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I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play this week unfortunately, so no full update. Instead, I bring you this random discovery from Ambitions. While the lemonade stand from TS2 is gone, a new one has taken its place… the baked goods stand.
Your sim kids can bake a variety of muffins with → Read More: ‘Something Random About Ambitions‘
Inventing is one of the new skills introduced with Ambitions. To me, it pretty much functions like combining the mechanical workbench and the toy bench from The Sims 2 together into one thing! You can make little gadgets, decorative items, toys, and some really neat mechanical whiz-bangs. Did you like that technical terminology I just used? Oh yeah, whiz-bangs! What you make is saved, so if you ever want to make it again, you can select it. Otherwise, it’s random chance depending on the skill level of the inventor. An inventor would probably function better if they have the Eccentric trait, which allows for quicker skill gain and better inventions. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to help out in the next department… → Continue reading ‘Ambitions: Inventing & Sculpting… Junk Ahoy!’ I guess I need to post proof of my claim that the folks of Twinbrook don’t have a whole lot going for them in the “looks” department and Carla wanted to see pictures. Before we delve into that, let me express that I like unique features and whatnot… but there’s a fine line between unique and plain fugly. Pre-mades with this franchise in general have always left something to be desired. Just when you thought PUDDING FACE was bad, along came Twinbrook… There’s not enough eye bleach on the planet for this place. You have been warned! → Continue reading ‘Ambitions: Twinbrook Is Crazy Ugly… No Lie’  Not quite as epic as the movies made it look, but still pretty cool! Ambitions gives sims with an interest in the paranormal a chance to make their hobby a profession. You can choose to become a Ghost Hunter by using the phone, computer, or the newspaper. Once you’re “on the take” to hunt down ghosts, you’ll be spending your nights trolling the town, eliminating the pesky ghosts that plague homes, rabbit holes, and even the cemetery. Unwelcome family spirits… beware!  The life of a P.I. can lead you to some seriously spooky places! Being a Private Investigator is a dubious business. A good private eye usually has the Perceptive trait, but it’s not required. Any sim can decide to uncover the truth (or cover it up) by using their phone, the computer, or even the newspaper and selecting it as their new-found profession. Private Investigators like Logic, Stake Outs, and Solving Cases. The life of a Private Investigator is mostly conducted outside of the home, trolling the streets, chatting up possible suspects, and even staking out various locations in hopes of finding crooks. Private Investigator can even lend a hand to the local, overworked police department if they’re feeling especially altruistic (and in need of a few extra bucks!) I know a bunch of people are probably doing this right now, but I did it with WA, so I figured I’d do it with this new expansion, too. I figured I’d do a really quick brush over of the new things in Ambitions to kick things off. There’s actually a lot to this expansion. In fact, I think it’s added more than World Adventures did. Sure, World Adventures offered us new worlds and tombs, but that was outside of the neighborhood. Ambitions brings things a little closer to home by offering up a new job set called ‘Professions’: Private Investigator, Ghost Hunter, Firefighter, Architectural Designer, and Ghost Hunter. It also adds some new options for sims in the medical career. There’s also a completely new hood called Twinbrook that has a bit of a bayou twist to it. It also makes an example with the new community lots; the fire station, salon, junk yard, and consignment shop. These all tie into the new profession system. I’ll delve into the individual things later, but for this post, we’re going to breeze over some of the other newly added features/etc. |
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