Annoying FT-introduced FX
Kyna:
Quote from: ariesbrat on 2008 April 04, 04:09:59
Thank you so much for pointing me in the direction of Carrigon's fix for 'The Zone'. My Sims were going into 'The Zone' in their sleep whenever they dreamt about a hobby interest. :P Why didn't the programmers just use a pop-up to let us know whenever our Sim was in 'The Zone'? Frankly, being in 'The Zone' looks like something out of the Twilight Zone. ::)
A popup every time they went into the zone would be far more annoying. Water plant/go into zone/popup/stop watering, move to next plant, water plant/go into zone/popup/stop watering ... repeat until all plants are watered.
Thankfully, as it is, I can turn the zone sound off with jfades hack. I chose his no-sound version, rather than his no-glow-and-no-sound version as I like the glow.
J. M. Pescado:
I find the sound and glow useful, since anytime they think about their hobby, it delays hobby decay.
ariesbrat:
You're right, the pop-up would be more annoying. :P And J.M. has a good point as well. ;D But when 'The Zone' interferes with my enjoyment of the game, it has to go. I can handle alot of their annoying little habits, but 'The Zone', for me, was a bit more than I could handle. I may be missing out by not playing the mystical creatures or the aliens, but that is because I enjoy a semblance of realism in my game. Everyone is different. I doubt everyone has the same exact annoyances with their game. Thank Gawd for the wonderful modders who let us pick and choose what we want and don't want. Without my hacks and mods I doubt I'd be going on eight years of Simming. ::) So, thank you, modders, for all your hard work. :-*
Karen:
Quote from: ariesbrat on 2008 April 04, 11:25:23
I may be missing out by not playing the mystical creatures or the aliens, but that is because I enjoy a semblance of realism in my game.
I agree. A few days ago, I had my first-ever alien birth in the game. I knew the guy had been abducted, of course, but forgot that I'd taken out Carrigon's no-pregnant-man-from-UFO hack when I installed FT. I've been playing TS2 since the initial release, and *never* had or wanted an alien baby before. Rather than leaving the alien spawn in my game, I quit without saving, then went back and killed off the father-to-be a couple of hours before the birth was to take place. (This being the only solution I could think of, since I'd saved the game already with him pregnant.) Then, of course, I went and grabbed the FT version of Carrigon's hack, just to make sure that never happens again :)
Karen
Mirelly:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 April 04, 05:06:55
I find the sound and glow useful, since anytime they think about their hobby, it delays hobby decay.
Good to know that fat obstreperous jerks don't have to worry about pissing people off with inappropriate sounds emanating form their PC at all hours of the day and night.
Once maxed out in a hobby it is pathetically easy to keep a sim "in the zone" ... so much so that audio-visual fx are not just redundant but frankly stupid.
Pescado's admission may be an indication of impending diminution of awesomeness.
(One thing about me, I no frickin' sycophant ... ::) )
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