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Bye sweetcheecks. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Wow!!!
I don't hate any Sims Game. I am only disappointed in Sims 4 that it lacks so much content from the previous Sims 3 Base Game. I am disappointed that this Game had cost me 80 Euro and lacks exactly my Content that i need to enjoy my Playstyle of playing the Sims. I am disappointed that they took so much money from me over the 14 years and i get only a half baked Game. I wouldn't be here if i didn't have any Problem in Sims 4, but i do have. I wouldn't waste Time looking in Threads like this i would playing like mad. I try to be friendly but this behavior against disappointed People i can't overwatch. I am sorry maybe i sound now rude but i try to be friendly here. So go play and enjoy the Sims 4.
To offer a point of view that may help - some of the folks in here are people I routinely disagree with. I think there are fundamental points I will never share with them and that is totally ok. Because they are individuals and should have their own thoughts. Do some of us potentially fail to phrase things well sometimes? Sure. Tis human. Made even harder because text on the interwebs is not a good medium for inflection/emotion.
But I appreciate and value what they say often enough because while I may be happy with the game, there are many who aren't and we're never going to affect change if we're all just "Yeah, so good, so perfect let's all go spoon together and talk about emotions!"
It's a two way street - if you keep escalating a perceived slight, it's just going to snowball out of control. Recognize that you have your opinion and if someone wants to give you grief over it 1) try to reason with em 2) If step #1 fails or you just find their attitude terrible, /ignore them and roll on.
Thick skin is required but it doesn't mean every post that gets under your skin should set you off too. Welcome to forum discussions - here's your teddy bear to hug in case of emergency and mean words (I find he's not too needed here but hey, we have to offer it just in case)
Nope you don't sound rude at all....You given the most logical, honest response I have seen all day. Without name calling or throwing insults.
That being said that doesn't mean we can't improve the system by cleaning up the coding. See the nice thing that twallan showed all of us is if Maxis had taken the time to invest in coding the game properly the open world would have been enjoyable by all people. Simply put his mods even achieved map travel to the other maps with your family. So my guess is that the games regression is do to time and not due to player compatibility with the machines.
Still not an excuse for a multibillion dollar corporation to make. Regardless the time and effort to advancing the open world should have been done. I think quite a few people can agree with that. pc gaming is different but it's even more harmful when players don't understand pc gaming. We have a lot of people not wanting to update systems. I get that it gets expensive and many people don't have the means too. However, even if that's the case games should be finding new ways to tackle that issue without losing innovation. Frankly the emotion system was apart of an idea that i gave in ideas and feedback years ago.
Yet even though my idea was more fleshed out, it still a good idea to add to sims 4. (minus the rpg play attached to it). Emotion system is what sims 3 as a game lacked to boost the personality of the sims. An open world was fun but sims 3 id have one flaw all the sims behaved the same. However that's not going to change with an emotion system alone. The trait system needed an upgrade. Neither occurred with sims 4. The emotion system became a glorified moodlet system with rpg boosts. The emotion system isn't fleshed out where is love, jealousy, fear, hatred, etc. Trait system has become far less defining the sims than ever. So what does that leave the same mistakes occurring in a closed world as in the open world.
The game may seem like it's running smoothly now but after 4 to 5 expansions much hunch is it's going to have massive problems because of the updates breaking the game and the expansions pushing a very limited engine. That only proves one point about both games.
To make an open world run smoothly on any system you need to code it better, the same will go for a closed world.
So can they break the limitation on the number in households? Or is that totally impossible?
here is fact. you dont need to insult Sims 3 to enjoy Sims 4. The fact that when you first commented you bashed Sims 3 to pave the way to your praises of Sims 4 automatically placed you in the troll category. Hence the barrage of replies you got which you've taken offense to.
Is that what Katy Perry looked like when she was human?
How about not harassing people?
The limitation on a household actually has proven it can be broken quite a long time ago. The sims 1 game as a base chose 8 sims as a design for one reason, the high animations of the sims in one area for a lot of systems. Well that and anything over 8 sims was way to hard to play. Years down the road it becomes tradition to give players 8 sims slots. However in my sims 3 game i have 8 sims and 4 pets. 12 sims registered in all.
8 sims was a design choice and always have been. I think people should understand that the more sims you have the more challenging the game is suppose to be. The problem is reward cheats took that away. So now players pretty much can play 8 sims with a breeze and not feel challenged at all. Especially when sims will route to their jobs and eat and clean themselves. So time for Ea to upgrade the system as a whole. That did not happen. 14 years down the road and the simulation play hasn't improved is problem. That doesn't mean it can't be improved.
Frankly i think the game should judge the system and improve it's settings that way. Offer 10 slot choice or higher for those systems that can handle it. Seeing as many people who host parties can hold about 30 sims on a lot. Again these limitations don't have anything to do with closed or open world. More to do with what has always been tradition for sims. I don't know how innovative that could be but what i do know is after all this time i'd like to see more from devs than a list of excuses of why they claim they cant do something, when 14 years down the road almost every game has proved it possible they can.
Hydra from the movie the first Avenger you mean ?
Here is the facts....I did not insult the Sims 3. I think you need to re-read my first post post at 1:38 in response to Anavastia's heated reply to my original comment. I said I did not like the world view in the Sims 3 and the fact that I like in the Sims 4 you did not lose all your aspirations/relationships like you did in the Sims 3. Is that trolling???? I think not. Yeah I got heated because I have seen it time and time again in these forums that the minute someone says something positive all the people who are disappointed with the SIms 4 come out the woodwork like a flock and want to verbally destroy the person. Some of these same people did the same thing to Cinebar this morning and now here she is coming at me. Shrugs.....
I really don't care about the barrage of replies. You don't know me and I don't know you and I will respect you as long as you respect me but when you start insulting someone's intelligence and lack of brain cells...I do have a problem with that.
Hope that clears it up.
Funny how you said you don't know me but still call me a troll. Care to explain?
Does that explain it well enough for you?
You know what I've seen 100 times more? People being dishonest about the state of the game. That's more disheartening to me.
This is your post at 1.15 AM. Sounds like griping and insults to me and most of what you've said about Sims 3 isnt even true lol.