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Cooking and Gardening are awesome
Stormkeep
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Just unlocked Gourmet Cooking (it is a separate skill from regular cooking, for those who did not know), lots of new recipes just from level 1 of it. As I had indicated in the past week or so in all of the "what are you going to do first" threads, I've been mostly focused on cooking and gardening in the 8+ hours I've played so far. Loving things so far. Best cooking/gardening skills in any Sims game to date.
My biggest issue with the game so far is that it is so challenging I actually set lifespan to long...I've never done that in a sims game before, but the challenge is high enough in terms of skill and career advancement that i was afraid my sim would get old and die before i set some time aside from skill/career and found him a wife.
My biggest issue with the game so far is that it is so challenging I actually set lifespan to long...I've never done that in a sims game before, but the challenge is high enough in terms of skill and career advancement that i was afraid my sim would get old and die before i set some time aside from skill/career and found him a wife.
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No grafting yet though, not that advanced in skill yet.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
It is the same exact kind of gameplay as any other sim game. I knew I would. I like that it seems more challenging too, although part of that is probably that i'm trying to grow more things than my sim really has time for.
Overall, it plays like a The Sims game, without the annoying glitches that TS3 had. I'm happy with it, and looking forward to where they take it over time with EP's, SP's, etc.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
The special moves are awesome but even more funny when they screw them up. My Sim did the fancy spice flipping thing, screwed it up, dropped it on the floor, flipped it again, dropped it in the pot and then looked around and tried to hide the fact that she screwed the WHOLE thing up. Many LOLs were had.
I believe Gourmet popped up at around 5 in normal cooking?
Oh thank you very much~! I bought the gourmet cooking book from the bookshelf and used that to level the gourmet cooking skill. I thought my game was broken... Your reply just gave me a sigh of relief! Thank you again!
My first sim just got to the top of the culinarian career last time I played, I was so happy! 2 more points left to get gourmet cooking to level 10 (regular cooking has been there for a while), and so looking forward to seeing what I unlock from it.
Happy Simming!
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
As for cooking, cooking is so much less boring. In TS3 I'd have my sim only cook the cheapest recipes over and over and over again until they were perfect. Now it's based on your cooking skill, the cooker itself, and you can save a bunch on ingredients by gathering them yourself. I get the option to "flavourise" the cooker too. Not sure if it improves meal quality like it implies or not, but it costs 10 simoleons and seems to last a while. She's level 8 or 9 in cooking now.
I'll post some pictures in a second.
I'm still at 9 gardening and just love the grafting though. I got my garden down to only 5 plants but am growing every single grow-able ingredient with those 5. I love that I can grow all the ingredients I need without having to spend a lot of time on the garden.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
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I love the gardening too. even the cooking. it was amazing. But I am wondering cause mine has not grafted yet, but was able to take samples of the different plants, if they did not have to be a bit scientific to get that. Still playing so maybe I will find out soon. But this is wonderful to see how others are enjoying this game as much as I am.
@whitknight26 Carl's Sims 4 guide shows all of this pretty well. http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/gardening/ It's still a work in progress, but it gives a lot of info to get you going
The gardening and cooking aspects of the game are refreshingly complex. I absolutely adore the grafting of plants and evolving them. The rewards for leveling the skill make it seem more worthwhile and well... rewarding. hahaha Truly enjoying it, but I have had to cheat a few times to fill my household needs and last night I even turned need decay off because I just wanted to finish collecting all the telescope pictures. LOL I haven't found an aspiration point cheat yet, or I would just load up on the bladder and hygiene traits. It's on my list of things to google today. lol
I completely did not notice that never weary one :O
And here I was just counting my points till I got 2k for the 🐸🐸🐸🐸 Steel Bladder perk that I used so much in Sims 3. Stupid bladder acting like it owns the joint all the time.
I also almost never use anything but normal speed (except for when Sims are asleep or at work). I just really like playing the game at a relaxed pace and watching my sims. I think that is why I like TS4 so much more than TS3. TS3 Sims were so bland and you have no choice but to fast-forward cause getting from place to place took so long.
It's nice having a Sims game that I can play the same way I played TS2 (or at least similarly). I expect to get 100-200 hours of playtime out of this game before needing an EP to add more stuff because of how I play it.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
My sim had a new recipe for every level of the cooking skill up to level 8, but no more after that.