Bowling takes forever?

"Jprp83;c-16406418" wrote:
lol I can't believe the devs released the pack without noticing how LONG a bowling match takes. Also the bowling skill takes forever to build up. They need to tweak this.

They know how long bowling takes....that's why they said sims don't chat while bowling, it's already a very long activity and chatting would cause it to be even longer.

"JimG72;c-16417114" wrote:

"Jprp83;c-16406418" wrote:
lol I can't believe the devs released the pack without noticing how LONG a bowling match takes. Also the bowling skill takes forever to build up. They need to tweak this.

They know how long bowling takes....that's why they said sims don't chat while bowling, it's already a very long activity and chatting would cause it to be even longer.

In Sims 2 the sims sitting are chatting while another sim is playing. So that doesn’t take extra time. It looks quite natural. Made this video a while ago:




(is it snowing inside, yes it is, forgot to add a roof :p )

"littlemissgogo;c-16406037" wrote:
it takes a pretty long time to finish a whole game of bowling. an astoundingly long time actually. couple mods that ought to help speed up the process here if you're interested.

Thanks for the link to the mod. :) I just took my 2 sims bowling and it took about 4 hours for them to finish one game. They are both at level 5 bowling skill. It seems there is a lot of idle and wasted time while waiting for one sim to take their turn and while waiting for the ball to return. I was keeping track and It took up at least one hour of the four hours they were there.

Gonna add the mod and check again.

ETA: Tried two games after installing the mod and for some reason the game time increased to five hours. Not sure whats going on so I'll just remove it. My sims go bowling weekly so I'll just continue to plan on spending an evening at the bowling alley. :)

"simgirl1010;c-16418850" wrote:

"littlemissgogo;c-16406037" wrote:
it takes a pretty long time to finish a whole game of bowling. an astoundingly long time actually. couple mods that ought to help speed up the process here if you're interested.

Thanks for the link to the mod. :) I just took my 2 sims bowling and it took about 4 hours for them to finish one game. They are both at level 5 bowling skill. It seems there is a lot of idle and wasted time while waiting for one sim to take their turn and while waiting for the ball to return. I was keeping track and It took up at least one hour of the four hours they were there.

Gonna add the mod and check again.

ETA: Tried two games after installing the mod and for some reason the game time increased to five hours. Not sure whats going on so I'll just remove it. My sims go bowling weekly so I'll just continue to plan on spending an evening at the bowling alley. :)

I installed this mod by the same creator a couple days ago and I'm happy with the way it works: it doesn't speed up bowling but you can choose how many rounds make up a game, so games are much shorter. I think I chose the 3-round game with three Sims and it lasted a couple of Sim hours - much more realistic!

Thanks @loubyloulou. I'll check it out today. :)

Edit To Add: Installed the mod. 3-round game took 1hr and 45 minutes! Excellent!

Thanks for the help everyone! :)