Phone Sort of Hack
Trixiet:
Hey, your Royal Awesomeness.
In all your copious free time, would you consider making a 'not quite so hacked phone' hack?
The ringing endagers my sanity, the 'have you been abducted, you never call me' calls endager my townie's lives. Being able to just call your friends is a godsend (thank you god)
But the part of the hack that makes them stay on the phone until their social is maxed AND their daily is maxed is just not compatible with 99.99% of the challenges that we do.
So there are hundreds, even thousands of people who can't use your phone hack, because of the one tiny thing that changes the gameplay the most.
If you could make a ChallengePhoneHack (or whatever) that takes that part out, it would be an even greater godsend to us. I know the phone babysitting is annoying, and should have been programmed differently, but that is what we are stuck with, if we want to do the challenges.
And the challenges are what keeps it FUN for a lot of people :)
So thanks for considering this, and thanks even more if you get the chance to DO it. You will be a hero to thousands of Townie Sims out there who no longer have to worry about being invited over 'for a little swim' or to 'play with Spot, the cowplant'.
Trixie
sara_dippity:
Personally I would love one that only fixed bugs and set the ringer, nothing else.
Gus Smedstad:
I actually don't care for that aspect of the Phone Hack myself, but I've been willing to accept the "cheatiness" of Sims staying on the phone until they reach 100 DR in exchange for incoming phone calls being useful rather than annoying spam. It's not quite a "cheat" since you can get the same effect manually by calling Sims over and over, but I prefer bringing Sims up to the 30-35 range on the phone and then inviting them for face-to-face interactions, rather than zooming right to 100 from the start. For me the tradeoff has been worth it.
Which challenges put restrictions on phone calls, by the way? I can't think of any myself. But then, I've only played the "Bachelor Challenge," though I've considered doing "Legacy." My problem is that most challenges I've read are dumb. They're easy and open-ended. It'd be nice to see a board devoted to challenges that were actually worth playing.
Quote from: sara_dippity on 2005 September 21, 21:52:03
Personally I would love one that only fixed bugs and set the ringer, nothing else.
Don't you find calls where they just say "Why haven't you called me?" an annoying waste of time? For popularity and romance sims, it seems like there are days when 10-15 nimrods will call to say that instead of chatting.
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You will be a hero to thousands of Townie Sims out there who no longer have to worry about being invited over 'for a little swim' or to 'play with Spot, the cowplant'.
Uh, that sounds like a really bad thing to me. Certainly if I were Pescado I'd think twice about changing the phone hack if it were to save Townies from the Cow Plant.
- Gus
sara_dippity:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 21, 22:00:24
Quote from: sara_dippity on 2005 September 21, 21:52:03
Personally I would love one that only fixed bugs and set the ringer, nothing else.
Don't you find calls where they just say "Why haven't you called me?" an annoying waste of time? For popularity and romance sims, it seems like there are days when 10-15 nimrods will call to say that instead of chatting.
No. I turn off the phone. Just like I do in real life.
Ancient Sim:
I always cancel it out well before it gets to that stage anyway. If they need X amount of social I prefer them to ring several people rather than just one, especially if they are going for 20 Best Friends. Sometimes they reach 100 on their own if they're close, but mainly I keep watch and stop them when they still have some social to get so they can make as many friends/best friends as possible out of the session. I never use the AutoYak facility because of this.
What I really want (and get ignored everytime I ask for it!!!) is a separate hack that doesn't stop the stalking. I really only use the hack to stop the constant "Why haven't you called me?" calls, I would much rather keep the others as I find them amusing. I miss seeing the parents of kids hovering around outside like Peeping Toms and would really love a separate version that doesn't take that out, ditto the kids that keep calling. Also, the parents hovering around and so on removes what could be some interesting scenarios if the parent is an Enemy, or furious with the Sim, or whatever. I don't want to miss out on anything like this that may come about.
I think with a hack as complex as this, we really should have separate versions because different elements appeal to different people, as this thread illustrates.
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