Regarding Premades Lore Updates

I care about the updated lore in the way that I would rather not have it for existing premades. I suppose they are trying to please the gamechangers that are freaking out about lore all the time. I'd much rather have them spend their ressources elsewhere.

I wonder how far they will go with this update. I hope it will be mainly adding things (relationships, hot and cold weather outfits for base game townies, likes.and dislikes) but not changing them entirely.

There is no way for them to cover the premades in existing saves. Some people deleted them, some turned them into played sims, in some games they died and are now ghosts. I think this will be for new saves.

I am not sure we needed an updated lore. I would rather they give us more options to capture each sim's information and storyline in game.

It will only apply to new saves, if they tried to edit sims in existing saves that would most likely corrupt save files. Any changes you've made to sims in your save will still be there but if you make a new save they'll have the updated lore and appearances from the sims team

All of my premades are deleted so I wonder too?

I'd love for them to stop being so cryptic and actually tell us what they are doing to avoid all this speculation. Speculation during upcoming pack releases can be fun, but this is different.

Also, I start new saves to play specific families sometimes, so that doesn't make me feel any better. I'm really dreading this, if I'm honest. :lol:

Why not just add the new pre-mades to the library and let us choose to replace them if we wish?

I know some players are looking forward to the NPC updates, and no disrespect to them! I'm sure I'll get used to it.

"83bienchen;c-17950149" wrote:
I care about the updated lore in the way that I would rather not have it for existing premades. I suppose they are trying to please the gamechangers that are freaking out about lore all the time. I'd much rather have them spend their ressources elsewhere.

This. So much.

"GirlFromIpanema;c-17950238" wrote:
I'd love for them to stop being so cryptic and actually tell us what they are doing to avoid all this speculation. Speculation during upcoming pack releases can be fun, but this is different.

Also, I start new saves to play specific families sometimes, so that doesn't make me feel any better. I'm really dreading this, if I'm honest. :lol:

Why not just add the new pre-mades to the library and let us choose to replace them if we wish?

I know some players are looking forward to the NPC updates, and no disrespect to them! I'm sure I'll get used to it.

I guess because they want them to have proper relationships and maybe sentiments toward each other.

In general, I don't mind it. I don't think it will affect existing saves, so that's okay, and it would be nice if Pancakes really had bad relationship and Johnny Zest was related to Landgraabs.

Am I the only one who is thinking to myself, it's been 7 years and you're just now doing this? We've gone this far dealing with there not being any and making up our own and now you want to change it? Isn't this something that should have been added from the very beginning?

Is it really going to make a difference? I mean, the sims are still going to act exactly the same regardless if there's some little blurb about a backstory, right? And, we all know traits don't effect much so updating or changing them is kind of redundant. And likes and dislikes, the theory sounds good but they also don't really change much (My "Dislikes Video Games" sims still play video games on their phone constantly).

Or am I totally missing something here, maybe I am and someone could explain how this will make the game better and more in-depth.

I personally just feel like it's a waste of time and resources.

The same thing with them updating the NPC's and Townies. It's been 7 years! People have deleted and modified them in their games after this long of time. I personally have never ever, not once, played with any pre-made sim in TS4 or any of the older games (besides just choosing some random pre-made in older games to test a new pack, but since we can't do that in TS4, I've always just used my own). I usually don't delete the pre-mades, they just exist in my game as background filler and I focus on the sims I've made.

But, if this will make some people happy, then I'm all for it, it just won't be any big deal to me and how I play.

I'm glad we got a heads up, because even though I couldn't care less about the majority of premades, there are some households that I am very attached to. These few I saved to my library to preserve them in the state they are now. The changes will only be in new saves, so I should be save, but on the other hand old saves sometimes break with patches or corrupt naturally, so having options is always good.

I expect small, unintrusive things like personalized swimwear for the basegame sims, along with more far reaching changes. They might also add new skills from the later packs to the premades, what could already lead into trampling over player decisions (are Wolfgang Munch and Ulrike Faust trained in Vampire lore or not?). They will definitely add Likes and Dislikes to everyone and this is where I draw the line. I don't want to spend hours to correct EA lore to my own. Or repair relationships, because EA WILL give the BFF women romance bars with Scott. They want us to play relationship drama with them, whereas I see these three as harmonic (either really only friends or a happy threemating). They may even go as far as adding Iggy to the Pancake family. I don't hate the little guy, but to me he is prove that Bob and Eliza repaired their relationship. So he shouldn't exist in the beginning of a new save.

Honestly, to me forcing lore or even visual changes into the game feels like an author taking over a fanfic site and correcting each and every fic with their own canon about the characters.