What CAN be done to fix TS4?
LAST UPDATE: August 15, 2015 So here's my question to you all: what changes CAN be made to make TS4 a game you would like to play? (Try to keep your answers restricted to what you t...
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Not sure if devs will ever read anything in this thread and if it's just another smokescreen, but I'll bite.
Assuming changes are not complicated, expensive or highly timeconsuming.
1. Major problem of Sims 4 are not design decisions. The game offers plenty of different content, some designed well (economy system) some designed bad (grinding). All shortcomings can always be enhanced through expansions. What is impossible to mend within expansions are - numerous base game bugs. Fixing bugs in this game should be of the uttermost priority. I mean cmon Maxis. In three months definetly 90% of bugs could have been addressed. Especially generally annoying ones with known cause. For example, why is solid purple lens bug still unpatched?
2. According to rumors on internet, Gallery is hijacked by illegal (pirated) copies. Dunno is this is true, but the amount of garbage there suggests it is. Piracy cannot be stopped, okay, but please Maxis, protect the Gallery from the abuse. Seems that tunneling through Origin client was not the best idea. Maybe a separate online site like Bioware's Dragon Age Keep would do the trick.
3. Family tree should have been an essential thing in the base game. Or even better - relationships tree where we'd see not just who is who's daddy, brother, lover, little boy but also who's friend and who an "enemy". I'm unsure how this feature got neglected in the release version. Aren't Sims games about relationships? Of course they are, well, give us an options to see them in one place, as I really can't remember which one of my sims made BFF with Alexander Goth!
4. Culling on 180? 180 of what? Degrees? Dear Maxis, we're now in year 2015. Culling on such low number with machines that usually have 1TB hard drive is simply unacceptable. Move it on at least 500. Of course, let the game check how much of free space HDD has, if it's an ancient toaster, do keep culling on 180 or something, just don't punish us for having plenty of spare free space instead of using ZX Spectrum or C64 for playing the game.
5. New game, load game, save as, savegames... Currently the whole system is horrible. Polish it! If I want to backup just my last family, tell me what savegame should I copy elsewhere? Yes, I need to do trial-error process to determine that. Make the system easy to understand. Standardize buttons, noone uses floppy drives or media any more. Oversized icons (ugly big green triangle) don't necessarily mean it's better design. It is not!
6. We lack of two ingame options. One is to disable tutorial annoying tooltips. Yea, I know you don't think those are annoying but brilliant, and it's okay. But some of us hate those. Please, let us click on a toggle option in the game to prevent them from showing, the additional switch in Origin client is crap design. The second important option is disabling fat/muscle changes. Again, I'm certain you believe it was an amazing feature to have in the game, but I assure you it's execution is so poor many players are using a mod that disables it. Why should we have a mod for something like that? Let us use a simple ingame option that enables/disables weight change.
7. Finally the inventory system. Not just sims inventory, but also house inventory, bookcases, toyboxes, etc. You cloned the horrible system from Sims 3 / Sims Medieval. Please change it into something more modern, less annoying, filterable and sortable, as I said, it's 2015., there is no excuse to keep this outdated horrible system any more.
That'd be it from me.
Assuming changes are not complicated, expensive or highly timeconsuming.
1. Major problem of Sims 4 are not design decisions. The game offers plenty of different content, some designed well (economy system) some designed bad (grinding). All shortcomings can always be enhanced through expansions. What is impossible to mend within expansions are - numerous base game bugs. Fixing bugs in this game should be of the uttermost priority. I mean cmon Maxis. In three months definetly 90% of bugs could have been addressed. Especially generally annoying ones with known cause. For example, why is solid purple lens bug still unpatched?
2. According to rumors on internet, Gallery is hijacked by illegal (pirated) copies. Dunno is this is true, but the amount of garbage there suggests it is. Piracy cannot be stopped, okay, but please Maxis, protect the Gallery from the abuse. Seems that tunneling through Origin client was not the best idea. Maybe a separate online site like Bioware's Dragon Age Keep would do the trick.
3. Family tree should have been an essential thing in the base game. Or even better - relationships tree where we'd see not just who is who's daddy, brother, lover, little boy but also who's friend and who an "enemy". I'm unsure how this feature got neglected in the release version. Aren't Sims games about relationships? Of course they are, well, give us an options to see them in one place, as I really can't remember which one of my sims made BFF with Alexander Goth!
4. Culling on 180? 180 of what? Degrees? Dear Maxis, we're now in year 2015. Culling on such low number with machines that usually have 1TB hard drive is simply unacceptable. Move it on at least 500. Of course, let the game check how much of free space HDD has, if it's an ancient toaster, do keep culling on 180 or something, just don't punish us for having plenty of spare free space instead of using ZX Spectrum or C64 for playing the game.
5. New game, load game, save as, savegames... Currently the whole system is horrible. Polish it! If I want to backup just my last family, tell me what savegame should I copy elsewhere? Yes, I need to do trial-error process to determine that. Make the system easy to understand. Standardize buttons, noone uses floppy drives or media any more. Oversized icons (ugly big green triangle) don't necessarily mean it's better design. It is not!
6. We lack of two ingame options. One is to disable tutorial annoying tooltips. Yea, I know you don't think those are annoying but brilliant, and it's okay. But some of us hate those. Please, let us click on a toggle option in the game to prevent them from showing, the additional switch in Origin client is crap design. The second important option is disabling fat/muscle changes. Again, I'm certain you believe it was an amazing feature to have in the game, but I assure you it's execution is so poor many players are using a mod that disables it. Why should we have a mod for something like that? Let us use a simple ingame option that enables/disables weight change.
7. Finally the inventory system. Not just sims inventory, but also house inventory, bookcases, toyboxes, etc. You cloned the horrible system from Sims 3 / Sims Medieval. Please change it into something more modern, less annoying, filterable and sortable, as I said, it's 2015., there is no excuse to keep this outdated horrible system any more.
That'd be it from me.
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