Realm of Magic Needs a Refresh, Here's Why
Realm of Magic is my favourite pack, and I play a lot with spellcasters. This means that I have noticed where there's room for improvement. In other words, I think Realm of Magic needs a refresh. The...
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@SqueamishNerd I absolutely agree with you. I play with the longest lifespan so my biggest issue usually with this game is that everything is so easy that I have to use mods to keep the gameplay challenging enough. I really hope we get a difficulty setting!
Haven't played with spellcasters for a while (so I may not remember all stuff) but when I do, I use the mod that allows children to use magic. I dearly hope this pack could be revamped so that children could start learning magic at least to some degree. Maybe they could go to a different school than normal kids?
And generally about children+toddlers and magic: I'd want to see them starting to dabble in using magic from an early age where they could accidentally perform magic, possibly more likely when they have a strong emotion or something. I immediately thought of how we're able to transform things with the Simray (freezeray? wait what is it called? :D) and maybe toddlers and children could sometimes accidentally transform things. That same code could easily be reused! I'd even welcome a new idle animation to be added in live mode so toddlers/children would seem like they're learning to use their powers.
Other reusable features: aliens have this memory wipe ability, right? That could definitely be a Mischief spell!
And familiars seem like they could use some more love from the devs, I'd give more detailed suggestions but it really has been quite some while since I last played with spellcasters so I'd have to play around a bit to get a reminder. But a refresh for this pack would definitely make me want to play with spellcasters more!
Haven't played with spellcasters for a while (so I may not remember all stuff) but when I do, I use the mod that allows children to use magic. I dearly hope this pack could be revamped so that children could start learning magic at least to some degree. Maybe they could go to a different school than normal kids?
And generally about children+toddlers and magic: I'd want to see them starting to dabble in using magic from an early age where they could accidentally perform magic, possibly more likely when they have a strong emotion or something. I immediately thought of how we're able to transform things with the Simray (freezeray? wait what is it called? :D) and maybe toddlers and children could sometimes accidentally transform things. That same code could easily be reused! I'd even welcome a new idle animation to be added in live mode so toddlers/children would seem like they're learning to use their powers.
Other reusable features: aliens have this memory wipe ability, right? That could definitely be a Mischief spell!
And familiars seem like they could use some more love from the devs, I'd give more detailed suggestions but it really has been quite some while since I last played with spellcasters so I'd have to play around a bit to get a reminder. But a refresh for this pack would definitely make me want to play with spellcasters more!
@siirysiir Magic school would be awesome! :-) I'd love it if sims could be teachers at the school as a career as well.
I love the idea of magic school for kids, and would in general love to see more magic for kids, but my biggest thing is that I was deeply dismayed to discover I couldn't Dedeathify a child. I mean, we used Ambrosia and that worked! I absolutely understand not wanting people to be able to do mean or mischievous spells to children and toddlers, but I would love to Scruberoo them... and the Dedeathify thing was upsetting.
(Maybe the kids could have special kid spells? I like the accidental magic idea, too.)
Yes this! Scruberoo kids! And toddlers and babies! And pets!
Also, the artefact shaped dirt clumps from Jungle Adventure? Scruberoo those too. It wouldn't authenticate them, but it would get the caked-on dirt out of the way so the sim could either authenticate or send away for authentication.
Has anyone tried using scruberoo on the rubbish and stuff in Mua Pel'am? Scruberoo that too - it's rubbish and filth, so scruberoo should work.
Bring it on.
I don't want spellcasting to be harder, I like it where it is - but if they gave options in game settings to make it harder, I'd definitely support that. I think we need more options in game settings for a lot of pack functionality, from the skeletons not being allowed out of Omisca (I made a club and they were happy to join but they never turned up to meetings and I *wanted* a club of seven skeletons dancing in my Willow Creek living room) to the kids that ruin their character values by asking for advice if I don't stop them in time.
- @MamaSimmerPlays There are surprisingly little things we can Scruberoo, we can’t even do it on piles of dirt and on dust bins.
