Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4
This video from Carl's Sims 4 guides explains the topic very well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk06dk_G8bI It is very true that there isn't really much to do with your money besides build a...
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I'm not sure I agree with this.
I agree partly - I miss lifetime goals etc. too, and it irks me that there are potions you can take to instantly lose weight etc. That's too easy. But I don't agree this game is not challenging at all and you get rich in no time.
I just recently got City Living and am playing my first family there. I didn't start with one person - young adult - because, well, yes, that would be too easy. I started with a single mother with a toddler. They moved into one of the cheapest apartments, and it wasn't like her fortunes grew fast. I hooked that sim up with the baby sitter - but I didn't move him in or marry him. I just let them date. The result? She got pregnant with twins. Suddenly you have a young mother with three kids and one income. And that of course meant they needed a new, and larger, apartment. Meeting the rent requirement for that wasn't easy either - I have had the power cut off a few times.
(Her original daughter ended up hooking up with the SAME BABYSITTER too, though - I have WickedWhims enabled so they can randomly get questions if they want to have sex, so when he asked, I said yes. Now she and her mother have kids with the same man. A bit disturbing? You bet. None of them wanted to keep him around though, so she is raising the baby by herself aswell.) Now the eldest daughter is a young adult and herself a mom, but with two adults working full-time the economy is finally working and they're saving up money. The twins are now teenagers and right now I haven't decided if I'm keeping them in the household when they age too, to get even more income, for a while.
It seems to me a lot of the people who claim the game is so easy don't do anything to make it challenging either. They use cheats. They start with one young adult, who has time for maxing out a career before even settling with a family. They choose only good traits for their sims. And so forth.
I agree that there are aspects of the game that is too easy - just "grinding" skills like painting or writing can give you a steady income. It is difficult to lose your job or get kicked out of school. Etc. But there are ways to make the gameplay more challenging and you can always make choices that mean it will be more difficult to for example get rich. Like I did. My original sim was a YA when we started (and her daughter a toddler) while now she is an elder and her daughter a young adult. We're not rich yet, atm they have about 6000 simoleons (not counting the value of the furniture, as I have slowly upgraded their furniture with their income).
I agree partly - I miss lifetime goals etc. too, and it irks me that there are potions you can take to instantly lose weight etc. That's too easy. But I don't agree this game is not challenging at all and you get rich in no time.
I just recently got City Living and am playing my first family there. I didn't start with one person - young adult - because, well, yes, that would be too easy. I started with a single mother with a toddler. They moved into one of the cheapest apartments, and it wasn't like her fortunes grew fast. I hooked that sim up with the baby sitter - but I didn't move him in or marry him. I just let them date. The result? She got pregnant with twins. Suddenly you have a young mother with three kids and one income. And that of course meant they needed a new, and larger, apartment. Meeting the rent requirement for that wasn't easy either - I have had the power cut off a few times.
(Her original daughter ended up hooking up with the SAME BABYSITTER too, though - I have WickedWhims enabled so they can randomly get questions if they want to have sex, so when he asked, I said yes. Now she and her mother have kids with the same man. A bit disturbing? You bet. None of them wanted to keep him around though, so she is raising the baby by herself aswell.) Now the eldest daughter is a young adult and herself a mom, but with two adults working full-time the economy is finally working and they're saving up money. The twins are now teenagers and right now I haven't decided if I'm keeping them in the household when they age too, to get even more income, for a while.
It seems to me a lot of the people who claim the game is so easy don't do anything to make it challenging either. They use cheats. They start with one young adult, who has time for maxing out a career before even settling with a family. They choose only good traits for their sims. And so forth.
I agree that there are aspects of the game that is too easy - just "grinding" skills like painting or writing can give you a steady income. It is difficult to lose your job or get kicked out of school. Etc. But there are ways to make the gameplay more challenging and you can always make choices that mean it will be more difficult to for example get rich. Like I did. My original sim was a YA when we started (and her daughter a toddler) while now she is an elder and her daughter a young adult. We're not rich yet, atm they have about 6000 simoleons (not counting the value of the furniture, as I have slowly upgraded their furniture with their income).
