How Random is Sims 4 Really?
So let me start with a real life example. I live up a one-lane gravel dead-end road in rural America. Yesterday, I was on my way home from a doctor's appointment when I got to a sharp turn just bef...
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I miss the randomness of Sims2. I didn't use mods at all during that time. I was far too new to video gaming, and quite frankly the thought of even using Boolprop had me scared witless. (Go ahead and laugh, I know you're dying to.) I was totally gobsmacked when I had a young couple who had a set of twin toddlers and another baby on the way. The castle was haunted, the husband's inheritance from several hundred years of ownership. They had his parents move in to help with the wee ones. Grandma refused to eat, even after I sent her to, and she starved to death. :open_mouth: Now, that's random. But, then just after the wife gave birth, the ghost chose to scare her. She wasn't over the first fright before he scared her to death. I couldn't fathom a couple of males, let alone Vulcans able to handle identical twin toddlers and a brand-new baby, so I deleted them to try again.
Missing the randomness, in both Sims3 & 4, I confess to experimenting with a mod that seemed to promise a certain amount of the randomness of life. Well, it was too much. It wrecked my storyline, killed two of my top characters, and the kidnapped one I had to use cheats to get her back and then she couldn't get into the lot. :open_mouth: Cue the Restart Music.
There has got to be a happy medium here. Somewhere between dull, boring, nothing ever happens in my life, to outright everybody's got to die and now! I now this game and the one prior are geared for the younger players but come on. Most of these kids have seen and done more than I have in my 68 years of life! Perhaps, the older players can be appeased with an EP, let's say, that is rated M Adults only. I'm not suggesting anything of a woohoo nature, if you get my drift, just some of the random happenings. Somebody backs their car into you Sims' new fence knocking half of it down, that sort of thing. Frankly, if and when your Sims even happens upon good ole Mrs. Crumplebottom while out on a date, she's at least likely to give the offending Sim a good whacking with her purse.
We just need a little more whackiness. unpredictable stuff to keep the player on their toes, you know?
Missing the randomness, in both Sims3 & 4, I confess to experimenting with a mod that seemed to promise a certain amount of the randomness of life. Well, it was too much. It wrecked my storyline, killed two of my top characters, and the kidnapped one I had to use cheats to get her back and then she couldn't get into the lot. :open_mouth: Cue the Restart Music.
There has got to be a happy medium here. Somewhere between dull, boring, nothing ever happens in my life, to outright everybody's got to die and now! I now this game and the one prior are geared for the younger players but come on. Most of these kids have seen and done more than I have in my 68 years of life! Perhaps, the older players can be appeased with an EP, let's say, that is rated M Adults only. I'm not suggesting anything of a woohoo nature, if you get my drift, just some of the random happenings. Somebody backs their car into you Sims' new fence knocking half of it down, that sort of thing. Frankly, if and when your Sims even happens upon good ole Mrs. Crumplebottom while out on a date, she's at least likely to give the offending Sim a good whacking with her purse.
We just need a little more whackiness. unpredictable stuff to keep the player on their toes, you know?
