The Official Gameplay Feedback Thread

[MizVoldemort]

Soooo, I was filming for my first movie today and...

- Maybe it's just my computer, but in the tab mode It was clumsy and inexact. Sometimes I'd barely touch a key and get a huge movement, othertimes I'd have to hold down a key or repeatedly press it to get the same movement.
- This made motion filming quite difficult, because the camera was often jerky and too slow or too fast to keep it's focus on the sim.
-I do however love the new tilt thing - got some pretty good angles with that.


Also, Sunset Valley really is a beautiful place. Kudos for that, and the sky effects. Sunrise is beautiful with the sun rising between the two mountains and sunset is lovely too.

[Becky]

I'd just like to say how impressed I am with all the little things in the game - like, just now, my Sim (who is in the criminal career track) was taken out of work by a police Sim and is now in jail. It's not a huge feature, but it's things like that that make this game such fun to play. I'm forever discovering new things.

[Freckles1971]

I didn't want to make a new thread about this,so I thought I would see if anyone knew in here.

You know how with the sims 2 there was a thread about all the processes you could shut down in task manager,well I was looking for that thread but couldn't find it. So my question to you is,what processes can i shut down while playing the sims 3?

Thanks.

[viewpoint]

Hi, I posted my suggestion on the official sims 3 forum. But someone there advised me to post here. My thread there is at Forums - Community - The Sims 3 .

And here goes...

I'm bored with Sims 3 already, but that's because I'm a "logic" kinda person. I like solving puzzles, challenges.

First, I wanna put my small wish list at/near the top of this post.

In summary, they are: realism expansion, challenges, ability to design challenges. Details below. Here is where you can stop reading, because the following simply justifies my wish list. Elaboration, justification, illustration, appreciation, etc.

Apology due first

I meant this post for EA'a attention. In expressing wish list, as with technical support requests, it is best to be as detailed as possible. Then EA can work on something concrete.

The length of this post is not intended to damage your eyesight (sorry CashingTheFame!). The summary of my wish list was already stated in the 2-3rd paragraph of this post above.

Also, I must apologize if I seem to fail to respond to arguments against my arguments. Some of the arguments posted are similar to what others already posted. And I already answered those arguments.

One eg. is the "just don't use the life fruit" argument. There are probably 2 ways to play Sims 3: open dollhouse and intense puzzle. In open dollhouse mode, I can ignore whatever I deem inappropriate (like how PinkiePie618 and I ignore ambrosia and life fruit). However, if I try to play a challenge/puzzle, who is to say I didn't accidentally or secretly use life fruit? The game obviously doesn't prevent that exploit.

So, I will only be posting new information to this thread. I won't restate previous arguments. My sincere apologies. This thread was intended to desperately catch EA's attention.

Elaboration, Justification, Illustration, Appreciation
(Warning, eye damage probable from this point on. :P)

I hear the first expansion is coming soon (Aug/Oct?). I really don't mind getting more features in Sims 3 through expansions. I mean, how much good can you pack into a $50 software anyway? And I currently have a lot of confidence in EA; 1 month after ship, they've created a patch that removed all crashes for me. I bought Sims 3 only after that first patch, so I never got to see any crashes.

Wish list here. 3 items, it seems.

I want a realism expansion. Give me the ability to turn off life fruit and ambrosia effects, without removing the ability to do everything in gardening and cooking (for lifetime happiness points). Remove some weird lifetime rewards, such as teleportation pad. Change mid-life crisis to cost less, but swap only 1 trait; and also maybe somehow require the sim to "live by the new trait" for a day, so the trait sticks, or it goes away and the old one comes back. Just some suggestions, because I haven't thought it all through. You're the game designers, EA. You do your thing. Oh, but don't sacrifice gameplay and balance for overly complicated realism.. But I think you know that already.

I want challenges. Not the kind that I have to manually keep score or painstakingly avoid from violating the rules. I don't want my sims to accidentally eat a life fruit when they feel hungry on the way to sell that life fruit. If I have to manually keep track of rules and scores, I'll sooner go back to board games. Of course, turn off the cheats in challenges. And when cheats are off, please fix any bugs that require us to resetsim. Eg. the restless sim syndrome after giving birth (Video - The Sims 3 - Restless Sim Syndrome - Simulation).

I want simmers to have the ability to design challenges. That is, "mod" the game, so to speak. But this is more difficult to make. I don't mind paying $10-20 for expansions that contain challenges. Still, you'll have made this "plug in" mechanism anyway, if you want to create challenges cost-effectively yourself. I don't mind paying more for this "plug in" (modding) mechanism.

Even Casual Gamers Need The Realism

As a further justification of my wish list, I argue that even gamers who say "Too.Much.Maths" will need realism in the game. These gamers are just oblivious to the realism working behind the scenes. But if the lack of realism gets compounded into a noticeable realism flaw, even the non-maths folks will balk. Eg, "I was gonna marry that sim when we grew up together, but he ate an eternal-teenagerizer!").

As you can see, I'm not the kind who will buy pretty cosmetics in your store. But I'll more than pay for challenges and gameplay balances. I still keep Sins of the Solar Empire because the developers continually tweak gameplay elements to balance the game, even though I don't have much time to play it anymore.

I hear the next expansion is like "Open For Business". Sounds terribly fun.

But if cheap and ridiculous exploits exist, any new features and challenges added will be quite pointless.

If I want to tell stories, I'd rather write. So I don't really care about the movie making feature in Sims 3. But it can still come in very handy if I wanna show off what I'm doing in challenges.

I'll be watching the new feature list for the expansions. If some obvious holes aren't patched, I think this is where I'll stop for Sims 3, won't buy any expansions.

I still love this game. Once in a while, I do devise a challenge for myself, one that doesn't involve planting special seeds (life plant). But it does get pointless after a while, hoarding more and more simoleans after the 3rd generation.

I believe there is a market for true-to-life simulations. If EA thinks "good riddance" if I stop buying Sims 3 expansions, then so be it. EA has the right to decide which market segment to target.

Just exercising free speech here, and giving free market feedback to EA.

It seems EA values the puzzle-solver market segment. Which is why we see things like lifetime happiness points and rewards. And it seems EA values realism gamers, so we see the buffs mechanism instead of a straightforward average of all motives. And the list of realism features in Sims 3 goes on, such as how work performance is based on metrics and not on "strictly above skill level X" rules. But I could be wrong about what EA values, I'm not at EA, nor have I done any form of market research here.

Obviously, if my thread is ignored here by EA, I will naturally take it as a sign to stop consuming Sims 3 products. In the meantime, I'm going out to buy top-end Saitek controllers for Microsoft Flight Simulator! Woohoo! Oh, which reminds me. I don't care for woohoo realism in the realism expansion. Just give me the puzzles.

[Olibab]

Hi, i need some help.

I have a male sim, and his realationship-bar is filled up with a female sim... but she wont woohoo, and i cant ask her to date me... what do i do???

[gregstaff01]

i want a cinema screen and hot tube thats all

[ZaekanoYto]

Sadly it seems like that thesims forums was busier when the game was not yet released than now

[Simscrazy]

I noticed that when I tell my sim to change outfit either by clicking on them or the dresser, they take ages and ages to do it. They just stand there! Also on one of my counter sinks, there is a white line in front of the counter when they wash dishes. Also the textures take a while to load when you go back to the house from town or work.

Please can you fix this.

Also can you add weather in the next expansion pack because I think it would make it even more realistic than it already is.
I really want a business, pets and uni expansion as well.
Can you also add an animation for getting in and out of cars/buses and on and off bikes. It really annoys me sometimes.

Many thanks

[Dynamo_Argentina]

Originally Posted by Becky

I'd just like to say how impressed I am with all the little things in the game - like, just now, my Sim (who is in the criminal career track) was taken out of work by a police Sim and is now in jail. It's not a huge feature, but it's things like that that make this game such fun to play. I'm forever discovering new things.

Criminal carreer is very annoying since you work hard to get promotion, and sometimes you go to jail and you work progress drops very fast, because you are MISSING WORK, agh annoying, plus you dont get such cool bonuses.

[ZaekanoYto]

I still don't know much yet if that I would like the game because I havn't played it yet because of my system requirements.
I have the disk, installed on comp (not sure but the icon's there) but cannot play it.
I hope the game's worth it.
I'll see.

[Freckles1971]

I downloaded riverview when I first installed the game,it installed fine,but now I have a problem,the one that was in the game when you bought it isn't there now. Has anyone had the same problem,and is there anyway I can get it back? Thanks.

[TrueStar01]

My feedback is negative cos I can't get the bloody thing to run

[mevidek]

What can I say?




Well, it is a (swear word) good game!

Amazing, and magnificent.

The gameplay is great, so are the graphics, but also the music is spectacular. I am playing a big family, many generations, they are also rich. With §34,000 they are extremely rich. I live in the Bachelor household. The family is called Branagan family. One of the wifes oin the family (Married to my evil Sim Pedro) is Chrystal Goth. Also her brother has moved in. I have 7 family members And I can cope up some how!

It is really fun to build on one Sim, to make them have the highest job in a career, or have the highest skill. My First Sim Michael Branagan was level 10 Guitar Skill and my other Sim Danial Branagan is level 10 Athleticism. Danial is level 8 Athletic career, and soon will be level 9, his lifetime wish.

Such a great game, everything is brilliant, but it is a bit annoying with all the rabbit holes!

9.5/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FalconX2000]

My Sim has lost an action button.

She has learnt maximum logic and handiness skills. She's a genius, computer whiz, handy, flirty and a great kisser.

When I click on the computer, it shows a multitude of options but no option to hack. I think it's because the 'circle' around the face is fully filled, so there's no space for all the actions. So now I have a character I wanted to start off making money through hacking who can't do it.

Can anyone help? Am I missing something?

[Brd709]

Do i have the story progression bug?
When my sim got Blair Wainwright pregnant, they weren't living together at the time. I was playing his household and he read the news paper and it said "Jason has become the proud father of a baby girl" Also when playing another household, i got my sim to join the music career, he was at level 1 (fan) when i played him again from switching back to a different lot his career level had passed on to another one!

I'm all up to date, i have version 1.4.6.0002 and aging and story progression is switched off.

[SimsFreak158]

I Have played the game for a Long time now.I Love the game.I also am discovering a ton of new things. Like a household with different traits don't go good together, I made a Sim who is a big snob... A Sim who is a genius, a Flirty Sim, and a Evil sim. this is what happened The filrty started dating the genius, then snob sim started liking flirty sim, bam! Genius sim slaped flirty sim. Evil sim just hates everyone and almost brunt the house down. That all happened in about 10 min and i was watching it all
So i do believe you can create So many possibilities

[KickFlip360]

So far, I'm really enjoying it. The one major issue I have with it is the lack to copy lots in the same way as the Sims 2 becasue you can't alter the plot size. If I wanna copy a house to another plot, I might not be able ot do it becasue of the plots size, and even then, it might be off and un-alinghed. Apart from that, I have no issuses with it.

It's awesome!

[Nat_2127]

I have downloaded a whole set of bedroom and a pair of clothes for my sims but can't see it when I play my game? is it supost to appear in my game when I select buy mode or clothes choosing? why can't I see my downloads when I play my game ? help please!

[EAUK_Aurora]

Hi Nat

Did you download them from the Store or the Exchange? If so, have you installed them from the Launcher panel?

[sharkloverplayer]

Usually everything is in buy mode.The clothes will probelby be there since it came with the set.

[sibi4]

I just wanted this feature to be included:
When a new household is created, the game gives an option to edit relationships within the household. But i want it to be included for the whole town, like my sims's uncle might be in some other house or my mom. So i think that would be a good inclusion.