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My Wedding Stories: Alot of Missed Opportunities
Nekia33painter
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A theme with a lot of packs are good ideas but poor execution. Here is just some stuff off the top of my head that could make My Wedding Stories a better pack.
Assign seating- Before there is the wedding, have the sim go to the venue and have them choose where everyone will sit. That way the AI doesn't have to try too hard to figure out where everyone has to go so and it should run smoother.
Debt- Weddings are expensive. Sometimes people pend way too much on their wedding day. Just brought a new wedding dress for 100,000 simoleons, the ring was 200,000 simoleons ect. Now the repo man is showing up and is taking everything you and your spouse we're going to build a future with. The longer it takes you to clear the debt the more your romantic interactions fail due to stress. Will you stay together or will this break your true love.
Divorce- Sometimes things just don't work out. Split up your assets. Who gets custody of the kids? You can agree to on times when you can see your kids and pay child support. Relationship is impacted if you do or don't. And different scenarios on how the relationship ended. Separation doesn't always have to be messy.
Wedding Crashers- Let's say maybe before you were getting married you may have forgotten to end relationship with someone. They show up and confess their love for you. What is your sims to do? Call of the wedding? Tell them to beat it and go through with the wedding? Point is if you set it up then it should happen. It's your story after all.
Romantic Poses- Holding hands, Kissing, the cutting of the cake.
Strip-I mean Dancers!- It's rated T but it could still be heavily implied. A fireman or cop shows up and does a crazy dance. I mean we have the bubble blower for gosh sakes.
Soulmate Aspiration That Means Something-When I go through the trouble of doing the soulmate aspiration it means these things will be committed to each other until death do them part. You know what-even in death they will be together because they are soulmates. So absolutely no cheating or romancing other sims, ever.
Assign seating- Before there is the wedding, have the sim go to the venue and have them choose where everyone will sit. That way the AI doesn't have to try too hard to figure out where everyone has to go so and it should run smoother.
Debt- Weddings are expensive. Sometimes people pend way too much on their wedding day. Just brought a new wedding dress for 100,000 simoleons, the ring was 200,000 simoleons ect. Now the repo man is showing up and is taking everything you and your spouse we're going to build a future with. The longer it takes you to clear the debt the more your romantic interactions fail due to stress. Will you stay together or will this break your true love.
Divorce- Sometimes things just don't work out. Split up your assets. Who gets custody of the kids? You can agree to on times when you can see your kids and pay child support. Relationship is impacted if you do or don't. And different scenarios on how the relationship ended. Separation doesn't always have to be messy.
Wedding Crashers- Let's say maybe before you were getting married you may have forgotten to end relationship with someone. They show up and confess their love for you. What is your sims to do? Call of the wedding? Tell them to beat it and go through with the wedding? Point is if you set it up then it should happen. It's your story after all.
Romantic Poses- Holding hands, Kissing, the cutting of the cake.
Strip-I mean Dancers!- It's rated T but it could still be heavily implied. A fireman or cop shows up and does a crazy dance. I mean we have the bubble blower for gosh sakes.
Soulmate Aspiration That Means Something-When I go through the trouble of doing the soulmate aspiration it means these things will be committed to each other until death do them part. You know what-even in death they will be together because they are soulmates. So absolutely no cheating or romancing other sims, ever.
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That about sums it up. One thing that I've noticed is how surface level most of the packs are, but this one.... well, this one just sucks. I love your ideas though, too bad nothing remotely close to those are actually in the game pack.
I understand that they can't make veils separate from the hair because it will clip. But why didn't they make more hairs with suitable veils for specific styles?
Ixnay on the exotic dancers. Weddings are family events with kids present. Not Sims appropriate for any situation, actually.
But as you say there's so much missing.
I wonder if they left stuff out on purpose when they handed it around to gamechangers, and that's why it seems so thin in places, specifically things that were still hideously broken.
Photobooths would have been perfect for this pack. I have to wonder when we'll get photobooths back. We've had several opportunities but didn't.They should have come in City Living. This is one object I want to see return to TS4.
Vibrating Heart Beds and Heart Hottubs would have been perfect for this pack
Dancer NPC's at Bach Parties. We need Drama in TS4.
Online Dating and An Attraction System
Boy/Girlfriend in CAS though I'm glad we got Fiancees. That's a start.
More romantic interactions like cuddling,new kisses,romantic interactions in bed,table proposals etc.
In the morning or afternoon wedding I would put the children in their own zone with a clown to entertain them after the toasts. The adults need to have fun. I might try using the door lock system to set who can go where.
In the evening the children wouldn’t be up late so the parents could take them home and come back. Options to hire the nanny for guests to return would be good.
All risqué options are greyed out while children are around.
NB: Online dating should have been added, more variety of veils and a new hot tub!
Careers:
- Event Planer: you start with planing children birthdays and end in a weddings.
- Freelance Baker: start with cupcakes and end in wedding cakes. It also should include the bakery skill.
- Sewer: like knitting and not only for wedding dresses
- Juweler
- Mayor for the city hall
Aspirations:
- Coking: baker
- Romantic: perfect wedding
- Creativity: Sewer
This could make the pack also intereting for player like me who are no so interested in weddings.
That is your opinion though. For me weddings are what you want them to be. I’ve been invited to weddings where kids were not allowed. 18+ guest list in age.
And the dancers are for the batch party, not the actual wedding. You don’t bring kids to your nectar induced batch parties now do you?
The real question is why can't they do it if modders have been doing it for ages. 🤷♀️
They could just add modified versions for different types of hairs, is not THAT hard...
Because they actually care about clipping which would occur with a lot of hairstyles, while cc creators do not.
I have never downloaded a hair accessory CC that didn't cause clipping issues with some hairs.
Mind you, I'm fine with that, as long as it's not tagged as "allow for random", but not everyone would be.
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Add: Things to improve the other events like the bach parties (like dancer npcs for example), more romantic actions, attraction system (although that should probably be a game update), a gameplay item that gives you something to do on Tartosa like a pizza oven.
Cut: A lot of the cakes, did we really need that many? Throwing the bouquet, Throwing rice, All the different roles like the Flower pal etc. I think Slow Dancing and some simple animations where everyone would have taken their seats would have been enough. Yes, that's not as exciting, compared to what we are getting but I think that they put all their resources into the weddings and everything else did not get much development.
I disagree, I am happy they added all the cakes, flower girl/ring pal, throwing bouquet and rice etc. Those are all big parts of the actual wedding ceremony. I would have liked dancers and more activities for the bach party but not at the expense of the wedding content.
Yeah well...that's how game development works unfortunately. Especially since Maxis resources seems very limited. But I understand that people might disagree.
Best case scenario would of course be for Maxis to keep all that they added to weddings, and also improve everything else in this pack.
I agree. It's a wedding pack after all. Keep the actual wedding stuff.
Only things I wish were added was a functional rehearsal where you set up the flow of the wedding in a pop up, watch it play out in real time with your Sims, decide if you wanna keep it or tweak it for the big day, and then just press play at the wedding and watch it unfold.
Also cake dancers would've been great to differentiate Bach parties for those that want something wild. And I wish we had an actual jewelry store to pick it wedding jewelry at, that cost my sims some simoleons.
I had to place a camera in the lot, and I think I spent 24 hours in game trying to get a nice picture of the bride and groom, which wasn't great haha. As mentioned above, a photobooth would have been PERFECT with this. Really disappointed too that there aren't any new aspirations or careers? Seems like the perfect opportunity to include them. I know it's only a game pack, but still...so much they could have done.
I was REALLY excited for this pack, and I am not impressed.
I agree but I think the reason for this is because we don't have the standing camera in bg unfortunately.
And with what I think were missed oppurtunities? More wedding traditions like would be great if they included some Jewish, black American, and other black cultural traditions. There is a Polynesian wedding tradition where the officiator blows the conch shell. Though that would require island living. There is also a Russian wedding tradition where the couple ties their hands together.
And with the other events they could add more activities depending on the packs you have. Like for bachelor parties they could add use bubble blower, skinny dipping, karaoke, use keg, play darts, play cards, etc. As for the dancers I don't disagree with them adding them since a lot of ppl want them and I don't have anything against "dancers". I just always didn't like that it was popular for ppl to hire strippers the night before their wedding since it's their "last night of freedom". And I cant really see myself using them in the sims for bachelor parties but I would definitely put them in nightclubs and lounges if it was tied to an object or smth.
And other stuff they could have added around tartosa: make the boats functional and able to fit two sims + a rower. Your sims could hire a service npc that will row the boat as they cuddle and enjoy the scenery. A freelance wedding planner would also been nice.
As for stuff like an attraction system, online dating, and more romantic interactions like cuddling in bed, I thought it would come in the pre patch but it didn't. It is obvious the team has limited resources (time and amount of staff). So I'm thinking that's the main reason we didn't get those and maybe they are working on it but couldn't release it in time before the pack release.
I'm hoping it happens like with tiny living stuff and ladders. I'm wishing really hard that we get the attraction system and more romantic interactions with the next big BG update.
Bugs and broken gameplay aside, the dresses are just… not great. As someone previously posted, there’s a plethora of beautiful wedding gown ideas and the selection we got is grossly underwhelming. Most of them are very simple looking, which I have nothing against simple wedding dresses, but give us some elegant, over the top ones as well. The fact that there are no veils also blew my mind. I understand the potential issue of clipping, so then make a few hairstyles that are tied to veils. Even TS2 had veils. TS2 also had kilts. I’m glad they added a couple of diverse wedding outfits though, so there’s that. The Asian themed ones could have been better though, especially if you look at traditional Japanese/Korean/Chinese attire.
Bach/Hen parties also seem severely lacking too. I mean, I myself wouldn’t want a crazy bachelorette party with dancers irl, but maybe I want that for my Sims. It looks like all they did was create a new generic party with the title of Bach/Hen party, but created no unique gameplay for it. Again, the pre wedding festivities in TS1/2/3 were all more fun. Where are the bride/groomzillas?
Are there still no bridal showers or honeymoons? Or is it just that you send your married Sims on a vacation after you get married. This would have been a fun opportunity for hotels/resorts.
Can we still not propose at the dinner table? Or ask an in-law for their permission to marry? No other fun proposals such as hiring a mariachi band or something cheesy like that? No wedding planner career? No wedding crashers?
I’m also not a fan of the carts for buying flowers or cake. It would have been fun to make those actual retail businesses. Heck, in TS2, I was running a flower shop out of my house.
Okay, I need to stop. The more I write, the more disappointed I feel.
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