The Sims 3 Lifetime Reward Guide
Lists and Help with Lifetime Rewards and Happiness Points
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Lifetime Happiness Rewards are a neat feature of the Sims 3. This system was around back in the Sims 2, in the form of lifetime aspiration rewards, where you could pick nice objects for your home like the money tree, love tub and elixir of life. This time around, your lifetime happiness points will keep adding up so long as your Sim is in a good mood. To get nice bumps to the total number of lifetime happiness points, accomplish your Sims' wishes. Lifetime rewards in the Sims 3 come in the form of gadgets like the teleporter, collection helper, or food replicator and even superhuman abilities, like steel bladder and hardly hungry.
The Sims 3 World Adventures adds a total of 11 new Lifetime Rewards to the game. This guide will show the icon to the right for any rewards that explicitly require the expansion. Here's a list of links to quickly find the one you're looking for:
Change of Taste
Eye Candy
Inappropriate But in a Good Way
Jetsetter
Learned Relic Hunter
Meditative Trance Sleep
No Bills Ever
No Jealousy
Prepared Traveler
Stone Hearted
Getting Happiness Points Quickly
A massive influx of lifetime happiness points (30,000) in the Sims 3 can come from completing your Sim's lifetime wish. If you want an easier time getting any of these objects, it's then best to choose an easy wish. Some can be more challenging than others, such as super popular. Perfect mind, perfect body or The Tinkerer are fine examples of an easy lifetime wishes.
Managing all their Desires
Your Sim can have only four active wishes at one time. This means that you should continually stay on top of what they desire. That way, you can keep completing and adding new wishes. These wishes get harder and more rewarding at the same time, as you continue to knock them out. Sims may desire to catch a perfect fish of a given type, or even something simple like have a trip to the day spa.
The Importance of Mood
Try to maintain positive Moodlets for your Sim. Lifetime happiness points will continually roll in if the Sim's bar is at least to the first line. Even higher, and it seems to move a bit faster. Read the aforementioned moodlets guide for more information about the best, and most easily attainable moodlets to keep your Sims happy and rolling in rewards.
Interest and Traits
As a Sim continues to do something, like fishing, they'll get an interest in that field and wishes about it will begin to appear for you to select. If you want your Sim to desire to fish, then keep going fishing. They'll want to catch multiple fish, find new types of fish and even head out before dawn on their fishing trip. This is just one example. Your Sim's traits also help determine their interest. Bookworms will want to spend more time at the library, and daredevils may occasionally desire to do something shocking or daring in front of another Sim.
Choose Your Wishes Wisely
Just because your Sim cooked a meal, and suddenly wants to learn a new recipe doesn't mean you should add that to your promised wishes list. Try to promise those that help them complete their other life objectives. Actions you were planning to make them take anyway. Always take wishes that are about to happen, even if you must ditch one. Why? Unfortunately your Sim won't receive happiness points and the desire will be gone.
On to the Lifetime Happiness Rewards List
There is a list of all lifetime happiness rewards available in the game, however many of the objects aren't explained with any detail. Thus, I decided I should describe each reward and give my personal opinion. Here I'll list what information I have on the lifetime rewards in the Sims 3. This is a full list - I haven't left anything out. The rewards are separated by price through the navigation below.
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