Sims Enhanced Pack by Thalassicus

This pack improves Sims 3 balance, difficulty curve, and cost-benefit comparisons. For example, let's look at balance. Players quickly discover the dominant strategies for each of these parts of the game:
The Moodlet Manager can reset needs for any sims.
Ambrosia eliminates the challenge from dealing with mood.
Never Dull gets rid of the challenge of interactions between sims.
These are much more powerful than other solutions for needs, mood, and interactions. Balancing the power of these strategies with alternate choices makes the game more fun and challenging. In addition to solving those obvious problems, I carefully adjusted other moodlets and rewards to make overall gameplay a little more complex, exciting, and thoughtful. This approach differs from other mods which simply raise or lower the amount of total mood our sims require for happiness, leaving the fundamental balance issues untouched.

In addition to balance, this pack makes gameplay more intuitive. If you ask people what's important to lead a happy and healthy life, most would probably respond with a list like this (in no particular order):
Food
Sleep
Sex
Excercise
Bathing
Brushing teeth
Friends
Love
Low stress

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Minimum Wage/More Realistic Earnings by Madam Doofie

A mod to lower the pay and increase the hours of all Sims 3 Careers. All now start at $8 or less depending on the career track in question and lowers the amount you can get as a raise to 0.04%.

I tried to use my intelligence when reassigning the amounts. For example I kinda figured the Leader of the Free World would earn more than someone working in a diner (no matter what career level), and I believe surgeons earn quite a bit as well. Whereas if you're in the Criminal career track, if you choose to go evil you’ll have to accept a pay drop to begin with. Supervillains don't pay their henchmen very well

I've actually made a couple BIGGER simply because they were things like being a super star or the leader of the free world and I figure that would earn more! Meanwhile things like a fan of Sports earns only a dollar an hour because if being a fan of something earned us money we'd all be rich.

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Environment Lighting Tweaks V2.0 Released by Buhudain

Changes in v2.0

Seasons Compatible. Also working fine without seasons. Any game patch version compatiable.
Sunlight and ambient light at sunrise and sunset were desaturated a little to be more natural, especially on the snow.

Sunlight color at sunset turned into orange too early in v1.2. Modified.
Darkened the sunlight, ambient light a little and clouds a lot in stormy weather.
LowerBloom setting adjusted very little for less bloom.
Added new "Middle sized sun and moon" setting.

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