The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion brings some great new features to the game. This article will cover the new skills, professions, and rewards that you will find in the game. Ambitions produces a wide variety of different ways to earn money. This will help you get even more out of the game.

Professions are the main feature of Ambitions. A profession is very different from a career. By following one of these, you will choose when and where your Sim will work. You can take on a variety of different jobs for each profession, which will earn your Sim money. Professionals also earn a weekly stipend, which never improves beyond level 10. The only way to improve your salary, other than volume work, is to take the new Profession Simoleon Booster reward, which can generate a large amount of money in cash.

There are six professions in total to explore. You can join one of these using the computer or by going to one of the businesses in town. The five new professions are: firefighter, stylist, architect, ghost hunter, private investigator. The sixth is simply an update of an existing one, doctor. As you move up the medical career, you will be asked to quit your job and do special jobs. This is the least interesting of the new additions.

Firefighters will be sent on rescue missions and must put out fires in other Sims’ houses. Stylists will get special jobs to revamp another Sim after finding out what the Sim wants to improve. This is similar to the architect, who will get jobs like “spend X money improving the room.” You can talk to the other Sim and find out what they want, then head over to a special kind of build mode to edit the batch. Make sure everything is accessible and on budget.

Ghost Hunters can go out into the world and eliminate ghosts from Sim’s houses, and even use a special spirit detector to collect ghosts. Ghosts vary in value and can bring in over a thousand dollars when sold. The profession of private investigator has a lot of that Sims humor. You will follow silly cases and ultimately follow the clues to the end. There are dozens of different cases to pursue.

As if all the new professions to explore weren’t enough, there are also the skills to sculpt and invent. Sculptors can make great home décor from a variety of materials, from wood to metal. The variety of different things to build is huge, although many of them are simply recolored models from the game. It’s still a great skill to use and fun to advance. No one will have the same sculptures, so it is good to see the different things that can be made.

Inventing is great too. You can make a variety of toys and gadgets that are simply for sale, but other things that really provide usefulness can be built with patience. You can make a floor item that gives Sims a random positive mood when they walk on it, and even make a gadget that soaks up all the veggies in a large garden area. Sims who master the skill can create their own Simbot, a metal-eating family member who can follow almost any lifestyle.

There are also new lots with ambitions. Now you can head to the junkyard for metal to be used for inventing or sculpting. There you will find perfectly good items that can also be fixed. It’s worth checking the junkyard every now and then for treasures. Another new lot is the consignment store. This allows Sims who are self-employed to earn extra money from their items. Sell ​​your paintings, sculptures, inventions, whatever, in the store, and you will eventually get better thanks to this experience and earn even bigger payouts.

Ambitions makes some wonderful additions to The Sims 3. There is a lot more to this expansion and little nuances that will change the way the Sims interact and the decor of the home. While professions become obsolete after a while, new skills are an excellent contribution. Most players would agree that this expansion surpassed World Adventures in offering so many new things to do in the city. World Adventures content wasn’t even viewable if you weren’t traveling. I highly recommend Ambitions.