Let's watch: Maxis Monthly - Episode 1

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? ;)

Makes me wish there was a celebrity system, if a sim reaches the max of the fashion career, they’d become famous.

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16760186" wrote:
Makes me wish there was a celebrity system, if a sim reaches the max of the fashion career, they’d become famous.

...celebrity system...

*traumatic flashbacks to sims getting slandered multiple times and suffering a relationship drop with EVERYONE each single time*

*shudder*

"Sigzy05;c-16757539" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16757527" wrote:

"FurSimsOfficial;c-16757341" wrote:

"stilljustme2;c-16757312" wrote:

"FurSimsOfficial;c-16757247" wrote:
My overall opinion:

I think it's too early to say whether it's good or bad, cause I am not sure if this tease holds more than what we can say for sure. If cars will make it, I think its pretty good and cool of them. I know foundations are something people wanted for so long, so I'm happy for them even though I won't use it like a maniac. Its nice to have for me and I appreciate it being added. Maybe later on i will be more happy with it.
The career.. Ok.. It's nice they added a career that is normal and probably useful for many sims. i would probably use it too. I do wish they would add in more careers. I get this one is for free, but they could have added careers through packs as well. They are needed. We asked for a lawyer career for so long and it should be here already. I do like the active careers. it's all I want to play most of the time. i also think the option to work at home, play active or just send your sims off to work, is very good and should always be like this in any sims game!
However.. they did use many of the same animations again, meaningless interactions. Maybe there is more to it, cause they didn't show us all, so we will have to see for a complete opinion. But from what i could see, they could add in some more meaning to this career by actually drawing fashion sketches instead of paintings (of a horse..). Let's see more about it when we get it and get to play with it.

Just holding my hope for cars and Sims 2 style with animations and in-car options.

Careers like lawyer, education, etc. could be waiting for a University pack to be added. We got an actual gardener career in Seasons and before that we got the three CL careers. so they are adding careers in EPs when they make sense. Someone mentioned there's a new art type, Illustrative, so maybe that's the one needed for the fashion career.

True, we got new careers, but they could have added new careers in the early time of the sims 4 when it was even more needed. The requests for basic careers are on the forum so long and we actually still do not have them. They might come, but my point was that they should have been here earlier actually.

They actually patched in two careers (Athlete and Business) a couple of months after the base game released. I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by "basic" careers -- IMO the only two "out there" base game careers are Astronaut and Secret Agent.

I wish we had military, teacher, day care, law, etc. I also wish they'd have the slacker career back but that's because it was a fun thing in TS1 and TS2, like the grilled cheese aspiration which they did patch in TS4.

Military is a bit controversial in some quarters, especially countries that have had military take over the government. And we got the Astronaut job that was the top level of Military in Sims 3. I could see education and law being added in a University pack if it's on the drawing board (I think we didn't get Education until University Life in Sims 3) or an active day care for toddlers as part of a pack improving education at all levels. I'd actually like to see some sort of "self employment" feature for Sims that don't have a traditional job but make their living from freelance work (writing, painting, programming etc.) or those make items for sale or go out and find collectibles to sell. The sales tables and Art Wall from CL are still borked -- I'd like to have an adventurer who goes to Selvadorada, finds artifacts, then comes home and sells them at the Flea Market.

"calaprfy;c-16760231" wrote:
The new sketchpad thing. Is using this just like painting but when the artwork is finished, it goes into the inventory automatically?

I'm asking because with easels, once the artwork is finished, it sits there until it's sold. Pain in the plum with painting clubs.

Looks like that's the case. I'm looking forward to it because it can be hard to position the easel to get the exact painting you want when painting from reference. And some places you can't easily place an easel, like in the Selvadoradan jungle or the temple.

What did SimGuruKate mean by "dive in" referring to the Oct. 11th Stream? Was that a hint of some sort?

Oh snap! I'm so excited about that CAS function with the stylist career. Being able to remodel townies on the fly without cheats is actually really cool and helpful.

ZOMG!!! So very excited about the return of terrain tools! :SQUEALS AND STOMPS FEET EXCITEDLY: