Sims 3: Irritations and worries

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:51:08 GMT, "Jeanie" <Nobody.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote:

>been for this game. Why not write to EA Games/Ron Humble (Rod? I
>forget...) and say how YOU feel about the game? If the game is still in
>development, it's not too late to make changes in it. If enough Sims

Can I? I mean, I assume I'd have to write EA and that it would
dissappear amongst all the fanmail lol.

>their own cash cow. These articles acknowledge that only 20% of Sims
>players are under 17, and that the vast majority of avid players are older,
>more mature players, and that a great many of them are female. (I know you
>aren't female, but you see the point I'm making, don't you?)

60% female, aye indeed.

>Squeaky wheels and all that. Shoot, maybe we should all write in. And I do
>honestly believe that some of the Maxoids /are/ keeping up with online
>forums (maybe even this one, who knows?) to keep a finger on the pulse of
>the players and know what it is they most want in the game. As I mentioned
>in an earlier post, we had a thread like that in here not long back and
>nearly everything we said we wanted is included in this version of the game.
>That has to mean that "they" are listening somehow.

I think those are recurring themes on most forums, and while I'm sure
they read a lot of fanforums (as evidenced by them popping up in
different places to post) I don't think Usenet is on their radar lol.
Also, those features have probably been in implementation and design
phases for 3-6-9-12 months maybe longer... more a case of great minds
think alike... I dunno. On one hand I feel that I should wait til I
see something more concrete, and see how the game plays, before I
start some campaign of terror against them, on the other hand, by then
it might be too late?

Maybe TheSims3.com will have a forum to post it?
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:03:43 GMT, "Jeanie" <Nobody DeleteThis @home.com> wrote:

>But I didn't understand it that way at all. The article said that there
>would be a popup saying that so-and-so needed to pee or was hungry, and that
>clicking the popup would satisfy that need. Granted, it will be a bit odd
>to know that the sim must have on a diaper since they don't have to pee
>anymore, yet never went to the bathroom. <g> And I guess I'm a bit

Argh, that sounds even more horryfing than the one I thought they were
going for...

>Well, actually, I think the way it is NOW is a lot more like a virtual
>dollhouse with less of a challenge. I mean, a person can play one house for
>days at a time and not have to worry about anything else going on in the
>neighborhood unless they take their sim to a community lot and two playable

Well, that's not a matter of challenge, that's a matter of control and
pacing. The producers said themselves that the number one thing all
simmers crave is creative control. It sounds like they're taking it
all away from us.

>game, usually to families that I really didn't want it to happen to!) But,
>if everybody is aging at the same time, the challenge then becomes keeping
>the neighborhood in sync and playing first one and then another and then yet
>another in quick rotation to keep the ball in the air, as it were.

As an industria and strategicl simmer who enjoys creation and
fruitation, to me, this would mean simultaniously playing hundreds of
sims, which obviously, is not doable. I'll effectively lose all
control of my sims. I don't understand how this aspect of TS3 is
supposed to work at all.

>Well, to be honest, I've never played a console game of any kind. My kids
>have a playstation but I've never been tempted to fool with it, and even my
>daughter wasn't interested in getting any of the sims games for it because
>she couldn't have downloads in it. So, I really don't know how those games
>play, but I suspect they are like most "games" in that they involve strategy

If you were to pick up the console versions of TS I'm pretty certain
you'd be horrified...

>and some sort of "winning." In my opinion, there is no "winning" in the
>Sims2, unless it could possibly be having your sim die of old age after
>attaining a LTW. In the Sims2, it's all about the dollhouse, it's all about
>the "pretending." And I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a 52 year old
>grandmother who loves to "pretend." LOL

To me it's all about creativity. Sure, I could pretend to call them
action figures, but simulation has always fascinated me. And what is
more fascinating than simulating other human beings? I can't think of
anything
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katy wrote:
> barbara.RemoveThis@bookpro.com wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:59:01 -0600, "Jeremy Reaban"
>> <jer.RemoveThis@connectria.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "katy" <katysails.RemoveThis@netscape.com> wrote in message
>>> news:63smvbF28c0auU1@mid.individual.net...
>>>
>>>> Guardian Pegasus wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> All we can do now is pray, frankly... lol.
>>>>
>>>> You think God goves a rat's ass about the Sims? hahahahahaha....
>>>
>>> Well, yeah, considering he's probably playing the Sims 56...
>>
>>
>> Maybe *we* were Humans 2 and he's moved on to another planet that has
>> the specs needed for Humans 3 or Humans 4 or whatever Big Maxis in
>> the Sky has created by now.
>>
>> BW
>
> Considering the state of affiars here, He should have put us on pause
> until he came back to us..look what

Maybe he made us a test world for ArchAngel TJ's mod, Autonomous Casual
Behaviours. When it was still in alpha!


--
kat
>^..^<
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Guardian Pegasus wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:51:08 GMT, "Jeanie" <Nobody.DeleteThis@home.com> wrote:
>
>> been for this game. Why not write to EA Games/Ron Humble (Rod? I
>> forget...) and say how YOU feel about the game? If the game is
>> still in development, it's not too late to make changes in it. If
>> enough Sims
>
> Can I? I mean, I assume I'd have to write EA and that it would
> dissappear amongst all the fanmail lol.

A quick google search on Rod Humble turns up his email address.
humble.rod.DeleteThis@gmail.com It's worth a shot, I think.

>
>> their own cash cow. These articles acknowledge that only 20% of Sims
>> players are under 17, and that the vast majority of avid players are
>> older, more mature players, and that a great many of them are
>> female. (I know you aren't female, but you see the point I'm
>> making, don't you?)
>
> 60% female, aye indeed.
>
>> Squeaky wheels and all that. Shoot, maybe we should all write in.
>> And I do honestly believe that some of the Maxoids /are/ keeping up
>> with online forums (maybe even this one, who knows?) to keep a
>> finger on the pulse of the players and know what it is they most
>> want in the game. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we had a
>> thread like that in here not long back and nearly everything we said
>> we wanted is included in this version of the game. That has to mean
>> that "they" are listening somehow.
>
> I think those are recurring themes on most forums, and while I'm sure
> they read a lot of fanforums (as evidenced by them popping up in
> different places to post) I don't think Usenet is on their radar lol.
> Also, those features have probably been in implementation and design
> phases for 3-6-9-12 months maybe longer... more a case of great minds
> think alike... I dunno. On one hand I feel that I should wait til I
> see something more concrete, and see how the game plays, before I
> start some campaign of terror against them, on the other hand, by then
> it might be too late?
>
> Maybe TheSims3.com will have a forum to post it?

I think if you wait until thesims3.com becomes a functioning website, it
will be far too late to change the basic game engine. Aging the entire
neighborhood at the same time would have to be written deep into the game's
code, I would think -- but then again, what do I know? LOL

EA Games is located in Redwood City, California, with game development
studios in LA and Orlando, Florida. I have no idea which place would find
Ron Humble's offices.

Jeanie
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