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Community Voted Stuff Pack 3: What simmers want, and when?
Karon
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I know most people here on the forums don't like the CVSP, but it's sure something popular on the community as a whole be in social media or people that don't actually talk much about the game. I love the interaction, I love the voting and I love the results. Laundry Day and Nifty Knitting are on my top 5 of most beloved stuff packs of all iterations, and I think that the community would win if we had one CVSP each year, with another one with the full control/desire of the dev team.
Thus, would be very interesting if they started a new CVSP this semester. Would you like another one? If yes, which themes/features would you want to be included that weren't included in the previous ones?
Here's a list of both SP ideas, choose something outside this list:
Thus, would be very interesting if they started a new CVSP this semester. Would you like another one? If yes, which themes/features would you want to be included that weren't included in the previous ones?
Here's a list of both SP ideas, choose something outside this list:
- CVSP 01: ECO LIVING THEME
- CVSP 01: STARTER HOME THEME
- CVSP 01: ARCADE THEME
- CVSP 01: DANGEROUS THEME
- CVSP 01: WEDDING THEME
- CVSP 02: ARTS & CRAFTS THEME
- CVSP 02: SELF-CARE ROUTINE THEME
- CVSP 02: FUN-TECH THEME
- CVSP 02: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THEME
- CVSP 02: HAPPY HAUNTS THEME
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I guess my preferences would mainly be these (spread over SP and GPs, I am positive they could make some of these ideas work either way): Occult Stuff, Illness/Diseases, Wild Reservation Park/Saving The Wild Animals From Extinction pack, Supernatural Careers, a Baby Overhaul SP, Scars/Body Spots and Freckles/Vitiligo/Albinism/(Other) GP or SP, and the ability for us to create our own tattoos in CAS.
I can't wait for the next round of votes, if I want to be honest!
I have psoriasis and lymphoedemia and I do not want that represented in my game. A few spots here or there ok but I don't want to be reminded that I have those unsightly blemishes or legs/hips all the time. (though you could something like the latter if you wanted to already).
Well, many aspects of it are poorly tuned. Fabricator fails/breaks way too much and has no upgrade options to decrease the chance. Unnecessary object duplicity (they should've made it possible to use the sketchpad from 'freelancer patch' for drafting eco blueprints instead of adding yet another device). Way too high power consumption of lights that doesn't reflect their real consumption. Reversed power consumption curve for appliances (CRT TVs should consume more than flat-screen, not the other way around). Dog dung, potty, and cat toilet unusable as compost for beetle farms - why?
You need to manually buy dyes for fabricating and candles, but not for knitting - why not make one approach and stick to it?
Don't get me wrong, I love playing my 'island OTG hermits' save (done mostly with stuff from Eco Living and Island Living), but all I mentioned above points to a lack of deeper thinking about tuning (not only) EL features properly.
I'm a silent lurker for most of the time, and I loved the interaction as well. That's probably the reason why some people are skeptical about it - the silent fanbase (which might be quite numerous) may have very different desires than the most-active forum dwellers.
As for the options you mention, I'd really love some kind of romance pack (gib slow dance!). Self-care... not sure if worth a pack of its own, since we had Spa Day. This is one of the cases where I think they should go back and do some additional polish to other packs (especially adding aspirations to packs that miss them, including Spa Day). And Sci-Tech can look both good and bad for me, depending on how would it be handled.
I think such customizations should be added in a patch. Along with body hair, and some more glasses (and sunglasses).
I also like wandering the hills.
Had they started the polls with "Rocking Chair", "In-door holographic golf course", "Ouija board", "Fitness Watch" and "Paramecium growing set", everyone would have known what was on the table. Then the, for example, paramecium set could have led to either a Laboratory Stuff SP (realism gameplay), a Creepy Crawlies Attack SP (occult gameplay) or something else.
CVSP 01: ARCADE THEME ~ would love to see this with the fun tech pack if you don't combine with another pack mentioned below along with new traits aspirations and career
CVSP 01: DANGEROUS THEME ~ would love to see this more expanded with new careers such as stunts firemen etc
CVSP 01: WEDDING THEME ~ would love to see this more expanded maybe a couple new worlds where our sims can go to for a honeymoon, inns etc we can play with and build for ourselves even a new career or two
CVSP 02: ARTS & CRAFTS THEME ~ would love to have more arts and crafts in the game for toddlers to elders to do maybe can even have new traits aspirations and careers thrown in there are tons of arts and crafts that this could be a game pack and not a stuff pack
CVSP 02: SELF-CARE ROUTINE THEME ~ would love to see this as an update and not in a pack by itself
CVSP 02: FUN-TECH THEME ~ would love to see this but could be placed with the ARTS & CRAFTS or SCIENCE & TECH packs
CVSP 02: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THEME ~ would love to see this pack along with a new world and careers
CVSP 02: HAPPY HAUNTS THEME ~ would love to see this as a game pack or ep along with new careers and world
But if we're going to get a haunted theme, I want to be able to hunt ghosts AND be a psychic AND hold seances AND be the Grim Reaper's sidekick AND spend the night in a haunted house (although I'm not sure how this would be different than the current "Haunted" lot trait). If we only got one of these things, I can't imagine it would be worth $10 to me unless it has some really amazing CAS and build/buy stuff.
I am wary though that all future game packs will be too focused, because they seem to only really give us one actually new game play object per pack (with a few exceptions). Because of that, I think their community voting suggestions are misleading and are going to only lead to disappointment. We are hearing a broad topic and are expecting a wealth of new additions to the game that the Sims team simply won't give us in a stuff pack. Arts and crafts? They didn't give us the option to choose between knitting vs pottery vs paper mache or something; if they had told us it was a knitting & etsy pack, people would have maybe voted differently. I imagine their idea for self care would be specific too of only giving us aromatherapy or chocolates or something. I feel like they should have us vote between the actual main concept, not a vague theme idea, because that leads to disappointment and high expectations of the full fleshed-out packs we used to get.
I take it you didn’t actually participate in the first round of voting? We DID get to choose the gameplay that came with Arts and Crafts (the five options were knitting, pottery, glassblowing, embroidery and edible art - knitting won obviously).
In fact, in the survey you had to vote on the five potential stuff packs within each theme BEFORE you actually voted for which theme you wanted.
My mom has psoriasis, but she only had some cracks/disruptions on her feet and other limb extremities for her whole life, but she has been having those littles spots everywhere to the point that nowadays she's looking a lot like a spotted jaguar. I know that she doesn't feel pretty anymore, as she used to were more "revealing" clothes and now she hides herself with longer clothing/jeans/etc. We had no idea that it was psoriasis, cuz she's been taking some medicines to deal with panic crisis and she thought it was side effects. Your comment helpd me realize it might be psoriasis, thank you. If you have more information, please feel free to provide me. @Simburian
As for what kind of pack I'd want see: a pack for babies.
Well, they finally resolved the Stealing Is Caring situation, at least. To me, the fact that they "fixed" this means it was a bug, and not intentional.
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I suffer from seborrhoeic dermatitis and my mother has got psoriasis as well, so I completely understand what you mean. I think a good solution would be to make these CAS features optional; some players could enable them and have them in their game, others could have the option to emit them altogether should they choose to do so. But there are limits, as you mentioned, so I don't think we'll ever get these kinds of things. Mods are there for a reason after all.