New Expansion Pack Announced! Ambitions!

[pallyndrome]

I want my copy! 
Can you change the appearance of the bots? Or do they all come looking sorta dirty like that one in the photos?

[Pam]

The first official Ambitions thread is open for business!

Ambitions: First Impressions

[MomOfMany]

From what I can tell you can't change the way they look. Not at the salon anyways but I didn't try to mirror to change the appearance.

Just found out though that there is an education career now. So that is pretty neat!

[samoht04]

Awesome! Okay so I think if I receive my game on the date of it's release then they have to post it by Monday! So I can get it by the 4th which is 3 days which is often how long my online retailer takes to deliver (free!) I absoulutely can not wait and this is going to greatly impact on how much I do on my History Project Over half Term! 

[Esther1981]

Maybe I'm showing my inexperience with the sims lol but what exactly is a robot sim? Will I be able to make it do gardening and stuff while my real sims work or skill? Amazon took the money out of my bank account and says its in Columbus but I haven't gotten it yet and there is no mail on Sundays or Monday cause it's Memorial Day so I don't think I'll get mine until Tuesday  But I think the wait will make me stronger! Or crazier, not sure which yet lol.

[pallyndrome]

My shop said mine comes on thursday, but I'm hoping they'll ring to say they have it before then...

A robot sim is like a creature. In sims2, every expansion pack had a new creature that could be made, or a sim could be turned into one. They often act quite like normal sims, and you can control them, though they often have some unique needs and abilities. In sims3, the controllable ghost was the creature in the base game, and the mummy was the creature for world adventures.

[Esther1981]

That's cool pallyndrome! As someone who has only played sims 3, I didn't know that!

[samoht04]

This is the Sims 2 ones

 - http://www.sims3updates.net/cas/sims3updates_cas_1673_S.jpg

[Esther1981]

This is the Sims 2 ones

 - http://www.sims3updates.net/cas/sims3updates_cas_1673_S.jpg

I tried to click that and the link won't work!

[LaB]

Can't wait to get the ambitions but I have to, boo. Got to wait till next month for my birthday. Im getting old.

[Twinmum]

I'll probably have to wait too LaB. Have zero spending money at the moment, but my birthday is on the 19th, so I'll have to drop a hint or three to hubby 

Norma

[samoht04]

Hmmm, I clicked on the link and it worked for me.

Try this other pic?
 - http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/3/1/6/9/9/6/3/MTS2_EsmeraldaF_1062284_TS2_servo.jpg

[dannyr783]

I want my copy! 
Can you change the appearance of the bots? Or do they all come looking sorta dirty like that one in the photos?

I don't know if you can change them, but I think there is minimal variety, because I invented a rusty black one, and the ones in the movie are grey.

To invent the Sim Bot, you need to do 4 opportunities. First one is for one palladium ingot, the second is for 10 life fruit, 3rd is for 1 heart cut pink diamond, and 4th requires 100 scrap. The thing is, after you get opportunity one, and complete it, you get # 2 within seconds. Unlike omni plant, there is no waiting.

[pallyndrome]

But you can get it with reward points too, can't you? Is the robot any different if you get it a different way I wonder.

And as for creatures. I thought I'd just list the creatures in sims2, if anyone's interested:

Base game - Aliens
University - Zombies
Night downtown thingy (forgotten name) - Vampires
Open for Business - robots (see the pic in samoht's post)
Pets - Werewolves
Seasons - Plantsims
Bon Voyage - Bigfoot
Free time - does the genie count? it wasn't controllable though
Apartments - Witches

Did I forget any? Some of them weren't that much fun in my opinion, like werewolves and bigfoot. And I never tried doing much with vampires, cause they die the second they see daylight lol. But then, I'm not a fan of the mummies either. Plantsims were cool. And aliens. Witches too.

[Pam]

Some of this discussion can be moved over the the new Ambitions board.  It's official news now with people actually playing the game, so I started an official thread for it.  Discussions about what the new expansion pack really does should be posted on the Ambitions board.