Carl's Sims 3 Guide
Carl's Sims 3 Guide is an excellent website detailing skills, traits, lifetime wishes and more in The Sims 3. The guide is specifically designed towards powergaming; how to get the most simoleons from a skill, how to complete a lifetime wish the fastest and which traits to choose to optimize your character for a certain goal. The site was founded by Carl Ratcliff.
The guides on Carl's site are very detailed and often feature in-depth definitions, tables and calculations. All guides are up for discussion on their forum where users can add additional info given that it reaches popular consensus or is backed with proof. The forum actively discusses optimization for the posted articles.
Carl's often arranges competitions for their playerbase where the users are given a challenge. The first challenge of 2010, for example, was 'The Perfectly Happy Challenge' where players had to find as many perfect variants of fish, recipes, and plants in the game within the set time limit of 100 days, with only one trip to each vacation destination allowed.
Availability
It's not necessary to register to read the site, but you will need to register on the forum if you wish to provide feedback or participate in competitions.
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