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Writing Books: Authors Copy
Proteus42
Posts: 891 Member
For strange reason in Sims 4 publishing a book runs contrary to reality:
After writing a book you have a bound copy of the book in your pcket. When you want to publish the book (no matter whether you self publish it or do it via a publishing company) you have to send the bound copy of the book (in your inventory) away via mail.
That means, after publishing you haven´t a copy of your written book/s in your inventory anymopre (and can´t even rebuy it, as your own books don´t appear in the purchase menu of your bookshelf).
Sims 3 had it right:
You wrote and published a book and then got sent an authors copy via mail
My suggestion therefore:
A day after publishing a book, you should find an authors copy of the book in your mailbox.
Also it would be nice if the pool of available books for sale in a world/save would be dynamic and would include books written by played Sims of this world/save
After writing a book you have a bound copy of the book in your pcket. When you want to publish the book (no matter whether you self publish it or do it via a publishing company) you have to send the bound copy of the book (in your inventory) away via mail.
That means, after publishing you haven´t a copy of your written book/s in your inventory anymopre (and can´t even rebuy it, as your own books don´t appear in the purchase menu of your bookshelf).
Sims 3 had it right:
You wrote and published a book and then got sent an authors copy via mail
My suggestion therefore:
A day after publishing a book, you should find an authors copy of the book in your mailbox.
Also it would be nice if the pool of available books for sale in a world/save would be dynamic and would include books written by played Sims of this world/save
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And i like the idea that after my sim dies my future sims eiher in family or that comunity can read her creations.
I think instead of a bound book, a manuscript should appear in the sims inventory once they've completed writing something, then once it's published it should come back in the mail as a bound book. And seeing that it is actually published, other sims should be able to purchase their book too.
Thank you for this! So interesting!
It would be really great to have this in ts4 - ability to buy books from our other sims within the same safe file, just as being able to purchase and read even after publishing. Ive tried to run around libraries/different household, and sadly didnt encountered what Pamhamlet did. :(
I believe that the reason they got rid of this feature for TS4 is because if you played on a long life-span the game became a bogged down nightmare trying to process all of that information per household. They wanted to avoid that this time around, so they didn't include it. That's only my guess, however. I played authors a lot in TS3 and they all ran into that problem. However, I would love to be able to have an author's copy of my book. You can, if you remove the book your sim just wrote from their inventory, create a copy of the book for a price, and then move the original back into your inventory and publish it.
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