THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
Pinstar:
Enforced Legacy Play? Bleh.
I'm all for playing my own challenge and intend on making a TS3 version of it, but I do hope the game doesn't make you play like that constantly.
Is there no "time freeze" option for families not being played to prevent aging, births, deaths and the like?
Zazazu:
Quote from: Pinstar on 2009 May 19, 00:44:35
Enforced Legacy Play? Bleh.
I'm all for playing my own challenge and intend on making a TS3 version of it, but I do hope the game doesn't make you play like that constantly.
Is there no "time freeze" option for families not being played to prevent aging, births, deaths and the like?
You know this comment is amusing coming from you. :P There is, in options, game options tab, the option to uncheck "Enable Story Progression". This is specifically suppose to block things like marriages and spawning. Right now, I'm playing a single sim household across the street from my initial roommate setup. I can see the roommates going off to work and to community lots. It also looks like they bought a crappy car for their empty carport. After a week, I'm planning on checking in on them.
Interestingly, I stopped the first house at 2:00 AM Thursday. When I added the new house, she opened up at 2:00 AM Thursday. That was messy.
Quote from: Aner-Dyfan on 2009 May 18, 20:38:48
Well it appears your houses can be subject to random acts on move in. My house was on an indian burial ground, meaning 3 ghost sims where on the lot. You can interact with ghosts as normal sims it seems, but what annoys me is that they use the house appliances. The fire death ghost made dinner and burnt it. I forsee fire!
Was this the kind of cruddy 1 bed/bath with a row of flamingos outside? I had the same thing. A ghost buster showed right up and I asked him to get rid of them. There were some nice gemstones in the back yard amongst the weeds.
Quote from: ShortyBoo on 2009 May 18, 22:58:26
I wonder what's up with taking screenshots. I've taken some print screens of the game and they all look very dark and I've noticed this for all the screenshots from the leaked game. The game itself isn't that dark, but I've had to adjust the brightness and contrast for all the screens I get.
On tabbing back from desktop view to the game, things go very bright. I suspect it's done some odd changes to the brightness and contrast to give it the next-gen look. Screen captures are awful here. Anyone tried Fraps?
Pinstar:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 May 19, 01:01:29
Quote from: Pinstar on 2009 May 19, 00:44:35
Enforced Legacy Play? Bleh.
I'm all for playing my own challenge and intend on making a TS3 version of it, but I do hope the game doesn't make you play like that constantly.
Is there no "time freeze" option for families not being played to prevent aging, births, deaths and the like?
You know this comment is amusing coming from you. :P There is, in options, game options tab, the option to uncheck "Enable Story Progression". This is specifically suppose to block things like marriages and spawning. Right now, I'm playing a single sim household across the street from my initial roommate setup. I can see the roommates going off to work and to community lots. It also looks like they bought a crappy car for their empty carport. After a week, I'm planning on checking in on them.
Interestingly, I stopped the first house at 2:00 AM Thursday. When I added the new house, she opened up at 2:00 AM Thursday. That was messy.
Quote from: Aner-Dyfan on 2009 May 18, 20:38:48
Well it appears your houses can be subject to random acts on move in. My house was on an indian burial ground, meaning 3 ghost sims where on the lot. You can interact with ghosts as normal sims it seems, but what annoys me is that they use the house appliances. The fire death ghost made dinner and burnt it. I forsee fire!
Was this the kind of cruddy 1 bed/bath with a row of flamingos outside? I had the same thing. A ghost buster showed right up and I asked him to get rid of them. There were some nice gemstones in the back yard amongst the weeds.
Quote from: ShortyBoo on 2009 May 18, 22:58:26
I wonder what's up with taking screenshots. I've taken some print screens of the game and they all look very dark and I've noticed this for all the screenshots from the leaked game. The game itself isn't that dark, but I've had to adjust the brightness and contrast for all the screens I get.
On tabbing back from desktop view to the game, things go very bright. I suspect it's done some odd changes to the brightness and contrast to give it the next-gen look. Screen captures are awful here. Anyone tried Fraps?
What is surprising? I like the asylum challenge, for example, but would hate it if the general gameplay forced that style of play on me.
On the upside, it sounds like spares won't be quite so annoying anymore. It sounds like you can just keep your heir home and send the spares off into the world to be eaten by the time stream. No more of this 6th generation heir is best friends with a the 2nd generation aunt malarkey.
I wonder if you still get life insurance money from dead relatives that die of old age on another lot...
Sparks:
Quote from: Pinstar on 2009 May 19, 00:44:35
Enforced Legacy Play? Bleh.
I'm all for playing my own challenge and intend on making a TS3 version of it, but I do hope the game doesn't make you play like that constantly.
Is there no "time freeze" option for families not being played to prevent aging, births, deaths and the like?
Seems like neighborhoods would full of death; killing Sims for doing things you don't want them to. If your Sims are 'posed to be poor as fuck but have a job they go to every day while you're not playing their particular house, now will me buying shit while you're not looking?
And for those of us few who have never played a challenge and know nothing of Legacy play, would essentially need, oh, I dunno, 50 - 100 different neighborhoods so that the one family that you're actually playing, won't have any cross play with any other families that have their own goings on? Does that make sense? Basically I'm a nutso micro-manager and I don't want anyone doing anything without my control.
Also, do you have the choice to not follow your Sim to work if you don't want? Boring work is boring.
cwieberdink:
Quote from: dirtandpretty on 2009 May 19, 01:27:35
Quote from: Pinstar on 2009 May 19, 00:44:35
Enforced Legacy Play? Bleh.
I'm all for playing my own challenge and intend on making a TS3 version of it, but I do hope the game doesn't make you play like that constantly.
Is there no "time freeze" option for families not being played to prevent aging, births, deaths and the like?
Seems like neighborhoods would full of death; killing Sims for doing things you don't want them to. If your Sims are 'posed to be poor as fuck but have a job they go to every day while you're not playing their particular house, now will me buying shit while you're not looking?
??
It learns to speak English or it gets the hose again.
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