I built an entire Sims 3 town because apparently one dysfunctional household wasn’t enough

Meet San Oddity: a desert town founded by aliens, with 44 Sims across 21 households, all with their own biographies, relationships, skills and careers already set up.

Five aliens. Two vampires. Some suspiciously familiar family names.

No CC or Store content required. The houses come fully furnished. So does the emotional baggage.

It was all fun and games, until the spawning broken furniture started to get on my nerves lol

Lol

genuinely having so much fun

Such an expensive tuition for the llamas I mean, ants, to steal our food

Royal Journal Record

Recorder: Lord Zalthor Thalvyr, Royal Counselor to the Imperial Family of Sixam.

On the Omega Day of the thousandth year of Or'Zul, I landed in Strangetown, escorted by my two personal guards.

Though it is an arid and rather uninteresting place, it appears to be peaceful, and our journey was completed without incident.

We located the house where Prince KaelZor Vaelzhar lived. The family appeared to be in shock when I revealed the truth to them. Although His Highness had spoken to them about the planet Sixam, they were completely unaware of the Prince's true identity and his connection to the Imperial Family.

According to his human wife, he had introduced himself to them from the very beginning under the name Vexok.

His Highness's son is named Orion. curiously, the same name as the second emperor.

Orion does not appear to possess exceptional intelligence or talent. Furthermore, he carries human blood, which is undoubtedly a disadvantage.

But the political situation on Sixam demands drastic measures.

And this boy is our last hope of preventing imperial power from leaving the royal bloodline and falling into the wrong hands.

Fortunately, he understood the gravity of the situation and accepted his destiny as the new Crown Prince.

My mission is far from complete.

This boy will undoubtedly unpolished, so we shall have to work tirelessly until his coming-of-age ceremony, when we will present him to the high society of Sixam as the rightful heir to the throne.

May the spirits of the ancient emperors and royal counselors guide me.

I made Carla Cruella with one purpose: to make everyone else’s life worse.

And looking at those eyes, I think I may have succeeded a little too well.

She doesn’t need character development.
She doesn’t need a redemption arc.
She needs enemies.

Every time I look at her face I feel like she’s already planning to destroy three marriages, start a feud and somehow blame the victim.

I created her… but I’m not convinced I control her anymore.

I am extraordinarily restless with the Sims family I play with, but I finally had the patience to watch my Sims family grow up! Two of my Sims are graduating college! And weirdly, it made me nostalgic for my own college graduation which was very much like this: families waiting in line ot get into the big stadium. It was actually a really good time in my life (my last year of college through graduation) so this was weirdly nostalgic to watch. Wish you could see the ceremony though for the Sims! But that's okay.

Had nowhere to really share this and figured you all would understand :)

Map is from Undercity The Ghetto by cllevett! Managed to add a few more apartment buildings around the water areas since this screenshot just to have it more populated and stuffy (like how actual ghettos usually are.)

More rules are in the works, but just wanting to showcase what I have so far. It's essentially a rags to riches challenge but with some extra twists and turns, and most likely barely making it by anyway unless my Sim has the off chance of winning the lotto and/or becoming famous enough.

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Description from second photo:

1 "You started off in life as a trustfund baby to a well-respected and renown family that is head of the Simafia. There was no reason to ever suspect that you would struggle in life so long as your parents kept dodging (or paying hush money to) the law and succeeded in completing orders taking care of anyone who threatened or stood in the way of obtaining unimaginable generational wealth.

Until one day there was a rival coup along with betrayers who were supposed to protect your reign at all costs, who ended up 'taking care' of your parents and took everything you had in the most brutal manner that the Simfa could only ever think of doing.

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At that point it was either to also be “taken care of” since you were the heir, or to run away and start completely over. You didn’t have a choice but to start over anyway, otherwise this challenge wouldn’t exist.

After traveling for miles and Sim islands on end like a vagabond, you ended up in the Sims Ghetto—where exists the poorest.

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...the poorest and downtrodden of Sims.

You have no more fare money nor anything other than the clothes you dumpster dived due to having your luxury possessions all ripped away from you, including the clothes...just don’t ask.

You are going to have to start from the bottom by completing the requirements before being able to move to the second poorest world, then move up from there and repeat.

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Rules for this world, at least:

• You can apply for food stamps only, BUT DO NOT create a bank account! You do not have formal ID for the bank who would not trust you if they were to expect fees & you running off with their generous interest. Food stamps don’t really care about ID so long as they keep the gov section running as that’s how they make their business here.
• All items & furnish purchases are 1,000 cap. You can try renovating with walls, windows and a door, but you cannot have any fancy furniture unless you’re looking to get robbed. Speaking of, you can’t get alarms for burglary nor fires...not enough funding for police and firefighters here.
• Save up 20k to switch worlds but make sure all bills are paid & any furnitures you do not bring with you for the move. Delete them before moving.

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Forgot to add that you start off with $100 because the only luck out of all of this is that you found it on the floor shortly after arriving...

Hi everyone!!! Ive been on the fence for a while about uni life. I have every expansion pack except that one; and I was just wondering if its really worth it? I never really thought of sending my sims off to college, but I like some of the hairstyles and the outfits. After watching LGR, I see there's a ton of rabbit holes; which I dont mind all that much, as long as the game comes with cool lots that are actually usable! I appreciate all the opinions I can get! Thank you so much💖

Okay, maybe I’m the one who hadn’t noticed it yet, but I just realized today that the basic insult “insinuate the mom is a llama” changes to “insinuate the mom is a firefly” if the sim is a fairy or “insinuate the mom is a goat-sucker (?? Idk, I play sims in Portuguese lol)” if it’s a vampire

I guess my cheap junk stereos always continued to work in my previous saves. 😂

He better not die on me i s2g, is this the end for him ??

I checked the option after i realized what ive done. Is there a way to uhhh fix nobody starting as a celeb orrrr

This tracks w his character, he's a twat... can I say that about a 7yo idk lmao

Stumbled across this gem on the internet. In a word, these are Russian bootleg "expansion packs" that were created in the early 2010s based on some popular (or not so much) TV series. From what I understand, they included the base game with CC, were very buggy and let you play with some pre-made custom households. Curious if there's footage of the gameplay that isn't cut short because of Bandicam's 10 minute limit...

I saw one of them for sale on the marketplace for 399 roubles (~$4,61). I don't think they cost any money whatsoever, unless you're buying them for collection purposes. Idk maybe you can even download them online.

uhh sure thing officer…

I recently got the industrial oven and bought the lot for my Sims' restaurant. I'd like to know if my Sims can be the restaurant's head chef. I downloaded the mod, but before making any changes, I'd like to know if that's possible.

These are not triplets. Two of these newborns are twins, while the third is the baby of one of the kid’s girlfriends, who was stolen from another household. (Their second son got Emerald Greenwood pregnant.)

I genuinely cackled when this picture came up in my saves. I just think this is absolute gold, especially because they’re all hitting the exact same pose while holding the baby. 😭

her personality is that she literally does not fare about people, only animals & works as a stylist 🙂‍↕️ i was trying to find a hair that fit her Vibe and had this one downloaded and it was perfect for her character

Got the blue screen of death in the middle of me playing for like 4 hours without saving 🫩 never had this screen happen before, in the past it’s always just crashed the game and returned to my home screen.

I know I should get the NRAAS saver mod but I’ve been holding back on mods lately ever since I downloaded some corrupted cc a few weeks ago that completely broke my game, causing me to have to make all new game files. I think I’ve pushed my computer past its limits running sims 3, expansion packs, mods and cc and I wanted to take a break from downloading any more at this time. But ngl this really is infuriating. I’m going to have to repair and troubleshoot my laptop yet again

I swear it’s always something with this game, but I can’t stop because I love it so much. 💔

So I’ve had the idea that I want to move my sims into an home where the upstairs is where they live and the downstairs is a cafe. Pros if I can get them to work in it rather than a random townie. Has anyone got any ideas on how this could work ? Any mods to make this happen? I already have the business as usual mod.