History GameBreaker / TheSims3

* The ''Plants Vs. Zombies Sunflower'' produces sun every so often, which was intended to be used as fertilizer in the SwiftGro Gardening Station, another store item, but can also be sold for 100 Simoleons. There's no restriction to prevent players from abusing the ability to sell the sun by purchasing a large amount of Sunflowers and thus selling massive batches of sun for thousands of Simoleons at a time. This is on top of Sims being able to dance to the Sunflower to increase their Fun mood level quickly.

* The Motive Mobile lifetime reward. By traveling in this car, your sims will quickly have all their motives filled up. Every single one. And it doesn't only work for your current household. Any sim who travels in the car will have his or her motives refilled. Got a date? Go out with the Motive Mobile. Your date will be [[IncrediblyLamePun fulfilled]].

* The Relationship Transmogrifier from the Social Networking skill is basically a cheat function. It allows you to set the relationships of any two Sims to whatever you want. Want to make the mailman your Sim has never spoken to their best friend? Done. Want that cute girl your Sim passed on the street to be their lover? Done. Want to turn that nice '50s sitcom family next door into something more at home in ''Literature/GameOfThrones?'' Done.

* Arguably though, the breaker to end all breakers is the Science skill from ''University Life''. Specifically, the ability to clone collectibles. Even without elaboration, this sounds utterly obscene. However, it gets even more so when combined with the Gem-Cutter from ''Supernatural''. Tiberium, when left to its own devices, will grow into a large spire (Worth 30-45k). Gem Cutters tend to create both a cut gem and a few dusts. All of these expand into large spires. So for each gem ore, you can create 90-135k. The kicker, though? ''You can clone the ore.'' The analysis and cloning procedure takes about an hour for each piece of Tiberium, so you can, quite literally, just do this multiple times and leave yourself with a huge field of Tiberium growing into huge money-gaining clusters. [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Lore implications notwithstanding,]] the only drawback to this is the utter cacophony of pinging noises a field Tiberium gives off.

* This expansion pack includes what is quite probably the most gratuitous Game Breaker in all of [[IncrediblyLamePun Simkind.]] You can Transmute metals in the game by using a Display Case, and tinkering with this can, if done right, bring untold riches. The only downside is that you need to create a Supernovium first (which seems to involve extensive fusion of Platinum), but once you do have that, you're in for something special. If you arrange 1x Supernovium + 8x Gold on the XL display case, with the Supernovium in the top left corner of the case with a gold bar stacked on top of it, and the rest of the gold put in the other 7 slots, it creates two bars: Compendium and Platinum. Once you have the Compendium bar, arrange it exactly as before, with it in the top left with a Gold Bar on top, the other Gold Bars in the other areas, You get...Another bar of compendium. However, it's value will have increased exponentially. By repeating this process, you can generate a super-dense, super heavy bar that can be worth up to ''2.1 Billion'' before it loops around and bottoms out at 0.

** Dreaming in the Dream Pod gives a variety of effects when your sim wakes up, depending on whether the dream was a good, neutral or bad dream. Good dreams can instantly fill needs, improve career progress, and more. You can have a sim "Dream about Career", make the dream good by influencing it, then wake them for an instant career progress boost. Rinse and repeat and your sim will be guaranteed a promotion the next time they go to work. Completing the associated skill challenge in Advanced Technology causes every dream to automatically start as a good one, meaning you won't even have to influence their dream.

* There's a holiday in each season's last week, you don't work but still earn a salary. With the default settings, seasons last seven days with a holiday every thursday[[note]]the holiday's date isn't directly chosen by the player but is calculated from the season's length[[/note]], which basically adds a free day every week.

* The military career offers average salaries but plenty of free time (4 week days of work from level 1 to 3, 3 week days of work from level 4 to 9; work starts at 7 a.m. but the Sim leaves at worst at 3 p.m. and at best at 12 p.m.), and conditions to a faster advancement are cheap (mood, good relations with the boss, athletic and handiness skill[[note]]both are easy to train, and you'll probably train handiness regardless of your career, to benefit from upgraded house appliances[[/note]]). At level 10 ("Astronaut"), the Sim works ''a single day'' each week, and initially earns §6012 per days, though workday is so long (7 a.m. to 1 a.m.) that a good part of the next day will be spent recovering in bed; that's still 5 full free days in a week. Also, the Astronaut workday is so long that, with fully trained skills and relations, you're guaranteed completely fills the work performance meter in a single day, thus gaining a salary raise each time.

* The "Unlucky" trait prevents he afflicted Sim to die of any other cause than old age[[note]]the Grim Reaper resurrects them on the spot, finding their constant misfortune too amusing to let them die for real[[/note]]. There are two lifetime awards which stop a Sim from ageing: buying the "Immortal" lifetime award for vampire Sims, or buying and drinking the Age Freeze potion for non-vampire Sims (''Generations''). A Sim with both the "Unlucky" trait and either of those lifetime awards become totally immune to death.

* ''University Life'' prints Lifetime Happiness like nobody's business. You have a chance while studying or attending classes to gain the wish of getting a degree, which grants 5,000 Lifetime Happiness points. Every trip back to University gets you a chance to earn a Wish to obtain another degree, with the wish being [[SerialEscalation worth more Lifetime Happiness each time]], with the rewards for obtaining 4 degrees rivaling that of ''Lifetime Wishes'' at 30,000. There's also a Lifetime Wish to obtain 3 degrees, worth an above-average 35,000 Lifetime Happiness points, which can be done at the same time. Since Sims don't age at University, there's nothing other than the player's patience and pathing bugs stopping them from obtaining all six degrees over the course of their lifetime. You can increase this even more by attending for two terms instead of one - Not only does this give the wish to obtain a degree an extra week to appear but it gives a chance during the first term for a wish to 'Pass an Exam' to appear, which is worth an extra 2,000.

* With the Ambitious trait, you have a chance to gain the wish of graduating, which grants more than 5,000 Lifetime Happiness points. After graduating once, you'll receive this wish again, but with a even higher reward...

* Another one crafted with the Catalyst Chemistry Labe Station. The "Ninja Vanish" potion allows to instantly teleport back home. It is cheap (§250 or §187 once you gained the discount for chemistry potions) and can be rearched once you raised Logic to 8.

* Pets usually can't ride in vehicles even if they have a Sim with them, so getting them to travel across the map takes a very long time. However, pets in Isla Paradiso can use taxi boats, as there wouldn't be any other way to access the different islands, and so they can travel across the map to dig spots and the like far more easily.

* The Strong Stomach lifetime reward from ''Island Paradise'' is very beneficial if you also own ''Ambitions'' because it eliminates the Nauseous moodlet from the Floor Hygienator backfiring and only costs 2000 LHP, making it one of the cheapest rewards available.

** A Floor Hygienator becomes this especially when placed in an area that a Sim stays in for a long period of time [[note]] workbenches and the like, kitchen counters, gym equipment, chairs and beds are all good choices [[/note]], because it will activate every ten seconds or so while a Sim is stood on it. Placing one under a bed means that a Sim can go to sleep with minimum hygiene and wake up with maximum, eliminating the need for showers and baths.
** By extension, the Strong Stomach lifetime reward (from Island Paradise) is also very beneficial because it eliminates the Nauseous moodlet from the Hygienator backfiring and only costs 2000 LHP, making it one of the cheapest rewards available.

* Similarly, ''Supernatural'' is very useful when travelling abroad. Fairies can use the Fairy House and Fairy Castle like a tent, which also gives them pollen punch as a free food source and mood boost. Fairy auras can also be used to boost mood. Witches are even more useful, because of their Hygiene, Hunger and Bladder charms and their ability to conjure apples as a food source. And as always, elixirs are invaluable, especially the Invigorating elixir as it prevents you from wasting precious time by sleeping. The Jar of Friendship (and the witches' love charm) is also useful for the adventures where you need to convince a local Sim to do something.

* There's a holiday in each season's last week, you don't work but still earn a salary. With the default settings, seasons last seven days with a holiday every thursday[[note]]the holiday's date isn't direcetly chosen by the player but is calculated from the season's length[[/note]], which basically adds a free day every week.

!!''Dragon Valley''

* The Workaholic trait makes a Sim less stressed when at work or at school, workaholic children and teens gain fun when doing homework (or helping someone else) and do it much faster than non-workaholic Sims, being at work grants a positive moodlet[[note]]only if they are not self-employed[[/note]], and adult workaholic Sims are able to work from home with a computer, which grants more money and contributes to their job performance. It makes school and work life much easier to manage, especially if combined with "Ambitious". The only drawbacks are a negative moodlet when skipping work (which you don't wanto to do, anyway) and negative reactions to the "complain about work" and "joke about work" interactions.

* Arguably though, the breaker to end all breakers is the Science skill from ''University Life''. Specifically, the ability to clone collectibles. Even without elaboration, this sounds utterly obscene. However, it gets even more so when combined with the Gem-Cutter from ''Supernatural''. Tiberium, when left to its own devices, will grow into a large spire (Worth 30-45k). Gem Cutters tend to create both a cut gem and a few dusts. All of these expand into large spires. So for each gem ore, you can create 90-135k. The kicker, though? ''You can clone the ore.'' The analysis and cloning procedure takes about an hour for each piece of Tiberium, so you can, quite literally, just do this multiple times and leave yourself with a huge field of Tiberium growing into huge money-gaining clusters. [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries Lore implications notwithstanding,]] the only drawback to this is the [[MostAnnoyingSound utter cacophony of pinging noises a field Tiberium gives off.]]

* Similarly, ''Supernatural'' is very useful when travelling abroad. Fairies can use the Fairy House and Fairy Castle like a tent, which also gives them pollen punch as a free food source and mood boost. Fairy auras can also be used to boost mood. Witches are even more useful, because of their Hygiene, Hunger and Bladder charms and their ability to conjure apples as a food source. And as always, elixirs are invaluable, especially the invigorating elixir as it prevents you from wasting precious time by sleeping.

** Incense burners can be bought at each travel location, and each one gives all the Sims in the same room a +10 moodlet while also providing some other boosts. One increases the rate of skill gain and decreases the time takes to meditate, one increases the success of romantic interactions, and one decreases the rate of decay of the Fun motive. Incense costs money but once a burner is lit it will not go out unless a Sim manually puts it out, so you can keep enjoying the benefits for all eternity.