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JonaO703's avatar
JonaO703
Hero
4 years ago

Re: Realm of Magic Needs a Refresh, Here's Why

@SqueamishNerd Thanks for sharing your ideas.  I agree with almost all of them.  I certainly would like to see toddler and child sims show some signs of magic.  I've thought for a long time that it would be cute if a toddler sim accidently transportalated or changed toys and other things into something else.  Perhaps not user controlled, just random acts of magic.  Child sims should be able to start playing around with magic and learning some basics for sure.  

The one thing I disagree with is the difficulty.  I'm sort of an impatient player and thus find leveling / learning magic a bit tedious. The magic points can increase quickly but I think it takes way too long to learn all spells and potions.  Your idea of user options to set difficulty is perfect.  There are other areas in the game where I think difficulty options would be fantastic; learning normal muggle skllls, career advancement, cleanliness, etc.

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  • SqueamishNerd's avatar
    SqueamishNerd
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @JonaO703 It would be so fun and cute if toddler spellcasters accidentally/autonomously used magic! Copypasto on toys, Delicioso when they're really hungry, sometimes/rarely using Transportalate instead of walking, and so on.

    Interesting to hear about someone else's perspective on the difficulty. I feel like it goes too fast to learn all the spells and potions, especially since when we ask one of the Sages about a potion recipe they give us the potion, so we don't even have to make it ourselves, and if we know Copypasto we have an infinite supply of that potion. Not using help from the Sages (except for the three Ultimate Spells, which we have to learn from the Sages if I recall correctly) makes it a bit harder to learn all the spells and potions, but the levelling up still goes too fast for me. So, seems like there is need for some save file settings for this. I would love if experience gain was possible to turn off for Transportalate.
  • JonaO703's avatar
    JonaO703
    Hero
    4 years ago

    @SqueamishNerd If I'm being completely honest, I'm so impatient that I use cheats to level up my spellcasters.  lol  I do agree that it would be nice to have some options for the difficulty in learning skills.  I use MCCC to boost the normal skill difficulty rates but that doesn't affect the spellcaster skills.  :-( 

    And, since you mentioned it, we do get a potion when learning them but the quality is normal.  So, if we want better quality, we do have to level up and get the potion making perks.

  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    4 years ago

    I love the idea of toddler spellcasters causing random chaos effects. Even better if there’s a toddler “magic” skill that you can up by having a spellcaster train them that allows them to get their magic under control and stop having accidents (sort of like the potty skill).

    Then a spellcaster kid who maxed magic as a toddler can start farther along in kid magic; max that and they can start learning adult spells. 

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