The Sims Social

The Sims Social is a Facebook game made by Playfish and EA. The first wall post was on Monday, June 6th, 2011, and the game was launched on Monday, August 8th, 2011.

The Sims Social takes part in a town called Littlehaven. A mobile application for smartphones is also in development as a companion app to the Facebook version, which will be available on the current generation of smartphones.

Description
''The Sims Social brings the fun and creativity of The Sims to Facebook! Create unique Sims and live out their dreams—or stir up trouble by pulling pranks. Develop deep relationships to unlock new features and advance: befriend and fight, date and cheat, love and betray. Play with life in a whole new way—with your real friends, for free.''

Main Characters
These are known available main character in The Sims Social, especially Littlehaven:

Returning Characters

 * Bella Goth - Bella returns to Littlehaven as neighbor (which we can't control). She is a tutorial Sim. She helps the player to get started on Littlehaven.



Appeared on Game

 * Macy - Macy helps players in earning money and decorating the house. She appears when you're clicking anything related with money.
 * Shane Shaw - Shane is a guy in Littlehaven and loves to date. Shane is Scarlett's brother, because he has same last name with her. He occasionally appears in an update every week, or in-game advertisement.
 * Scarlett Shaw - Scarlett is a member of the Cream Club, dedicated to popularity and self-promotion. Scarlett is Shane's sister, because she has same last name with him. She appears when the game recognizes that you're not on computer.
 * Buddy - Buddy is a friendly Sim of bland disposition. Buddy is Chloe's brother, as said on Good vs Evil Week quest and Car Week quest. Before, he appeared in snag or game error notifications. He appeared also on the maintenance page.
 * Chloe - Chloe is a Sim who enjoys romance. Chloe is Buddy's sister, as said on Good vs Evil Week quest and Car Week quest.
 * Barbara Belle - Barbara is a fitness instructor Sim who can be seen around town. She appears when you're out of energy.
 * Dallas - Dallas is a friend of Bella Goth. She has a cousin in the music industry.
 * Fleur - Fleur is Gustav Heimlich's personal assistant.
 * Mike Rib - Mike is a member of the HiQ Club, and contact with the M.S.S.
 * Penelope Pemberton - Penelope is President of the Venture Planning League (V.P.L.).
 * Jessica - Jessica is recruiter for the local super hero league, dressed like a Team Evil Cheerleader.
 * Eugene Hackett - Eugene is the leader of the Littlehaven Mad Scientists Society. He was born and raised in the town, and still holds the Littlehaven High School record for most wedgies received in a single academic year.
 * Jared - Jared is a pool boy, introduced in Pool Week, and helped us on building swimming pool (project item).
 * Artist boy - He appeared in Art Career window.
 * Chef boy - He appeared in Cooking Career window.
 * Goth Rocker girl - She appeared in Music Career window.

Not Appeared in Game

 * Gustav Heimlich - Gustav is a spiritual counselor Sim who has moved from Europe.
 * Jolene Dexie - Jolene is a dancer and carwash operative who moved to Littlehaven from the mid-south, after her trailer burnt down in a toaster oven fire.

Features

 * Create a Sim that suits your interests, with different personalities, looks and traits.
 * Be an inspired Sim by fulfilling their Hunger, Hygiene, Bladder, Sleep (secondary), Social and Fun needs/motives, so you can earn more Simoleons.
 * Add your friends as neighbors and visit their house.
 * Two Sims can have various relationship statuses, including friend, romantic partner, or enemy.
 * Gain experience points to level up your game and unlock more capabilities and items.
 * Build and decorate your house and lot; gain house value with new items every week.
 * Train your Sim in skills to unlock items and earn Simoleons.
 * Gain success and reward from Career, by gaining promotion.
 * Build project items in shop for free, and earn nice reward if you finished it before specified time.
 * Help your friends to build rooms and collect items needed for skills and quests.
 * Finish available quests to earn nice reward!
 * Craft items to make potions and elements you need for your Sim.
 * Events that happen in the game can be shared on your profile and others.

Personality
Personality is a feature in The Sims Social, which is similar to aspiration in The Sims 2, but different from the traits in the game itself. Players can choose their Sim's personality at the beginning of the game.

Traits


Traits are a feature in The Sims Social, which are similar to traits at The Sims 3.

Relationship Status
The Sims Social has a lot types of Sim relationships. Sims are able to make friends, enemies, lovers, with each other.

Game Level
Game level shows a player's progress in the game. It can be leveled up by earning experience points (XP).

House Value Level
House Value Level is value of the items/objects the player contains on their lot and storage. Whenever buying an item, the household level increases. Household level determines a Sim's wealth.

Skill
Skill is a feature in The Sims Social, which exist in all of The Sims games.

Career
Career is The Sims Social feature, which similar tocareer or job in all Sims game. Career was added to the game on 22nd March, 2012.

Currency
The Sims Social has four different currencies: Simoleons, SimCash, Social Points, and Lifetime Achievement Points.
 * Simoleon - A basic currency.
 * SimCash - Used to be only available by purchase, but now it's available too as 5th day login bonus, and reward from inviting new player to install the game. Players will receive 40 SimCash free when they begin playing.
 * Social Points - Social Points can be gained by performing social interactions with other Sims.
 * Lifetime Achievement Points (LAP) - LAP can be gained by leveling up skill and finishing quest. LAP is used to upgrade traits; it is similar to Lifetime happiness in The Sims 3.

Quest
Completing quests will give the player bonus rewards, such as Simoleons, XP, Lifetime Points, or unlocking of special items or additional quests.

There are two types of quest:

Basic Quest
Basic quests are quest that available to all player (some need to be unlocked by leveling up or finishing another quest) and doesn't have time limit.

Special/Timed Quest
Special/timed quests are quests that can only be completed in a limited period of time (and not available anymore after it). It is not always just one; it can be a chain of quests. Each week almost have at least one timed special quests, with various time limit, such as 6 days, 9 days, 14 days, and more. These quests always have rewards if you finished it.

Trivia

 * Lsimnovorii.jpg Sims Social was announced at E3 in 2011, and hit open beta August 9th.
 * Bella Goth appears as a neighbor. The player can interact with her but cannot control her .The Sims Social is the third game in which Bella cannot be controlled (others include The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 for PSP).
 * Bella Goth has a Socialite personality and on level 10 Cooking career.
 * L. Simnovorii or Cowplant from The Sims 2, re-appeared on the game on Halloween 2011.
 * Bike Curious, an abandoned item from expansion land on the game, has same name with Curious family which introduced in The Sims 2.
 * Servo Statue, an abandoned item from expansion land on the game, Servo is one of life state introduced in The Sims: Livin' Large.

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Videos
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