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Quote from: Gastfyr on 2009 August 13, 08:41:52
Quote from: Heli on 2009 August 13, 08:34:01
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you need Maxed Cooking, Fishing, and Gardening to make Ambrosia.
you can steal the Life Fruit in other Sim Garden.
That is true, but of course that means you must already have another sim in the neighbourhood who has planted and grown Life Fruit.
And yes, I too very very much miss being able to make my own custom hoods.
Every time I see "Life Fruit", I think of different little things that happened to me in World of Warcraft when I was out picking herbs. In WoW there's a plant called Liferoot. I had friends refer to it sometimes as "Life fruit" or "life-froot" time to time jokingly (long before Sims 3 was conceived of course). Amusingly, it was a plant hard to find sometimes when you were really needing it.
More about the custom neighborhoods, I have heard other people (and EA) pimp the design over its flaws by just saying that it would be "hard" or impossible to allow that because of the streaming, seamless design of the neighborhoods. To me, maybe I'm just grouchy but this sounds a little like lazy design. I'm not a programmer (and will not become one), but I digress.
It was *possible* for the designers to implement a way for normal users to make seamless custom neighborhoods, they just didn't do it -- perhaps to wait to add something like that in an expansion pack. They are ALREADY working on an expansion pack for Sims 3 now, which sounds relatively fun. (Adventuring in Sims 3? Humm!)
I miss interactions in restaurants, too. It sounds wrong, but I miss taking a bad sim and making them wet themselves in the middle of the dining area. ;D
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Not an object, but I miss songs in simlish. It's jarring to me that when I get near a stereo, "I love LA" or "Don't worry 'bout the government" comes blaring out.
Oh my gosh, do I miss this too. Were they unable to get people to make new simlish songs for this game? Also I find myself missing the music from the original Sims game and its expansions. Especially the weird elevator-type music. It had a "fun" quality to it. Kind of a bummer they just threw in a few bad songs from some designer's kid's iPod into TS3, but you can still add your own collection, which makes up for it.
J. M. Pescado:
Well,to some extent, this is true: The entire neighborhood terrain is actually a giant 3D mesh, and the radar view is made out of a prepainted overlay, and isn't actually rendered. To add a lot involves blasting a hole through the terrain mesh and defining it, so, while not possible, it is not as trivial as it sounds and it seems unlikely that it can be performed dynamically in-play. Whether it was asinine to even adopt such a design or not, that is a different question.
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Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 August 13, 09:14:00
Well,to some extent, this is true: The entire neighborhood terrain is actually a giant 3D mesh, and the radar view is made out of a prepainted overlay, and isn't actually rendered. To add a lot involves blasting a hole through the terrain mesh and defining it, so, while not possible, it is not as trivial as it sounds and it seems unlikely that it can be performed dynamically in-play. Whether it was asinine to even adopt such a design or not, that is a different question.
This is a very good point. :)
As for myself, I think it was sort of strange to adopt that sort of design. I'm sure there were other ways to get their goal for that, than what they used.
chaos:
I don't mind not being able to physically change the shape of the towns, but I'd at least like different terrain types (desert, concrete, etc), and the ability to add and remove neighborhood decorations. I really don't think that that's too much to ask.
fiberglassdolphin:
Does this mean that anyone hoping for custom neighborhoods can abandon all hope? This was going to be the ultimate deciding factor for me in purchasing future expansion packs.
I'm certain that they could have made neighborhoods customizable even with the lack of borders, but they designed the system stupidly and lazily, sacrificing user customization for superficially pleasing curvy roads. Making these neighborhoods customizable would require a lot of effort; it isn't worth the effort because they figure most players won't give a crap, and they are probably right, so go them!
I think I'm getting it through my thick skull that complaining to/about a large company makes about as much of a difference as voting.
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