Sims 4 game balance is a joke
Remember in TS3 when you had to work hard to get things? And TS2 and TS1 and all the console games like Urbs and My Sims ect? Right, So. Started a new game. Had my Sim eat 3 times in 3 days when th...
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A 4/3/3 with four friends takes me three sim days in normal gameplay, so that illustrates the impact of playstyle (story driven Vs. optimized). For a gamer/achiever mindset Sims 4 maybe just isn't the right toy.
Balancing weirdness is not only in the time it takes to achieve something, here's another example: The cowberry was supposed to be a rare object gained by grafting. Then they changed how grafting works and made the berry an ultra-rare occurence. However, at the same time the same berry comes up all the time through fishing and dumpster diving. As a result we now have a collectable that is both ultra-rare and very common.
For a goal-oriented gamer it is obvious that they have to send their sim fishing if they want to grow a cowplant. Bamm, game is easy-peasy. To the contrary a simmer who wants to roleplay a gardener mightl struggle, provided they choose the bug house as fertilizer source, but will have it easy if they use fishing. So it's a coin toss between challenging or mindnumbingly boring.
Balancing weirdness is not only in the time it takes to achieve something, here's another example: The cowberry was supposed to be a rare object gained by grafting. Then they changed how grafting works and made the berry an ultra-rare occurence. However, at the same time the same berry comes up all the time through fishing and dumpster diving. As a result we now have a collectable that is both ultra-rare and very common.
For a goal-oriented gamer it is obvious that they have to send their sim fishing if they want to grow a cowplant. Bamm, game is easy-peasy. To the contrary a simmer who wants to roleplay a gardener mightl struggle, provided they choose the bug house as fertilizer source, but will have it easy if they use fishing. So it's a coin toss between challenging or mindnumbingly boring.
