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What do you think of social compatibility?
mightysprite
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For those who have the pack, what do you think of the social compatibility system so far?
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mightysprite
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My country sim met the mother from the cottage living trailer and they have the perfect compatibility. This would probably make a lot of sense given my sims likes. It was really nice to see and this will influence my sims friendships a lot I think.
It also makes previous packs more fun. Ex. My scientist sim has different compatibility with each of his co-workers. When asking a co-worker he dislikes a crystal or metal, he would always refuse.
> For those who have the pack, what do you think of the social compatibility system so far?
I am actually enjoying this more as I play more. My sim couples have not been this compatible ,without mods, since the sims 3.
They added quite a few furniture styles I thought, but they are based on kits. There is cute for pastel pop and luxe for desert luxe, and I think some others.
I do hope they keep updating the social compatibility. It does seem like a very good system. I think loyal and erratic trait really should be included, but I can see why lactose intolerant and squeamish might not be.
Oh that’s interesting. Would you suggest selecting more than just one or two but not all of them then? I just liked half and dislike other half.
What is everyone else doing? I think it would be cool to meet sims with amazing compatibility but they should be fairly rare. Do neutral ratings not count to the system at all?
My strategy with the likes and dislikes has been very scarce overall, for example I allow only one musical like (that way they don't get music related wishes all the time). For sim characteritics and conversation likes I usually choose 2-3 likes and same amount of dislikes. I have thought of selecting a few more though and for some sims I have. Just need to play around and see what works.
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I'm not buying the pack yet because there are enough bugs in the new gameplay to make me want to wait for at least the first round of bug fixes to happen. But social compatibility is the feature I'm most interested in, and it sounds like it isn't too buggy, nor super intrusive like some other newer gameplay features, and people with different playstyles can find different ways to play with it that are fun.
I like the ideas about choosing a few likes/dislikes at first and then setting the rest as you go through gameplay. I play mostly born-in-game sims, and I like a mix of planning and surprises, so I think that's the direction I'd go too.
I think I remember the gurus saying in the stream that not every trait is included and that's on purpose. That doesn't bother me. I don't think I'd ever have a sim who would either like or dislike to talk to someone based on their lactose intolerance
Just not sure on the social features. I think like people say it might just be a case of playing around. I think just a few won’t be enough but doing every one might be too many.
In another save, I made a household of 8 unrelated sims with wildly different personalities. I then let them loose in a small house with limited objects so they’d be more inclined to talk to each other.
It was interesting to kind of see how all the little “cliques” started forming. Sims with low compatibility would kind of avoid interacting altogether. The sims with higher compatibility would try to socialize more often and were even building friendships, though some of it was hampered by them not liking certain conversation topics.
Of course even with “good” compatibility, if the sim was Mean for example, they were just as likely to be rude to people anyway, but it kind of softened the blow a bit.
I went to a community lot and she mostly has good compatibility with other sims. There were 3 amazing compatibility and 2 bad compability. Good won by some margin but this might be because it’s Henford and most of them like animals/the outdoors/family/hard work etc. My sim is also a teen so I guess a third trait will make even more diversity.
There was one sim which I thought my sim wouldn’t get on with but they have amazing compatibility and the game gave Maira Watson the dislike outdoors sim one so she doesn’t get along with anyone which seems odd but generally it went the way I expected.
I think it needs some playing about a bit to make it work how you want. I still don’t know what is the best settings for it really. But it’s a game changing system, interesting one!
I think having good compatibility with most sims might be caused by the fact that it's easier to gain + than - in the system. The game is biased towards positive compatibilities. So if you want your sim to be sort of difficult to get along with, you really need to put emphasis on the dislikes. This is definitely how I'm gonna play some of my sims.
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