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Ayanko's avatar
Ayanko
6 years ago

ECO Living; Sharing and Caring is extremely bad for this game.

I'm sure there's been plenty of threads like this and I'm a lazy so and so for not finding them, but I wanted to say my peace. The N.A.P sharing is caring is perhaps one of the worst design choice me...
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Trismagistos's avatar
Trismagistos
Hero
5 years ago
@PugLove888 I am about to test it this weekend. I hope the patch will be sufficient to down tone the amount of 'sharing an caring'. 😉
I also hope that the random activities my Sims seem to engage in, like brewing antistress potions and mixing cakes will have disappeared after this patchupdate
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PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
5 years ago

@Trismagistos , hopefully this also is fixed! 🤞 It might not disappear, since I think some of these activities were intended, just not the amount that Sims are actually doing them now.😉  I think the amount of times Sims engage in these activities was overkill! 😞  I'm sure many will want to hear your testing reports! 😉

  • Trismagistos's avatar
    Trismagistos
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @PugLove888 I have tested it last weekend and I have also got some feedback from payers on the Dutch Sims forum.
    A lot of gamers still experience the same issues. The humps of clay and the future cubes still appear in the inventories. Some of the reactions are that the like to see the extra cash it generates but many are annoyed that Sims get strange or most of the time sad moods after asking questions to the future cube on public lots.
    The stealing still occurs even though there is no sharing and caring neighborhood action plan active. (I did not notice that, but other Simmers reflected that it still happens on the Dutch forum)
    Some of them (three that I know of) even switched off the Expansion Pack 'Eco Living' all together but still experience issues from the June 3rd update. Like the clay etc.
    So all in all, they tell me that it is still very difficult to play under these circumstances.
    I regard myself more like a terrier and still play on with all the issues I just mentioned. However, I have to say that unlike before June 2020, I find it harder and more difficult to control an eight Sim household.

    And I also see my sims wondering about to tend to the garden at any time they like. Stop their actions to start programming whenever they like.
    • PugLove888's avatar
      PugLove888
      Hero (Retired)
      5 years ago

      @Trismagistos , thank you for the update!  😇
      I haven't had Sharing is Caring but in one neighborhood , and that was right before the update, but I still did not have one person steal anything of mine, for some reason.🤔🤷‍♀️ I do not normally play rotationally, so this was a test I made for that purpose, but I still couldn't get any of the behaviors that everyone is having.😞 I think I just didn't play enough yet in that save for them to show up before the patch, and I haven't returned to that save since then, as I had other things to test (and I also wanted to play with knitting! ). 😉

      I guess I need to return to that save file and see if I can have some of these things happen in my game.🤔  I've heard that it is more common in rotational play, or in a save file that has a household live in one neighborhood but own a business in another neighborhood (where they can't vote or repeal any NAPs). 

      Thanks again for your research! ❤️

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