It's good news to be certain, but I'm a little worried about just what bugs will be fixed. I really don't care what Sims are wearing, except my own. So, if that's all the team is focusing on, I will be extremely disappointed. What I would like to see fixed, finally, is the Detective Career! Or other real bugs in the game and not something so frivolous as a wardrobe mishap.
It's good news to be certain, but I'm a little worried about just what bugs will be fixed. I really don't care what Sims are wearing, except my own. So, if that's all the team is focusing on, I will be extremely disappointed. What I would like to see fixed, finally, is the Detective Career! Or other real bugs in the game and not something so frivolous as a wardrobe mishap.
I can't wait for the scale down feature, if we do get it, but I'm not optimistic about bug fixes with this patch. If we do get the scale down feature, culling options, and we get the roofs, I don't think the devs focus will be on bug fixes as they spent most of their time on those new features. I imagine we'll get small bug fixes at best.
It's good news to be certain, but I'm a little worried about just what bugs will be fixed. I really don't care what Sims are wearing, except my own. So, if that's all the team is focusing on, I will be extremely disappointed. What I would like to see fixed, finally, is the Detective Career! Or other real bugs in the game and not something so frivolous as a wardrobe mishap.
I can't wait for the scale down feature, if we do get it, but I'm not optimistic about bug fixes with this patch. If we do get the scale down feature, culling options, and we get the roofs, I don't think the devs focus will be on bug fixes as they spent most of their time on those new features. I imagine we'll get small bug fixes at best.
They've said there will be a lot of bug fixes but they didn't say what was getting fixed.
i like the elimination of culling. never had it happen to me, as i do my own culling before each play session, but it would be really upsetting if the game culled a sim i had spent months developing.
i'm also not real optimistic about what bugs will be fixed as i'm in agreement that a lot of time had to be already used developing these new features. but hey, fewer bugs are always a good thing.
Funny that this isnt even interesting anymore after using the MC commander for this last 3 years.. EA is far behind. Hope they at least fix some recent BIG bugs too and not wait again for years to fix it.
@GalacticGal I agree 100%. They already fixed the 1 game breaking bug that the Doctor Career had which was delivering a baby! They should definitely take a look at the Detective Career finally so that all 3 GTW careers will be playable again
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I have finally finished my Legacy Challenge , these are the Levis (numbered by Generation!) https://imgur.com/L3Q6aQZ
Great that they are finally addressing this issue but this doesn't solve the problem of random townies constantly being generated, which is just as annoying as culling in my opinion. I seriously hate it that I can't fully control the population of each world, and for the life of me I can't understand why in previous games they did the job filling thing fine without having the need to constantly generate permanent random sims. Just use the ones already created, or simply create one to fill that job at that time and then make them disappear, or at least put them on a "pool" that is not connected to the sims who live in that world, if that makes sense.
That's already the behavior in-game if you have a bigger played population than the culling cap. Hopefully it will be possible with the new culling too, so you could choose 50 Sims for example, tag all your played Sims as important, and the game will delete all the townies very frequently.
That makes sense. I never really played TS4 long enough to have a save reach that many sims, and I would have to have 180 sims marked as played for the game to supposedly stop both townie generation and culling, right? The problem being that culling isn't working like it's supposed to and still affects played households. I had my legacy sim get deleted once when playing rotational.
So if I'm understanding this right, with the new options it will be possible to fully control townie regeneration, as long as it works like it's supposed to. If I choose the 100 limit and create households of my own until it reaches 100 sims and mark all of them as favorite, then the game shouldn't cull anyone and stop generating more townies besides the ones needed for a particular job at a certain time.
@GalacticGal I agree 100%. They already fixed the 1 game breaking bug that the Doctor Career had which was delivering a baby! They should definitely take a look at the Detective Career finally so that all 3 GTW careers will be playable again
i agree as well. nothing worse than paying for something and then not have it work as intended. and it's been that way for months! i haven't bought an EP, SP, or GP since. i just don't have any faith that they will stand behind their product. my dad always told me not to throw good money after bad.
Gosh, you know I don't seem to be caught up in the whole culling madness. Either that, or I just didn't miss those Sims. I've never once lost one of my own Sims — now that I would notice. But, I've read plenty of threads where people complain, so I'm very glad EA is doing something about it. And I do very much appreciate them giving us the choice through a toggle. Those seemed to work well in Sims3.
Gosh, you know I don't seem to be caught up in the whole culling madness. Either that, or I just didn't miss those Sims. I've never once lost one of my own Sims — now that I would notice. But, I've read plenty of threads where people complain, so I'm very glad EA is doing something about it. And I do very much appreciate them giving us the choice through a toggle. Those seemed to work well in Sims3.
I think this effects rotational players the most. I'm a generational player and to be honest I haven't noticed the culling. My theory is that by playing rotational you have more sims created to fill the needs of each family where as I only have one household to generate them for. I think the more households you play the more issues you have of the game needing to make room for newly generated sims. This is just my theory though.
Gosh, you know I don't seem to be caught up in the whole culling madness. Either that, or I just didn't miss those Sims. I've never once lost one of my own Sims — now that I would notice. But, I've read plenty of threads where people complain, so I'm very glad EA is doing something about it. And I do very much appreciate them giving us the choice through a toggle. Those seemed to work well in Sims3.
I think this effects rotational players the most. I'm a generational player and to be honest I haven't noticed the culling. My theory is that by playing rotational you have more sims created to fill the needs of each family where as I only have one household to generate them for. I think the more households you play the more issues you have of the game needing to make room for newly generated sims. This is just my theory though.
I've noticed that too. Every time I switch a household around 20 new townies appear in the bin, similarly to when I visit a public lot. I used to sort of play rotationally with my legacy before but I had to give up, because even though I installed no culling mods I just couldn't deal with having to constantly delete useless townies So your theory is probably true. Culling wouldn't be so bad, it was designed to get rid of those townies so we don't have to manually delete them but as usual, it was a hot mess. They promised player created sims will remain untouched but didn't even give us a way to flag them just in case and it did not work at all.
I'm so glad they're finally letting people customize their population however they want.
now they need to make huge improvement of the traits system & the defintion of traits & i might be inclined to come back to playing this game again
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if the devs would add an option for LIMITED SPAWNING OF SIMS also, then the newly generated number of sims wouldn't run amok as warned, but that would be too much to ask to code, right ?
i won't be participating in the forums & the gallery anymore - thanks EA
There were two reasons I didn't want to get too deeply into a legacy in this game: Lack of toddlers, and culling. Culling that would delete the founders from the family tree at some point. I didn't want that. I didn't even know about MCCC at the time.
The lack of toddlers was corrected early this year, and soon, this other big flaw will be remedied? So that's great. I can't wait.
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I can't wait for the scale down feature, if we do get it, but I'm not optimistic about bug fixes with this patch. If we do get the scale down feature, culling options, and we get the roofs, I don't think the devs focus will be on bug fixes as they spent most of their time on those new features. I imagine we'll get small bug fixes at best.
They've said there will be a lot of bug fixes but they didn't say what was getting fixed.
i'm also not real optimistic about what bugs will be fixed as i'm in agreement that a lot of time had to be already used developing these new features. but hey, fewer bugs are always a good thing.
I have finally finished my Legacy Challenge , these are the Levis (numbered by Generation!)
https://imgur.com/L3Q6aQZ
That makes sense. I never really played TS4 long enough to have a save reach that many sims, and I would have to have 180 sims marked as played for the game to supposedly stop both townie generation and culling, right? The problem being that culling isn't working like it's supposed to and still affects played households. I had my legacy sim get deleted once when playing rotational.
So if I'm understanding this right, with the new options it will be possible to fully control townie regeneration, as long as it works like it's supposed to. If I choose the 100 limit and create households of my own until it reaches 100 sims and mark all of them as favorite, then the game shouldn't cull anyone and stop generating more townies besides the ones needed for a particular job at a certain time.
i agree as well. nothing worse than paying for something and then not have it work as intended. and it's been that way for months! i haven't bought an EP, SP, or GP since. i just don't have any faith that they will stand behind their product. my dad always told me not to throw good money after bad.
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I think this effects rotational players the most. I'm a generational player and to be honest I haven't noticed the culling. My theory is that by playing rotational you have more sims created to fill the needs of each family where as I only have one household to generate them for. I think the more households you play the more issues you have of the game needing to make room for newly generated sims. This is just my theory though.
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I've noticed that too. Every time I switch a household around 20 new townies appear in the bin, similarly to when I visit a public lot. I used to sort of play rotationally with my legacy before but I had to give up, because even though I installed no culling mods I just couldn't deal with having to constantly delete useless townies
I'm so glad they're finally letting people customize their population however they want.
This has to be the best news I have heard about this game so far. Options...I love OPTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Add Manage Neighbourhood Options - assign your own Sim to NPC jobs!
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Distinguish Elder gameplay with Elder-only reward traits
Filter Rugs by Room Size
Now if they invented a townie-killer, I'd buy that!
at least one good thing happening with TS4
now they need to make huge improvement of the traits system & the defintion of traits & i might be inclined to come back to playing this game again
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if the devs would add an option for LIMITED SPAWNING OF SIMS also, then the newly generated number of sims wouldn't run amok as warned, but that would be too much to ask to code, right ?
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These links explain about culling
http://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2016/06/culling-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-do/
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/15366867/#Comment_15366867
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
http://tinyurl.com/OneRoomOneWeek
http://tinyurl.com/rosemow
My Showcase thread https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/948861/rosemow-s-rooms-showcase
The lack of toddlers was corrected early this year, and soon, this other big flaw will be remedied? So that's great. I can't wait.
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