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simverses · 4 months

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Hello! Would you consider reposting the TS3 Medieval Replacement Careers mod? I understand that you're focusing on TS4, but the old link is broken and that mod would add so much immersion in my medieval TS3 if you were to share it again. Thank you for reading this!

Sighs. I had a PC suddenly die on me in 2016, and almost all my old S2/S3 stuff was lost. Now I have everything in the cloud, but back then.. I will look again and see if I can find it somewhere.

Also, there was a problem with the replacement of STBL introduced with some EP if I remember (very foggy memory) and it stopped working for me, sadly. But I will check.

I found 2 files, from 2009... as I said, no idea if they still work. They are simple text replacement mods, and if someone wants to adopt these poor orphans and update them to work for Sims 3 again, I give my loving consent.

SFS-folder with VERY OLD Sims 3 stuff

I also found a pic from a world I worked on in CAW back in the day, a rather small island called Thistlemist :)

#sims 3 #sims 3 nostalgia #sims 3 VERY VERY old mods

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allfrogsmatter · 21 days

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i spent a lot of my weekend playing sims 3 and mannn i forgot how much i loved that game, but it also makes me miss the sims 4 like crazy

rambling thoughts below (also if you played s3 what do you miss or not miss about it???)

sims 4 just does a much better job with relationships and dynamics between sims, which makes it such a good platform for storytelling and i miss that because all my sims 3 sims’ relationships just seem so flat

but there’s something about sims 3 that just makes it so playable. the open world truly was so nice, i love not having loading screens anytime i leave the lot and being able to toggle between sims as they go about their day - i miss it so much in sims 4

also the autonomy in sims 3 just seems so much better, when i leave my sims to their devices they always seem to want to clean up or play with the dog, but in s4 it’s play video games or drink water and leave dirty cups around, plus they spend so much more time actually doing things instead of standing around (maybe this is just because i didn’t excessively mod my game fro s3 but still)

and the wants in s3 are so much better than whims in s4, something about the way they’re displayed just makes me actually want to complete them, and i love that lifetime aspirations show up as wants for kids and teens

other things from s3 i missed:

- pets are more doable- in s4 they’re always running away from neglect because my sims don’t interact with them unless i make them

- separation between worlds- i wish you could travel to other worlds for vacation like you can the ones from world adventures, but i like that your world is contained in s3, everyone at the school lives in your world, everyone at your job lives in your world, you can maintain relationships with people from other worlds but they’re not showing up at your door every day (esp. in the context of a decades challenge, if your sims immigrate from europe to america you won’t be seeing your european auntie walking down the street in your neighborhood)

-color wheel - oh my god, i had almost forgotten, this genuinely was a heartbreaker when s4 came out, there was so much variability in cas and build in s3, even with limited clothing options you could create unique looks for your sims with different patterns and textures and you weren’t restricted to the awful ea options

-clothes- something about the s3 basegame clothing option, it’s just very workable and versatile, maybe i think this because trends have come full circle, but a few years ago when i jumped into s3 again i remember being so tickled with the outfit options

-teens- there’s something about s3 teens that just makes them better, maybe because they made them look like teens by making them shorter instead of just scrawny, but with generations teens just feel more fully fleshed out than in s4 (i don’t have growing together or high school years so ig that’s on me, but also i can’t afford both of those packs)

-packs- something that has really been grinding my gears for the almost TEN YEARS since s4 came out is how much extra content you have to purchase, for s3 if you wanted game content, for the most part you got it through expansion packs, but s4 is just excessive with expansion packs, game packs, stuff packs, kits, etc. there’s just so many features that you want in your game, but it costs a small fortune to get them all because they’re distributed across packs that cost up to $40

-PRICE- i have so many nostalgic memories of saving up my $20 to go to target and buy a new expansion pack for s3, then the joy i felt when it was on sale, every s3 expansion was, and still is, $20 but for s4 they’re twice that, the only time i can ever justify purchasing anymore is when they’re on sale

- rabbitholes- it seems like for s4 they did away with a lot of rabbitholes, just not work and school (except with packs), it was nice being able to send my sims to the movies or the bistro for a date night and not have to be following them the whole time, making them interact

- ownership- maybe it’s just me but i miss physically having the boxes the games came in and putting the disk into the computer and having the little icon for every pack on my desktop, i don’t like how everything’s through origin or the ea app now, esp. because for whatever reason s3 university got uninstalled on my moms pc and ea wanted me to buy it and when i used the code from the box it said it had already been applied (i only have the one account i have no clue why tf they took university from me) and if i didn’t have the disk i wouldn’t have been able to reinstall

- i also miss little things, like ordering pizza and seeing my sims drive around and catching birds in the wild and holiday festivals

#nonsims #sims 3 nostalgia #i’m actually feeling ancient today #because i got the sims 3 for my 11th birthday #and now i’m 22 #and the sims 4 came out ten years ago in september #also i’ve been rewatching lifesimmer’s generations lp #that was my kryptonite as a kid

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princessposie · 1 month

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Flying V's Coffeehouse - Sims 3

#sims 3 #sims 3 showtime #sims 3 nostalgia #nostalgia #2000s nostalgia #2010s nostalgia #ea #the sims #the sims 3 #me

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philosimy · 3 months

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Sul sul!

It's time to get nostalgic.

With this update of my Sims (2000) world, you can revisit every lot and every household from the Sims 1 in an open world experience in the Sims 3! This addition adds the Magic Town and Vacation Island area's, making this a complete Sims 1 world, that includes every Sims 1 neighborhood.

I apologize for the long delay in releases this update for this Sims 3 world. My real life has gotten very hectic, so it's been hard to make time for this project. I hope it was worth the wait and that you'll enjoy reliving the Sims 1 in this Sims 3 world.

Special thanks to @bunnybananasims @virtual-hugs @madraynesims @melisanne19 @thesims1master @ohrudi on Tumblr and @OhBeeel and @Andr3sL0K0 on Twitter for helping me with beta testing! And Martine and Simsimillian at MTS for providing lovely terrain paints <3

Get the world + save file here: SFS download

If you enjoy my work, you can support me on Ko-fi <3 Thanks!

This world was made with every Sims 3 expansion pack (except for Into The Future), in addition the the High End Loft and Town Life stuff packs. You can install the world even if you do not own all of these packs. But the save file (which includes all of the premade sims, ghosts and some fixes) can only be played if you have all of these packs installed.

To everyone who has installed and played the previous version of my Sims (2000) world: to install this version, you'll need to uninstall the old one. If you have an active save file with the previous (1st) version of this world, please backup any households and builds you want to save to your library. Because that save file will probably become unplayable after installing the updated world file.

I have one little request… If you know any other long time simmers, please share this project with them. I would love it if as many people as possible get a chance to enjoy this nostalgic experience <3

Also, if you enjoy setting up high quality screenshots, I'd love to see them and use them to promote this world.

#sims 1 #mycc #sims 3 worlds #sims nostalgia #Sims 1 to Sims 3 #s1tos3 #The Sims #sims 3 neighborhood #sims 3 caw

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tricoufamily · 2 months

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i wish ts4 packs would stop making such a huge part of the gameplay “this makes this part of the game easier! gain skills 10x faster! never get hungry! make $5000 every minute!” the game is already too easy please i don’t want a magic tree i want a clinically depressed man in a band who lives in the world’s shittiest apartment in gotham city i want him to suffer

#why not focus on realism and impacting your sim in actually meaningful ways #they waste time w this i feel #i’m probably having nostalgia bias but i don’t remember sims 2 or 3 doing this #to this extent #(i haven’t played sims 1 in over a decade so idk lmao)#in past games it’d be like ‘work on a car with your teen and teach them to drive’#and ts4 would be like ‘Buying This Car Will Make Your Family Live Forever’#obviously i like supernatural elements in sims games like hello. but i don’t like how sims 4 does it #it’s too cutesy and childish for one thing but also it’s Always there to make your sims lives easier

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papermint-airplane · 4 months

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Home

#sims 3 #ts3 #sims 3 gameplay #mine #sunset valley #uranesia lighting mod #reshade #i get such a pang of nostalgia whenever i load into this world #it feels more like home than the real world does sometimes #world glamor shots

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jamble-junk · 5 months

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“2000s Wii was very Frutiger Aero” WHAT ABOUT THE SIMS?????

#frutiger aero #early 2000s #nostalgia #webcore #old web #skeuomorphism #futurism #the sims #sims 4 #sims 3 #sims 2 #game #aesthetic

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horusmenhosetix · 9 months

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The girls with a passion for fashion! 😇🐱👑🐰

#ts3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 #Bratz #The nostalgia is real #emulating the rock angels game for references

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thisischeri · 9 months

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todayontumblr · 3 months

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Saturday, February 10.

The Sims 3.

The Sims 5 is on its way, and remains something of a mystery. It is thought to be some years from release, though rumors abound that it will be free-to-play when it does, finally, arrive.

This weekend, however, we are looking not into the mists of the future, but back into the pantheons of the past. The Sims 3 is trending, and y'all are sharing a warm, fuzzy, nostalgic indulgence into those halcyon days of Sims gone by. Keep it up.

#today on tumblr #the sims 3 #the sims #ts3 #sims 3 screenshots #ts3 simblr #sims 3 #ts3 gameplay #sims 3 simblr #nostalgia

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pancakebobs · 3 days

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School photo day. 📷

#ts3 #the sims 3 #sims 3 #simblr #byrne legacy #gameplay #the nostalgia of primary school... miss it man

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simverses · 3 months

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Hi, Ingeli! I hope this doesn't bother you, but I wanted to ask if your Medieval Replacement Careers mod for The Sims 3 is still available? Thank you!

Hi! Someone asked about it not so long ago, and then I answered:

idgafgimmecc asked:

Hello! Would you consider reposting the TS3 Medieval Replacement Careers mod? I understand that you're focusing on TS4, but the old link is broken and that mod would add so much immersion in my medieval TS3 if you were to share it again. Thank you for reading this!

Sighs. I had a PC suddenly die on me in 2016, and almost all my old S2/S3 stuff was lost. Now I have everything in the cloud, but back then.. I will look again and see if I can find it somewhere.

Also, there was a problem with the replacement of STBL introduced with some EP if I remember (very foggy memory) and it stopped working for me, sadly. But I will check.

I found 2 files, from 2009… as I said, no idea if they still work. They are simple text replacement mods, and if someone wants to adopt these poor orphans and update them to work for Sims 3 again, I give my loving consent.

SFS-folder with VERY OLD Sims 3 stuff

I also found a pic from a world I worked on in CAW back in the day, a rather small island called Thistlemist :)

You could contact @idgafgimmecc and hear if they have any plans to update it, maybe?

Happy simming :)

#sims 3 very very old mods #sims 3 nostalgia

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neonpunk-the-simmer · 2 months

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