Does the Royalty and legacy bandle worth the money?
I want to buy that but idk and I need to hear some honest reviews about that
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Okay, so... I haven't played with everything, but I have been using most of the main features. And I'll start by saying that the pack is not without its flaws and bugs. There are things that seem great at first, but on further inspection, seem hastily thrown together without consideration for the other moving parts and features that came before, or for varying play styles.
For example, the sword in the stone, once drawn, can only belong to the one who drew it and can disappear forever if you try to change the owner. The dynasties have some family tree glitches and seem to be turning some married couples (mostly same-sex, from what I've seen in bug reports) into siblings. Also, some parents are disappearing from the tree and other glitches are happening with it.
When choosing your dynasty preferences, the activities can become overactive, causing Sims to spam the same behaviors over and over, like reading, or playing violin, or whatever, so can get very annoying.
The Masquerade Ball is bugged, so if you try to hold one on a public lot, the attendees don't wear the masks at all. They also tend to show up in random, game-generated outfits from this pack specifically, so they end up all dressing similarly instead of in their formal wear, which makes no sense. I was able to throw a Masquerade Ball at a home residence successfully, but the outfits were still randomized. Very disappointing. Why do we have a Formal Wear category if it's not going to be used??
I haven't gotten to far in the Royalty career yet, but know that it does cause "rivalries", even if the Royals are in the same household. I think it works so that if two Royals in the same world reach the same career level, they become rivals. I'm not entirely sure if this is how it works, but this is what happened in my game in one household.
If you are the kind of player who tends to play just one household with maybe one or two Sims at a time, you might have fewer difficulties. I play rotationally, with many households in one save, so I think the potential for mishaps is higher for me. But the pack certainly has its limitations and railroading features, regardless.
That said, I am having fun with it. I love the world, clothing and b/b, definitely. I'm being a little more tentative and selective with the gameplay though, and I love the Grand Balls and new synchronized Waltz dancing, even with its issues. (I use a mod so I can switch everyone's outfits. Otherwise, I'd probably be more frustrated with this.) I also really, really love the sword fighting and have been giving it to many of my Sims. But know that I'm a fantasy/Occult player, so this suits my play style very well.
In the end, only you will really know what's best for you in your game. I'd recommend looking up some play reviews on Youtube to learn more in depth information to help you decide. 😊
Hi, in reference to the last line in your third paragraph, this formal wear glitch has been around since My Weddings, I'm sorry to say. We can only hope it makes it to the Bug list. I only play one household and have for most of my gameplay with Sims 4. Can't allow my Rock Star to stop being a Global Superstar by not showing up to his own concerts and photoshoots, after all. I just scheduled a masked Grand Ball, set for a public venue, too. I'll either go ahead with it and just see what happens in my game, or I'll edit it, quickly. I left my family on Monday evening, the ball set for the next day . . .
GalacticGal Yes, the plethora of missed opportunities to use our Sims' own categorical outfits is a head scratcher. Random outfits in festivals, the Magic Realm, grand balls, weddings and other places just adds to my frustration, constantly. I love to design Sims and I choose their outfits carefully, with color palettes, styles and patterns that fit the Sim's intended personality. Random outfits just bork that all up.
I've been using MC Command Center extensively to change Sim outfits during gameplay, so thank goodness that exists at least, but I don't know why it's programmed this way in the first place. It just undoes the work we put into our Sims.
I think I'm going to report this on Discord for consideration for the next wave of autonomy tweaks. Thanks for your reply, even if I'm responding kind of late to it, lol.They honestly need to unhide hidden outfit categories, especially career and event/festival/situational (or option to turn off (I personally use a mod to turn many of these off because, ugh!)), and instead of random have at least as default pack friendly/specific "styled looks" per type. That with allowing editing (as they are no longer hidden), would just save so much grief in the game.
And if we could create our own "styled looks", save, and even share on the gallery, then redressing sims would be so much easier for those who do like to redress sometimes.
Random outfits in festivals, the Magic Realm, grand balls, weddings and other places just adds to my frustration, constantly. I love to design Sims and I choose their outfits carefully, with color palettes, styles and patterns that fit the Sim's intended personality. Random outfits just bork that all up
I also hate to see random outfits that completely ruin the look of sims I care about. I can only recommend 'situationsoutfitsbegone by sims4me/Bienchen. It's such a relief to enter the magic realm without my sims being dressed completely against their character. Not sure about grand balls because I don't think she is buying recent packs but she is still updating mods.
I do use the Situation Outfits Begone for the Magic Realm specifically. I don't use the others though because I try to keep my mods to a minimum. She has some great mods, though.
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