I like the short loading times, create a sim, and the different moods and emotions that sims have now.
I don't like how basic the base game is. I kind of feel like I only got about two thirds of the base game instead of the whole thing. I am hoping that toddlers, and carpools (two things standard in Sims 2 if i remember correctly) will be patched in for free at some point. that will at least make me feel like I've gotten my money's worth. I'm sure they were meant to be in the base game. The deadline just came up to fast, right?
Origin seems to cause stutters in the game, and often falsely reports no internet connection when I try to search for community made items.
otherwise this is a very fun game, no major bugs that I've seen. I do want to echo the comments about the clock running to fast, and the motives decay speed needing some adjustment.
The edge scrolling on the camera also needs to be tuned. in order to go backward, you have to have the pointer in just the right place or it won't work. It needs to work whenever the pointer hits the edge of the screen, sides and top seem ok, but bottom edge is above the actual screen edge by several millimeters. Sometimes, I've had the edge scroll stick and it started scrolling me to the edge of the town. Lack of tilt is also something to work on. I don't suppose you could just replace the camera controls with the exact same ones in Sims 3 could you? They didn't need improvement.
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