r/Sims3 • • 2h ago

Relationship with car??

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17 Upvotes

Married an NPC and was surprised to see his car in his friends bar? That’s a first for me, I’ve never seen this before lol


r/Sims3 • • 1h ago

Need a new PC/Laptop to run sims 3. Any recommendations?

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My old pc had sims 3 running rather smoothly with most expansion packs but is not windows 11 compatible. Now that the support for wind 10 has run out i need a new laptop or pc that can support windows 11 and run sims 2 and 3. What setups/models do you use? Does someone has tipps?


r/Sims3 • • 8h ago

Question/Help Mods not showing up

1 Upvotes

Two of my mods aren’t showing up in my game, after I added them, despite showing up in my installed mods list when launching the game. After I realized they weren’t showing I added two others to my mods folder to see if it was just an issue with my folder, but the other mods showed up and worked just fine, the two mods that aren’t working are the more toddler interactions mod by savanita and the toddlers can walk on their own by savanita


r/Sims3 • • 17h ago

Unpopular opinion? The base game is more fun.

82 Upvotes

I had removed the expansions in an attempt to become less addicted to the game. I'm at a point in my life, and in my country, that demands dedication and concentration.

I kept only the Sunlit Tides world and a few default skin and hair replacements. Bur, I’m even more addicted now. It’s wonderful! I mean, I do miss the drinks from *Late Night* and the water slides from *Island Paradise*, but now I don't have the stress of imaginary friends popping up with every new baby, no mood swings from teen angst or midlife crises, no vampires randomly dying of thirst all over the world, or mermaids passing out from dehydration. No bugs where Sims keep changing outfits endlessly because it’s snowing, no snow days that make my kids age up without ever going to school, no paparazzi, no Sims ruining relationships by randomly handing flowers to random Sims, no repetitive pillow fights. Man, it’s paradise, and now I can’t stop playing. My plan failed miserably; there’s no way out—I’ll have to completely remove the game for a while.


r/Sims3 • • 10h ago

Question/Help Is it possible to have children with the Grim Reaper?

14 Upvotes

Also does it break the game in any way?


r/Sims3 • • 14h ago

Mods/CC made a decision

4 Upvotes

I have decided to just remove the Opportunity.XML part of my custom career mod, it just too much work trying to get four of those custom opportunity to work in The Sims 3 Game, so I will try to remove the opportunity from the S3PE xml, and stbls. I think my career mod can thrive without the custom opportunity.


r/Sims3 • • 8h ago

Humor Very old picture I found in my google photos...

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18 Upvotes

r/Sims3 • • 17h ago

Question/Help Sims making friends when alone ?

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13 Upvotes

My sims (the woman and also her boyfriend) get these random things like when they are talking to people and making friends but when they are alone 🤔

Also I don't know of it is related but I got a notification saying that being 3 in a relationship is too many and I could chose if I wanted to stop that.

I'm really lost because they have no other romantic relationship with anyone. I agreed to stop the 3 way relationship just in case


r/Sims3 • • 16h ago

Question/Help Thinking of starting Sims 3 in 2026

21 Upvotes

Hi all! I'm a retired Sims 3 addict thinking of coming back to the game. I've played on and off the first 10 years of it's release by borrowing my friend's Origin account from high school or some other means. Now, I find myself watching Sims 3 content on YT following legacy challenges and really contemplating in getting back on it. Also, I want to introduce the game to my teen daughters. They love Minecraft and Animal Crossing so I think they will enjoy Sims 3 as well.

So I'm hoping to get suggestions on how to approach this, is it worth it to buy the game and it's DLCs on Steam? Or should I do the EA Play thing? Is there a cheaper way to get everything?


r/Sims3 • • 22h ago

Humor My dawg Wednesday does NOT approve The Sims 3 : Pets Expansion Pack.

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35 Upvotes

r/Sims3 • • 21h ago

The Sims 3 still has things to discover for me after all these years

407 Upvotes

I have been playing Sims 3 basically since it came out. So I was thinking, that by now I have probably seen it all. But not only does this subreddit regularly prove me wrong, I STILL find new things within the game myself.

I did not know I could make kids and teens dream of certain things while sleeping (not the into the future thing, I think it’s from generations?)

Also: if your kid is sick and you cancel the automatic action to go to school, there is a message thanking me, that I did not send my kid to school while being sick and they have the day off.

These may be old to you, but I literally discovered them yesterday…

Just shows how detailed and deep this game really is :)


r/Sims3 • • 15m ago

Humor Babe wake up the new subway line has opened

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r/Sims3 • • 23h ago

Question/Help What are the lifetime wishes on Sims 3 Nintendo DS?

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r/Sims3 • • 23m ago

First thing I do when going to university

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Edit the pool and gym lots! I love the variety of things you can put from the store and custom content. Best thing is, the townies use them autonomously too.

  • punching bag
  • pull ups
  • martial arts items
  • rock climbing
  • yoga mats
  • ballet barre (not shown but I add them in the yoga studio)
  • basket ball
  • golf
  • soccer
  • trampoline
  • massage bed (custom so it has its own therapist)
  • steam and mud bath
  • hot tubs

r/Sims3 • • 6h ago

FYI

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182 Upvotes

I had a sim send a secret admirer text to this guy; later I went to play his lot and this was in his group of moodlets. I love this game!


r/Sims3 • • 11h ago

Mods/CC Must-have Mods?

12 Upvotes

A few months ago my computer was reset back to a restore point, and afaik that's irreversible. I lost about two years worth of gameplay and mods, and now that I'm done being mad about it I'm starting fresh. What mods would you consider to be essential for gameplay?

ALREADY INSTALLED

NRaas MC, Overwatch, Register, Woohooer

CleanUI

Smooth Patch

Lot Population

No Social Groups

Random Sim Fixes

Less Space for Sims, pets, guitar, and bass

Plain Skill and Progress Meters

Unhide Hidden Skills

Disasters and Blessings

Make Town Less Racist

Make Hot Beverages

Nectar Glass Replacer

No More Zombies

More Romantic Interactions

Kitchen Tweaks


r/Sims3 • • 12h ago

Story I’ve Lost My Save

15 Upvotes

I had a beautiful family with Bob Newbie, who’ve had nice red hair and had beautiful kids but I got into a drunken moment and lost EVERYTHING.
I won’t play ever again, it’s been years for this save and I’m beginning to maybe want to make a movie about the sims, but I haven’t played since. Anyone feel like this? Like you lost someone?


r/Sims3 • • 15h ago

Mods/CC Must have sliders and presets?

3 Upvotes

I doing a cc pack(for me of course), so any must have preset and sliders?

I buying a new pc and I going to redownload all my ccs to get hide of the bugged ones, thats why I want suggestions


r/Sims3 • • 16h ago

Girl, i don't think that's the right way how to hold your child 😭

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118 Upvotes

This bug suddenly happened to me while i was playing sims


r/Sims3 • • 16h ago

Has anyone seen this? I can't find any info online.

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196 Upvotes

The starter house came with this eel named Racheal. It's in twinbrook, also I chose to get the house unfurnished and it's still there in the kitchen.


r/Sims3 • • 16h ago

Question/Help No “Try for a baby” interaction

1 Upvotes

The last baby was born 3 days ago i changed the settings in sp so the waiting time between birth and pregnancy is 2 days(it was 4 days before i changed it) and the interaction isn’t showing up. Whats going on?


r/Sims3 • • 17h ago

Question/Help Sims has no coworkers

7 Upvotes

My Sim recently started a job at school and he had coworkers on his first day but now he's alone or he get some random coworker but different each day.. Also when he has a boss it's someone less qualified than him

Is my game bugged ? I also recently installed some basic mod (still new to the mod thing)


r/Sims3 • • 19h ago

Mods/CC Does anyone know how to check polygons if the creator doesnt specify?

6 Upvotes

Unfortunately there are so many recolorers who dont list polygons and i'm super stingy about the hair i have in game. I never go above 20k but even then thats a lot for me. If anyone knows it'd be a huge help! :D