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Townies with lives!
EllomiSimmer
Posts: 33 Member
First off, this is my new post. Sorry If I mess up.
I was playing around with household management giving townies a makeover (.....I wont say anything about them faces) and I decided to read the descriptions for each household. Cool story lines such as the Pancakes unhappy marriage, Summer and Liberty's feelings for Travis, and Don's old habits bound to die hard. But then I realized...
They don't do any of that.
Katrina and Don will never have children, Summer nor Liberty will declare feelings for their roomie, and Eliza and Bob actually have a pretty good marriage.
So I want townies with lives! I want townies to have babies, get married, cheat, and so much more. Currently townie lives revolve around my sims, their lives are eat sleep go out when my sims go out repeat. We should put the texting feature to use! The texting feature is the best thing from get together (aside from windenburg....oh windenburg....) I want my sims to find out a friend is pregnant or getting married! My sims could get invites to weddings, or baby showers (if added). Instead of just being asked to go party or grab a bite to eat.
We could also put the gossip feature to good use, in ts3 when gossiping with other sims you would find out a chick you flirted with at the summer festival has the good trait. I'm thinking of the same of ts4.
Another way to gain information would be to add a "Simbook" type of feature to a computer or phone, you could see certain status's that hint or directly say a piece of information about that sim. Maybe even posting selfies or other pictures.
It get's boring when you have to control the house hold to control their lives. I want to be surprised! I want my sims to be surprised.
Add to this discussion if you have any ideas! Sorry it's bad. it's late in the UK.
I was playing around with household management giving townies a makeover (.....I wont say anything about them faces) and I decided to read the descriptions for each household. Cool story lines such as the Pancakes unhappy marriage, Summer and Liberty's feelings for Travis, and Don's old habits bound to die hard. But then I realized...
They don't do any of that.
Katrina and Don will never have children, Summer nor Liberty will declare feelings for their roomie, and Eliza and Bob actually have a pretty good marriage.
So I want townies with lives! I want townies to have babies, get married, cheat, and so much more. Currently townie lives revolve around my sims, their lives are eat sleep go out when my sims go out repeat. We should put the texting feature to use! The texting feature is the best thing from get together (aside from windenburg....oh windenburg....) I want my sims to find out a friend is pregnant or getting married! My sims could get invites to weddings, or baby showers (if added). Instead of just being asked to go party or grab a bite to eat.
We could also put the gossip feature to good use, in ts3 when gossiping with other sims you would find out a chick you flirted with at the summer festival has the good trait. I'm thinking of the same of ts4.
Another way to gain information would be to add a "Simbook" type of feature to a computer or phone, you could see certain status's that hint or directly say a piece of information about that sim. Maybe even posting selfies or other pictures.
It get's boring when you have to control the house hold to control their lives. I want to be surprised! I want my sims to be surprised.
Add to this discussion if you have any ideas! Sorry it's bad. it's late in the UK.
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~~~Lala B~~~
Origin ID:Lalababy21
I really don't care if the barista my sim ordered a drink from last week has a kid. I don't need a notification that they met a new sim or got married. What I care about it that my sim remembers the sim I want them to for my OWN story progression.
Yea I get where your coming from, all those notifications would get annoying after a while, but why not have a story progression without having to interfere with them. Yes you don't have to know that the barista just had a baby but that fact that she did is great because they have lives that you didn't have to do anything for. I want Don to do something with his life, have a baby or leave Katrina Idc something!!! Maybe Malcome falls for Cassandra or something but no nothing like this happens. They don't have a life at all, not even gaining skills. They just walk around town, make random plates of food at the grills, get old and die. No new babies, no failing marriages, no affairs, just nothing. When everyone grows up and are too old for the clubs they were in or made, they are gone. No one to take it over or no new people joining. Urhgg!!
Yes @EisbergsEnte It most definitely is a static world indeed!
~~~Lala B~~~
Origin ID:Lalababy21
may townie sims move in toghter yes/no
may townie sims marry yes/no
may townie sims have children yes/no
may townie sims level up their skills yes/no
and similar questions
then you pick the things you want
could even have a setting that let you choose if you want info when things happen or you don't
thats why I havn't gotten the game... but some of the packs have made me consider... still don't like to buy a game where I know I need modes to have fun
~~~Lala B~~~
Origin ID:Lalababy21
Personally, I would LOVE to get wedding invites, and the see the NPCs have fuller lives. With MCCC have it set NPCs get married and have babies, but it's totally random. I don't ind that so much, since it certainly makes some interesting stories (I just made a thread about it actually :-P), but how amazing would it be if the NPCs were actually more inclined toward their specific stories? I think that would be amazing.
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I noticed a lot of you commented about the mccc, which I am aware about. However I don't think I will be using it in my gameplay. It's just a bit too scripted, there's no element of surprise.
Obviously I want my sims to have some role in what happens in the street, say if I had a sim that was friends with Travis, I could get my sim too convince Travis that Summer is the one. Instead of just a mysterious god forcing Travis to get Summer pregnant. I want it too make sense basically. I understand some people might not like this in their game, so an option for progression to be turned off would be nice for some players who obviously don't want to get invited to weddings every other week. Reminding me, it would need some self control. I don't want TOO much drama. Like if Bella left Mortimore for Don, but Don was secretly engaged with Nina meanwhile Nina was pregnant with Bjorn's child but Bjorn recently died of electrocution. Just little bits and pieces. The sims isn't a story based game like Life is strange for instance. There's no plot twists, but there should be! It gets boring very easily. Too easily. I just want spice instead of sugar for once.
They do find jobs if they aren't tagged as "played" (a green plumbob in the Manage Households panel)
The closest thing to this sort of "story progression", without mods, is the interaction in which you can "Ask About" one Sim to another. This results in the two introducing themselves to each other later. The other option is to "Talk Up" a Sim to another, which in turn prompts them to begin dating one another later. Both interactions then notify you about how things went.
Though it's not much progression, it's a start at least?!? I just hope they build off it at some point. While I generally don't care too much about what other Sims are doing, as I'm focused on my Sims, I would really love to see the world change as my household changes. I think it would be really great if I could take my original Sim's great-great-grandchildren to the park and they play with Alexander Goth's grandchildren. It would feel... I dunno sweet? Nostalgic? It would just be really nice to have that kind of world.
People really complained about stories? this is a first hearing this wow I liked the stories like you said it made the Sims personal I mean the devs are trying to make the Sims more personal with feelings and emotions well why not have a back story of some sort the Sims 2 was a good game full of stories and such and townies should have lives being married and have kids and a job.
Kinda like how people complained about alien abductions and now they're more or less nonexistent
some simmers never looked through the telescope and they still got abducted- my sims-got abucted and they NEVER looked through the telescope (but it might have something to do with the one husband being part alien)