Moodlets + Six Bars vs. Eight Bars
chaos:
The only thing that bothers me about the moodlets and having only six bars is that comfort is no longer a factor, when it comes to furniture selection. Depending on where I place a bookcase, the sims will choose a cheap and uncomfortable-looking patio/dining chair over a comfy sofa, which is illogical. At least in TS2, furniture had a comfort rating, and sims would choose the most comfortable item over what happened to be nearest the bookcase. I just make sure that I place bookcases close to the better furniture, but it's silly that I have to do that in the first place.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: chaos on 2009 July 09, 06:34:03
The only thing that bothers me about the moodlets and having only six bars is that comfort is no longer a factor, when it comes to furniture selection. Depending on where I place a bookcase, the sims will choose a cheap and uncomfortable-looking patio/dining chair over a comfy sofa, which is illogical. At least in TS2, furniture had a comfort rating, and sims would choose the most comfortable item over what happened to be nearest the bookcase. I just make sure that I place bookcases close to the better furniture, but it's silly that I have to do that in the first place.
I wish that were really true. The chair selection algorithm in TS3 is maddening compared to the TS2 one: In TS3, a sim will aggravatingly like 3 hours across the lot to reach that ONE chair, which is intended for some OTHER purpose and block it for everyone else. AwesomeMod actually had to take steps to CORRECT it to prevent them from obsessing over distant chairs in other rooms!
Zazazu:
Quote from: Liz on 2009 July 09, 00:28:48
Right now the bar that's pissing me off is hygiene. Yes, daily bathing is good and good for you. But say my sim has a bath before bed. Then she gets up to sit at her desk job all day, comes home to eat a salad, and sits around reading for a while. Her hygiene should not be ready to tank like she's been filth farming the English countryside ("Ooh, Dennis, there's some lovely filth over here!"). Yes, it's been 24 hours since she took her bath. Certainly another one wouldn't be a bad idea. But a calm, easy, sedentary day should not lead to "ZOMG, I need a bath NAO!"
I could see neat and perfectionist sims needing a daily shower. Others, more like every other day. Apparently, this is how frequently most of my friends bathe. I do so at least once daily, often twice. I'm half German and I hate being oily.
J. M. Pescado:
Constant bathing is unhealthy and oil is good. The oil is what protects your skin from nasty things, and removing all the oil is hard on your skin. In the absence of doing anything particularly grimy, you should bathe maybe once a month, certainly no more than once a week, tops.
Kyna:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2009 July 09, 06:19:54
Actually, the calculation for energy is special. What it's doing is that it is determining the sims's "Wake Up Time", then sending them to sleep at the point where Expected Recharge Time intersects "Time To WakeUp", which should result in the Fully Rested moodlet at full power right before work. The machine is smarter than you are.
My sims are waking up at 6am, heading down to the library to do some skilling before work under SupCom, then when they get to the library they turn around and go home so that they can go back to bed for one more hour. Then the car pool arrives, and they've wasted that extra hour - they didn't get any skilling done, nor did they make it back home to their bed to charge up the "fully rested" moodlet.
Can you please stop them going back to bed if they just got up and it's only a couple of hours before work time?
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