Wow! From what I've read, the game sounds very empty and boring. You have to pay for the energy bar to be filled, or wait for real time to pass for it to fill up for free? Your only neighbor is Bella Goth? You need to be invited/invite friends to play with, so your Sims won't be lonely? The game lags constantly, and you must pay REAL money out of your pocket for more/better content?

Sounds like an typical sca -- I mean -- Facebook/EA game! Makes me feel glad that I don't have a Facebook account! Even if I had one, I don't think I'll play Sims Social, let alone have over a hundred "friends" to play with. What's next, Mass Effect Social?! Saving the galaxy with friends -- in laggy 2D!

The game is okay for what it is. Better than a lot of other FB games. And there's sure to be more features included over time.

Fortunately I had a better experience with the game today. It ran very smoothly, and again, I was able to play for a long time without running out of energy. Eventually I did, but I still have tons of "task" to do for random sims :P. Just in case anyone doesn't know, you get 1 free energy per friend you visit per day, and you get a bonus 5 energy whenever you visit a friend for the very first time ! The game is starting to grow on me, but I'm not a fan of having to ask your friends constantly for things - though, I was expecting it. It's facebook, it's what every game does.

My biggest complain is that I left the game, came back about 10 minutes later, and my sims needs were all on red. I don't understand why that would happen since auto play is on. If anyone knows how to fix this, it'd be greatly appreciated !

What I find annoying is how I end up getting like 15 requests for the game. And then when I finally get on the game to accept them (sometimes the game doesn't even load up the requests so you got to keep trying), when I hit accept, sometimes it says there was an error and I cannot accept it. So then the person who requested is gonna think I declined or ignored them.

I keep on getting an error where I invite my friend and he invites me but we hit accept and nothing ever happens.

/uninstalls app.

Sending gifts, requesting items and accepting anything is very glitched.

It seems to be working much better today. Gifts are still very glitchy but the game itself is running smoothly. I'm having quite a bit of fun with it; I just never seem to have enough simoleans.

I've tried it, and so far I like it quite a bit. Obviously not the Sims, but it has a bit of a sims 2 feel that I kind of like. I'll sadly have to play alone, which takes a whole bunch of the fun out of it, but I have lame FB friends who don't like game! Imagine that! *is just slightly obsessed with video games*

This is probably the only sims game that I've played without cheats.. How refreshing.

I've got a few friends that play it on FB, so it's all right for the moment.

I'm having some fun with it, really. It's very frustrating with the necessary requirements for the collectables and how easily they run out [and how hard it is to get them back] I often think I'm doing something very wrong.. especially since my friends are all higher levels than me!!
I'll admit, the energy stuff is very annoying, but it *is* a Facebook game, they have to add Real-Time elements into some things, otherwise it wouldn't work.

ETA: I've only just found out that you can repeat activities on skill items to get more monies. I feel like a right Llama! Still, it's not exactly brilliant if you run out of Energy, but I *did* just get a bunch of Muses, even though they're not helping me to build that double bed (Love and Plans, I think) or Grill (Flamehead and Goodwill)

Oh dear. I seem to have gotten addicted to it . It's fun!

Me too, even with the annoying glitches, I just can't stop playing aaaaaaaggggghhhhhhh

I've actually quite enjoyed it. Like some others have said I refuse to pay for anything. The energy recharges 1 point every 5 mins and sometimes I've used the energy limit to stop myself playing too long... only to find I keep collecting the stuff so play much longer than intended.

I also refuse to bother friends who are not playing the game with any posts to do with it (I set privacy settings to a friend group who are all playing whenever I post game updates). To begin with it was difficult with only one other friend playing (as I must have discovered it on the first day it was on open Beta) however some of my other friends discovered it on their own and now it's much easier and I'm finding it fun to keep sending them what they need and getting what I need from them.

There have been some glitches, one of my friends is getting far more than me, but generally it plays well and is addictive.

The last couple of months I've not played TS3 because the loading time means I feel I've got to be ready to settle down to a long session of playing to make it worth waiting. I love the game, just haven't had time. With Sims Social I can dip in quickly and of course then end up playing for ages anyway and suddenly realising I've lost the morning to playing LOL.

First tutorial (as far as I know) How to stack and merge http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=2553664 Now I'm off to do some redecorating