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What happened to premade lots ?
Dianesims
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The new premade lots are so...empty. There is no atmosphere, they're barely even furnished....
Here's the charm family home (ROM) and the Goth family mansion (base game) for a comparison.
The Goth mansion has a real atmosphere, it feels furnished, there's decor, clutter. It makes me want to play. And then the Charm family mansion is empty. I understand they can't fill the builds too much, but come on, a hallway with only a console table ?? A bedroom with just a bed ?? How is that ok ?? That looks like they were lazy and takes away from the game. I'm not asking for a ton clutter but just a house that looks lived in with a decent amount of furniture.
Charm mansion
Goth mansion
Here's the charm family home (ROM) and the Goth family mansion (base game) for a comparison.
The Goth mansion has a real atmosphere, it feels furnished, there's decor, clutter. It makes me want to play. And then the Charm family mansion is empty. I understand they can't fill the builds too much, but come on, a hallway with only a console table ?? A bedroom with just a bed ?? How is that ok ?? That looks like they were lazy and takes away from the game. I'm not asking for a ton clutter but just a house that looks lived in with a decent amount of furniture.
Charm mansion
Goth mansion
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It's gotten from laziness to downright neglect.
Base game houses have a lot of heart and soul for the people living there, you could figure out their story from their houses.
But the houses in ROM? I don't have a clue who these people are at all. They have no substance, no personality at all. It's a shame. It only takes a good hour or two to properly furnish a house. Why wasn't that time taken to make these houses feel alive?
I remember the concept art for Willow Creek, how they tried to tie into real architectural styles and give it soul.
In Glimmerbrook they believe the pack windows are enough to make the exterior looks like something and that's really not the case.
And if you tell me they didn't have one to allow players to choose their own architectural style of Glimmerbrook, why the giant uneditable driveways then ?
Seriously though, one word: Laziness
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Edit : Other people have it furnished in their game, so it might be me who inadvertently clicked something.
It's Laziness, nothing more, nothing less.
But a house completely empty, why ?
That may be an error, or maybe you accidentally selected it unfurnished?, as that's the starter house which, at least in my game, started with actual furniture in it. Furniture I replaced quickly, but furniture none the less.
There’s also a bug sometimes where some of my houses furniture disapears.
Years ago, when the stuff pack avalanche started, I warned that the more moving parts there are in a game, the more there is that can go wrong. Well, I'm sorry to say, I (and those who were also beating the warning drums, many of whom aren't here anymore) was correct.
TS4 isn't only beginning to show cracks, there are big steaming fissures. The size of the worlds, the number of new pre-mades, all of the empty houses, and the mounting bugs are symptoms. And still, management is trying to cram more into the game, despite the reservations of the technical folks.
Maybe they also lack time to finish the packs properly ? I have no idea how much time they take to make an EP, a GP or a SP though.
The lots were furnished ok till Cats and Dogs maybe.
Partly laziness perhaps? But I think it also has something to do with all “reviews” the premade houses get. They mentioned lilsimsie specifically in a recent livestream, so I’m thinking there is beef/ hurt feelings on some level? Not to attack the YouTuber, but I literally just tried to watch her university leak video (thinking this one would be more positive, as she definitely does not like the recent addition of “freaks” - oh I mean occult’s in her game), and within 3 minutes I had to stop coz again it was just: this is stupid, this is bad, oh how ugly?! And that’s just the title of the EP lol! It’s the same with all her videos though, she throws around a lot of harsh words, that tbf would deter me from putting much effort into the premade lots, I dunno, each to their own opinions n all, but yikes girl. I think there’s a difference between feedback and just plain bashing/trolling of the game and team. Maybe they’ve given up by this point?
You mentioned the goth house as a “good example/reference” which does clearly have more effort gone into it, lilsimsie has like 4 videos dedicated to branding that house as ugly - sorry, renovating it; which she coincidently says is one of her favourite things to do, renovate the premades, so kinda hypocritical if she’s gonna constantly complain about them? Just saying lol.. Orrrr maybe that’s what they mean when they reference lilsimsie? They are giving us houses we will “have fun renovating”? No shade to lilsimsie like I said, I’m just trying to analyse the situation as clearly she’s got their attention 👀
What if your sim is an athlete... you need room for two pieces of workout equipment. If your sim is a mixologist you need room for a bar and stools. What if your sim is going to be a nerd brain... but you have a piano in your home that you will never use. I rarely get my sims tv's because for some reason they seem to become couch potatoes when I do .. so it's usually a bookcase, desk and chessboard (sometimes they don't get computers).
They have to work with what comes in the pack and what comes in the basegame. After all these complaints I'm surprised they even add worlds at all to gamepacks in particular since they come with less overall in comparison to EP's.
We also have the gallery to replace homes or look up redos. It would probably be a great idea if someone would furnish some of these homes and fix them up a bit.. Actually that's done.. those homes can be found.. but for me I won't use MOO if I can help it and that seems to be the way people do these things. Also if they are redone people might complain there are too many packs used. I know if I did it I'd use alllll the packs. Too bad I'm not that good at decorating it would be an interesting project.
People are going to always find a way to complain about something if it isn't done the way they expect it to be done. This is a non issue because obviously there are many ways people could want this done. It's a house .. furnish it.
If anything I'm more upset if things aren't playtested or are off center... like the driveway of one of the homes in GF. I know this one had a missing door and that was an obvious oversite, but a door is replaced a lot easier than a driveway.
Honestly, if she gets to them that bad she should be removed from the game changer program. It’s possible to renovate lots without being rude. It’s like, I get that they reused a floor plan for a Strangerville house, but honestly? It made sense to do so, stuff doesn’t have to be different just for the sake of being different.
I disagree she should be removed. If everyone was a 'yes man' nothing would ever change for anything in life. Borg would rule. She isn't rude she has an obsession with builds. Just like I have obsessions about simulation and the lack there of. Nothing should be repeated in a new pack, and especially no borrowing lots already in game. That's just cheap.
The game has gone on for five years. Maybe they are tired? Like they have a bunch of lots in a tray (I'm sure their developing tools and files are nothing like in game) and they pull a file and don't remember they already used that lot in the base. Or it was crunch time and the had no time left to build a new one and very little time and just slapped some different paint on one. (SV) But it's still just cheap to do that over and over. Once in a blue moon seems it was an oversight or burn out, but more times all through the game seems more like they are forgetting what they have already done. Or maybe not and reusing assets has become the status quo for TS4.
Wait, which car pack? There was a car pack?