Edenstyle Creators Camp Coverage

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i've decided to keep you guys posted on www.edenstyle.it's coverage
of the sims3 creators camp event. i will be updating it every day until it's over.
theres some really great information coming out so enjoy!


12 January - Day 1
Eden has been invited to The Sims 3 Creator's Camp at San Francisco. For the whole week 30 custom content creators and fan site owners are going to try the game and creating outfits, houses, furniture and much more for the new Exchange.
Producers are also showing them the various features of the game and teaching some tricks. Unfortunately, we cannot take pictures or film the game.
Here you can find a little summary about what Eden discovered the first day...
-Some traits give you special abilities. They can be useful to improve skills (Artistic and Athletic traits, for example) and to get special interactions (childish sims can play with toys. Mooch sims can ask for food...).
-Toddlers cannot visit the city alone, they must be carried by an adult. Children can walk around the neighborhood alone.
-We can move working buildings to other places.
-All the Sims of the city evolve togheter, but if you want you can stop the aging or the story progression. In this way Sims that you don't control won't get married or evolve.
-You can change the lifespan. Here are the different settings:
*Short (25 sims days)
*Normal (95 sims days)
*Long (200 sims days)
*Epic (1000 sims days).
-We can set a different hair style for every clothing category.
-Accessories (gloves, socks, eyeglasses, bracelets, earrings, shoes...) can be customized with Create a Style tool.
-Elders have grey hairs by default, but we can change their colour if we want.
-The biggest lot size is 64x64
-Roofs: the autoroof option generates roofs automatically when you build a wall. You can also choose roof height.
-You can drag walls to enlarge rooms. When you do it, all the objects attached to them move with the wall itself.
-You can place objects wherever you want, you don't have to stick to tiles anymore.
-Bushes can have random different sizes.
-Stairs can be built over the hills and you can also set their width.

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13 January - Day 2
Hello all, today I had the chance to play a bit the game. I also registered some simlish with the real Simlish actress: it has been so funny! I enjoied it a lot! Here are some notes:
-Sunset valley has been built before Pleasantview, founded by the Goth family and built up by the Landgraabs to be a quiet, peaceful town.
-I visited the Graveyard and it has been so funny... There you can go fishing (!!!), visit the mausoleum, explore the catacombs and... get a partime job (so creepy!). While visiting the catacombs, you get many funny messages telling you what your Sim is doing there. When my Sim went out, she had a special seed in her inventory. You can probably find something special every time you visit that place. If you click on the tombstones, you can read or engrave epitaphs and mourn.
-When you load the city, you'll see useful tips on the screen.
-You can write novels with the PC. Writing is a new skill.
-You don't have a skill panel with all your skills, like in the Sims 2. Skill names come up after you get the first skill point. Then, you can click on them and open a sort of journal with your updates about that skill.
-I created a Sim with those traits: perfectionist, brave, daredevil, ambitious and Charismatic. Due to her daredevil trait, if I click on some objects, I don't get the normal interactions, but I get interactions like extreme nap, extreme sleep, read something extreme, play extreme videogame... that's so funny!
-There are 2 inventories: personal inventory and family inventory. In this last one you can store objects when moving or redecoring. If you move you can choose to pack your furniture: you'll find it in the family inventory, ready to be placed in the new house.
-If you interact with the newspaper, you can find discount classes to improve your skills.
-During the game you can receive some messages noticing you about things that can be interesting for your sim, like stadium match, sales...
-Jobs: you are paid per hour. When you get the job, you automatically get your boss in your relationship tab. If you interact with him, you can ask to increase your salary per hour or to get promoted. When you go to work, you can choose from a list what you will do that day. You can work hard (then your Sim will come back a bit tired), meet workmates (to know new people), talk with workmates (to increase relationship level... it's so easy in this way), do something special to impress your boss, sleep at your desk...
-If you click on workplaces, you can have different interactions, like get a job, go to work, attend a class, visit it... If you receive an opportunity related to that particular building, you'll also get a special interaction needed to fulfill the opportunity,
-To modify your town, you should click on Edit Town and then on Build/Buy button in city view. Then you can modify both community and residential lots. Some community lots, like parks and swimming pools, can be totally customized. For work places, you can only add few things outside.
-You can change lot type from community to residential and from residential to community. If you do it with a working place, the building will disappear, but the exteriors and the basement will remain and you'll be able to build a house there. It's not clear what happens to the people that were working there...
-You can edit community lot details (name and description)
-Shop for groceries: a window will show up with all the ingredients you can buy. You can also buy ingredients per recipe. So, if you want to cook something special, you just have to choose the recipe: all the required ingredients will be added to your cart. You can also sell your vegetables. Foam bath, goldfish, candles, birthday cake and a toy duck can been bought there too.
-To use the mobile phone, you have to enter your inventory. You can place a telephone in the house too.
-You cannot buy clothes, but you can create up to 3 clothes per category, for every Sim.
-Households can be merged, evicted and splitted.
-You can greet other sims friendly or rudely.

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14 January - Day 3
Hello all, I'm so excited about the game, there are so many things I would like to talk you about...
-Yesterday I joined CAS tips and tricks. Sims are more realistic and there are tons of sliders to modify their appearance. They showed us some great screenshots, with perfect shades. The good news is that they made them directly in the game, they didn't used any external tool to make Sims more realistic, like they used to do for Sims 2 (expecially for packages). About custom content, you cannot modify Alphas by default, but the CAS guru said that hackers would be able to do it.
-We don't have a new race, but there are ghosts and you can have babies with them.
If you have many people in your family, then you'll start with more than 20.000 simoleons.
-Good Sims can donate to various associations, like Kleptos anonymous. Evil Sims can donate to undermine those associations. For example, my evil Sim had the option to donate to undermine Underprivileged Llama.
-Example of interactions evil sims can do: evil shower, evil slumber, steal candy from a baby and scare baby(!!!).
-I discovered few things about babies...
*Furniture: highchair, potty, xylophone, crib (like the one we had in The Sims 2), canopy crib, 3 toy boxes (they can also play inside them), Toy oven, Building blocks table and few other things. The changing table is no more there. You have to click on the toddler to change diaper or clothes.If you have the highchair, you can feed toddlers with the same food you prepare for the other family members, but you have to use the food processor before.
*If you click on a toddler, you have those interactions: change diaper, change outfit, feed on floor, pick up, snuggle, teach to talk, potty train, tickle, teach to walk, toss in air. Some traits give you more interactions. For example, evil sims can scare babies.
-Parties: to give a party, you should use the phone. Then a window will pops up and you'll have to choose the starting time, the dress code (formal, casual, swimwear) and the guests. I've been able to invite 8 people.
-Services: firefighter, police and adoption services are free. Pay services: Babysitter ($25/hour), Pizza delivery($30), Repairman ($50/hour), Maid ($75/day), Magician ($400).
-When you adopt a baby, you can choose the s3x and the age (newborn, toddler, child).
-If you click on a restaurant, you can choose to drink/eat there alone or with someone else. You cannot enter the restaurant with your sims, but you can see them if they eat outside.
-You can become a partner of a business lot and share the profits. If you have enough money, you can own the entire lot. The owner can rename the place, fire people and collect money.
-You can collect seeds, insects and rocks. You can unlock Collection Helper with lifetime happiness points. This tool you'll be able to locate collectible items on the map.
-If you burn the stove, then you can replace it by clicking on it and choosing "replace". It costs simoleons, of course.
-Example of Lifetime Rewards: fast metabolism, discount diner, join theatre events for free, Fertility treatment for twins and triplets, fast skill learning, vacation days, super attractive, teleportation.
-The beverage machine is very cool. You can make tons of beverages similar to the ones you can find at Starbucks. For example, you can make White Chocolate Soy Frathuccino with Banana Swirl.
-Sims with few Logic skills can browse the Galaxy with the telescope and discover celestial bodies. When my Sim found a planet, she received few simoleons and had the opportunity to name it. In Logic skill journal you can see a list with all the celestial bodies you discovered.
-You can discover other sims' traits, job and partner while talking with them.
-Frugal Sims can find coupons in the newspaper.
-Computer Whiz Sims can do these interactions while using the PC: solve the unsolvable, play chess, hack and overclock.
-If you tinker on some objects, you can get some upgrades, like fireproof, self cleaning and unbreackable.
-While you play with a teenager, sometimes you can find a lifetime wish between his normal wishes. If you like one of those, you can lock it and it will become his lifetime wish.
-Teenagers can get partime jobs by clicking on the business lots. They cannot join the normal careers. Elders and adults can get partime jobs too.
-Kleptomaniac can swipe, but only if they are not watched.
-Toddlers, Children and Teens get a new trait at their birthday. If children had a good childwood, then you can choose a trait. If not, the game will give them a random one.
-School time: 9am-2pm for teens and 9am-3pm for children. Sims who have not completed their homeworks can stay school longer. Students performance is influenced by mood and homeworks. Students that sleep in class or cheat homeworks will receive detention and have to stay a school.

I suggest you again to join Edenstyle fan page at Facebook to make questions, read the answers (you won't find all of them here) and receive Creator's Camp updates before the others.




            {pig}, alisha.