Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
@SimGuruNinja I honestly imagined @SimGuruSteve putting out an incomplete toy and everyone smashing it up more with tiny hammers along with sprinkling remains of fun things in the rubble of what used to be said toy, then @SimGuruSteve sweeping the mess to a pile and tries to recreate the toy again with the random added parts with your explanation LOL
Is that what he does?
Maybe I'll just stick to my understanding of, "he do a thing and it make game go," which probably applies to everyone on the team
I was wondering that I wonder if it is either black, brown or blue now?
Also though it's great seeing so many Gurus posting here, I do have one question. Where is @SimGuruBChick ? It's so sad that she isn't posting anymore. She used to be one of my favourite Gurus and was posting with me and everyone every day! It would be great to see her return too
I was wondering that I wonder if it is either black, brown or blue now?
Also though it's great seeing so many Gurus posting here, I do have one question. Where is @SimGuruBChick ? It's so sad that she isn't posting anymore. She used to be one of my favourite Gurus and was posting with me and everyone every day! It would be great to see her return too
Matthew.
I imagine her hair red or brown.
I want Seasons and Island Paradise for The Sims 4!
I was wondering that I wonder if it is either black, brown or blue now?
Also though it's great seeing so many Gurus posting here, I do have one question. Where is @SimGuruBChick ? It's so sad that she isn't posting anymore. She used to be one of my favourite Gurus and was posting with me and everyone every day! It would be great to see her return too
Matthew.
I imagine her hair red or brown.
My cousin has red hair When I first started playing The Sims 3 I always gave my female Sims red hair
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
This hair looks AweSim!!!
I want Seasons and Island Paradise for The Sims 4!
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
So basically nobody knows what @SimGuruSteve really does at EA all day?
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
So basically nobody knows what @SimGuruSteve really does at EA all day?
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
I...have no idea what you're talking about! Sorry Your job sounds really exciting and super cool but I still don't know what exactly you do, I guess I'm with the other half of your team that don't know what you do
By the way, serious question @SimGuruSteve do you actually play The Sims when your supposed to be working? Or are you a hardcore worker and just get the job done?
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
So basically nobody knows what @SimGuruSteve really does at EA all day?
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
I was gonna say this sounds like something a sys admin would do (in my very limited understanding). I'm training this summer for Linux sys admin, starting with network basics right now. It's been very interesting but serious information overload.
Origin ID: ebuchala I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning psychopath. Reaper
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
So basically nobody knows what @SimGuruSteve really does at EA all day?
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
i'm so confused
but it sounds like a lot of coding to do. which is hard to do, well for me when i took a computer class in school
Been simming since the end of sims 2~Sims Gallery ID:BSAAWaifu
So @SimGuruSteve you make sure the servers at work have space on them and that the networks run smoothly? I honestly only really know about MySQL and even that is very limited and probably outdated by now. That and it was on a Windows system. I have no clue about how Linux even works. Can you even play Sims on Linux?
Also question for any of the SimGurus. A handful of us participate in picture threads such as "Fav Screenshots" and "Happy Play". Always wondered if you guys ever skim those. Just random curiosity.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
How difficult is it to say: ''Yes we are listening!''.
Come on, everyone can say that. I don't believe it, want to see my toddlers and family play first, since that's what the community screams since the game got released and we still got to see them................... so, listening? prove it.
Also agree with this. I have proof of them not listening.
Evidence A: Toddlers
We've been asking for toddlers for a year and a half now and we still have no toddlers. They haven't even mentioned them except for RF saying it was best not to put them to date.
Evidence B: Culling
We've been complaining about culling and they go ahead and introduce a new form of culling.
I have evidence all the way up to Z , but those are like the biggest ones.
This only proves that some fans are clearly not listening when they DO actually say something about these things.
When did we last hear about toddlers? I mean that interview would be worth reading if the questions were "are toddlers being worked on?" "Is it possible to have a semi open neighbourhood?" "Why are EPs taking so long?" "Whats the point of having GPs if they have less content than EPs yet take the same time in being released?"rather than "what's your favorite ice cream?"
This blog series is meant to give some insight into who the SimGuru's are and what their jobs are.
The questions you are asking aren't one's we would cover in this particular blog series.
Yet these are the questions we want answered The fact is, people who have been fans of The Sims for over 15 years are not playing this game at the moment. Case in point: myself. I want to play it... oh boy, do I want to be able to enjoy it, but I can't because my gameplay is not supported.
That is the sad truth.
To get the fans back, these are the questions you guys need to answer. These are the things that need to be addressed.
I don't mind waiting a while in between GPs and EPs, but it would sure be cool to know what was coming.
Again, for this particular blog series I wanted to focus on who the SimGurus are as individuals, and this is something that some fans do want to learn about. It may not be a blog series meant for everyone, nothing can ever really be for everyone, but it would be terrible of me as the Community Manager to only focus on one portion of the community and not look at the entire community (which is filled with individuals from many facets of life, with different interests, tastes, and play styles who are not only in the forums, but they run their own fansites, have youtube channels, are on social media, etc.)
The things you are wanting to learn wouldn't be in an interview blog series like this one. Does it mean those future related questions will never get answered? No. It just means that we don't have anything to say at the moment. As for the questions regarding the difference in packs, I can try to find the best person to help explain the pack difference to you in a much better way than I can.
In regards to your comment about your game play: are you referring to family play? What is missing for you (outside of Toddlers)? I'm aware that there are different threads on the different ways in which each person defines family play but I'd love to know what it is for you.
I totally understand what the focus of the blog series is about. It's great for simmers to be able to get to know the team making the game, and for you guys to be more active posting on here about stuff - it is fun, and exciting! The thing is, these questions have been glaring at us since the release of the game, so it is almost like "whoopdedoo" when I hear about new blog posts that have nothing to do with the issues I have in the game.
But thank you for answering, and yes I was referring to family play. (Sorry: long-ish post incoming)
Toddlers make up the bulk of what is missing for me both literally and figuratively. Toddlers represent progression and learning, and development of the sims. And those three things are what is missing in the game for me.
I enjoy developing sims from birth to death, generation to generation. Toddlers are a key development phase, where you teach them sims basic skills and get to know their personalities. It is very jarring to have a baby (and honestly, I don't really mind the babies in TS4, though it would be nice if my mothers could SIT to breast feed, or walk them to a change table to change a diaper) suddenly jump up into a fully functioning little sim. But this has all been said before (I know you've seen the family play thread!) so I will move on.
TS4 children are great. I like their interactions, and they are super adorable. But after putting hours and hours into developing my kids, having them learn skills, getting them to ask their parents funny questions... it all went poof. I felt like my gameplay meant nothing to them once they were a teenager. Their skills - gone. Their development - no effect on their personality. I understand if you get the skills up high enough they do make a difference, but only just.
Then teenagers. Let me say that for me, the teenagers were almost as disappointing as no toddlers. They have no IDENTITY. They have next to no unique interactions, they have no unique clothes or hairstyles, they are tall, they walk the same and talk the same. The whole issue everyone had with not being able to tell them apart from the young adults.... that just sums it up. There is nothing that sets teens apart in this game, makes them interesting to play and develop and grow.
By the time my sims got to full adults, I was like, "oh my goodness... here we go again???" because I felt like it was the third time I had played that particular life stage. Again, there was basically NO difference between my sim as a teenager, and my sim as a middle aged adult! Then eldership - again, no unique clothes. I preferred the elder life stage to the full adult stage because they at least looked and acted a LITTLE different, but it just felt like another repeat.
But honestly? I could probably overlook all my issues with teens/YAs/adults if I at least got to play with my sims as toddlers. That might sound sad, but it is the truth.
My absolute, number one, all time FAVOURITE sim family (of all time) is the Broke family from TS2. I loved the STRUGGLE of trying to raise those kids right and put a roof over their heads. Dustin had a real personality. The babies were such a challenge. I want to be able to recreate that and see where I can go in this new game... but I can't.
Again, thanks for responding to me. I hope that makes sense, and provides you Gurus with some useful feedback.
Whoa! I lived to see FIVE simgurus posting on the same thread in one day (correct me if any more wild gurus appeared in latter pages. I only got through page 10). I'm honoured. I feel like I've just witnessed a historical event.
@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru? this seems to be one of the best jobs in the world!
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful I've never seen that sort of blue before, but it looks awesome!
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
So basically nobody knows what @SimGuruSteve really does at EA all day?
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
Is your distro RHEL? Or is it some obscure distro? I can't imagine not recognising Linux, did you think it was Unix? Now I'm super curious... would love to see your environment
Why can't you just use virtualization and clone images to play around with optimisation?
I agree. Before, Gurus just seemed so one-dimensional, so it's good to see their other sides.
Agreed - that's one of the reasons I became a Guru. I don't actually do much with the game content, so I can't answer a lot of game questions - but I do like hanging around posting pictures and coercing some of the other Gurus into the spotlight sometimes. If you follow some of my twitter posts I don't actually talk about the game, but I do like to show off our events and the random daily stuff around the floor.
And with this blog and thread I feel like I know you and @SimGuruSteve a little better now! Perhaps even besties?
Yeah sure!
Fun fact: @SimGuruRusskii fist bumped me like that and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't actually watched Big Hero 6 until months after it was out.
"Buhduhduhduhdulump" I love Baymax.
@SimGuruSteve You mentioned you were more involved in the end product? What exactly do you do?
"Exactly"? Probably goes into way more detail than you'd ever want, but the gist of it is this.
Imagine that Art makes models and rigs and animations
Imagine that engineers (programmers) write code
And in a small aspect, the producers also edit tuning values, tag items, etc (everyone does more than that, but for these purposes let's leave it there)
Well I'm part of a 4 person team called "Configuration Management" (CM) or "Build engineering." We basically do everything after the code and raw assets.
We provide a space for storing the raw code/assets ("version control")
We provide the dev team with the tools/programs/environment to create/modify/write the assets/source code, etc
We use a large pool of machines that build the assets, compile the code, and put everything together. ("build engineering")
We built the systems that flag and alert people of failures when building said code/assets
We deal with how both our internal dev team and external QA access that build
I've mentioned before we kinda put the gift wrap around the game, as in a way we work on how to transport that game to you guys with a pretty bow.
Hopefully that's a non-technical way of describing at least some of what I do. Make sense?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
I'm a girl who likes to play with boys, what can I say...
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
I agree. Before, Gurus just seemed so one-dimensional, so it's good to see their other sides.
Agreed - that's one of the reasons I became a Guru. I don't actually do much with the game content, so I can't answer a lot of game questions - but I do like hanging around posting pictures and coercing some of the other Gurus into the spotlight sometimes. If you follow some of my twitter posts I don't actually talk about the game, but I do like to show off our events and the random daily stuff around the floor.
And with this blog and thread I feel like I know you and @SimGuruSteve a little better now! Perhaps even besties?
Yeah sure!
Fun fact: @SimGuruRusskii fist bumped me like that and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't actually watched Big Hero 6 until months after it was out.
"Buhduhduhduhdulump" I love Baymax.
@SimGuruSteve You mentioned you were more involved in the end product? What exactly do you do?
"Exactly"? Probably goes into way more detail than you'd ever want, but the gist of it is this.
Imagine that Art makes models and rigs and animations
Imagine that engineers (programmers) write code
And in a small aspect, the producers also edit tuning values, tag items, etc (everyone does more than that, but for these purposes let's leave it there)
Well I'm part of a 4 person team called "Configuration Management" (CM) or "Build engineering." We basically do everything after the code and raw assets.
We provide a space for storing the raw code/assets ("version control")
We provide the dev team with the tools/programs/environment to create/modify/write the assets/source code, etc
We use a large pool of machines that build the assets, compile the code, and put everything together. ("build engineering")
We built the systems that flag and alert people of failures when building said code/assets
We deal with how both our internal dev team and external QA access that build
I've mentioned before we kinda put the gift wrap around the game, as in a way we work on how to transport that game to you guys with a pretty bow.
Hopefully that's a non-technical way of describing at least some of what I do. Make sense?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
Yeah! So what is that you do as a SimGuru /Tech guy again?
I agree. Before, Gurus just seemed so one-dimensional, so it's good to see their other sides.
Agreed - that's one of the reasons I became a Guru. I don't actually do much with the game content, so I can't answer a lot of game questions - but I do like hanging around posting pictures and coercing some of the other Gurus into the spotlight sometimes. If you follow some of my twitter posts I don't actually talk about the game, but I do like to show off our events and the random daily stuff around the floor.
And with this blog and thread I feel like I know you and @SimGuruSteve a little better now! Perhaps even besties?
Yeah sure!
Fun fact: @SimGuruRusskii fist bumped me like that and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't actually watched Big Hero 6 until months after it was out.
"Buhduhduhduhdulump" I love Baymax.
@SimGuruSteve You mentioned you were more involved in the end product? What exactly do you do?
"Exactly"? Probably goes into way more detail than you'd ever want, but the gist of it is this.
Imagine that Art makes models and rigs and animations
Imagine that engineers (programmers) write code
And in a small aspect, the producers also edit tuning values, tag items, etc (everyone does more than that, but for these purposes let's leave it there)
Well I'm part of a 4 person team called "Configuration Management" (CM) or "Build engineering." We basically do everything after the code and raw assets.
We provide a space for storing the raw code/assets ("version control")
We provide the dev team with the tools/programs/environment to create/modify/write the assets/source code, etc
We use a large pool of machines that build the assets, compile the code, and put everything together. ("build engineering")
We built the systems that flag and alert people of failures when building said code/assets
We deal with how both our internal dev team and external QA access that build
I've mentioned before we kinda put the gift wrap around the game, as in a way we work on how to transport that game to you guys with a pretty bow.
Hopefully that's a non-technical way of describing at least some of what I do. Make sense?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
Yeah! So what is that you do as a SimGuru /Tech guy again?
Lol ikr, right up until this moment I had considered myself fairly intelligent!
I'm a girl who likes to play with boys, what can I say...
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
I agree. Before, Gurus just seemed so one-dimensional, so it's good to see their other sides.
Agreed - that's one of the reasons I became a Guru. I don't actually do much with the game content, so I can't answer a lot of game questions - but I do like hanging around posting pictures and coercing some of the other Gurus into the spotlight sometimes. If you follow some of my twitter posts I don't actually talk about the game, but I do like to show off our events and the random daily stuff around the floor.
And with this blog and thread I feel like I know you and @SimGuruSteve a little better now! Perhaps even besties?
Yeah sure!
Fun fact: @SimGuruRusskii fist bumped me like that and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't actually watched Big Hero 6 until months after it was out.
"Buhduhduhduhdulump" I love Baymax.
@SimGuruSteve You mentioned you were more involved in the end product? What exactly do you do?
"Exactly"? Probably goes into way more detail than you'd ever want, but the gist of it is this.
Imagine that Art makes models and rigs and animations
Imagine that engineers (programmers) write code
And in a small aspect, the producers also edit tuning values, tag items, etc (everyone does more than that, but for these purposes let's leave it there)
Well I'm part of a 4 person team called "Configuration Management" (CM) or "Build engineering." We basically do everything after the code and raw assets.
We provide a space for storing the raw code/assets ("version control")
We provide the dev team with the tools/programs/environment to create/modify/write the assets/source code, etc
We use a large pool of machines that build the assets, compile the code, and put everything together. ("build engineering")
We built the systems that flag and alert people of failures when building said code/assets
We deal with how both our internal dev team and external QA access that build
I've mentioned before we kinda put the gift wrap around the game, as in a way we work on how to transport that game to you guys with a pretty bow.
Hopefully that's a non-technical way of describing at least some of what I do. Make sense?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
Yeah! So what is that you do as a SimGuru /Tech guy again?
Lol ikr, right up until this moment I had considered myself fairly intelligent!
Oh don't worry about it. I was actually helping CLP out of jam that he unknowingly walked right into. CLP just used a word that's a racial slur use to describe people of African American descent where I live. And I had informed of that. So he's currently correcting that.
I agree. Before, Gurus just seemed so one-dimensional, so it's good to see their other sides.
Agreed - that's one of the reasons I became a Guru. I don't actually do much with the game content, so I can't answer a lot of game questions - but I do like hanging around posting pictures and coercing some of the other Gurus into the spotlight sometimes. If you follow some of my twitter posts I don't actually talk about the game, but I do like to show off our events and the random daily stuff around the floor.
And with this blog and thread I feel like I know you and @SimGuruSteve a little better now! Perhaps even besties?
Yeah sure!
Fun fact: @SimGuruRusskii fist bumped me like that and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't actually watched Big Hero 6 until months after it was out.
"Buhduhduhduhdulump" I love Baymax.
@SimGuruSteve You mentioned you were more involved in the end product? What exactly do you do?
"Exactly"? Probably goes into way more detail than you'd ever want, but the gist of it is this.
Imagine that Art makes models and rigs and animations
Imagine that engineers (programmers) write code
And in a small aspect, the producers also edit tuning values, tag items, etc (everyone does more than that, but for these purposes let's leave it there)
Well I'm part of a 4 person team called "Configuration Management" (CM) or "Build engineering." We basically do everything after the code and raw assets.
We provide a space for storing the raw code/assets ("version control")
We provide the dev team with the tools/programs/environment to create/modify/write the assets/source code, etc
We use a large pool of machines that build the assets, compile the code, and put everything together. ("build engineering")
We built the systems that flag and alert people of failures when building said code/assets
We deal with how both our internal dev team and external QA access that build
I've mentioned before we kinda put the gift wrap around the game, as in a way we work on how to transport that game to you guys with a pretty bow.
Hopefully that's a non-technical way of describing at least some of what I do. Make sense?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
Yeah! So what is that you do as a SimGuru /Tech guy again?
Lol ikr, right up until this moment I had considered myself fairly intelligent!
Oh don't worry about it. I was actually helping CLP out of jam that he unknowingly walked right into. CLP just used a word that's a racial slur use to describe people of African American descent where I live. And I had informed of that. So he's currently correcting that.
some of us didn't know 🐸🐸🐸🐸 was a racial slur. im just repeating it as the example. we use that for raccoon
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@SimGuruRomeo is so cute and he seems to be so fun! @SimGuruNinja, welcome to the forums! @SimGuruDrake, you are legendary and I want to know what color is your hair now! @SimGuruSteve and @SimGuruMegs, I barely know you (I barely know many of the gurus actually) and I hope to see you both more frequently. This applies to all the gurus! You all bring some fresh air to this forums.
Now goes my question... what should I do to become a SimGuru?
Is that what he does?
Maybe I'll just stick to my understanding of, "he do a thing and it make game go," which probably applies to everyone on the team
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I was wondering that
Also though it's great seeing so many Gurus posting here, I do have one question. Where is @SimGuruBChick ? It's so sad that she isn't posting anymore. She used to be one of my favourite Gurus and was posting with me and everyone every day! It would be great to see her return too
Matthew.
I imagine her hair red or brown.
My cousin has red hair
Matthew.
Aww thank you!
As for my hair color it is what I like to call "blue steel" and what some in the fashion world call "denim". Here is an idea of what the color looks like (this is not a photo of me!):
@SimGuruDrake your hair colour is very beautiful
Matthew.
This hair looks AweSim!!!
Just popping by to give you all some chocolate cake...YUM
Matthew.
Nice! Now I won't be surprised when I see that hair color bobbing around behind a cubicle wall.
It's all about confidence and convincing other people you're important! Seriously though, I'd bet half our own team isn't sure exactly what I do - but as long as they know what to contact us for, that's what matters!
Man, I tried to think of some analogy all morning. The best I could come up with is if you're working at a tshirt company. Yeah... I think that might make sense. Maybe. I'll come back and explain sometime.
But first, I gotta do some work this morning! I have to get this license server to run consistently on our second build coordinator so we can migrate the data and hopefully recover space during the MySQL database import. We're thinking it'll make the coordinator faster, but it'll also give us a backup to work on. This way we can wipe and spin back up the FIRST coordinator, migrate data BACK to it, then try some risky optimizations on it without completely bringing down our team's entire development pipeline.
No joke, that's exactly what I'm doing and not just throwing together a bunch of buzzwords.
(And the real irony is that it IS a unix linux system I'm working on and until a month ago I really DIDN'T know this.)
I...have no idea what you're talking about! Sorry
By the way, serious question @SimGuruSteve do you actually play The Sims when your supposed to be working? Or are you a hardcore worker and just get the job done?
Matthew.
I was gonna say this sounds like something a sys admin would do (in my very limited understanding). I'm training this summer for Linux sys admin, starting with network basics right now. It's been very interesting but serious information overload.
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i'm so confused
but it sounds like a lot of coding to do. which is hard to do, well for me when i took a computer class in school
SimGuruSteve's job sounds complicated.
That hair colour is cool, SimGuruDrake.
Also question for any of the SimGurus. A handful of us participate in picture threads such as "Fav Screenshots" and "Happy Play". Always wondered if you guys ever skim those. Just random curiosity.
I have no memory of this place. Time to start anew I guess
@SimGuruDrake Hi,
I totally understand what the focus of the blog series is about. It's great for simmers to be able to get to know the team making the game, and for you guys to be more active posting on here about stuff - it is fun, and exciting! The thing is, these questions have been glaring at us since the release of the game, so it is almost like "whoopdedoo" when I hear about new blog posts that have nothing to do with the issues I have in the game.
But thank you for answering, and yes I was referring to family play. (Sorry: long-ish post incoming)
Toddlers make up the bulk of what is missing for me both literally and figuratively. Toddlers represent progression and learning, and development of the sims. And those three things are what is missing in the game for me.
I enjoy developing sims from birth to death, generation to generation. Toddlers are a key development phase, where you teach them sims basic skills and get to know their personalities. It is very jarring to have a baby (and honestly, I don't really mind the babies in TS4, though it would be nice if my mothers could SIT to breast feed, or walk them to a change table to change a diaper) suddenly jump up into a fully functioning little sim. But this has all been said before (I know you've seen the family play thread!) so I will move on.
TS4 children are great. I like their interactions, and they are super adorable. But after putting hours and hours into developing my kids, having them learn skills, getting them to ask their parents funny questions... it all went poof. I felt like my gameplay meant nothing to them once they were a teenager. Their skills - gone. Their development - no effect on their personality. I understand if you get the skills up high enough they do make a difference, but only just.
Then teenagers. Let me say that for me, the teenagers were almost as disappointing as no toddlers. They have no IDENTITY. They have next to no unique interactions, they have no unique clothes or hairstyles, they are tall, they walk the same and talk the same. The whole issue everyone had with not being able to tell them apart from the young adults.... that just sums it up. There is nothing that sets teens apart in this game, makes them interesting to play and develop and grow.
By the time my sims got to full adults, I was like, "oh my goodness... here we go again???" because I felt like it was the third time I had played that particular life stage. Again, there was basically NO difference between my sim as a teenager, and my sim as a middle aged adult! Then eldership - again, no unique clothes. I preferred the elder life stage to the full adult stage because they at least looked and acted a LITTLE different, but it just felt like another repeat.
But honestly? I could probably overlook all my issues with teens/YAs/adults if I at least got to play with my sims as toddlers. That might sound sad, but it is the truth.
My absolute, number one, all time FAVOURITE sim family (of all time) is the Broke family from TS2. I loved the STRUGGLE of trying to raise those kids right and put a roof over their heads. Dustin had a real personality. The babies were such a challenge. I want to be able to recreate that and see where I can go in this new game... but I can't.
Again, thanks for responding to me. I hope that makes sense, and provides you Gurus with some useful feedback.
Is your distro RHEL? Or is it some obscure distro? I can't imagine not recognising Linux, did you think it was Unix? Now I'm super curious... would love to see your environment
Why can't you just use virtualization and clone images to play around with optimisation?
Just catching up with this thread... soooo...yeah...what did you say you did again? *scratches head*
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
Lol ikr, right up until this moment I had considered myself fairly intelligent!
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.
some of us didn't know 🐸🐸🐸🐸 was a racial slur. im just repeating it as the example. we use that for raccoon
“Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.”Will Wright.