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Can you not mess up magic please?
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Like you do everything else?
- I want my witches/mages to have disciplines that they can specialize/master in.
- Schools and universities they can attend like Harry Potter and The Magicians, complete with houses.
- Not all witches have to use wands. Make hand casting an option
- Actual fatal spells and combat magic.
- Black and white magic should be separate skills. Or make them perk trees. Please don’t just lump these spells into “Spellcasting”.
Also please don’t just create a “pretty” empty world with some shallow skill and call it a day. Put some effort for once. Don’t know why this isn’t an expansion pack, island living should’ve been the game pack. It essentially amounted to a PSA and some SJW’s agenda. Realm of Magic has the potential to have so much more depth!
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- I want my witches/mages to have disciplines that they can specialize/master in.
- Schools and universities they can attend like Harry Potter and The Magicians, complete with houses.
- Not all witches have to use wands. Make hand casting an option
- Actual fatal spells and combat magic.
- Black and white magic should be separate skills. Or make them perk trees. Please don’t just lump these spells into “Spellcasting”.
Also please don’t just create a “pretty” empty world with some shallow skill and call it a day. Put some effort for once. Don’t know why this isn’t an expansion pack, island living should’ve been the game pack. It essentially amounted to a PSA and some SJW’s agenda. Realm of Magic has the potential to have so much more depth!
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What does a magic pack even got to do with SJWs anyways? Packs like this existed since Sims 1, long before SJWs. Why even make it political? That's just weird.
Lets make this a reality!
Re-read what I wrote?
And I never called Realm of Magic a SJW PSA.......
.... What?
2. What is a PSA (google says it stands for Prostate-specific antigen but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you meant)?
3. How was Island Living “a PSA and some SJW’s agenda”?
4. Other than those points on which I am confused, I agree with your sentiment. I like the idea of more gameplay in Realm of Magic and Magic universities/schools would be fun (though I doubt we’ll get them).
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Not sure how they’d do that for a magic pack though. Interesting scenario lol
I get it’s a hot button issue but there’s no need to put it in a SIMS game. Must be the reason why we don’t have cars, fossil fuels and gasoline powered cars destroy the environment so they shouldn’t be in the sims!
So... you're mad because Sulani is a livable world and not just a vacation world like Selvadorada or the camp ground? And because they introduced new game play with could help younger simmers understand the importance of taking care of the world?
.... Oooookay then.
That is the job of their parents and the education system, not a video game. Running a resort and staying at a hotel is new gameplay.
No, they have a point. The Sims team, recently, has been making decisions based on what they want in the game, not what we want. (Grant and dog houses or the pride content, for example) We could argue all day on environmentalism and whether it's worth paying attention to, but that isn't the point of the thread. The OP is asking that the Sims team doesn't push agendas, send messages, regardless of whether they're good or not, etc onto people because nobody plays the Sims to be taught about anything. I play TS3 to explore my Sim's story and TS4 to watch them do stupid things and maybe take a few screenshots. Not to hear "we shoulds" or "we shouldn'ts". I don't play videogames to hear about politics or "important" issues. Do you?
It is also not the job of the Sims team or anybody else for that matter to say what kids should consider to be important or unimportant simply because the children of consumers are NOT the children of Maxis and EA. Nobody is going to tell my own kid (if I had one) that environmentalism should be something paying attention to because I, myself, haven't decided that yet. Who are they to tell your children what you should think about the world?
The Sims is a (at least, it is now) medium, for them, to push messages that they think is right. Dog houses are evil, LGBT pride is great, etc. They can't tell my kids that, I'll tell them what I think (not what they should think) about those topics, regardless of whether I agree with those sentiments or not so that they can form their own opinions. Fundamentally, it's indoctrination. And it shouldn't be in a videogame.
Granted, I'm unsure how such messages could be pushed through magic, but I am inclined to agree. Although I don't see why Island Living essentially amounted to PSA and SJW stuff because it's very easy to ignore it in the first place. It's a part of it, but not the complete essence of the pack. Personally, I forgot you could clean up the island because the game fails at giving you reasons to do anything, but I digress...
The quotes implies the OP stated that in the first place when they never did. In fact, there isn't even an edited note anywhere in their posts. Seems very unusual to use quotes and at the same time, put words into their mouth. Contradictory, even. Also, it's irrelevant and off-topic. We're not talking about that specifically, are we?
Excluding everything said above, they've a point with the original topic. I'm tired of lazy, uninspired, half-baked content. We'll see if RoM is any different.
I 100% agree with you. I didn't want the Pride stuff and some people have even suggested disabilities being introduced.
I think we have enough of this in our real lives.
Sims could always be lgbt, we didn't need an education on it and I think disabilities is a bit insulting and patronising for people with real disabilities, I hope it is never introduced.
We know we need to look after the planet, we don't need EA to teach us or ram it down our throats..
Hand magic should be default. Wands should be optional, tools at best, to cast spells that require, more energy. Like Opening portals, Mass weather spells, Moving the cosmos, Should require magic wands.
I agree with Fatal Spells and combat spells.
No Alignments Dark Magic is not linked to Being Evil, and Light magic is not linked to being good.
Good People know how to Hate, and Evil People know Love.
They Should Make Each Type of magic a Skill and if they did a Perk Tiers, then they Sims can use Magic Points (MP) to unlock those spells.
Mysticism Costs 1 MP
Teleportation Costs 5 MP
Transformation & Glamour Costs 10 MP
Light Magic Costs 20 MP
Dark Magic Costs 20 MP
Elemental Magic Costs 25 MP
Alchemy Costs 30 Mp
Enchanting Costs 30 MP
Summoning & Conjuring Costs 35 MP
Prophecy Costs 40 MP
Forbidden Magic Costs 50 MP
- Heart Rip - Ripping out another's Heart, and forcing your will over theirs - the ultimate Love Spell/Voodoo Doll. As long as you hold the hearts of the people in your hands, you will always be loved.
- Necromancy - Successfully bring back the dead or risk
- Time Travel - Not that it can't be done... it shouldn't be done... but Who am I to tell you what to do!
On the condition Perks Tiers, or perk trees are non Linear. You don't need to unlock a Skill in tier 2, to get to Tier 3.
In doing so they should also do what they did in Cats and Dogs, different Breeds of Practitioners of Magic.
Like Dogs: Huskies, Corgis, Terriers, Golden Retrievers, German Shepards, Bloodhounds and many more.
Same with Magic Users: Witches, Wiccans, Wizards, Enchanters, Alchemists, Summoners, Druids, Prophets, Sorcerers
with the option to rename the Life State, As we can rename breeds.
That's basically what I think they should have done since Sims Supernatural.
My Mood:
PSA= Public Service Announcement
Well said! Honestly, it's EA we're talking about. Had they ever campaign themselves to clean the ocean? I would have more incentive to listen for a company that does just that, because they're believable and would partake in the cause to support that they themselves are a good example of it.
Even when they're trying to spread a message of how serious global warning is... they better off reflecting it by showing the consequences of it. What's bad in it If my Sims didn't decide to pick the beaches? Does that deter Sims from coming because of the stench? How much does it influence the environment so it outweighs positive outcomes, that would give initiative for a player to care about the trash and most importantly be provoked to think what it entails in real life? If Maxis is gonna turn TS4 into a learning tool like Captain Planet, they better go by doing it further and not half-🐸🐸🐸🐸 it. The execution of this addition has a lot of room for improvement, but as it currently stances - it doesn't make a great tool since it's not deep enough to be accurate nor engaging.
I suppose I see your point since if they're going to try to make Simmers care about the environment, then executing it in a way where there are no severe consequences in the game defeats the purpose and accomplishes nothing except the opposite of what they "wanted". Which is people not caring about the environment. That is true. But if they did it correctly, I would still be against it for attempting to make the public think a certain way, despite the majority of people (especially children when it comes to the Sims) never taking the time to properly educate themselves in topics without preconcieved worldviews and biases.
Even with your global warming example, I would be against that because global warming doesn't exist. Therefore, they would be indoctrinating others into something that's the equivalent of chasing unicorns and midget, diaper-wearing cyclopes with fairy wings. Now we could go back and forth on global warming itself (if it didn't threaten the thread being closed down), but regardless of who is correct on that, my ultimate point is that I don't want the Sims team trying to teach people in "issues" they think is important. Especially since in my eyes, they often teach or try to teach the wrong conclusion.
Even if they taught something that was completely true, I would still be against it on the basis of trying to influence the thinking of others, especially children. Let games be games. Not beds of persuasion.