Your thoughts on Realm of Magic so far?

Right now I need more time to get an accurate opinion if I like it or not like it. One thing that stands out and it is an matter of design that is experienced in all the packs which has neighborhoods is the lack of space which is an minus for me.

I just got this pack recently but haven't had much time to play with it. I had a witches mod prior and removed it temporarily to see if it's like with the Fame pack where I still need the fame mod to give it what it really needs.

"Faust-RSI;c-17277211" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-17277035" wrote:

That's all I've seen (and I think it's from the patch, not the pack). I don't think I've been in the position to have the problem with lineages - I've only played the two Sims I created as spellcasters, and they levelled up as they should. Maybe it's their daughter who will have the problem? I'd agree that it's the sort of thing I'd classify as a major bug, since it would have a real effect on game play. However, a couple of bugs (I'm including the potions with no retail value, which the devs have confirmed - I don't play retail, so not a problem in my game), isn't what I would describe as a buggy mess.

Potions having no value is a joke, I don't even believe it's a bug, I believe it's by design.
Yes, their daughter will have the problem. It sometimes occurs for a mages with no lineage, but not for 100% of them. And now THIS is game breaking.
Potion of immortality doesn't work.
Teleportation works only occasionally (this bug is annoying as hell).
Magical clones become permanent.
New aspirations can't be completed by several types of sims.

And these are only major and game-breaking ones. I didn't include insignificant bugs like inability to clean potty by magic or inability to continue writing a book with a familiar being active.

The potions really are meant to have a value - the devs have tweeted as much.

No problems so far with Hayden, but she's only an acolyte.

I'd never notice the potion of immortality, since I don't want my Sims to live forever. I wouldn't say it's a game-breaker, though.

No issues with teleportation.

Clones aren't supposed to be permanent?

Both my Sims completed both aspirations. My guess is that problems with the aspirations are caused by the backsliding bug.

As for the potty, I assume you're talking about the toddler pot. It simply wasn't included, probably because they had kids and toddlers out of scope and didn't think about it. I'd call it a bug if 'scruberoo' were an option and didn't work, but otherwise, it only means that spellcasters can't spell their way out of everything. I haven't run into the writing bug, but it definitely shouldn't be happening, so yes, I'd call it a bug, and the cause and workaround - sending the familiar away - wouldn't be obvious.

Other than the backsliding, you have to do some very specific things to get these bugs. How many people are going to create an immortal Sim, and clones, and sell potions and write books with an active familiar? We're also assuming that all of these bugs are happening 100% across the board, and that's usually not the case. A lot depends on what other packs you have installed and yes - mods also cause issues. The main features of the pack work.

(By the way, my Sims are cleaning up books again. Must have been a routing issue.)

"invisiblgirl;c-17276288" wrote:
I'm enjoying the pack, and I'll probably use it in my legacy save when I'm done playing with my RoM save. My only complaint is that kids and toddlers weren't included. It's taking me forever to get my kid aged up because I've got three people in the household, and I usually play with no more than two. (Easier to micromanage them.)

The only bug I've noticed is that 'clean up books' no longer works at all, but that's a general game bug that probably came in the patch. (Maybe they tried to fix the problem with Sims sitting down at tables instead of putting books away?) Anyway, you can still get them to clean up the books by clicking on the books they throw on the ground. It's moderately less annoying than having them sit at tables, which took extra time, at least. And they will clean up books autonomously - after searching for magic tomes, my Sims clean up the books left all over the magic HQ.

It's fairly typical that the loudest people are ones who aren't happy with the pack, including many who moan about 'all the bugs' but haven't even bought it. There's a large echo chamber, lately.

The thing about your statement "including many who moan about 'all the bugs' but haven't even bought it." is spectulation as you do not know if they brought it and you are trying to make it fact. Just because you experienced one bug and that may be true you had experienced one bug but you cannot speak for those that have experienced many more bugs than you experienced and remember some bugs are activated by an certain routine and is considered one if it can be duplicated by such routines. How can one be happy with an product that you can't enjoy if yuou are experiencing bugs. People have different levels of how much they can take before saying something.

I'm conflicted, but all I know is it definitely could have been better.
It's a little disappointing because, This was one of the main packs I've been waiting for, Werewolves are hopefully next!
I feel they could have recycled animations better.

They could have recycled the meteor summoning ability animation from Island Living, modify it slightly, for a better inferno spell. Same with the Lightning ability animation from Seasons, if they recycled that, it would be a better than Zip-Zap. the power to go summon up all that lightning power at will, and fling lightning at objects and smite people with it. Yas!

Alchemy Ingredients don't make sense. I know this is magic, but actually thats no excuse magic ingredients make sense in most lore. I'm looking for a good mod that changes the ingredients So it does.

The Build Buy and CAS Content, is useless, except the Cast Iron Cauldron, but everything else I agree I they should have done a Medieval/Baroque/Romanticized theme.

I appreciate they tried to expand the concept from Witches to Spell Caster, It's playable however I have to wait on playing my story mods to shape this pack into what it should have been. It's kind of sad that other packs don't contribute at least one spell book. Like Someone made the mod to add the Tome of Climatio to teach the caster weather spells and change seasons at will... and then If your caster has maxed vampire lore, they may learn the Vamplify Spell to turn victims into vampires. Herbalist concotions can be made at the cauldron.

Cats and Dogs & My First Pet could give the Tomes of Felis and Canis teaches the Caster to turn a victim into a cat or dog.

RoM is much better after it's been heavily modded out to fix dev mistakes and expand upon the pack's own gameplay. :)

I love that we have finally magic and spellcasters. I personally love the Art Nouveau style, so the build mode is all a plus for me, and I like what they did in CAS as well.

I would have wanted Alchemy to be a skill, and not tied to being a spellcaster, I have several mortals and even vampires who would love to practice alchemy.

Compared to the vampire pack I feel that spellcasters max too fast. It took a long time to get the vampires to the level where they started to feel powerful. With the spellcasters you can max them before you've really even started to play them properly otherwise, and surely they're not all meant to be virtuosos.

My main complaint though, and the thing that frustrates me to the point that I've recently played anything but spellcaster families is the blasted festival clothing bug in the realm. Every time I visit the Realm, I find myself just scribbling down lists of who needs to be deleted, who needs to be turned back to human, who needs to be deleted and re-added to the save (this time with custom job so they won't be hired as mixologist and then run around the realm in job clothes)... the list goes on. So then I go to manage households, do all that, take a deep breath, load back to the spellcaster family to actually play, go to the realm.... aaand start allover again. So eventually I just gave up on it until they manage to do some sort of patch on that, and started playing non-spellcasters.

Despite all of that, I would absolutely buy the pack again, and love having magic in the game again. I just can't handle the Realm's drunk-clothes very often, and am really hoping they'll give us some means to control what the sims will wear there, or the option to opt out from whatever it is that makes them wear nonsense there.

I'm loving it and am very happy about that 'cause I really needed a reason to love this game.

Not as good as it could of been.

kids/toddlers can be spell casters but get nothing at all in buy,cas,gameplay
not enough spells, some are just things we can already do in the game. new form of it.
practice magic to advance from 1/5 takes forever

magic realm shops and greenhouse :'(
another tiny world, bad homes
more incomplete kitchens/bathrooms


are we ever going to get any more new small appliances items


old typewriter
tea/coffee pot

"Goldmoldar;c-17278069" wrote:

"invisiblgirl;c-17276288" wrote:
I'm enjoying the pack, and I'll probably use it in my legacy save when I'm done playing with my RoM save. My only complaint is that kids and toddlers weren't included. It's taking me forever to get my kid aged up because I've got three people in the household, and I usually play with no more than two. (Easier to micromanage them.)

The only bug I've noticed is that 'clean up books' no longer works at all, but that's a general game bug that probably came in the patch. (Maybe they tried to fix the problem with Sims sitting down at tables instead of putting books away?) Anyway, you can still get them to clean up the books by clicking on the books they throw on the ground. It's moderately less annoying than having them sit at tables, which took extra time, at least. And they will clean up books autonomously - after searching for magic tomes, my Sims clean up the books left all over the magic HQ.

It's fairly typical that the loudest people are ones who aren't happy with the pack, including many who moan about 'all the bugs' but haven't even bought it. There's a large echo chamber, lately.

The thing about your statement "including many who moan about 'all the bugs' but haven't even bought it." is spectulation as you do not know if they brought it and you are trying to make it fact. Just because you experienced one bug and that may be true you had experienced one bug but you cannot speak for those that have experienced many more bugs than you experienced and remember some bugs are activated by an certain routine and is considered one if it can be duplicated by such routines. How can one be happy with an product that you can't enjoy if yuou are experiencing bugs. People have different levels of how much they can take before saying something.

No, I'm basing it on the fact that these people have said they haven't bought RoM, or that they don't play the game at all. Personally, I do play the game and have the pack, and while I've run into (or avoided) a few bugs, it simply isn't 'bug-riddled'. I can understand that one specific bug might be a pack-killer for some players. If you had your heart set on retailing potions, the pack isn't worth buying until that's fixed. But that's exactly why I don't put a lot weight behind the 'all the bugs' crowd. It's much more helpful to have input from fellow players about the bugs they've experienced; that can help someone to decide whether the bugs will affect their game play.

I honestly don't have that many bugs in my game, and none of those that I've seen have a major effect on my game play. I've had some big ones in the past, but they've been fixed because they were game-killlers.