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5 years ago

Gallery Search NEEDS Improvements

At this stage in the game it seems impossible to find anything functional on the gallery unless you have all of the packs. I've been trying to rebuild the world and update lots with renovations but it takes absolutely ages to find something that I can actually place with no substitutions and finding something I actually like is even harder. Pretty much every lot that shows up uses tons of packs I dont have and this is coming from someone who now has a lot of packs. It's a nightmare.

For example the other day I was looking for a penthouse and I just scrolled and scrolled until I gave up as I physically couldn't find anything I could place without having to rebuild the entire lot because of ugly substitutes. The only option to easily find builds I can use would be to use #basegame, but obviously a base game house on a penthouse wouldn't work.

So what I want changed, is just for them to add a button on the gallery which changes the results so it only shows lots I can actually place with no substitutes. We have a similar feature with CC so it should be easy to put in place and would really be a game changer
  • I imagine the gallery is a really huge database that's not easily searchable without taking a lot of time. I have all packs and whenever I search for something it returns very few entries, many of which are duplicated. I think they have caps in place for the searchable domain. Also would be nice if, when you click back on the browser,it took you back to the same spot on the page and not at the top of the page.
  • "crocobaura;c-17534133" wrote:
    I imagine the gallery is a really huge database that's not easily searchable without taking a lot of time. I have all packs and whenever I search for something it returns very few entries, many of which are duplicated. I think they have caps in place for the searchable domain. Also would be nice if, when you click back on the browser,it took you back to the same spot on the page and not at the top of the page.


    A database that isn't easily searchable isn't a database at all. It's just... a big list of files.
  • Agreed! It doesn't even help to customize the search by checking the option to bring up only lots/households with packs you own. It always just brings up entries with packs you don't have anyway, regardless! So...what's the point of being able to check a box that is supposed to filter the search for just packs you own, when it doesn't even work properly?!

    I mean, I get it, EA wants to get players spending by any means necessary...but all not being able to filter out gallery content that uses packs you don't own does is frustrate players and make them NOT want to search the gallery for sims and lots to put into their game. When we search for content that uses just the packs we own, we want just that...just the packs we own. If an entry has a pack we don't own, it shouldn't come up in the search results if that filter is on. Period.
  • I'm not so good in CAS so I like to just download households I need, but to be honest it is only easy to find YA single households. Especially females... It is impossible to find for example bigger o specific families because of no searching options. I want to have more filters for example for family members.If I need for example an adult couple with a teen daughter and two kid sons, I just want to find them easily by picking in the filters.
  • What's wrong with downloading them separately? Or aging up or down some of the sims in the household?