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Teenagers looking exactly like young adults looking exactly like adults is a really weird design choice. My single dad felt more like having two roommates than children. The rest of the game felt slickly designed but sort of empty. There are still serious time issues, like showers that take all your time in the morning so it's a choice between eating, peeing or being clean. Nothing a Relativity mod can't fix, but after a week of it I was pretty annoyed at having no time before or after work to get anything done.
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Dick Trauma posted:young adults looking exactly like adults Except that all my female Sims develop really pronounced lines about their mouth when they age into adults. That appears to be the only difference.
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Jan 26, 2015 20:00
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The good thing about one recent update was that they put the age group on the tooltip when you hover over Sims, so you can avoid trying to flirt with teens or adults if you have a young adult. Makes sense when a Sim would only really flirt with their own age group. It was like that time I had a sim before the patch flirt with this one Sim, got married to them and found out they had 1 day left to become an elder. Can't have kids when the female is an elder. There's no real difference in appearance of Teens, Young Adults, and Adults when you just look at them. Cassandra Goth starts the game as a Teen, and when she's an adult she looks mostly the same. Unless you play super zoomed in you won't really notice that they're different. That is one of my minor complaints about the game.
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Jan 26, 2015 22:53
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IAmTheRad posted:It was like that time I had a sim before the patch flirt with this one Sim, got married to them and found out they had 1 day left to become an elder. My sim's boyfriend did the same thing shortly after ignoring him for a day. My sim had to let him go. On that note, I never noticed this many elderly townie sims before TS4. Does anyone else notice this, or is it just me? Or is it the fact my settings are on Longest lifespan and my sim already drank a reverse aging potion the day before his birthday?
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Jan 27, 2015 01:43
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Avocados posted:My sim's boyfriend did the same thing shortly after ignoring him for a day. My sim had to let him go. On that note, I never noticed this many elderly townie sims before TS4. Does anyone else notice this, or is it just me? Or is it the fact my settings are on Longest lifespan and my sim already drank a reverse aging potion the day before his birthday? According to the patch notes, there originally was a bug where the bars were set to attract/spawn elders.
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Jan 27, 2015 01:53
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So this mod is no longer necessary?
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Jan 27, 2015 02:07
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Kyte posted:So this mod is no longer necessary? It will still spawn elders even if you don't have that mod. The mod just makes it so that elders won't be the largest life group. Especially when entire houses will all age up to elder at once because EA didn't realize staggered age for NPCs would be a good idea.
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Jan 27, 2015 03:51
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I assumed the implication behind mycot's comment was the bug was fixed and therefore the mod wasn't necessary anymore. I'm a bit confused now but since the mod is not wrecking anything I guess I'll keep it.
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Jan 27, 2015 03:58
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mycot posted:According to the patch notes, there originally was a bug where the bars were set to attract/spawn elders. I don't know why but this is kind of adorable 
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Jan 27, 2015 05:20
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sweeperbravo posted:I don't know why but this is kind of adorable I originally thought this was a feature when I sent my Sim to the lounge for the first time, and misinterpreted it as a 'rich old fucks' lot.
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Jan 27, 2015 06:36
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Speaking of elders, I recently noticed that some of my elder sims died, and unlike in Sims 3 I didn't get a warning that i was about to happen. That's one of the few things that I really miss from Sims 3, I liked having that little heads up when playing families they were friends with. So far I haven't seen any tombstones either. Are tombstones just not a thing anymore for elders?
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Jan 27, 2015 12:14
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rotoscoped posted:Speaking of elders, I recently noticed that some of my elder sims died, and unlike in Sims 3 I didn't get a warning that i was about to happen. That's one of the few things that I really miss from Sims 3, I liked having that little heads up when playing families they were friends with. So far I haven't seen any tombstones either. Are tombstones just not a thing anymore for elders? Back when the game was just a predictive list of things that were missing/taken out from previous games, I recall "No tombstones/graves" being one of them, and forget whether it was proven or disproven.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:00
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Tombstones are a thing, but I think not for non-active sims(or perhaps lots). If you switch to another family for a bit, and someone dies, there won't be an urn/tombstone when you switch back. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:50
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sweeperbravo posted:Back when the game was just a predictive list of things that were missing/taken out from previous games, I recall "No tombstones/graves" being one of them, and forget whether it was proven or disproven. I've definitely seen tombstones and urns. Including during one hilarious mass-death in the park where like 5 elders all kicked it at once and the Death sim got real confused.
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Jan 27, 2015 15:52
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deadly_pudding posted:I've definitely seen tombstones and urns. Including during one hilarious mass-death in the park where like 5 elders all kicked it at once and the Death sim got real confused. My Sims' maid just keeled over in their house and now I have a nice urn as a memorial to his poor cleaning skills.
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Jan 27, 2015 20:13
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Tombstones are definitely a thing now. How else will Ghosts come out and play?
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Jan 27, 2015 23:06
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I'm pretty sure they were in from the beginning, they just didn't do anything until the ghosts patch was released.
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Jan 28, 2015 00:12
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So soon we forget the Sweatbox.
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Jan 28, 2015 00:21
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mycot posted:So soon we forget the Sweatbox. That's true. To be honest I was pretty creeped out by that and tried to block it out from memory  Something about the sims getting more expressive and realistic has made the death simulator aspect less palatable to me than when they were flat-faced cardboard tube people with fixed expressions.
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Jan 28, 2015 00:33
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mycot posted:So soon we forget the Sweatbox. Jesus, what is this?
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Jan 28, 2015 00:37
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Leelee posted:Jesus, what is this? it starts here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3525882&pagenumber=148&perpage=40#post435419382
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Jan 28, 2015 00:39
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deadly_pudding posted:I've definitely seen tombstones and urns. Including during one hilarious mass-death in the park where like 5 elders all kicked it at once and the Death sim got real confused. Here at the library:  Two at the bar:   My Patrick Bateman sim doesn't mind it too much: 
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Jan 28, 2015 00:43
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TheDK posted:Sometimes it seems like the game forces near-death elderly to a public lot before they kick the bucket if you are out visiting one. Something is very wrong in Cabot Cove!!!
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Jan 28, 2015 00:44
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Leelee posted:Jesus, what is this? Professor Genki escaped the simulation and created a new reality show where Sims have to tough it out in abysmal conditions for a shot at * Prizes may not include survival and are forfeit upon death.
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Jan 28, 2015 03:31
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sweeperbravo posted:it starts here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3525882&pagenumber=148&perpage=40#post435419382 This is amazing! Thanks!
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Jan 28, 2015 06:58
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Leelee posted:This is amazing! Thanks! Yeah, I wish it had kept going, it was pretty fantastic.
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Jan 28, 2015 07:02
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pwnyXpress posted:Yeah, I wish it had kept going, it was pretty fantastic. Mara deserves a break. 
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Well, I had an elderly sim die while I was playing that lot and got a tombstone when Death visited. It really does seem like only sims that are in the active household when they die get tombstones. So my matriarch died and her son pleaded for her life. Death would have none of it, but son didn't seem to mind too much.  "Alrighty, I'll just leave you to it, then!" I hope your rear end gets haunted 
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Jan 28, 2015 09:50
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My sim seemed to not have noticed both her parents had died. There were gravestones right in the yard, but she wasn't sad or anything. Until about three in-game weeks later, when she had a kind of nervous breakdown because her parents were dead. I haven't had any deaths since, so I don't know if this was a one time bug or maybe my sim is just a bit slow.
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Jan 28, 2015 10:49
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Purple Prophecy posted:My sim seemed to not have noticed both her parents had died. There were gravestones right in the yard, but she wasn't sad or anything. Until about three in-game weeks later, when she had a kind of nervous breakdown because her parents were dead. I've had a couple of deaths and usually the whole household will freak out around Death except for that one person who's stuffing their face in the kitchen. "Oh, mother died? Huh. These pancakes she made are still tasty!"
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Fresh from EA's investor report for the third quarter of their 2015 financial year:quote:Although this guidance passes through essentially all of the Q3 earnings outperformance to the full year, it does not pass through all of the revenue. The reduction in our Q4 revenue expectation is based on uncertainty around future currency movements and the decision to move EA SPORTS PGA TOUR and the first Sims 4 expansion pack to FY16.
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The Kins posted:Fresh from EA's investor report for the third quarter of their 2015 financial year: Down with EA sports.
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Lazy_Liberal posted:Down with EA sports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBY7q-FITY
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Jan 29, 2015 12:40
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Christ, I didn't realize friend requirements were back for jobs and certain aspirations. What's the quickest, scummiest way to make friends?
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Jan 29, 2015 16:29
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Making friends is easy, keeping them is hard. There's a relationship decay mod you should grab.
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a7m2 posted:Making friends is easy, keeping them is hard. There's a relationship decay mod you should grab. Or just text them from your phone every other day.
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The Kins posted:This means we won't see a full expansion until April at the earliest. My first thought was April 2016, so I'm actually all good with that. At least they aren't rushing it out.
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Jan 29, 2015 20:30
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wit posted:Or just text them from your phone every other day. That is still tedious and dumb.
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a7m2 posted:Making friends is easy, keeping them is hard. There's a relationship decay mod you should grab. I had that mod but then didn't reinstall it after reinstalling the game, and I found I didn't really need it anymore. I think one of the patches must have made it less ridiculous ("oh you didn't talk to me for a couple of days? We're now complete strangers"). I find the multitasking makes it significantly less of a hassle. Invite a friend around and chat to them while you eat dinner and watch TV. Or play chess with them. Or whatever.
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EA posted on Facebook that The Sims 4 for Mac will be released on the 17th. If you have the PC version already, you'll be able to just download the Mac version from Origin.
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