Missed Call?
So...I was looking at the renders for the game and yes, i know they're not 100% reliable all the time but I noticed that in two renders, two sims have smartphones. Do you think it means we get phones ...
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I was speaking about how off world townies are able to call ours Sims when the townie doesn't have a phone. I'm not speaking about whether a playable is in the bin or living on a lot.
I prefer this because you won't see all townies, like Goopy, Benjamin, or Marisa walking around with a cell phone. That is the point.
It seems to be TS3 was designed to play how the Devs of TS3 wanted the game to work and little input of how the players felt about every Sim in every town having a phone whether they were playable or not.
This is why some of us have issues with TS3. It is set up of how the developers wanted the game to work...'very modern' with no second thought of what about if the player wants to live in a shack, or pretend to live in medieval times and do not want to see 'townies' walking around with cell phones.
We can mod out the cars in the game, and replace with default replacements with some other type of transportation, we can mod the roads to all be cobblestone or anything else, and we can alter all the rabbit holes with different meshes to become something else in the game..at least look like something else. But the one thing we can't do in TS3 is get rid of every townies phone. :x
This is why I keep begging EA to please make the games the players want not what you want. Yes, developers have had some marvelous ideas of what and how the game should be played. But when they start deciding what era and time periods and what will be the form of communication in the game they start to limit the player's imagination and that is the problem with TS3.
No matter what the reason, not being able to get rid of each and every cell phone in the game limits the players imagination. Because they are forever stuck in living in a modern world. Where as in TS1 and TS2 just remove a few modern day items, like a TV or mod a new mesh for a freezer they could be transported back in time and that is why they remain the better games even though they are very dated now.
Because they did not impose on the player something they couldn't get rid of. EA if you have ever tried to make a very amateur video of Sims just being Sims and a little bit of staging..nothing professional like you guys do, then you would understand how annoying it is to be filming a Sim you aren't controlling only for them to pull out a cell phone. :x
Don't limit the imagination of players by deciding everyone has to have a phone in the game. Even if that means closed lots, the SP in TS2 worked just fine for about 70% of players, and most hate the TS3 SP if that is the reason for all the phones, after all, most have modded it to be what they want it to be, and nothing at all like the actual SP in TS3 at all. Which btw, is broken.
I prefer this because you won't see all townies, like Goopy, Benjamin, or Marisa walking around with a cell phone. That is the point.
It seems to be TS3 was designed to play how the Devs of TS3 wanted the game to work and little input of how the players felt about every Sim in every town having a phone whether they were playable or not.
This is why some of us have issues with TS3. It is set up of how the developers wanted the game to work...'very modern' with no second thought of what about if the player wants to live in a shack, or pretend to live in medieval times and do not want to see 'townies' walking around with cell phones.
We can mod out the cars in the game, and replace with default replacements with some other type of transportation, we can mod the roads to all be cobblestone or anything else, and we can alter all the rabbit holes with different meshes to become something else in the game..at least look like something else. But the one thing we can't do in TS3 is get rid of every townies phone. :x
This is why I keep begging EA to please make the games the players want not what you want. Yes, developers have had some marvelous ideas of what and how the game should be played. But when they start deciding what era and time periods and what will be the form of communication in the game they start to limit the player's imagination and that is the problem with TS3.
No matter what the reason, not being able to get rid of each and every cell phone in the game limits the players imagination. Because they are forever stuck in living in a modern world. Where as in TS1 and TS2 just remove a few modern day items, like a TV or mod a new mesh for a freezer they could be transported back in time and that is why they remain the better games even though they are very dated now.
Because they did not impose on the player something they couldn't get rid of. EA if you have ever tried to make a very amateur video of Sims just being Sims and a little bit of staging..nothing professional like you guys do, then you would understand how annoying it is to be filming a Sim you aren't controlling only for them to pull out a cell phone. :x
Don't limit the imagination of players by deciding everyone has to have a phone in the game. Even if that means closed lots, the SP in TS2 worked just fine for about 70% of players, and most hate the TS3 SP if that is the reason for all the phones, after all, most have modded it to be what they want it to be, and nothing at all like the actual SP in TS3 at all. Which btw, is broken.
