6 years ago
"Clear Worlds" Options When Starting A New Save
Well, while I'm enjoying the gameplay and new stuff added in "Realm of Magic", there is one little big thing that is bugging me here and has been since the game came out: The fact that pre-made houses and pre-made sims always dominate the biggest and best lots in every area when you boot up a new save.
I mean, I get it, the developers love the lots and sims they made and want to show them off...but for players like me, who prefer starting off in a fresh, empty world in previous incarnations of the series and/or enjoy building on larger lots because they give more room for expansion and development as our sims progress (as well as the freedom to just motherlode in a fortune and start our sims out in a mansion if we so choose), the pre-made domination in the worlds is really, really annoying. Playing around it using either the free realestate cheat (which I can never get to work properly) or plunking your sim down on a temp spot then going to Manage Worlds and prepping your preferred spot with evictions and bulldozing is really clunky and kind of a hassle.
What I propose is an option when starting a save where we can choose to have all of the pre-made lots and sims already plunked down, have a totally blank slate save where there are no pre-made buildings (except for certain sites with special properties like apartments, the chateau in Windenburg, and the lab in Strangerville) and the pre-made sims are in the Manage Households but haven't been placed on a lot, have a save with only pre-made community lots, or a save where the pre-made buildings are there but the pre-made sims aren't moved in. That way, players who want a quick-start can start a save with everything intact like it's done now, those who want a fresh-start and don't mind building or gallery shopping their way to their perfect version of their worlds can have our way, and everyone who wants something in between can have that too.
Again, I get that the devs want to show off the lots and sims they made, and I also get that there are a lot of players who prefer to play with pre-made sims and builds (just look at the overwhelming love for long-standing characters like the Goths and Don Lothario), but for those of us who play for our own sims, builds, and stories, the situation is just plain out of hand. Having to manually go through every world to evict the pre-made sims and demolish the pre-built buildings to create a blank slate save to start off of every time I want to strike up a new save is kind of annoying (yes, I'm one of those people who has a bunch of different saves for different storylines, challenges, and experiments), and I'd much rather click a check box or pick something from a drop-down to set up the starting conditions of a save how I'd like them to fit whatever I'm planning on doing.
...Yeah, plus, it's incredibly annoying for there to be so few large lots, and every time to see most of them taken up by pre-made builds and pre-made sims when big lots are my personal favorites to build on and we get precious few of them in every world...Just saying...
I mean, I get it, the developers love the lots and sims they made and want to show them off...but for players like me, who prefer starting off in a fresh, empty world in previous incarnations of the series and/or enjoy building on larger lots because they give more room for expansion and development as our sims progress (as well as the freedom to just motherlode in a fortune and start our sims out in a mansion if we so choose), the pre-made domination in the worlds is really, really annoying. Playing around it using either the free realestate cheat (which I can never get to work properly) or plunking your sim down on a temp spot then going to Manage Worlds and prepping your preferred spot with evictions and bulldozing is really clunky and kind of a hassle.
What I propose is an option when starting a save where we can choose to have all of the pre-made lots and sims already plunked down, have a totally blank slate save where there are no pre-made buildings (except for certain sites with special properties like apartments, the chateau in Windenburg, and the lab in Strangerville) and the pre-made sims are in the Manage Households but haven't been placed on a lot, have a save with only pre-made community lots, or a save where the pre-made buildings are there but the pre-made sims aren't moved in. That way, players who want a quick-start can start a save with everything intact like it's done now, those who want a fresh-start and don't mind building or gallery shopping their way to their perfect version of their worlds can have our way, and everyone who wants something in between can have that too.
Again, I get that the devs want to show off the lots and sims they made, and I also get that there are a lot of players who prefer to play with pre-made sims and builds (just look at the overwhelming love for long-standing characters like the Goths and Don Lothario), but for those of us who play for our own sims, builds, and stories, the situation is just plain out of hand. Having to manually go through every world to evict the pre-made sims and demolish the pre-built buildings to create a blank slate save to start off of every time I want to strike up a new save is kind of annoying (yes, I'm one of those people who has a bunch of different saves for different storylines, challenges, and experiments), and I'd much rather click a check box or pick something from a drop-down to set up the starting conditions of a save how I'd like them to fit whatever I'm planning on doing.
...Yeah, plus, it's incredibly annoying for there to be so few large lots, and every time to see most of them taken up by pre-made builds and pre-made sims when big lots are my personal favorites to build on and we get precious few of them in every world...Just saying...