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The aspect of bowling that disappoints me the most...
So_Money
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...is not the lack of real-life rules or score-keeping, but the fact that sims can't talk to each other while playing. It seems to me that this is an integral part of the bowling night experience. Also, it makes bowling a useless activity on dates.
Hopefully they can correct this in a patch, but I won't hold my breath. AFAIK sims still can't talk while fishing, which has been a bone of contention since release.
Hopefully they can correct this in a patch, but I won't hold my breath. AFAIK sims still can't talk while fishing, which has been a bone of contention since release.
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It is pretty ridiculous and one of many reasons I've had to use mods just to slow down the relative passage of time.
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> ...is not the lack of real-life rules or score-keeping, but the fact that sims can't talk to each other while playing. It seems to me that this is an integral part of the bowling night experience. Also, it makes bowling a useless activity on dates.
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> Hopefully they can correct this in a patch, but I won't hold my breath. AFAIK sims still can't talk while fishing, which has been a bone of contention since release.
I love the bowling alleys for a lot of reasons! You're right though. I hate that the games take forever and that Sims can't have a conversation.
I'm going to have to look into that because that in number one on my must have mods list.
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This is the reason why they cut conversations from Bowling. It was taking a full Sims day to get through one round of Bowling.
SimGuruGraham advised this is why certain areas of The Sims 4, they purposely cut conversations out.
Fishing, I'm guessing, would mean the amount of fish you catch would be probably more than halved, if they talk instead of fish.
This has been an issue with all of The Sims games (except The Sims 1 because it didn't matter if they talked and ate ate the same time). The Sims 2, it literally takes them 2 - 4 hours to eat one meal, if they're all sitting at the table. I serve lunch at 2pm, they finish at 3pm.
It's one of the reasons why Sims didn't talk to each other in The Sims 3 when doing tasks, and devs added it back in when people complained about Low Social moodlets, because Sims wouldn't talk unless you actually gave them a conversation.
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Sounds like throwing out the baby with the bathwater to me.
They can't change a whole game engine just for one object *shrug*
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Exactly....a full game with 4 sims is already long as it is, even with the shortened frames. If those 4 sims were talking to each other in between rolls, it would take forever just to get through one game.
Your Best Friend is had a earned a strike? Your sim should be happy and jumping. Father and son takes a bowling, having the father to cheer his/her child while playing will be already awesome to me. If its your sim they could have atleast "boo" their enemy. That is what will make bowling better if they couldn't implement a full socialization, and honestly? If they could do that, I'd say bring it on and it will give a lot more detail into the game.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
Exactly. They should react properly like they do in previous games. Instead they stand in a line like lemons occasionally head bobbing once In a while.
The fact bowling isn't a social activity is just strange and unrealistic and kind of makes bowling pointless as a group activity.
This is why I am not a huge fan of stuff packs. They are just giving you in most cases less with the item.
That are just cheap premium items I get bored with after 5min.
Bowling item for me is one of the worst items so far and the climbing wall and ball pit are just as bad.
I am using a mod that adds this function - builds relationship points - but when I went to find it again, it's been deleted by the creator, so I can't link to it. (Just another reason why we can't rely on mods to fix EA's oversights, we need to get them to do it.)
It was marketed as a group activity, but really the way it is now, it's a solo experience, (and the skill is pretty inconsequential too. I think I'd rather it be assigned to the fitness skill, or the charisma skill, or even the logic skill).
I left feedback about lack of relationship gain when it first came out ... still waiting for a patch. I don't expect new animations to be added, or for it to be multi-tasked enabled (so talking, drinking, eating etc can be done at the same time), but I do think they should add relationship gain between the players (like when fishing).
Totally agree....that's gotta be an oversight. Bowling should definitely increase relationship points...especially when it was billed as a family/group activity. Hopefully that will get fixed in a patch at some point.