The Einstein Effect
Dragon Slave:
I think it *sounds* like a good thing, but won't turn out as it seems. I've seen how horrible a job random selection does with the townie pool, I can't imagine the atrocities that would occur if that force guided their lives. ::)
Of course, it may not be random at all. Maybe it would calculate relationship what would happen based on personalities and relationship scores. But even still, that's gonna take up a lot of memory. Something has got to compensate... and I fear the game will be lacking in other areas.
*sighs*
I am going to miss being able to control more than one sim. Maybe it will allow us to frequently switch between controllable households?
maxon:
I'm not going to miss being able to control more than one sim at all - I'm not buying Sims 3.
gali:
The option to choose 3 townie kids to raise with your controllable sims is redundant, because I do it now to all townie kids with the "moveinall" hack. In this case, the game generates more kids, thus all my new-borns can have new friends.
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.
I agree with SimBliss about the common aging - I am against it too. I imagine myself playing Brandy Broke during 28 sim days, until she is elder, take her out to some community, and meet the old Cassie, or Komei, or Brandon Lilard - it will ruin all my pleasure of the game.
The more EA tries to simulate the real life in the game - the more they ruin the fiction; and the fiction is the cause we play this game, isn't it?
kemowery:
Quote from: Dragon Slave on 2008 September 12, 00:22:07
I think it *sounds* like a good thing, but won't turn out as it seems. I've seen how horrible a job random selection does with the townie pool, I can't imagine the atrocities that would occur if that force guided their lives. ::)
I don't even want to imagine the hideous spawn of any two random Eaxis sims. Making sure my sims meet sufficiently attractive NPC sims to have kids with is the hardest part of the game.
Witches:
I think if you view sims 3 as being a whole different game from sims 2 it might be OK. I like the idea of personalities as opposed to aspirations and the greater variety of appearances of the sims, although they all look too much like Pixar characters for my taste. (Wall-EEE.) As I am sick to death of townies, I think it would be cool if Sims 3 had an option that let you create your own entire town, even if you only ended up playing one or two of the sims.
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 and even though I find having to play every freaking sim in my neighborhood more than a bit tedious just so everyone ages together, I'm not sure I want to go to the other extreme and only get to play one sim. Also, if the game is allowed to determine the fates of anyone I'm not playing I shudder to think of the results. I think I'd end up not caring much about anyone except my own sim. I have a lot of questions, for starters, do the other sims have kids, so your neighborhood keeps growing until it becomes unplayable? Or do new townies sprout up when the old ones die? If everyone ages you need to get new sims somehow.
One thing I'd like to see is social consequences. Like, if you're a grouchy old lady your neighbors avoid you. Or if you're famous you get chased by screaming fans occasionally. Or if you break some guy's daughter's heart he comes and punches you in the nose. One thing I don't like about Sims 2 is the fact that no one's even slightly afraid of werewolves or vampires. All they ever make people do is pee their pants, which frankly is damned annoying. It would be great if some of the childishness would go away to be replaced by something approaching realism, but I'm not holding my breath.
Of course, I'll need a whole new computer to play this game so it's going to have to be pretty amazing to get me to shell out that much $$.
And, oh, getting back to the original question, when I first started playing Sims 2 I had a daughter get old while her mom was still an adult. This was because the mom became permaplat, which meant she could have all the green stuff she wanted while the daughter, a family sim, had 10 kids which was about four kids too many and was so depressed about it she got old while the youngest was still a toddler. Nothing I could do, as I didn't know about hacks way back then. So yeah, that was a little weird, and hasn't happened to me since because I am a much better player now.
And, I hear you, Kemowery. I've started making attractive sims for my college aged sims to marry because the guys, especially, are just too fugly.
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