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canelacaliente
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

[S] Add All Events from Other Packs to the Calendar

It is hard to keep track of events when many are missing from the Season's calendar.  The only events that appear from other expansion packs are the ones from Get Famous.  I would like to see the following events added:

  • Get Together - bar nights
  • City Living - Festivals
  • Island Living - Festivals
  • Discover University - student union events

I don't always notice the notifications for the events.  Having them all on a single calendar will make it easier for my Sim to pick and choose what events they would like to go to.

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  • i know city living was left out as hidden cause it would take up nearly the week on a 7 day calendar then the player wouldn't be able to add their own events.

    i mostly use 14 day calendar and the preset festivals & holidays appear the same every time. As i started getting more packs i had to write them down in a pad, so i would know which days not to have special events if i new i wanted my sim to go to festivals

    Humor & hijinks Day 2 per season

    Romance day 7 per season

    flea market day 8 per season

    geekcon day 10 per season

    Love day only spring day 13; Spice festival day 13 per season - as you can see love day is a holiday on calendar spice festival is hidden so you still can plan an event on the 13th

    Harvest fest only fall day 12

    Winterfest only winter day 11

    New years only winter day 14

    I haven't written down a 28 day calendar cause i only played that a few times but i'm guessing humor would appear day 2 & day 16, as well as the others appearing twice per season

    Discover uni- i'm guessing again its left out cause only your college student can see the schedule all the time when they join a college organization,since technically its only for the student and not all household, thus if your student isn't in the club,then that's when the invite aslo appears in the corner so u have the option to attend.

    Although don lothario keeps showing up as a guest partier in my game all the time

    island living - in my game the festivals happen all the time in 2 different locations if you stay in those active areas long enough a festival will appear, so they feel there's no reason to waste a calendar event slot for something that appears often.

    get together - are u talking about the events, bear night, cheapskate night, alien night,cause again like island living they appear when u visit the bars,so no reason to take an event slot 

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    canelacaliente
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @Tkilroy36 Your reasoning not to have these on the calendar makes no sense.  Having these events in the calendar will give the player a choice of what they want to attend.  Not everyone wants to take notes during the game of all the events that occur.  The events from Get Famous are added to the calendar.  I see no reason not to add the other events to the calendar.

    i know city living was left out as hidden cause it would take up nearly the week on a 7 day calendar then the player wouldn't be able to add their own events.

    City Living events will not take up an entire week on the calendar.  There are only two events per week.  Players would still be able to add their own social events to the calendar.

    Discover uni

    Any Sim can see university events when visiting the Student Union during the event time.  I am not talking about organizational events.  I am talking about the student union events.   The organizational events days and times already appear in the organization's time.

    island living - in my game the festivals happen all the time in 2 different locations if you stay in those active areas long enough a festival will appear, so they feel there's no reason to waste a calendar event slot for something that appears often.

    This is not how island living festivals work.  The festivals spawn according to a set schedule in the game.  The festivals are not random.

    get together - are u talking about the events, bear night, cheapskate night, alien night,cause again like island living they appear when u visit the bars,so no reason to take an event slot

    Yes, I am talking about these events.  There is a different bar night every night.  It makes sense to list them all in the game.

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    canelacaliente
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @Tkilroy36 I wrote a long comment explaining my reasoning but it was marked as spam.  This is a summary of what I wrote before:

    Your reasoning doesn't make sense because they already have the Get Famous events on the calendar.  Also, not everyone wants to write down when the events occur in a separate place when we have a calendar in the game that can tell us when the events occur.  Not all events give notifications in enough time so our Sims can plan to attend the events.  The events in the game don't appear at random.  They are all scheduled.  City Living events don't take up an entire week.

  • I agree it's silly to not have the events from other packs loaded in. I only bought Seasons because I wanted the calendar to show me when the City Living and Get Together events were going on ahead of time so my Sim could take time off. I am extremely disappointed to find that not only are these events not automatically listed in the calendar, but that there's no way to add them in ourselves without adding some clunky holiday mechanic that overlaps the event. Keeping track of events you're (at least interested in) attending is quite literally the entire point of keeping a calendar that shows you events well ahead of time!

    If you can't/won't have the game automatically add the various pack events as players buy/add packs, then please consider adding a simple "note" field to the calendar so we can add the events (or other random reminders, like karaoke contest nights, happy hour times, etc.) in for ourselves. Thanks!