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Tea house left out ?.
Bluebeard45
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I posted before on the lack of Tea but after messing in build/buy I found a few things meant for tea mostly decoration items. So I am thinking they had plans for proper tea but do time issue they left it out.
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What would make it a proper tea ceremony? Inviting guests to drink? I would like more gameplay but we already have a tea maker in the game. It’s not how I make tea (I do make a chai tea on the stove sometimes) but I don’t care how it’s made. There must be 20 different ways to drink tea, or more maybe, they can’t include them all. But what gameplay would you like to see with tea because that’s a cause I can get behind.
they really like to play with your heart huh.
I was hoping they'd done something with that tea idea of theirs in snowy but nooo
I just really really really want other ways to make tea that are less machiney like cute tea set or using firepit or tea table like ts2 or anything im sick of that awful non aesthetic wnb coffee maker and coffee mugs
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For starters, tea in game looks too much like coffee. They could start by adding different cups, and a pretty ceramic pot maybe. In TS2 we had tea ceremony, with sims sitting down at a low table and sipping tea from little ceramic cups. Also, I would like some tea that cures sickness, stomach bugs, induces sleep, etc.
They included the Tea Ceremony in Sims2. Generally, it's between two Sims and rather quaint. My mind is fuzzy on the details just now, but I remember I liked it.
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It's a full ritual, with special equipment and etiquette. There's even a right way how to hold (and turn) your bowl.
I've had some luck with some of the teas from the teapot curing sickness.
I would also be interested in what kind of gameplay is envisioned.
The gameplay would be, one sim performs the ceremony, and can serve 3 other sims, who sit around in a square shape. While they sit together - we already have that sitting style in game already - their fun, social and relationship points would increase, and as they sip their tea, all negative moodlets would slowly decrease (like how they can if you try to 'calm down' in front of a mirror etc). When completed, all sims would have a Fine Mood, lasting a few hours. I think Fine is the best mood we have to reflect Calm. A lovely way to have built up friendships, and another way to reflect that zen lifestyle.
I know that the game needs to have some kind of design to make it seem alive, so, if inplemented, the autonomy would probably be that sims could do the tea ceremony on own accord, active sims as well as the non played ones; and townies.
While I agree that it would be odd to exclude this interaction from autonomy, the way I see the developers doing it, would be to give an object a high attraction value and make the interaction autonomous, and/or create a server sim role for the one pouring the tea.
I would like it more to be able to control what sims there are in my world, and would prefer the ceremonial assignment to not be a server sim; but to be possible to assign a played sim. Not necessarily a 'job/career', but in some way a specially instigated activity.
Edit: so for instance, according to the way it seems to be done now: there could be a lot type, a tea house, where an object like a tea pot have to be placed as an required object, and that would spawn a server sim, like a Bar lot assignment does for bar objects with a bartender.
The object could be freestanding, and placed on any lot by the player, with an interaction in it to Start Tea Ceremony.. instead of/as well as calling a tea ceremonial person. At residentials it could be optional who starts.
I want that server sim assignment to be available for played sims though, just like the mixology skill is, and the activity to take over a bar object to start pouring drinks; and without cheats.