I took a break of two months from the forums and my game after the EL features fisco that almost destroyed my 3 years old save. And that GP Disney Ad, shame. Now that I'm back I'm in shock: a new EP is on the way!EP10 is like one of my dreams coming true: a traditional asian world! I wanted THIS since day one! I loved Sims 2 and Sims 3 asian worlds the most. I have an asian world at Newcrest thanks to my builds. And more snow! as I have never seen snow, well, I love snowy worlds. OMG kimonos for men! Yes, it is my dreamy EP and I was sure that it was not possible to have... BUT I'm on the fence:I'm afraid of the Lifetyles and Sentiments System :( maybe I have a post EL NAPS trauma, but if the same team that designed the EL features designed this new system, well, my sims are doomed :'( Worst, I'm also afraid of the pre EP patch: what system is it based on? it will broken it? vampires, fame, spellcasters, clubs????Don't get me wrong, the feature sounds awesome, great idea! how was the NAPS, the green footprints... I'm afraid of The Sims EL programmers.EP10 is a symbol, I want it: I feel it was prepared for us to play echoing the olympic games (Tokyo 2020). Somehow this hurts my heart :'( Maybe it will change the game: for good or not. Maybe the best I can do is to wait, and skip for the first time a preorder. Do you feel the same?

Just wait for the livestream, player reviews, etc and then decide if you want it.

I’ve seen others share this concern. It’s hard to say until we have more info and some examples of what they actually mean. I did not buy Eco Lifestyle and never planned to, and when they described the NAPs I could sense right away that they would be a problem. Why would anyone want everyone in their neighborhood to act the same, or to let the neighborhood dictate so much about what they did? What sounded so great about Sharing Is Caring to begin with? Or the bags on heads?Here’s hoping the Lifestyles and Sentiments are nothing like that. From what we know so far, I’m optimistic because any autonomy changes (specific to a sim) would be an improvement.

Personally, I see this change in the game as a rather special dynamic. Currently, I've been using the Slice of Life mod that augments our Sims' personalities like nobody's business. If Lifestyles and Sentiments does anything close to this mod, I'm excited for it. I can well understand your reticence. I have an innate fear of patches, myself. The past three have really done a number on my game saves. I did finally, figure out that it wasn't altogether necessary for me to start a brand new game save to 'fix' the problem. But, rather, I needed to pull my mods/cc out and redownload them, anew, one at a time. (After they were updated, of course.) Playing the game for a bit, checking the mods out individually. This saved my current game. I am the Queen of Restarts, but I had just restarted, as it were, and taken my four siblings through Uni. All but one is married at this point, but the lone hold out just got engaged. Hey, he's in Med School, or was, and just made Chief Resident and is now drawing a paycheck. His sweetheart has also taken a job to help them out. I have not planned the wedding, yet. The point is, I was able to save this game. We live and learn.But, I just restarted my Ancestral game save. Here we sit waiting for that other shoe to drop. Oi. But, I can't wait until I can see what this new system will bring. As always, I will backup my game folder, especially my saves and Tray, pull my Mods folder and hope for the best. At least I'm not staring down a hurricane or anything. Although Zeta is on a path that would threaten where my sixth great-grandfather was laid to rest. I haven't been there, yet, either. :open_mouth:

My advice, never buy packs on release day. Wait at least a couple of days so you can read feedback from other simmers, not enough resources are put into preventing bugs and fixing bugs that currently are in the game. I'm interested to learn more about lifestyles and sentiments but I hope that they will not involve our sims doing the same animations over and over again.I will probably buy this pack before the december update which will update skin tones, I would like to play the pack but I don't think that I will update my game in december because the december update will most likely break custom skins, and I would like to wait to download that update until custom skins will eventually be updated by the modders, which means that I have to buy the pack before the december update.

I struggle see anything that adds more personality to the sims as a bad thing. The lifestyles and sentiments are what I'm looking forward to the most. I very much hope that they won't turn out to be another N.A.P type disaster. I was actually quite excited for Eco Lifestyle originally but now sadly I play with it's main feature turned off. The N.A.P's are actually awful and so incredibly pointless at the same time. The Eco Footprint does whatever it wants. My current family has done nothing towards improving the environment and the meter is still moving up and down as it pleases.

Lifetyles and Sentiments System... on the fence!

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osiazul
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago

"Calico45;c-17712277" wrote:
It is hard to say how bugged all this will be. Being quite honest, this patch is going to be a big one which is the trademark of a save killer. Plus I can imagine lifestyles being somewhat annoying, but so long as they aren't spammy like GF quirks I can probably put up with it.

On the surface, I am really liking the look of lifestyles. Sentiments, too, I suppose, but the temporary nature makes them feel negligible to me. Anyway, my main critique of lifestyles is that there are far too few for my taste. I know this is the feature debut, but it is pretty well number one I want expanded right now. Patches, packs, etc. We need more options for lifestyles.

Indeed @Calico45 the next patch will be a HUGE one; I hope it will fix many bugs but it will give us new ones. I´m excited about the Platforms but all the new stuff usually affect the old saves and old buildings :s But this is nothing new, I really prefer the changes and the challenges they imply.
osiazul
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago

Thanks everyone for your comments :) I see we share many concerns. I read about the GF system, I did not bough that EP because I dislike it at so many levels: for me it was and invasive EP full of compulsive behavior (and the world was meh, for me). Now we know that Sentiments is not exclusive of the new EP and for me knowing that we will have an off button for Lifestyles is good. Lifestyles is a secondary feature, so it can be off. But turning off the main features it is not an option to buy an EP at full price (EL) or to buy at all an EP (GF).

Somehow I feel optimistic knowing that Graham was the leader of the new EP. But I will wait for more info from the REAL players that are here at the forums. I do not trust in youtubers or streamers for gameplay info, only for CAS and Building stuff, their motivation is only that of entertainment and their own reputation ;)

As a supernatural player I hope the free Sentiments will include something for occults.

Stay safe everyone <3

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