To me it seems like a great addition. I will not be using it all the time, but I will be using it. It reminds of SimCity, where you can start of with a blank slate or with a scenario. And it gives you the possibility to influence the scenario you start out with by giving you a little quiz. I don't see anything wrong with that.
I voted yes because of the question: the STORIES seems useless. The "beginner's quiz" thing? Sure, if you don't want / don't know how create a Sim... why not. Makes it easier to do say a "Random challenge family" or something.
When I watched the stream I thought it was weird to do the quiz before the appearance or even the sex of the sim, but at least this way we can start again if we dislike the result, without losing the appearance.
Do we know if the quiz affect sims created in the creative a relative tool, or is it soley for sims created entirely from scratch? Just wondering how it will work if I create adult siblings.
I love the idea, especially for making adult and elder sims. It's the most annoying thing to make a middle-age sim who starts off with no skills and no career history, like they've been living in a bubble for 40 years. It's such a chore to decide and then cheat in all of the personality and life experience they should have. So this feature will be very useful for me.
I hope it will also take into account an imagined childhood, like giving the gifted traits they might have earned from childhood aspirations, or if you have parenthood installed, maybe some character traits they would have earned from aging up to adulthood.
I'm excited for it! Not necessarily for main Sims but when I need some side characters or feel like creating some interesting townies this can help speed up the process.
It's something different and I always love when the team tries something new. Also it's optional so if you don't want to use it, you don't have too.
I voted yes because of the question: the STORIES seems useless.
I think a lot of people are focusing on using it for creating interesting townies which is totally fine. To me, the stories are useless in that they don't add anything to your Sims. A couple skill points and a potential career just doesn't seem like a big deal but I guess it is for a lot of simmers. I just don't get the purpose of it I guess... haha
It's much more direct, and faster, to make your own choices from the get go Many of the questions shown I find irrelevant to sim making, and in any case there were not enough options. Again, EA deciding what sort of sims we should make and nudging us along in that direction. We need more layers of what makes a sim a sim, not yet another way to stir a shallow puddle.
Not going to make a whit of difference to me, except for the chance that it'll make another aspect of the game buggier! I would much rather the devs had spent time working on new gameplay, please and thank you! I'd like my sims to be able to do more things; for me that'd be far more valuable. YMMV.
I love it actually. When I create a sim I usually end up choosing the same things, so the recent randomize button was a little of what I needed to go for traits I never use. But there was no chance to randomize aspirations in game. And this Cas Stories sounds great. It randomizes everything and even gives a few skills, starting funds and a job. It's a great way to get out of my own comfort zone and play the job that was given via cas stories because as everything else I tend to go for the same things xD
I think it is a good addition for those who tend to get stuck in a bit of a rut and find themselves using a small combination of the the same few traits and aspirations. I tend to use the same traits and aspirations and if I use the randomiser still changing the traits to my usual ones.
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I think it's going to be a fun feature to play around with. The only thing I wish, we could pick to do it before or after creating the sim. Most times, who my sim is doesn't come to me until I'm actually creating them. So as I make them, their story starts to develop in my mind. So I'd prefer to be able to do the sim stories after creating my sim.
I love it actually. When I create a sim I usually end up choosing the same things, so the recent randomize button was a little of what I needed to go for traits I never use. But there was no chance to randomize aspirations in game. And this Cas Stories sounds great. It randomizes everything and even gives a few skills, starting funds and a job. It's a great way to get out of my own comfort zone and play the job that was given via cas stories because as everything else I tend to go for the same things xD
This is exactly why I can't wait for Cas Stories! I probably won't use it every time I create a new Sim, but I think I'll use it a lot. Very excited!
How about releasing that patch that sets default Feeling to Fine instead of Happy? Would suddenly make the Feelings system more relevant since you MIGHT have to do something more to make your fresh widower go into the room with the expensive stereo to make him happy...
It will be good for those Simmers who want to use it and at least you can still use the prior CAS like he said. I personally prefer the CAS as it is. Yet, I will try it at least a couple of times out of curiosity.
I'm not sure that giving your sim some sort of background is any more useless than creating a blank-slate sim that has evidently lived up to the age of majority without attaining any skills in their world.
I think I'd like it more if it let you choose the preconditions, rather than leaving them to randomly generated quiz questions. Especially since it's more you answering, than the sim. And you might not have a solid handle on them yet.
You can't go back and change the answer. AND you can't edit the results. Which is not smart. You could end up hating the sim, but love their look. And then have to play long enough to cheat clear them. Or use that reward option.
It's like they half listened to what people wanted, and then did their own thing.
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To me it feels rather useless for the main reason that the traits and aspiration are locked. I think it would be a very useful starting point to create sims if I could tweak their traits a bit more after the quiz.
I can see myself using it for background characters / extras in my stories but I prefer full control on the creation of my main sim. I will keep using cheats if I want to change their starting conditions. Although most of the times the cheats I use are meant to reduce starting money and delete skills from gallery sims.
If maxis unlocks the traits after the quiz and I will change my answer to useful and use it a lot.
To me it feels rather useless for the main reason that the traits and aspiration are locked. I think it would be a very useful starting point to create sims if I could tweak their traits a bit more after the quiz.
I can see myself using it for background characters / extras in my stories but I prefer full control on the creation of my main sim. I will keep using cheats if I want to change their starting conditions. Although most of the times the cheats I use are meant to reduce starting money and delete skills from gallery sims.
If maxis unlocks the traits after the quiz and I will change my answer to useful and use it a lot.
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Although I like this feature, I’m sure that people will get tired of those questions very soon.
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I hope it will also take into account an imagined childhood, like giving the gifted traits they might have earned from childhood aspirations, or if you have parenthood installed, maybe some character traits they would have earned from aging up to adulthood.
It's something different and I always love when the team tries something new. Also it's optional so if you don't want to use it, you don't have too.
It’s a good feature for the simmers who want this.
I think a lot of people are focusing on using it for creating interesting townies which is totally fine. To me, the stories are useless in that they don't add anything to your Sims. A couple skill points and a potential career just doesn't seem like a big deal but I guess it is for a lot of simmers. I just don't get the purpose of it I guess... haha
This is exactly how I feel!
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This is exactly why I can't wait for Cas Stories! I probably won't use it every time I create a new Sim, but I think I'll use it a lot. Very excited!
You can't go back and change the answer. AND you can't edit the results. Which is not smart. You could end up hating the sim, but love their look. And then have to play long enough to cheat clear them. Or use that reward option.
It's like they half listened to what people wanted, and then did their own thing.
I can see myself using it for background characters / extras in my stories but I prefer full control on the creation of my main sim. I will keep using cheats if I want to change their starting conditions. Although most of the times the cheats I use are meant to reduce starting money and delete skills from gallery sims.
If maxis unlocks the traits after the quiz and I will change my answer to useful and use it a lot.
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