Playing AL without apartments: witches enough?
Zazazu:
At certain rep levels, you can get discounts on buy mode objects, random blind dates if not married, or a "prototype" to test...always a tv for me. You also can be offered a job at a higher level than the newspaper gives. The only bad rep result I've seen caused higher prices on buy mode objects. Most of my sims are nice. According to IGN, it says that the rep bar level affects your starting relationships with people. However, it says that's the only affect, which is patently false. They say that the benefits are a result of befriending sims in social groups. My one 'hood has no social group sims and I've gotten the benefits. Lies.
And there's that dumb salary thing I need to catch a screen shot of. I want it dead. I had thought it was purely a rep thing, but now I think it has to do with owning a business, since both times I've gotten it it was while I was running a business and the receiver was the owner. You can't zero it out or cancel it out, and the lowest amount is $5/hour.
Cappuccino:
Quote from: cuddles on 2008 September 30, 16:17:34
I also really hate the good vs evil alignment thing. The more "good" you are the less spells you can cast on the evil side and vice versa. I would like to see a mod to remove this restriction (I'm thinking someone will make one like that eventually).
Someone (TripleM) already has made that. Check the Peasantry.
ETA: Gah, I'm feeling extra helpful today: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,12918.0.html
coralleane:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 30, 17:40:09
At certain rep levels, you can get discounts on buy mode objects, random blind dates if not married, or a "prototype" to test...always a tv for me. You also can be offered a job at a higher level than the newspaper gives. The only bad rep result I've seen caused higher prices on buy mode objects. Most of my sims are nice. According to IGN, it says that the rep bar level affects your starting relationships with people. However, it says that's the only affect, which is patently false. They say that the benefits are a result of befriending sims in social groups. My one 'hood has no social group sims and I've gotten the benefits. Lies.
And there's that dumb salary thing I need to catch a screen shot of. I want it dead. I had thought it was purely a rep thing, but now I think it has to do with owning a business, since both times I've gotten it it was while I was running a business and the receiver was the owner. You can't zero it out or cancel it out, and the lowest amount is $5/hour.
Salary thing? I've had a few Sims get the "Wow, I'm in the same career as you, I think you should get better wages!" benefit. I agree that it doesn't seem to actually require social group townies at all - a couple of the benefits have come from standard townies IIRC, and the reputation increase is with anyone on a community lot.. so my business owner had max reputation incredibly quickly, as does anyone who goes out on a date or two to a comm lot.
Apparently the prototype can be a TV or a computer - I seem to mostly get the computer, but I've had one or two TV's as well. Another benefit/penalty is lower/higher rent if your Sim lives in an apartment.. apparently promotions/demotions as well, but I've not seen this yet.
Edited to Add:
..on the original topic - I'm not really using apartments much, and I only have one witch, and I still rather like the expansion pack overall. The little things that have been mentioned above, such as the ability to move items up/down walls, spiral staircases, ceilings (I use a minimum of CC so never bothered with custom versions of ceilings/stairs), skipping, the new playground stuff (some of which builds body skill - always useful!) and so on are things that can make the pack worthwhile even without the main draws.
VacantBlue:
Can't say much about a good reputation yet, but I have one Sim who has a bad rep. When she meets a Sim, her relationship both lifetime and daily are immediately negative. Also, while not directly interacting, other Sims make a goofy noise and walk away from her like they are scared of her.
Gwill:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 30, 17:40:09
...random blind dates if not married...
I'm sure I had a married sim get an offer of a blind date. It rather surprised me.
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