Seriously, why? You decided to bring back chance cards only to leave off one of the most important parts of them, the ignore button! Personally, I've never been a fan of chance cards. I'm just not the risk-taking type of person. Back in the days of TS2, I would click the ignore button just about every time a chance card popped up. That button really was a lifesaver! Then TS4 rolled around, and for whatever reason, they decided to remove the ignore button. It's completely baffling to me.Seriously, without an ignore button, we're pretty much forced to make a choice on chance cards. There's no way to cancel out of it, you absolutely must make a choice. The worst part of all this is that BOTH choices have a chance of being the wrong choice most of the time. It especially gets grating at higher careers levels when you're only working like three days a week. One bad chance card could flush an entire week's worth of work down the drain! I often save throughout a Sims work day out of fear of a bad chance card so I can reload the game if I get one. It's a real pain having to do this.So please consider bringing back the ignore button! Nothing of value would be lost by doing so. People who like chance cards will still have them, and people who don't like them will have the option to close them!

Yeah. I've never been a fan of chance cards either. Kind of takes the whole, 'you rule,' out of commission.

"BeJaWa;c-16070106" wrote:I find most of the chance cards in this version have a "right" choice that always ends well for you and another choice that only sometimes works well depending on the skills you have. So I haven't noticed this equal chance of being wrong. Not that I have done extensive testing to see.Either way an ignore button would be a nice addition.Yeah, I guess we'll never truly know what the odds are unless they're officially confirmed. I have tested this with a few chance cards, however. One of them is a card that you can get in the culinary career where a customer is really juiced and asks for another drink, and you have the option to give them their drink or say they've had enough. The first time I picked the latter option, the boss sided with me and I got a performance boost. This exact same card came up the very next day. Logically, since the option I picked the last time worked, I picked it again... Except this time the boss sided with the customer and I got a performance loss. Um, what? It was correct the first time!The same thing happened with a chance card in the astronaut career where you find a mysterious box and have the option to either open it or turn it in. The first time I chose to turn it in, it was the correct choice, but the next time I got this chance card and picked the same option, I was chewed out for asking too many questions.This brings me to another problem with the chance cards. There isn't much variety, and they get really repetitive.

With the chance cards there is one option that will be right more often, so option one could be correct 80% of the time and wrong 20% of the time while option 2 could be right 20% of the time and wrong 80%. I suppose that's to stop it getting boring as you would otherwise eventually learn which one to select and there wouldn't be any risk. But yes they could add an ignore option for those that don't want to take a chance.

"worldofdrakan;c-16070213" wrote:"BeJaWa;c-16070106" wrote:I find most of the chance cards in this version have a "right" choice that always ends well for you and another choice that only sometimes works well depending on the skills you have. So I haven't noticed this equal chance of being wrong. Not that I have done extensive testing to see.Either way an ignore button would be a nice addition.Yeah, I guess we'll never truly know what the odds are unless they're officially confirmed. I have tested this with a few chance cards, however. One of them is a card that you can get in the culinary career where a customer is really juiced and asks for another drink, and you have the option to give them their drink or say they've had enough. The first time I picked the latter option, the boss sided with me and I got a performance boost. This exact same card came up the very next day. Logically, since the option I picked the last time worked, I picked it again... Except this time the boss sided with the customer and I got a performance loss. Um, what? It was correct the first time!The same thing happened with a chance card in the astronaut career where you find a mysterious box and have the option to either open it or turn it in. The first time I chose to turn it in, it was the correct choice, but the next time I got this chance card and picked the same option, I was chewed out for asking too many questions.This brings me to another problem with the chance cards. There isn't much variety, and they get really repetitive.I remember the juice one in the culinary career. You right that one doesn't fit my theory above I remember getting annoyed by it because of that. I often only get chance cards from school for kids because my adults paint and write from home.

That's exactly why I prefer active careers and careers where you work from home as opposed to other careers. You can't get chance cards when you're working from home or attending an active work day. I really hope that one day we might be able to work from home in other careers, too.Speaking of school chance cards, I know some of them can be downright cruel. There's one where you can have your kid confess to making a mistake on their test, and the teacher will get onto them and hold them in during recess to do it over, ruining the poor kid's day in the process. Seriously, all this over an honest mistake! Come on, they're just a kid! I really wish my Sim parents had the option to give that teacher what for.And there's also another one, something about forgetting to do an assignment, I think? The teacher gives them an F, and I quote, "with glee." Yeah, I can understand the F, but taking actual joy in failing the child? That's just too much!

Why Was the Ignore Button Removed From Chance Cards?

44 Replies

kremesch
8 years ago
Yeah. I've never been a fan of chance cards either. Kind of takes the whole, 'you rule,' out of commission.
BeJaWa
8 years ago
I find most of the chance cards in this version have a "right" choice that always ends well for you and another choice that only sometimes works well depending on the skills you have. So I haven't noticed this equal chance of being wrong. Not that I have done extensive testing to see.

Either way an ignore button would be a nice addition.
Lorraine-Simmer
8 years ago
"BeJaWa;c-16070106" wrote:
I find most of the chance cards in this version have a "right" choice that always ends well for you and another choice that only sometimes works well depending on the skills you have. So I haven't noticed this equal chance of being wrong. Not that I have done extensive testing to see.

Either way an ignore button would be a nice addition.

Yeah, I guess we'll never truly know what the odds are unless they're officially confirmed. I have tested this with a few chance cards, however. One of them is a card that you can get in the culinary career where a customer is really juiced and asks for another drink, and you have the option to give them their drink or say they've had enough. The first time I picked the latter option, the boss sided with me and I got a performance boost. This exact same card came up the very next day. Logically, since the option I picked the last time worked, I picked it again... Except this time the boss sided with the customer and I got a performance loss. Um, what? It was correct the first time!

The same thing happened with a chance card in the astronaut career where you find a mysterious box and have the option to either open it or turn it in. The first time I chose to turn it in, it was the correct choice, but the next time I got this chance card and picked the same option, I was chewed out for asking too many questions.

This brings me to another problem with the chance cards. There isn't much variety, and they get really repetitive.
TheLittleThings3
New Veteran
8 years ago
With the chance cards there is one option that will be right more often, so option one could be correct 80% of the time and wrong 20% of the time while option 2 could be right 20% of the time and wrong 80%. I suppose that's to stop it getting boring as you would otherwise eventually learn which one to select and there wouldn't be any risk. But yes they could add an ignore option for those that don't want to take a chance.
BeJaWa
8 years ago
"worldofdrakan;c-16070213" wrote:
"BeJaWa;c-16070106" wrote:
I find most of the chance cards in this version have a "right" choice that always ends well for you and another choice that only sometimes works well depending on the skills you have. So I haven't noticed this equal chance of being wrong. Not that I have done extensive testing to see.

Either way an ignore button would be a nice addition.

Yeah, I guess we'll never truly know what the odds are unless they're officially confirmed. I have tested this with a few chance cards, however. One of them is a card that you can get in the culinary career where a customer is really juiced and asks for another drink, and you have the option to give them their drink or say they've had enough. The first time I picked the latter option, the boss sided with me and I got a performance boost. This exact same card came up the very next day. Logically, since the option I picked the last time worked, I picked it again... Except this time the boss sided with the customer and I got a performance loss. Um, what? It was correct the first time!

The same thing happened with a chance card in the astronaut career where you find a mysterious box and have the option to either open it or turn it in. The first time I chose to turn it in, it was the correct choice, but the next time I got this chance card and picked the same option, I was chewed out for asking too many questions.

This brings me to another problem with the chance cards. There isn't much variety, and they get really repetitive.

I remember the juice one in the culinary career. You right that one doesn't fit my theory above I remember getting annoyed by it because of that. I often only get chance cards from school for kids because my adults paint and write from home.
Lorraine-Simmer
8 years ago
That's exactly why I prefer active careers and careers where you work from home as opposed to other careers. You can't get chance cards when you're working from home or attending an active work day. I really hope that one day we might be able to work from home in other careers, too.

Speaking of school chance cards, I know some of them can be downright cruel. There's one where you can have your kid confess to making a mistake on their test, and the teacher will get onto them and hold them in during recess to do it over, ruining the poor kid's day in the process. Seriously, all this over an honest mistake! Come on, they're just a kid! I really wish my Sim parents had the option to give that teacher what for.

And there's also another one, something about forgetting to do an assignment, I think? The teacher gives them an F, and I quote, "with glee." Yeah, I can understand the F, but taking actual joy in failing the child? That's just too much!
Cinebar
8 years ago
Because to these devs 'ignore' is a form of cheating. It's a culture mindset of rpg game developers.
BeJaWa
8 years ago
"worldofdrakan;c-16072401" wrote:
That's exactly why I prefer active careers and careers where you work from home as opposed to other careers. You can't get chance cards when you're working from home or attending an active work day. I really hope that one day we might be able to work from home in other careers, too.

Speaking of school chance cards, I know some of them can be downright cruel. There's one where you can have your kid confess to making a mistake on their test, and the teacher will get onto them and hold them in during recess to do it over, ruining the poor kid's day in the process. Seriously, all this over an honest mistake! Come on, they're just a kid! I really wish my Sim parents had the option to give that teacher what for.

And there's also another one, something about forgetting to do an assignment, I think? The teacher gives them an F, and I quote, "with glee." Yeah, I can understand the F, but taking actual joy in failing the child? That's just too much!

Yeah but remember in this world if a Sims kid fails school they die, so I just think maybe these sims don't really like kids.
Lorraine-Simmer
8 years ago
"Cinebar;c-16072591" wrote:
Because to these devs 'ignore' is a form of cheating. It's a cutlure mindset of rpg game developers.

Seriously, devs? You were okay with the ignore button back in TS2. What changed? And like @kremesch73 said, whatever happend to 'you rule?'
Sam_XNE997
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"worldofdrakan;c-16072679" wrote:
"Cinebar;c-16072591" wrote:
Because to these devs 'ignore' is a form of cheating. It's a cutlure mindset of rpg game developers.

Seriously, devs? You were okay with the ignore button back in TS2. What changed? And like @kremesch73 said, whatever happend to 'you rule?'

The point still stands, since simply ignoring a decision is technically cheating.