Protest

Protests are a gameplay feature in The Sims 3. Protests can only happen at City Hall, and have a 15% chance of happening, but the player is unable to start them. Most often, protests start at the beginning of the game when a Sim or a family of Sims move into the new neighborhood. Protests can be joined at any time, but it's unlikely that anybody will join if the protest goes on after eleven o' clock at night. It is apparent that a protest is for something, as represented by the images on the protest boards, but those images are always random. While protests add "color", they have no impact on gameplay aside from providing sims with the Rebellious trait the Fight The Power moodlet.