How To Never Get Bored With The Sims 3 | Tips For Long-Term Sims 3 Gameplay

Long time, no see besties
Today I am sharing my tips for how to never get bored in The Sims 3 which have helped keep me invested in one save for a good five-ish months now. What's the longest you've stuck to one save for?

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Chapters:
00:00 How to never get bored with The Sims 3
00:50 Start a save file with Intention
04:10 Make a 'never done before' list
06:05 Play with lifespans
07:15 View builds as works in progress
08:00 Add spicy new content

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🎼 Night
🎼 Bored
🎼 Picnic
🎼 Wine

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[YasminsCorner]

Ignore my mansion’s terrible roofing and the fact that a kid is living in an empty room with no door 🥲

[mariedover]

I never got bored with TS3, because there's always something different to do. I've been playing the same legacy for +12 generations.
Just one tip in regards to the fortune teller career: there is a massive glitch when your sim gets to the top of the Mystic track: your sim will occasionally glow (was it in purple?) and EVERONE will hate her / him, to the point of not being able to hold a normal conversation. The sim gets booed, heckled, etc.
The only solution is to have the sim quit that career. 🤷‍♀

[xnrosaigaming]

Last night my sims vampire gf died from thirst, it was unexpected since she was staying over my sims house.
I plan to reload my save file before she died, but I think this can be fun to resurrect her.

Now I'm trying to resurrect her by making Ambrosia, I've never done it before so this will be my first time making it.

TS3 never gets boring and a lot of things can happen, especially the open world.

[judialbert]

I like to randomize the traits of my characters - even if they had a "good childhood" and I can pick, I usually don't. This creates unique characters with some flaws. It's the flaws that make sims interesting and fun to play. I also find I have more empathy for imperfect sims as I can better identify with them. I give them high free will, and if I get bored with a household, I switch to another one for a few sims days then come back to see what kind of trouble they got themselves in with out me. I also use Nraas Story Progression, but I put it on the snail setting so I can keep up with all the changes. Sometimes I toggle it off for a few sim days it things seem to be moving too fast and turn it back on if things start to get boring. Also, I love Not Malcolm's legacy too and recognized the house.

[ViceCityExtra]

For me, getting store content (for free 😅) revamped the game for me. Cause it adds extra depth to different aspects. Like a sim in supernatural’s fortune teller career, if you got the fortune teller table from store to go with it, it becomes much more funz

[TheDawnofVanlife]

I've always been a creative writer and the first stories I ever made up were with my huge collection of Barbie dolls (and friend dolls and cheap inock offs to mix things up) and I broke them into communities and families with these individualized stories and backgrounds that matured as I matured. I actually have been recreating some of those in Sims and it keeps things interesting for me. Because I based the storiees on dolls frozen at a certain life state being able to play a game that allows me to play through what might happen next is fun. By the time I grew up, I realized the stories were too shallow to be published. But it's a great baseline for character building in Sims to play through future stories of people I wrote about as a kid.

[NotMalcolm]

these tips are awesome, thank you! (and absolutely WILD seeing another family living in this mansion) <3

[Qermaq]

Check out the Achievements. So many of these and most players don't seem to know about them. You get the Sims to do this in a game, you get the achievement. They include:

Something to Write About: Have your epitaph writer get mauled by a bear
Moonlight Novelist: Have your Book Club Moderator Sim write a novel (that's the bookstore part time job at level 3)
Steal With Style: Have an Evil Sim become a Master Thief then steal candy from 20 babies.

If none of the above appeal to you, you may be dead inside.

[Simerie]

i’m on generation 13 for my current household and i still i’m OBSESSSEDDD! thnx for the tips these are amazing

[elixtirr]

Wall of text rambling about my personal gameplay. Proceed with caution

Yesss! Not Malcolm is a blessing upon the very small Sims 3 community on YouTube. I’m so glad you mentioned him. He inspires me so much to always look for ways to spice up my gameplay—try things I haven’t tried before. For almost a year now, I’ve been doing a Sims 3 lepacy challenge, basing my Sims’ goals and personalities around all the expansion packs of the Sims 3, starting from just the base game. In the first generation, just the plain base game, I was having a blast! It was probably one of the most enjoyable play sessions I’ve ever had in the Sims 3. I would play for hours everyday and never wanted it to end. I started the lepacy with this idea that I would strive to do things in a different way than my normal play style, so I made my founder a man who sought to reach the top of the military career and become an astronaut. It was so much fun decorating my tiny ass house, grinding my job, eventually finding a spouse, moving to a house that I renovated and decorated to feel like the couple’s *unique* home, and then having a son named Orion, who is still one of my most treasured sims. I was always setting goals for my sims. But I also wanted to curate each and every single sim’s identity so that they felt entirely authentic and unique—not just “random family member number 5.” But now, I have gotten to the Pets generation and started to really slow down. I think forming my sims’ identities around a pack’s content is getting very challenging, especially if you aren’t too invested in that pack’s content. I’m still trying to work out how I’m going to do the supernatural generation following showtime—how that will work story-wise and such. Plus, having this obligation to engage in every single pack means I move my household to a different world when the new generation turns into young adults/can pursue their ambitions. I just feel burnt out. I want my sims to stay in one place, but I also want that place to not get stale and irrelevant to the pack I want to play with.

Ultimately, I know it is my game and I can do what I want. But I think if I want to keep playing this family, I need to make some drastic changes in the way I am playing. I think I need to start decorating my houses again, since I have been slipping into downloading pre-made houses on the exchange and just keeping them as-is, even if the style didn’t match my taste or sims’ aesthetic. There isn’t anything inherently wrong with that, but I think for me, that authenticity is essential. I want my sims to all have vibrant, unique lives. I want them to live in beautiful spaces—sure—but I also want those spaces to feel authentic to them. If my sim can’t stand art, she won’t have any art hanging on her bedroom wall. If my sim loves cooking, maybe he has a state-of-the-art master chef kitchen. I think my issue is that I’m falling back into old gameplay habits—trying to reach the top of a career, making sims that are virtually indistinguishable from each other, being afraid to push myself to build my own house or at least decorate existing ones, and not allowing my sims to grow into their own people, giving them a predetermined route to follow from birth to death instead of letting them grow into the person they will be. Also, my PC is kind of awful, and my game gets laggy if I try to run all expansion and stuff packs at once. That definitely takes away some enjoyment.

TL;DR: This video gave me so much needed insight into why I have been slowly distancing from my once
-beloved legacy/lepacy family. I’m gonna start to make a list of all the things I haven’t done in the Sims 3/want to explore. I also have some technical stuff I need to work out so I can get my game mostly—if not 100%—lag free, even running all my packs. Thank you for this video! I really needed it. Happy Simming ❤️

[doomguy]

Gotta be honest I'm new tor eally diving into the sims 3. I mostly played the sims 4 so the sims 3 takes a bit of adjustment. Especially when it comes to building but these things are a good help.

[Bella-bgez]

the absolute burning sims 3 cravings I am having rn

[joshdepaola]

I honestly never get bored with the sims 3 it’s just that the game is broken and I normally can’t play past 3 generations without major glitches so I just take long breaks before I can get into another save

[elastichedgehog]

Good video - this is making me want to revisit the Sims 3 (or 2, the best one)! Congrats on finishing up undergrad too!

[KWilma]

I would love a current household about this family!!!😍😍😍

[ravenroc]

I love sims 3! I wish they would do a remaster in 64 bit better memory management and a launcher that is not a pig. It would probably outsell anything else they do. IF they do it right. However I can see it now Sims 3 64bit $99.99, DLC - Improved launcher $29.99 plus all the other packs we would have to buy again when they get re-released because of compatibility issues. Ah well.

[PeteQuaint]

That’s an awesome build, you have dedicated areas for unique skill building that make sense. My picky perfectionist ass could never.

[TheGamingSyndrom]

I always like having a different dlc adventure with a sim in a generation,

my 'patriach or matriach' will work towards getting the immortal lifetime thingy

i have one character who's a witch or vampire

one who travels across the world to explore toombs etc.

one moved to isla paradiso ;D

and so on

[terryechoes]

What about the loading and saving times and general choppiness and performance issues?

[Sophias_booktube]

I haven`t played the game in years one im an avid reader like reading books from front to back and finishing one and starting a new one and so on and trying to play the game while doing that at the same time, but some how that holds me back and I have alot of books I want to get and I am runing out of space when I literary have almost 2 full book shelf in my bedrooms, but I love reading books so much and I miss playing the sims 3 game want put me of playing the game is when it cancels in the middle of the game when your playing it that is, damn annoying the lag and freezes, but I play it on my mac book air using my origin emulator which works because I already have the dlcs and all the packs downloaded, if I got a actually gaming laptop and if it promised me I would have no plbs playing the game at all yes I would get one, and another things is I still live with my parents and trying to concentrate on playing the game withought meditation like noise cancellation in the back ground is so hard to do.