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The Sims 3 Lifetime Rewards Guide
List of Rewards & What to Do with Your Happiness Points
All About Lifetime Happiness Points, Rewards and Wishes
Lifetime Happiness Rewards (LTR) 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, and Ambitions adds 7. This guide will show the icon to the right for any rewards that explicitly require the expansions.
Getting Happiness Points Quickly
A massive influx of lifetime happiness points 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 Lifetime Happiness Reward Points.
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.
Lifetime Reward List
Acclaimed Author
Lifetime Happiness Points: 30,000
This one is very straightforward. It boosts the royalty checks for every book your Sim writes. Very handy for professional authors and journalists who may occasionally put out a book. The boost here can be pretty hefty when your Sim writes a masterpiece.
Artisan Crafter
Lifetime Happiness Points: 20,000
Artisan Crafter gives a huge boost to the final value of sculptures and inventions. This helps you achieve crazy-high profit with either of those skills. Between Artisan Crafter and Suave Seller, I'd choose this as my top pick, although it costs 5,000 more. With the Master Inventor skill challenge completed and Artisan Crafter, my Sim made widgets and gizmos double their original value.
Attractive
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
This lifetime reward is awesome for Sims that like to socialize. With it, your Sims will start at a higher relationship with other Sims. They're pretty, so people like them! Here's an idea: Spend a few days playing guitar on the corner in town until you've gathered up enough acquaintances to complete the celebrity charisma challenge. With that challenge reward, in combination with this lifetime reward, your Sims can start at friends with anyone they meet. This is great! In addition, the bar will rise faster for every Sim you know when trying to befriend them.
Body Sculptor
Lifetime Happiness Points: 30,000
Your Sim can use this to make themselves fat, skinny, muscular or frail. Takes the need for exercise out of the game and Sims can eat to their hearts' content because any weight gain can be immediately fixed. This LTR is not all that useful in my opinion.
Bookshop Bargainer
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
I would only take this reward if I were going to be sure to keep a Sim and try to max all their skills. Otherwise, is it really worth it for a chef to take this book just to save $6,000 simoleons on the ambrosia recipe? I didn't think so!
Carefree
Lifetime Happiness Points: 20,000
Reduces the time it takes to have fun by 25%. This doesn't make your fun bar go down slower, it makes it go up faster. So you won't be having a blast longer than ever, but it will take less time to reach that point. It of course is a major help when your Sim is focusing on having fun to satisfy the need, like with playing a computer game. It can also help in the situation where your Sim is doing a lot of an activity that's only a little fun, like with painting. It'll help pick up the pace and ensure they are having a blast from that activity more often. I'd prefer meditative trance sleep over this.
Change Lifetime Wish
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
If you think your Sim's lifetime wish is too hard, or you picked something like the Perfect Private Aquarium and find you don' like fishing, consider using this reward to change the lifetime wish. EA doesn't want us to be able to complete multiple lifetime wishes on one Sim, so the option to take this reward will vanish once you've completed the original.
Change of Taste
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
Not the best of the new LTRs to come out with World Adventures. Its use would be very situational. One reason you might care is if you want them to listen to their favorite music all the time and are getting sick of a particular radio station yourelf.
Collection Helper
Lifetime Happiness Points: 40,000
This puts an item in your Sim's inventory that looks like a butterfly. When activated, it will allow Sims to choose a type of item to track, be it rocks and gems, insects, seeds, or fish. Once a type is selected, the map view will display icons with locations. In the normal town view, objects will glow brightly so they're also easy to spot there from a high altitude. It's extremely handy for finding obscure fishing spots, helping with gardening to find seeds, or making extreme cash finding gems from collecting. The collection helper lifetime reward is highly recommended to most Sims 3 families.
Complimentary Entertainment
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
You really don't expect much for the 5,000 point lifetime rewards, but this one is a bit of a joke. It's one I'd save for when you've got the other, more valuable rewards. With this, you won't have to pay to go to the theater.
Dirt Defiant
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
What a nice reward. There are two reasons I say this. First, your Sim will save loads of time every week from not needing to shower as often, and requiring shorter showers when they do. Secondly, since the hygiene bar falls slower, your Sim can enjoy the squeaky clean moodlet for a longer period of time! 24 hours if they didn't exercise or garden and get all sweaty!
Discount Diner
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
Like above, only you'll dine for free. I don't like the time that it takes to get a restaurant meal in the Sims 3. I prefer to just have my Sims cook. Eventually they can do even better than the chefs at the restaurant by raising the cooking skill and perfecting their meals.
Efficient Inventor
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
Reduces scrap costs of all your inventions. Very, very handy as collecting scrap takes time and you get much more bang for your buck. With Master Inventor many inventions can be made completely free, out of thin air, and still more for a single unit of scrap.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
This will increase the rate your Sim gains profession experience. It's not as handy as you might think. Your points are probably better spent elsewhere, unless you want a Sim who will gradually cycle through multiple professions. After all, there is no shortage in job experience out in the world. Why not save up for something better instead?
Extra Creative
Lifetime Happiness Points: 30,000
If you want $5,000 simoleon masterpieces to come off of your artist's easel, take this lifetime reward. It boosts the quality and value of any paintings created by your Sims. A great reward for this specific profession and hobbyists.
Eye Candy
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
This will give a small, +10 moodlet to any Sims nearby. The primary application will be for multi-Sim households as they can bestow this to other members of the family. It doesn't work for the Sim with the reward, so singles will find limited use. However, it should be helpful in social situations as Sims you're interacting with need to be in a receptive mood at times and this boost can help.
Fast Learner
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
Every skill your Sim pursues will improve faster. This is awesome for a Sim that you want to have in the neighborhood that has a mastery level in every skill. Best taken before you've gained too many skill levels.
Fast Metabolism
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
Want your Sims to be buff and athletic? This will help them to achieve the desired shape faster. It doesn't help you to avoid gaining weight exactly, but your Sims can work out and get back into shape more swiftly if they do. My Sims never gain weight. They only eat when hungry!
Fertility Treatment
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
If you want to have a huge family, insist on one of your adult Sims taking this lifetime reward. It will boost the odds that your female Sims get pregnant when using WooHoo. Additionally, your Sims will be more likely to have twins or triplets. So, if you want to experience two or three babies at once in the game, this is the easiest way to accomplish that.
Fireproof Homestead
Lifetime Happiness Points: 30,000
It makes your entire lot fireproof. It could be helpful if you had a really high level inventor Sim, or a Sim who loved making metal sculptures, but for the high cost most others won't want it. May be good for legacies with beautiful mansions and forgetful or inept Sims burning food.
Food Replicator
Lifetime Happiness Points: 50,000
The food replicator is an awesome lifetime reward in the Sims 3. It gives you an appliance that can be placed somewhere in the home. How to use the Food Replicator: Have your Sim cook a meal, maybe even their favorite food. Perfect quality food is recommended. Place the meal on the replicator and then select the meal and choose 'store food'. This will place the meal in the replicator's memory. The quality of the meal is kept in memory, so perfect waffles will always replicate perfect waffles. Using the tinker option on the replicator can allow handy Sims to upgrade the memory of the replicator. With this upgrade, my Sim could store twenty group meals at once in the replicator. In conjunction with the Hardly Hungry lifetime reward, the replicator can very much help to reduce the time Sims spend preparing food.
Haggler
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
Using haggler can make expensive meals cheaper by making ingredients cost less. Books will be cheaper also. The benefit here is negligible despite this, because honestly, none of my Sims has had a hard time making so much money it just didn't matter any more.
Hardly Hungry
Lifetime Happiness Points: 25,000
Unlike the dirt defiant lifetime reward, hardly hungry does not boost the duration of the good meal moodlets. It will still save your Sim a lot of time, as they'll only need to eat about 25% as often as normal. This can save a lot of time, because every Sim needs to eat at least once a day.
Inappropriate But in a Good Way
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
This reward will let your Sim get by with being inappropriate without offending other Sims. It is a very situational reward for this reason, but isn't directly tied to the trait. It may help you get by with doing things like sleeping in another Sim's bed, or showering in their house. As such it may be useful for mooch-type Sims and Sims who are traveling. Additionally, the ability to use objects you couldn't otherwise without being rude in another Sim's house makes this reward good for the Architectural Design profession. When dealing with tight space in bedrooms and bathrooms, objects like showers, sinks and beds can be used to make sure that Sims can access them. Since it's so cheap, it's a good pick for that career. You can leave buy mode, test the objects, then tell the client about the renovation. Share your experiences with this reward at our Sims 3 Forum.
Jetsetter
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
This saves money on each trip your Sim takes. If they'll do a lot of traveling, this is one you'll want to pick up early so it can save every last Simoleon you can milk from it. If your Sim is already rolling in cash, this is probably not the best choice. It takes $250 Simoleons off a three day trip and even more for longer stays. I'd recommend saving up for Prepared Traveler.
Learned Relic Hunter
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
This reward helps adventuring Sims to find better objects in their travels, either through excavation or tomb raiding. If your Sim will spend a lot of time in tombs, this will help a ton with income and perhaps even completing collections: In combination with the game mechanic that you're more likely to find objects you haven't yet seen, it's sure to help your Sim track down the rarest objects much faster.
Legendary Host
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
Seems to make parties go easier. This would be very beneficial to Sims in the political career track, as they could do even better fundraisers. If your Sim likes to party, and wants to throw the best parties on the block, get this reward. It can only help with raising charisma, as making friends will be easier after Sims have attended one of your great parties.
Long Distance Friend
Lifetime Happiness Points: 20,000
This lifetime reward is great for keeping friendships. It will help your Sim to build up more friendships, because current friends won't need maintenance. Still, your Sims only need so many friends to get by in the game, so I don't very much like this reward.
Meditative Trance Sleep
Lifetime Happiness Points: 30,000
This reward will let your Sim get by with 20% less sleep, as I've confirmed through testing. The time saved will help your Sim to get more done each day. It's perhaps more useful for self-employed Sims as they will be able to spend more time with their pursuits. Career-oriented Sims and parents will find it helpful too, there just might be better rewards to save up for.
Mid-Life Crisis
Lifetime Happiness Points: 20,000
A way to legitimately change your Sim's traits (without cheating). This can be handy in conjunction with change lifetime wish. You can reset a Sim, but keep all their current skill levels. This can help if you put a lot of effort into a Sim's home, relationships and skills but want to change things up without starting a new Sim.
Moodlet Manager
Lifetime Happiness Points: 60,000
The moodlet manager places a device in your Sim's inventory. You can use the moodlet manager to cure your Sim's, or their friends' ailments. If your Sim has a negative hungry moodlet, the manager can cure that by raising the bar to full. Likewise with energy. Unfortunately, you won't get the 'had a good night's sleep' or 'excellent meal' moodlets from using this. I did seem to get the squeaky clean moodlet however. World Adventures owners will also note that the Moodlet Manager can cure the mummy's curse, along with other nasty ailments suffered while exploring tombs.
If the moodlet manager fails, it can immediately make your Sim exhausted. This is not a problem at all, as you can immediately use the cure option once more to fix that problem until it succeeds. With the moodlet manager, you may never again need to sleep or eat. Sims can stand at the riverbank fishing for 24 straight hours without breaking a sweat, as any time a need comes up it can immediately be fixed.
The Moodlet manager could ruin the game for you if you abuse it too much. If you take the reward, you're likely going to abuse it all too often so consider this before you take it. The second option on the device is zap, which will lower a random needs bar on the target Sim to 0.
Multi-tasker
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
This lifetime reward can be useful to teen Sims doing homework, while working a job, or adult Sims trying to advance in a career. Your Sims can do things more efficiently, meaning they get done with tasks faster and can get more done at work, causing them to get promotions faster. It does not seem to affect Ambitions professions.
My Best Friend
Lifetime Happiness Points: 40,000
This Ambitions reward will give you a male or female SimBot for the family. They can be really helpful. The only other way to get one of these is to make one with the Inventing skill. Here's a tip: send SimBot to play near a sprinkler, and it can short out. This will enable you to reprogram its traits.
Never Dull
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
A neat lifetime wish to take for your Sims, especially charismatic Sims or those wanting to make loads of friends. It helps you to avoid the penalty for talking about the same thing over and over (for example using chat, followed by three more chats). It can help Sims to learn other Sims' traits faster as well because the 'get to know' conversation choice can be used over and over without other Sims getting mad. Awesome for helping with the Personable charisma skill challenge if you have the points to spare.
No Bills Ever
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
This reward was practically necessary with World Adventures. As your Sim collects valuable objects like relics, tiberium and other new finds, the bills just get higher and higher. Your Sim's income may not even go up that much over time if you try to keep all the cool stuff they find. This will stop that problem in its tracks, and for Sims in this situation it's a life-saver. I've had $7,000 bills before, myself. However, if you travel really often, you may not get bills too frequently because your Sims will be spending a minimal time at home. Weight the benefits yourself, as your need for this LTR will vary. It's very nice for the developers to make this an option now.
No Jealousy
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
This trait isn't for just any Sim. This is for those Sims who like to flirt with husbands and do other naughty things while they live a very chaotic love life. As the name implies, it eliminates jealousy all together. The question is, do you enjoy the drama when you make your Sim do all those devious things? This will eliminate that aspect that many evil players enjoy.
Observant
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
If your Sim wants to learn to cook favorite meals, or learn to make sure Sims you want to befriend are listening to great music, take the observant reward. It will help your Sim to learn traits more quickly -- something that can usually be quite time consuming. Use the get to know conversation option to speed things along. This should also help when your Sim is chatting on the internet.
Office Hero
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
This reward will make it much more effective when you use the hang with co-workers option during work hours. Basically, your Sim will make friends with their co-workers faster. This is useful for many careers because co-workers is a stat that is factored into getting promotions. It also can't hurt any other Sim to have a few more friends at work.
Opportunistic
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
If your Sim intends to complete plenty of opportunities, take this lifetime reward. This boosts the rewards from completing opportunities. This means that any skill learning or money bonuses are improved greatly.
Prepared Traveler
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
Give your Sim three free days in each travel destination with this reward. This is an excellent choice for any Sim that wants to get high VISA levels in all the destinations to practically live on the road. If you want to fully experience World Adventures, take this trait to give yourself more time on the road to savor all the content.
Professional Slacker
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
The professional slacker lifetime reward will let your Sims more easily get by with slacking off at work. This can make the promotion bar continue to rise at a normal rate even when your scientist is hanging out in the beaker closet all day.
Profession Simoleon Booster
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
Exists for Ambitions professions, giving them a nice boost to earnings from both jobs and stipends. The boost is about 20% for each. It's great for individual jobs because they tend to pay about half your Sim's stipend pay.
Speedy Cleaner
Lifetime Happiness Points: 5,000
If your place gets trashed all the time, by your Sims themselves or party-goers, take this reward to clean twice as quickly. This helps Sims to avoid using the maid service, as sometimes cleaning can take quite a bit of time out of the day. Not nearly as useful once you've upgraded your Sims' household appliances and plumbing with the self-cleaning upgrade.
Steel Bladder
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
This is the best lifetime reward at this price point. Your Sim will be able to hold it forever, and will never need to use a toilet again. Imagine how much time can be saved over a week if your Sim spent around 45 minutes to an hour using the toilet every day. Seven extra hours of productivity, baby!
Stone Hearted
Lifetime Happiness Points: 10,000
Want a Sim that's practically Spock when it comes to negative emotions? This one's for you. Sims won't feel sadness when those life changing events come along: lose a friend? not a prob. Death in the family? No big deal. It takes a lot to bring this Sim down. I wouldn't take this perk early on for any of my Sims, but this would be a nice addition later on in a game or for Sims who have large families with a lot of drama.
Suave Seller
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
Suave Seller will enable your Sim to sell stuff for about 25% more at the consignment shop. Very good if your Sim is into crafting of any kind, such as sculpting, painting, or inventing.
Super Green Thumb
Lifetime Happiness Points: 20,000
This makes it easy to get perfect plants. If you can get a seed to excellent or outstanding, this lifetime reward alone can be enough to boost the quality upon planting. I'm not sure that this reward actually makes death flowers revivable, as the normal green thumb can do that. This might boost the success rate however. With the green thumb trait, your Sim can revive a death flower one time (other plants can be revived more). This is the only really easy way to duplicate the plants.
Teleportation Pad
Lifetime Happiness Points: 75,000
The most expensive LTR in the Sims 3 is not all that hot. Sure, you can teleport to work and the favorite fishing spot, but it's not going to save too much travel time unless your Sim is really busy. With the moodlet manager, Sims can stand around all day and night doing anything without ever needing to go home, so it's probably the better bargain.
The teleporter may occasionally fail, but you can upgrade it to have perfect teleportation. It can sometimes break and need repair. Weight the benefits and choose whichever upgrade you'd find more convenient.
Vacationer
Lifetime Happiness Points: 15,000
I have come to very much dislike this LTR. It gives you random days off, not like what you'd expect from such an expensive reward. I was hoping my Sim would get to skip work when he wanted without taking a performance hit. The simple fact is, all that it does is make your Sim miss work occasionally, and this can be more often than you'd like. You aren't even notified of what day you're going to have off, so you get ready for work to find the carpool doesn't show up. Great.
| The Sims 3 Ambitions | |||||
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| Professions | Bake Sales | Simbot | Inventing | Sculpting | |
| The Sims 3 World Adventures | ||||
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| China | Egypt | France | Martial Arts | Nectar Making |
| Photography | Mummies | Pangu's Axe | Tomb Raiding Tips | Tomb Building |
