I was forgiving of DHD until this.
I knew going in that this was a lightweight Game Pack. However, I did like the idea of a pack that encouraged Builders to play and Players to build. The sectional furniture system is cool and I like...
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"Cinebar;c-17905719" wrote:"jennlynh;c-17905147" wrote:
I think for me it's perfect because I am the opposite. I am a player that wants to be a better decorator and builder. So for me it's "practice" and it's actually helping some. I am doing the basic stuff right now and haven't done an extra room addition yet.
The one thing that is annoying though is I went to renovate a cafe and the owner wasn't there, so I had no likes or dislikes. Had to wing it and he hated it!! I'm sure that was a glitch.
But it isn't sold as a builder's delight pack, it's sold as a new career for your Sim. Your Sim gets nothing out of this, no skills, no aspiration, no fame of being a great decorator and many don't understand decorating is not building. Not one point of building. Perhaps it goes deeper at the higher end of career but really anyone can throw on a box to the side of a home and call it a day.
No offense but this is like saying that anyone can slap paint on a canvas and call it a painting or anyone can type words into a sheet and call it a book. Yes, they can, it doesn't diminish someone from doing it and does not mean that they are unable to do it well. If someone is only drawing, they aren't painting. That's essentially your argument. Yes, but there's nothing wrong with drawing. If someone writes a poem instead of a book, they are still a writer. If someone draws instead of painting, they are still an artist.
The career in the pack starts with room renovation and yes, that's decorating though if you are gutting a kitchen, in real life, that's building. I haven't played it enough to get into the home additions which would be building but I don't really want to do that to every lot anyway.
Yes, there are people who play the game spending their whole time building and a lot of them make amazing stuff. I think the DHD pack just is what it is - use the new objects and the various random stuff you have in new ways if you want to. Get prompts from "the client" and work with them even when they conflict or don't make a lot of sense which simulates a lot of real careers. Do what you want with the pack. In my case, I'm likely to run into the various spaces whenever I get around to playing those households. No, I don't wish I was Ted Roswell in some gothic storybook. He was a client and I probably never would have designed his house like that on my own but it was really fun and gives him some personality.
No need to get worked up, I'm just saying that furnishing the spaces is a part of building. If someone wants they can build anyway, of course. If the space now looks really cool and you want to play in it later, even better. Obviously making walls, roofs and complicated structural designs is a very important and valuable part of building and no one is saying that it isn't.
