The Sims 3 Ambitions: Features

• New town: Twinbrook^.
• Returning creature: Sim Bot [known as a Servo in previous games]. A Sim Bot is created by Sims with a high Inventing skill with an opportunity. It is confirmed that, as well as Inventing Sim Bots, players can purchase them with 40,000 Lifetime Happiness points.
• New mode: Renovation Mode is a variation of Build and Buy Modes and used by the architect to remodel for clients^.
• New Build mode abilities: modify the pitch of individual roof sections and add multistory columns.
• 3 new skills:
  • Sculpting: Sims can create sculptures out of ice, metal, clay and wood with another Sim posing for them.
  • Inventing: There seems to be a wide variety of inventions. Servos are back as Sim Bots, along with a time machine. Sims get scraps for inventions from junkyards, a new type of lot, or by blowing things up.
  • Tattooing: Players are taken to the tattoo editor where they can choose tattoos with up to five layers, modify their colors, change the size, modify the opacity, and select where to place it: upper, lower, or full back, neck, ankle, chest, stomach, wrist, shoulder, bicep, or forearm. Tattooing is a hidden skill.
• Control Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job.
  • According to a member of The Sims 3 staff, Sims will even be able to manage their careers to an extent while the player is not controlling them. “Every career has responsibilities and its own active jobs. Each active job will require [the player's] full attention, but there are still options that allow [the player's] Sim to progress and level up while not controlling them.”
• On-the-job choices now change the town and affect other Sims as well. Players modify the town’s structure as an architect or set neighborhood fashions as a stylist.
• 7 new professions [not counting skill careers]: architect, doctor, firefighter, ghosthunter, private investigator, stylist, and a Education career track. Contrary to popular belief, Sculpting and Inventing are new skills, not new jobs. However, you can get self-enployed by going to the city hall after gaining one skill point.
• New lifetime wishes: Home Design Hotshot [Earn 100 top scores for jobs in the Architectural Design profession], Descendant of da Vinci [master painting, sculpting and inventing], Fashion Phenomenon [Reach level 10 in the Stylist profession], Firefighter Super Hero [Save 30 lives on the job], Paranormal Profiteer [Reach level 10 in the Ghost Hunter profession], Pervasive Private Eye [Solve 35 cases on the job], Monster Maker [Create 3 Monsters^]
• New Lifetime rewards: Fireproof your home, Career cash booster, Artisan crafter [boosts value of invented/sculpted items], Professional Simolean Booster, Efficient Inventor, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Suave Seller, Fireproof Homestead, My Best Friend
• Earthquakes appear in this game^.
• New objects: fire engine vehicle, personal fire extinguisher, detonation packs, tattoo chair^, lockpicking kit,trampoline.
  • Collect scrap from the junkyard, and broken objects for inventing^.

New upgrades

• New traits: Savvy Sculptor, Eccentric, Dramatic, Eco-Friendly, Perceptive, and Born Salesman/Saleswoman.
• Addition of the consignment shop as a place for Sims to sell their own items [collectibles, sculptures, etc.]
• Ability to register at City Hall to be self employed in a “Skill Career” for writers, fishermen, and gardeners.
• Overhauled real-estate system that lets the player purchase and upgrade any community lot building.
• New laundry system. It gives Sims a good moodlet. There are washers and dryers available including one dryer that has a special “surprise.”
• New Death: Death by meteor.
• New vehicle type: Motorcycle.
• New lots including the consignment shop, junkyard, bar, laundromat, and fire station.

• While Ambitions contain elements from Open for Business it will not be possible for the player to run their own business in the same style.
• Existing careers, except the medical career, will not be enhanced and their career buildings will remain rabbit holes.
• The town seen in the first video trailer is Riverview, and the town seen in the second trailer [Iron Man parody] is the new town of Twinbrook.
• EA have announced Rise Against, Lady Antebellum, Charice and more will have their songs recorded in Simlish featured in game.
• The Sims 3: Ambitions Commemorative/Collector’s Edition also features a premium 48-page hard-backed 10th Anniversary book, wall poster, sketch book, ‘Build your own Plumbob’, and a digital asset card. It may only be available in Europe and Asia. The 10th Anniversary book is also available with other games.
• On May 27th The Sims 3: Ambitions went gold. The following day fans started to receive their copies early. Pirated copies appeared immediately on file sharing sites.