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What do you think of the Reputation System?
bixters
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Just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts on the reputation is, positive or negative. Any issues you've had with it?
My personal opinion: I like the fact that there are 3 different tiers for positive and negative reputations, and that all of them have different effects on the way other sims will act towards your sims. I also like that's it's challenging to gain a reputation.
However, I think some positive or negative actions don't cause a change in reputation when they should, either because of a bug or because they were overlooked.
I also don't like how they treated cheating/ affairs: I think if a sims is out in public and cheating on their partner, their reputation should get lower, NOT just when their spouse finds out. It just doesn't seem realistic, especially for a celebrity. This seems to be an issue in all the sims games.
What are your thoughts?
My personal opinion: I like the fact that there are 3 different tiers for positive and negative reputations, and that all of them have different effects on the way other sims will act towards your sims. I also like that's it's challenging to gain a reputation.
However, I think some positive or negative actions don't cause a change in reputation when they should, either because of a bug or because they were overlooked.
I also don't like how they treated cheating/ affairs: I think if a sims is out in public and cheating on their partner, their reputation should get lower, NOT just when their spouse finds out. It just doesn't seem realistic, especially for a celebrity. This seems to be an issue in all the sims games.
What are your thoughts?
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I agree it's slow going, but I like the challenge. I feel like some positive and negative actions don't register correctly when in public, so I think it definitely needs some fine-tuning
That makes sense. If you're a celebrity it should definitely make your reputation worse. But from what I've heard, it only effects you if your spouse catches you cheating in public, which I think is rather unrealistic
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I’ve done it twice; once with the pancakes (caught by Eliza herself, that kicked off, she beat my sim up in the street which gave her in more or a bad rep) second was with Dominic Fyres or whatever his name is, they got caught my Morgan and my sim started getting calls the next sim day.
I love it personally, the more sims that witness, the more it effects your sim.
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I just tested this out with one of my married sims. I had her go out to a club and flirt with various men. She is also a celebrity. Nothing happened. No lowering of reputation at all. This was also at a club with papparazi and other celebrities present.
I also just tested it with another celebrity sim I have who has a boyfriend. She went to a club in Del Sol Valley and woohooed in the closet with a random guy. No changes....
So I'm not sure where you're seeing this; you're the first person I've seen to claim this occurs
Had a klepto sim get caught swiping (they did it autonomously) and later one of their friends texted them not sure if they even wanted them to go come over to their home anymore along with a decrease in their relationship. So, sims definitely will tattle on you. It's not overly dramatic and I'm not having to worry about toddlers or babies telling on my sim at least.
Find the only thing that probably needs to be worked on is when sims cheat on another sim in public.
It does seems incredibly easy to get a good rep once you have the incredibly friendly trait. I basically always get that trait for either good or bad sim types to make sim life easier for them. I have a sim that I eventually want to get a bad rep on but mostly he's still been shmoozing for fame so his rep has gone up steadily and recently topped out.
I really wanted a way for sims to "cheat" in private and not get caught so very happy that that can happen. I don't get the reasoning behind having a bad rep if no one that would judge you for it witnesses your actions. Uggh, I would turn off something like that so fast or remove it/ mod it out from my game.
In the next week or so I'll go at getting a bad rep hard to see how it happens. I'm assuming mean interactions in public and cheating, stealing ect and getting caught/seen doing bad things will make the rep bad. That would make sense to me.
I do also appreciate the fact that each level of reputation has different perks. I really like the fact that having a positive reputation results in having an easier time befriending and romancing sims. Although, I was kind of bothered by the frequent job offer texts. Nice idea, just a little too persistent for my taste. The blind date and “could we be friends?” texts were pretty cute, though. I haven’t played with the negative reputation yet, so I can’t really remark on it. All in all, I enjoy the system and hope they implement similar ones into packs in the future.
I'd imagine that that then is a reason to make the effort and teach kid and teen sims the good manners trait in the first place, if you want it easier for them to get a good reputation when they're older, right?
When he did that the task was checked off but I got a notice that his reputation had dropped to neutral. The next day while completing his gig, a text message came in from Vlad. It read, "I agree, Siya is not so great, she is not cool". Really Vlad?
Because each Sim wants to do the "Celebrate Celebrity" action, where they pop off a confetti tube or throw confetti around, and it literally locks your Sim in place, because they're doing the action TO your Sim, rather than just celebrating on their own.
And they love to do this one at a time, so if you arrive at a Venue and there are like 5 Sims standing around the loading zone, then you're gonna be hard-pressed to get anything done until they're all done showering you with adoration.
I love the free meals, but I HATE the way their celebrating locks you into their interaction.
Though Pristine Rep on its own can be annoying in its own right, as "React Positively to Sim's Presence" action can be annoying as well.
But at least other Sims doing that doesn't delay your character from doing their own thing.
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