Getting into TS3?

[yeahyeahjess]

Hello lovelies! I have begun to write my petition letter for college and I'm terrified. A distraction is needed, so I was wondering...if you've made the (permanent) switch from TS2 to TS3, how did you do it? For me, it's taking more than playing the game to actually get into it. Ignoring the hours I spend creating a sim and their home, the gameplay

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[engram_au]

I'd like to second point 3 here. Sims 3 is a totally different animal to Sims 2. It's like a horse and a zebra. They look similar and have similar interactions but are totally different animals.

You might also want to approach it from the point you probably approached Sims 2 when you first started, ie. playing in a game-generated hood, just controlling one family (your own or pre-made) and simply taking a look at how the game plays, what the town is like, etc.

I find that it plays better when you approach it as a game for the sake of it being just another game and not Sims 2+1. It's not Sims 2 with a level-up and people generally find they enjoy it more when they play it simply for the sake of itself and not for the sake of looking for remnants of TS2 in it. It's not a sequel but a totally separate game.

Also, don't force the love. I have some people on my friends list who couldn't stand it when they first played it. They left it for a year without forcing things and eventually they found that they had reached a saturation point with Sims 2 and by then they were ready to play Sims 3 for the sake of it being Sims 3 and were not making comparisons by that stage.

And lastly, you could try downloading the emptied copies of the hoods from MATY. They have all the houses still in place but all the residents are gone. Search for the word "cribbed" and you should be able to find an empty Sunset Valley and at least one or two of the other hoods. That way you can indulge your need for control by going through the houses, bulldozing and rebuilding or redecorating. And then you can move in your own families. Keep in mind that rotation between houses with aging on means that things will change between switching, but if you download Twallan's story progression and the Supercomputer AND turn off aging you will have a lot more control. Or you can use Awesomemod's feature of "make sacred" and that way the households you want to control won't do anything without your permission and you can even switch off aging for particular households using that method so that it feels more like playing Sims 2.