Strangerville: Too repetitive.

That is my only complaint about this pack. It feels too grindy.

I'm still not done it. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. But I am not grinding through the side-game. I'm taking my time with it and integrating it in to my play. My teen basically only has time to do things regarding it on weekends or holidays and he doesn't always strictly focus on it during that time either. He will do his homework or a school project, or go have a club meeting with his buds to talk about the ongoing issues in the town. He'll take pics of the plants and the infected for their wall in their clubhouse so they can talk about them....

He'll go to the library or bar to talk to scientists or military people. Or stop over that the booth to talk to that guy. If he's in good shape, I send him out to the lab for spores or other things like creating some vaccines.

I only look at the aspiration guidelines when I am unsure what he needs to do next.

Unfortunafely many many things in the sims 4 are too repetitive lol.

Don't play woth the aspiration. It will give you much more challenge.

I find the whole thing badly made, tbh.

Biggest issue: Apparently the devs never considered that a player might want more than a single sim to do the quest at once. Which is kind of incredible; I have heard so many players here talking about how they will do a "Scooby doo". But you can't.

Other issues: I am at a stage where I am to test vaccines. And I can't find a single infected in the entire town?

"Beardedgeek;c-17001216" wrote:
I find the whole thing badly made, tbh.

Biggest issue: Apparently the devs never considered that a player might want more than a single sim to do the quest at once. Which is kind of incredible; I have heard so many players here talking about how they will do a "Scooby doo". But you can't.

Other issues: I am at a stage where I am to test vaccines. And I can't find a single infected in the entire town?

You can, but only sim will be able to do the aspiration. I did a "Scooby Doo" type thing with six teen sims and it worked just fine. I could the others collect evidence, pictures etc. and then transfer it to the main sim's inventory.

I don’t mind that the same story can be replayed per-say... but I was sort of hoping for a little more in solving the mystery itself. It’s cool that you can save the town and what not. But you never find out the how, why and who of it. Why is the military covering it up? How did this even happen? Who did it and are they hiding anything else? It would’ve been more exciting if you could’ve dug deeper into the mystery and if doing so put your sim in some kind of danger.

Also it would’ve been a nice touch if there were other strange sims and stuff going on not stuff to solve but stuff that’s just there, like to pay homage to the OG strangeville. Maybe a weird pond with green water. More aliens in the town. Some of the premades from the previous town. A poster of what sort of looks like Bella Goth in the lab for no known reason. That kind of thing would’ve been epic.

That being said I do enjoy the pack a lot, I did find a way to work it into my Goth family saga that worked out great. I also love the build/buy stuff cause it’ll work great in the rags to riches challenge I also like to play once and awhile. I wish we got more cas stuff for children and toddlers but I suppose this wasn’t the pack for that.

Something like this should not be grinding, which is a great way to kill off interest. There should be multiple paths to get to the end game point, each equally valid and with its own things to find and puzzles/mysteries to solve. That aids replayability. hmae123's points are valid, especially relating to backstory. That kind of thing does not happen in a vacuum, and those elements easily lead to new things to solve.

"Beardedgeek;c-17001216" wrote:
I find the whole thing badly made, tbh.

Biggest issue: Apparently the devs never considered that a player might want more than a single sim to do the quest at once. Which is kind of incredible; I have heard so many players here talking about how they will do a "Scooby doo". But you can't.

Other issues: I am at a stage where I am to test vaccines. And I can't find a single infected in the entire town?

I always sent my sim around the library area, i got a bunch of infected sims there.

Also, as much as i really liked the idea of this pack and really enjoyed playing it, i wont be playing the aspiration again, i will just cheat if i want a non infected town because i really love the town in the pack.

That should be the tagline for the entire game. The Sims 4: Too Repetitive.

But yes, after going around and talking to exactly one sim about the mystery, I instantly got bored. I cheated my way through by increasing the relationship between my sim and any scientist + military personal I came across and I downloaded the things I needed to collect off the gallery (thank you to the amazing simmer who put a room with a bunch of spores + a hazmat suit in the gallery).

I'm not sure why they did the "story" like this. They made it like an actual low budget RPG, which doesn't really fit in with the sims. There's not much room to deviate and create your own story.