down the career path, Sims can come here to donate organs! There are apparently several body parts that a Sim can donate, their spleen being one of them!
The dead centre of the neighbourhood (pun intended) is the Pleasant Rest Graveyard. Sims can visit to mourn loved ones and engrave an epitaph on their gravestones. They can visit the mausoleum and even get a part time job here as a grave digger! They can also pull fish from the graveyard pond!
The Wilsonoff Community Theatre is the workplace of Music Career Sims, but they can also visit for a tour of the theatre, to watch a movie, or attend guitar classes. Hogans Deep Fried Diner is a great place to go and eat or drink alone or with other Sims. You can also visit here to join the Culinary Career and attend cooking classes.
Something new to me (and most likely you) is the fact that your Sim can buy into the partnership of these Community Lots. It's costly (around §7,000) but your Sim will then earn an income from that Lot. They can then go on to buy out other partners until they eventually own the business (at a cost of around §20,000). Once you own the company you can rename it, fire the staff if you don't like them and make use of its facilities for free, so free food or books or movies. You can eventually buy up many or all of the properties and have a Monopoly of the town, but given the huge expense this would be something you might aspire to later in Sim life when you have lots of funds and fulfilled many wants.
So that's a huge update on Community Lots. Back soon with a great new topic I've been experimenting with all day!
/Steve
Sims Online objects
This week I will be submitting some objects that use graphics from The Sims Online, which were converted to Sims1 format and very generously made available by Peter of Atelier Quebec. As with previous objects of mine, some of these will be using the "joinable" bases from Lost Sims as well.
DON�T PANIC
Hi everybody!!
I know that the new site has got everyone on their toes and that there are a few start up problems, but hang in there wont you they are working on it. One of the problems is with the links to the required items and I do have a few in my lots either go through the old site http://v6.thesimsresource.com/artists/Elut/ or PM me and I´ll help you out.
Elut
Bad news...
Something really awful happened to me:
As I had some major problems with OFB, I deinstalled it a few days ago, but I haven't made a security copy of my game.. So, to be clear: My game has been reseted, with that all my sims, MY DOWNLOADS FOLDER (which was a few giga big) and all my screenies.
This is an additional burden for me, as I was really late with my updates on my story and now as I lost everything from my game... I don't know. I really don't know if I will continue writing on it, maybe some time later but for now I'm really p*****.
I was able to bring back Charlize, my major character in my story, as I had saved her somewhere else. I brought back Shia LaBeouf.. But the problem is that I lost my town and all the houses that I played in, and also the screenies I had which documented already the ending of the story. And now I have to begin all over again and I don't know when I will find the time to do so.
I'm so sorry guys, I don't know why I just have bad news in the last, hope this settles after a while.
xoxo
First Blog Entry
So...yeah.
I need to get some stuff up, don't I? At any rate... I had this great story going but... something happened with the story wizard and then I couldn't get my woman to get abducted... and then the story worked on the site AFTER I ALREADY DELETED IT. Oh well. Now I'm working on a Twilight inspired story about a girl who is a witch, who falls in love with a vampire and her best friend is a were wolf.... sound familiar? Don't worry, the werewolves, vampires and romance is the only thing it has in common with Twilight. The story started out as my quest to have a Sim be every supernatrual thing in the game... but that kind of died. :( I wanted her to be an alien, a vampire, a witch and a werewolf. (I only have those expansion pacls)
In IRL news, I have a cold. Chest congestion. :( Also, getting hooked up with a thumb drive tonight. :)
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