Whats New For Sims 3 ?

[Tina ☺]

I would think that weather is probably in the base game since it's one thing people have been clamoring for forever. I don't know what they'll come up with, but I'm sure they'll think of something.

I'm still not buying it until I see what other people think of it. Heck, my current game is still new seeing as I have expansions sitting here that I haven't even installed yet.

[joandsarah]

What I would add if I could design games Would be more interactions for babies and toddlers, including a stroller so you can take them to community lots. Babies should have a play mat and be able to be held on a parents lap while they watch tv. Toddlers too. Also they should be able to breastfeed babies. Those huge green bottles ugg I had to bottle feed myself but gosh who designed those ones!
Also it serously needs a middle age! what is it with going from looking 25 to looking 70! Also childhood should be a little longer and teenagerhood shorter. 15 days really. Children should also be able to make themselves cerial and bird watch, but not use garden spray! Who lets there 6 year old spray garden chemicils.
Oh yes and hotels should be ownable and playable as a business, and there should be a snow resort area for the Mts like they had in sims1.

[anna101187]

yer that would be great i agree that they are lacking a great deal of stuff for babies and toddlers as who lets there toddler rome around the house all day when they could take them out for a walk to the park

[Tina ☺]

Jo, I agree with everything you said. It is so dumb why you can't take your toddler to the park or something. What's even more ridiculous is the fact that you can't take them on vacation, even if you own the house! I can see leaving your kid at home if you're going to a romantic hotel or something, but not being able to take them to a home you own? Bah! Actually you should be able to take them anywhere you want.

That going from 30 to 80 thing is nuts too! I think it would actually be cool if they would grow a bit more gradually. Like say if you had a child that was only days from becoming a teen and you had a toddler that just turned into a kid, the older one should be at least slightly bigger than the other.

Of course most of that stuff probably just isn't going to happen.

[jillyson]

I hope one of the first eps will be magic, so we don't have to wait until the end, like the last 2 times! I don't plan on being an early buyer, but I'd sure like it to be available when I'm ready for it!

[Tina ☺]

Has everyone seen this? This is new for the Sims 3:

Community Features Blog
November 13, 2008 14:00 PM


Hi Everyone! My name is Adam and I am a producer in The Sims Internet Group. We are busy developing the community website for The Sims 3 game. We’re making sure that the new site has all of the popular sections of TheSims2.com along with some upgrades that make it even more fun and easy to use TheSims3.com. Plus, we are developing some new features that will give you more ways to be creative and make it easier for you to share your custom creations with your friends. Today I am going to share a little about a few of the features we have planned for the site launch.

First, we are really excited about the new Exchange. We’re making it way easier and faster to find what you are looking for by browsing and searching. You’ll be able to use keywords and filters to hone in on what you are looking for, and the advanced search function is crazy powerful. Plus, we’ll let you sort your search results and category listings by date, number of downloads, and number of recommendations. Yes – members of the community will be able to recommend items by clicking a thumbs-up icon! There is no thumbs-down, so this is truly an all-positive rating system!

Second, we are greatly improving the community experience inside the game Launcher. Every time you launch the game, you will be able to check a new Launcher webpage to see the latest news, and even browse and download featured game items that members have created and uploaded to the Exchange. You can also learn about fun community activities and promotions. You will be able to link to your favorite areas of the site directly from the Launcher as well.

Next, we can’t wait until everyone starts creating their own movies on the site using our new Movie Mashup tool. You’ll be able to upload your own video clips and screen shots that you record in the game and use them to make cool movies about your Sims! Make music videos, comedies, dramas – whatever you like! We will provide a library of video clips and images that you can use along with your own, as well as a music library with hundreds of tracks. The tool lets you choose transitions and effects to use on your clips and you can also use text captions to add narration and dialog. We will also have a Story tool that will let you create our own stories using uploaded and common screen shots.

Finally, we are making it easier than ever to share your creations with your friends. We are going to have really easy sharing tools that let you share anything you make – including Sims, Houses, Movie Mashups, and Stories – via email as well as by posting to other sites like Facebook and MySpace and embedding into blogs and fan sites.

These are just a few of the many community site features that will help you to enrich your game online. I will be back early in the new year to share some info about all the great community features we have planned for release post-launch. We are really looking forward to launching this site and building a huge, fun and creative community.

Cheers!
- Adam


thesims3.ea.com/view/pages/blog.jsp?author=Adam%20Siegel#CommunityFeaturesBlog

Well, it's been up about a month now, but I just now saw it. lol Well, from what it says, maybe down rating will be history on the sims 3 exchange. Certainly suits me! Then you can rate something if you like like it and just walk away if you don't.

[Pixx]

Thank God for the positive rating system. I guess everyone getting pissed off with the downrating did get to them. I'm excited about the movie thing because...yes I'm working on a new story that may or may not be continued, I was just bored. But it was so ROCK if it were a movie. Although they didn't say anything about uploading more than one story from the same family.

[joandsarah]

An all positive rating system, someone is finally thinking!

[Tina ☺]

That's for sure. I don't know why they don't re-do the sims2 site to have something like that. I guess it's a bit too late now. What they also need to do is make it so that you can't have multiple accounts by registering different expansions under new names. It should be so that unless the base game is also showing, you can't register an expansion.

Positive rating is a good thing, but honestly not EVERYTHING deserves the best rating possible. People who have crap uploaded can get multiple accounts and uprate their own stuff whether it deserves it or not. The BEST thing though, will be that the GOOD stuff can't be down rated by jealous haters.

[joandsarah]

Except my base game doesn't show...don't ask me why because I know I regesterd it.

[jillyson]

Gee, think they noticed the mass exodus from the bbs with people citing downraters as the reason?

[Tina ☺]

That's weired Jo. Maybe it was some sort of a weird glitch or something. You sure you used the same name to register your expansions? If it made you put in your info again, then maybe you accidentally created a second account. Very strange...

Most likely that's what it is Jilly. They're tired of getting all those complaints and having to make bogus excuses and giving the generic reply, ratings don't matter so deal with it.

[jillyson]

I thought this was the right thread, but maybe not - did Harley post a thread about the specs needed to run Sims 3? I've been looking for almost an hour, so maybe I just imagined it! Lol! I know there's a spec page on the sims 3 site, but I thought Harley put one up telling us what would be the best way to go. I'd definitely trust him over EAxis!

[Tina ☺]

LOL! No, Harley never posted the specs for the sims 3. He doesn't play the game, so he wouldn't know anything about that, so in this case, it's better to trust EAxis!

Here are the specs from the sims 3 site:

The Sims 3 requires at least the following:

FOR WINDOWS XP
* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
* 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1.5 GB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:
* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 0.5 GB additional RAM

FOR MAC OS X
* Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
* Intel Core Duo Processor
* 2 GB RAM
* ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
* This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.


Windows Supported Video Cards
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NVIDIA GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150
GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295

ATI Radeon(TM) series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
4850, 4870

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-Series

Laptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly.

Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants may default to settings that are higher than what would be optimal for them. Graphics settings can be lowered to improve performance.

The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.


MAC OS X Supported Video Cards
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NVIDIA GeForce series
7300, 7600
8600, 8800
9400M, 9600M GT
GT 120, GT 130

ATI Radeon(TM) series
X1600, X1900
2400, 2600
3870,
4850, 4870

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
GMA 3-Series

[jillyson]

I know he said at the begining of this thread (?) that you can use 2 video cards now, but do you have to? That's the kind of stuff I was looking for. I gave dh the list from the site, but I told him there was stuff they didn't have on there, like the multiple video cards.