What do You want for Christmas?

What do You want for Christmas?

Since X-mas is closing in on us, I thought it would be nice to hear what sort of upgrades you would like from Maxis

 

Like I said, I'll settle for getting a freakin' patch by then. The game's starting to go unplayable in some sectors.

 

Ummmm. I would like a shiny new GeForce FX6800 Ultra to play it on lol

No, seriously, I would like to see Maxis sort out the more serious bugs in the game.

Then more downloadable objects would be good.

Even better would be a tool that modders can use to make/modify their own objects and then put them onto "The Exchange" for the rest of the community, just as it was possible to do so on The Sims 1.

 

As far as objects go, I wouldn't mind some sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads for my pool....

 

I want a full expansion pack for The Sims 2 because the game in it's current state is getting boring. After you explore the new features that weren't in the first game, it's pretty much just the same old game. There's not enough stuff to do. I really think they should have included more objects, careers, activities, etc... The game is only a little over 3 GB. A DVD holds 4.7 GB. They could've fit a lot more stuff on there. Of course then the game would've had to come on like, 7 CDs for people without DVD-ROM drives...

 

I've been thinking about this...and I want them to provide a program to allow fans to recolor objects because I think maxis/ea has terrible taste! lol They don't do seedy, funky, techno, ordinary, or elegant styles well. I think the fans are much better at coloring objects, wallpaper and carpet. I don't know about everyone else but I'm beige, olive green, teal/turquoised out on this game. *gag* EA needs to stick with creating objects. I'd like multiple items that earn money so mine could make a living working at home, some smaller trees and shrubs that don't require prunning. I'd really like some items so my sims could have a diner or restaurant in a community lot. Once you've bought some clothes, some games, a magazine there is no reason to go but to woohoo in a dressing booth. It'd be nice if they could have dinner along with that! lol It would be a little more polite, don't you think?

 

Hey, I like beige. Maybe I'm just a dull, colorless person, though What *I* want to complain about is the lousy manufacturing quality on these items. If *MY* toilet clogged, *I* would be angrily demanding a refund from the manufacturer! This *NEVER* happens with *MY* toilets. Toilets that clog are DEFECTIVE. Period. And don't get me started on the weight bench with the unreliable electronic doodad. What is it with people and attaching useless electronic widgets to things, anyway? The old TS1 bench never broke, because it had no electronic widget to malfunction. And how the hell does a showerhead always break like that, anyway? It has no moving parts! Or, at least, it SHOULDN'T have any moving parts. My showerhead is nigh-indestructible and rated for anything up to and including small-arms fire! What the hell is wrong with these things? Are they all made in China or something?

Well, there's novel-writing, which generally takes about a day of work to create a novel, but gives no progress notification: A novel generally nets you in excess of 2K, which is as good as many full-time actual jobs. And painting, which nets you about $500 a shot, sometimes more, and is at least as good as a pension plus you'll never have to worry about fun. And chocolating, although I haven't kept up with that long enough to know figure what the rate of income on it generally is, because by the time I am able to use a career award because I've moved out of temporary housing, I've maxed out the skill anyway. And the biotech station, but the pay is pretty lousy. And the hydroponic garden, haven't had the opportunity to play with this yet. Too bad the Gnome Bench didn't make the cut, though.

Heheh. Well, my err, abnormally made, community lots, provide plenty of incentive to go. Until I found out how to make those, I basically had no reason to ever want to go. Now there's actually a desirable reason to go there, and not immediately desire to return home because the energy-meter is bottoming out at an alarming rate. It's all still mostly self-serve, but hey. There really also needs to be more variety in public woohoo, I tell you. You'd think that woohoo in a public hottub would be more public than woohoo inside of a booth...

 

That's FRICKIN' funny!

I would like to have more walls & carpet since I don't like creating my own.

 

I want all the stuff they had in the community lots of TS1. Like the pool tables, restaurants, bars, DJs, etc...

The community lots are really boring now. I also want a Vacation EP for TS2 as well. Maybe they could put both community stuff and vacation into one EP..

 

I hope to high heaven they don't just replicate the TS1 expansion packs! I found many of them boring. Combining downtown and vacation would be nice. I didn't care for superstar. I hope they have new ideas. I was on a live chat with the programmers when they asked what fans wanted for expansions. I got a little peeved that everyone named the same things. They said there would be a total of 8 for this one, too. I liked makingmagic and unleashed but I want totally new things this time. I can always play TS1 for those. I heard they released halloween downloads today. I haven't checked yet. Anyone see what they released?

 

Some of the ones towards the end there were really scraping the bottom of the barrel. They felt more like something clumsily hacked into the game rather than something that acted like it BELONGED there.

 

I'd really like for the pools to be different/a patch for that. Yeah, I'm nitpicking, but I did a lot of landscaping in Sims1 with the pools - letting them go around corners, etc - and with the lack of being able to 'connect' pools in Sims 2, or make them any other shape other than square, you can do nearly nothing. I don't understand why they did that.

As was mentioned before, a wider choice of objects would be neat, too. I've built one neighbourhood completely from scratch and I think I went through each object in all its colours already. It's also nearly impossible to make 'themed' houses - there aren't enough antique objects, or not enough modern objects, or not enough... you get the idea.

I want Sims to be able to visit others, without having to go into a different family to invite them, and I want to be able to control all Sims while mine are visiting others. Too demanding? I think not. If they can visit community lots, I don't see why Maxis left out a "visit other family" function. I really miss this in their interactions.

I agree with JMP on the toilets/showers. Generally, Maxis has newly invented Murphy's Law: things that can go kaputt, will go kaputt, even if they shouldn't unless you take a sledgehammer to them in real life.

 

Are you kidding? Some of the stuff breaks down in ways that even a sledgehammer would be incapable of causing in my house: I'd need explosive charges to inflict that kind of destruction on a regular basis.

 

Mhh...no. I think I could take out my toilet without the use of explosives. The same goes for my computers. And shower.

 

Yes, but you probably buy shoddy merchandise. When I purchased the doors on that shower, I personally hit with a hammer, and then emptied an entire magazine into it without effect. That definitely had me convinced. For a mere $15000 for the entire stall, it was totally worth it. Internally lockable bulletproof doors, with emergency waterproof compartment capable of holding at least one rifle and pistol. All metal fittings forged from tungsten. Best **** shower stall I've ever bought. Now why don't they sell stuff like that in TS2?

 

Impressive. What's your toilet made out of then?

 

I don't mind them breaking occasionally because I get "call a repairman" for aspirations. (Pretty dumb aspiration if you ask me.) I understand that repairing a shower might take some time and a lot of cursing but why would it take an hour or more to unclog a toilet when your sim does it himself? All I can think of for the toilet is that the programmers live in California with really strict water saving programs. The low flush toilets don't work worth a dime. Maybe this is their experience with them.

 

Meh. Low-flush toilets actually waste more water because I'm told you have to flush 5 or 6 times. *MY* toilet is variable flush, depending on how long I depress the flush button, and carries a 14-inch diameter lead pipe. This sucker ain't gonna clog from anything that can possibly exit a human intestine. Not even the Goatse Man could clog this toilet. It's also composed from lucite and tungsten, so it'll even resist sledgehammer blows and bullets. Also my excreta are protected from x-ray scanning.

 

Fish bones? My cat flushes decaying animal carcasses down that sucker. Including, but not limited to, fish. It won't jam. Besides, who the hell craps out an entire fish?