TS3 L&P
DrNerd:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 February 04, 09:50:44
Quote from: DrNerd on 2009 February 04, 08:00:42
Those two TS3 SimSelves would be hard to identify as being avatars of actual people. My first instinct was "albino rhesus macaque" and "Bodie from Locke & Key."
To be fair, we're talking about the avatars of some simmers whose actual appearances are unknown to us. It's quite possible that they really are that ugly, and most likely really are that fat.
For me, the "doughiness" in the facial features isn't about fatness. The faces just don't move right. To me, TS2 Sims look like cartoon versions of real people, so the fact that the faces don't always move naturally isn't a problem, because you don't expect cartoons to obey the laws of nature. The TS3 Sims look more like someone tried to make a real person out of a cartoon, and that's where the weirdness comes in for me. The faces are just real enough that the cartooniness doesn't work, but still too cartoony to be real, and the whole thing comes off as slightly creepy.
Aside from that, given the limitations of recreating yourself in Sim form, SimSelves often look LESS odd than the actual person, at least if you're creating a SimSelf keeping the possibility of breeding in the back of your mind. So if those two TS3 SimSelves are somewhat idealized versions of themselves, I weep for their actual appearance.
jolrei:
Quote from: talysman on 2009 February 04, 20:14:52
If you're playing multiple households in a rotation, I would imagine the best method would be to turn aging off, play all families but one for a specific length of time each, then turn aging on and play the final family for the same period. This doesn't prevent sims from doing things you don't want when not being played, but it does keep aging in sync without provoking rapid deaths.
Yes, I imagine that if/when we all start doing things with TS3, it will only be a matter of time before workarounds are found for a number of "annoyances". The community time issue is likely one of the least troublesome, as you have noted.
Mandapotpie:
I also gathered that aging on/off was all or nothing. But I am also sure I read at Parsimonious, that you can have multiples of the same neighborhood. Like parallel universes, so I guess I will just have 1 family in each that I care about.
rufio:
Quote from: jolrei on 2009 February 04, 18:47:19
Quote from: Insanity Prelude on 2009 February 04, 18:41:27
And yes, I got the impression that turning off neighborhood aging was an all-or-nothing deal too. That is unacceptable, and if it does turn out that way, it's a dealbreaker for me.
It would make playing a MATY hood that had more than one playable household almost impossible, I would think. All of MATY could conceivably age and die within one rotation.
On the other hand, it would increase the lulz of random events occurrences (i.e. after playing the Lorelei house for 5 sim days, and then moving on to the Jelenedra house, one discovers that Jelenedra has had 3 kids, Khan (her husband) has left her to move in with Tigerlilley, and the Charlatan has moved in, potentially causing a BFBVFS).
Yes - the one thing that is still making me consider acquiring TS3 is that if the AI is good enough there is a definite possibility for lulz. In fact, I'd probably enjoy just creating a neighborhood full of sims with incompatible personality traits and just sitting back and watching them make drama, but it would probably not be lulzy for long enough to merit the time it takes to torrent, and I have little faith that the AI would actually be that good. And, when you get down to it, the reason for all the hours I've put into TS2 is that I actually start to care about what happens to the sims and try to write a unique story for most of them. If these sims are going to be doing their own thing when I'm not watching them, I doubt I'd really start to care about their lives that much.
Solowren:
I'm just not even thinking of Sims 3 as a sequel to Sims 2. For me, it's better to think of it as a completely different game. I will keep playing TS2, of course, but I will ARR TS3 and play that as well. Keeping them separate in my mind keeps me from being pissed off about all the shit they're doing to TS3.
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