Sims 3: Late Night

[lebeau]

(03-11-2010 02:47 AM)Cororon Wrote:  My sims boyfriend Spencer also had his energy and hygiene bars frozen and that stinky moodlet. I then played my own household for a while and went back. Then he was normal again.

My selfsim moved to a 1 bedroom apartment. It's small but cozy and have a nice view from the big windows. It's difficult to use the camera view so high up. It moves too fast when you use the arrow keys. It's not a bug, EA just forgot to adjust the camera for use in high rise buildings.

Many people complain about the nightclubs, that they often are empty and lack atmosphere. Sims don't socialize there and behave like loners, eating and reading books and go home. They don't notice when my sim dances on the table.

My sim has been invited to a couple of parties, but they sucked! At one party the host (a sim made by me but modeled after a friend of mine) started to cook for the guests, but left the pot on the stove and went to bed. At another party at the Littler family Reuben, Renee and the others in the family went to bed when my sim arrived. One of the guests watched tv, another was in the bathroom and the third one played drums. Boring!

And the mobile phone keeps ringing! My sim get the same opportunities all the time. To workout for 4 hours, dance for 3 hours or eat at the bistro. No thanks! Stop bothering me!

What's the point with celebrities if every sim becomes one? I think there are more celebs than normal sims in my game. And vampirism is the new flu! >.< The game is beautiful and I like the idea with the city, clubs and apartments but it feels unifinished just like the earlier EPs. EA must make a big update this time.

Lots of excellent points. I've encountered all of the situations you described. There's definitely some bugs that need to be worked out. And high rise buildings don't work especially well in the game. (That's a big part of why we moved to a traditional house.)

I like the feel of the nightclubs. I think they have a lot of personality. But, you've got to get a group going there or else the Sims will just do their own thing. I don't think I've ever seen a Sim read a book in a night club. If I did, I'd get them dancing or joining a jam session. But you're right. It seems like they could be having a better time without my intervention.

Most of the parties I've gone to have been as lame as the ones you described. I like them because they are a good way to break into a new social circle. (Keith met Jun at a party where he didn't know a single person.) But NPCs are sure bad hosts! Sometimes, I don't even go to the party anymore. I'll let Keith or Jun go by themselves while I work on something else with the other one.

I've stopped answering the phone a lot of the time. Like you said, it's always the same opportunities. And some of them don't even work! We also agree about too many vampires and celebrities. These should have been relatively rare. But I'd say more than half of the population of Bridgeport is either a celeb or a vamp. And many are both.

I still love this expansion though. I have been having more fun playing sims 3 than ever! I'm sure an update is coming that will fix a lot of these issues.