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Put Cupcake Machine recipes into the oven! No more machine restriction!
mizuru007
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Hear me out.
When I play The Sims 4, I don't play to make outlandish fun houses. I play with a slightly more realistic style. As is evidenced by my last thread, I love food. I was excited as HECK to learn that Get to Work was going to be adding baking as a skill! New recipes!!
What I was very, very unhappy to learn was that Sims had to own a cupcake machine in order to make some of the recipes. Let me repeat: I don't play to make outlandish fun houses. Have you ever seen a cupcake machine in someone's house before? No, because we make cupcakes the normal way: in an oven. No one on this Earth owns a cupcake machine in a practical home, and I don't want to be forced to own one in order to enjoy a large part of the content that I paid for.
I want to lift the recipe restriction for the cupcake machine. I want the recipes to be able to be made in the oven. Maybe at a higher skill level? Maybe with a certain quality oven? I don't care. I just don't like having to own this gigantic, space-taking eyesore of an item in order to bake sweets that you can just as easily make in an oven.
Sorry if this topic sounds extra angry, but I'm just really upset with the whole "wackier, sillier lives" thing that was forced onto the game because the game has made it so I HAVE to play that way if I want to have full access to all of the game's parts. It's not cool.
When I play The Sims 4, I don't play to make outlandish fun houses. I play with a slightly more realistic style. As is evidenced by my last thread, I love food. I was excited as HECK to learn that Get to Work was going to be adding baking as a skill! New recipes!!
What I was very, very unhappy to learn was that Sims had to own a cupcake machine in order to make some of the recipes. Let me repeat: I don't play to make outlandish fun houses. Have you ever seen a cupcake machine in someone's house before? No, because we make cupcakes the normal way: in an oven. No one on this Earth owns a cupcake machine in a practical home, and I don't want to be forced to own one in order to enjoy a large part of the content that I paid for.
I want to lift the recipe restriction for the cupcake machine. I want the recipes to be able to be made in the oven. Maybe at a higher skill level? Maybe with a certain quality oven? I don't care. I just don't like having to own this gigantic, space-taking eyesore of an item in order to bake sweets that you can just as easily make in an oven.
Sorry if this topic sounds extra angry, but I'm just really upset with the whole "wackier, sillier lives" thing that was forced onto the game because the game has made it so I HAVE to play that way if I want to have full access to all of the game's parts. It's not cool.
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So true! Sams is a sandbox game, or it used to be. Sims 4 is trying to force players to play how EA wants you to play.
Thank you for this. Just thank you.
I actually love the cooking skill in this game and if I'm being honest with myself, I only bought GTW for baking. I was so disappointed to discover that I would be forced into owning that monstrosity if I wanted to be able to bake all of the available treats. I HATE it. I feel like Oompah-Loompahs are going to jump out at me every time I turn it on. I don't even takw comfort in being able to hide it in the basement, I don't want to see it full stop
Also...on the subject of baking. I think I only got as high as level 5, but do the animations ever change? I was very disappointed that my Sim never seemed to do anything but mix in a mixing bowl with egg and milk no matter what she was making. I was really hoping for some dough kneading and maybe some rolling pin action...anything like that at higher levels?
LOL it totally does look like that, I never even thought about it!
And yeah! Doughnuts should be fried, bread should be kneaded and put into pans, cookies should be rolled out and cut! Why u no animate, EA?
That's the thing, I wouldn't mind it if they would give us a smaller version of the cupcake machine, one that could be placed on a kitchen counter. The thing that frustrates me is that the machine looks like something out of a factory and not only it takes a lot of space that I don't have but it's ugly as "plum". It's fine if you have a bakery, but it's not fine if you just want your sims to bake sweets at home.
& it has a too hard moodlet in the middle
I would be totally okay with there being a small countertop item for making sweets! In fact, I'd like for a LOT more things to be put on countertops in the kitchen! I still want a toasterrrrrrr... I just hate the giant cupcake maker, as well as the other gigantic items that have no business being gigantic. They make my home lots look either pretentious or really weird.
"Why dear, you know what would make our simple country home really stand out? a g i g a n t i c t e l e s c o p e."
Oh, and you can have baked doughnuts -- they're called beignets, and they're very popular in New Orleans and since Willow Creek is modeled a lot after New Orleans it makes a bit of sense
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Wow, interesting to see this thread bumped up!
I actually use that item in my game. It's still kinda big, and sticks out like a sore thumb when I put into some of my houses, but it's still better than that Willy Wonka mess that comes in the game.
Man, imagine if they'd put a new cupcake machine into Cool Kitchen! HAHA. HA.
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I vote for a smaller microscope and telescope too while I'm at it.
So glad that I only got ts4 base game and didn't invest in any of the expansions or packs... really wish that I could return ts4 base game, too.