"They advance when they go to work. Every time they go to work, the colorful bar thingy when it goes right,
my Sim is promoted even without completing the career requirements."
THAT is what I was referring to.
I then mentioned that my sims have to do certain actions to get ahead.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
"They advance when they go to work. Every time they go to work, the colorful bar thingy when it goes right,
my Sim is promoted even without completing the career requirements."
THAT is what I was referring to.
I then mentioned that my sims have to do certain actions to get ahead.
The performance bar goes right even if my Sims haven't completed any actions/requirements.
Then it has a bigger problem if you are saying your Sim still advances though they didn't fulfill their daily requirements....no failure? again?
But as far as references to TSM, even the wording is the same...Focused, Inspired etc. Along with 'two daily tasks' which was a requirement of the Sim hero (no matter which one) in the TSM for their daily duties for 'their' jobs. How you can't see that boggles my mind. Done been there, bought and paid for TSM years ago...no need to buy another similar game. When they go back to a true life simulator for this game and wash all this other genre out of it, I may reconsider it.
No problems with my game. My sims still advance and I don't mind what so ever. XD
Ohh... Those like moodlet emotion things? Why didn't you say so? I don't consider those emotions, I considered them moodlets. XD
What the? Cinebar never said that, YOU did:
colton147
5:31PM
The wishes, aspirations, and requirements do not help with my Sims careers.
They advance when they go to work. Every time they go to work, the colorful bar thingy when it goes right,
my Sim is promoted even without completing the career requirements.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
The performance bar goes right even if my Sims haven't completed any actions/requirements.
And that is why I said: "Really. Then your game is buggy wrong."
Because your game should not do that; others games do not do that, it wasn't programmed to do that.
I hope that clears up any confusion.
Promotions in my game are hard to get too.
They don't get promoted every time they come home. They are promoted perhaps like maybe three-to-five days (with or without completing the requirements).
Sims Medieval went on being too repetitive with the system of getting things done by doing the same "quest" over and over.
And instead of just adding about 100 new quests in the expansion so people don't get bored... Only that. Nothing else.
No. They added "dig treasure 2756358734523 times" achievement.
Of course such game died.
Sadly Sims 4 copied the worst part from it - too much of grinding in many areas.
In fact this is why I got bored (and annoyed) by S4 so quickly: the repetition.
I think I could like achievements in a game, even if that means it's less of a sandbox.
But right from the start I had to do repetitive things. Buy toys (there wasn't a child in the house), buy musical instruments, flirt three times, give five compliments, whatever.
That's just not the kind of achievements I'm looking for, there's no challenge in that.
It's not going to fail, sorry for those haters who just can't stop wishing this game doom. The game is still selling well on the charts. Every time I look on youtube for sims video uploads daily it's always Sims 4 not Sims 2 or Sims 3. As much as the haters gonna hate, there is more than enough people who love this game and will keep it going. Bring on the EP!
I feel the TSM failed because we wanted what was in that game for our actual sims game. I know for a fact i did not get that or any of EA's stand alone sims games because I wanted those as an ep. Like Castaway Sims was the same thing. If I was offered it as an ep - would have bought them all in a heartbeat - questing or no questing. Many of my friends and I talked about this and many agreed. Of my close simming friends I know of only 4 that bought that game. But being a separate sims game made it as appealing as sour milk in my view. Which is saying a lot seeing i love the medieval time period and love pirates - both of which the game had - it's only problem was it was a separate game and not for MY sims game. Now if they ever made it work with my existing sims game - I'd be first in line to buy it. Just like i bought all stuff packs and eps and store content EA made for all the sims games - i would have gotten that one - but nope they choose to make it a separate game - so i choose to ignor it just as I ignor My Sims games, console games versions (hate consoles period), and any Sims type game that will not work in my playing sims game.
I also do not see Sims 4 failing like people try to say it will seeing it was #1 in UK, Germany, and other countries just on the physical copies alone. We have no clue the numbers of downloaded versions - but I do know a large percentage went the download this time around. But EA is not known to release Origin or other download figures - so guess we won't know the actual figures unless they do. I hardly know anyone in my family now who has not "caved" - even the 5 college students who were adament they would not be getting the game 2 weeks ago, have gotten it - when before they were content to either not getting it period or waiting until Christmas at least. Well - they caved.
ETA -One other thing - EA owns Maxis - Maxis cannot go anywhere because they are part of EA period.
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I didn't read all of the previous posts, but the digging for items and harvesting plants is very like TSM. I know collecting was in TS3 too, but whenever I send my Sims out to dig and harvest a lot, it reminds me of the way I played TSM. I can see how work progress is similar to daily tasks in TSM, but I'd never thought of it before. In TSM you had tasks you had to do each day for your job, just like the daily task for TS4. But the games are all Sims games and TSM was meant to feel like a sims game so it's not surprising that they're similar. As far as the OP idea that there would only be on EP, I don't think so. I don't think they'll give up on TS4 that easily.
I think you are seriously over-estimating how bad this game is if you think it's not going to last past one expansion. It really is a great sims game if you give it a chance. It's just different is all, it's not bad.
Besides, Sims 3 got just as much hate as Sims 4 when it first came out, but it still lived to see a ton of expansions. Sims 4 will too.
Metacritic says otherwise on the 'hate' part. Sims 3 has an aggregate 86% (reviewers) to Sims 4 70%, 7.5 for Sims 3 on user reviews to a 3.7 for Sims 4. Good reviews do not a good game make, but it seems to me that there's quite a bit more hate for Sims 4. Either that, or it's really not that good (or maybe just not better than was Sims 3). I can't say, as I have yet to play it, but I don't like a lot of what I've heard.
I agree, though: it's waayy to early to predict what will happen with Sims 4. EA could fix the glaring issues and create some amazing content. Or not. Time will tell.
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Try reading what I quoted you:
"They advance when they go to work. Every time they go to work, the colorful bar thingy when it goes right,
my Sim is promoted even without completing the career requirements."
THAT is what I was referring to.
I then mentioned that my sims have to do certain actions to get ahead.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
The performance bar goes right even if my Sims haven't completed any actions/requirements.
What the? Cinebar never said that, YOU did:
colton147
5:31PM
The wishes, aspirations, and requirements do not help with my Sims careers.
They advance when they go to work. Every time they go to work, the colorful bar thingy when it goes right,
my Sim is promoted even without completing the career requirements.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
And that is why I said: "Really. Then your game is buggy wrong."
Because your game should not do that; others games do not do that, it wasn't programmed to do that.
I hope that clears up any confusion.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
I like how it is already. :P
I'm still confused... but I also haven't read any of your comments
Promotions in my game are hard to get too.
They don't get promoted every time they come home. They are promoted perhaps like maybe three-to-five days (with or without completing the requirements).
Babies everywhere, thank you shadow cat.
I wish they had made more EPs for it.
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I wish they had made more EPs for it. It is a beautiful and hilarious game.
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I think I could like achievements in a game, even if that means it's less of a sandbox.
But right from the start I had to do repetitive things. Buy toys (there wasn't a child in the house), buy musical instruments, flirt three times, give five compliments, whatever.
That's just not the kind of achievements I'm looking for, there's no challenge in that.
"Im gunna get medieval on yer 🐸🐸🐸🐸"
whenever I see medieval
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
I also do not see Sims 4 failing like people try to say it will seeing it was #1 in UK, Germany, and other countries just on the physical copies alone. We have no clue the numbers of downloaded versions - but I do know a large percentage went the download this time around. But EA is not known to release Origin or other download figures - so guess we won't know the actual figures unless they do. I hardly know anyone in my family now who has not "caved" - even the 5 college students who were adament they would not be getting the game 2 weeks ago, have gotten it - when before they were content to either not getting it period or waiting until Christmas at least. Well - they caved.
ETA -One other thing - EA owns Maxis - Maxis cannot go anywhere because they are part of EA period.
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Agree. It's either going to be Wow! So much content and interesting things! Or, Meh...
Metacritic says otherwise on the 'hate' part. Sims 3 has an aggregate 86% (reviewers) to Sims 4 70%, 7.5 for Sims 3 on user reviews to a 3.7 for Sims 4. Good reviews do not a good game make, but it seems to me that there's quite a bit more hate for Sims 4. Either that, or it's really not that good (or maybe just not better than was Sims 3). I can't say, as I have yet to play it, but I don't like a lot of what I've heard.
I agree, though: it's waayy to early to predict what will happen with Sims 4. EA could fix the glaring issues and create some amazing content. Or not. Time will tell.