Apartment Life: Obligatory Hate/Love Topic
Lonesome Dove:
Quote from: witch on 2008 August 29, 23:37:13
He. That's the first startup music I've liked in the sims since the Makin' Magic EP. It's just lovely.
I'm with you. I just love it.
Quote from: sarianastar on 2008 August 29, 21:29:27
Maybe I need to set the lock on my door, but my Sim went into labour, in the teeny little bathroom in her trailer park home, and her spouse, four neighbours and the landlord swarmed into that teeny little room to witness the grand event. *headdesk*
People have been walking in my Sims' apartments that have no business there, for example, the paperboy. He's been leaving the paper on the front porch nicely, but recently he walked right into my Sim's apartment, put the newspaper on the floor, then stood around waiting for someone to strike up a conversation before he finally went on his way.
On a related note, I sent my Sims on vacation to see if anything there got borked. I didn't notice anything odd except that my female Sim walked into an NPC-occupied hotel room to go to sleep, instead of going to her own room, and while she was there several other NPC guests walked in. One took a bath while another turned on the TV, waking my Sim up, then they all stood around chatting for a while. This never happened before but I really never played vacation lots that much. Thought I'd report it in case it's related to the AL problem.
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Tsarina - Your avatar freaks me out. I swiped at my monitor twice before realizing there's no creepy crawly there. ;D
Same here. Beat the crap out of my monitor with a flyswatter.
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Squinge's pregnancy wear any clothing mod breaks the closets. But Dizzy at the Laden Swallow has a similar mod that works with AL and doesn't break the closets.
Thanks for the heads up! I would truly miss that wonderful hack. EAxis must hate pregnant ladies, they dress them so fugly. >:(
Bruce Banner:
:)Likes
The new Bathroom Medicine Cabinets ( one is a mirror too ) with the new Face Wash and Teeth Cleaning interactions ( which should have been in from the base game considering Sims could clean their teeth in Sims 1 ::) .)
The kids playground stuff . Makes a nice change for the kids to get a few decent items :)
The new pool table is far better than their previous efforts and more like a classic American Pool table .
The ceiling looks fine to me and the default white one goes with pretty much any colour walls anyway , Maybe the problems of the ceiling not disappearing with the walls are down to when you repaint the ceiling and/or use a custom flooring on the ceiling because the default ceiling disappears with the walls when needed to in my game ??? And surprisingly the ceilings don't seem to cause any lag at all . When I tried custom ceilings ages ago I got lag in my game and expected the same with this , but these don't seem to have any affect on game performance at all :)
Being able to move some official items higher and lower on the walls is pretty cool , although I was surprised that the Maxis plasma tv couldn't be moved like that ( I didn't expect custom objects to be movable in this manner though , which it seems they aren't )
The new vending machines seem non autonomous , which is good considering sims often flock round items like this like flies round shit if they're autonomous :D
:-\Neutral
Witches ain't my bag really so I don't really have much of an opinion on them . I hope those that wanted them like them , but it won't be something I'll be using in the game .
The same goes for the apartments feature itself . They're just like glorified hotel rooms in my opinion so I'll be sticking to my sims having their own homes , although I can see how this feature might interest some .
The reputation score thingy is not something I've really taken much notice of yet either , so I'll reserve judgment on that too .
>:(Dislikes
The new auto-generating character thumbnails . Changing it in the mirrors was perfectly fine before . Using the ' batman box ' to change it whenever needed was even easier . So what do EA do ? Make it so it changes every single time they get dressed etc . It wouldn't bother me if it wasn't for the fact that a number of the character poses for the thumbnails are awful sort of contorted grimaces . This new feature makes the thumbnail generating feature of Pescado's Lot Debugger redundant at present because it automatically gets changed too often anyway so if you currently used that to change it to a preferred thumbnail you'd be doing it constantly ::) I hope someone , anyone , makes a hack to override this feature so we can go back to the ' Batman box ' and the mirrors for selective thumbnail regenerating because this new feature is crap .
The paperboy now seems to leave the newspaper outside the front door rather than the garden gate , which was pretty annoying at first seeing as I thought he'd not delivered one at all . No great shakes now I know where he leaves it though . I just didn't want several of them going ' missing ' cluttering up the lot , that's all .
Alex:
I also like the music. Very soothing, and doesn't drive you insane like the FT music does. It's definitely my favourite alongside OFB, Superstar and MM themes.
I'm not sure I'm too happy about the new paper delivery feature. Yes it's great for apartments, but not so great for my more... unusual residential houses. Plus I can just see myself forgetting about it and tons of mouldy papers cluttering the front patio/deck. ;)
I was annoyed the TV can't be moved. I'm sure it's just a setting though, as they had the TV at various levels in a video awhile back. I want to move the TV up the wall a little bit, so it doesn't cut into the fireplace when placed above one.
I'm not touching my other sims until this portrait asshattery is fixed.
Tsarina:
Quote from: Lonesome Dove on 2008 August 30, 01:17:43
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Tsarina - Your avatar freaks me out. I swiped at my monitor twice before realizing there's no creepy crawly there. ;D
Same here. Beat the crap out of my monitor with a flyswatter.
I've been hearing that quite a lot. I guess I could switch my avatar to something less horrifying if it's that bad.
Edit: are you silly, entomophobic people happy now? Are talking muffins less disturbing to you? Huh? HUH?
keirra:
Oh, but, I liked your old Avi. It was freaky in a good way.
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