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The good, the bad, The could be better and the dam right wrong

The good

1. Living City

Everyone lives and breeds. It's great.

2. Going outside

Woot!

3. Customizing

Do I need to say more?

4. Traits

Evil, Loner, Brave and many more!

5. Ghosts

Interact and play with a ghost.

The Bad

1. Living City

Everyone lives, even your own people that you created. It can be a problem when you want to marry one you just made and end up discovering a baby.

2. Crashes

When you're lucky, it doesn't happen that often. When you're unlucky, it happens a lot! Most sucky when saving, which corrupts your saved games...

3. Code 13

Prevents you from saving your game.

4. Some bugs

There are some bugs that can be irritating. Don't know if it's a bug but some people get 4 trails or less.

5. Anti Gay?!

Need to look into this one a bit more. But it seems like you can't really get gay people. Not true: Witnessed two male characters flirting with each other without provocation.

The could be better

1. Some people stuff

People won't use hats, beards, earrings and so on.

2. Limited amount of hair

Really want to see more. But you can find more in the store, and maybe one day on Exchange.

The Wrong

1. Come on! Cabbage, garlic and onions growing on bushes!

Come on! That's just stupid!

The game's not anti-gay. I have gay sims already. Whatchoo talkin' bout, Willis?

- Anonymous user that doesn't want their IP address shown to the entire internet, thanks.

The most annoying thing is how your sims, which you have spent ages playing with, just disappear! DISAPPEAR! What?! When you're not playing with families sims or whole households can just disappear from the game, and they don't change in the family tree view! Is there a reason for this? Can it be fixed because for me this problem has ruined the game, completely ruined it! For example Michael Bachelor disappeared, Agnes Crumplebottom, her husband and her daughter disappeared. Claire Ursine and her children ALL disappeared...etc etc...I lose more and more sims everyday! I actually lost a household of SIX sims! Please can anybody explain this??

Really Bugging Me... (Families/Neighbourhoods etc)

Hey guys,

Anyway, something has been bugging me. The Sims 3 boasts this whole "living neighbourhood" thing, but how comes Sims that you haven't played with do not remember the people they've met? I'll put it into an example...

In my game, I've been playing with the Goths, particularly Mortimer, and he's visited Bella's house and talked to her dad. When I go to play with the Bachelor family, he doesn't know who he is and has never talked to him - when he has when playing with the Goth family.

Also, one of the main features that made The Sims good was that, if you talk to someone new, that Sim will remember you when you go to play with them or gain them into a family. Has this feature been removed for the Sims 3? Because if so, the game is a major let down - I hate how save games have replaced Families. Is there a way to let aging Sims show up as aged on the Sims 3 in neighborhood/town view? Because Gunther (I think - Mortimer's dad?) is now an elder and he's not showing up as an elder on town view, in fact the family has appeared unchanged and I have to play with the "save game", which again bugs me because in Sims 1 and 2 you could play with families and shape the neighborhood and other families will be aware of you - EA seems to have touched something that wasn't broken.

If there is a way to implement it, or disable save games so that families are saved in the neighborhood (and not separately as saved game). Because I'd rather play with my neighborhood, not individual families like the Sims 3 is currently forcing me to do, making it pointless to interact with anyone. Please tell me!

Thanks, MerrytonRyan 22:41, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

It's not a glitch, it's because it's a completely different household. If on a different household, say the Goths have Mortimer an elder and Cornelia is long gone. On another household it's exactly how the game first started, with Cornelia an adult and Mortimer a kid. :) I don't know if you can make it how you want it, but I doubt it.

One thing that really bugs me is the "supposed" ability to live out any story you want. I created my mother as a child, so I naturally I also had my grandmother as a young adult as well as my uncle and aunts. I switch to another family only to come back and find that my grandmother was pregnant. I had story progression turned off and low free will. Another thing is that I had a son and father playing chess, and came back several hours later to find that they were still playing. The father missed work and the child skipped school.--99.128.255.131 03:30, 11 July 2009 (UTC)Bella Goth

I Have sims 3 and i made a family, 1 young adult, 1 teen and 1 child, the teen grew up and i moved her out but the really weird thing was... she was at work and there was this person standing outside, i realised that, that sim had the exact name as my sim and the exact clothes my sim was wearing when she grew up, then i talked to her and found out she had the exact traits as my sim and she was living with my grown up sister (that my sim didnt even know) Its Weird! Can Someone help me?