video game The Sims | Life and Death

[bad guy]

9 minutes ago, Bloodflowers. said:

 

I have yet to build dorms. Seeing how I LUV building apartments, I'm gonna have fun building dorms. One question tho, if I add student door, do they only claim that one room or is it like apartment life where they claim everything behind those doors? Because I want to build bathroom WITHIN their student dorm, and not in public bathrooms as other ones. Also I might add balcony only for the student living in that room with a jaccuzi 

 

 

My dorm building has around 15 rooms and a penthouse type room, but once you add apartment doors they will be claimed by anyone not in the household. So you'll only have control of the rooms your sims are inhabiting, which is super annoying when you have your sims rush frats/sororities because they'll run around the building and run into the rooms of the NPC student dorms which from live mode are greyed out so I'd always have to go into buy/build mode to see which room they ran into. A pain in the ass. This will also happen if you invite someone over, they'll just walk into an NPC dorm room and get lost. FFS Lot Debugger (Batbox) will kick out any stuck sims though if you have that. 

 

 

But my building has a balcony with a hot tub and DJ booth + a separate gym but it's open for anyone otherwise if a NPC snatched a room with a balcony I'd have no access to it unless I force my sim to enter their room which is annoying. I have a girls and boys communal bathrooms with multiple showers/toilets in each but yes you could make rooms with their own bathrooms. You just have to make sure the sims that move into the building claim those rooms before the NPCs do and you'll be fine. Also however many rooms you make, they will be filled by NPCs. So let's say you make a building with 20 rooms, you can only have a household of 8, so 12 of those rooms will one-by-one be filled by an NPC at random. If you have a household of 5, and you wanna add 3 more of your sims, but all the rooms are claimed, 3 NPCs will move out so that your sims can move in. The same applies if a few sims graduate and leave dorms unoccupied, they'll be taken by NPCs within a few days until you add new sims of your control to kick them out. I think there's a mod that stops the NPC dorm spawners though if you want total control.

 

 

I just built fraternity and sorority houses for a few sims because I got tired of the dorm buildings and sims getting stuck in the NPC dorms, and just the NPCs in general. They get on my nerves. They stole the best rooms too, I was fuming.

 

[poki]

Spoiler

There will apparently be new load screens soon. Said load screens will be able to feature ads for DLCs 

 

"EA please stop!"

 

[Hair]

I haven't even updated my game yet, hopefully when the pack is released it'll give me some motivation to play again 

[gloamingtheplain]

11 hours ago, poki said:

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There will apparently be new load screens soon. Said load screens will be able to feature ads for DLCs 

 

"EA please stop!"

 

It's overblown. It will feature images from base game and DLC but they won't be ads. 

[gloamingtheplain]

On 10/19/2024 at 1:32 AM, RideOrDie said:

and when it's a glitchy, buggy mess that freezes and crashes then what

 

Thankfully I've seen online that this team is more of a legacy team that's worked on a lot of good packs like Cottage Living, Growing Together, Werewolves etc. 

 

The other expansions are a newer team and no offence but their track record is terrible (Lovestruck, For Rent, High School Years). 

[poki]

6 hours ago, gloamingtheplain said:

It's overblown. It will feature images from base game and DLC but they won't be ads. 

Ooh that's good to know 

 

6 hours ago, gloamingtheplain said:

The other expansions are a newer team and no offence but their track record is terrible (Lovestruck, For Rent, High School Years). 

Ooh those are definitely a tough sale lol

 

Horse Ranch turned out cute at least. I'd sacrifice HSY if it meant more budget / dev time for Horse Ranch. 

[Henry]

Hate these long ass videos Plumbella is doing now

 

No one has the time girl

 

[poki]

16 hours ago, Henry said:

Hate these long ass videos Plumbella is doing now

 

No one has the time girl

 

All of the major youtubers are on EA's payroll so I try to avoid them

 

[Bloodflowers.]

 

 

 

[Bloodflowers.]

16 hours ago, Henry said:

Hate these long ass videos Plumbella is doing now

 

No one has the time girl

 

 

She needs to STFU and do 10 to 15 minute Sims 2 gameplays again 

 

 

[poki]

I know Castle Estates was fan voted last year but I just looked at the Life & Death build/buy and...

 

 

[poki]

Now that Cloudgaze / stargaze and a fire pit have been added to the base game, Maxis may as well just officially give us the entirety of Outdoor Retreat for free lol

 

All the 2015 DLCs should just be base game by now

[poki]

The new world does not have seasonal effects.

[Harley Quinn]

10 hours ago, poki said:

The new world does not have seasonal effects.

Once again, modders proof that they're the lifeline of The Sims 4

 

 

 

[Unoriginal]

How do you overlook seasonal effects in the new world… a feature of the game since 2018… seems fitting the game is the most successful corpse ever considering Life and Death

[poki]

Did the youtubers talk about this? I don't follow Maxis' bazillion Twitter accounts so I only discovered this yesterday on reddit. 

 

???

[Harley Quinn]

5 hours ago, Unoriginal said:

How do you overlook seasonal effects in the new world… a feature of the game since 2018… seems fitting the game is the most successful corpse ever considering Life and Death

According to a Simguru, this was a deliberate choice. They wanted Ravenwood to feel like it's suspended in time so they didn't bother with the weather progression. Seems like a poor excuse if you ask me

[Bloodflowers.]

   

 

So glad I never played Sims 4 except the free base version on my cousin's Playstation like 2 times

 

[Apolonio ₃₄]

The whole weather debacle in Ravenwood is so dumb. I get we should have a freedom of choice option (something that should have come with Seasons) but there are other worlds where the weather is static like Oasis Springs. 

[Tiziano's Boy]

32 minutes ago, Apolonio ₃₄ said:

The whole weather debacle in Ravenwood is so dumb. I get we should have a freedom of choice option (something that should have come with Seasons) but there are other worlds where the weather is static like Oasis Springs. 

Sure they bullied SimGuruNinja off Twitter because of it, toxic fandom indeed.

[poki]

19 hours ago, Tiziano's Boy said:

Sure they bullied SimGuruNinja off Twitter because of it, toxic fandom indeed.

[poki]

I was overly dramatic about the seasonal stuff, Life & Death really seems good, best DLC since Horse Ranch. 

 

Did anyone notice the November Creator Kit promotional artwork feature a pink desk swatch that we don't have in the base game? Maybe another swatches update is upon us. 

 

[poki]

So now we have:

 

- Scenario guidelines 

- Aspirations

- Wants & Fears

- New Year resolutions

- Tarot cards

- Bucket lists

 

Should have reworked aspirations and fully replace it with bucket lists like I hoped they would. This is just as redundant as the youtuber career which exists in the base game and 3 (or is it 4?) DLCs under a different name. 

[Venice B]

Why is the interior design career so hard wtf my sim literally made zero money and got his reputation even lower 

[sh0ckw4ves]

11 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Why is the interior design career so hard wtf my sim literally made zero money and got his reputation even lower 

Omg when your designer Sim is like "let's look at designs, how would you like the kitchen?" and your client is like "i loooooove skiing and and i hate rock climbing"

 

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