A busy next 6 months for future DLC

Seasons and Supernatural were only 2 months apart -- that's pretty close. Exaggeration is a common rhetorical device. "I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating!" :D And it looks like in 2012 and 2013 we did get 3 EPs in a year, but that might have been about the time they wanted to clear the decks to work on features for Sims 4 (remember ITF had hints about Sims 4 in that crashed spaceship in the furure desert).

"stilljustme2;c-16743996" wrote:
Seasons and Supernatural were only 2 months apart -- that's pretty close. Exaggeration is a common rhetorical device. "I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating!" :D And it looks like in 2012 and 2013 we did get 3 EPs in a year, but that might have been about the time they wanted to clear the decks to work on features for Sims 4 (remember ITF had hints about Sims 4 in that crashed spaceship in the furure desert).

yes but that's 8 weeks not a couple

"marcel21;c-16744321" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16743996" wrote:
Seasons and Supernatural were only 2 months apart -- that's pretty close. Exaggeration is a common rhetorical device. "I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating!" :D And it looks like in 2012 and 2013 we did get 3 EPs in a year, but that might have been about the time they wanted to clear the decks to work on features for Sims 4 (remember ITF had hints about Sims 4 in that crashed spaceship in the furure desert).

yes but that's 8 weeks not a couple

“A few”, no, it’s not ;)

"JoAnne65;c-16744378" wrote:

"marcel21;c-16744321" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16743996" wrote:
Seasons and Supernatural were only 2 months apart -- that's pretty close. Exaggeration is a common rhetorical device. "I've told you a million times to stop exaggerating!" :D And it looks like in 2012 and 2013 we did get 3 EPs in a year, but that might have been about the time they wanted to clear the decks to work on features for Sims 4 (remember ITF had hints about Sims 4 in that crashed spaceship in the furure desert).

yes but that's 8 weeks not a couple

“A few”, no, it’s not ;)

what are you talking about, whats not a few?
some times I wonder if you even read the posts :o
Why you wink at me?
the original simmer said packs were released every couple/few weeks. I disagreed with them.
judging by the release dates above!
its a fact that Expansion packs were never released a few/couple of weeks apart, period.

the store did, not the ep packs.


a couple of weeks is two weeks
a few is three weeks


STILLJUSTME2


I have no memory of ever being told by you to stop doing something.

We were never talking about how many packs came a year, just the fact that that expansion packs were never releases two/three weeks apart!
As i already said.

@marcel21 I meant no, indeed, two months is not a couple of weeks, nor ‘a few’ (the literal phrasing). I didn’t quite understand the purpose or point of the post you were quoting there and was considering how to reply while reading it and then I turned the page and read your reaction. Which I agreed with, hence the wink. So basically my reply to you meant: yes, I agree ;)

"JoAnne65;c-16744520" wrote:
@marcel21 I meant no, indeed, two months is not a couple of weeks, nor ‘a few’ (the literal phrasing). I didn’t quite understand the purpose or point of the post you were quoting there and was considering how to reply while reading it and then I turned the page and read your reaction. Which I agreed with, hence the wink. So basically my reply to you meant: yes, I agree ;)

OK I agree with you.

"icmnfrsh;c-16741777" wrote:
A return to the 2 EPs a year model would be good news to me. Sims 3 kind of went overboard with releasing EPs just a few weeks apart, and by the end the whole game was pretty unstable. Although Sims 4 has a lot of issues as well, but so far it doesn't crash as often.

I kind of liked all the content. I wish they would go back to three a year. Not sure about the unstability of S3. I think that had many factors including mods, cc, type of computers, and what was downloaded from the community that had bad stuff in the cc. Many players complaining had mods, cc, or had downloaded something from the S3gallery that had bad cc in it. I do remember some that played vanilla mention some things, but mostly it was those other issues that caused problems in the Sims3. I eliminated this when I went vanilla. I have an Asus gaming computer and I play all games and the whole store. There isn't any instability at all for me. I have only had my game mess up 3 times since Sims3 Supernatural came out. I laid down a lot of black tiles to make a driveway of sorts and I think it created some type of blue screen error. I was on the high end of the singing career living in a trailer and I had to get creative and change some things, but got it worked out. Third one, I can't remember. Of course there was routing issues in WA, but not enough to ruin it for me.

I would've loved to have had the cc/mods everyone else did, but thoughts/inability of updating and babies that looked like lines didn't make me happy. Thus the change to vanilla to take out bad stuff downloaded from the S3gallery. After vanilla, I never had a crash in S3 except the time I laid the black tiles and in S4, I've never had a crash. I really believe non-EA content and the computer used has the most to do with it. I also ran everything on my cheap HP laptop for content in S3 up to 2012, when I was pregnant on the couch for 8mnts. Not sure it could run it now, but it did then and was a lifesaver. Not an expert, just sharing my experience of a huge multitude of gameplaying in Vanilla mode on an Asus computer. Can't say on other computers.

Personally, I hope it is very busy. I'm not happy completely with S4, but things not seen before and the content released lately has improved and expanded gameplay. I feel University, Farming, infant release, cemeteries, and many other things could give us some options for gameplay. Certainly, if nothing else, we did have tons of options for S3 play and that makes it very fun to play. :)

I thought it was a disagreement. Sorry for the misunderstanding :(

Sims 3 had a similar trend towards the end of its run. We started seeing multiple packs being released closer together as the era came to an end. I still remember the excitement when 'Supernatural' and 'Seasons' were announced to be released only a month apart.

The gurus have recently confirmed at least one more DLC being released in 2018. My guess is it's either going to be a stuff pack or game pack. I highly doubt we'll be seeing another expansion pack be released this year... but who knows? Seasons was definitely a big surprise. I mean, I figured that was going to be the next expansion pack, but I thought they would be releasing it towards the end of 2018.

It's been awhile since a game or stuff pack has been released, so I think one of those will be next. I'm personally hoping for a game pack that revolves around magic and witches. Just in time for Halloween!

Edit: I apologize if I didn't quite answer correctly to this thread... it's like 6am where I live and I haven't gotten any sleep. lol So, if my comment seems out of place and/or nothing but rambling, please don't mind me... xD

"BingBangBingBong;c-16743247" wrote:
Building tools from past games are not possible in 4 because of the game engine. The world environment is a flat surface and is not written to allow changes in elevation so terrain tools, swimmable oceans, multi level foundations, snow depth and split level stairs are just not going to happen unless they change the engine entirely. Stairs in the game are really just an object to simulate the effect of multiple “levels” but the 2nd floor is really on the same plane as the 1st floor. They managed to patch in pools but that’s about it. I’d be very surprised if they made any new large scale features for build mode because of how limited the engine is.

The gurus have said that most bugs from past packs are not prioritized for patches. That’s why so many of them have stuck around despite widespread customer feedback. SimGuruKate herself said certain bugs will never be fixed. Making new content (and making new money) will always be the studios priority over fixing old issues for products people have already bought.

Multi Level foundation has nothing to do with the world being flat. It just that they integrated the foundation to the whole building rather than per piece. We are told that Terrain tools are possible. Different type chairs are being research. Where did you get the information about that on the engine? That the floor is the same as 2nd floor, etc.?