Utopia and dystopia

[ophelia_dust]

Although I've really enjoyed this expansion pack, I do think it's a shame they didn't put more thought into the utopia/dystopia concepts. In my opinion, the 'normal' timeline is pretty utopian in the first place compared with life in reality now. And there are very little differences between the three. The utopian one has nicer trees, some rainbows and everyone walks about like they're very happy; and the dystopian one has smoggy air, piles of rubbish, meteor strikes and all the sims have smell bad. I think it would have been a lot more interesting to really work with those concepts, like having sims with more positive traits in utopia, more negative traits in dystopia, and for the building interiors and all the furniture etc to be super efficient in one, and decayed and malfunctioning in the oth, the food to be amazing in one, horrible in the other.  And even the landscape - it might have been nice to have the wasteland only there in dystopia, and then for it to be an ocean in utopia. I really think they could have developed it more.

The other thing about this expansion is of course that you can buy all the advanced technology items in the normal catalog in the present - so there's actually no real need to even go to the future after a while.

[Muffinball]

I'm no genius, but the coding would be painful for this one. Achievable, but painful. It could also be messy, in some ways. This is a good thought. You should work for EA.

[Seabody]

I'm no genius, but the coding would be painful for this one. Achievable, but painful. It could also be messy, in some ways. This is a good thought. You should work for EA.

Not necessarily. I think the coding for most of what ophelia_dust has said should be fairly easy. What would be difficult is implementing an ocean that is there in one world but not in the others.

[Muffinball]

I am simple minded, you see. I do believe that coding may be fairly easy for it but what I am saying is in some patches it could be hard.

[ophelia_dust]

do you know what else I think is a shame? that they haven't added a new photo album to the photography skill for all the futuristic stuff. even when you photograph a bot, it's just labelled as 'a sim in the area', rather than this crazy new bit of sentient technology like it should be.

[AnnDruvez]

do you know what else I think is a shame? that they haven't added a new photo album to the photography skill for all the futuristic stuff. even when you photograph a bot, it's just labelled as 'a sim in the area', rather than this crazy new bit of sentient technology like it should be.

This suggestion needs to be sent to EA. There should absolutely be a new collection. If thousands of years old pottery gets one, then the future should definitely have its own.

I also agree on the whole Dystopia/Utopia traits thing. But, how would you code it? Set a percentage chance on the spawn for what traits? Hm..... Is that what they do for when the game assigns a trait to your sim's neglected kids, or is that random? I don't remember anyone saying. But, if there is a percentage chance, then the code is already there for them to use. They'd just have to modify it a bit.

[wkoziol]

Yea that would be awesome but I don't think it would happen anytime soon due to them working hard on Sims 4.  It sure would be awesome if they do something like that when Sims 4 is to be released.  I dunno about you guys & gals but I am not yet too impressed about Sims 4.  Sure they have a lot of awesome features and stuff like the building and the new abils in designing your sims.  What I want to know more about is the actual game play and stuff.  I don't mean the interaction with the sims and stuff I mean like storyline content and things that you can actually do or did they really limit that to work on making the building and designing features of the game the main part and have little to no storyline and then like next year or the year after release their first xpac with more of a storyline?

Oh sorry, getting waaaaaaaaaaay off topic here but yea I'd love to see it as well.  Also, on certain meteor storms if you get close your sims and any other sims that get too close to a falling rock could mutate into some grotesque figure for a couple of hours.

But between Utopia & Dystopia which one you like better?

So far I think I'm liking Dystopia better cause to seeing every sim in Utopia doing that WooHoo Strut kinda freaks me out if you know what I mean.  lol

[RunAmokSims]

I have to agree with you ophelia_dust.  I'm more of a casual sci-fi fan so I hadn't planned on buying ITF.  Once I heard about the dystopian future I did decide to buy the EP and found it more than a little disappointing.

We had three distinct, unique places to go with World Adventures so I don't think it would have been hard to create different futures.  I understand the concept of the same city with different outcomes but it felt too much the same with a few cosmetic changes.  The EP seemed a little hurried and thrown together for me.  I thought dystopia should have looked more post-apocalyptic and utopia more (maybe) cerebral  and less La La land.   

[Pam]

Oh sorry, getting waaaaaaaaaaay off topic here but yea I'd love to see it as well.

Too much off topic. With an apology like that, you know you're posting off topic. Apologizing afterward doesn't make it ok. Instead, please use your backspace key and don't post it.