Let's watch: Maxis Monthly - Episode 1

"luimistelija;c-16758395" wrote:

"vikixc;c-16758106" wrote:

"luimistelija;c-16757449" wrote:

"vikixc;c-16757305" wrote:
Did anyone else see at the end he made one building with foundation and another one without? Am I hallucinating? Please someone tell me I am not wrong! I have NEEDED this feature since day 1!!

Sadly it was just the basement that looked like a foundation. Could probably do some tricks with that though.

I am 90% sure it was foundation. It looked alot like the default foundation and it didn't have that wall covering that walls do before you paint them.

You're right! I thought he was using the basement tool to create it, but after rewatching he is definitely making a regular room on top of that hill and then the foundation just shows up. That would be heavenly if we could choose which building have foundation.

I'm hoping the next world will be a bit more bumpier, so that there will be natural hills that continue in and out of the lot borders.

YAAAS! I can't wait to use this feature, it doesn't even matter if we get cars or not (however, I think we will) because now I can even make my fake garages look realistic. This is the best part for me, I like terrain editing too but it never looked good when I have used it in the past but I have seen other Simmers make really nice lots with it.

One of the things they mentioned with the Fashion Influencer career is that you might see townie Sims running around in outfits that your Sim designed. It sounds like it might help people who want to do an Old West setting or Space Age, etc. Maybe if you put enough townies in long skirts or alien garb, eventually you'll get everyone to dress that way. (Or maybe not. But it's nice to think it might be in the realm of possibility.)

"MVWdeZT;c-16759026" wrote:
One of the things they mentioned with the Fashion Influencer career is that you might see townie Sims running around in outfits that your Sim designed. It sounds like it might help people who want to do an Old West setting or Space Age, etc. Maybe if you put enough townies in long skirts or alien garb, eventually you'll get everyone to dress that way. (Or maybe not. But it's nice to think it might be in the realm of possibility.)

I'm kind of hoping for this too. I still don't know enough about it but it got me thinking in that direction.

This is going to be fun! I can't wait to see what people do with the terrain tools. I mean, just think about it

"Zeldaboy180;c-16758090" wrote:

"ListentoToppDogg;c-16757846" wrote:
I feel like I'd be less disappointed if it was more than just one new career. Honestly, I think 5 would have been a good number. Don't get me wrong, the fashion career looks fun and all and I'm sure I'll get some enjoyment out of it, but a single new career isn't anything to get hyped about.

It's clear their main point of interest was the terrain tools, but I'm not a builder so the terrain tools don't really mean that much to me...

Its a free patch. You want 5 fully fleshed out careers in a free patch as well as terrain paints? :D

If they already had double the staff they do, that might happen. But they don't. And for free they aren't going to hire anybody. That's where the modding community comes in - modders work for free most of the time, or at least they start out that way.

"stilljustme2;c-16757328" wrote:

"SimsILikeSims;c-16757276" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16757217" wrote:

"MizoreYukii;c-16757179" wrote:
Wow, that's pretty awesome. I thought they said terrain tools weren't possible though? Does this mean the other stuff they said wasn't possible is now possible? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. But either way, very excited and I don't even build anymore. xD Can't wait to see what gets made with the new tools though!

Remember, Things Change (tm). As they learn more and more about the capabilities of the game/game engine, they're making new discoveries.

Speaking of things changing, they might still be able to add a multiplayer option...but I still don't want one, and here's why: Multiplayer games rely heavily on microtransactions to finance their servers. Multiplayer games generally do not allow cheating (and I always have cheated in every single player Sims game to date, usually with the money cheat). Finally, I already play similar multiplayer games, like Avakin Life and City Girl Life. I have a Facebook gaming account for the latter with about 600 Facebook friends....and at least 400 are players of the same Facebook games I play. Social networking games encourage the player to "friend" everyone who asks to be a Facebook friend whether you know them in real life or not. And sometimes that way, you get plumholes. (And yes, I just deliberately self-censored.) These people are rotten plums, as opposed to tasty edible plums which I enjoy very much, thank you.

I think a multiplayer game would be more of a spin-off type game -- while they don't officially support mods, they build the structure that makes mods and CC possible. Likely a multiplayer game wouldn't be able to accept mods and CC.

IMVU, an online chat platform that also acts like a virtual world, created a store and a reward system for player-contributed content, but they also had to restrict player age as a result. Avakin has a HUGE section of their forums dedicated solely to requests for clothing, furniture, animations, and seasonal-themed content (one section for each), most suggestions are responded to individually, though the response overall tends to be fairly generic, at least it is usually specific enough that players know it is being responded to by a live person. Maxis could take a cue from them in this area. For instance, I suggested a playable slots machine once...one that could exchange gems for random number of coins or vice-versa...the response was that they don't want to encourage gambling since there are players under age 18. (Really what I wanted, to tell the truth, was a means of exchanging one type of virtual currency for another, especially for players who don't like/use ads as a means of getting virtual currency.) Sims Freeplay by the way, also needs a means of exchanging social points into life points or simoleons, life points into social points or simoleons, or simoleons into life points or social points.

Omg yes! Terrain tools!

"Sigzy05;c-16757153" wrote:
it's not a stylist career

I thought this was a stylist career when they began. No chair? I don't know. It wasn't what I was expecting for a stylist. I also wanted housebuilding & interior decorator, but I just don't know now that I've seen what they are doing with the stylist career.

I think the tablet is neat to take out places and certainly terrain tools is something I would've never dreamed of seeing in S4. The career might be nice too. I will just have to see. Still leaning toward Sims3. I liked the way they did it and not so sure about this new way. Mixed bag for me until I see it for myself.

"davina1221;c-16759810" wrote:

"Sigzy05;c-16757153" wrote:
it's not a stylist career

I thought this was a stylist career when they began. No chair? I don't know. It wasn't what I was expecting for a stylist. I also wanted housebuilding & interior decorator, but I just don't know now that I've seen what they are doing with the stylist career.

I think the tablet is neat to take out places and certainly terrain tools is something I would've never dreamed of seeing in S4. The career might be nice too. I will just have to see. Still leaning toward Sims3. I liked the way they did it and not so sure about this new way. Mixed bag for me until I see it for myself.

As they said, it is in the very very early stages, so it's really quite hard to judge on something that's not even close to finished yet. I guess we'll just have to wait and see...

No new chair? What kind of patch is this? ;)