I took a break of two months from the forums and my game after the EL features fisco that almost destroyed my 3 years old save. And that GP Disney Ad, shame. Now that I'm back I'm in shock: a new EP is on the way!
EP10 is like one of my dreams coming true: a traditional asian world! I wanted THIS since day one! I loved Sims 2 and Sims 3 asian worlds the most. I have an asian world at Newcrest thanks to my builds. And more snow! as I have never seen snow, well, I love snowy worlds. OMG kimonos for men! Yes, it is my dreamy EP and I was sure that it was not possible to have... BUT I'm on the fence:
I'm afraid of the Lifetyles and Sentiments System
maybe I have a post EL NAPS trauma, but if the same team that designed the EL features designed this new system, well, my sims are doomed
Worst, I'm also afraid of the pre EP patch: what system is it based on? it will broken it? vampires, fame, spellcasters, clubs????
Don't get me wrong, the feature sounds awesome, great idea! how was the NAPS, the green footprints... I'm afraid of The Sims EL programmers.
EP10 is a symbol, I want it: I feel it was prepared for us to play echoing the olympic games (Tokyo 2020). Somehow this hurts my heart
Maybe it will change the game: for good or not. Maybe the best I can do is to wait, and skip for the first time a preorder. Do you feel the same?
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Just wait for the livestream, player reviews, etc and then decide if you want it.
I, too, am excited about both the Japanese theme and the snow sports on the mountain. This might be my new favorite pack since Get Famous.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on the whole EL business. Just the game features you want to carry through in your worlds, in every save. Pollution! And I hate, hate, hate that my sims get a sad buff when they didn't fight everyone on BRAWL DAY. I could understand having those fun (?) features in a game but why do they need to carry through every world? I avoid playing in Port Pollution because I don't want to deal with the trash and the NAPS stupidity.
Anyway, glad you're happy about Snowy Escape and we'll learn more Friday in the Live Stream. I made a huge list of questions and I have mo doubt that every single one of them will be ignored and go unanswered. Graham seems like a nice guy but he is a company man and will ignore anything that might make the game look bad or answer any question that might make the game seem less than the perfect product that they think they put out.
Here’s hoping the Lifestyles and Sentiments are nothing like that. From what we know so far, I’m optimistic because any autonomy changes (specific to a sim) would be an improvement.
But, I just restarted my Ancestral game save. Here we sit waiting for that other shoe to drop. Oi. But, I can't wait until I can see what this new system will bring. As always, I will backup my game folder, especially my saves and Tray, pull my Mods folder and hope for the best. At least I'm not staring down a hurricane or anything. Although Zeta is on a path that would threaten where my sixth great-grandfather was laid to rest. I haven't been there, yet, either.
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Wait at least a couple of days so you can read feedback from other simmers, not enough resources are put into preventing bugs and fixing bugs that currently are in the game.
I'm interested to learn more about lifestyles and sentiments but I hope that they will not involve our sims doing the same animations over and over again.
I will probably buy this pack before the december update which will update skin tones, I would like to play the pack but I don't think that I will update my game in december because the december update will most likely break custom skins, and I would like to wait to download that update until custom skins will eventually be updated by the modders, which means that I have to buy the pack before the december update.
I was actually quite excited for Eco Lifestyle originally but now sadly I play with it's main feature turned off. The N.A.P's are actually awful and so incredibly pointless at the same time. The Eco Footprint does whatever it wants. My current family has done nothing towards improving the environment and the meter is still moving up and down as it pleases.
Or a famous sim with the phone quirk who also gets whatever the new phone lifestyle is... how on earth would you get anything done with them?! It could be quite awful.
I have a bit more hope about the sentiments. If this is some sort of memory system and sims actually remember that they just argued with someone 23 seconds ago and probably shouldn't start autonomously hugging, this would be a massive improvement for me.
I'm glad to see you Emere and I look forward to some beautiful builds if you go ahead and get this pack.
I actually feel like the lifestyles are more likely to not make a big difference. The whole autonomy in the sims 4 is lacking and I use several mods to help.
Hopefully we are both proven wrong.
Terrific Family Play
Too fun
The sims 2 forever
sedentary - lazy
energetic - active
outdoorsy - love outdoors
indoorsy - ? loner perhaps
people person - outgoing
close knit - family oriented
health food nut - vegetarian
junk food fiend - glutton
Seems like all they will do is make moodlets/buffs even worse. Like, active sims already only seem to want to exercise 24/7 so adding energetic would only make that worse.
SO absoluly useless
Your sim can also apparently remember happy or sad moments as well and be happy or sad about it.
Remains to be seen if this is true, we have not seen anything from it so far from official channels...
But I am looking forward to seeing more what lifestyles are all about in the livestream. It's been 6 years, so I'm definitely open to the idea of new stuff to enhance my Sims personalities. I currently use tons of mods...so my wish is the this new system adds the depth that I need so I dont' have to rely on mods
I think these would be good to mix with other traits that aren't related to lifestyle so you can add more traits in a way, though I wonder how would a sim that loves outdoors but has couch potato lifestyle would work in game.
A writer typing in the backyard to the sound of wind chimes and birdsong comes to mind. On a very comfy chair. Or even an e-sport professional with a laptop.
You're really stretching it with some of those and we have yet to know how they work. Either way I'm interested in this feature, they could potentially work as an extra trait or just something that makes the character better defined.
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It will by ok, IF we have a lot traits. But we have not! So many pack and so few traits... In EL, they give us 4 traits, but three was the same