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I was confused. Aren't free accounts restricted to TC3 only? Are we talking about after the merge and free accounts will be allowed within the big city? Why not continue to restrict them to TC3. I have some thoughts.
Since TC3 is not participating in the buying and selling of simoleans in real life, and TC3 sims will be unable to move out of TC3, why not let the free account be restricted to TC3 after the merge. They would be able to skill, make money, own lots, experience every bit of what the game would be like...plus test out new things! TC3 is an adequate showing of what the game is like, more adequate then sticking them in EAland with nothing to do, nothing to own and thinking, this is boring...why would I want to pay for this. Sure, they might not run into a lot of people because most of us might be playing within EAland at that time, but that is one of the teasers.... Pay to join everyone in EAland where the fun is at. Who knows, TC3 might still stay nice and populated. I lived in TC for a long time as my main city and enjoyed it.
If TC3 needs to stay open for experienced players to test bugs, and not overpopulated by newbies, maybe the devs can come up with a NewbieLand.... Free accounts can have the ability to make money, skill, no bonus, unable to buy or sell simoleans. When they decide they want to pay to play, they can move their sim to EALand with the same mechanism we move our sims with from city to city. Of course, everything would be wiped upon departure from Newbieland...age and even skill points. This would lower free account abuse from paying customers too. No paying player would have any advantage of creating a sim for a newbie world.
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TC3 sims will eventually be allowed to purchase simoleans from EA. They will not have the cash out feature. However, simoleans have been sold on the blackmarket for years and I am sure this will continue to happen in TC3. The simolean farms will still be in TC3 making money and selling it on the black market.
From what I am reading, the only solution the developers have been able to come up with is to not allow free accounts to produce simoleans in the economy at all. Apparently, they have no way of combatting botters or simolean farmers.
The idea of a free account is to give new players a taste of the game. Although, it doesn't sound like they will have much of a taste at all at this point. With no way to play the economy game in TC3, they will be left to sit around playing a game of chess or whatever kind of board game they can create with our current list of objects and just visiting or chatting with other players.
They will be able to purchase simoleans to buy things. The limited merchandise in game will not hold their attention for long.
Another aspect of the free accounts is the "visitor" feature. You can have friends from anywhere sign up for a free account and they can come visit you while you are playing even if they don't want to play the game themselves. So limiting free accounts to another server would defeat the purpose of sigining up for a visitor account.
Before EALand can be opened to free accounts, there will need to be more things in game for them to do besides play TSO or they won't stick around long enough to even want to subscribe and play the economy game.
I was confused. Aren't free accounts restricted to TC3 only? Are we talking about after the merge and free accounts will be allowed within the big city? Why not continue to restrict them to TC3. I have some thoughts.
Since TC3 is not participating in the buying and selling of simoleans in real life, and TC3 sims will be unable to move out of TC3, why not let the free account be restricted to TC3 after the merge. They would be able to skill, make money, own lots, experience every bit of what the game would be like...plus test out new things! TC3 is an adequate showing of what the game is like, more adequate then sticking them in EAland with nothing to do, nothing to own and thinking, this is boring...why would I want to pay for this. Sure, they might not run into a lot of people because most of us might be playing within EAland at that time, but that is one of the teasers.... Pay to join everyone in EAland where the fun is at. Who knows, TC3 might still stay nice and populated. I lived in TC for a long time as my main city and enjoyed it.
If TC3 needs to stay open for experienced players to test bugs, and not overpopulated by newbies, maybe the devs can come up with a NewbieLand.... Free accounts can have the ability to make money, skill, no bonus, unable to buy or sell simoleans. When they decide they want to pay to play, they can move their sim to EALand with the same mechanism we move our sims with from city to city. Of course, everything would be wiped upon departure from Newbieland...age and even skill points. This would lower free account abuse from paying customers too. No paying player would have any advantage of creating a sim for a newbie world.
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TC3 sims will eventually be allowed to purchase simoleans from EA. They will not have the cash out feature. However, simoleans have been sold on the blackmarket for years and I am sure this will continue to happen in TC3. The simolean farms will still be in TC3 making money and selling it on the black market.
From what I am reading, the only solution the developers have been able to come up with is to not allow free accounts to produce simoleans in the economy at all. Apparently, they have no way of combatting botters or simolean farmers.
The idea of a free account is to give new players a taste of the game. Although, it doesn't sound like they will have much of a taste at all at this point. With no way to play the economy game in TC3, they will be left to sit around playing a game of chess or whatever kind of board game they can create with our current list of objects and just visiting or chatting with other players.
They will be able to purchase simoleans to buy things. The limited merchandise in game will not hold their attention for long.
Another aspect of the free accounts is the "visitor" feature. You can have friends from anywhere sign up for a free account and they can come visit you while you are playing even if they don't want to play the game themselves. So limiting free accounts to another server would defeat the purpose of sigining up for a visitor account.
Before EALand can be opened to free accounts, there will need to be more things in game for them to do besides play TSO or they won't stick around long enough to even want to subscribe and play the economy game.