Categorie: De Sims 3 Store

Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3: nieuwe community blogs

De officiële Amerikaanse De Sims 3 site heeft 3 nieuwe community blogs online gezet. Alle drie hebben ze te maken met de nieuwe officiële buurt voor De Sims 3: Lucky Palms.

Deze blogs geven een leuke insiders look op wat er komt kijken bij het maken van een buurt voor De Sims 3.

A large and flashy asset like The Lucky Simoleon Casino Signis something that I had a lot of fun implementing. When building with this asset, you can certainlyplace it on the corner of your lot and be done with it, but I wanted to suggestthat it can be used in other ways as well. I actually used it twice –once on anelevated platform and once anchored into the ground, incorporated into thebuilding itself. This placement started to dictate the size and shape of thebuilding. I typically try to avoid building cavernous spaces, but casinos inreality are huge and often crowded. Iput a lot of thought into the size of the casino floor and made sure to includeenough slot machines and gaming tables so that Sims would have many choices forentertainment.

| The Sims 3 Lucky Simoleon Casino |

Because SpeedTrees come rigged for animation, all trees mustbegin from one of the many library files provided by SpeedTree. We don’t want ourtrees to look exactly like those from the library, so we alter both the modeland the textures to make them more unique and similar to the tree that we arereferencing from the photos we gathered. Some of the trees end up lookingnothing like the library model we began with, such as the fantasy trees andplants made for Lunar Lakes, which were loads of fun to concept and create!

| Lucky Palms Plant Modeling |

 

The Sims has been one of my favoritegames for, like… forever. Long before I became a designer for The Sims, I was casting spells in Makin’Magic. I opened my first business in TheSims. Many of my college years were spent playing University. Ican remember playing a lot of video games, but nothing quite strikes the cordof nostalgia in the same way that TheSims does. So, you can imagine how exciting (and terrifying) it canbe when we decide to reimagine a classic object like the Wishing Well, as wedid for Lucky Palms!

| Lucky Palms (Lots & Wishing Well) |

CAW Wiki review van Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3

Hoe ze het voor elkaar hebben gekregen weet ik niet (vast de hele nacht doorgewerkt) maar de Engelstalige CAW Wiki heeft een review online gezet van Lucky Palms, de nieuwe buurt voor De Sims 3. De buurt scoort in ieder geval goede cijfers:

Terrain – 9/10
I took a point off on a totally subjective basis. I do not like the giant out of proportion peak in the middle of the craters, and this the world would look better without it. However this is top notch terrain sculpting, and can’t really be faulted.

Lots – 10/10
The lots are nice, with a modern building style that EA’s lot builders are clearly more comfortable with than they are with classic architecture. There’s a real charm to the new rabbit holes and the lots they inhabit, and there are plenty of lots for EP content.

Objects – 9/10
As I said in the body of the review, it’s in the objects that this pack shines – new trees, nice “premium content”, lovely additions to build mode, and with nice community-aware touches like the mailbox being available with buydebug. There is a lovely cattle guard grate on the roads in the worlds that isn’t available in CAW, knocking a point off what should be a perfect score.

Sims – 7/10
Although they mostly have the freakishly over-large eyes and slightly non-descript face of all EA Sims, these guys manage to convey a dash more personality, a bit more like the EP Sims than previous store ones. Quite a few really do look distinct and unique this time.

Playability – 9/10
I found one road not connected to an intersection, but otherwise EA has laid great routing on a terrain where the complex sculpting and bright terrain made mistakes more likely than usual.

Flavour Texts – 8/10
The community lots don’t have any flavour texts at all, but all the other texts are excellent. You can get a very good sense of what situation you are going into with a pre-made family by reading their text, and play off of that. House texts give some wry hints about the history of the world itself.

| CAW Wiki: Review: Lucky Palms by EA Store |

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Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3 te koop op De Sims 3 Store

Ga op verkenning in een gloednieuwe wereld – Ontdek de wonderen van Lucky Palms vandaag nog!

In De Sims 3 Lucky Palms draait alles om rust en ontspanning! Door de vele parken, recreatieve locaties en een bloeiende culinaire gemeenschap, zul je je in een groene oase midden in de woestijn wanen. Deze woestijnstad bestaat uit prachtige tuinen, moderne gebouwen en knusse huisjes. die op de over van een smetteloos meer zijn gebouwd. Midden in de stad ligt een mysterieuze put, waarvan men zegt dat die de wensen van Sims met een puur hart uit laat komen… Wat ga jij wensen?

Gloednieuwe wensput – Hunkert jouw Sim naar de ware liefde? Welvaart? Macht en roem? Of misschien naar een bezoekje van de ooievaar, of gewoon geluk… De wensput kan je Sim helpen om dit alles en meer te bereiken! Gooi er gewoon een muntje in en doe een wens. Misschien komen al je dromen wel uit…

Lucky Palms is er in 2 versies: een standaard versie en een goud versie.

Tot 13 juli 2012 zal de standaard versie 2100 Simpoints kosten, ipv 2450 Simpoints. En de goud versie kost tot 13 juli 2012 3700 Simpoints en na die datum 4350 Simpoints.

Alles over Lucky Palms en het verschil tussen de standaard versie en de goud versie vind je op De Sims 3 Store:

| De Sims 3 Store: Lucky Palms |

Probleem met 100 gratis Simpoints email

Een flink aantal Simmers hebben van EA een email gekregen met daarin een code om gratis 100 Simpoints te krijgen voor De Sims 3 Store. Deze email is verstuurd aan iedereen die zich ooit  hebben opgegeven voor de (Engelstalige) The Sims VIP Newsletter.

De code die bijgeleverd wordt bestaat uit 20 cijfers & letters terwijl de ‘Een code verzilveren’ pagina op De Sims 3 Store maar 16 cijfers & letters kan verwerken.

Inmiddels hebben we begrepen dat het The Sims 3 Store Team aan een oplossing werkt en die hopen we snel te horen.

De Wensput van De Sims 3: Lucky Palms

Een van de premium objecten in Lucky Palms is de wishing well – wensput en de Amerikaanse De Sims 3 site heeft hier meer informatie over online gezet.

The post you have all been waiting for. More on the wishing well! One of our favorite premium items, the wishing well is a highlight of Lucky Palms! Want to find out more about what it does? Read on!

The wishing well is at the heart of Lucky Palms history!

Armed with an ancient treasure map, three brothers made their way across the desert and found the fabled well of wishes! The first brother wished for wealth and he was showered with gold. The second brother wished for power and when he returned home he was appointed the mayor of his town. The third brother wished for love, met the girl of his dreams, started a family, and founded a town near the well that survives to this day.

Here’s how it works!

GAMEPLAY:

♦ Wish for Love, Wealth, Power, Happiness, or even a Child!

♦ Make sure to dip your fishing hook in the Well – you’ll catch some amazing fish regardless of your Fishing Skill level!

♦ If you have the Tree of Prosperity on your lot, pixies and fireflies in the Well become very active in the evening!

♦ If you have The Sims 3 Pets installed, the Child you wish for may not be what you expect.

♦ If you’ve got sticky fingers, you can steal coins from the Well. You may get wet, or you may get lucky.

♦ Slot Machine Includes additional functionality when the Wishing Well is installed in your game: Use a Lucky Coin that you steal from the Wishing Well to play for Lucky Coin stakes (equivalent to §1500 Buy-In) to increase your odds of hitting a big jackpot!

Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3 zal vandaag op De Sims 3 Store te koop zijn, waarschijnlijk na 15.00 uur. Meer over Lucky Palms vind je ook op ons forum:

| Sims Nieuws forum: Lucky Palms (28 juni 2012 te koop) |

Nog 3 families uit Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3

De Amerikaanse De Sims 3 site heeft al enkele families laten zien die in de nieuwe buurt voor De Sims 3 zullen zitten en dit zijn er nog 3.

Lucky Palms voor De Sims 3 zal vandaag op De Sims 3 Store te koop zijn, waarschijnlijk na 15.00 uur.

There is nothing more awkward than having a roommate that you didn’t ask for and don’t really want around and there are several families in Lucky Palms who know that all too well.

Roomies – Ezekiel inherited his father’s home back when there was still a lake in the lake bed. Unfortunately for him, when the water vanished the real estate’s value did too. Unable to sell and too poor to leave he found a paying roommate in military cadet Pansy Northrop. Can this unlikely twosome cohabitate in peace, or will their differing personalities lead to conflict?

Three is a Crowd – Young lovers Vivienne and Oscar relocated after Viv was offered her dream job at the local science lab. Oscar’s best friend Clark tagged along, but, unable to find work, ended up crashing permanently on their couch. Can this young romance survive their unexpected house guest?

Claremont Family – When Morgan took a new job in a new town he had no idea that his mother-in-law would be tagging along! What was supposed to be a “short visit” when their first child was born has turned into an extended stay. Will true love triumph over a meddlesome mother-in-law?