After my last post, I’ve noticed several of you are coming here to find out how to get free energy in The Sims Social. (If this sentence doesn’t make any sense to you, please read the other post and then come back to this one!)

Here are all the ways I know to get free energy in The Sims Social. Oh, and by the way, thanks for pulling yourself away from Facebook for a while to read this.

1. Good Things Come to Those Who Wait… Even in The Sims Social

As you know, your energy bar maxes out at 15 (unless you were already at 15 and got some bonus energy for visiting a friend). When you use an energy point, it will refill in 5 minutes. It’s 5 minutes per energy point, so if you use all 15, you’ll have to wait 5 minutes x 15 points = 75 minutes before you’re back up to 15 points.

2. Get Free Energy from Friends

Sometimes in The Sims Social, your friends will send you a gift, which often (if not always… I’m not sure if it varies or not) is an energy bar. Consuming an energy bar will give you +1 energy point.

You can access your stash of energy bars and other goodies by clicking on the “Craft” button in the bottom-right corner of the screen and then clicking the “Backpack” tab.

3. Earn Energy for Free by Doing Activities in The Sims Social

When you complete activities in the game, a variety of bonuses pop out. If you are meeting a need of your sim, it will be a green smiley face, boosting your sim’s mood. If it is something that requires the use of an energy point, you will almost always be awarded with some simoleons. Every now and then, completing an activity will give you a bonus of +1 energy.

Another way to earn energy for free is by collecting other bonuses in the game. As the illustration here shows, if you are able to collect 8 Goodwill, 7 Love, and 3 Buzz, you can combine those bonuses into Energy Coffee, which will give you +5 energy. (At level 14, you unlock the ability to make a small cup of coffee that gives you +3 energy.)

4. Complete an Offer for SimCash and use the SimCash to buy Energy

This last way I know of to get free energy in The Sims Social is a little more involved. EA set up an in-game payment system for players to convert something outside of the game into SimCash. You can then use the SimCash to buy all kinds of things in the game, including energy.

So, what do you have to do to get SimCash? Good question.

You can either buy it with Facebook Credits, a Credit Card Payment, a mobile payment, a PayPal transaction,

…or you can EARN it by completing offers. No doubt EA has affiliate relationships with the companies these offers are through, so they get a commission of some sort when you complete the offer.

I shared this referral link in my other article on The Sims Social, too, but this system is highly similar to the work-from-home program run by Project Pay Day, where you can be the one getting the commission, instead of EA, and then buy all the SimCash you want with real money… just saying.

While most of the offers available for SimCash require some sort of purchase, if you look carefully when you’re in the SimCash offers screen, there’s a tab for the free offers in the top of that pop-up. Complete the offers and you can get your free SimCash and then your free energy.

 

So, there you have it. Four easy ways to get free energy in The Sims Social. Do you know of any other ways? Leave a comment below.