Awesome Story Driver Beta-Testing reports
unstuck:
Quote from: Absimiliard on 2009 September 08, 00:45:18
Quote from: myskaal on 2009 September 07, 23:39:36
Going back to the topic of romance, could we slow it down a little?
I agree. I posted on this a while back. And I've given it some more thought. Pescado's view is that sims will try to pair up, if you want to do it make 'em sacred. I do agree with that. The problem I was having is my Lothario types with commitment issues getting hitched 40 seconds after they were in the game.
I third the romance-is-too-fast motion! The day after my female sim became a young adult, there was not ONE single man left in town. NOT ONE!! She's Good but she's gonna have to be bad now :P
The other problem with this system is the following: I started my neighbourhood by populating it with young adults; some single, some already in couples. I like my sims to play the field a bit before commiting to a life of changing diapers, so by the time my sacred couple DID start having kids, all the other families had teens already. Now my couple's youngest children don't have any peers; they are floating between the youngest of the first generation and the oldest of the second generation. They have no classmates.
Inge:
I agree the romance is too fast. Pescado did say there was a tuning file where the chance of success could be tweaked. If they fail a bit more often that should slow it down. Though if that means getting rejected more often, won't it lead to lots of negative interactions and therefore negative relationship scores between sims who should have really hit it off well?
What I would suggest instead is that the non-played sims are a bit fussier about compatibility, and don't become less fussy until they are out of young-adulthood and their body clocks started ticking away furiously. At least then the player might have a chance for a look-in during prime of life.
unstuck:
Maybe there could even be a check instituted that would scan to see if there are any singles left before marrying off the neighbours -- ie, maintaining a minimum number of eligible bachelors/bachelorettes.
Incidentally, I have not been able to make a sim go from zero to married in on day yet; no one in my town should either. I like your idea, Inge, that Young Adults may or may not get married to their loves whereas adults will more readily.
edalbformat:
I have to agree that the romances are way too fast. I'm playing a system of overstuffed houses where I play each house separatedly, then I transfer the fully adjusted houses into another hood that has no possibility of increasing population. I found out that 16 sims in a house occupies less than half of the place they would occupy if they were in separated households.
So, a hood that would already be 49MB big, is only 27MB with the same number of sims in it.
The case is that I play those overstuffed houses for weeks, and I don't reach even a normal friendship between the household.
I place another household the same kind, so I have to switch away from the first one - I don't even finish placing the new household in town, and all the members from the away household are already paired. Notice that, when I was playing that household, many of the members were enemies and fight like hell just by being in the same room. Be also informed that I placed ALL the game characters together with mine. So I have Gunther and Cornelia as just roomates, as well I placed Nick Alto inside the house and he slaps every member of the household. Be also informed that I made everybody to YA, and reset the age to start. So, all the inhabitants of my hood are YAs and should not get into marriage so fast.
Naples:
If Sims start waiting to get married until they are adults then wouldn't we be facing the same issue that we did with ISM? As in to many old farts with kids? I would not want that same issue to happen again. It was horrible when it happened in ISM, if this is what would happen please do not do it. Instead if you have a Sim you want your Sim to marry why not just have your Sim ask that one to break up with her/his lover? I know you get the ex in the relationships and a bad moodlet for like 3 Sim hours, but which is worse?
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