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mightysprite
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I'm excited to find some weirder scenarios this time around!
And some that include things that are a little farther away from what I'd normally do in the game, including some extra challenges that are not otherwise available in game (chef on fire, unskilled).
I'm also pleased to find that building a rocket seems to work now (I started the Extraterrestrial one just to see).
I definitely want to play the Supervillain one. I never have used the secret agent career.
What are your thoughts about the new scenarios?
Want to share any pictures and/or stories?
And some that include things that are a little farther away from what I'd normally do in the game, including some extra challenges that are not otherwise available in game (chef on fire, unskilled).
I'm also pleased to find that building a rocket seems to work now (I started the Extraterrestrial one just to see).
I definitely want to play the Supervillain one. I never have used the secret agent career.
What are your thoughts about the new scenarios?
Want to share any pictures and/or stories?
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Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
I don't know if it was story related. It just happened since the update. I get empty house notifications through MCCC, so all I get is <lot name> has been vacated by <family name> usually because someone got married and moved in together, or someone died leaving an empty home, but I've never seen the game cull one of my sims or kick a family out of a home into not in world. That just started with this latest update.
Edit- I did see a household move because the wife of a sim died and he remarried and moved his family in with his new wife. So, I do see the story elements working. I checked the family and the husband and his kids were still sad over a loss in the family. The one sim I had that was culled was weird. She was a vampire living alone in forgotten hollow and when I got the empty house notification I checked and saw her name in "not in world" but her avatar was gone and I clicked to go into CAS and she was gone, replaced by one of the premade Maxis sims.
Thinking about trying this scenario in Jungle Adventure, with all the traps working off various skills (and attacking swarms) it's going to be more like how long before the sim dies than if they manage to make the scenario's goal.
Luke had to make due with this nice print of a rocket he got while building his logic skill in the big telescope since without the mod he couldn't start building the rocket in his backyard.
I had read somewhere that the rocket building bug had something to do with the Geek Festival, which in my test save either never happened or no one has visited. <sigh>
Before exiting the game to put the mod back in, I had Luke chat up a fellow redhead under the full moon on a particularly warm Summer night in Oasis Springs. Unfortunately it was Linda Landgraab and she is already married. Better luck next time, Luke!
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Twitter: NetzspannungTS
we all try ...
I'm a bit sad though. I misunderstood when people said there were difficulty ratings for them - I thought they meant we could choose whether to play it easy, medium or hard. But it looks like it is just a fixed rating for each
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At least he made it back in one piece.
Too Many Toddlers - I ignored b.c I often have way more than what the scenario was asking and the scenario doesn't add anything to how I play with them.
Super Rich Supervillain - Sounds interesting, b.c I play legacy and have to raise so many families having a super villain born to the family would be interesting. The only issue is the game doesn't really give you a way to be a super villain with the lack of consequences in the game. However I guess if you can manage to get a bad rep, set a goal to furnish a secret basement with stolen goods for later generations to find it could be fun.
Unlucky Chef - This one I am excited to try, I plan to use this for one of the heirs who will strive to open their own restaurant. Having the odds actually stacked against my sim instead of simply pretending they are sounds fun.
Troublemaker - This sounds fun until you realize that having bad grades don't really do anything, you can't runaway, you can't crush on the bad kids in school, you can't fall in with the bad crowd. All you can do is get bad qualities that don't really majorly impact gameplay and sims won't treat you any differently from a sim with good qualities. I want to like this scenario, but the lake of consequences and teen gameplay makes it very hard to to do anything other than imagine stuff is happening.
Extraterrestrial Researcher - While I eventually planned to have one heir seek to discover sixim, I've no issue with activating this scenario when that time comes. There is a bit a gameplay to help you do this, but the actual discovery of the planet sixim or even discovering an alien is lackluster. I feel like this scenario will have a fun journey, but with no actual in game content for discovering these things, the ending will feel a bit empty.
Rom-Com - Without an attraction system, without any challenges and without any meaningful consequences for actions, this is nothing more than a great marketing title placed on an empty box. You can't even try to get a clumsy and childish sim to crush on a serious loner who keeps turning them down none the less a rom-com. lol
No Skills No Problem - looks like a challenge and I am interested in a challenge.
@Netzspannung thanks for sharing Luke's story. Bummer that the rocket bug isn't fixed in other saves. I might do some more testing too.
@Mr_MuffinTop I think we are interested in the same ones
@JustMeAlb @EnkiSchmidt @Daravi interesting ideas about No Skills, No Problem!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/998375/eliza-pancakes-supervillain#latest
First try? Automatically got a fire. So a ruined counter and poor grilled cheese later she decided to eat it, take a bath and go to bed.
Okay take two and time for breakfast and yet ANOTHER FIRE. FTTT...
That didn't go too well like at all. Every attempt seems to be a death sentence. Think I might try a skill building book to see if it'll help. Had left her to her own devices for awhile and she decided to autonomously cook to only have a THIRD fire annnnnnnnd I was too late to save her and she pretty much bit the dust.
Might give it another go as I do like a challenge. Makes me wisht here was an unlucky trait to make things for sims even more chaotic and even a trait for being a bad cook.
Summary, I've got the highest ranking of the science career, have built the dublicator, I travelled twice to selvadora, bought enough local stuff to survive the trips through the jungle and temple. Discover that I couldn't dublicate the treasures, became a spellcaster, practise until I've learned the dublicate spell, with this spell it was easy, dublicate both high value treasures and sold them during the garden sale with the 300% price mark up.
The best thing, after the scenario is completed, my sim is now able to learn new skills, finally.
I thing, I'm going to replay this scenario, it was fun.
@LadyKyn Haha sorry it was frustrating but thank you for entertaining the rest of us with the screenshots XD
(I wonder if a sushi chef would have better luck? Or if there are hidden surprises there too?)
James Turner did a video playing the Unlucky Chef scenario, I can't cook without catching fire in The Sims 4. Even after maxing the cooking skill, buying the most expensive stove, and buying the fire sprinkler system he had fires.
Somehow I feel like I want to chicken out and go Mixology instead
The Extraterrestrial Researcher actually sounded more interesting than it is. At least for me. I've not even built the rocket yet, then I need to upgrade it at least a bit, then the Watcher knows how many times I need to launch it to get all the aliens. I hope the RNG Gods are with me.
Also in the process of doing Power Couple. Its a drag, because I forgot how utterly boring I think the Buissiness career is
Supervillain scenario is going pretty good too. Decided to change things up a bit, and moved my sim in to an apartement in San Myshuno. Its been sooo long since I lived there, should provide a change of pace (and climate *brrrr* cold winter there right now). I completely forgot how it was to live in a place with freezing winters and heatwaves in summer.
@Netzspannung I have not had any trouble interacting with rockets. I built and fully upgraded one in the Carnaval scenario (minus the wormhole upgrade, I think) and I don't have any mod spesifically to fix the rockets. Might be one of my other mods actually "fixes" them without me knowing it
Gallery: Kathykins
AHQ - Game help and Bugs
However, I did complete the Extraterrestrial Researcher scenario a few days ago. Here's the Sim I used to try it out, his name is Fox Forrester.
Obviously he lived in Evergreen Harbor, in a house with the Micro Residential lot trait for the skill perks. Fox had no problem building/upgrading his rocket. With the lot trait, he reached Level 10 in Rocket Science in just one day. I waited until he had upgraded the rocket for at least the landing gear and extra storage. He had no crashes. I started out having him go on missions, but then remembered Sixam has those alien 'dig' sites to collect them and skipped all the other upgrades in favor of the Wormhole Generator. Once he got that, three trips and he was finished. It took 7 days to complete the scenario.
Here's a few screenshots in the spoiler of Fox's house and when he was visiting Sixam. I forgot the alien world of Sixam was so beautiful. At least in my opinion. I might try the Unlucky Chef or Super Rich Villian scenarios at some point too.
He had no landscaping to speak of, just the house and rocket. It's actually black/white but the lighting made it look yellow. Oh well...
He earned simoleans for upgrades from dumpster diving, a small garden, sold duplicates of objects found in Sixam and during missions.
His alien collection at the end of the scenario. I thought he'd need that woodworking bench to increase his handiness skill, but that ended up not being the case. He didn't need it and never even touched it. An interesting thing about the scenario. The rules say they need to bring back 5 unique LIVE aliens, right? I guess that's not true because only two of Fox's aliens were actually alive, but they all counted for the scenario. It must be a glitch.
Bird's eye view of the floor plan. Nothing special, just the basics with no decorations. It's only 30 tiles out of the maximum 32 for the smallest tier. His traits are; Genius, Loner and Loves outdoors. Fox didn't make any friends during the scenario, he talked to his plants for social.
The moment he completed the scenario on Sixam! For some reason he wore his space suit on the surface of the planet the first time he went there, but not for subsequent trips.
Congratulations Fox!