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Do you like or dislike this expansion pack? Why?
Marycool33
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I LOVE this EP. It is so much fun! I love Windenburg and I really like the new clothes! There's just always something going on and it's truly fun. I feel like a lot of people on the YouTube trailers were leaving some pretty negative comments about the EP but I think it turned out great. What do you think?
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However, the true potential of Get Together can be seen in making clubs for uncontrolled/unplayed sims. Seeing the sims you put in town hanging out together and doing what they're supposed to is absolutely amazing, perfect for storytelling and it adds a whole new lever of immersion in a way that hadn't been possible in the game until now. Nothing beats running into an unplayed family in the park grilling and eating together as a family, it really makes them feel like a real family. Clubs also add a whole new dimension to venues. For example, I have the supporters of FC Windenburg gather at the same pub, play bar games and watch the game. I even managed to make a small band that plays almost every night at The Blue Velvet, it's really nice to see them play when I take my sims parents on a date.
> Windenburg is the most beautiful world ever made in The Sims series, the cafes resemble more italian espresso bars than that overrated coffee chain (that's a giant plus for me), the new venues are fantastic and as Luth said, I can't even fathom how I played without the club system.
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> However, the true potential of Get Together can be seen in making clubs for uncontrolled/unplayed sims. Seeing the sims you put in town hanging out together and doing what they're supposed to is absolutely amazing, perfect for storytelling and it adds a whole new lever of immersion in a way that hadn't been possible in the game until now. Nothing beats running into an unplayed family in the park grilling and eating together as a family in the park, it really makes them feel like a real family. Clubs also add a whole new dimension to venues. For example, I have the supporters of FC Windenburg gather at the same pub, play bar games and watch the game. I even managed to make a small band that plays almost every night at The Blue Velvet, it's really nice to see them play when I take my sims parents on a date.
Woah! Awesome! I never thought of making a club that supports a soccer team or a band! Now that I think about it, this is actually a great idea. I agree with everything you said!
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Not to be rude but to point out I see nothing in your pictures you couldn't do with the group system (invite others when traveling) that was already in game. Because even with the EP GT in game you still can't make a group of Sims all sit and stay put and eat together. Not if you have more than the chairs needed. And I see nothing in those pictures (other than a club symbol over heads) that couldn't be done before if taken to particular lots.
Thanks to the club system I can dictate the behavior of sims I am not playing at the moment to make them do what I want, where I want. For example, if I take my (controlled) sims to Die Mannschaft pub I will see a club gathering of FC Windenburg, entirely made up of unplayed sims (not being controlled by me) hanging out together doing their club approved activities, which in this case consists of playing Tischfußball.
You can make a group of sims sit and eat together. I see that every time I take my to Willow Creek's park. Bottom-left picture in my original post shows the Mustangs, a family club of friendly sims who like to eat and grill. That's another one of my uncontrolled (as in not being actively controlled by me, the simmer) clubs and whenever I see them in a gathering they'll be siting at the same bench and would only leave when they need to grill more food and then they will sit back together.
We may have been able to make our sims guide uncontrolled sims before if they were in the same group controlled by the player. However, Get Together's club is a very powerful system that gives us a very versatile tool to customize the behavior of non-actively-played sims and shape venues to our liking. Thanks to that now one of my lounges has a secret basement that works as a hideout for a criminal gang who plays cards, families not being played by me hang out together doing activities that they enjoy, my teens are harassed by a group of police officers whenever they hang out in the park late at night, I see fit female sims practicing Yoga at the spa instead of freaking Bob Pancakes and The Blue Velvet almost feels like it has a live music act. The best thing of all? They do all of this on their own.
You actually gave me a brilliant idea. I could make an ''Independent Workers'' club and have everyone in it make money without joining a career.
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:O I actually didn't know about those specific texts! I haven't had any losses or birthdays because I'm currently playing with a young adult household that just wants to have fun, so I'm not aging them up right now. Knowing those texts are a thing just make the EP even better in my eyes!
The game is too focused on clubs and I would also like something a little more like Nightlife in TS2 or Late Night in TS3. I know the idea is different since you can go with your club members anywhere anytime, but all club parties are at night. Also I don't like when its afternoon and a sim calls you and say 'Hey! Tonight there's a X party at Y place! Wanna come?' and when you accept the offer, it's night. What happened to all the hours left to be night!?
Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things I like about Get Together! Windenburg is beautiful, new objects (cloth and furniture) are cool as well or as @Acatsimmer says I like how they send you messages to your sim's phone. It's just the feeling that this EP lacks of something to make it great to me.
I'm very happy with this pack because of the new clubs feature and how you can individualize clubs in so many ways to make them truly unique. You can start/stop them whenever and wherever you are, and get neat rewards from the points. Windenburg adds so many new places to go and to live and it's so beautiful! I love the Sea Monster (of course I always have since Sims 1 days).
I actually strongly agree with some of the things you said! I love this expansion pack but that whole party thing should be better. We should be able to accept the invite and then, after those hours we currently just miss when going to a party, it would tell us the party is starting and then we could just go there or risk having our friend be upset that we falsely accepted or something.
Also, I think people expected this expansion to be more like Nightlife/Late Night and be the "social life" expansion pack and it just doesn't live up to those at all.
So overall, I really dislike Get Together, but I do appreciate Windenburg.