THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
tedw:
I've spent more time experimenting with CAS and building than I have playing any of my sims lives, so I haven't experienced some of the errors others have during gameplay, but I wanted to chime in to say I'm disappointed in the way that EA seems to have taken a step back with some building options for TS3 compared to TS2.
We've lost stages, the ability to place modular stairs atop one another (the way most real houses work) or doors on the same tile as the staircase beginning/end with moveobjects on, individual roof heights, some of the pool shapes, moving painting decor up and down walls... and for some unfathomable reason, they declined to make chimney stacks, stairs or fences recolorable via CAST.
It's also a bit cheap that so many objects seem to be slightly higher res versions of TS2 models. I suppose it could take a long time to make new objects for them (although I have built some myself for TS2, so I understand the length it can take) but it smells a bit of taking a cheap option by using meshes built by the designers of the last game and slapping them into this.
These don't amount to bugs, but for those of us who spend as much time designing/building houses as we do watching our sims pee themselves or try to navigate around each other, I think this is a poor choice.
cyperangel:
Quote from: Acid_fairy on 2009 May 23, 12:26:28
Quote from: coltraz on 2009 May 23, 05:11:14
In other news, I realized my Sims stereo only works when playing CUSTOM music! All other stations and Sims 3 music is not working.
sigh.
Mine does the same. At the gym, the 'Electronica' station worked for a short while, and also the buy mode has also worked, but it's very intermittent. I have just updated my audio drivers so I will see if that makes a difference but somehow I doubt it will.
I am not sure whether you already noticed this, but the stereos only play music in one room. Unlike sims 2 where the music played all over, albeit lower and lower the farther you gor from the stereo, in sims 3 it only plays in one room, the one where the stereo is. Go to any other room, or outside, and you cant hear the music. At least that is how it works in my game.
ETA: Btw, this bugs the crap out of me. In sims 2 i used the stereo as a kind of background music, but with this new system, i have to have stereos in all rooms and outdoors to get the same effect. Flard!
BlueSoup:
Quote from: cyperangel on 2009 May 23, 12:37:20
I am not sure whether you already noticed this, but the stereos only play music in one room. Unlike sims 2 where the music played all over, albeit lower and lower the farther you gor from the stereo, in sims 3 it only plays in one room, the one where the stereo is. Go to any other room, or outside, and you cant hear the music. At least that is how it works in my game.
ETA: Btw, this bugs the crap out of me. In sims 2 i used the stereo as a kind of background music, but with this new system, i have to have stereos in all rooms and outdoors to get the same effect. Flard!
That's because now it's an upgrade a mechanically-inclined Sim can give their stereo system, along with unbreakable (comes first) or improved speakers (comes at the same time as the multi-room speaker system, I think). Then it wakes up the entire family no matter which room they're in and they all get pissed off and have an unhappy moodlet about being woken up in a rude way. :P
ETA: It shows up at around Level 8ish or so for the handiness skill.
cyperangel:
Yeah, i tried that upgrae, and then had to spend half the nigh getting rid of it again so the rest of the family could get some sleep. I still want sims 2 stereo functions rather than this!
phyllis_p:
Quote from: SlickCee on 2009 May 23, 02:53:00
-One thing I have not figured out yet is how to set up public places for parties. The method I'm using now is putting the things I need in the Sims' inventory and taking it from there. But even that don't work because I had a dilemma at the pool where the birthday cake would not place on the picnic table :P
You have to "edit neighborhood" and go to the site ahead of time and set up the stuff you want to use. I don't know if you can put the birthday cake there in advance, but I don't know why not. My political gal had a want to through a campaign fundraiser, so she threw it at the art museum. I went there in edit neighborhood mode and put up balloons, a bar, and a buffet table. Didn't cost my gal anything. When she got there it cost her $250 to "serve" the buffet table. I couldn't determine that there are any bartenders, but people were able to make themselves drinks. When they finished eating, they set the plates on the floor and they disappeared, so no mess. It was highly successful. She raised something like $35,000 in campaign contributions.
I think I may just leave the buffet and bar there in case I have other parties there in future.
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