AFAIK, computer players can't terraform.

You were expecting them to nuke you back to the cell stage?

Tribal and Civ both have failure scenarios.  But yeah, the game is easycakepie.

I hate arbitrary limitations in a game.  Especially when they exist to cover poor design.

Dammit, remember the good ol' days (tm) when we had games like Frogger where if you screwed up, you got squashed?  Or Design-a-saurus where if you didn't design yourself properly, you got eated? 

Why do so many "kiddie" games these days think that failure is taboo?


[edit] I'm sorry, I skipped a few points there...I'm referring to the non-existant death penalty in the space stage.

Actually, now that I think about it, what's the purpose of the stardrive distance limitation?  It's not even remotely close to the distance that would result in 0 energy and there's no other supplies to consider so why does it exist at all?

They went about it completely wrong.  The max dist should be the out-of-fuel point or the point of no return, not some arbitrary number...and increased levels of stardrive should increase energy efficiency.

It doesn't help that it gives you a circle for determining maximum distance in a 3D field.  They should've just made possible destinations highlighted subtly...but this is EAxis we're talking about...

I'm just guessing, but it looks like to be about 1/5.

That's easy.  Befriend them and relocate your empire to the core.

And that's what is missing from this game.  Is it possible to change your home planet?

That wouldn't really accomplish anything.

"Here there be Dragons"?

But wouldn't that make the entire neighborhood have a zombie butler?

Is the route open?  The violin is horrible about leaving an invisible tip jar that can block off the path through a room.

Ugh...this is happening again when trying to use the skillinator to get robotery.  It worked fine at the home lot because the sim would run to the bed, but in a workshop comm lot, it ignores the couch and just keeps looping between crafting attempt and motive bitching.

I'm sure the reason for this is the massive decay that robot crafting causes for comfort, but it's pretty annoying.

I don't mind the ownable cars, it's the carpools that annoy me.  Mostly because of the incessant honking every five seconds.

The more I play, the more I wonder what purpose hobbies actually serve.  They offer zero benefit to gameplay.  It's just a way of keeping score for doing things you were already doing.

I'm assuming the thought process goes something like this:

XBL autoupdates time.
all Xboxes should share the same time.
any Xbox with a different time is modded, thus evil, thus a dirty dirty cheater, kill it! kill it with fire!

But that's just me guessing.

I was afraid of that.  How would I go about giving it one?

I don't suppose that when you fixed the good witch scalp overlay (or lack thereof...stupid EAxis shortcuts), you gave it a texture to look for?

If so, what's the texture?

I can't wait for the Splotch EP that gives us magic that lets us do things we can already do.

I was going to focus my efforts on collecting cool creatures and making designer planets, but then I realized there's no profit in it, so I went back to Sims and Soulcalibur and await new shinies for Splotch.

Although with some of the mods that have been released, it might be tinker-worthy now.

That wouldn't happen if you didn't buy cars for each member.  Or it shouldn't, unless something has changed since the last time I checked it.

And with "walk to lot" buying a car is purely aesthetic now.

But all sims that leave while a carpool exists should get into the same car.  Again, unless it's changed since the last time I tested it.  I could be talking out of my ass, though, I haven't tried that since EP2.

I'm really not sure why carpools exist.  Why can't the sims walk to work (ostensibly, to a bus stop)?

And how little there is to do in it...

Can negative actions even be rejected?  The only way I know of is to manually queuestomp.

It happened on several lots, though with the same sim. So I guess the sim could be a plague-bearer.  I just reset my neighborhood anyway, so I'll see if it happens again.

The answer is probably no, but would it be possible to allow for custom butlers on a per lot basis?

i.e. Could I make a Zombie butler or Servo butler or whatnot that performed exactly as a normal butler, including the whole NPC bit so I don't have to babysit them?  But that would only be used on one lot with different butlers for different lots?

Admittedly, I don't understand much about the sims code because I'm lazy and it does seem that this would be fairly difficult to do, unless the code was co-opted to perform the same actions under a different function.  But is it possible?