Do any of you still wish that EA was still making new content for this game?

"Sigzy05;c-17270300" wrote:


Wow I didn't know about that.

Yes, there is a thread about it here - https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/195697/lights-not-spreading-off-the-edge-of-the-lot
back in 2010
There were others, but they're probably lost to the ravages of time and I don't want to go looking for them. To be honest, it's one of the main things that just depresses me about TS3. Most other problems can be solved with modding ,but not this one.

@Mikezumi I agree ... I'd hate for them to start their cycle of EA Ruination again. I couldn't bear it. My game runs beautifully and so do many others who take care of it and learn to baby it along. I can't imagine what damage EA would do if they started fiddling again.

Not to mention, if they did so, many mods would require updating again, and so many creators either no longer play or have switched over to that absolute abomination that is TS4
*choke*

@Pary The thought of not being able to use mods I have come to rely on because the modders have moved on just doesn't bear thinking about!

Of course my objection is my own. If others want more then who am I to say they can't have it. I just know that my game will remain exactly as it is!

I wouldn't let them unclog my toilet let alone "fix" anything.

@Mikizumi - :D The perfect sentiment!

"king_of_simcity7;c-17269158" wrote:
@SuzyCue72 Origin does not even live on my PC and I actually intend to keep it that way!

In fact until you mentioned it's existence.

I see it like Windows 10: Trouble.

@king_of_simcity7 - Look below...

"Pary;c-17270295" wrote:

Every time they've "fixed" something in the past, they've broken about a dozen other things in doing so. My particular beef - they broke the beautiful in-game lighting in a WA patch ( or earlier one, I can't remember exactly ) to introduce that plum bloom lighting that virtually no one likes, and they never fixed it because it was assumed it was "too hard" which is their excuse for everything.

Now, instead of lovely garden lighting spilling onto the road in a realistic fashion, or lighting on the ground floor exterior also illuminating the second floor, you have lighting that doesn't go beyond the lot boundry and dark upper stories with well light first floors. It looks ridiculous.
I accept the fact that TS3 is a VERY complicated game, and things will break, but when you just either can't be bothered or simply can't fix something and revert to calling it a "feature" ... no. They're not fit to "fix" anything at all. I hope they just stay far away from TS3.

I totally agree and it bothers me too. I hate that invisible line on each lot as it breaks the realism, especially since I tend to play on small lots. On the rare times that I have had to reinstall the game I always play around with the base game a bit just to admire the lighting. It seems that they didn't care enough to try and fix it and I don't remember any of the gurus or developers mentioning it again :unamused:

I've taken to placing outdoor lights far away from the lot edge now, and I use a custom setting of about 0.3 to 0.5 depending on the position, to achieve a soft light that still lights the path or wherever I put it, but doesn't extend in a too far radius, simply because I absolutely loathe the invisible lot light seam. It looks SO stupid, and really ruins to look of the area both in lot and map view.

Once you get many houses brightly lit outside, and you go into map view, the town looks like some hideous neon checkerboard, I hate it.
After 9 years, this still really infuriates me.

I like Sims 3 just the way it is. :)

With what we have officially (Worlds, clothing, objects, Traits etc from EP's, SP's and Store) and the Mods and CC players create and use, if EA creates more official content for The Sims 3 all that will be made unplayable or broken; The Mods and CC would be unfixed (I rely on Mods for routing/cleanup and Story Progression) as some of the Mods and CC creators have either quit the series or moved on to The Sims 4; my sisters said they have to reinstall their Mods every time The Sims 4 have a new Game Pack/EP/SP, and even they said they miss playing The Sims 3. I have installed on The Sims 3 the following: Ten out of eleven EP's, Two Stuff Packs, Mods, a bit of CC and a bit of Store content and my game is quite stable (Once the Mods kick in when I reload the game runs smoothly; so far I have only had two crashes in over two years of playing; one when I was in Edit Town in Moonlight Falls trying to put a Karaoke in the town and the second when playing as The Molyneux Family shortly after Ajax got his license, both times because I played an in-game week. I had saved before the game crashed.) I clean my caches between each play session. One of my long-term goals is to own nearly everything that have been made official in The Sims 3 (So far the only EP I'm missing is Island Paradise. I have two out of the currently avaliable eight Stuff Packs and so far I have 0.1% of the Store), and I am discovering something new everytime I play (Recently I placed two planter bowls on the flat roof of the studio in the Molyneux Family and got a Sim to plant into them; I wanted the roof of the studio to double as a platform.) I don't want EA to go back to The Sims 3 as much as I love this game (The EP's and SP's as well as the Store we can get for The Sims 3 is enough; I still haven't fully explored all the EP's and SP's I have. As much as I would like a Farming EP for The Sims 3, I'm satsified with what we have in Base Game, EP's, SP's and Store to be able to create a farming family. I managed to create a Wild West family using the Pets EP and Movie Stuff SP.) The Sims 3 had five years to cement a legacy, and it succeeded with what was avaliable in terms of tech at the time. A Sims game with Open World was ambitious, and in that aspect the Sims 3 mostly succeeded (Isla Paradiso was a strike against it). That's why I don't want EA to return to The Sims 3, and this is from someone who played since The Sims 2

I personally am not a fan of mods...so I use only EA content, so I would have loved more add-ons. There is so much that I haven't bought from the store, so I am glad that the store stuff is still available for purchase (for now). I only play TS3 and TS2 Complete Collection, and if I had the original TS1 on my computer, I would definitely play that. I only purchased a few things for TS4, but quickly got bored with it. Maybe someday if money permits, I may continue on with TS4...until then, I am playing with TS3 and will purchase for that.