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HRH Posie:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 September 01, 04:02:24
TwoJeffs has a fix for the teddy bear (and the bunny).
Zeljka: Did the toddlers get any relationship points or social satisfaction from talking to each other?
They do indeed :) When I was playing with just TS2 installed, I used to stop toddlers learning after a while so that they didn't gain too many skill points. Therefore they would spend the rest of the time playing together. In case you were wondering why, I wanted them to get all 10 career rewards as adults in the shortest amount of time possible. Obviously it doesn't matter if you have Uni installed. I've had toddlers play with toys and when they get on well, the relationship can increase in 5 point increments. Toddlers can also increase relationships by playing with the dolls house.
syberspunk:
Quote from: Oddysey on 2005 September 01, 02:40:27
I did the little survey thing. Booster packs? Ugh. I supose they'd at least have less bugs, though . . . but perhaps this is why University was rather light on content? The space stuff sounded vaguely interesting, I must admit.
I think I did a survey once or so, but I forget. Probably the one about what kinds of EPs you'd like to see later. I vaguely recall the suggestions being rehashes of the original Sims 1 EPs. But meh, I don't really remember.
Booster packs might not be too bad of an idea, but for 20 bucks? Hell no. Why pay that much when you can just download some cool shit online for free? And it seems that what the community comes up with is way better than any of the crappy clothes and hair styles that Maxis packs into their EPs. I mean ok, there was a few things that were sort of better in the EP, but Not much really. Most, if not all of the Maxis clothes are FUGLY! And the hairstyles too! And what's with all the damned hats with the SAME hairstyles! Geez! And it's like 5 gajillion recolours of the SAME hat with the SAME hairstyle underneath! I think the way hats are done is stupid. Hats and other accessories should be done as SEPARATE modelled objects, and not just part of the face or skin. I would love to see like earrings and necklaces and hats and other stuff where you didn't have to have a specific skin or hairstyle chosen for it. ::)
I've said this before, but someone seriously needs to Queer Eye that shit up. I mean, with a game that seems to be so uber gay friendly, I would have thought that they must have some gays working for them. :p So wouldn't they have at least some sense of Taste or fashion sense?!?!?! I mean really, I know that's like super cliche and whatever, and I am not the most fashionable gay in the world myself, but I know the difference between gaudy, ostentatious, and Down right hideously FUGLY! I mean, what were they THINKING? I can understand being lazy or pressed for time and not including a lot of content to choose from, but why, Why, WHY does the stuff that they DO add have to be so damned crappy looking? I mean seriously, a lot of that stuff is just, to put it plainly, the best definition of what an Eyesore can be. I mean, it would be so much better if they just added more options with Simpler, understated choices. Or at least colors that coordinated with other objects so that things would match rather than severely clash with the choices you are limited to. Anyhew, I'm whining and rambling now... ::)
And what's this about space? Now that sounds intriguing... hrm... I wonder if they could pull something off like that. Traveling to and/or moving to other planets? Having starships for vehicles? What else could they possibly do without turning the sims into a totally fantasy/sci-fi fighting game? I guess it's no different than Makin' Magic, which I thought was kind of cute and neat, but really didn't play much with. I guess I"m not that imaginative enough, so maybe that could be promising. Still, I would love to see a Superstar update with endorsed celebs again. I really wanted to be friends with Christina Aguilera ;D but I hadn't gotten that far yet in my game with enough celeb status. I actually liked that EP and I really liked going to the hollywoodish comm lots to do the acting, singing, and commercial mini-games.
And as for new Aspirations, yeah, I'd like to see that as well. I'm not sure if I could come up with any new ones either, but I think they should Definately fix up the careers they added and complete the chance cards. They should add More careers AND they should add more/varied wants and LTWs. If they are going to bother adding new careers, they should add new LTWs to go with them, because otherwise, what's the point?
Quote from: Oddysey on 2005 September 01, 02:40:27
I once worked out a whole design for a "Religion" based expansion pack.
I'm surprised no one commented on your idea. I guess no one wanted to touch that with a 10 foot pole. :D I actually thought it sounded really interesting and imaginative, BUT of course, for obviously reasons, the subject matter would be wayyyy too supsceptible to contention and would most likely be way too controversial. Still, the idea of spiritual guardians and what not sounds amusing. But in a way, I'm kind of glad that they did not include religion in the game and prefer that they leave it that way. It would get far too political and that's really unnecessary for a game, especially one such as this. But maybe... as a mod, especially with new things in development like actually being able to add/create new animations, who knows? It would be great to see community/user made/inspired EPs sometime further down the line.
Ste
ZephyrZodiac:
I quite agree with what you say about the clothes, syberspunk! I'm not gay myself (I'm also female) but I have a lot of male gay sim couples, usually at least one romance, and they generally are much more fun to play than the heteros! And they seem to anticipate each other's autonomous actions far better, too. But I'm very short of nice, attractive clothes for them. I have two sleeveless tank tops from TSR and some nice sexy undies from SF2, but apart from that, very little exciting or different clothes, and as for the evening wear! I honestly don't think a pink dinner jacket fits the bill at all!
syberspunk:
Haha, seriously, these clothes are just totally awful. Well, if you haven't already been, I found some great links to other sites at the Gay Sims Club 2 over here. The links are to other sites with some great clothes, most of them are free, and they aren't necessarily gay-oriented, just really fabulous and fashionable. ;D
I'm still looking for some nice free women's jeans and outfits as well. I've found some really cool trendy men's jeans and what not, but even the female's choices aren't so great either. I also wish that shoes would be a SEPARATE option from jeans. I think it was in Sims Bustin' Out, so why can't they do that for the Sims 2? I think it's retarded that we can't choose what kind of shoes we want our sims to wear with their outfits. I mean, a woman isn't always gonna wear flats/sandals ALL the time with jeans, or runners/sneaks ONLY with shorts. I mean come on! We should be able to mix and match things, sometimes a lady feels like heels you know? :D
And the same thing with men, sometimes you feel like sneaks, sometimes casual shoes, sometimes sandals. We should have a CHOICE! >:(
I wonder if it is like far too late to like FIX that and make shoes and accessories a SEPARATE option, or if that is just way too hard coded into the game engine. Cause maybe it would be too hard to make that backwards compatible with the current way that clothes are handled. They should have thought about that dammit! *sigh*
Ste
Zeljka:
http://www.serasims.de/ has some nice free jeans for women, as does http://www.helaene.com/ http://www.simplyelau.it has some nice stuff too though I think many of my great clothes came from the free sections of http://www.xmsims.com/ or http://www.peggysims2.net/ (sorry, I seem to be whoring links but Maxis clothes make me gag so if I can help, I will)
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 01, 18:49:05
And they seem to anticipate each other's autonomous actions far better, too...
I couldn't agree more. One of my gay couples is Knowledge and Fortune yet I've never seen a more devoted (or randier) couple. They are both pretty much skill maxed, but spin matching wants for dancing, flirting and woohoo at least twice a day. I want them to have children but they're so cute together I hate to distract them from each other.
The single focus Aspiration has irked me from day 1. I still think they should either have more than one, or evolve based on experience.
ie. Start off as Knowledge, the kiddies want to learn skills anyway, as teens, all are pretty much Romance. Once they've learned much of what they need to know, they start moving up through the ranks and as they acquire some money they start to want more expensive things.
If they fall in love with someone and marry them, (and not all Sims should want this) they start to lean towards Family wants (or not, kids aren't for everybody). If they find themselves married to a Sim who is not attentive enough, they may start to have Romance fantasies... just one scenario, I'd welcome any variety. How many kids in real life are obsessed with a parent who's only focus is work? Give it up, they should start wanting attention from someone else instead.
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