Tell me your top ten favorite things that are exclusive to The Sims 3. This includes all the expansions and premium content. For example you could list the ice cream maker as one of your favorites, but not the cowplant. So I'll start with my list:

1. Create-A-Style
2. Story Progression
3. More customization (sliders & colors)
4. Moodlets (comfort & environment)
5. Open neighborhood
6. Object placement (45 degree angle & centered)
7. Ability to choose traits and a lifetime wish
8. Control of Sims while at school & work
9. Horses
10.Bunkbeads

1. Open world. (Visit neighbor).
2. 45 degree angles
3. Toddlers can watch TV
4.The Fireman Career
5.Sims no longer have to walk to the stereo to turn it on or off.
6.The Consignment Store
7. Sims can dance on top of the tables.
8. Some of the unkempt premade homes or buildings. Details.
9. Being able to take babies with you to other lots.
10. Sunrise/Sunset.

1. Create-A-Style
2. Open neighborhood
3. Traits
4. Body Sliders
5. Late Night Dance Moves
6. Tell a sim how to skill up or for how long
7. Horses
8. Multi-Tab Premium object
9. Fireworks
10. Clickable moodlets

Probably more important stuff that didn't come to mind.

*what are.

No particular order, right? (Keep in mind, only played TS3.)

1. MOO.
2. Small pets.
3. Horses.
4. Alt in B/B mode.
5. Photography.
6. Tilt view camera.
7. Traveling.
8. Loft beds. (Such a space-saver.)
9. Consignment shop.
10. Blowing things up.

1. Bridgeport
2. Grim Reaper
3. C-A-S
4. Graphics
5. Pets
6. Mods/ CC
7. Fog emitter and Buydebug
8. Criminal Career
9. Club stuff
10. Vampires

1. open neighbourhood
2. CAS
3. The ability to customize number of days for each life stage
4. Generation
5. WA
6. Traits
7. I want to put Pets but we have pets in TS2, so I will say horse, wild and small animals
8. The graphics, including the scenery in each town
9. Laundry
10. The collectibles

1. Being rebellious (trait)
2. Celebrity status
3. Shang Simla
4. Late Night fashion
5. Jogging round the town
6. The butterfly dome
7. Bachelorette parties
8. Sleeping bags
9. Cellar Adventures
10. Dreaming about being valedictorian

1. Open world + no loading screens
2. CAST and endless customisation
3. Improved object placement- 45 degree angles, etc
4. Traits and lifetime wishes
5. Detonating stuff
6. Improved camera angles
7. Sunrise and sunset
8. Easier to clean things up
9. Baby swing
10. More playground stuff

I don't know if they're all my absolute favourites and in that order but they're all things I love.

My Top 10

1: All the CC sites, cuz playing the game vanilla is just balsy
2: Create a Style -- fully recolorable meshes, hurrah!
3: Move Objects On (and ALT - thanks Pepperbutt!)
4: Buy Debug
5: Testingcheatsenabled true I even got a mod so I don't have to type it in anymore; I use it THAT often!
6: the Ambitions EP, my favorite of all! Well done, EA!
7: Watching sims & NPCs live their lives -- their antics in the game is just priceless ^-^
8: Hidden Springs, my favorite world (it's just gorgeous; I can't live without it (thank you to the friend who Gifted it to me--you know I love you!))
9: Shang Simla (aka China from WA), my 2nd favorite world (I don't play contemporary/Western often at all, and most of my sims are either Fantasy sims (who live in HS) or they're Asian (mostly Japanese, though))
10: Build Mode, because I LOVE making lots--that's what drew me to simming 10 years ago, and I still love it, even more than before!

1. Open World
2. Gradual pregnancy
3. Advanced Build/Buy and CAS
4. Controllable Pets
5. Interactive moodlets
6. Better running animations
7. Place driveways anywhere
8. The combined mirror and dresser from Showtime;really helpful!
9. Customized voices
10. Story progression

1. kleptomaniac trait
2. criminal career
3. stealing
4. thieving
5. turning cars into solid gold with create a pattern
6. buying the entire town
7. ruling over the town
8. locking other sims up to starve
9. the beautiful vistas
10. all the options in create a sim

1. The open neighbourhood.
2. Create a World.
3. Waterfalls and lake lots.
4. Bachelor parties.
5. CAS
6. Sleeping bags and tents.
7. The Diva trait.
8. Watching sims hike out to remote lots "in the middle of nowhere".
9. Twallan`s story progression extra mod.
10. The views from well placed lots.

Wow! Thanks to everyone who replied, its always interesting to see what other people think of this game. There are so many things that I didn't even think about that I also love.

Skyscraperfan wrote:1. kleptomaniac trait
2. criminal career
3. stealing
4. thieving
5. turning cars into solid gold with create a pattern
6. buying the entire town
7. ruling over the town
8. locking other sims up to starve
9. the beautiful vistas
10. all the options in create a sim

rotflmao

You're an Evil Overlord, Darth Skyscraperfan!
I love it!

1.Create a style
2.open hood
3.Object placement (45 degree angle & centered)
4.Control of Sims while at school & work
5.horses
6.ability to color hair & eyes
7.it's pretty
8.walk by and/or visit a neighbor
9.Showtime
10.?