Random Deaths in TS3
Kyna:
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 13, 05:55:16
I understand what Kyna is saying about allowing her to set up her neighborhood but the problem I have is that it forces me to do that and engage in Sim City style play which I don't particularly care to do. I don't want to mess with my neighborhood. That's why I wanted story mode in the first place. For it to deal with all that and just let me play my one family.
The thing is that it's not continual play or continual re-configuration, it's do it once and forget - or it will be once I've finished figuring it out. I thought about downloading the template with cribs in every lot from the Pudding Factory, but I don't want a crib on every lot. I want a mixture of bedding configurations to enable households to move through different style housing as their needs change and to keep the population fairly stable at ~ 100 or so sims. I'm still experimenting with different amounts of each lot type, but when I've figured out how many of each type I want, I'll set up a template for my own use - although I doubt I'll be sharing the template as my idea of adding a crib to a lot that I don't intend to play is to put it on the lawn.
CM:
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 13, 05:55:16
I have complained loudly and many, many times about the issue but he is stubborn.
However I still encourage others to complain about the cribnaziism. :P
I understand what Kyna is saying about allowing her to set up her neighborhood but the problem I have is that it forces me to do that and engage in Sim City style play which I don't particularly care to do. I don't want to mess with my neighborhood. That's why I wanted story mode in the first place. For it to deal with all that and just let me play my one family.
For the most part, I love to design my own neighborhoods. I am very saddened that we cannot design our own particular neighborhoods in terms of terraforming and mapping out streets, as in SC4. EA took out the best aspect of the Sims franchise and forced us to work with the scraps they threw us. In a way, I am sort of disgusted that the developers trampled on the "sandbox" aspect of play and ruined the "creative freedom" that Sims players used to have.
With that being said, my play style is dictated by how I think the neighborhood is going to go. If there is going to be one core family and their generations dominating a particular neighborhood, then I will play that one family. Otherwise, I will place my "sacred" families on lots and build the neighborhood around them despite the limited controls we are allowed to have. Knowing that we have such limitations, I would certainly hope that the crib issue is optional despite the obstinacy being exhibited.
For my part, I will continue to read the further developments on this issue. And if there is a time to speak about it, I will be sure to put my two cents in. I would rather the decision for having kids to be left to the family and not be forced through Story mode. Story mode, as far as I am concerned, has done enough damage not only to the neighborhood but to the game itself. :(
kuronue:
Quote from: Kyna on 2009 August 13, 06:10:14
The thing is that it's not continual play or continual re-configuration, it's do it once and forget - or it will be once I've finished figuring it out.
Yeah, but it means as soon as I switch to awesomestory, I have to spend however long editing all my neighborhoods. I don't even know half the sims that live in the one I play now - the family is rather isolationist. I don't particularly find renovating houses fun, compared to just playing the damn game. And every new game I do, I have to edit everything again! At least for that I can download a ready-made hood.
gtachampion:
Quote from: Motoki on 2009 August 13, 05:55:16
I have complained loudly and many, many times about the issue but he is stubborn.
However I still encourage others to complain about the cribnaziism. :P
I am not currently playing Awesome Story Mode but am trying to keep up with issues on it in case I do. This crib thing is one issue I would have.
My simple question is this...why the obsession with cribs? My son's friend and his girlfriend and baby lived in my house for several months (as opposed to both their parents allowing them to be homeless) and there was no crib. No one could afford one, so the baby slept on a small mattress next to his parents bed which was also a mattress on the floor. Shit happens, the economy sucks, and people can't afford things like full bed frames and cribs but life goes on as does procreation apparently.
CheritaChen:
Population control. He's set it up in such a way that, as described by Kyna, the player can establish what kinds of households they will see develop. Refer to the various story mode threads in the AwesomeMod! section.
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