Waterfront + Update

I enjoy the simplicity of the LlamaZoom events (and the nod to Llamas once again) and I enjoy the frequency of the van showing up. It provides a great distraction from just sending my sims to work or socializing ad nauseam. I'm not sure yet if the rewards equal out. If someone is unable to login every four hours, is the original to-do list better or is it worse?

I love the UI changes, it makes it so much easier to keep track of multiple sims without having to switch locations over and over again to find out how much time they have left on an activity. It also feels more intuitive.

I'm eager to try out the new careers, I love variety. I do wish they had added some playable Sim slots to spread the workload. I have four Sims who are established in their career and, while I really want to try out the new careers, I'm also desperate for sim coins, because it seems everything past level 30 has increased in price drastically. An outfit I had been eyeing casually jumped from 7000 to 10000 sim coins + llama tokens. Eek!

I do like that simcash seems easier to obtain. I reluctantly purchased simcash last month to get the fireplace (I say reluctantly because, most games, aren't such an obvious cash grab. I mean, literally nothing in the Sims Mobile isn't available in Sims 4 , so they aren't designing new items). I'm more apt to pay real cash for games that are truly F2P on everything. Charging simcash for different room designs? That's unfortunate and I'm hesitant to spend any more cash because of it. Simcash should be an above and beyond award. Like a basic shower +10 energy or something of that nature. It shouldn't be the starting point for anything (like committing the time to unlocking a hobby/career reward only to discover one item requires simcash to buy -- fail!)

I enjoy that the fashion gems reward increased from 2 to 4. Although Izzy Fashions are incredibly hit or miss (I'm looking at you floral crop top >.<), I like having the chance to get something good. And Izzy Fashions are great because they are above and beyond normal clothes (they add a bonus to certain things).

TL;DR All in all, I'm liking that the waterfront and buildings are made available. Obviously disappointed in the increase of cost on some things, curious how the LlamaZoom dailies will work vs. the old model, Love the UI changes, and hope the events continue to award SimCash, while disliking the system as it is.

I am happy to have the waterfront, two new jobs, can level to 50 and variety of quests.
What i hate is the increase of cost! The job still take so long to complete with no increase of pay.
Im disappointed of the tickets. What i had were exchanged for little llama tickets.
In a nut shell everything costs to high for me to enjoy the game.

I'm not a huge fan of the Llamazoom tickets. If you put my house and person tokens together I had hundreds, yet only got 12 llama tickets. Seriously? That really aggravated me. I feel like they took a lot of progress away from all of us, then tried to pretend like the replacement is easier, when I don't agree.
I don't like how I can't choose how long my events are if I want llama tickets, when the daily list was simple and let you complete events however you wanted.
As everyone else is saying, it's also crappy that they upped the price of everything to make up for tickets being gone, and made a lot of things cost sim bucks now that didn't before. I hope they change this soon or I'm probably done with the game, it's starting to get monotonous anyway. :(

@rafaeljonas I like that the Llamazoom is pretty random. It’s not the same thing every time, or at least I haven’t seen any lists that are repeating itself and now we can interact with random objects around the house without wasting energy, which is pretty cool. I do miss the daily reminder to change my look though. I also like how it gives you the option to direct the actions towards a specific theme. Like if you are working on relationships or a career story, etc.

"BellaRocks;c-16691822" wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of the Llamazoom tickets. If you put my house and person tokens together I had hundreds, yet only got 12 llama tickets. Seriously? That really aggravated me. I feel like they took a lot of progress away from all of us, then tried to pretend like the replacement is easier, when I don't agree.

I didn’t remember if they had converted it to something or not. I had over 2,000 tickets and now I have 15 llama tickets. I don’t understand that. And now things that were ticket-only items cost 2,000-13,000 coins :unamused:

"floraboraamor;c-16691773" wrote:
I am happy to have the waterfront, two new jobs, can level to 50 and variety of quests.
What i hate is the increase of cost! The job still take so long to complete with no increase of pay.
Im disappointed of the tickets. What i had were exchanged for little llama tickets.
In a nut shell everything costs to high for me to enjoy the game.

I agree that they should increase the pay a bit. Maybe a surprising choice can be schmoozing the boss to give us a raise or something lol :lol:

"QuinnWinn;c-16691690" wrote:
I enjoy the simplicity of the LlamaZoom events (and the nod to Llamas once again) and I enjoy the frequency of the van showing up. It provides a great distraction from just sending my sims to work or socializing ad nauseam. I'm not sure yet if the rewards equal out. If someone is unable to login every four hours, is the original to-do list better or is it worse?

I love the UI changes, it makes it so much easier to keep track of multiple sims without having to switch locations over and over again to find out how much time they have left on an activity. It also feels more intuitive.

I'm eager to try out the new careers, I love variety. I do wish they had added some playable Sim slots to spread the workload. I have four Sims who are established in their career and, while I really want to try out the new careers, I'm also desperate for sim coins, because it seems everything past level 30 has increased in price drastically. An outfit I had been eyeing casually jumped from 7000 to 10000 sim coins + llama tokens. Eek!

I do like that simcash seems easier to obtain. I reluctantly purchased simcash last month to get the fireplace (I say reluctantly because, most games, aren't such an obvious cash grab. I mean, literally nothing in the Sims Mobile isn't available in Sims 4 , so they aren't designing new items). I'm more apt to pay real cash for games that are truly F2P on everything. Charging simcash for different room designs? That's unfortunate and I'm hesitant to spend any more cash because of it. Simcash should be an above and beyond award. Like a basic shower +10 energy or something of that nature. It shouldn't be the starting point for anything (like committing the time to unlocking a hobby/career reward only to discover one item requires simcash to buy -- fail!)

I enjoy that the fashion gems reward increased from 2 to 4. Although Izzy Fashions are incredibly hit or miss (I'm looking at you floral crop top >.<), I like having the chance to get something good. And Izzy Fashions are great because they are above and beyond normal clothes (they add a bonus to certain things).

TL;DR All in all, I'm liking that the waterfront and buildings are made available. Obviously disappointed in the increase of cost on some things, curious how the LlamaZoom dailies will work vs. the old model, Love the UI changes, and hope the events continue to award SimCash, while disliking the system as it is.

Yupp! My land expansion went from about 7,000 to 10,000. I checked my friends and it went from about 15,000 to 24,000. Not cool. But they did also decrease the costs of some things.

I agree that simcash should be for really rewarding things, like a bed that gives full energy restoration, something unique to sims mobile, or like the person slots. But not 2,000 for a hot tub when a career story is 600 and a hairstyle is almost 500. This system is all over the place.

So before I updated I was grinding to get enough simoleons for land expansion. My next expansion was to cost 11000. I was also trying to get enough to buy my next room. I'd had 34000 simoleons or so.

Then I read the description and was like "Waterfront?? Finally?? Whaaaaaat?" and updated it. Upon opening the game immediately and got an in-game message that said I had to plots of land cleared and was like "Whaaaaat?? They gave me land, too?? Well, what an update!" I went to my home and looked all around and the was no newly cleared land! So, confused and a little peeved, I clicked on the next plot of land to clear and it costs 22000 AND SOME DAGGONE LLAMA TOKENS!!! WTBH??? I have contacted EA and got that semi condescending standardized email response with the ol' *we're going to send this to the developers BS. 100 SIMOLEONS WILL NOT FIX THIS. WHY DID MY LAND PRICE DOUBLE?? ALL I WANT IS THE PRICE RESET TO THE 11000 THAT IT WAS, OR MY 2 CLEARED LAND SPACES FOR FREE.

So I'm excited for Waterfront but I'm super PO'd about that land thing. The process going up on things is very frustrating. I'd also acquired thousands of Sim tickets and I think I got like, 24 Llama tokens.

Ugh. Come on, EA. I really liked this game. I made purchases to support this thing because I enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm bummed. ☹

"GG_Abernathy;c-16692344" wrote:
So before I updated I was grinding to get enough simoleons for land expansion. My next expansion was to cost 11000. I was also trying to get enough to buy my next room. I'd had 34000 simoleons or so.

Then I read the description and was like "Waterfront?? Finally?? Whaaaaaat?" and updated it. Upon opening the game immediately and got an in-game message that said I had to plots of land cleared and was like "Whaaaaat?? They gave me land, too?? Well, what an update!" I went to my home and looked all around and the was no newly cleared land! So, confused and a little peeved, I clicked on the next plot of land to clear and it costs 22000 AND SOME DAGGONE LLAMA TOKENS!!! WTBH??? I have contacted EA and got that semi condescending standardized email response with the ol' *we're going to send this to the developers plum. 100 SIMOLEONS WILL NOT FIX THIS. WHY DID MY LAND PRICE DOUBLE?? ALL I WANT IS THE PRICE RESET TO THE 11000 THAT IT WAS, OR MY 2 CLEARED LAND SPACES FOR FREE.

So I'm excited for Waterfront but I'm super PO'd about that land thing. The process going up on things is very frustrating. I'd also acquired thousands of Sim tickets and I think I got like, 24 Llama tokens.

Ugh. Come on, EA. I really liked this game. I made purchases to support this thing because I enjoyed it a lot. Now I'm bummed. ☹

I know, it's upsetting :/ All the prices increase and we get very little for our long shifts, compared to the costs to expand or purchase things in this game. Luckily, I recently redid my entire home. But I'm super stingy with my coins, so I prob won't expand anymore since it costs 6,000+ for rooms and 10,000+ coins for land expansions, which increases after each expansion. :|

"Joysie;c-16693592" wrote:
On the daily to do list we were asked to do a special event. So far, lama zoom has not asked this. What do these special events ad to the game now? Why should I let my sim complete them now?

I just checked my game and I don't even see the option for it anymore :flushed:
It's not on the quests list and its not an option in the public spaces
Maybe they took it out completely leaving it just for future limited events?

Here's how I feel about the update after a couple days:

I feel like I got more rewards from the daily to-do list than I do from the Llamazoom tasks. You have to do 4-6 tasks all for 1 llama token and a little xp. I miss the list more than I thought I would, actually. I feel like it took away a sense of purpose from the game, and it's already majorly lacking anyway.

I love Waterfront, though. I hope they continue to add things like that, and add more improvements when it comes to toddlers and kids. I also wish I could control elders. But I hope they take a look at our llamazoom complaints and change it around soon. We'll just have to wait and see!

Not happy with the llamazoom or llama tickets. I actually had the same problem as GG_Abernathy in that I was trying to get the 11000 land plot and now they’ve doubled the price and added 5 llamas to it. That’s not to say what they done to the price of rooms. My next room will cost me 13995 coins and 15 llama tickets. I only got 9 from my old house tickets (which is a total rip off since I had over a thousand green, 10 blue, and 1 purple) and had to spend some to make a baby room.

On the llamazoom, I’m honestly thinking that the creators don’t realise their players have lives. My job takes 9 hours out of my day, 8 of which I’m working. That’s the entire time it takes to do a llamazoom event. There are those who work in offices Andie have to work extra hours or those who will be starting school that will get screwed by this new update.

And also only 1 llama ticket for that many tasks or hours? Yeah not cool. Give us 2 at least if you are jacking them up so much for things like room and land.

My 2 cents on the update, fwiw

I do like the Llamazone vs Daily task (although now my Sim will be a dirty hippie as I am not prompted to change it's clothing). BUT not enough reward for the time you spend.

I am happy to see the Events are gone- sheesh those suckers took all dang day

I was super happy to see they didn't change the new way we get the heirlooms, BUT you don't get as many heirloom tickets on your daily box to open

Happy to see new careers. Would LOVE new hobbies

TOO expensive to get anything

Would love a Tag Sale option under parties to get rid of some of the crap in my inventory (or a sell back, but that doesn't seem to be happening.) If neither, how about categories under the storage so I don't spend hours trying to find the 1 item I wanted to place.

Would love a 2nd (or 3rd) house option with a different SIM, so they aren't under the same roof (then I can use excess inventory, as well). I don't have them as relations or roommates, so why have the same house?