The Sims 3 Guide to Roaring Heights World
Town Maps for Collectibles, Screenshots and The Boardwalk's Amusement Park/Roller Coaster
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The Sims 3 Roaring Heights is a World released by EA on December 12, 2013. The World was released in tandem with a new special set/lot called The Boardwalk, which comes with parts to allow you to Build your own Rollercoaster. At this time, Roaring Heights also comes with the Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car, which your Sim can work on to raise their Handiness skill while improving the car's engine and appearance. This Guide will focus on both the World's collectible locations and provide maps, while also looking at any interesting new lots and means for Sims to have fun. You can purchase all this new content by following these links: Roaring Heights, The Boardwalk, and the Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car. Both require Simpoints. This Guide will show enough pictures and details about the new bundle that will let you decide if you want to let your Sims live in this new Town by coughing up the money.
Roaring Heights Town Theme
Roaring Heights is a town that pays tribute to the Roaring Twenties in the United States, populated with Sims wearing period-specific clothing and featuring enough unique outfits to give your own Sims this vintage look. Playing in the town after experiencing Into the Future, it is quite fitting that EA lets us now go back to enjoy the past. With the Skyscrapers and classic architecture on all pre-built homes, it feels like playing in 1920s New York, with beachside amusement park and a booming downtown area. What feels out of place are the modern cars on the roads; Seeing SUVs and sports cars driving around messes with the experience, but this is The Sims we're talking about, so if we have Aliens, Unicorns, and Vampires running around, we can deal with this. What is disappointing is that we are only given one classic car, which is the Fixer-Upper and other Sims may be driving vehicles from the Future. It is almost like your Sims are living in a town that never evolved to modern fashion and instead stuck with their old clothing, whilst keeping the classic architecture but using modern technology.
Pictures of the Town of Roaring Heights
Roaring Heights features some great looking art deco architecture. Since one of the things people will be looking for in a new World from the Sims Store is new scenery to enjoy while playing, here are a series of screenshots showing off various areas of Roaring Heights. You may click any of these pictures to see a larger, more detailed version.
Clothing
In the new clothing department, you won't find many means of making custom looks for there are not tops/bottoms for each clothing category, but mainly outfits. Thankfully, males and females of all ages get clothes from this classic time period for Everyday/Formal/etc. Women have very conservative bathing suits and men can dress up as through they're businessmen from the period.
You will want to edit the town to place lots from other Worlds and Expansions to fully enjoy this experience, so do read the section on the Boardwalk even if you don't buy it along with Roaring Heights for a little info on doing that if you don't know how.
The Boardwalk
Placing the Boardwalk
The Boardwalk is a special Store lot that comes bundled with the parts you'll need to build a Rollercoaster, which is a suggested purchase along with Roaring Heights but not required to enjoy the town. You can place the Boardwalk in any of your towns, and also build the Rollercoaster there. Playing in Roaring Heights, you'll need to place it yourself to enjoy the pre-built amusement park. It requires a 64x64 lot, which is provided near the beach as seen in the screenshot above. To place it yourself, go to Edit Town from the (...) menu and Click on Show Community Lots from the Edit Town interface. Select The Boardwalk and place it where I suggest (it is a boardwalk, so belongs near the beach!). If you like, you can find another spot for the new lot. Ultimately, the coolest feature of this new lot is that you get all the pieces you need to build a Rollercoaster, as it is not a single piece, but rather a bunch of parts laid out to create the coaster that EA designed on the lot.
The Boardwalk Lot Features
There are two Rollercoasters on the Boardwalk, one wooden, the other metallic in appearance. The blue metallic-looking one is much less extreme and seems like a kiddie coaster, while the other features a huge vertical drop that leads to a loop. Both give Sims a 2h +10 moodlet for riding, but it costs money to ride.
The rest of the lot features games to play like pinball machines, pool, foozball, a place to eat hot dogs and otherwise socialize and have fun with the family. Though it appears to feature a carousel (merry-go-round) from the shapes of the rooftops, there is no such attraction. Overall, the Boardwalk fits well in Roaring Heights and enhances the theming of the town... but as stated, the real reason to buy this is to get to build Sims your own rollercoasters, which can be made on a home lot or a special lot you make in Edit town. You can make a much bigger coaster than what is premade with the Boardwalk when you take away the space used by hangout areas and the fact that they fit two in one 64x64 lot - but you wouldn't want to do this on a smaller lot, so must find or place one in the town to make your own.
Building Rollercoasters - The Sky High Rollercoaster
You get these parts if you purchase the Boardwalk lot from The Sims 3 Store. If you want to build your own Rollercoaster with the Sky High Rollercoaster parts provided, I suggest you go into Edit Town and select a big lot. Change the lot type to Community Lot and select Visitors Allowed or Big Park from the list of lot types. You can certainly do it on your home lot, but this will save you lots of space because of the size of Rollercoasters. Once this is done, click build/buy on the lot.
You can find all the parts you need to build the Rollercoaster under Buy Mode/Sort by Function > Entertainment > Miscellaneous. Make this easier by using the filter box on the right to show only store content. Each piece costs $50-$150 if you are building it at home and the price can really add up for big coasters. While I will not do a full tutorial on building rollercoasters, you should know some basic information to get started. Know that if you are doing this from Edit Town you will have to visit the lot with your Sim to be able to check for a completed track (by clicking the track). It should be easy enough to see for yourself that everything lines up if you look carefully. The following pointers should help you build your own:
You could waste hours. All Rollercoaster Track must connect naturally!
You may also use longer supports specifically designed for them.
The Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car (Premium Content)
Turning Handiness into a Profit or Building a Sweet Ride
The Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car is a cool addition to the game that is currently included with Roaring Heights. It's a great cheap gift ($350) to give a Teen to let them gain some skill and make their own car. This gives your Sim an opportunity to take on a long project to repair and do body work on the car to make it a beautiful classic with a roaring and powerful engine. 'Work on Car Body' and 'Work on Car Engine' are identical interactions, only different animations. Both will somehow work on the body and engine to produce a fully completed car. Your Sim can turn on the car's radio to make this experience more enjoyable and keep their mood up; Sims can even dance to the Car's tunes. When the car's Fix-up is complete, your Classic Car will need a parking space on your home lot and may be set as the preferred vehicle for one of your Sims.
Once the car is fixed up and has a nice body, you can wax it to further improve your Sim's Handiness and have some fun. If you worked on the body first, working on the Engine until complete will make it faster. When the car is done and ready to be sold or driven, you'll get a Purrs like a Lion moodlet by Revving the Engine, although your Sim can continue to work on the engine to further their Handiness. It doesn't seem to do more for the vehicle at that point, but can get you to level 10, which will give you access to all upgrades around your Household.
To customize the color of your classic car, go into Buy Mode and press R for Create-a-Style. From there, you can apply any color or pattern to your car to change it from the yellow.
There are several romantic moodlets based around actions your Sims can take in the Fixer-Upper. Looking at Stars with a loved one will give the Starry-Eyed moodlet. Making out will give them 'Second Gear', a reference to Second Base. Woohooing in the Car will result in a 3h +20 moodlet for joining the 'Fifth Gear' club. Sims also get a moodlet for revving the engine when it's in good shape: Purrs like a Lion for +15 for 2h.
Once the Fix-up is complete, the Classically Cool Fixer-Upper Car can be sold through Buy mode for a profit - upon which time you could buy another and fix it up to make a career out of it. A Handy Sim will complete the car faster, although Handiness level does not matter for speed (I did a race between two Sims to test this). I have seen the Car sellable for $39,000, but the price will fall. I suspect this is due to depreciation of the Car like most owned objects, so you should probably sell it immediately when finished to prevent losing the extra money. Overall, fixing up this classic car is an amazing profit for a few days' work and a great gameplay addition from Roaring Heights, allowing you to make your own car or earn cash from your Sim's Handiness skill!
Collectible Maps for Roaring Heights
Pink Diamonds, Palladium, Special Seeds & Useful Fish Spawners
About the Maps
First, know that the Death Fish Spawner in Roaring Heights is not working. It is in the Graveyard as you would expect, given that is the location in almost every town, just as Robot Fish are found outside Science Facilities. Use Testingcheatsenabled true and Buydebug on to place your own. To read more about editing lots that are not your own with testingcheats, read the Cheats page. The Spawner you need is Fish Graveyard/Death Fish. The place the Deathfish is supposed to spawn is noted on the map, but crossed out for the time being until I hear it's been fixed. Else, players will have to do this themselves if they want to make Ambrosia.
Now on to the Roaring Heights maps. You may click each map to see a larger picture:
In Closing
This should help you find the rare collectibles in Roaring Heights and teach you enough about the town to let you know if you'd like to purchase it from The Sims 3 Store. Share your experiences in Roaring Heights with other players with the comments form below. Tips to using the new Premium Content and Rollercoasters will be helpful.
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5I was wondering where you get the Classically Cool Fixer-upper Car.
i bought roaring heights and then bought the board walk but having trouble finding the Classically Cool Fixer-upper Car
Thanks
I'm hoping you might be able to help me out - I'm trying to place 'the broad walk' in the allocated lot by the water (64X64) but when I click on 'place' the community lot icon disappears..
It's hard for me to create dive areas.
Looks like a cool town. I'd buy it if it has the boat stuff.
