Bork List: Freetime Ed.
Zazazu:
Quote from: ZiggyDoodle on 2008 March 01, 00:00:20
I've been following this thread with interest and am wondering if there is any redeeming quality in EP7. Aside from the bugs, EAxis appears to have tripled the irritation factor. It sure doesn't sound very appealing.
Any load time and lag issues?
Load time is actually a bit longer for me from game icon to neighborhood choice. No differences once in play.
Good things (for me) so far:
- Toddler paintings are really cute
- I like the craftables, and they give new opportunities for OFB businesses.
- Novel writing has more purpose than just slow money now. They are slightly customizable (there are approx. six covers, plus you can name them though there's a fairly low character limit). I've not yet figured out what using different sub-subjects does for you. The sims get them delivered when done, along with the normal phone call and check. They can then put them in their bookcase and read them whenever.
- Movies are good, more tv variety.
- Some of the random occurences while hiking are nice. I've had a sim find a new friend and bring home an object ---a custom object, at that.
- Sports stuff is fun, even for someone who doesn't like sports herself. Neighborhoods just look more realistic with a basketball court and a soccer field.
And with that said, another bug or undesirable "feature"....working on the ballet bar isn't building fun, even for a sim who has it as their one true hobby.
Really have to go back to my main 'hood now. I miss my little aliens.
CynicalChick:
Not seeing some of the lag I has with BV.. which could have been nice.
I don't have the jump bug but about half the time I send them to do something they get halfway and just stop and it drops out. It's not the "ZOMG there's something my way" they just stop and stand there.
Craft items left in inventory seem to depreciate overnight.
They seem to obsessed wit the exercise bike as much as tossing the ball... they play til they're on the verge of death, it seems.
The job thing is spreading to everyone.. a few hours after they leave they just reappear on the front lawn like they were sitting in a car. Bought one of them a car and sent him back. He just popped back up on the front lawn, minus new car.
ShortyBoo:
I found some more bugs. The first thing I noticed is when I have a sim ride the new exercise bike, after just 5 seconds on the bike, their temperature goes up in the red. I had the sim cool down in the pool, then try the weight bench from the base game and I had him exercise for like 2 (sim time) hours and he was still in green. Later on, I had him go for a jog and when he came back, his temp was all the way red (this happened in the Fall) and upon returning, he passed out on the sidewalk and it said he had heatstroke. So I had him swim in the pool and after like 20 minutes (real time) he was back in the green. Well, while he was in the pool, I tried having him float on his back. He then teleported out of the pool and was standing near the diving board, with nothing in his queue. I thought it was strange, so I had him get in the pool again and float on his back, same thing. I tried it with his wife and it happened to her too.
The other thing I found is sims are doing things on their own with free will turned off. Normally, when free will is off, my sims will just stand there until I tell them to do something with only a few exceptions (pregnant sims throwing up, watching a birthday) but now they go and do hobby things on their own. I had this happen to more than one sim. They'd decide on their own to go play soccer or basketball. Those are the only things I've seen that happen with so far, but I didn't play real long this time since my son has the flu, so I can only play when he's sleeping.
The phone in the game is driving me nuts, though. It will ring and I'll have my sim answer it just so I don't have to listen to it ring, and as soon as they hang up, it rings again. And each time it's a different sim calling. It's really annoying. I hope that gets fixed. But the heating problem is really bad since now I don't want my sims to have fitness hobbies since it's too dangerous. I know there are hacks out there to fix the heating problems, but I don't know if they work for FT or if they'd even fix the overheating problems with the new things like jogging and riding the exercise bike.
witch:
Playing the Aspir house in Desiderata hood. When the Grandfather went to teach his granddaughter a nursery rhyme, they became BFF - and so did every other sim on the same relationship row as his granddaughter. Grandad now has 6 BFF.
Morigale:
Quote from: witch on 2008 March 01, 06:14:48
Playing the Aspir house in Desiderata hood. When the Grandfather went to teach his granddaughter a nursery rhyme, they became BFF - and so did every other sim on the same relationship row as his granddaughter. Grandad now has 6 BFF.
You probably just sent him to teach her the nursery rhyme at the same time as the 'BFF check' or whatever ran. Unless the sims he became BFFs with weren't best friends with him to begin with, it's normal. One of my romance sims randomly got a BFF icon over head while doing something or other and when I checked she was suddenly BFFs with her kid, her husband and all five of her lovers.
Speaking of that particular romance sim, I gave her the 'Fortune' sub-aspiration and now her LTW is... reach Golden Anniversary? I'll have to check later if she gets bad memories for romance sim things and good memories for family sim things.
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