The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion brings some great new features to the game. This article will cover the new skills, professions, and rewards you’ll find in the game. Ambitions produces a wide variety of different ways to earn money. This will help you extract even more fun from 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 works. 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 workload is to take the new Profession Simoleon Booster reward, which can net you a lot of 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 through the medical career, you will be called upon to leave work 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’ homes. Stylists will get special jobs to transform 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 on bedroom upgrades.” You can talk to the other Sim and find out what they want, then head into a special type of build mode to edit the lot. Make sure everything is affordable and within budget.

Ghost hunters can go out into the world and remove ghosts from Sims’ homes, and even use a special spirit detector to capture ghosts. Ghosts range in value and can fetch over a thousand dollars when sold. The private investigator profession features much of the humor of the Sims. You will continue with silly cases and ultimately follow the clues to the end. There are dozens of different cases to follow.

As if all the new professions to explore weren’t enough, there are also the skills of sculpting and inventing. Sculptors can make excellent home decor out of 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’s great to see the different things that can be done.

Inventing is also great. You can make a variety of toys and gadgets that are just for sale, but other things that really provide utility 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 contraption that sucks up all the vegetables 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 to get metal to be used for crafting or sculpting. There you will find perfectly good items that can also be fixed. It’s worth checking the junkyard from time to time for treasure. Another new batch is the consignment store. This allows Sims who are self-employed to earn extra money from their items. Sell ​​your paintings, sculptures, inventions, you name it, in the shop, and you will eventually get better from this experience and get even bigger payouts.

Ambitions makes some wonderful additions to The Sims 3. There’s a lot more to this expansion and little nuances that will change the way Sims interact with home décor. While professions get stale after a while, the new skills are a great addition. Most players would agree that this expansion beat World Adventures for offering so many new and different things to do in the city. The World Adventures content wasn’t even viewable if you weren’t traveling. I highly recommend Ambitions.