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Contents

  • Essentials
    • The Sims 3 Primer
      • Leading a New Life
      • Personality
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • A Day in the Life
      • Mood
      • Mood Boosting Tips and Tricks
      • Wishes
      • Opportunities
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
      • Relationships and Socializing
  • Walkthrough
    • New Simology
      • Introduction
      • Create a Sim
      • Skills
      • New Socials
      • New Opportunities
    • New Venues and Real Estate
      • New Venues
      • Fire Station
      • Salon
      • Junkyard
      • Consignment Store
      • Laundromat
      • Real Estate
    • Tour of Twinbrook
      • City Living
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Parks
      • Fishing Spots
      • Collecting
    • Careers
      • Professions
      • Ghost Hunter
      • Career Progression
      • Investigations
      • Spirit Collecting
      • Firefighter
      • Career Progression
      • Emergencies
      • Investigator
      • Career Progression
      • Tools of the Trade
      • Cases
      • Architectural Designer
      • Career Progression
      • Stylist
      • Career Progression
      • Medical Career
      • Career Progression
      • Skill-Based Careers
    • Traditional Careers
      • Traditional Careers
      • Educator (New Career)
      • Business
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-Time Work
      • School
    • New Objects
      • Ambitious Objects
      • Object Catalog

The Sims 3 Ambitions Guide › Walkthrough › New Venues and Real Estate

New Venues

The introduction of new careers such as Firefighter and Stylist means neighborhoods now need new workplaces.

These new workplaces are not like those found in The Sims 3. Instead of your Sim vanishing for several hours, you actually follow your Sim inside and direct their career activities.

But Ambitions includes more than just a handful of new venues for careers. There are new community lots associated with the two skills: Inventing and Sculpting.

Inventors will be keen on visiting the junkyard, where they can collect scrap metal to use in creations back home or salvage busted objects.

The consignment store is a good place for Sims to sell their goods, too, such as toys created by inventors, statues made by sculptors, or other objects like paintings.

So, it's not just new careers you're getting with Ambitions. Your neighborhood is about to become a more lively place, full of new locations to visit for commerce, fun, and socialization.

Note

If you move a new household into Twinbrook, Sunset Valley, or Riverview, the town is already equipped with all of the new venues.

However, if you play Ambitions with an existing household from either The Sims 3 or one started within World Adventures, you must follow the easy-to-use new venue installer the first time you start up the game.

Simply place the new venues in your existing neighborhood in locations that are properly sized for the venue.

This system is very similar to the Edit Neighborhood function you used in The Sims 3 to rearrange the town, if so desired. Once you have the new venues in place, you're ready to go.

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