Gameplay... Helpful information regarding the aspects and gameplay of The Sims 3
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Cheats
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The game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.
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Tricks
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Tricks and bugs that make the game more fun!
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Achievements
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Earn Badges by completing the achievements available on your Player Profile and Wall.
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Aging
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Age durations and what not.
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Books
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All the books in the game and what to do with them.
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Careers
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Career levels, options, pay levels, and skills.
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Cooking & Recipes
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The foods your sims can cook, with ingredients, cooking skill, etc.
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Gardening
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Plants, fertilizers, and seeds. Where to find them and what benefits they grant.
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Gems
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Information about Gem collecting, cutting, transfiguring and more.
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Ghosts
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Info on what happens after your Sim kicks the bucket.
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Gnomes
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Magic Gnomes are sly,conniving and sometimes magical creatures.
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Guitar
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Guitar Songs, Skills and More.
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Handiness & Upgrades
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A list of what available upgrades there are, and information on the Handiness skill.
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Life Fruit
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So what's this life fruit thing and what does it do?
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Lifetime Rewards
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What happens when your Sim splurges on that upgrade to their life.
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Logic
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The logic skill and its use.
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Moodlets
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Your sims moodlets, and what causes them.
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NPCs
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A list of all the NPCs who make our Sim's life a little easier and the ones we could do without!
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Opportunities
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Opportunities to increase skill level, job performance, and earn extra cash.
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Painting
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Painting and the painting skill.
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Traits
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A list of all the game's traits, with descriptions.
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Toddlers
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What to do once they're out of the crib and eating their socks.
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Writing
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A guide to writing a best selling novel.
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Adventures
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Exciting adventures for fun and profit.
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Ancient Coins
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OooOoo, Ancient Coins? What are they good for besides hoarding?
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Base Camp
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Base Camp is your home base while vacationing.
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Common Relics
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So, ok. Your Sim bought some junk in the market. Is it pretty enough to collect anyway?
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Gems
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Information about Gem collecting, cutting, transfiguring and more.
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Giant Boulders
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You'll need Pangu's Ax from Shang Simla to break past them to get to the treasure troves.
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Location Living
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Your Sim doesn't want to pay Import Duty but they want to keep their stash? Why not buy a vacation home? Here's what they need to do.
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Markets
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Market-schmarket - Why does your Sim need buy stuff anyway?
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Nectar Making
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What is Nectar? Why in the world would your Sim want to drink something they stomped on? Is it sanitary?
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Photography
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What? Sims can take pictures now? Are we their virtual reality?
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Tomb Adventuring
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Doom or riches? Will your Sim trigger a trap or strike it rich?
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Traveling
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So where does your Sim want to go and how do they get there?
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Consignments
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Sell your junk.. er... place the fine art you've created on sale at the local consignment store.
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Inventing
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Invent widgets and robots, then travel back in time!
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Laundry
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Install a washing machine and dryer or clothes line.
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Professions
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Architect/Designer, Daycare, Doctor, Firefighter, Ghost Hunter, Private Investigator, Stylist, become a professional inventor, or rearrange furniture... for a living!
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Skill Careers
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Use your sim's hard earned skills to make money and be recognized.
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Sculpting
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Mold, cut, torch, chisel, and saw your way to the top!
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Stylist
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Have at it beautifying or creating disasters on your neighbor's hair and makup.
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Tatoo System
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Make your missteaks permanent! Permanently Inkify victim sims who will pay you for your efforts!
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Twinbrook
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Will you build your home high and dry or down in the mosquito infested swampyland where you will be precisely situated to drown if the dam breaks?
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Bands
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Maybe if we play really, really loud people will think we are good.
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Bridgeport
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The new hustle and bustle of Late Night in downtown Bridgeport. Live in penthouses pampered by butlers or in low-end housing along with the rest of the rat race.
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Butlers
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Hire a butler to take care of your lazy sims households.
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Celebrities
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Just robbery, Miss Hilton? You'll only serve 5 days for that!
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Boarding Schools
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Get rid of your children and/or teenagers while securing them a good education!
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Chemistry Creations
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Your junior Einsteins can now create new potions and blow themselves up safely at home!
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Midlife Crisis
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When entering adult life a sim may experience a mid-life crisis on their birthday.
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Prom
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Send your sims off to the greatest high school social event of the educational lifetrack - the PROM!
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Punishment
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Are your sim children being naughty? staying out late? Playing hooky? Now you can scold or ground them.
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Adopting
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Daww it's so cute, can we keep it?!
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Breeding Pets
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When a mommy pet loves a daddy pet very much they'll want to start a family.
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Fleas
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Yep, Now you too can catch pesky fleas from your dear pets.
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Hunting
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Send your pets to find rare collectibles!
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Minor Pets
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Lizards, snakes, rodents, birds, and more!
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Acrobat
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Acrobat career for athletic sims.
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Magician
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Perform magic and illusions for your audiences.
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SimFest
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talent Shows for Magicians, Acrobats and Singers..
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Simport
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Swap your sims with other players - send your sims on tours and host your friend's sims.
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Singer
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Vocally talented sims can make it big!
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Starlight Shores
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This is the showplace for all your ambitious, creative simmies to show off. Plenty of venues and stages.
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Venues
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All the types of places to show off your Simmies' talents.
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Create Supernatural Beings
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Create supernatural beings from menacing werewolves and cackling witches, to mischievous fairies, create undead Zombies and more intriguing vampires and then Play as a supernatural Sims
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Elixirs and Spells
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Stalk the night, use your wand to cast spells, claw the furniture and more. You can mix dozens of elixirs that can turn Sims into zombies or transform them into gold. Share your enchanted brews with any friends who have The Sims 3! Hone your magical crafts and share the enchantment: Learn to cast spells and find rare ingredients to brew elixirs, so you can charm or hex your Sims’ lives. Send your magical elixirs to any of your friends’ games who have The Sims 3.
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Supernatural Items
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Discover supernatural items: Race around the arena on your broomstick, visit the gypsy caravan, or preen in front of your magic mirror. Even awaken the classic character of Bonehilda, the quirky skeletal maid. Tons of new enchanted objects.
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Moonlight Falls
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Explore the town of Moonlight Falls where strange things happen by the light of the moon. Discover what mysteries and abilities are revealed by the light of the full moon. Will your Sims freak out or become more powerful?
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Zombies
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Mix a special elixir to create shuffling, brain-hungry monsters of your very own. Chomp on other Sims to spread the love and wreak havoc. Don’t fret, you can always concoct an elixir to change your Sims back.
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Weather Effects
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Experience the joy and challenge of changing weather: New weather effects and Sim reactions capture the power and beauty of nature! Sims can get a tan, be struck by lightning, or catch a cold!
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New Activities
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Let your Sims swim in the ocean on a hot summer day, bob for apples in the autumn leaves, test their snowboarding skill on the half pipe,play soccer, or welcome spring showers with a walk in the rain and a colorful umbrella. Delight your Sims with new activities for every season: Whether building an intimate igloo, carving a scary Jack o’ lantern, taking a plunge off the diving board, or setting off all-new fireworks, your Sim can always find new things to do throughout the year.
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Seasonal Festivals
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Join the fun with seasonal festivals: Sims can get in a snowball fight at the annual winter festival, get their faces painted at the summer festival, whoop it up at the spring dance, or bob for apples during the fall festival.
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Seasonal Clothing
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New outfits for every season, winter wear, rain gear, sizzling summer fashions, Halloween costumes and more!
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SunlitTides
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Seasons' world - A modern downtown gives way to a lush jungle sprinkled with exotic bungalows and waterfront vacation homes nestled between the gentle waves of the ocean and a sun kissed lagoon. Enjoy a picnic on the beach, plan a secret rendezvous at an island waterfall, or cozy up to a loved one in the shade of a palm tree and watch the sun sink into the sea. Will your Sims find true love, or just have fun trying?
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UFOs
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Welcome mysterious visitors: New weather patterns aren’t the only things appearing in the sky! Befriend an alien visitor and use their UFO to abduct a neighbor, invade a community lot, or travel to the stars
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Hidden Springs
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Nice town with plenty of space. Comes with Leon's Fountain of Youth - Available from EA store
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Lucky Palms
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Dry red desert world suitable for a gambling mecca - Comes with wishing well - Available from EA store
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Lunar Lakes
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Alien world with cool weird trees. Comes with the Tree of Prosperity - available from EA store
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Riverview
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Second EA world Available from EA store
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SunlitTides
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Seasons - A modern downtown gives way to a lush jungle sprinkled with exotic bungalows and waterfront vacation homes nestled between the gentle waves of the ocean and a sun kissed lagoon. Enjoy a picnic on the beach, plan a secret rendezvous at an island waterfall, or cozy up to a loved one in the shade of a palm tree and watch the sun sink into the sea. Will your Sims find true love, or just have fun trying?
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TwinBrook
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Ambitions - life above or below the dam. You choose.
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