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HOW DO I REVERSE THIS STUPID PIECE OF CRAP UPDATE?1?!?

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The Sims 4 Create A Sim Demo - Now Live

The Sims 4 Create A Sim Demo is now live for everyone to download.

Get It Here

Have Fun Creating!

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Sarademoorgames posted these screen shots of The Sims 4. Head over to her blog to read the article.

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Lifetime Rewards

Instant Fun Potion (100 SP) – Instantly Fills the Fun Need

• Instant Hygiene (100 SP) – Instantly Fills the Hygiene Need

• Confident Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Confident

• Energized Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Energized

• Flirty Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Flirty

• Focused Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Focused

• Happy Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Focused

• Inspired Potion (200 SP) – Drink this to temporarily make your Sim Inspired

• Sleep Replacement (400 SP) – Instantly Fills the Energy Need

• Always Welcome (500 SP) – Always Welcome Sims will act more at home when at others’ residences, and the hosts won’t mind at all!

• Gym Rat (500 SP) – Gym Rats build Fun while exercising and don’t lose Hygeine

• Moodlet Solver (500 SP) – Instantly removes all negative Moodlets from your Sim

    • Speed Cleaner (500 SP) – Speed Cleaners tidy up much faster

• Insta-Large (750 SP) – Drink this to become a bigger you!

• Insta-Lean (750 SP) – The most efficient diet beverage on the market

• Mentor (1000 SP) – Once Mentors reach Level 10 in certain skills, the Mentor interaction becomes available and they can help other Sims improve their skills even more quickly.

• Morning Sim (1000 SP) – Morning Sims build extra skill in the morning.

• Night Owl – (1000 SP) – Night Owls build extra skill at night.

• Speed Reader (1000 SP) – Speed Readers read books faster than your average Sim.

• Free Services (1500 SP) – All single use service requests are free.

• Marketable (1500 SP) – Marketable Sims sell items they’ve crafted for more Simoleons!

• Potion of Youth (1500 SP) – Drink this to turn back the clock on your Sim’s current age

• Creative Visionary (2000 SP) – Creative Visionaries have a higher chance of painting and writing masterworks.

• Entrepreneurial Sims (2000 SP) Entrepreneurial Sims are more likely to get promoted in their Career

• Frugal (2000 SP) – A Frugal Sim’s household has reduced bills.

• Independent (2000 SP) – Independent Sim’s Social Need decays slower

• Observant (2000 SP) – Observant Sims learn the traits of others just by meeting them

• Shameless (2000 SP) – Shameless Sims will never get Embarrassed

• Steel Bladder (2000 SP) – Sims with a Steel Bladder rarely have to pat attention to their Bladder Need

• Beguiling (2500 SP) – Beguiling Sims can put anyone in a flirty mood with just one look

• Antiseptic (3000 SP) – Antiseptic Sims’ Hygiene Need decays much slower

• Carefree (3000 SP) – Carefree Sims will never get Tense

• Connections (3000 SP) – Sims with Connections start all Careers several levels ahead

• Fertile (3000 SP) – Fertile Sims have an easier time when trying for a baby, and a higher chance of twins or triplets

• Great Kisser (3000 SP) – Great Kissers have amazing success with kissing, and increase Charisma with every kiss!

• Hardly Hungry (4000 SP) – Sim Sims just don’t have much of an appetite

• Never Weary (4000 SP) – Never Weary Sims do not need to Sleep

• Professional Slacker (4000 SP) – Professional Slackers have no fear of being demoted or fired

• Savant (4000 SP) – Savants gain all skills much faster

• Super Green Thumb (4000 SP) – Super Green Thumbs will find that the plants they garden have amazing vitality

Thankyou SimsVIP for the information

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SimGuruGraham Explains Development Cuts

"You can’t weigh features by how much you want them in the game, you have to consider how many development resources it takes to create them. The tram? A couple of days from one of our FX guys and it’s finished… very low risk, very low complexity (using entirely existing tech), and adds a nice visual punch to the neighborhood. I can’t recall ever scoping against FX… they always have time to be adding more stuff.   Our FX folks submitted their own long list of things they wanted to work on because there wasn’t enough for them to do. Now, you can’t take the FX team and ask them to add pools to the game. They don’t have the work skills to do it; neither do I. Pools, toddlers… they’re extremely complex features that require months of man hours of work across multiple disciplines and introduce significant risk.   If we were to have added one of those to the game, there would have been two choices for us… cut many small features, or cut one other significantly large feature. And again, it isn’t equivalent – you can’t just cut a large feature and expect it to line up; you have to cut enough to get all the numbers for each discipline in the green, which means cutting extra to get to the point where the hardest hit discpline has enough time to do their necessary work for it. Now you’ve created free time for other disciplines who previously had work, but are left twiddling their thumbs… so you need to find work for them to do that only impacts the areas that you have time to spend in.   If you look at one weird aspect of the game and wonder why it took priority over something that seemed important to you, it’s entirely possible it was something that the right people had time to work on without disrupting the busy people. Game development is a constant puzzle where you’re matching headcount and skill sets against features, schedule, and budget, and you’re trying to make everything fit just right with as few gaps as possible. Unfortunately time isn’t like money; you can’t go into debt on time and pay it back later."

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FPS Limiter

The Sims 4 will have a Frame Rate Limiter as per Graham Nardone. Currently it is set to cap at 200fps to support next gen 200hz displays

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Lots

simGuruSarah has answered a question on Twitter stating that lot sizes only come as big as 50x50, hopefully we may one day get the 64x64 back.

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Bills

Graham Nardone has commented about bills in The Sims 4.

“The consequences of not paying your bills is more severe now. Let your bills go without paying them? First your power gets shut off. Next your water gets shut off. It’s a fun scenario to put your Sims in on occasion (they recognize it and get some unique socials about it). The bill upkeep on more expensive homes is harsher than it’s been in the past as well, so you truly better be earning enough to support living in one. I hope both those things contribute to greater challenges when you put your Sims in those situations.”

This is a great addition to the game, and a welcomed one. This will surely make game play more enjoyable, and give another dimension.