Knitting? What the...

Myself I'm not in the last interested in knitting in real life, but I like crafting in rpgs and welcome opportunities for my sims to generate income other than from rabbit hole jobs. Watching them knit won't be different from watching them woodworking or (cc) canning. If the final item selection is to my liking I'll consider getting the pack.

"windweaver;d-973134" wrote:
Are you kidding me? How exciting will it be to watch my Sim sit in a chair or maybe, more excitingly, a sofa and manipulate two sticks to create a scarf, sweater, or hat!?! OMG how exciting! It simply takes my breath away. I can't imagine how marvelous it will be when that pack comes out. I bet it beats all sales of previous packs to date.

You all realize I'm being snarky?

My thoughts exactly. In this case, snarky is justified.

I do play Sims 4 once in a green spotted moon. But like Tiny Living, I will skip the knitting pack. I have no interest in it and I did not even vote for it or the other packs that were offered in the contest. If I want to watch knitting, I will watch my 80 years old mother. With all the things that need fixing, or added... knitting seems a bit off board with what this game is lacking.

"windweaver;c-17420975" wrote:
To all the rest of the community: I'm really glad you all are happy. Lol, I guess I just expect the bar to be a bit higher. In The Sims 2 we had a sewing machine which your sim could make all the clothes in the CAS once they leveled up, that was fantastic. They could fix an old car and drive it, they could do all kinds of things from the hobby pack. That's where my high bar comes from. I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, I just find knitting rather boring, but whatever floats your boat.

I voted for knitting because it was the closest thing we were likely to get to the Sims 2 sewing machine. I really liked the somewhat customisable outfits you could make at the highest level of sewing and I thought that an upgraded version of that, albeit with knitting instead of sewing, would be perfect for the game. Unfortunately, everything we've seen so far suggests that we aren't going to get that level of customisation.

I was so disappointed in the result of the CAS vote, when there were so many items picked that you can't knit. I really wanted every CAS item from the pack to be unlocked via knitting in the game, and a lot of the items chosen aren't even made of wool, at the exclusion of most of my favourite items that actually were made of wool! I'm still gutted about the hat situation and the fact that more child and toddler items were not picked. So yeah, I was not a happy camper after that reveal.

I am slightly more hopeful at this point regarding the Build/Buy mode items. Initially I was only going to vote for things you can knit but then I would have picked little more than clutter type items so I did end up picking a few other things as well for variety. Kinda regret picking one of the sofa sets but to be honest, I wanted more pouffes so then I had to pick the sofa and armchair that matched. I am trying to prepare myself to be disappointed again, I just hope we get the grim reaper cuddly toy and the cat cuddly toy.

As far as the stuff pack concepts we were offered are concerned, I personally didn't rate the healthy living or tech ones. The science one offered the possibility of a couple of items I've wanted for a while - household sized microscopes and telescopes - but I wasn't into the theme enough to rate it higher than 3rd place.

And now to happy haunts. This theme has a lot of potential and was my 2nd choice because I liked the career options that were suggested and I think we could get some great CAS and build/buy items out of it. I can't remember what else was said about the pack though, it's been a while! I know there are people who are still gutted we didn't get this one but I absolutely believe that it would have been a big disappointment as a stuff pack because there is just no way we would have got all 3 of the careers and chances are the CAS picks would still have been skewed in favour of adult females because it always is. I think a game pack is the way to go with this one, to make sure we can include all the careers on offer, and if so, I think it will be very popular.

How exciting is it to watch your sims play chess, read a book etc??? :D

You could really say it about a lot of things.

"MikkiMikkiMikkiM;c-17421070" wrote:
The knitting aspect doesn't really appeal to me much, but from what it seems we're getting some fun buy/build items, and to me, that's what stuff packs are about in the end. Any additional gameplay aspects come second to the actual stuff.

Great way to look at it! I think I'll adopt it!

@darrenfroggy

It is ridiculous because instead of something gameplay-changing or
something that makes already existing mechanics better
community asks for yet another skill where their sim will sit and repeat a set or animations.

Thrilling.

Don't get me wrong - I understand why people want it.
I understand why people find it appealing.
But why ask for that instead of, say, making babies actually interesting?
That's beyond me.

@ArcherDK The problem with what you're saying is that the community voted stuff pack and base game mechanics improvements aren't related to the point of "why can't we get X instead of the SP".

There are different teams working on each type of pack, on bug fixes, and on the core of the game itself. The vote had 5 options, none of which would have in any way changed core gameplay as that's not what SPs do. It wasn't a case of "what theme do you want" and people having free reign to answer.

From the forums, even before knitting came up in the vote, there have been players asking for it (and yeah, a wider range of crafts and hobbies) so it's not like it came completely out of the blue either. Obviously it's a theme that's wanted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's all about the opportunity cost.
If they are working on X, they are not working on Y and Z.

Another problem is that people are insistent on making sims 4 into sims 2
instead of letting it stand on it's own. It will NEVER be sims 2.
There is Sims 2 already.

This argument is getting nowhere. Let's just wait and see.

"DaWaterRat;c-17420280" wrote:
The Knitting aspect is fun, but as a general Crafter/Maker - I just want my Sims to have a craft room

I find i use almost nothing, since i prefer small builds and a lot of activities take up TONS of space. A craft room? No. Never going to happen if I have to chose between that and a yoga mat or a robotics workbench or a punching bag or...