So anyone else not so happy about the new lifetime aspiration thing in FT?
funnykid:
I hate how the new bar is the same colour as the influence meter. Even worse, they are right beside each other. As other reviews (i.e. IGN, etc.) have said, the interface is starting to get really cluttered. They could have grouped the seasons/life stage/clock together and made tabs (like with the needs tab, personality tab, etc. to free up space!
Ellatrue:
Quote from: jolrei on 2008 February 27, 18:42:34
I used to always make sure that they had an LTW that could be fulfilled by the time they were half-way through "adult". This was when I was young and though total happiness was wonderful (about 3 months ago). Permaplat sims have nothing to aspire to, and no need to fulfil wants to stay happy. They are directionless happy-drones suitable only for power-idling, cleaning, and baby care. In short, they are functional furniture and about as interesting as the white basic maxis chair.
Now that I have reached this enlightened stage, I give all my sims the least attainable goal. Family sims aspire to marry off 6 children (and are limited to having 2). Knowledge sims with the "max 7 skills" LTW are permitted to follow their main wants (which are all about woohooing the person standing next to them anyway). Any sim with a career LTW is streamed into an entirely different career.
Sims who want a golden anniversary get to fulfill it. After all, they've earned it by that point (and they're elders anyway who function well as happy-drones).
Make it harder in FT, and I'll probably still want to make it even less possible.
Bah. They'll aspire to what I want them to aspire to. Screw their stupid wants!
madamejeanie:
Quote from: darcee on 2008 February 28, 17:18:54
Well, I love the secondary aspiration, though I also wish it played some part in chemistry which it doesn't seem to.
But the new lifetime aspiration bar is very very disappointing. I like that they earn benefit points, and the rewards they can choose from aren't bad either, but it's just the way they earn them. Like what does a romance or pleasure sim care about getting married, having babies, or graduating college? I thought it would count up the wants that made sense to the sim, like 10 1st dates, or 10 loves, or whatever. This does nothing to encourage a variety of gameplay, but does the opposite instead. Now to get their stupid points, we have to take them all through this standardized life course - graduate, get married, have kids, max career, boring, boring, boring...
I really should have known it was too good to be true. But who knows, maybe someone awesome could mod it to be the way it should be ;)
I haven't had a chance to test it out yet though, but I was hoping that fulfilling fears would subtract lifetime points. I don't think it does.
Well, I am disappointed if that's the way it works, too. I haven't bought FT yet (they were sold out locally when I went to get it this weekend) but I hope to before the week is out. I've been really looking forward to the secondary aspiration and I still think I'll probably enjoy it, because I probably don't play the game the way EAxis intended it to be played anyway. Very few of my sims have ever gone perma-plat and that's not likely to change now, but I don't understand the wants/fears not being tied to at least one of the aspirations. What's the point of having an aspiration, then? Seems silly to me.
And, I'm surprised that the secondary aspiration doesn't affect chemistry, since the main one does.
Process Denied:
It is my experience, that I will never play any neighborhood but Pleasantview or occationally Veronaville. So I made an extra copy of my neighborhood and put all my hacks back in( most of them have been updated). I was surprised that all my Perma-Plat Sims are still Perma-Plat. I thought that it would be taken away. I guess it only sucks for newcomers. JM--- you are certainly awesome for how fast you update mods. Two thumbs up!!!
Zazazu:
I had one go permaplat upon installing FT who should not have been. Celestina had the want to have 2 children graduate from college. One was in college, the other was still a child. When I entered the house after FT, she was permaplat with a want to reach the top of the Slacker career.
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