Packs you don't use at all?

"ChadSims2;c-18221822" wrote:

"Horrorgirl6;c-18221179" wrote:

"ChadSims2;c-18221144" wrote:
Easily Vampires they left out everything you would want from vampires

I thought they were improvement over 2and 3 personally.

Improvement over Sims 2 and 3 vampires but still not good I also felt 2 and 3 vampires were also poorly done now a major factor in me enjoying vampires would be a way to hunt them down not just vampires living in the world where every Sims treats them like a normal Sim they are a supernatural and should behave differently.

I agree if they acted differently, but they if are hanging out and acting normal.Why would they be concern .

For me, its the Realm of Magic, Strangerville, Vampires, and Dine Out are the 4 packs I can say that I use the least. I'm not very heavy into the occult and very rarely use that in my storytelling so it is less common for me to create occult sims and play that way. Dine Out is still very buggy and it takes way too long for my Sims to get a meal when going to a restaurant. Strangerville kind of felt like a one and done style because the completion of the story made the replayability low.

I use a bit of every pack I own and have different files for occult-specific and normal play. But, when it comes to a specific game play mechanic a pack offers, I don't use the restaurant feature in Dine Out because the chef would get buggy and waste time standing outside.

I don't think that I own a pack that I don't use at all. If it's something I won't use, I don't buy it. There are quite a few packs that I want to more widely explore though.

bowling stuff and vampires. i've used them in the past but lost interest quickly and haven't returned to them. vampires is well made imo but i'm not into occults so the disinterest was inevitable.

"musteni;c-18221659" wrote:
I use all of the packs I have which is almost all of them (no HSY, no Batuu, not many kits). I play rotationally and different families do different stuff. I enjoy trying to use all of the content and while I may not manage with that attempt I do use all packs for sure.

"Oldeseadogge;c-18221536" wrote:

"Nushka;c-18221103" wrote:
Movie hangout, the Sims kept making and burning the popcorn and letting it sit to rot, the projector screens break down in the rain and, while there's some really nice sofas and pouffs, they're pretty loud and I have hardly ever used them.

And the 'movies' are just the same stuff that's on the TVs, just a bigger screen. Had hoped for something longer. Too bad there isn't a way to plug RL movies into it.

What do you mean they are the same? You can watch the movies that came with the pack on TV too, but the movies themself are really good and they're also longer than base game TV shows. There's Simder, Moonlight Massacre etc. Don't know maybe you just don't like them, personally I like them a lot :)

It is a matter of expectations. Tried the pack when it came out, response to 'movie' was, "Over already? Same as movie on TV?" At a minimum, a movie should be 1.5 sim hours, 2 are better, with the occasional 3 hours. Not done anything with that pack since. I don't do TV in RL, so not in simland, either, other than those in community lots EA made.

Most of them. I use cas and BB from them but that's about it. They make everything so complicated in an effort to make it seem like the gameplay is more interesting than it really is. I don't even load Seasons. I think everything they've done lately is horrible. And players praise them for the most awful garbage. They ask for pointless stuff too. In spite of that I enjoy the more "normal" gameplay. And I love the vampires and werewolves, best stuff ea has ever done in my opinion. They dropped the ball on ROM though, ugh.

So, hey everyone! There is apparently a bowling alley in this game. I've never seen it, seen screenshots of it, or used it. I know I own it.

I try to make sure I use all the packs I have - which is most of the game and expansion packs (except the most recent) and a few stuff packs. I don’t have any kits except the one we were given for free. I play rotationally and have at least one played household in each of the habitable worlds, and those households will try to focus on the theme of that world (so DSV families do acting/fame, Evergreen Harbor families are into eco stuff, etc). They all go on holidays frequently to the vacation and other worlds. I also have a list of which Sim is working on which career and aspiration, the aim being that I’ll eventually have played through all of them. I do something similar with skills (I have each Sim targeting specific skills beyond the everyday ones) so that I don’t forget some of the less obvious skills. I love all the content the packs bring and I don’t regret buying any of them - though I do only ever get them on sale.

And I really love Dine Out! I’m sad that some players find it too buggy to use - I have restaurants everywhere and meals out are frequent occurrences in my game. I used to have the problem of the chefs hanging around outside and not doing anything, but I learnt that that can be fixed really easily by resetting them. So when my Sims arrive at a restaurant, the first thing I do is to find the chefs and reset them (I think it’s from the menu you get with shift+click, with testingcheats enabled?). They then get on with their jobs more or less immediately, and my Sims can get on with finding a table. Of course, they don’t always stay sitting down at their table :) But I find that just slightly annoying and work round it - it never ruins the occasion.

@FreddyFox1234 i love dine out too. it needs a refresh and it is buggy but there are workarounds like resetting as you noted. i've always used restaurants in my saves. i highly recommend carl's dine out reloaded mod. his mod made me break my "no mods" rule. it makes restaurant gameplay what it should've been and includes a lot of bug fixes.