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- PugLove8886 years agoHero (Retired)
I agree that The Sims 2 was the best Sims game for gameplay reasons 🥳 (but not graphics, which The Sims 4 excels at ❤️ )! 😉
However, I don't use all the rewards that my Sims can purchase. Some households I never use any of the rewards. Others I use all that I can (usually households of 7 or 8 Sims). But most I just use one type of reward for one Sim and another type of reward for another Sim. So, I might have the steel bladder reward for one Sim and the hardly hungry reward for another Sim in the same household. There is no rule that you have to use the rewards, so if playing with too many rewards is not challenging enough for you, then don't play with them, or just play with a few select ones! 😉
- 6 years ago@PugLove888 Because I have enough incentives to buy incentives, but I did not buy them for the fun of the game, which makes me miss the TS2 incentive system. For example, TS4 has a horticultural ambition reward that is a fireproof feature, but by contrast, I prefer reward to be an interesting little fish tank or pond with special functions, rather than a cheating feature. For example, both TS2 and TS4 have expected rewards. I would prefer the smart cap of TS2. When you wear it in a good mood, learning skills will accelerate, and when you are in a bad mood, using it will lose skills. This is an interesting setting, but TS4 is a very simple feature to speed up learning skills, which is too simple and rough. What's your opinion?
- PugLove8886 years agoHero (Retired)
@tayloraut, I agree that TS2's were tons of fun to use! I was just talking to a friend about how I used to make Grilled Cheese Aspiration Sims all the time in TS2, which of course was done by using one of the Aspiration Rewards! :eahigh_file: We have Grilled Cheese Sims in TS4, but you have to eat 3 Grilled Cheese sandwiches in a row to become one, and there is no failure.
Yes, most of the failures were extremely funny in TS2! 😃❤️ But sometimes you do need a boost when you are down and can't afford to risk a failure. ...
But I have a way around this to get the best of both worlds -- I think they should keep the reward potions for emergencies (those don't use many reward points anyway) but have the big rewards be like the ones in TS2 that give you a chance of failure if used "incorrectly"! 🤨😃 One of my favorite rewards failures was the death telephone thing you mentioned. If I remember correctly, it was called the Resurrect -O- Nomitron or something close to that! I loved that if you didn't pay the Grim Reaper enough your Sim would have less skills or personality points or something to that effect, and if you paid just enough to resurrect them but not enough to do the job very well, they would come back as a Zombie! 😃:eahigh_file:
I don't think they can change the rewards at this point in the game, but perhaps if and when there is a Sims 5 they will bring back these riskier and funnier rewards! 🤞