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NoahLGP
Seasoned Ace
3 months ago

⚔️ Maxis vs Basegame Skills

Hi,

Some skills are updated and others are completely ignored.

Maxis "favorite" skills :

  • Cooking / Gourmet Cooking / Mixology
  • Fitness
  • Fishing
  • Gardening
  • Handiness : Finally woodworking gets new recipes and a kit brought restoration
  • Photography / Painting : sims can paint anything
  • Video gaming : Some games used to be added years ago

 

Neglected skills :

  • Comedy : No new jokes. A jester would have more to offer (acrobatics, juggling, performing magic tricks, jokes in song). It could also include mime.
  • Guitar / Piano / Violin : No new songs. Maybe with Showtime EP we will get something.
  • Mischief : No new voodoo doll powers or mischievous interactions
  • Programming : No new hacks
  • Writing : No new books .
    • Maybe potions, magic spells and voodoo curses could be a knowledge that the sims should write in a grimoire (Magic book of Family recipes protected by a spell).
    • Career books could be a way to boost the performances (efficiency gain)

 

"Dead end" skills ? :

  • Charisma : Many features already boost the relationships.
  • Logic : Do the sims never use their brain ??? No it doesn't count when zombies eat it.
  • Rocket Science : New rockets ? But to do what ???

 

 

10 Replies

  • This! Spot on! The team needs to refresh most of the skills with updateds after 10 years.

    The voodoo doll needs a potent remake. 

  • In term of business with Rocket, maybe the next level would be to sell commercial travel in space (for rich sims at least).

    Criminal sims could use it to smuggle alien goods back to Earth.

     

    Rocket Science shouldn't be only about building a huge useless object.

  • Miataplay's avatar
    Miataplay
    Legend
    3 months ago

    Rocket scientist getting abducted and abused on a weekly basis in my game. 

    My household in strangerville has four alien children...this is from abductions.

    My sims in this particular lot in strangerville are just being probed on a weekly basis while trying to run a bar...

    I'm good right now since there's no room for new alien babies.

    My point...Rocket scientist shouldn't be used for populating the Sim worlds with alien babies!

    This doesn't happen anywhere else in my game unless I'm playing a rocket scientist.

    Two sims(vampire and alien) on my strangerville lot can travel to Sixam because of their skill levels in robotics and science.

    This causes endless alien abdutions wherever they live as along as they have these high science traits and skills. 🤣 😜🙂

    I agree with your other points.

    I like all these ideas too. 🫠🙂

     

     

  • Joanpro90's avatar
    Joanpro90
    New Rookie
    3 months ago

    Deberian empezar por hacer un remake de los extraterrestres, ya que actualmente no es nada gracioso tener hombres verdes por toda la casa y lo unico que pueden hacer es transformarse en humanos o viceversa

  • EP19 Enchanted By Nature .... Yet another pack about gardening and cooking (elixirs)

  • i made this one awhile back: no new skills but it improves the mischief skills Game Pack idea! Hatestruck 

    a new world isn't necessary in my opinion but it's the complete opposite of Lovestruck

    i hope the teams make notes on this for a more expanded mischief skills

    as for the instrument skills (guitar, piano, violin etc) forming a music pack might come out later this year with hopefully new instruments and more expanded instrument skills that already exist and even forming a team

    as for the programming skills: there was a survey and one of them is based on technology (Cyberpunk) so there's hope for a more programming skill options

  • I definetly need a way to evolve the writing skill without the need of a computer, my victorian vampires would enjoy it.

    I think the open book clutter could be turned into an interactive object for writing practice.

  • as for the rocket one i might have an idea

    since we have a few secret worlds, how about if we have a new category called secret worlds/locations (similair to destination worlds but differently) which are all locked you have to unlock them?

    sure we have Enchanted By Nature you need to use fairy dust to unlock them but how about a rocket version of this?
    sure we need to upgrade the rocket but once we upgraded them we can maybe visit them (with the question popped up of course to challenge it a little)

    maybe we can add atleast a few more secret worlds if you use the rocket?

    sure a mermaid world seems impossible unless you're a mermaid (i still think mermaids deserves to have their own world) but maybe like a vampire world if the team ever decides to refresh the vampire pack? (i don't have any issues if the team ever decides to make a secret world for werewolves but it's not on my wishlist so i'm fine with either) and also add a secret location that don't exist just yet

    i really think it should be possible (and if the team ever decides to refresh both Jungle Adventure and Outdoor Retreat, it should be possible to visit the secret world from Granite Falls and maybe even Selvadorada, same with fairy dust options that comes with "Enchanted By Nature" to visit the secret world that should be possible with Selvadorada and Granite Falls)

    with a secret world that don't exist just yet we can maybe collect the existing ones and the ones that don't exist just yet but also have a few more things to do other than collecting things which the secret worlds is known for

    i can't think about other things they should add with the rocket skills, i used to want a pack in which you can enter a new level with like maybe new planets or dimensions or something you have to unlock but i realized it's actually impossible to do so i've thought about a solution as an alternative one with both the existing and non-existing secret worlds

    that's how i came up with this with the rocket skills

    we have possibilities with the cross-packs so it shouldn't be impossible nowadays

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    7 days ago

    I refuse to use computers in my gameplay, so much of the computer access only gameplay is locked to me which is super annoying! I want a book, scroll and/or typewriter for the writing skill bad.

  • I honestly want all skills to be expanded to include challenge and statistics unlocks similar to Sims 3. I want if I click a skill under a skill tab to show me what I have so far unlocked for the skill and what I can unlock. More depth to skills, levels of unlock and unlock challenges would really add substance to the game.

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