# Sims 3: Ambitions. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 19, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986 "2010-05-19T10:30:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/1 "2010-05-19T10:30:19Z")
Trailer here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUFeiW1MJlw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUFeiW1MJlw) I cannot wait! World Adventures was one of the most funnest expansions ever and this looks like a hoot. I did not see a Rock Star career, though. And a sort of off-topic question-- How can you save Sim screen captures in one convenient place in your computer so that they may be easy to find? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/2 "2010-05-20T01:43:27Z")
I’ve not kept up with the Sims 3 expansions, haven’t got enough cash to be strung along. On screenshots, you can get a program called Fraps which’ll save all your screenshots in one folder. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/3 "2010-05-20T23:35:48Z")
Thanks for this. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/4 "2010-05-20T23:42:44Z")
Fraps costs money, I prefer Irfanview for just screenshots, Fraps is unnecessary if you’re not planning of capturing video too. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/5 "2010-05-29T03:02:41Z")
They’re saved in your Documents folder, under Electronic Arts/TheSims3/Screenshots. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/6 "2010-06-01T13:38:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Trailer here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUFeiW1MJlw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUFeiW1MJlw) > > I cannot wait! World Adventures was one of the most funnest expansions ever and this looks like a hoot. I did not see a Rock Star career, though. > > And a sort of off-topic question-- How can you save Sim screen captures in one convenient place in your computer so that they may be easy to find? Rock star is already in the game… it’s under music or whatever the music career is called. You can choose halfway through either symphonic or rock music and have concerts all the time for various thousands a pop. I know because I’m halfway through an eventual rock star. 🙂 I’m looking forward to this expansion – World Adventures was outstanding and made The Sims a lot more fun, breaking the model of ‘Here is some new stuff’ and adding functionality and new levels of gameplay (sheesh, I sound like advertising copy). Looking forward to Ambitions doing the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/7 "2010-06-01T17:32:04Z")
A caution about Rock Star. One of the primary challenges available once you master Music/Rock Star is bugged, and is virtually impossible to achieve. This is the one that challenges you to play ten venues, and is rewarded with big money for future performances. You’re not likely to see this benefit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/8 "2010-06-02T04:14:38Z")
So I picked up Ambitions. Inventing seems really neat so far – I’ve played it for a few minutes – but then I burned to death. There’s really no way to extinguish yourself if you live alone without a pool, and apparently hammering on pieces of scrap is an extreme fire hazard. Mkay. Little sad that the character I spent all that time making is gone, but them’s the breaks, I guess? ---
**Author:** ![Neverending\_Elbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/9 "2010-06-02T11:08:13Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > There’s really no way to extinguish yourself if you live alone without a pool, and apparently hammering on pieces of scrap is an extreme fire hazard. Have you tried jumping into the shower? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/10 "2010-06-02T13:26:49Z")
Only had a bathtub. Didn’t think of jumping in it until too late. I thought it was like old-fire where you couldn’t do anything; new-fire lets you act for an in-game hour. Which is really plenty of time – call the fire department, jump in the pool. But I learned “stop drop and roll”, why didn’t my Sim? Anyway. Restored her from backup – she’s saved, so I just put her in her old house with her old inventions, is that ghoulish?. Continued down inventor track. Got all the inventions so far (it’s a little disappointing that there aren’t about fifty kazillion more widgets) but haven’t gotten the big opportunity chain at the end yet. However, I did invent the… time machine. And I went back in time and forward in time a few times. On one of my trips back in time I brought back my own daughter. She has no father, just my character as a mother. My inventor was saving up to go to Egypt for an opportunity, and now she’s toiling away in the basement making harvesters and mining her plot of land for gems and metal just to make sure she can afford a better home for her daughter. This swamp house is all right for a crazy inventor on her own, but is it really the right place to raise a family? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/11 "2010-06-02T19:05:26Z")
Sounds like fun! If you travel you can buy showers-in-a-can to extinguish yourself. My Ambitions arrives today! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/12 "2010-06-03T05:16:13Z")
I really wanted to get this but I thought expansions were only $20, not forty. So yeah, I’m going to have to wait. Lame. ---
**Author:** ![Neverending\_Elbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@Neverending\_Elbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neverending_Elbow)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/13 "2010-06-03T18:47:14Z")
Is anyone else having trouble selling their widgets and other things? I can’t get the Buy interaction to work, and the cash register doesn’t have any options (only a faded Browse option when the shop is closed…). ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/14 "2010-06-03T18:54:55Z")
It doesn’t help that the Sims 3 forum has been down for days… Up until this expansion, I’ve always been able to run the game without inserting the disc, simply by getting around the launcher by making a shortcut to the .exe file. Suddenly, with this expansion, I’m prompted to insert the disc. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/15 "2010-06-04T03:50:53Z")
> [@Neverending\_Elbow](#): > > Is anyone else having trouble selling their widgets and other things? I can’t get the Buy interaction to work, and the cash register doesn’t have any options (only a faded Browse option when the shop is closed…). In the consignment shop? You have to hit the Consign tab. It didn’t give me a problem, but anything you sell in there doesn’t count toward income for the Inventing profession. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/16 "2010-06-04T03:55:30Z")
How is selling to the shop any better or different than dragging to the cash icon in inventory? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/17 "2010-06-04T20:19:42Z")
Got it yesterday and started with Architectural Designer. You get a budget to furnish other sims’s homes! If only downloadables didn’t crash my game-- I’d get all kinds of cool stuff to decorate other people’s homes with. I’m wondering though, what gives good reviews and bad. I think a hint was when one of my customers said, “I like all the little decorative touches you put in” even though I did no such thing. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/18 "2010-06-04T20:22:53Z")
> [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](#): > > Rock star is already in the game… it’s under music or whatever the music career is called. You can choose halfway through either symphonic or rock music and have concerts all the time for various thousands a pop. I know because I’m halfway through an eventual rock star. 🙂 > > I’m looking forward to this expansion – World Adventures was outstanding and made The Sims a lot more fun, breaking the model of ‘Here is some new stuff’ and adding functionality and new levels of gameplay (sheesh, I sound like advertising copy). Looking forward to Ambitions doing the same thing. I meant a Rock Star profession. I hear that there are also new Medical Career paths and choices but, again, at first I was looking for a medical “profession” before I realized there ain’t none. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/19 "2010-06-04T20:27:29Z")
Last one post in a row, I swear! I have found (by accident) that if you take a screenshot, it shows up in your uploads in the EA Manager. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986/20 "2010-06-05T01:38:28Z")
Partial kinda semi hijack. I succumbed last week and bought sims3. The ambitions expansion looks cool, and I’ll probably get it, but what does World Adventures bring? I bought the vacation pack for sims2, but it seemed more of a _distraction_ than an _expansion_ to the original game. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-3-ambitions/539986.md?page=2)