Dec 15th:

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Dec. 13th:

Dec. 12th: (kinda late for Hanukkah, but I’ll post it anyways)

Here’s a list of facts obtained from the Twitter session.

New Objects Elevators (Sims will be able to WooHoo in them) New instruments (Each with their own skill) Drums, Bass, Piano Shuffleboard Darts Bubble bar New bars 3 hot tubs New furniture Vampire inspired bed Vampire altar New interactions ‘Make a move’ Talk and drink while sitting down New skills Drums Bass Piano Mixology, creates new drinks, learn fancy drinks moves, moonlight as a mixologist (not a career) New cooking recipes (drinks and hot wings – different drinks will add different effects) New careers Film, actor, director brances, (similar to Ambitions Doctor career) ‘Teen Celebrity’ part time job, available to children of celebrities. New CAS features Breast slider for women. New muscle slider for both genders (can make ribbed abs) New sliders are passed down through genetics. New clothes. New hairstyles. New facial hair (goatee and others). New tattoos. New NPCs Paparazzi. Band details Bands can perform gigs Invite people to join band, kick them out and hold jam sessions Celebrity details (not a career) Acting auditions around the neighborhood. Shoot B-reels for money. Get money for schmoozing. Neighborhood Subways, a rabbit-hole transport system. (No loeading screens) It’s free, but you can get mugged. Can be placed on residential lots as well, via buydebug. New art for some old rabbit holes. New traits (only two new traits in Late Night) Shy Star Quality, will help you become a celebrity faster/easier, similar to Eccentric New places to WooHoo Hot tub. Elevator.

Music New music genres. Vampire details Has thirst motive instead of hunger. Can die from thirst which gives a new ghost color. Plasmapacks are snacks and they’re red. Bloodfruit seeds can be bought at the grocer. Vampire children still go to school and must hurry when catching the bus. Slightly pale an ‘unearthy’ skintone for vampires. Can be cured by a potion. Unique behaviors. Favorite food is blood. Garlic will affect them somehow. New build tools Pools on any floor. Curved pools. Circular pools. Half-walls. Shell buildings. Fountain tool. Moving paintings up and down on walls. New lots: Studio. Subway. Hidden vampire bar. Misc ‘Downtown’ is a new neighborhood. New dance animations. New oppertunities and wishes. VIP sections have more celebrities, cooler people, better objects and activities, better drinks…overall higher quality. Apartments are big “Shells” like in WA, NOT apartments like in AL. You can add Downtown elements to existing neighborhoods. FX machine: snow, fire, glitter, bubbles. New vampire feed animations depending on relationship score. Name of the Downtown district not yet decided. You can form groups and romantic groups. Can crash NPC parties. Bouncers can be passed by bribing, sneaking in, hacking or by using your celebrity status. New water reflections. Late Night is rated T for Teen. Twinbrook was inspired by the gulf coastline, i.e. Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi. The traffic light from the Late Night trailer is decorative. ~12 new cars in FLS. Possible new Trait in FLS NOT included No bowling alleys No Microphone No new CAS skin colors No vampire coffin No custom made buildings No DJ Booth No spiral staircase No folding beds

Status: Work In Progress.  The project includes the design of a giant neighborhood, and it got its title because I have decided to include a custom built version of Tony Stark’s house from the Iron Man Movies.  It will include components from Sims 3 Ambitions (when it is released) and will most likely not be complete until early-mid July.  To give you an idea of how large this is there are 2 videos below comparing the time it takes for 2 different cars to go through one of about a dozen islands (not done terrain sculpting).  As you can see, the slow car (Speed 4) takes about 75 Sim minutes to complete the route and the fast car (Speed 10) takes about 20 Sim minutes to complete the same route.  Please post comments and suggestions (such as where to place community lots) below.  Updates, pics & videos after the jump!

5/28/10 - Due to the size of this neighborhood and my limited amount of time due to finals, I am going to hold a contest that involves the neighborhood.  The contest is to create lots that will go into the neighborhood.  Lots that are chosen will be put in the final version of the neighborhood and they will be located on a street named by you/based on your user name.  Users can submit their lots by email or commenting on this post, Email: SimProgramsmailbag@yahoo.com.

Rules:

1. Users can submit as many entries as they like
2. Email or comment must include file or link to the file
3. No Custom Content/Store Content
4. Expansion and Stuff Packs are allowed (includes ambitions)
5. Can be any lot type (residential, community, or rabbit hole)
6. Include what you would like your street to be named (if it is not included it will be based off of user name)
7. If multiple lots from one user are accepted, they will all be located on the same street, not multiple streets

5/22/10 – Added Screens + Videos

P.S. – To give you another idea of how big this world is, there will most likely be at least 2 of all work lots.  This is because your Sims would always be late for work (due to having 1 hr. to get to work, and the actual drive being anywhere from 1-3 hours)

Videos:

Pics:

Overview

Road to Tony Stark’s house

The school building was the only building in which one can not practice any profession. This changes with The Sims 3: Ambitions. Because now your Sims can run through the profession of education and from primary school through the High School teacher and superintendent bishin to direct the career ladder to climb. The school building remains, however, a Rabbit Hole. Thus, the prospective teachers during their work disappear behind the doors of the school building

Did you create your Sims, you can in the relationship now, the options “Select Fixed friends Festivals friend” and “fiance / fiancee.

The just of the article is that in CAS you can make your sims go steady, be best friends or fiances.  This should be a great feature to use.

Here are the career levels of the rumored new career:

1st Playground Monitor
2nd Teachers Aide
3rd Substitute Teacher
4th Elementary School Teacher
5th Middle School Teacher
6th High School Teacher
7th Department head
8th Assistant Principal
9th Principal
10th District superintendent

Take a guess at how it’s done.