Several Suggestions For a Better Experience (BBS Post to Maxis)

[SaraMK]

There are so many minor changes they could make that would make playing the game so much better.

My three top wants (each of which I would pay the full price of an EP for):

1. Enable collections in the "Buy Clothing" catalog. That way sims who have a custom body shape would be easy to shop for. Also enable collections for hair, makeup, glasses, masks... and make them accessible from within the mirror "Change Appearance" option. Things like freckles (in the masks category) are almost impossible to see in the thumbnails, so it takes a lot of clicking to find what you want.

2. Enable eyelash-bar and pointy-ear reduction in CAS and/or surgery machine.

3. Allow us to remove unwanted clothing from sims' wardrobes. After a few generations, it takes forever to find the right outfit because the wardrobe is clogged with junk. Also, make the wardrobe more like the buy clothing dialog, so that we don't have to scroll through the outfits one by one, but can select them from thumbnails. I use Pescado's clothing tool because I can't stand the dressers. Also, STOP forcing ugly outfits down our throats each time the sims grow up. I always have tons of oufits available, so why can't they just grow up into a random one from what is already in the wardrobe?

My other wants are basically what has already been said...

More Turn On/Offs -- I want to see ones for Aspirations, Career tracks, Have Kid/No Kids, Pregnancy, Alien and Zombie skintone, Business Owner, Diva/Mr Big or just rich sim, Lifetime Platinum, College graduates, Neatness/Niceness/Outgoingness/etc, and maybe even some of the Interests.

More LTWs... and not just ones for careers, but definitely ones for all the top careers in the game.

Fix the memory stupidity surrounding resurrection.

[gjam]

Great post BlueSoup.  I added my 2 cents' worth.

[Assmitten]

Wow, BlueSoup! I didn't know you were GilmoreFan. I used to see you post there, maybe two years ago, and think, "Man, this is about the only sane person here." Cool. I noticed your name because I am a Gilmore fan too.

[TaWanda]

Way to go Blue!
 You and Twain would would make an awesome debate team.
 I can't believe I posted at the BBS, but you had some excellent points, and I added my two cents worth too.

 

Yeah, I know,  but you both are quite good at presenting a reasonable, persuavive argument. Meant as compliment to you both. jeez

[BlueSoup]

Yeah, I know,  but you both are quite good at presenting a reasonable, persuavive argument. Meant as compliment to you both. jeez

I took it as one.  Twain is quite a good speaker when he wants to be.

Wow, BlueSoup! I didn't know you were GilmoreFan. I used to see you post there, maybe two years ago, and think, "Man, this is about the only sane person here." Cool.

Yeah, I was quite noisy there before, before I got sucked into the Awesomeness here.  And then they culled like 5000 of my posts, ironically leaving one that was not beneficial at all, but received the most benes of any of them. 

[liegenschonheit]

Well blue, you managed the impossible. You actually got me to post on the BBS.

You managed to create a well written, persuasive, and very well thought out thread,  and therefore it will most likely be ignored by Maxis.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Let's hope you're wrong!

[Twain]

In the spirit of this thread... Here is a recent suggestion post by LK...and just as a point of order..no matter what the Maxoid says..LK is a guy:P

Here

Also here are some of my most recent "rants" for those who are interested but may have missed them...

I am tired of EA/Maxis ruining my Sims Experience....a rant by Twain.

EA/Maxis should be doing more to improve the Sims Experience.

Does EA/Maxis ignore this site?

Wake up EA/Maxis.. where are the Patches?

EA/Maxis fails to do the right thing again and again.

[BeckerCheez]

I posted, and yes my TheSims2.com screen name is Chzymffn.  Don't ask.   

[Twain]

So what's the deal with your TS2 screen name being Chzymuffn?   

[Simlover]

He said not to ask Twain

[BeckerCheez]

*she    All the other cheese related names were taken.     And I can't seem to resist answering a question, can I? 

[Nailati]

Hehe. "Beefy arm."

I really, really hope Maxis takes some of those points into consideration. If only they weren't in such a constant rush to add new features (OMG PETZ), they could make changes which would improve gameplay on a much more profound level.

The problem with Body Shop, to me, is the camera. It seems to have a different focal length than the in-game camera. (I don't really know what that means, I just know that in Poser, changing the focal length of the camera has a similar effect.) The result is that it's impossible to know exactly how the face will look in-game, because what looks good from one camera can look distorted from the other. It's really a huge problem.

Yes, the lighting is crappy, but that I can live with--I just hit F3 and then turn the sim toward the light source.

But I quite honestly would shell out $20 just for a tweak to make the BS camera the same focal length as the in-game camera. Hear that, Maxis? (No, of course they don't. They're working on making six flavors of day-glo doggie beds or whatever.)

I came so close to posting that. But I can't bring myself to do it. If someone wants to mention the focal length thing over there that'd be great.

[BlueSoup]

I'll post it on your behalf.

[Nailati]

Grazie, cara. 

[BlueSoup]

Okay, just wanted to give an update on this thread:

I linked it to the new community manager, MaxoidMel (is she HappyMoonBelly, does anyone know?), and she said she thought a lot of the ideas were good ones, and she was going to pass along the suggestions made. 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Let's hope someone listens!  fingers crossed everyone!