Carl's The Sims 3 Guide & Walkthrough
Helpful Guides, Tips & Cheats for PC/Mac, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and Sims 3 Expansions
The Sims 3 Showtime Upgrade
I'm working to add new guides for The Sims 3 Showtime which came out Tuesday March 6, 2012. This time, Rob Kennedy (Hosfac) is also helping and will be releasing a few guides for the site. I'll add new additions as they are ready. The first on this list is Achievements (Badges) that people are more intersted in now that the Social features of The Sims 3 have been applied with a patch. The list is printable, searchable with Control + F and should be helpful to achievement hunters be they hardcore or casual.
Achievements List current for The Sims 3 Showtime.
Showtime Overview - guide to new content and links to other related pages.
Genie - Guide covering everything from making wishes to genie babies.
Acrobat mime, juggle and flaming backflip your way to the top.
Magician put on magic shows and earn gobs of Simoleons doing so.
Singer
Union Cove Released
I am delighted to share with the Sims 3 community a new World created by some of the best builders of our Forum. The beautiful town above is known as Union Cove, and it's a sight to behold. This is the most detailed world I've seen for The Sims 3 yet. It's fully balanced with an appropriate amount of spawners, and richly detailed with perhaps the most objects in a town, ever. We invite you to have a look at the new World. You can also download it free of charge with no hassle. Enjoy!
This was a secret on the forum. Several members have been running around with the rank of Top Secret for a long time. It is a special rank that gave them access to a hidden board, so they could create this work of art behind the scenes. I'd had the picture below running for a long time. It's actually the awesome "Carl's Castle" that Joria built for me for UC! A little patch of this new beauty was hiding in plain sight.
Build and Edit Section Opened
Head to the new Build and Edit section to learn about Building Houses, Edit Town, Lot Types, and little tweaks like making better pools and roofs. You'll also learn how to move and switch neighborhoods. Thanks to all members who helped make this section possible.
The beautifully built house in the screenshot above is Carl's Castle made by Builder Joria
A Side Project: Rift
I am working on a side project I thought I'd mention here, as some of our audience could currently play or be interested in trying Rift. I'm working with Rob (hosfac) to make a class guide for Rift. Our goal is to work in guides to souls for all four callings, such as the Rogue and Mage. We've put together several of the soul pages to demonstrate what we're trying to do. Rob published Chloromancer, and I've put up Assassin and Bard. The game really is quite fun, or we wouldn't have been inspired to cover it like this. It is going to take hundreds of hours of work. When I'm done, I'll continue development here on The Sims 3 site. Thankfully, a few friends of the site are working on projects to expand the building guide even further, and we will soon cover the Stuff Packs (long overdue).
2012 Challenge Tournament Open
The final Sims 3 challenge tournament is upon us. Sign up at the forum to participate. You must compete in three events to be eligible for a World Ranking and a shot at the $50 gift card prize and champion's plaque.
The Sims 3 Pets Guides
List of New Pets Content
Most of The Sims 3 Pets has been covered. There are a few updates to be made here and there across the guide, and those holes will be filled in soon. Aside from Pets coverage, we are also working to expand the Guide's building section. We have some very talented builders at our forum, and a few of them are submitting articles to expand our tutorial offerings.
Cat, Dog, and Horse Traits - List and Training Info
Pet Lifetime Rewards - full list with descriptions and tips
Unicorns Guide - Finding them and their Special Powers.
Racing, Riding, and Jumping - New Skills for Sim and Horse
Cats Guide - raising cats and the cat hunting skill
Dogs Guide - learn about training dogs and hunting
Horses Guide - An overview of horses - more in-depth coming soon.
Minor Pets - A list of minor pets and birds, with info on capturing them.
Horseman Career - A look at making money with horses.
The Arc Builder LTW two of each animal type
The Cat Herder LTW a story about befriending many cats.
The Jockey Lifetime Wish a walkthrough with tips and a story.
The Zoologist Lifetime Wish collecting 20 small animals.
The Townie DecaDynasty
Today, Challenge Coordinator Metropolis Man released his new creation, the Townie DecaDynasty. This new Sims 3 Challenge will see players through improving townie households and producing dynasty-worthy heirs. You'll move into a townie household, birth an heir, fulfill the requirements for that heir, and be able to advance. Keeping track of all these unique requirements would be a chore, but forum member Gheez has made a spreadsheet. Tom (Metro) has created a challenge that does not require any specific expansion pack, so any Sims 3 owner can play. If your Simming is getting stale, or you're looking to prove your skill at directing the little people, try the Townie DecaDynasty! Be sure to read the full rule set to understand the requirements of an heir. You may give cheers and ask questions in the thread I linked.
About Carl's Sims 3 Guide, Walkthrough, and Forum Site
Born July 16, 2009, this Strategy Guide seeks to help Simmers from all over the world with detailed and informative articles, hints, and tips for The Sims 3 and its expansions. We largely favor a powergamer mindset, and shoot for making the most money, finding how it works, or doing things better and more efficiently. You'll find step-by-step instructions, and screenshots to help you accomplish things in the Sims 3. Collectively, we've written over 200 pages of content for the game. If you'd like to see a listing of every article we offer, have a look at our Sitemap. There you'll find a full list of articles, along with a search tool that will help you to track down the info you need.
We have a staff of 3, with Pam Marsden and Tom Schlueter helping Carl with guide writing and the forum. If you explore the guide you'll see we've had lots of help from our growing forum community. We have numerous volunteer moderators. To learn a little about our staff, visit the Staff section of our Sims 3 Forum. Many of our moderators have supplied walkthroughs or in-depth articles for the Guide.
It is an exciting time for us, because we find that our many hours of work will now be viewed by players with the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii versions of the game. I encourage you to tell me if there are large differences in skills or other game features as compared to what we have on the guide. If enough differences exist, a section of that article could be dedicated to listing those differences. Feel free to email carl@carlsguides.com
If you don't yet have an account, sign up at our forum to provide tips and tricks, suggestions, and corrections to the guide. You'll be helping me to improve something that has helped over 100,000 Simmers from around the world. The Sims 3 is far more complex than meets the eye, and without readers like you this guide wouldn't be nearly as accurate and helpful as it is today.
Helpful Guide & Walkthrough Sections
This is a list of the most visited, or otherwise helpful sections of the guide. We've created many in-depth articles and walkthroughs that are sure to help you improve at the game, or have an easier time making money. I encourage you to explore the guide, and if you should need help you can't find here, head to our Sims 3 Forum and ask! Our polite and friendly community loves to help.
Generations Guide
Learn about the new activities offered to the various age groups in this Sims expansion pack. You'll find in-depth information on the new imaginary friends and chemistry logic activity.
Late Night Guide
This guide will teach you all about making the most of this expansion. Learn about vampires, and how you can get your Sim into the hottest clubs.
Ambitions Guide
A Guide to The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion. Offers a summary of what's new, along with links to other articles about the new features you get with the Add-on. Read up on Inventing, Sculpting, and the new Professions.
World Adventures Guide
A Guide to World Adventures. This expansion focuses heavily on travel to France, China, and Egypt. However, it also adds new skills that players who dislike travel can employ. The info you find here may help you decide whether or not you'd want to buy this expansion.
Sims 3 Cheats for Xbox 360 and PS3
Owners of The Sims 3 on Console, either PS3 or XBOX don't need my cheat articles to get infinite money, or unlock karma powers. Instead head to my Xbox 360 and PS3 info page.
Sims 3 Information
Any article we've written that didn't fit neatly into another category of the guide is listed here. You'll find help with regular Sims 3, Ambitions, World Adventures, and Late Night.
Immortal Dynasty Challenge
This is one whopper of a Challenge, epic in scope. The link heads to the ruleset. You are tasked with trying to make eight generations of immortal Sims, whilst maintaining a collection of portraits and statues of each generation's firstborn. However, only Sims who have fulfilled the requirements may taste the divine Ambrosia.
Challenges
Our Sims 3 Challenge Tournament, hosted by Metropolis Man at our Sims 3 forum. This is a summary of all challenges from the 2010 season. Here you can view the leaderboard for the tourney and find a list of links to challenges. Even if one's expired you can still shoot for the best score for your own satisfaction.
Careers
A strategy guide to the Careers in The Sims 3, along with Ambitions Professions such as firefighter. You'll find wages for each job level, information on what traits will help Sims to excel to the top of a career track, and other ways Sims can make money.
Skills
We've got every skill covered in The Sims 3, from the base game skills like Cooking, Fishing, and Gardening guides that vanilla players on PC or the PS3 and Xbox 360 console version can enjoy. Expansion owners will love your guides to more exotic skills like martial arts, or the consignment shop.
Lifetime Wishes
A list of all the Lifetime Wishes in The Sims 3, Late Night, and World Adventures. You'll learn what traits inspire the wishes, happiness point rewards for finishing them, and get help for completing in the form of walkthroughs.
Lifetime Rewards
Get help spending those Lifetime Happiness points with our Lifetime Rewards guide. Sims can get perks like never having to use the restroom again, making friends faster, boosting skill gains, and even get a collection helper to help them find gems and metals.
How to Play the Sims 3
I wrote this guide to help people who are completely new to The Sims 3. Here you'll learn some basic game concepts, and get ideas on how to play your first Sim.
Home Building & Design Ideas
Get help designing beginner homes and ideas to design better, more intricate homes, in this strategy guide written by forum moderator TommyT.
Traits
A full strategy guide to what every trait does in The Sims 3, World Adventures, Ambitions, and Late Night. Learn what wishes they inspire, and how you can employ them to help your Sims.
The Sims 3 Review
Want to know what I think about The Sims 3? Read my Review.
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