Editing The Sims 3: Ambitions

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|name      = The Sims 3: Ambitions
|image     = [[File:The Sims 3 Ambitions Cover.jpg|250px]]
|caption   = ''Now get to work!''
|publisher = [[Electronic Arts]]
|developer = [[The Sims Studio]]
|series    = [[The Sims series]]
|engine    = The Sims 3 Engine
|release   = {{Vgrelease|NA=June 1, 2010|EU=June 4, 2010}}<ref name="eurorelease">The European release date is alternately given as June 2, 2010 and June 4, 2010</ref>
|version   = • Minimum: [[The Sims 3/Patch 12|Patch 12]]<br>• Last big update: [[The Sims 3/Patch 57|Patch 57]]
|platform  = {{Vgplatform|win}}, [[Mac]]
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|theme     = Hobbies and Professions
|creature  = [[SimBot]]
|neighbor  = [[Twinbrook]]
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[[File:TS3A Reflect.png|left]] '''''The Sims 3: Ambitions''''' is the second [[expansion pack]] for ''[[The Sims 3]]'' released on June 1, 2010. It allows players to become "fearless heroes and ace entrepreneurs". In other words, it's a career oriented expansion pack, a spiritual remake of ''[[The Sims 2: Open for Business]]'', but with added activities. ''Ambitions'' also appears to be somewhat related to ''[[The Sims 2: FreeTime]]''.

[[Electronic Arts|EA Games]] confirmed ''Ambitions'' on  March 4, 2010.<ref>[http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=2&selYear=2010#164255734 The next Expansion Pack has been announced!]</ref>

''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' is also available for feature phones, iPhone and iPod touch.<ref>[http://www.gamingnexus.com/FullNews/EA-announces-featured-songs-in-The-Sims-3-Ambitions-expansion-pack/Item17800.aspx EA announces featured songs in The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion pack]</ref> There are new features such as babies and being able to fully edit the house.

A free [[The Sims 3/Patch 12|patch]] for ''[[The Sims 3]]'' was released on May 28, 2010. It introduced tattoos and other updates to the base game.<ref>[http://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=4&selYear=2010#920859580 Official announcement detailing contents of game update for 1.12/2.7/3.3]</ref> The new [[Create a Pattern]] tool is a free download just like the [[Create a World]] tool, and was released on June 23, 2010.<ref name="Ambitions Hands-on">[http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/108/1088155p1.html The Sims 3: Ambitions Hands-on]</ref>

== Description ==
[[File:Thesims3ambitionslogo.png|left|75px]]''Imagine a world where you can make your Sim anything they want to be. Widen your Sim's horizons with a bunch of killer career opportunities. With ''The Sims 3: Ambitions'', decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero, cause loads of mischief among their neighbors, or give some style advice. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change your town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? Will they uncover secrets as a private investigator by dusting for prints or roughing up a suspect for information? Will they walk the runways as a fashion diva with exhilarating and swanky style? Their future is entirely in your hands!''

==Game Summary==
''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. While on the job, the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. Players can opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients. Be the heroic firefighter tackling raging infernos or smashing everything in sight at the victim’s home with an axe; take a shot at solving cases as an investigator, nicely convincing sources to divulge secrets or roughing up perpetrators in a dark alley to get information.

Players can now experience some of the most exciting and varied jobs. In ''The Sims 3: Ambitions'', players can choose to hunt down vengeful spirits as the ghost hunter, invent brilliant and potentially destructive gadgets as an inventor, craft glorious masterpieces as a sculptor, and solve riveting cases by any means necessary as an investigator with dozens of cases to solve and numerous clues to find. Additionally, players will be able to change the look and feel of their town by becoming an architect and directly affecting the neighborhood around them leveraging Build and Buy mode. The stylist career and new tattoo system allow players to make over their Sim neighbors in fashionable or catastrophic ways. For the first time, players will be in charge of how their Sims’ career progresses and decide if they will work for good or evil, pursue creative endeavors or technical affairs, climb to the top quickly, or be a slacker. The future of a Sims’ success or failure is entirely in the hands of the player.

==Features==
*New '''Town''': [[Twinbrook]]<ref name="Exclusive">[http://www.melty.fr/les-sims-3-ambitions-entretien-exclusif-actu32482.html The Sims 3 Ambitions: exclusive interview with the game's producer, Grant Rodiek] ([http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.melty.fr%2Fles-sims-3-ambitions-entretien-exclusif-actu32482.html English Translation])</ref>
*New '''[[Life state|creature]]''': A [[SimBot]]<ref name="First Details">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100507094734/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3ambitions/news.html?sid=6252806&mode=previews The Sims 3 Ambitions Q&A - Exclusive First Details] </ref> is created by Sims with a high Inventing skill with an opportunity, or purchased as a reward with 40,000 Lifetime Happiness points.<ref name="Interview with Grant">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100515114258/http://www.simfans.de/specials/hands-on-sims3-traumkarrieren Interview with Grant Rodiek, EA Associate Producer von Die Sims 3 Traumkarrieren]</ref>
*New '''Mode''': [[Renovation Mode]] is a variation of Build and Buy Modes and used by the architect to remodel for clients<ref name="ep2_blog_mar30">[https://www.thesims3.com/ep2_blog_mar30 The Sims 3 Ambitions blog - Changing Your Sims' Neighborhood, One Job at a Time]</ref>
*New '''[[Build mode]] abilities''': modify the pitch of individual [[roof]] sections and add multistory [[column]]s.<ref name="First Details"/>
*New [[CAS]] hairstyles and clothes for working adult, children and toddler sims.
*New '''[[skill]]s''':
**[[Sculpting]]: Sims can create sculptures out of ice, metal, clay and wood with another Sim posing for them<ref name="First Details"/> (Previously seen in ''The Sims: Bustin' Out'').
**[[Inventing]]: There seems to be a wide variety of inventions. Servos are back as SimBots, along with a [[time machine]]. Sims get scraps for inventions from junkyards, a new type of lot, or by blowing things up, or simply just buying scrap.<ref name="First Details"/>
**[[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.<ref name="ep2_blog_mar30"/> (Previously seen in ''The Urbz: Sims in the City and The Sims 2'' for PS2/Xbox and GameCube). Tattooing is a [[Secret skills|hidden skill]].
* Careers & professions
**New type of job - [[profession]]s: [[Architectural Designer]], [[Firefighter]], [[Ghost Hunter]], [[Investigator]], and [[Stylist]].
** New '''career track''', [[Education#The Sims 3|education]]<ref name="Interview with Grant"/> and new features added to the existing [[Medicine#Ambitions career expansion|medicine]] career track
** Sims can become self-employed by registering at the city hall after gaining one skill point in a [[skill career]]. The skill careers are [[fishing]], [[gardening]], [[painting]], [[writing]], [[nectar making]]{{vgversion|TS3:WA}}, [[photography]], [[inventing]] and [[sculpting]]{{vgversion|TS3:A}}.<ref name="Revealed"/>
** 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."<ref>[https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/178785 What happens to Sims in workable careers you aren't controlling?]</ref>
**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.
* New '''[[List of Lifetime Wishes|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)<ref name="Creative Careers">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100425063119/http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3ambitions/news.html?sid=6257284&mode=previews The Sims 3: Ambitions Q&A - Creative Careers]</ref>
** Firefighter Super Hero (Save 30 lives on the job in the Firefighter profession)
** Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law (Possess §50,000 worth of stolen goods)
** Paranormal Profiteer (Reach level 10 in the Ghost Hunter profession)
** Pervasive Private Eye (Solve 35 cases on the job in the Investigator profession)
** Monster Maker (Create 3 Monsters)<ref name="Heroic">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620104011/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3ambitions/news.html?sid=6259991&mode=previews The Sims 3: Ambitions Updated Q&A - Heroic Careers]</ref>
* New '''[[lifetime reward]]s''':
**Artisan Crafter (boosts value of invented/sculpted items) <ref name="Creative Careers"/>
**Professional Simoleon Booster
**Efficient Inventor
**Entrepreneurial Mindset
**Suave Seller
**Fireproof Homestead
**My Best Friend

*[[Earthquake]]s have been added to the game.

*Child sims can run [[bake sale]]s to earn money.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100310072916/http://simoperations.com/2010/03/04/ea-gamespress-grant-rodiek-talks-about-the-sims-3-ambitions/ EA Gamespress – Grant Rodiek talks about The Sims 3: Ambitions]</ref>
*New '''objects''': [[Washing machine]], [[dryer]], [[hamper]], [[Scraptronic™ Workbench]], [[Sculpting]] table, [[The Woo Woo 4000|fire engine vehicle]], personal fire extinguisher,<ref name="ep2_blog_apr23">[https://www.thesims3.com/ambitionsblog2 The Sims Ambitions blog - Anybody Can Be a Hero ... or Something Along Those Lines]</ref> detonation packs, [[tattoo chair]],<ref name="First Details"/> lockpicking kit,<ref name="Heroic"/> [[trampoline]], [[Gnubb]] set, [[music box]] and [[Bake sale]] table.
*Collect scrap from the junkyard, and broken objects for inventing.<ref name="First Details"/>
*New '''[[upgrade]]s'''.<ref name="ep2_blog_apr23"/>
*New '''[[Trait (The Sims 3)|traits]]''': [[Savvy Sculptor]], [[Eccentric]], [[Dramatic]], [[Eco-Friendly]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20151104172718/http://www.nowgamer.com/ambitious-sims-3-ambitions-interview/ Now Gamer - Ambitious: Sims 3 Ambitions Interview]</ref> [[Perceptive]],<ref name="Heroic"/> and [[Born Salesman|Born Salesman/Saleswoman]].<ref name="Interview with Grant"/>
*Addition of the consignment shop as a place for Sims to sell their own items (collectibles, sculptures, etc.)<ref name="Revealed">[http://www.gaminglives.com/2010/03/08/sims-3-ambitions-revealed/ Sims 3: Ambitions – Revealed]</ref>
* Overhauled [[investments|real-estate]] system that lets the player purchase and upgrade any community lot building.<ref name="Revealed"/>
* New [[laundry]] system. It gives Sims a good moodlet. There are washers and dryers available including one dryer that has a special "surprise."<ref name="Exclusive"/>
*  New '''Death''': [[death by meteor]].<ref name="Ambitions Hands-on"/><ref name="User Tidus">[http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/14909562-post100.html User Tidus on UK Sims forums]</ref>
* New '''Vehicle Type''': [[Motorcycle]]
* Messages that appear on the right side of the screen are more organized.
* New lots including the [[consignment store]], [[junkyard]], [[hangout]], [[laundromat]], and [[fire station]].<ref name="Preview">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100609153059/https://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/215160/the-sims-3-ambitions-preview/ The Sims 3: Ambitions preview]</ref>
* New Songs

==Leaked images==
In May 2010, leaked images of ''Ambitions'' surfaced, allegedly through a Russian journalist breaching disclosure policies. These images were distributed more widely by the Brazilian fan website, [http://osimbr.net/home.php O Sim BR.net].<ref name="Imagens">[http://osimbr.net/home.php Imagens do The Sims 3 Ambições Vazam <nowiki>[</nowiki>ATUALIZADO<nowiki>]</nowiki>]</ref> The legal ramifications of republishing these images is currently unknown. The images show a clear overhead view of [[Twinbrook]], confirming it as the town in the second trailer (Iron Man parody). They also show an explosion at a junkyard, the inside of a salon, a secret agent in 'disguise', a Sim at a drafting board, several new hair styles, applying tattoos, a clothes line, and a new motorbike.

==Gallery==
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Screenshots=
<gallery widths="180">
AmbitionsCover.jpg|Original cover
AmbitionsScreenshot2.png|Sculptor
AmbitionsScreenshot4.png|Firefighter
Fire station 01.jpg|Firefighter on duty.
AmbitionsScreenshot3.png|Inventor
AmbitionsScreenShot1.jpg|Ghosthunter
Ghosthunter in action.jpg|Ghosthunting
Explosion.jpg|Inventing
Evil Stylist.jpg|Stylist
Mar30 blog tattoo.jpg|Tattoo Artist
mar30_blog_architect.jpg|Architect
apr23_doctor3.jpg|Doctor
apr23_dectective.jpg|Private investigator
apr23_firefighter.jpg|Firefighting
Wondering.jpg|Colored SimBot
Junkyard.jpg|Junkyard lot
the-sims-3-ambitions-20100506031338873.jpg|An Inventor running away from an explosion.
the-sims-3-ambitions-20100506031344139.jpg|A Meteor impact!
Bad_Doctor.jpg|A dubious doctor administers therapy.
Flame_Tattoo_Artist.jpg|Flame-themed tattoo parlour.
Busting ghosts.jpg|A Ghosthunter
Simbot and sim.jpg|An inventor and a SimBot.
Gnomes_magiques_Ambitions.jpg|Th new Mysterious Gnomes From The Sims 3 Ambitions.
Stylist cas.jpg|Changing A Sim's Look In The Stylist Career.
Inventing-8032725 n.jpg|An inventor is inventing something.
Firefighter on a burning house.jpg|Firefighters in a burning house.
private investigator stake-out.jpg|Private Investigator Stake-Out.
ambitions16.jpg|A SimBot smashing objects.
ambitions15.jpg|A sim riding a motorbike.
Amb23apr10 .jpg|A doctor administering a vaccine.
Amb23apr10 1.jpg|The firemen are on the case!
AmbitionsScreenshot7.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot8.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot9.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot10.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot11.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot12.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot13.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot14.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot15.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot16.jpg
AmbitionsScreenshot17.jpg
AmbitionsScreensShot20.jpg
littlebaker.jpg|Little baker
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Promotional images =
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Ambitions1ClothingHS33.jpg|Some of the new clothing and hairstyles.
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Videos=
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Video:The Sims 3 Ambitions Trailer|''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' Trailer
Video:The Sims 3 PC Games Trailer - Iron Man Parody|''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' Iron Man Parody 
Video:The Sims™ 3 Ambitions - GameSpot Gameplay|''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' GameSpot Demo
Video:Interview with Grant on The Sims 3 Ambitions|Interview with Grant on ''The Sims 3: Ambitions''
Video:De Sims 3 Ambities E3 2010 Demo - Gamespot|''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' E3 2010 Demo - GameSpot
Video:Lady Antebellum, Need You Now - The Sims 3|Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (''The Sims 3: Ambitions'')
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==Other languages==
{| class="prettytable sortable"
! Language !! Title !! Translated etymology
|-
!English
|The Sims 3: Ambitions
|-
!Brazilian Portuguese
|The Sims 3: Ambições
|Ambitions
|-
!Chinese (Simplified)
|模拟人生 3: 野心
|-
!Chinese (Traditional)
|模擬市民 3: 夢想起飛
|-
!Czech
|The Sims 3: Povolání Snů
|-
!Danish
|The Sims 3: Drømmejob
|Dream job
|-
!Dutch
|De Sims 3: Ambities
|Ambitions
|-
!European Portuguese
|Os Sims 3: Ambições Profissionais
|Professional ambitions
|-
!Finnish
|The Sims 3: Unelmaduuni
|-
!French
|Les Sims 3: Ambitions
|-
!German
|Die Sims 3: Traumkarrieren
|Dream careers
|-
!Hungarian
|The Sims 3: Álomállások
|-
!Italian
|The Sims 3: Ambitions
|-
!Japanese
|ザ・シムズ3 アンビション
|Ambitions
|-
!Korean
|The Sims 3: 달콤살벌 커리어 (DVD cover)<br>심즈 3 달콤살벌 커리어 (ea.com)
|-
!Norwegian
|The Sims 3: Drømmejobben
|The dream job
|-
!Polish
|The Sims 3: Kariera
|Career
|-
!Russian
|The Sims 3: Карьера
|Career
|-
!Spanish
|Los Sims 3: Triunfadores
|-
!Swedish
|The Sims 3: Drömjobb
|Dream job
|-
!Thai
|เดอะซิมส์ 3: แอมบิชันส์
|}

==Trivia==
*While ''Ambitions'' contains elements from ''[[Open for Business]], ''it is not possible for the player to run their own business in the same style.<ref name="First Details"/>
*Existing careers, except the [[Medical]] career, are not enhanced and their career buildings remain [[rabbit hole]]s.<ref>[http://beefjack.com/blog/game-blog/news/most-existing-careers-will-not-be-expanded-in-the-sims-3-ambitions/ Most Existing Careers Will Not be Expanded]</ref>
*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 that Rise Against, Lady Antebellum, Charice and more have their songs recorded in Simlish featured in game. [https://www.thesims3.com/community/news.html?selMonth=4&selYear=2010#1705657904]
*''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 <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100419062220/http://www.simprograms.com/ea-germany-announces-the-sims-3-ambitions-collectors-edition/ "EA Germany announces ‘The Sims 3 Ambitions Collectors Edition”"<!-- Bot Generated Title -->]. Retrieved on 3 October 2014.</ref> and Asia.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120117180821/http://www.simprograms.com/15709/ea-singapore-save-big-on-the-sims-3-commemorative-edition "EA Singapore – save big on The Sims 3 Commemorative Edition!"<!-- Bot Generated Title -->]. Retrieved on 3 October 2014.</ref> The 10th Anniversary book is also available with other games.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100522102832/http://www.simprograms.com/the-sims-3-french-the-sims-3-anniversary-edition-breakdown/ "The Sims 3 – French ‘The Sims 3 Anniversary Edition’ breakdown"<!-- Bot Generated Title -->]. Retrieved on 3 October 2014.</ref>
*On May 27 ''The Sims 3: Ambitions'' [[Wikipedia:Software release life cycle#Release candidate|went gold]].<ref>[https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/205259 US PRE-ORDER SHIP DATE CONFIRMED]</ref> The following day fans started to receive their copies early.
*''Ambitions'' is included in [[The Sims 3 Deluxe|''The Sims 3 Deluxe ''along]] with the base game.
*If ''[[The Sims 3: Seasons]]'' is installed, [[Alien]]s can summon meteors.

==Advanced [[Cheat]]s==
* DiscoTags on / off
The icons that are shown on the map are shown in numerous colors.
* AlwaysAllowBuyBuild true / false
To buy and build modes Purchase / Construction in all situations, freely. For example, during a fire and burglar.
* PlaceFriezes on / off
Allows use of foundation on top tile floors.

== External links ==
* [https://www.thesims3.com/game/ep2 The Sims 3: Ambitions on TheSims3.com]
* [https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/ambitions/ Carl's Sims 3 Ambitions Guide/Features Overview]

== References ==
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