How satisfied are you with the Spa Day refresh?

"MarmaladeJade;c-17975812" wrote:
@VentusMatt I have to agree about the nails there. While I still think they could have been more careful to make sure that all of them were working right and not just 3 styles, the bug is also very easy to miss and the nails work with most of the clothes. With as many CAS items there are, that's a few hours of testing right there.

To speak more on it. I think they made the textures for the nails bigger then they needed to be. Now I haven't actually gone into thesims4studio to check and see how large the textures are for the nails but seeing how much area get's affected for the items that are affected I it looks like so. The nails are so small that personally I don't think they need to be as details or clean.

I wish there was an option for "Mostly Satisfied." I've always liked the pack and have had a number of sims take yoga classes, use the spa services, learn to meditate, and even max out the skill. I like the new features quite a bit, and especially the fact that children can now participate. However, the glitches with the nails bleeding into certain tops and full body outfits, and the lack of choice in certain colours (like in pink and red) have rather marred the new experience for me. And I hate that sims no longer take their shoes off when doing Yoga. I also loved that they did it in their socks before -- what a disappointment that this is no longer the case.

I'll wait a little more before I vote to see whether they are willing to fix the footwear issues the pack refresh caused for foot massage and yoga.

If I played mostly female Sims I guess I'd be happy about having even more stuff added for them but I don't. So things like facials, manicures, and pedicures haven't enhanced my game at all. I did look at the fingernails in the game though. Most of the styles are awful. I didn't even look at toenails because my Sims don't show their feet much except in warm weather. Even then I don't get close enough to my Sims or their feet to see details.

I like the mini-fridge and I like having more color options for spa items. It's neat that kids finally have more activities available to them. I haven't played many families that have kids because there wasn't much for a kid to do except talk non-stop. The Spa Day refresh and the recent change with cooking have changed that so I might actually play one of my townie families that have kids. Maybe. OK, probably not.

I'm not interested in the High Maintenance trait or any of the new aspirations with the possible exception of Inner Peace. All of my Sims have some level of Wellness so at least one will test the Inner Peace aspiration. I'm not interested in the aspirations that involve socializing and meeting more potential stalkers.

All in all, the Spa Day refresh is fine. Now fix things connected with the off-the-grid trait. I mean refresh. :)

I think the refresh is alright. As others have posted, the biggest disappointment is the lack of a real career. I also do not really like the new aspiration system. It seems glitchy and does not register/track your progress well. Sometimes the same activity will count towards an aspiration, sometimes not. Especially the self-care specialist aspiration could have tracked the amount of simoleons earned via 'hustling'. I once had some points taken away from my progress, so I got impatient and chose a non-wellness aspiration again. Teaching yoga classes was one of the things I looked forward to the most, but it seems glitchy, too. Before the class starts, the mats are all full but then almost everyone leaves and goes home once the class starts. When you give a class at the park, dogs and townies walk up and talk to the class participants while they do yoga (my cat followed me from home once and sat on the mat during class). I only got paid twice for giving classes, the other times nothing, but unfortunately no pop up window will explain anything so you are left guessing. I don't care too much for pedicures/manicures and as they wear off I usually do cas nails or no nails at all. Usually no nails, as they seem to not fully work still. I don't use the High Maintenance trait. I just don't want my sims to die so quickly. I like the fact that children can do yoga/meditate as it calms them down and raises their emotional control. Overall its alright, but I don't use Spa Day more than before. Plus I already liked it before and always in some way integrate it into my gameplay.

Spa Day was my first pack ever and I still think it's one of my most used packs, because it's so easy to implement in any family. None of the gameplay objects are really groundbreaking, but it's just relaxing and realistic gameplay. The fancy baths, sauna trips and yoga math in the backyard is in pretty much all of my saves. So I'm happy they put in even more stuff to make this pack even better.

I never really cared for the nails but I accept all new traits and aspirations! That was really lacking from this pack. The aspirations aren't really time-consuming but I like the rewards and I think it fits the pack; it's more of a side-hobby than a lifestyle for a sim. And you can combine them all which is nice.

Also FINALLY we can make money using the skill and objects! I'm really happy with it.
I hope they do Get To Work next to add some traits and aspirations to that one, and Into The Wild (or whatever its called) really needs a bit more gameplay to tie up the whole camping experience.

@carpe_diem I don't think the high maintenance trait's negative moodlets are that random or not affected by gameplay. There's a moodlet that has a chance to come from cooking and another one that has a chance to come from using a toilet etc. I played a sim with the trait for a couple of days and it worked just like kusurusu described in this thread:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/993765/the-new-high-maintenance-trait-discoveries#
There could be more moodlets, for example from receiving negative feedback like you said, I agree with that :smile:

"Monaveil;c-17976759" wrote:
If I played mostly female Sims I guess I'd be happy about having even more stuff added for them but I don't. So things like facials, manicures, and pedicures haven't enhanced my game at all. I did look at the fingernails in the game though. Most of the styles are awful. I didn't even look at toenails because my Sims don't show their feet much except in warm weather. Even then I don't get close enough to my Sims or their feet to see details.

I like the mini-fridge and I like having more color options for spa items. It's neat that kids finally have more activities available to them. I haven't played many families that have kids because there wasn't much for a kid to do except talk non-stop. The Spa Day refresh and the recent change with cooking have changed that so I might actually play one of my townie families that have kids. Maybe. OK, probably not.

I'm not interested in the High Maintenance trait or any of the new aspirations with the possible exception of Inner Peace. All of my Sims have some level of Wellness so at least one will test the Inner Peace aspiration. I'm not interested in the aspirations that involve socializing and meeting more potential stalkers.

All in all, the Spa Day refresh is fine. Now fix things connected with the off-the-grid trait. I mean refresh. :)

Even some real life males get manicures and pedicures, especially men in professions. Since they have the natural nail color, you might try and see if a mani or pedi could make some of your male sims get positive buffs from it.

@haisin Aha! Thanks for telling me, and thanks for the thread tip!
I really like the "worst day ever", that give some consequences to my horrible sim caretaking... (muhaha!) >:) But I hope they could add more negative moodlets from ex interactions. My sim just started a friendly chat with the custumer (with the usual happy-creepy-sim-smile) after recieving an awful review. ?

Edit: I would love to see awful review being saved as an Embarrassed Sentiment!