Apartment Life: Obligatory Hate/Love Topic
Lum:
Like:
I like the new everyday clothes, actually. Yay for more gym clothes too!
Dislikes: Not being able to edit the apartment lots.
I don't actually consider the game 'ready' until I get all my old hacks back in business. I'm willing to sacrifice Belladonna to the borkiness gods until then. Once the hacks get sorted, I'll return to my 4th gen main hood and really give it a try. I like what I've seen so far, though.
Faizah:
Quote from: Roux on 2008 August 30, 01:08:43
I really like the start-up music, too. One of the more pleasant arrangements of the Sims 2 theme, IMO, which is a good thing if I'm going to be listening to it for who-knows-how-long.
But you know, you can copy a previous EP's splash.package to overwrite it, if you really hate it that much. (Make a backup first, of course.) I had to do that with FT's start-up. I didn't mind it at first, but it got annoying very quickly.
Ugh. Wish I'd known about that, I hated FT's music so much. Some of the notes were very jarring, at just the wrong pitch, especially considering my 'sound system' is a pair of headphones at top volume, left on the desk. I love AL's music, but only time will tell if I really like it, or just think I do because of what came before.
I probably should list what I love/hate about this EP, to get back on topic.
I like...
...the ceilings. But, I groan also, as I have recently been taking a whole bunch of photos in FT, to the point where I don't ever want to go through that again. The sky, the sky, must hide the sky! Aaargh.
...apartment neighbours, easy friends. Plus, I caught one actually sleeping, in bed, in her own apartment!
...the enormously overpowered thrones at level 9 witchery. Feels every bit the cheat that it is, but, keeps the sims happy. Good in large house-holds. (Because I'd rather not play a poky little apartment, actually.) I should try sitting evil on good's chair and vice versa though, may be good for a laugh.
I could live without...
...the butler, the landlord's garden/tidy/repair routine if it kept him/her from spitting out 'Nothing to do, bye!' messages every day.
...the bazillion hairs with different coloured clips/scrunchies. If scrunchie colour was that important, surely there could be another way of doing it, perhaps an accessory?
...the bookcase 'doors'. Cute idea, but only really useful to block something from autonomous use. Even then, there's probably stomping and whining and "I can't get that!"
...neutral spells (summon familiar, teleport) pulling the bar to neutral. I think the spell book 'neutral' option should still do that, but not the spells. They're the only ones I can see myself using. Inflammo is fun the first time, but, after that, not so much. (Note to self, must see if Inflammo appears on another Sim's 'Cast Spell...' menu.)
...NPCs being immune to spells. (Though I can live with this one, too.) The gypsy was just standing there polishing her ball, she was obviously not too busy to act like a chicken.
I hate...
...not being able to BUILD in apartments, or buy for outside. I've only recently gotten into building, and it's annoying to have that taken away now. I could understand 'no structural changes', but since when has a fence or a floor divider or a telescope been 'structural'?
...the floor dividers counting as walls, cutting off what's beyond them from the rest of the apartment. Bleh.
...the run-together "poems" in the spell book. This would have made the 'could live without' list, if it didn't bug me that one spell is actually formatted correctly. If they can make one work, why not the others? Just makes the rest more annoying. Grr.
jlkeal:
The gypsy dropping off the genie lamp no longer works. At least not in the trailer park. I would imagine it's because she can't leave the lamp in a 'common' area. She shows up on the lot as usual in her 'sneaky' mode, gets to your sim's door, then leaves without dropping off the lamp. She says the usual 'You have blah, blah arduous journey', etc. and then leaves. No lamp.
Tsarina:
Quote from: Faizah on 2008 August 30, 18:26:00
...the bazillion hairs with different coloured clips/scrunchies. If scrunchie colour was that important, surely there could be another way of doing it, perhaps an accessory?
I'm kind of angry at EAxis because of this particular 'feature'. They said that they've 'added over 30 new hairs', and this is what we get.
sloppyhousewife:
Quote from: dream_operator on 2008 August 30, 15:46:37
I don't like my sims setting the tables out in the community areas when they serve food. I suppose in the future before I move any more sims into apartments, I'll put flowers or something on the outside tables to prevent this.
Eww - thanks for the warning. I think it's time to test if Monique's servecount hack still works with AL...
As for the butler - I don't think he's too bad. I kept mine until my sim had enough group meals for the next 183 years in his inventory, then fired him. I just wished he would do a bit more butler stuff, like answering the phone, bringing in the newspaper and pay the bills. Also, I think he should be more expensive (but maybe this will be taken care of in a future "expensive NPCs" version?).
The reputation thing is funny. My sim (2 nice points) went from neutral to "lousy loser" in no time. The responsible townie is now part of his private graveyard.
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