The Einstein Effect
Dragon Slave:
I try to play my hood evenly, and those I prefer playing the most I do so with aging off from time to time. Then I forget which families are behind, because I don't remember who should be what age when... so I stop aging the hood all together :'(
I know lotsynctimer is supposed to help with this, but from what I understand, it goes by times. I need something that calculates ages, since turning aging off would make times irrelevant. I'm in the process of making a huge database of all my sims and their ages so that I can keep up with it better, because things have gotten real stale in my neighborhood lately.
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But I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be giving up my sims 2 even if I get sims 3. It would have to be a pretty absorbing game for that to happen
Yeah, I see myself playing the TS3 just to see what it's like, till the newness wears out, then going back good ol' TS2. This is because my current reaction to the the trailers and previews is nothing like what I felt when I first saw things for TS2. Back then, it seemed to good to be true, and even now, I am still just as much enthralled with it all as I was the day it came out.
I think alot of this is because TS2 had everything TS1 had, plus all the things you wish it had. Because of that, I never looked back on the first game. TS3 has yet to show me it will do the same. If anything, I've found myself more and more disappointed with each new thing I read. No gradual aging? Come on! They should be past this by now! :-\
Faizah:
My reaction to the Sims 3 promotional stuff is only slightly less bored than my reaction to the Sims 2 promotional stuff, which is to say I never found Sims 2 all that impressive compared to Sims 1, until I played it. I am planning to give Sims 3 a chance, it's not like I've got anything to lose.
Also, I believe the 'one sim/household' rumour is garbled, and the truth of it is that you can only play one household at a time, but you can switch households whenever you feel like it, exactly as you can with Sims 2.
As to the original topic, in the family I started when I got FT, there are currently three generations. There's the deceased(old age) CAS sim and his elder ex-hobby-instructor widow, their three children, two just back from uni, while the third (and youngest) just hit elder on another lot, right before I installed AL. I play where I feel like, as it gives me a headache trying to keep the ages straight across different lots. (Especially as 'young elder' had a veritable clowncar of children, who I'll probably never play again after they graduate from uni...)
Zazazu:
Quote from: gali on 2008 September 12, 01:07:51
But, if I send all the teen townies to college (and I did) - my hood is empty of teens for good. I can match my teens only in the college. This issue needs an urgent fix.
Not if you age the existing child sims. In past 'hoods, I aged townies on a rotation using a combination of Inge's teleporter kitty and the in-game Sim Modder. Then spawned townie children with the in-game townie gun.
In my current 'hoods, I either have a fair number of townies, most of whom I totally ignore (grr AL spawn) or a grand total of 12 townies. Actually, it's down to 9 now as I've married 3 in.
Kyna:
AL has given me a different perspective on TS3.
I built an AL lot which is three houses with a nice community area (almost a mini-community lot) designed for families - playground, exercise bikes, chess, stereo, bbq area, and photobooth for ACR woohoo. I put three families in there, and while I'm playing one family, it's fun watching the other two families socialising in the community area, or wearing themselves out on the bikes or by skipping. If TS3 is like this, where they can socialise, but don't age, get engaged or married, or fall pregnant, then it won't be as bad as I first thought it would be.
I must try this lot with a couple of families where I've dragged the kids' sliders down to dislike each other. Will be fun watching them fight instead of play together.
kaitco:
Quote from: gali on 2008 September 12, 01:07:51
But, if I send all the teen townies to college (and I did) - my hood is empty of teens for good. I can match my teens only in the college. This issue needs an urgent fix.
You can also simply respawn townie teens using boolprop. I do it all the time because I tend to marry off/whore off all my adult townies as soon as I see new ones and, with face replacements, the fugly teens are no longer a threat.
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