sooo maaanny foos!

"puzzlezaddict;c-17212037" wrote:

"AbellaKellaher;d-964940" wrote:
Anyone else wonder why there are 57 thousand types of foos ball tables in the sims but not one air hockey table or a board game or a simple card table

Maybe because after they wrote the code for the original foosball table all those years ago, all they had to do was design a few new shells for the table and resell each one as new content.

Oh this obviously is the reason they recycled the foos, sure, but there are plenty of other things they could have recycled. They recycled the Gnubb set with horseshoes, a poker table for home was already in TS2 and the animations were already in TS3 so a card table would have been easy. Board game games would be pretty easy to adapt other animations as well - shaking dice could be accomplished with the same animation to make a drink, moving pieces could easily be recycled from chess or dominoes. Heck, dominoes could have been recycled as Scrabble easily. :)

A card or board game would require new animations, and can you imagine the work it would take to program the puck on an air hockey table to properly ricochet? Much less effort to stick with what already exists.

Actually that animation already exists, too, with pool tables. And honestly that's not that difficult really. I like to consider myself slightly more computer savy than most but in my family I'm surrounded by coder savants lol. Mimicking ricochet is nothing but math really. It's direction + speed + redirection - speed. In fact if you want to be technical, it'd be more difficult to program pool table ricochet due to the 3 dimensions of the sphere and the 360 degrees of possible english, but I haven't watched the pool games in this game closely enough to see if they account for english as well as direction and speed. They also use ricochet with the foos table balls I think, though I could be wrong :)

I think there are mods for other kinds of games though, if you're interested.

Other than a few basic NRAAS mods (and a couple other well known ones like anylotsize) I strive to remain CC free. It's just always been bad news for me lol. But thank you for the suggestion! I get pretty tempted for CC now and again but so far this time around I've remained strong :)

"igazor;c-17212165" wrote:
There is one (up to) 4 person table game that I use frequently for family and group game night -- dominoes. It comes with Showtime, for whatever reason. Anyway, I see that one as a pretty good representative of board/card games. Other than that there's video games and pool (billiards). But I don't remember hanging out at my friends' houses shooting pool very much as a child, and the selections of video games we had back in the Stone Age before most houses had electricity game consoles was pretty limited. :)

I grew up a gamer, from my first 2600 on :) We had a pool table but I never wanted to hang with my friends at my house lol. But even still my family and friends even now play all sorts of board games, card games, etc. irl. Poker, Gin, Hearts, Spades, Cribbage, Euchre, you name it. Card games from Uno to Exploding Kittens or Bears Vs Babies, board games from Trivial Pursuit, to Dominion, to LNOE. A friend of my husband's even owns a super cool table top game coffee shop called The Dragon's Roost. Maybe it's a regional thing? I played board games with my friends all the time growing up, too.

Bingo is another matter. I was lamenting the lack of that one back at NRaas not long ago and was thinking of it more as a community lot activity with a Role Sim calling the numbers, excitement builds as players get close to completing their card, and the winners get a cash prize or some small kitchen appliance that no one needs. Probably modding all of that in would be more complicated than just designing a whole new game or expansion pack to house it, though. :/

that would be so awesome <3 Little old lady sims have nothing to do besides drink tea. No Bridge clubs or quilting circles, no bingo! :lol: :lol:

"lisasc360;c-17212088" wrote:
Yeah I wish that EA had added board games as well but at least I can download that ones on ATS3 to use. They just use the chess animations when you have your Sims playing them but I guess that is good enough for me... :)
https://aroundthesims3.com/objects/function_entertainment_hobbies_02.shtml

I use to be an ATS junkie! Gah, I wish Maxis would have been even half as clever lol.

Some variety for chess - https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/browse/category/sims3/setid/1018389/order/ID/

Oh and I know this isn't a board game, but I really wish sims could hold hands (like we do irl, not the animation in the game) like for walking or even just standing, especially with parents/children. And I wish that "shake hands" was an interaction. The only time you can shake hands in the game now is when sims first meet. The people I've known irl do a LOT of handshaking. Half the men on my husband's side of the family shake hands every time they see each other. When I owned my own business I shook my clients hands every time I met with them, etc.

I guess I must just know very handsy people :lol: :lol:

@cwaddell - Off-topic I guess, but my dad and I still play cribbage whenever I am visiting and there's no one else around to play multi-player games. Could never stand the 3- and 4-player versions, but 2-handed is still fun. He is of the opinion that no one else on the planet plays this game anymore, but I didn't think that was quite right. :)

"igazor;c-17213558" wrote:
@cwaddell - Off-topic I guess, but my dad and I still play cribbage whenever I am visiting and there's no one else around to play multi-player games. Could never stand the 3- and 4-player versions, but 2-handed is still fun. He is of the opinion that no one else on the planet plays this game anymore, but I didn't think that was quite right. :)

There's a 3 and 4 player version? Don't think I'd like that either. Haven't played cribbage in ages.

My family plays a lot of card games and board games when we get together - latest favorites are Settlers of Catan and Ticker to Ride.

"igazor;c-17213558" wrote:
@cwaddell - Off-topic I guess, but my dad and I still play cribbage whenever I am visiting and there's no one else around to play multi-player games. Could never stand the 3- and 4-player versions, but 2-handed is still fun. He is of the opinion that no one else on the planet plays this game anymore, but I didn't think that was quite right. :)

My mom (RIP) and bro stopped playing with me because I'm fairly adept at math and calculating odds and they got tired of losing to me :lol: but my brother and SIL play cribbage all the time. They even have 2 29's pinned to their wall :) My grandpa was a mean ol' cus to play with I guess, stealing points, etc. I never played with him but that might be because I was his favorite and he couldn't be even remotely mean to me :lol: I've played with my dad a couple times, but it just feels awkward, he's not really a cards kind of guy :lol:

"cwaddell;c-17213693" wrote:

There's a 3 and 4 player version? Don't think I'd like that either. Haven't played cribbage in ages.

My family plays a lot of card games and board games when we get together - latest favorites are Settlers of Catan and Ticker to Ride.

You just put different amounts of cards in the kitty. For three handed you just deal an extra card to the kitty iirc.

Yes, but the issue I have with 3- and 4-handed is that the player has far less control over things. I can't play a card in hopes that you will pair it so I can make three-of-a-kind (a "pair royal" to purists) or play a sequential card hoping to extend a run (straight) that gets started because another player or two get to go in between. And only being able to put one card in the crib rather than two just never felt right, you can't put a pair or a 7-8 for example in your own crib that way. The game becomes more luck than strategy when locked into these things, although the mechanics and scoring are the same.

Somehow I think our sims would enjoy it, though.

My dad and I play cut-throat in the sense that we will pounce on unclaimed points if one of us makes a mistake in scoring and misses something, but we would never cheat or be unfair. We might try to distract each other ("hey, what is that outside of the window?") when adding up the points for a complicated hand or if a run (straight) is formed during play, but that's just part of the fun for us. :)

I have never played Foosball irl. I want to though!