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oh sure Niki go and show your talent by posting a link which i have never been able to get to work on these boards lol
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oh sure show off again... sheesh just rub it in my face why don't you!!!!!
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First of all, I have tried other games and don't like them. Many of them are too much sex or violence. Second, yes, I am unhappy at the moment. But I have invested too much time on my sim to give up. But don't get me wrong, me and my 4 accounts won't take too much crap on them concentrating on the botters.
They need to think about what everyone wants, not the selected few. Many that I have talked to says the botters never did mess with their game, it was the unfixed exploit.
Has the devs thought that maybe if they introduced new items (since not everyone can do CC) maybe the griping would calm down a bit while they do concentrate on botters. Just GIVE us a little extra is all I'm asking, instead of all the TAKING that they are doing.
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Botters made it easy for people to make money in game by selling it ILLEGALLY on ebay. So did they "mess" with the game? Oh, yes, they did. Stop being selfish, the focus isn't going to be on you ALL THE TIME. They're trying to better the game, and fix what should've been fixed YEARS ago. And i'm damn glad they're doing it, whether or not we have to suffer a few months through it.
Don't people have better things to do than sit around and gripe about things?
Here's an idea: Write a nice email to the devs explaining your concerns. They'll read it and take it into consideration, i'm sure.
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Hey, calling her selfish is uncalled for and not true! Just because she wants something different and feels different about things than you do does not make her selfish. What's with the personal attack? I personally agree with her, and just because you don't doesn't give you the right to call her selfish. And as for making the game better....I have yet to see it. But I probably won't see it if they go through with the insane idea to upgrade to Sims 2/SL graphics. Nice way to lose players with older computers.
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First of all, I have tried other games and don't like them. Many of them are too much sex or violence. Second, yes, I am unhappy at the moment. But I have invested too much time on my sim to give up. But don't get me wrong, me and my 4 accounts won't take too much crap on them concentrating on the botters.
They need to think about what everyone wants, not the selected few. Many that I have talked to says the botters never did mess with their game, it was the unfixed exploit.
Has the devs thought that maybe if they introduced new items (since not everyone can do CC) maybe the griping would calm down a bit while they do concentrate on botters. Just GIVE us a little extra is all I'm asking, instead of all the TAKING that they are doing.
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Botters made it easy for people to make money in game by selling it ILLEGALLY on ebay. So did they "mess" with the game? Oh, yes, they did. Stop being selfish, the focus isn't going to be on you ALL THE TIME. They're trying to better the game, and fix what should've been fixed YEARS ago. And i'm damn glad they're doing it, whether or not we have to suffer a few months through it.
Don't people have better things to do than sit around and gripe about things?
Here's an idea: Write a nice email to the devs explaining your concerns. They'll read it and take it into consideration, i'm sure.
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Hey, calling her selfish is uncalled for and not true! Just because she wants something different and feels different about things than you do does not make her selfish. What's with the personal attack? I personally agree with her, and just because you don't doesn't give you the right to call her selfish. And as for making the game better....I have yet to see it. But I probably won't see it if they go through with the insane idea to upgrade to Sims 2/SL graphics. Nice way to lose players with older computers.
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This is fun, right?
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yea but i always forget is it { or is it [ or is it ( too many just too many lol
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Aqua, I am not jealous. Knowing that you were gone for 2 years makes some sense. TSO was due termination last June, Alphaville was the only remotely busy city. There were NO money houses, Fruit was 10 million a piece, and everyone had about 10 million Simoleans in their pocket, if not more. It was a rich ghost town.
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Your wrong, AV and BF were busy, I had a money house and I know there were lots of money houses open and full. I also had a sim that was roomie in a casino which was packed everynight. I don't remember fruit being that high the last few months of the game but maybe, I think it was much lower. Most of us if we did money objects had more then 10 million. I know I did, u know why....nothing to spend money on. We make it for the fun for the social interaction but there was nothing new to buy. I could only craft so many silver flat screens before I could not hold all the black flat screens. Which I ended up giving away. I did pull a ton of cages, but just selling afs kept me with lots of money. Really all AV needed was updates and cc's and it would of been a perfect place. You would of had tons of players come back. Which have, just because the word was out that new items were coming to simland. No it was not a ghost town. We were having fun.
Aqua, I am not jealous. Knowing that you were gone for 2 years makes some sense. TSO was due termination last June, Alphaville was the only remotely busy city. There were NO money houses, Fruit was 10 million a piece, and everyone had about 10 million Simoleans in their pocket, if not more. It was a rich ghost town.
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Your wrong, AV and BF were busy, I had a money house and I know there were lots of money houses open and full. I also had a sim that was roomie in a casino which was packed everynight. I don't remember fruit being that high the last few months of the game but maybe, I think it was much lower. Most of us if we did money objects had more then 10 million. I know I did, u know why....nothing to spend money on. We make it for the fun for the social interaction but there was nothing new to buy. I could only craft so many silver flat screens before I could not hold all the black flat screens. Which I ended up giving away. I did pull a ton of cages, but just selling afs kept me with lots of money. Really all AV needed was updates and cc's and it would of been a perfect place. You would of had tons of players come back. Which have, just because the word was out that new items were coming to simland. No it was not a ghost town. We were having fun.
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there is an entire section on CC on the boards.. lists class times and discussion on how and where to look for software (free) and how to video's.
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Thank you so much...I will check it out.
there is an entire section on CC on the boards.. lists class times and discussion on how and where to look for software (free) and how to video's.
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Thank you so much...I will check it out.
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Anyone can learn CC. We do beginner classes on Sunday, we just finished this weeks class. No one can know if they cant learn unless they try.
i heard i have to have sims 1 to even try, is that true?
i heard i have to have sims 1 to even try, is that true?
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I'm tired of being called stupid and selfish. I don't need the personal attacks, just because I want more fun in the game. So sorry that I have an opinion, guess mine don't matter.
I won't be posting anymore for a while because I am NOT stupid, or selfish. I just want to have fun in a game that I pay for and not wait until next year for that to happen.
So sorry that my posts are annoying to many here. I will be the one in the background listening to the whiners when they close the game because one too many people canceled their account and is no longer plausible for EA to upgrade.
I won't be posting anymore for a while because I am NOT stupid, or selfish. I just want to have fun in a game that I pay for and not wait until next year for that to happen.
So sorry that my posts are annoying to many here. I will be the one in the background listening to the whiners when they close the game because one too many people canceled their account and is no longer plausible for EA to upgrade.
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Yes you do need TS1 in order to do CC. There is a list of other required programs which are free on Thrills tutorial.
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I dont quote long posts. But using your, what is a bot answer.
Cant they look at hours played to determine who the botters are?
[/ QUOTE ]I once played a marathon TSO session for 36 hours straight. Would have been more, but hubby began threatening divorce...
Hours alone are not enough to "convict" someone of botting. As I stated before, there really is no way to tell someone is botting beyond a reasonable doubt.
I dont quote long posts. But using your, what is a bot answer.
Cant they look at hours played to determine who the botters are?
[/ QUOTE ]I once played a marathon TSO session for 36 hours straight. Would have been more, but hubby began threatening divorce...
Hours alone are not enough to "convict" someone of botting. As I stated before, there really is no way to tell someone is botting beyond a reasonable doubt.
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She isn't complaining about it's existence.
She is complaining that she is tired of being told that CC is a remedy for her.
She's tried it, it doesn't work for her.
I too get a bit tired of hearing "Well *I* am happy and *I* play *such and such style*. Why aren't YOU happy?!!"
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I get tired of this, too. I can't do CC, either. I've bought a few items, but I want an item I can actually USE--and I don't mean a chair to sit on. If you're gonna let us do CC, at least let us make something USEFUL.
She isn't complaining about it's existence.
She is complaining that she is tired of being told that CC is a remedy for her.
She's tried it, it doesn't work for her.
I too get a bit tired of hearing "Well *I* am happy and *I* play *such and such style*. Why aren't YOU happy?!!"
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I get tired of this, too. I can't do CC, either. I've bought a few items, but I want an item I can actually USE--and I don't mean a chair to sit on. If you're gonna let us do CC, at least let us make something USEFUL.
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Tried to work wiki, but couldn't navigate it. Very poorly set up. IMHO
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I agree. I can't understand the wiki either. Nice to meet someone else with the same problem.
Tried to work wiki, but couldn't navigate it. Very poorly set up. IMHO
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I agree. I can't understand the wiki either. Nice to meet someone else with the same problem.
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Aqua, I am not jealous. Knowing that you were gone for 2 years makes some sense. TSO was due termination last June, Alphaville was the only remotely busy city. There were NO money houses, Fruit was 10 million a piece, and everyone had about 10 million Simoleans in their pocket, if not more. It was a rich ghost town.
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Your wrong, AV and BF were busy, I had a money house and I know there were lots of money houses open and full. I also had a sim that was roomie in a casino which was packed everynight. I don't remember fruit being that high the last few months of the game but maybe, I think it was much lower. Most of us if we did money objects had more then 10 million. I know I did, u know why....nothing to spend money on. We make it for the fun for the social interaction but there was nothing new to buy. I could only craft so many silver flat screens before I could not hold all the black flat screens. Which I ended up giving away. I did pull a ton of cages, but just selling afs kept me with lots of money. Really all AV needed was updates and cc's and it would of been a perfect place. You would of had tons of players come back. Which have, just because the word was out that new items were coming to simland. No it was not a ghost town. We were having fun.
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Hahaaaa.....No. It was dead. BF was only alive thanks to the Mafia's. There was one Money house in BF and it never had more than 5 people. AV was the only busy city and you said it yourself.
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Aqua, I am not jealous. Knowing that you were gone for 2 years makes some sense. TSO was due termination last June, Alphaville was the only remotely busy city. There were NO money houses, Fruit was 10 million a piece, and everyone had about 10 million Simoleans in their pocket, if not more. It was a rich ghost town.
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Your wrong, AV and BF were busy, I had a money house and I know there were lots of money houses open and full. I also had a sim that was roomie in a casino which was packed everynight. I don't remember fruit being that high the last few months of the game but maybe, I think it was much lower. Most of us if we did money objects had more then 10 million. I know I did, u know why....nothing to spend money on. We make it for the fun for the social interaction but there was nothing new to buy. I could only craft so many silver flat screens before I could not hold all the black flat screens. Which I ended up giving away. I did pull a ton of cages, but just selling afs kept me with lots of money. Really all AV needed was updates and cc's and it would of been a perfect place. You would of had tons of players come back. Which have, just because the word was out that new items were coming to simland. No it was not a ghost town. We were having fun.
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Hahaaaa.....No. It was dead. BF was only alive thanks to the Mafia's. There was one Money house in BF and it never had more than 5 people. AV was the only busy city and you said it yourself.
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Mysticlisa,
People do understand and hear you. I for one just came back to the game recently and left within 10 days. Why? All the same reasons.
They sent out this mass email to former players asking if we'd like to come back to see this new and improved game and yet I saw none of that. Is it to come in the future? Possibly *shrug* . I just don't have the time or patience any longer.
For all of you whom still love the game and love playing it. Thats wonderful! Enjoy. But I cannot do it anymore. Even when I try and read the wiki or read the threads showing "whats new" none of it would make the game exciting for me again. Thats just me personally. I personally could care less about the CC but again that is just ME. I would have loved if they had implemented many of the things folks have mentioned but thats just ME
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I would have loved coming back to find myself addicted to this game again. Its why I've left and come back at least three times now. But I give up at this point. Right now I only see the bad and none of the good and every day it seems things get worse and worse. And I am not against change I knew years ago the game NEEDED change to survive. However, to make me sit there for 36 plus hours trying to max ONE skill then to go to a money lot or job and make a pittance. Not worth it to me anymore.
So don't feel your alone. There will always be those who love the game for what it is or what they hope or envision it to become. And then theres the rest of US
Liz.
People do understand and hear you. I for one just came back to the game recently and left within 10 days. Why? All the same reasons.
They sent out this mass email to former players asking if we'd like to come back to see this new and improved game and yet I saw none of that. Is it to come in the future? Possibly *shrug* . I just don't have the time or patience any longer.
For all of you whom still love the game and love playing it. Thats wonderful! Enjoy. But I cannot do it anymore. Even when I try and read the wiki or read the threads showing "whats new" none of it would make the game exciting for me again. Thats just me personally. I personally could care less about the CC but again that is just ME. I would have loved if they had implemented many of the things folks have mentioned but thats just ME
. I would have loved coming back to find myself addicted to this game again. Its why I've left and come back at least three times now. But I give up at this point. Right now I only see the bad and none of the good and every day it seems things get worse and worse. And I am not against change I knew years ago the game NEEDED change to survive. However, to make me sit there for 36 plus hours trying to max ONE skill then to go to a money lot or job and make a pittance. Not worth it to me anymore.
So don't feel your alone. There will always be those who love the game for what it is or what they hope or envision it to become. And then theres the rest of US
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I'm tired of being called stupid and selfish. I don't need the personal attacks, just because I want more fun in the game. So sorry that I have an opinion, guess mine don't matter.
I won't be posting anymore for a while because I am NOT stupid, or selfish. I just want to have fun in a game that I pay for and not wait until next year for that to happen.
So sorry that my posts are annoying to many here. I will be the one in the background listening to the whiners when they close the game because one too many people canceled their account and is no longer plausible for EA to upgrade.
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I don't think you are stupid or selfish. I understand that you want something more to do in-game that isn't build CC outside of it to hustle inside of it or to invest enormous time and energy in making more of the building blocks of the game to create your own mini-empire game.
It is my understanding that giving players more to do by making EA-Land the platform for a bunch of games and not just the former TSO is the ultimate goal. I think the devs are headed toward where you are, it's just going to take some time to get there.
I'm not going to encourage you to make something of what you have, because that's like saying you are hungry and someone else telling you to go grow a potato. But the game doesn't demand you stay in while you are disenchanted or on a boring bit. Breaks are good for the soul ... and this game looks like it's going to be around when you are ready to come back to it.
My two cents, anyway.
I'm tired of being called stupid and selfish. I don't need the personal attacks, just because I want more fun in the game. So sorry that I have an opinion, guess mine don't matter.
I won't be posting anymore for a while because I am NOT stupid, or selfish. I just want to have fun in a game that I pay for and not wait until next year for that to happen.
So sorry that my posts are annoying to many here. I will be the one in the background listening to the whiners when they close the game because one too many people canceled their account and is no longer plausible for EA to upgrade.
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I don't think you are stupid or selfish. I understand that you want something more to do in-game that isn't build CC outside of it to hustle inside of it or to invest enormous time and energy in making more of the building blocks of the game to create your own mini-empire game.
It is my understanding that giving players more to do by making EA-Land the platform for a bunch of games and not just the former TSO is the ultimate goal. I think the devs are headed toward where you are, it's just going to take some time to get there.
I'm not going to encourage you to make something of what you have, because that's like saying you are hungry and someone else telling you to go grow a potato. But the game doesn't demand you stay in while you are disenchanted or on a boring bit. Breaks are good for the soul ... and this game looks like it's going to be around when you are ready to come back to it.
My two cents, anyway.
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Check this out. From A glimpse into the future thread, Greg posted:
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ooh. yep if the ladies get a beauty shop the guys gotta get a race track!
But not just an auto racetrack. It should be dog and cat races too. Or maybe dog races and cat herding
Aside from the sims1 list, objects or fun stuff that we have floated or discussed (no particular order) : scriptable custom content (the most important imo), liar's dice, card games (cribbage, old maid, ???), trivia, tournament mode multi-player objects (e.g pizza team vs. pizza team), tournament builder/manager, job objects available and able to be re-skinned (e.g. factory conveyor belt might be useful for the race track), printing press and real newspapers, 'real' tvs (e.g. podcast) and radios (internet radio, standing playlist,...), extreme make over (e.g. change my head), clothes as objects (inventory, reskinning), architecture as objects (inventory, reskinning), mannequins, auction blocks, consignment blocks, for sale signs, calendar, new pets & pet breeding & pet mini-games, and more... including a pointy stick (by request). Many of these came directly or evolved from the game wiki - and there are even more suggestions there.
The priorities we hope to drive to (in order):
1 Entertainment
2 Social
3 Custom Content
4 Economy (objects, currency, skills)
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ooh. yep if the ladies get a beauty shop the guys gotta get a race track!
But not just an auto racetrack. It should be dog and cat races too. Or maybe dog races and cat herding
Aside from the sims1 list, objects or fun stuff that we have floated or discussed (no particular order) : scriptable custom content (the most important imo), liar's dice, card games (cribbage, old maid, ???), trivia, tournament mode multi-player objects (e.g pizza team vs. pizza team), tournament builder/manager, job objects available and able to be re-skinned (e.g. factory conveyor belt might be useful for the race track), printing press and real newspapers, 'real' tvs (e.g. podcast) and radios (internet radio, standing playlist,...), extreme make over (e.g. change my head), clothes as objects (inventory, reskinning), architecture as objects (inventory, reskinning), mannequins, auction blocks, consignment blocks, for sale signs, calendar, new pets & pet breeding & pet mini-games, and more... including a pointy stick (by request). Many of these came directly or evolved from the game wiki - and there are even more suggestions there.
The priorities we hope to drive to (in order):
1 Entertainment
2 Social
3 Custom Content
4 Economy (objects, currency, skills)
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Yes you do need TS1 in order to do CC. There is a list of other required programs which are free on Thrills tutorial.
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I gave away my TS1 - who knew???
Yes you do need TS1 in order to do CC. There is a list of other required programs which are free on Thrills tutorial.
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I gave away my TS1 - who knew???
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Anyone can learn CC. We do beginner classes on Sunday, we just finished this weeks class. No one can know if they cant learn unless they try.
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Wow, is something I need. Can non computer people figure out to make cc. Will there be more classes? How do u find out about the classes? What do we need before taking the classes? Could there be a post about this. This nugget of info is kind of lost in this post.
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That's why there's a whole section related to CC and a sticky about the scheduled classes at the top of it.
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Anyone can learn CC. We do beginner classes on Sunday, we just finished this weeks class. No one can know if they cant learn unless they try.
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Wow, is something I need. Can non computer people figure out to make cc. Will there be more classes? How do u find out about the classes? What do we need before taking the classes? Could there be a post about this. This nugget of info is kind of lost in this post.
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That's why there's a whole section related to CC and a sticky about the scheduled classes at the top of it.
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I want to know where the fun is in the game now?
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
I want to know where the fun is in the game now?
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
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The game is fun, its just going through a tough time.
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The game is fun, its just going through a tough time.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
The game is fun, its just going through a tough time.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I've always been the type to play just one sim, with the occasional use a 2nd account as storage or trading. For the past 5 years all my goals were focused on 1 sim, I just don't care about the other 7 spots...to spend time working on them...Maybe I should...I don't know, most of them look the same lol.
My 1 main sim has 110 skill locks and enough trees to fill the rest. I have spent the last 2 years crafting, kind of bored with that. Not to mention I have two full lots of crafted items that I can't sell because running a store is a big pain!
Ok...maybe if I play one of the others, I might find something to do...but then I think about the sim work I'm missing, the CC I'm not working on, the carnival I don't have prizes for yet...and I stop having fun with that other sim.
But once I sign on that 1 sim to accomplish what I thought about, I suddenly have NO interest. Been there done that feeling kicks in. lol. I think I'm in a rut.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I've always been the type to play just one sim, with the occasional use a 2nd account as storage or trading. For the past 5 years all my goals were focused on 1 sim, I just don't care about the other 7 spots...to spend time working on them...Maybe I should...I don't know, most of them look the same lol.
My 1 main sim has 110 skill locks and enough trees to fill the rest. I have spent the last 2 years crafting, kind of bored with that. Not to mention I have two full lots of crafted items that I can't sell because running a store is a big pain!
Ok...maybe if I play one of the others, I might find something to do...but then I think about the sim work I'm missing, the CC I'm not working on, the carnival I don't have prizes for yet...and I stop having fun with that other sim.
But once I sign on that 1 sim to accomplish what I thought about, I suddenly have NO interest. Been there done that feeling kicks in. lol. I think I'm in a rut.
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Trying to keep goals and my lack of fun separate. lol. Hopefully the goals will give me ideas, but I was interested in other ppls goals also, seeing how people are making it through this tough time. You did say:
Post on the boards.
Play with my membership at Pogo.
Read the blog.
Read the Wiki and daydream over the neat ideas and ponder whether or not they are realistic.
Play TS2.
or of course you could work on custom content for EAL
My problem is:
When I'm slow at work I read the boards and blog till I'm blue in the face. When I get home I want to play!
Custom content can be fun, I've done some I'm very proud of, but I usually weigh the time it takes to complete the item with how popular it will or wont be. We don't need another flower pot statue IMO.
I don't have a pogo account, and don't want one. lol.
I play xbox 360, and since I started about 2 weeks ago was when my rut started. I got off the 360 for some EAL time and immediately realized I'd been sheltering myself from other fun to stay dedicated to my sim. lol. I don't know how literal I mean that because I have always enjoyed TSO. But I had soooo much fun playing on the 360 that I wondered why I even waste my time with my sim as I'm not finding it much fun.
Since then I have not been my normal sim self...
Post on the boards.
Play with my membership at Pogo.
Read the blog.
Read the Wiki and daydream over the neat ideas and ponder whether or not they are realistic.
Play TS2.
or of course you could work on custom content for EAL
My problem is:
When I'm slow at work I read the boards and blog till I'm blue in the face. When I get home I want to play!
Custom content can be fun, I've done some I'm very proud of, but I usually weigh the time it takes to complete the item with how popular it will or wont be. We don't need another flower pot statue IMO.
I don't have a pogo account, and don't want one. lol.
I play xbox 360, and since I started about 2 weeks ago was when my rut started. I got off the 360 for some EAL time and immediately realized I'd been sheltering myself from other fun to stay dedicated to my sim. lol. I don't know how literal I mean that because I have always enjoyed TSO. But I had soooo much fun playing on the 360 that I wondered why I even waste my time with my sim as I'm not finding it much fun.
Since then I have not been my normal sim self...
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I've always been the type to play just one sim, with the occasional use a 2nd account as storage or trading. For the past 5 years all my goals were focused on 1 sim, I just don't care about the other 7 spots...to spend time working on them...Maybe I should...I don't know, most of them look the same lol.
My 1 main sim has 110 skill locks and enough trees to fill the rest. I have spent the last 2 years crafting, kind of bored with that. Not to mention I have two full lots of crafted items that I can't sell because running a store is a big pain!
Ok...maybe if I play one of the others, I might find something to do...but then I think about the sim work I'm missing, the CC I'm not working on, the carnival I don't have prizes for yet...and I stop having fun with that other sim.
But once I sign on that 1 sim to accomplish what I thought about, I suddenly have NO interest. Been there done that feeling kicks in. lol. I think I'm in a rut.
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You could be. It could be that its time to take a couple weeks off and play TS2. I've never had a problem with people taking breaks from the game whenever they need to, and that alone is not going to be harmful for the game, either. What will harm the game is if people hit the "Cancel Subscriptoin" button while they take those breaks.....but there's no rule that says you *have* to log in every single day just to keep your subscription.....alot of people say they're not going to pay for something that they aren't playing but its only $10 a month......you can barely feed 2 people at McDonald's one time for that amount without picking from the $1 menu anymore, so I just hope that more people will take breaks when they need them but not be so quick to cancel their subscriptions when things are NOT in their final stage of development. We've gotten reassurances from Greg and Sarah that if they see things are not working the way they predicted they would, they will change them, so for now I gotta have faith in that. It hasn't even been 72 hours yet, and people are already just up in arms "screw it I quit!!!!'
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I've always been the type to play just one sim, with the occasional use a 2nd account as storage or trading. For the past 5 years all my goals were focused on 1 sim, I just don't care about the other 7 spots...to spend time working on them...Maybe I should...I don't know, most of them look the same lol.
My 1 main sim has 110 skill locks and enough trees to fill the rest. I have spent the last 2 years crafting, kind of bored with that. Not to mention I have two full lots of crafted items that I can't sell because running a store is a big pain!
Ok...maybe if I play one of the others, I might find something to do...but then I think about the sim work I'm missing, the CC I'm not working on, the carnival I don't have prizes for yet...and I stop having fun with that other sim.
But once I sign on that 1 sim to accomplish what I thought about, I suddenly have NO interest. Been there done that feeling kicks in. lol. I think I'm in a rut.
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You could be. It could be that its time to take a couple weeks off and play TS2. I've never had a problem with people taking breaks from the game whenever they need to, and that alone is not going to be harmful for the game, either. What will harm the game is if people hit the "Cancel Subscriptoin" button while they take those breaks.....but there's no rule that says you *have* to log in every single day just to keep your subscription.....alot of people say they're not going to pay for something that they aren't playing but its only $10 a month......you can barely feed 2 people at McDonald's one time for that amount without picking from the $1 menu anymore, so I just hope that more people will take breaks when they need them but not be so quick to cancel their subscriptions when things are NOT in their final stage of development. We've gotten reassurances from Greg and Sarah that if they see things are not working the way they predicted they would, they will change them, so for now I gotta have faith in that. It hasn't even been 72 hours yet, and people are already just up in arms "screw it I quit!!!!'
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
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Maybe I am not doing you any favors by saying this, but did you know there is a sequel to VV -- "The Lost Children?" YEAH
Same simple game, but new things to do and discover.
VV is engaging because you must multi-task ("hey, slacker, get back to that berry bush NOW!"), attention to detail pays off ("Mushroom! get over there kid!") and you have many variables on game play (start off easy or hard? how many on each task? make babies or wait?). Think about how much that "simple" game offers.
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
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Maybe I am not doing you any favors by saying this, but did you know there is a sequel to VV -- "The Lost Children?" YEAH
VV is engaging because you must multi-task ("hey, slacker, get back to that berry bush NOW!"), attention to detail pays off ("Mushroom! get over there kid!") and you have many variables on game play (start off easy or hard? how many on each task? make babies or wait?). Think about how much that "simple" game offers.
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I want to know where the fun is in the game now?
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
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Maybe I am not doing you any favors by saying this, but did you know there is a sequel to VV -- "The Lost Children?" YEAH
Same simple game, but new things to do and discover.
VV is engaging because you must multi-task ("hey, slacker, get back to that berry bush NOW!"), attention to detail pays off ("Mushroom! get over there kid!") and you have many variables on game play (start off easy or hard? how many on each task? make babies or wait?). Think about how much that "simple" game offers.
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LOL yea I have both, Lost Children is the one I'm replaying, this time on hard, and paused when Im at work lol. I came home a couple times to see all but one dead, so using that pause button while I wait for Chapter 3 of VV to come out...whenever that is lol.
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Ok first, I'm not saying the game won't become fun again, or some things aren't fun or any of that.
However, I have been playing virtual villagers lately. I did about a year ago and completed them, but never uninstalled them. For anyone who doesn't know, VV is the most simple type game you could ever find. lol. Not much too it at all. Anyway, I am having more fun with VV than I am in EAL lately.
So when VV becomes more fun than EAL, I see a problem....
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Maybe I am not doing you any favors by saying this, but did you know there is a sequel to VV -- "The Lost Children?" YEAH
VV is engaging because you must multi-task ("hey, slacker, get back to that berry bush NOW!"), attention to detail pays off ("Mushroom! get over there kid!") and you have many variables on game play (start off easy or hard? how many on each task? make babies or wait?). Think about how much that "simple" game offers.
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LOL yea I have both, Lost Children is the one I'm replaying, this time on hard, and paused when Im at work lol. I came home a couple times to see all but one dead, so using that pause button while I wait for Chapter 3 of VV to come out...whenever that is lol.
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OK. You asked for an idea. Here is something that has worked for me in the past when none of my bookmarks were lit, and get to feeling there is no point: find little dots on the map where there are only one or two sims, and drop in. There are a tremendous number of players who are not in the main stream, who do not leave their properties much or who are so new they are still finding their way. If you are blessed with excess "stuff" from the recent merge, make use of it by presenting new players with gifts.
Now that the map is so huge, you should have no shortage of "little red dots."
Now that the map is so huge, you should have no shortage of "little red dots."
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Yea, I'll try that tonight
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Ill tell ya what fun is.... (for me at least lol)
- Making CC, and running a shop
- Visiting many different houses, looking at the nice designs and kind people
- Skilling, making money and talk sh*t
- Go to sim work, just for the fun and social, and u dont got nothing else to do
- Throw a BIG simparty!!!
- Talk to other sims (yes I said sims lol) and make new friends
- Laugh at all the newbs comming to your lot and trying to type: Klapausius or Rosebud
- Get into a BIG discussion on whats going on in the game and whats gonna happen to it.
- Talk to Parizad in private *wink wink*
- Toby Maxwell
Chyyyeah, im sure i forgot alot of things, but what im trying to say is:
Its as much fun as you want it to be, and as boring as you want it to be..
Its all what you make it yourself too..
So go live the happy and fun simlife, and find all the goods you dident before..
- Making CC, and running a shop
- Visiting many different houses, looking at the nice designs and kind people
- Skilling, making money and talk sh*t
- Go to sim work, just for the fun and social, and u dont got nothing else to do
- Throw a BIG simparty!!!
- Talk to other sims (yes I said sims lol) and make new friends
- Laugh at all the newbs comming to your lot and trying to type: Klapausius or Rosebud
- Get into a BIG discussion on whats going on in the game and whats gonna happen to it.
- Talk to Parizad in private *wink wink*
- Toby Maxwell
Chyyyeah, im sure i forgot alot of things, but what im trying to say is:
Its as much fun as you want it to be, and as boring as you want it to be..
Its all what you make it yourself too..
So go live the happy and fun simlife, and find all the goods you dident before..
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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Go afk and watch a good movie.
On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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Go afk and watch a good movie.
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Lets not be honest or anything...
Go afk and watch a good movie.
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Lets not be honest or anything...
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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LOL I love getting on my male sim and getting to pee in the urinal. I take him to a fun house and ignore all the girls that hit on him and sit with the one who seems to be alone. Don't flirt or anything just talk and pay attention to them to try to get them more involved, I even IM them to let them know I am a girl sometimes so they aren't creeped out. He is a gentleman, just can't bring myself to act like SOME of the other men sims lol.
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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LOL Wow, putting a disclaimer in the profile for RPing....
I've never had a bad experience RPing and I still made really good friends from it, people I'm still in contact with since the UO Beta days.
I think it's all in how you look at it to begin with. Which I think is a big problem with the "fun" factor, those coming in with the expectation that everyone is going to be themselves and thus, come in being themselves . I see a game, with cartoon simmies, living in a pretend world. I don't go in thinking people will be themselves. After all, its a pretend world. I don't come in to the game with the intention of meeting friends, that's just a bonus, and happens eventually (no need to rush things imo). I come in with the intention of having fun and escaping real life by acting out a life I don't really have. In 20+ years of RPing, I've found that those you like to RP with, do end up becoming really good life long friends.
Playing a gorilla, robot, bear, zombie, fairy, pirate, that's not RPing, acting like one is. Honestly, do you think all those people in the "Mafias" are really in a mafia? Obviously not. At least they're one step closer to actually RPing, I haven't seen any formal interaction between family members and the Dons. But they could be limiting those actions to their own houses, since I don't see a lot of other people allowing RPing in their houses (aka the "No Drama" houses). But for anyone reading this, my house is open to all RPers, drama or no drama.
The difference between good RPers and liars, you can tell when someone is obviously RPing, you can't tell with liars and they are just liars, not RPers. RPing something too close to real life, IMO, is just plain ridiculous unless you are being utterly flamboyant about it.
I want to hear what happened in Britannia today, I want to hear how the latest attempt to kill Baal in the Barbarian Highlands went and I want to hear what the latest drama was on the Bloodmyst Isles. But do it in character. Treat EA Land as if it were a neutral world for everyone to congregate.
RPing seems to be a lost art. Very sad, RPing brought loads of entertainment to those who were actively RPing and those who were just witnessing it.
If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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LOL Wow, putting a disclaimer in the profile for RPing....
I've never had a bad experience RPing and I still made really good friends from it, people I'm still in contact with since the UO Beta days.
I think it's all in how you look at it to begin with. Which I think is a big problem with the "fun" factor, those coming in with the expectation that everyone is going to be themselves and thus, come in being themselves . I see a game, with cartoon simmies, living in a pretend world. I don't go in thinking people will be themselves. After all, its a pretend world. I don't come in to the game with the intention of meeting friends, that's just a bonus, and happens eventually (no need to rush things imo). I come in with the intention of having fun and escaping real life by acting out a life I don't really have. In 20+ years of RPing, I've found that those you like to RP with, do end up becoming really good life long friends.
Playing a gorilla, robot, bear, zombie, fairy, pirate, that's not RPing, acting like one is. Honestly, do you think all those people in the "Mafias" are really in a mafia? Obviously not. At least they're one step closer to actually RPing, I haven't seen any formal interaction between family members and the Dons. But they could be limiting those actions to their own houses, since I don't see a lot of other people allowing RPing in their houses (aka the "No Drama" houses). But for anyone reading this, my house is open to all RPers, drama or no drama.
The difference between good RPers and liars, you can tell when someone is obviously RPing, you can't tell with liars and they are just liars, not RPers. RPing something too close to real life, IMO, is just plain ridiculous unless you are being utterly flamboyant about it.
I want to hear what happened in Britannia today, I want to hear how the latest attempt to kill Baal in the Barbarian Highlands went and I want to hear what the latest drama was on the Bloodmyst Isles. But do it in character. Treat EA Land as if it were a neutral world for everyone to congregate.
RPing seems to be a lost art. Very sad, RPing brought loads of entertainment to those who were actively RPing and those who were just witnessing it.
If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I don't know if it has changed but crafting was the thing I enjoyed most and the last time I went to craft the cost of making the items was real high not to mention I still have many crafted items on my lot that are just not selling. I even have an equal amount of RIP crafts. I gave up on it because the economy doesnt yield enough sim money to allow me to do this anymore. I tried the CC as well and it just isn't my cup of tea. I'm just not a very creative person. I would love to see some new interactive things be brought into the game as well. Kind of like out with the old, and in with the new kind of thing. The game has gotten boring for me as well but i'm going to wait it out and see what developes.
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Ok, tell me how I can have fun, so I don't have to watch my villagers. lol. I am serious. Please, give me some ideas! I need them!
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Set yourself a goal in the game, and work to achieve it.
Jitterbugging with bears is good. Make a goal to jitterbug with at least 20 bears a day.
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What if I lose count? Do I have to start all over or can I just cheat?
Honestly I'm all goaled up. You name it I've done it...besides your bear goal, so...um...yea why don't you list a few more. You must think outside of the box I can't find the top to.
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Coordinate your skills on your sims so that you can do custom crafting since that is money you can earn above and beyond your 3k a week. I sat down with pen and paper one night while hubby was on teh computer and gave each sim 3 skills and have been slowly working those sims up toward that goal. 3 sims are now completely skilled up. If you're doing this in EA Land you have 2 more sims to work on so you might even be able to coordinate it so that not all 8 sims would need 3 skills, some might only need 2, I'm not sure. But that is a large goal that would keep you occupied while all the changes with moneymaking are going on.
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I don't know if it has changed but crafting was the thing I enjoyed most and the last time I went to craft the cost of making the items was real high not to mention I still have many crafted items on my lot that are just not selling. I even have an equal amount of RIP crafts. I gave up on it because the economy doesnt yield enough sim money to allow me to do this anymore. I tried the CC as well and it just isn't my cup of tea. I'm just not a very creative person. I would love to see some new interactive things be brought into the game as well. Kind of like out with the old, and in with the new kind of thing. The game has gotten boring for me as well but i'm going to wait it out and see what developes.
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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LOL Wow, putting a disclaimer in the profile for RPing....
I've never had a bad experience RPing and I still made really good friends from it, people I'm still in contact with since the UO Beta days.
I think it's all in how you look at it to begin with. Which I think is a big problem with the "fun" factor, those coming in with the expectation that everyone is going to be themselves and thus, come in being themselves . I see a game, with cartoon simmies, living in a pretend world. I don't go in thinking people will be themselves. After all, its a pretend world. I don't come in to the game with the intention of meeting friends, that's just a bonus, and happens eventually (no need to rush things imo). I come in with the intention of having fun and escaping real life by acting out a life I don't really have. In 20+ years of RPing, I've found that those you like to RP with, do end up becoming really good life long friends.
Playing a gorilla, robot, bear, zombie, fairy, pirate, that's not RPing, acting like one is. Honestly, do you think all those people in the "Mafias" are really in a mafia? Obviously not. At least they're one step closer to actually RPing, I haven't seen any formal interaction between family members and the Dons. But they could be limiting those actions to their own houses, since I don't see a lot of other people allowing RPing in their houses (aka the "No Drama" houses). But for anyone reading this, my house is open to all RPers, drama or no drama.
The difference between good RPers and liars, you can tell when someone is obviously RPing, you can't tell with liars and they are just liars, not RPers. RPing something too close to real life, IMO, is just plain ridiculous unless you are being utterly flamboyant about it.
I want to hear what happened in Britannia today, I want to hear how the latest attempt to kill Baal in the Barbarian Highlands went and I want to hear what the latest drama was on the Bloodmyst Isles. But do it in character. Treat EA Land as if it were a neutral world for everyone to congregate.
RPing seems to be a lost art. Very sad, RPing brought loads of entertainment to those who were actively RPing and those who were just witnessing it.
If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?
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Wow, this is such a great point. When I first started playing this game, I went in totally expecting to just role play. I kept my RL to myself because ... well, I assumed that wasn't supposed to be a part of it, really.
I had male sims, bear and robot sims. The more I played, though, the more it seemed that people played as themselves. Like you said, if there was a "police officer" sim, acting like a police officer, like I remember seeing one day, they were treated as kind of crazy and ignored. I took my cues from that and put myself out there a bit more. I still do guard some information about myself, but otherwise, I'm pretty much out there. What you see is what you get.
I've forgotten that the whole point of this game is to pretend, to role play.
Thanks for that reminder.
It's something to think on.
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On March 20, I returned to this game after an 18 month hiatus. I was so unprepared for the merge but I had totally lost interest in the old game and didn't bother to even log into my accounts. During my time away, I paid for 2 accounts so I would not loose my skills and some meaningful things like sims, rare pets, houses, anniversary gifts, etc.
Today is April 12 and after about 3 weeks of reconnecting with old friends, making new friends, skilling, crafting, mazing, pizzaing, coding, and making bitmap images, I am bored.
What are those of you that are enjoying this new game doing to have fun? Obviously, if I paid for 2 accounts for all those months without playing, I don't really want to completely cut ties with TSO/EALand. I really WANT to like this game. Any suggestions other that making cc? What is the most fun for you?
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I created a character who strictly roleplays, there's no real life aspect to her at all. Unfortunately, I haven't found anyone else who role plays (on TC3). Everyone seems hellbent on being themselves in game these days and I find that a little dull.
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I just never have gotten into the 'full' RP bit. I mean, I've RPed situations that I wouldn't really be involved in in RL, but underneath it all, in the words of Popeye.....I am what I am. In fact, hubby has given me permission to play his account since he's had TS2-mania lately and I haven't even really logged it in much to skill.....why, because they are all male sims and I'm not male LOL. I've just found it more enjoyable to be myself and make good friendships in-game, and its hard to build friendships with people if the whole start of the friendship is basically based on a lie, so if I was to have an RP sim I'd have to have it on my profile *RP sim, opinions and actions of this sim may or may not be in line with the thoughts and behaviors of the human operating it* or something.....I've seen bad things come about when one person is RPing and the other person involved thinks it's for real. I dunno, maybe I've just let previous bad experiences cloud my judgement on it.
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LOL Wow, putting a disclaimer in the profile for RPing....
I've never had a bad experience RPing and I still made really good friends from it, people I'm still in contact with since the UO Beta days.
I think it's all in how you look at it to begin with. Which I think is a big problem with the "fun" factor, those coming in with the expectation that everyone is going to be themselves and thus, come in being themselves . I see a game, with cartoon simmies, living in a pretend world. I don't go in thinking people will be themselves. After all, its a pretend world. I don't come in to the game with the intention of meeting friends, that's just a bonus, and happens eventually (no need to rush things imo). I come in with the intention of having fun and escaping real life by acting out a life I don't really have. In 20+ years of RPing, I've found that those you like to RP with, do end up becoming really good life long friends.
Playing a gorilla, robot, bear, zombie, fairy, pirate, that's not RPing, acting like one is. Honestly, do you think all those people in the "Mafias" are really in a mafia? Obviously not. At least they're one step closer to actually RPing, I haven't seen any formal interaction between family members and the Dons. But they could be limiting those actions to their own houses, since I don't see a lot of other people allowing RPing in their houses (aka the "No Drama" houses). But for anyone reading this, my house is open to all RPers, drama or no drama.
The difference between good RPers and liars, you can tell when someone is obviously RPing, you can't tell with liars and they are just liars, not RPers. RPing something too close to real life, IMO, is just plain ridiculous unless you are being utterly flamboyant about it.
I want to hear what happened in Britannia today, I want to hear how the latest attempt to kill Baal in the Barbarian Highlands went and I want to hear what the latest drama was on the Bloodmyst Isles. But do it in character. Treat EA Land as if it were a neutral world for everyone to congregate.
RPing seems to be a lost art. Very sad, RPing brought loads of entertainment to those who were actively RPing and those who were just witnessing it.
If someone in a fairy outfit came into the house "sprinkling" fairy dust all over the place and talked about how the Queen of the Faries was getting married to the King of the Elves, would you (generalizng) not laugh or at least chuckle? Or would you say that person was crazy and then complain until that person was booted from the house?
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Wow, this is such a great point. When I first started playing this game, I went in totally expecting to just role play. I kept my RL to myself because ... well, I assumed that wasn't supposed to be a part of it, really.
I had male sims, bear and robot sims. The more I played, though, the more it seemed that people played as themselves. Like you said, if there was a "police officer" sim, acting like a police officer, like I remember seeing one day, they were treated as kind of crazy and ignored. I took my cues from that and put myself out there a bit more. I still do guard some information about myself, but otherwise, I'm pretty much out there. What you see is what you get.
I've forgotten that the whole point of this game is to pretend, to role play.
Thanks for that reminder.
It's something to think on.
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sometimes it's fun to make a "good looking" male sim and let the IMs pour in, (hi, how ru? How old ru?) -- then leave and bring in a very "ugly" male sim. Poor guy just sits there alllll alone -- doesn't get a single IM!!
The "ugly" guy finds it harder to get songs and food too!
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ok i do have to comment on the fun,i love the game and was addicted to it but now i like the game and have no trouble logging off.the $ situation had got everyone in a rut.not 2%,everyone.i am patiently waiting it out because im constantly hearing what fun the game will be.but honestly the devs can do more to make the fun now i go in ea on a weekend and see houses empty less and less people are on here everyday.when they first lowered $ but had pizza contests or other things going on people dealt but when u sit there day after day just having to make enough money to get through day it becomes work.its not the $10 we pay its the fact we are no longer paying to play we are paying to work.just do away with the cash out option anf let us get on with the game.and as was mentioned before we did end up with alot of money sitting around before because of nothing to spend on mostly because of limits.i personally had house limit full and kept inventory full every chance i got to shop.lift limits on houses do away with cash out option and let us get back to playing game instead of waiting til we can play game.
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Wow, this is such a great point. When I first started playing this game, I went in totally expecting to just role play. I kept my RL to myself because ... well, I assumed that wasn't supposed to be a part of it, really.
I had male sims, bear and robot sims. The more I played, though, the more it seemed that people played as themselves. Like you said, if there was a "police officer" sim, acting like a police officer, like I remember seeing one day, they were treated as kind of crazy and ignored. I took my cues from that and put myself out there a bit more. I still do guard some information about myself, but otherwise, I'm pretty much out there. What you see is what you get.
I've forgotten that the whole point of this game is to pretend, to role play.
Thanks for that reminder.
It's something to think on.
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Thank you Rafficat, for getting my point.
For others, I mean, a perfect example of a role player, is Simon the Mime. He never talked, just used smileys, he dressd AND acted like a Mime and people LOVED that. Then he went away, but last I heard, he came back. I haven't seen him on TC3 so I'm assuming he's on EA Land.
People want to be AFK during skilling, people want to focus instead on the economy and making money.
There's more out there you can utilize and create in the game aside from skills and money. Open a lot specifically for funerals, be an undertaker who's just a little too happy about his/her job. Open a pirate tavern so people can come in and act or talk like pirates. Those of you with skills and like music, be band members of a super rock group and spread your notoriety by being really good at band, who cares if there's no payout, there's still music coming from it! You can hire yourself out for parties, have your own band set that you loan to the owner for the time you play, participate in a Battle of the Bands. Open a hot doggin, 50's style resturant where people can come in and act like they still live in the 50's, where Elvis, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are still alive. Be a comedian! Have comedy nights on your property and invite said comedians. The better you are at jokes, the more likely people will want you to come over. Last night I decided to have poetry readings on my property, the one in my sig, because this guy came in who said he was a poet, he told me a poem, his sim ACTED depressed while he did the poem, when he was done, my sim applauded him and his sim did happy actions. I remember there were Jails on Interhogan. You willlingly went there and made your sim act unwilling to go to jail, they locked you in a room until someone came to bail you out. The cops even made house calls. If someone was ACTING unruly (and was a willing participant), you called the cops, one showed up on the property to take the unruly sim away and the sim would follow the cop to the jail, pleading their innocence until their throats went sore. Mind you, it was a success because people were willing to participate! BE a willing participant!
I'll stop there. There's so much more but you have to use your own imagination. Maybe the fun will come back eventually, when money and skills aren't the main focus in the game.
Wait, before I forget, roleplayers everyone knows, DJs!! Look at Insane Asylum Radio, they DJ from their homes, they act like DJs because they want to be DJs so they've made themselves DJs by playing the part and people LOVE them. They are roleplaying, how many of them are actually broadcasting from a bona fide radio station? Not a lot. I knew a couple who broadcasted on independent pirate radios that you could pick up on a real radio, but the majority were just people sitting in their homes in front of a computer.
Ok, I'm done. Getting off the soapbox. (<--- minor RPing example, was I really standing on a soap box, no, but I acted like I was
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Wow, this is such a great point. When I first started playing this game, I went in totally expecting to just role play. I kept my RL to myself because ... well, I assumed that wasn't supposed to be a part of it, really.
I had male sims, bear and robot sims. The more I played, though, the more it seemed that people played as themselves. Like you said, if there was a "police officer" sim, acting like a police officer, like I remember seeing one day, they were treated as kind of crazy and ignored. I took my cues from that and put myself out there a bit more. I still do guard some information about myself, but otherwise, I'm pretty much out there. What you see is what you get.
I've forgotten that the whole point of this game is to pretend, to role play.
Thanks for that reminder.
It's something to think on.
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Thank you Rafficat, for getting my point.
For others, I mean, a perfect example of a role player, is Simon the Mime. He never talked, just used smileys, he dressd AND acted like a Mime and people LOVED that. Then he went away, but last I heard, he came back. I haven't seen him on TC3 so I'm assuming he's on EA Land.
People want to be AFK during skilling, people want to focus instead on the economy and making money.
There's more out there you can utilize and create in the game aside from skills and money. Open a lot specifically for funerals, be an undertaker who's just a little too happy about his/her job. Open a pirate tavern so people can come in and act or talk like pirates. Those of you with skills and like music, be band members of a super rock group and spread your notoriety by being really good at band, who cares if there's no payout, there's still music coming from it! You can hire yourself out for parties, have your own band set that you loan to the owner for the time you play, participate in a Battle of the Bands. Open a hot doggin, 50's style resturant where people can come in and act like they still live in the 50's, where Elvis, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are still alive. Be a comedian! Have comedy nights on your property and invite said comedians. The better you are at jokes, the more likely people will want you to come over. Last night I decided to have poetry readings on my property, the one in my sig, because this guy came in who said he was a poet, he told me a poem, his sim ACTED depressed while he did the poem, when he was done, my sim applauded him and his sim did happy actions. I remember there were Jails on Interhogan. You willlingly went there and made your sim act unwilling to go to jail, they locked you in a room until someone came to bail you out. The cops even made house calls. If someone was ACTING unruly (and was a willing participant), you called the cops, one showed up on the property to take the unruly sim away and the sim would follow the cop to the jail, pleading their innocence until their throats went sore. Mind you, it was a success because people were willing to participate! BE a willing participant!
I'll stop there. There's so much more but you have to use your own imagination. Maybe the fun will come back eventually, when money and skills aren't the main focus in the game.
Wait, before I forget, roleplayers everyone knows, DJs!! Look at Insane Asylum Radio, they DJ from their homes, they act like DJs because they want to be DJs so they've made themselves DJs by playing the part and people LOVE them. They are roleplaying, how many of them are actually broadcasting from a bona fide radio station? Not a lot. I knew a couple who broadcasted on independent pirate radios that you could pick up on a real radio, but the majority were just people sitting in their homes in front of a computer.
Ok, I'm done. Getting off the soapbox. (<--- minor RPing example, was I really standing on a soap box, no, but I acted like I was
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sometimes it's fun to make a "good looking" male sim and let the IMs pour in, (hi, how ru? How old ru?) -- then leave and bring in a very "ugly" male sim. Poor guy just sits there alllll alone -- doesn't get a single IM!!
The "ugly" guy finds it harder to get songs and food too!
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LOL how true this is. I have a male sim I play and he gets IM's from time to time and I just laugh if someone has a fetish for the cute cartoons just because of the way it looks. Its a damn cartoon for crying out loud. LOL... I never respond by anything more than a hello and if I get the kiddies who put in the ASL? I don't even answer.
sometimes it's fun to make a "good looking" male sim and let the IMs pour in, (hi, how ru? How old ru?) -- then leave and bring in a very "ugly" male sim. Poor guy just sits there alllll alone -- doesn't get a single IM!!
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LOL how true this is. I have a male sim I play and he gets IM's from time to time and I just laugh if someone has a fetish for the cute cartoons just because of the way it looks. Its a damn cartoon for crying out loud. LOL... I never respond by anything more than a hello and if I get the kiddies who put in the ASL? I don't even answer.
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Now that is how to use a soap box!
The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.
Some of the great rp's I remember....a former roomie created a male dressed in a brown uniform, with the name 'Verizon man' and dropped into random houses and said....."can you hear me now?"
A player dressed as a shirtless fat guy and called Homeless Bob, went around asking to sleep on peoples benches and doing the 'melt down' and 'heebie jeebies' interactions. He got booted a lot.
Some one dressed as Ma Hicks (offline game) who acted and talked like Maxine (from the greeting cards).
And lots of others. They tried to roleplay, but it is hard to spend enough hours on the game to skill & make friends for the full set of interactions, while staying completely in character.
The early days of Betaville were full of totally dis-fun-ctional families, wild characters and hysterical family names.
One of the things I looked forward to with the merge and playing (when they fix it so we can play more than one at a time) multi-avatars in one city is the opportunity to make 'characters' out of secondary sims, that do not have to focus so on skilling and money making, but can just be funky and fun and silly.
The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.
Some of the great rp's I remember....a former roomie created a male dressed in a brown uniform, with the name 'Verizon man' and dropped into random houses and said....."can you hear me now?"
A player dressed as a shirtless fat guy and called Homeless Bob, went around asking to sleep on peoples benches and doing the 'melt down' and 'heebie jeebies' interactions. He got booted a lot.
Some one dressed as Ma Hicks (offline game) who acted and talked like Maxine (from the greeting cards).
And lots of others. They tried to roleplay, but it is hard to spend enough hours on the game to skill & make friends for the full set of interactions, while staying completely in character.
The early days of Betaville were full of totally dis-fun-ctional families, wild characters and hysterical family names.
One of the things I looked forward to with the merge and playing (when they fix it so we can play more than one at a time) multi-avatars in one city is the opportunity to make 'characters' out of secondary sims, that do not have to focus so on skilling and money making, but can just be funky and fun and silly.
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Now that is how to use a soap box!
The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.
Some of the great rp's I remember....a former roomie created a male dressed in a brown uniform, with the name 'Verizon man' and dropped into random houses and said....."can you hear me now?"
A player dressed as a shirtless fat guy and called Homeless Bob, went around asking to sleep on peoples benches and doing the 'melt down' and 'heebie jeebies' interactions. He got booted a lot.
Some one dressed as Ma Hicks (offline game) who acted and talked like Maxine (from the greeting cards).
And lots of others. They tried to roleplay, but it is hard to spend enough hours on the game to skill & make friends for the full set of interactions, while staying completely in character.
The early days of Betaville were full of totally dis-fun-ctional families, wild characters and hysterical family names.
One of the things I looked forward to with the merge and playing (when they fix it so we can play more than one at a time) multi-avatars in one city is the opportunity to make 'characters' out of secondary sims, that do not have to focus so on skilling and money making, but can just be funky and fun and silly.
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Now this is the fun stuff..I absolutely love when a cool role player like that comes in and mingles with the people. It is a conversation piece and they can make a person smile if you can just see them for what their doing.
Now that is how to use a soap box!
The pattern card for Simon the Mime, was Testo, the first fully committed mime in TC...even on the message boards, he never broke character...always using smilies and character faces to communicate.
Some of the great rp's I remember....a former roomie created a male dressed in a brown uniform, with the name 'Verizon man' and dropped into random houses and said....."can you hear me now?"
A player dressed as a shirtless fat guy and called Homeless Bob, went around asking to sleep on peoples benches and doing the 'melt down' and 'heebie jeebies' interactions. He got booted a lot.
Some one dressed as Ma Hicks (offline game) who acted and talked like Maxine (from the greeting cards).
And lots of others. They tried to roleplay, but it is hard to spend enough hours on the game to skill & make friends for the full set of interactions, while staying completely in character.
The early days of Betaville were full of totally dis-fun-ctional families, wild characters and hysterical family names.
One of the things I looked forward to with the merge and playing (when they fix it so we can play more than one at a time) multi-avatars in one city is the opportunity to make 'characters' out of secondary sims, that do not have to focus so on skilling and money making, but can just be funky and fun and silly.
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Now this is the fun stuff..I absolutely love when a cool role player like that comes in and mingles with the people. It is a conversation piece and they can make a person smile if you can just see them for what their doing.