I just got thru playing story mode, and I thought I'd give some advice for those of you who have not already played it.

1. Do not speed it up. Play it at the slowest speed, or you will finish it too fast and regret it.
2. Some of the goals require you to stay on community lots for longer than you're expecting. In between goals, make sure to fill up all of your motives. I usually just make my sim sleep, use the toilet, take a shower, have a meal, and then watch tv, play a game, ect., for fun. That will fill up all your motives except for social and enviroment.
3. If the phone rings, stop whatever you're doing and answer it. It could be the next goal. Luckily if you miss an important call, they will call you back eventually.
5. Save you're game after every goal. I have a post it note stuck to my monitor to remind me to save the game often. The reason is that there are issues with the game not working properly, and I read a whole lot of posts on other forums where people are saying their game crashed, ect.
6. Last but not least, don't expect to play this game for months or even weeks. The stories are short.


Don't get me wrong, I like it, and I bought it because I just moved to another country and my computer is in the middle of the ocean right now and won't be here till the end of the month, and I was craving my game. This was small enough that my husbands laptop could handle it, and it was nice that I was able to download it using ea link, because they don't have it at the store here.

Thanks for those tips Ill keep those in mind when I eventually get SLS...perhaps my loving family will buy it for me lol

I would say also, put loads of stuff in vincents inventory
don't want to spoil the story for anyone, but you will need lots of cash when the game finishes and you'll need it in your inventory.

Whoa! Thanks for the tip. I'm just doing Vincent's story now.

Another tip, when you're on a community lot to achieve a goal, wait till it tells you what to do before you do anything. I made the mistake of going to the hostess podium to be seated first thing and it messed up the whole thing and I had to send her home and start the goal all over again.