how ’bout them sims?
Across the country this, gajillions of gamers are moving into Sunset Valley. Really, I love the idea that many of them are using our guide as a way to make the move not just a bit easier, but also discover many of the secrets that wait around every corner. If you haven’t picked up the guide yet, let me tantalize you with a few choice features. Imagine your friends trying to figure out how to get a promotion at City Hall while you have rocketed to the top of the profession and are pulling in buckets of cash. While other players are wandering from lake to lake, hoping to uncover the best fishing spots, you are poised at Stoney Falls with rod in hand to land a great catch. You have uncovered the best spots to capture valuable Rainbow butterflies while other gamers are combing through wooded areas, looking for flashes of fluttering colors.
In other words, we truly give you the keys to the city.
It was a true pleasure to write this guide. And that’s not just me spouting platitudes — something my friends wish I did more of naturally. One of the best parts of writing guides is the ability to play games early. There are times I really do sit there and think, I can’t believe I get to play this game before everybody else! That was how I felt when poking around Simhenge high in the hills above Sunset Valley, stumbling upon a rare rock for the first time. It was genuine excitement because I knew that my little celebrating was hardly going to be unique. There would soon be many, many players having similar moments of fun discovery across. Maybe it wouldn’t be when they found gold in them thar hills. Maybe it would be the first time they styled a couch in the object catalog so it looked like something they remembered from grandma’s house. Or the first time they noticed a beetle skittered in the bushes behind the warehouse and realized that was something they could collect and decorate their house with. There are going to be a lot of cool “first times” when people play this game — and I’m not just talking about the first session of WooHoo. 
Happy Simming, gamers. I look forward to seeing where else this new chapter in the series goes. And I hope I’m there with you along for the ride.
Hey Catherine, reguarding the guide, I have tried to send you an email with comments/positive feedback, but both Gmail and hotmail got rejected, do you have an alternative (NON primagames) email addy we can send Comments etc to? Id like to be able to send some feedback to you, personally, without the emails getting rejected
(I’m sure you get to see the comment poster’s email address at your end? if so drop me a line sometime, it would be nice to hear from you)
Many thanks in advance…
Hey Catherine, reguarding the guide, I have tried to send you an email with comments/positive feedback, to the email address provided in the primagames suide, but both Gmail and hotmail got rejected, do you have an alternative (NON primagames) email addy we can send Comments etc to? I’d love to be able to send some feedback to you, personally, without the emails getting rejected
(I’m sure you get to see the comment poster’s email address at your end? If so drop me a line sometime, it would be really great to hear from you)
Many thanks in advance…
i have been trying to use some of the cheats listed in the guide, and it says that they are not valid. most of the time my game locks up. any tips?
Dear Ms. Browne,
Hi, and thank you for the Prima guide for The Sims 3. I bought it with my game and have enjoyed the guide almost as much as the game itself! You said in the guide that you wanted feedback, so here are a couple of things I thought of:
– An index would have been extremely helpful, since the guide is over 250 pages long. Although the layout makes sense, sometimes I’ll remember I read a little tip somewhere but now can’t find it again. I realize this was probably out of your control but might be a good thing for the company to know.
– I and many in the Sims community are frustrated that a lot of the cheat codes published don’t work. While I realize that the game’s contents must have changed from the time you wrote the guide to when the game was released, an easily-found online list of errata would be most useful.
I tried emailing you at the address published in the guide but it came back “no such user.”
Thanks again for the book!