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What do you think of Cottage Living Premade Sims?
Chesster_Wammy
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Do you think they look interesting to you?
Do you want to get to know them more?
How do you rate their drama?
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
Do you want to get to know them more?
How do you rate their drama?
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
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Do you want to get to know them more? I am in the middle on this one, I probably will over time but I'm mostly customizing the world further which is fine. I do note that most of the empty cottages are small which means that my playable households are likely to quickly outgrow them.
How do you rate their drama? It is still early for me to say that but I think it is good that they made an effort for those needing it. I am kind of amused by the household based on "Crisis Barn". I have been playing with Cecilia but I am someone who makes any changes I want. Cecilia did not still have a grudge about a date when I played her. That male character might have been culled by my game.
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs? No, I haven't played those games.
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
That is really more for other people than me but it is fine. Obviously I think that realistic play is fine and some want it including me. The only way that they would not be relevant would be if they were entirely supernatural. They are there if you want to play with them or they can be ignored. I'm playing with them some but with more focus on "creating my own" HoB.
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I'm not sure how I feel about the Mayor either, they made her gloomy so I have seen several videos where she is walking around and is sad during the fair, which doesn't look great.
I played Cecilia for a day while checking the game out and decided I didn't really like her very much. I know part of that is because she isn't one of mine, because I do like her a little more now that I've given her different hair
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Do you want to get to know them more? Not really.
How do you rate their drama? I am not interested in drama. It is a little interesting that the farmwife has a thing with the mayor.
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs? No, two very different games and different humour to them. TS4 is more and more beginning to look moralizing, which I don't really care for.
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides) I know nothing of the english countryside. I will however create sims with different backstories, more historically correct for a countryside background; and with sims not so mawkish.
In my playsave, which I will not load until I am certain there will be no save corrupting bugs ruining it, I will evict them all; their stories, traits and looks not that interesting to me. I will make my own sims to populate the world, and the premades will act as townies. I will not delete any sims though.
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Simon Scott has quickly become my Sim's best friend in town, after Simon introduced himself at the Welcome Wagon by drinking half my Sim's supply of milk. I wonder if inviting Simon out for a day in San Myshuno would make him happy, or simply make him miss the urban vibe even more?
Rahul Chopra seems destined for better things than delivering groceries. We usually don't play premade Sims, but Z thinks it might be fun to play the Chopra family and send this aspiring Renaissance Sim off to university once he becomes a young adult.
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I haven’t had a lot of interaction with them yet, but I really like them so far. The grocery store owner is really cute. I like all of Agnes’ snippy retorts. 😆
I want to get to know them more.
I don’t care about any drama they came with, because I would play with them completely differently in my game (except for Agnes).
I don’t play those games, so no opinion.
I’m not sure I understand the question. I don’t know any real people who live in the English countryside. But I always have fun putting actors and book/TV/movie characters into my game to see them do things that are often completely out of character, lol.
Not particularly. I do like the vibe of the town, the CAS/BB is awesome. But no, finding the NPC's surprisingly uninteresting. Then again, just like MOST Maxis-made townies.
Do you want to get to know them more?
That would require me to play their household, which I rarely do with premade townies. I usually snatch the few interesting ones and incorporate them into my own families.
How do you rate their drama?
There's drama.....? Sorry, too busy with my own sim.
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
Uhh....no. Don't know Harvest Moon, but Sims is very very far from Stardew Valley (except my actual SDV sims and neighbourhood
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Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
Afraid I know nothing of the English countryside. Or my own country's countryside. I ain't a countrygirl...or a citygirl, for that matter. They are as relevant as sims go, I suppose. And as realistic as they get.
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I definitely want to get to know all of them. Kim Goldbloom is my Sims best friend right now.
I don't know about any other drama than what the Watsons have.
I love Stardew Valley but I don't need premade Sims to be anything like Stardew NPC's.
Also don't need any relevance to real life drama or have anything to do with real people. Sims can be Sims and have their own drama/stories. Right now I don't even concentrate on having any drama for my Sims, I'm busy trying to get the farm taken care of.
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Moving forward, I'd personally like to see more strife within families that we as the player can decide to mend, or break. That's a quality from Sims 2 I got a huge kick out of - loading into a household only for something there to fly off the handle.
though i just wish sentiments didnt have to vanish so quick cause you couldn't possibly play all the households before their sentiments vanish so i had to write them up so i can later remember what they had
also i didn't realize playing scott family would immediately kick the lady out of pub ownership so idk how i get her back in her role so thats a bummer
anyway I am quite inspired with some of the households I've been playing so hyped to maybe do story later
(+agnes is the goddess of bag slapping and i worship her with every cell of my being)
as for more straight answers to the questions tho:
-I love how many of them sport a very specific outfit that is easily identified as theirs and adds to character so I haven't really made much changes
but i did change cecilia up a little cause i didn't feel some things she was wearing suited her that good
Do you want to get to know them more?
- yup. i play mainly premades either way but its fun to me to dig at these backstories
How do you rate their drama?
- 8/10? ish? could definitely be more spicy for my tastes but I appreciate the effort to set these sims up with some drama
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
-I don't play those games so no.
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides
- naw. i dont want sims to be connected to real humans if thats what u mean thats just awkward
+honestly all my english countryside knowledge is just detective series anyway so
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I dislike most of the pre-mades. I don't like the gloomy and mischief traits, which seem to be used on a few. I evicted the old men and the pub owners. They still show up, in the game, but they aren't taking up lot space anymore. I would like to give the pub owners a baby, but you can't do that without playing them. And if you play them, they stop being the owners. I really dislike the drama of the Watson family. I had them divorce, and moved the cheating wife out. Then I just evicted the rest of the family as I found them to be annoying. I am trying to figure out how to get rid of the Mayor as I don't like that she is gloomy and a homewrecker to boot. I do like the creature keeper and Cecilia. I don't really have an opinion on Kim or the Crumplebottoms, as I have only interacted with them in the gardening stalls. It doesn't really matter if I like Agnes or not. That's just who she is.
Do you think they look interesting to you?
No. I don't think they look anymore or less interesting that any other premade for any other world. I don't know that I have ever bothered playing any pre-made for any length of time. I mainly play them to move them to another lot, another world, or to decide if I should evict them.
Do you want to get to know them more?
No. Except maybe Cecilia and Michael Bell.
How do you rate their drama?
It's eye-rollingly over the top, and annoying.
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
Why would I? I have no familiarity with those games and have no frame of reference for this question.
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
No. The world is full of drama. I would prefer it if there was a lot more English comedy. Vicious killer rabbits is a good start. Maybe there is a hidden cave somewhere.
Yes, by and large.
Do you want to get to know them more?
I will be pursuing the "help folks out" missions for a dollop of direction in my sandbox play, but my main focus is on my own Sims.
How do you rate their drama?
It has yet to intrude itself on my gameplay, so n/a.
Do you expect them to be more like Stardew Valley/Harvest Moon NPCs?
No. Why would they be?
Do you prefer them to have relevance with the real world? (represent real people, with their drama, from the English countrysides)
Only so far as Sims always do. Do Britechester Sims have relevance to real people from the Oxbridge, town & gown end of English society? I am not sure what you are asking here. Could you be more specific?
I wanted to keep the close village feel but didn't care about the ones that shipped with the pack. I love creating my own so much better.
Also agree with the above poster somewhere up there. Seems like they threw a bunch of random genders and races in to check the representation box
I do love the elderly gay couple, and I think I'm going to play with them for a few sims days at least before I evict them, just to increase the odds that they won't be culled. They always seem to be at the pub, so I'm hoping that will be true even after I evict them. They're last on my list to evict, anyway, so they will probably be in their house for a good long while building relationships... longer even than if I just played out their lifespans if I played with aging on... but I do eventually have something else in mind for that house.
Evicting the Scotts does seem to have safeguarded Sara's role as the pub owner, so I'm glad about that. I also went ahead and moved Rahmi out of the Watson house, even though I haven't evicted the rest of the family. So I guess you can say the Watsons are now separated. Eventually I'll get around to moving the teenage daughter in with her, since she doesn't seem to be fond of country life, either; I'll give them more stylish "city" clothes, and maybe even move them into an apartment in San Myshuno. The other kids I left with their dad, since they seem to enjoy rural life. I may also try to matchmake Kim Goldbloom and Michael Bell and see how far I can get their relationship to progress without actively playing either of them.
Mostly, though, I'm focused on the sims I'm creating.
ETA: I do actually sort of dislike the mayor, so I'm trying to think of a way to kill her off. I like her son, though, and since Rahul has dreams of seeing the world, I'm thinking once his mom dies, I will move him to DSV and have him become an actor, as an homage to one of my favorite actors, Rahul Kohli (who is also British).
Glad to see more gay couples and the old one is just so cute? Hadn't expected the drama that was from the bigger family connected with the mayor. Rahmi (The wife) breaking up with her and the mayor being still bitter about it. Would explain why she's so gloomy as well. Das some spicy drama there. Then you have Kim being sweet on the creature keeper who just isn't into her, but into Cecilia who doesn't like him after a awkward date. Feels like there's more story and better backgrounds to the sims this time around compared to premades in the past (hope they fix that).
Stardew valley npc's were never really that much interesting to me compared to HM or Story of Seasons. Always enjoyed a lot of the stories (with the older games) thus I rate their backgrounds as pretty decent with this expansion.
Bunch of good looking sims too.