Ok listen up. You guys are entitle to your own opinion and I will respect that. But please don't use this as a place to talk about whether the game sucked or if it was good. If you don't like the idea of me making a sims map, then simply don't support it. I am already perfectly aware that many people do not like The Sims so there is no need to bring my attention to that fact. Please try to keep things on topic. This post is about the map I am making, not the game the map is based off of. I already have the basic idea for the game, and I will go ahead and say that this map is going to be a LOT like the PC game. It's hardly going to be anything like those Real Life games (pretty crappy in my opinion) in many ways. You will actually get furniture, and you will be able to build your own house. Getting jobs and promotions will be much more in-depth, it will have the same 8 needs from the original game, and you will also be able to build your sims relationship with other players, as well as some NPC sims which you can possibly marry or ask them to move in to get more Sims to control and also get kids. The Real Life map is pretty much a waste of time, because there is no goal or ANY kind whatsoever. While I'm leaving my map mostly open ended, so the player can try to achieve what they want to achieve, the game will have several things to achieve (keeping your Sim happy, building a dream house, getting the best job, etc.) It's a pretty big surprise you can even see Real Life maps hosted on bnet since they are so bad, but if that game can live on bnet, I can definatly see some potential for my game. Now let me say some thing about the game. As I've been saying, it's going to have gameplay similar to the PC game (not the expansions like Hot Date, Vacation, and such, just the game basics). The game will have a unique interface. Rather than having to look at a certain area of the map, or use some chat command to check your needs, all 8 needs are displayed on the bottom of the screen while your sim is selected. The sim acts as a zeppelin carrying around 8 units as the needs, all which have negative health regeneration of some degree, and the units are healed by triggers during certain evets (such as eating food). The needs also have nice icons that represent the needs (i.e. Cannibalize represents your Hunger need). Checking your relationships is pretty easy too. Any time you click on a player or certain NPCs, it will tell you your relationship with that sim, but if the sim you want to check your relationship is not nearby, you can access the game menu with ESC and push relationships to view the status of all your relationships. The game menu also contains buttons to check your job level, hours, and wages, as well as your skills. There will be many great furniture items. Instead of just walking up to them to use them, you will have to click on them to get a menu of actions. If you are not close to the item you may not be able to use it though but some items, like TV, can be used from a certain distance. There are even some complicated items, such as the telephone which opens a menu to allow you to select an NPC to invite over (players can come over without an invitation) as well as services such as maid, gardener, repairs, pizza, etc. This map has many good features and should be nearly as good a game as the actual PC game (and maybe even funner since it will be multipalyer) (Well, The Sims Online is multiplayer, but you have to pay a monthly fee
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Please tell me what you think of my ideas (and not saying it's bad just because it's based on a game you think is crappy). Also contact me if you would like to help out, although I should be handle this on my own mostly.
