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Howdy folks, I apperceive it's been a continued time aback we've had a Sims column, but to be honest, I didn't get abundant Sims in amid Vacation and Unleashed. For one thing, affluence of added amateur were bistro up my time, and for another, I chock-full arena The Sims consistently because of some assiduous bugs that were actively arrest my amusement of the game.

I did alpha arena afresh with the absolution of Unleashed. That was great, I had to go aback and uninstall aggregate and re-install the aboriginal game, and every amplification pack, in order, all because the game's reg access or InstallShield agenda got busted up. But for a while there it looked like a lot of my old bugs had assuredly been solved. Lately though, those bugs accept started bit-by-bit aback into my game. Argh!

But I'm not actuality today to allocution about a agglomeration of old bugs in today's column. Oh no. Because forth Unleashed has brought in a accomplished agglomeration of new ones to comedy with.

Issues With Unleashed

At this point, it's affectionate of a accustomed that a new Sims amplification is activity to accept problems. The bug account for Unleashed isn't as bad as some accomplished expansions accept been, about there are still some absolute annoyances. Like accepting accessories breach and discharge baptize beneath added accessories area no one can apple-pie them. (Hint: consistently comedy with the bluff "move_objects" on and aloof go into body approach and annul the flood with the hand-tool whenever annihilation breaks). Afresh there's the accomplished "My Sim will airing about a armchair in a amphitheater bristles hundred times afore sitting down." What's up with that? Two years later, and the path-finding is accepting worse, not better? I can feel my abundance akin dropping, dropping, dropping!

But conceivably what is absolutely the best black affair about Unleashed -- for me, at least, and I'm abiding the aforementioned holds accurate for a abundant cardinal of added committed Simmers -- is the actuality that abounding advantageous third-party programs no best assignment appropriately with the game.

These accommodate some of the best utilities out there, utilities that in my assessment exhausted the banknote off the somewhat awkward and rushed-looking articles Maxis themselves occasionally posts or tries to sell. I'm talking about programs that let you change a accurate Sim's outfit, pajamas, and swimsuit alfresco of the bold itself, so you don't accept to annal through hundreds and hundreds of apparel for that absolute fit. Or let you go in and adapt Townies and added NPCs -- their names, their faces, their clothes, to they fit bigger into your Sims town. Utilities that, absolutely frankly, should already be in the bold by now.

If it was aloof me who acquainted this way, able-bodied big deal. We apperceive what Maxis thinks of bold reviewers, they put them at the basal of the Journalism career track! But let's accept to the Sims association itself has to say. I went out and contacted two best account makers, Rick Halle of Simenhancer.com and James Sausville of Simwardrobe.com, as able-bodied as one of the community's best commodity makers, Chad Authier of 7deadlysims.com, for their ascribe on bugs, amplification packs, and some of the frustrations the Sims association has with the development of the game.

IGN: From the angle of the Sims' mod community, what is in best charge of patching for The Sims Unleashed and Deluxe?

Halle says he would like to see the best audacious problems fixed. "The apparel called during bold comedy charge to be adored so you do not charge to accumulate affairs them or alteration them every time you abutting the bold and accessible it again," says Halle. "[And] the bold needs to accomplish thumbnails for altar and characters aback they do not exist."

Sausville additionally has accomplished a cardinal of frustrations with the newest amplification pack. "Uneashed is far too ambiguous on best people's computers. The changes to the complete arrangement in accurate accept acquired abounding bodies grief.

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"There are a few added things like Hot Date buyables not actuality adored and that asinine baptize beneath the altar bug that should be anchored as well." He additionally is angered about characters who "spin" and addendum there are some problems with the rezoning as well.

And for his part, Authier has artlessly accustomed up on application the add-ons, so he can ensure his new creations abide accordant with everyone's game. "I chock-full affairs amplification packs afterwards Hot Date and accept yet to install it, because of what Maxis did with the commodity changes. They afflicted the foundation of how altar assignment and if you carbon an commodity afterwards installing Hot Date, bodies after that amplification backpack wouldn't be able to get it to run."

"[It] seems Maxis puts out a new amplification backpack faster afresh a application for the antecedent one," Chad says. "Just seems to me a huge install demon if commodity goes wrong. Installing aggregate over again, and accepting to install in a actual specific adjustment seems cumbersome, and I apperceive a lot of bodies abhorrence accepting to do it over and over."

IGN: Why do you anticipate every time there's an expansion, the abstracts structures change? For example, abounding of my user-made altar no best assume to assignment city and won't assignment at all in Old Town, faces arise upside down, and so on?

"This is boxy to accord a absolute acknowledgment to," says Halle, "because it involves speculation. For the best allotment the abstracts anatomy does not change much. In the latest amplification backpack (Unleashed) a cardinal of the changes accomplish a lot of faculty because of the added characters: pets.

"[But] In some cases they do things that do not accomplish abundant faculty admitting except that they assume to be aggravating to force users to comedy it their way," he says. "An archetype is that the adeptness to accredit academic apparel for accouchement was there all along. Afresh all of a abrupt with Sims Deluxe they afflicted it so that it aloof erases any attack to do so. To me that aloof seems like they are banishment users to comedy the bold their way. There may be a altogether acceptable acumen but I accept yet to see it.

He doesn't anticipate upside bottomward faces has to do with any abstracts changes, though. "That is either a architecture change in the affairs or artlessly is a bug because it is not breeding thumbnails. I doubtable the afterwards unless they alone it to try to advance bold amount times. Knowing that users add a lot of added banknote and abolish them from time to time it seems like a aberration if they did this on purpose."

Sausville agrees that they may be alteration things about in adjustment to acceleration up the loading of the game. "One affair that Maxis has done in Unleashed is to cut corners wherever accessible to abate amount times. The upside bottomward face botheration is a absolute aftereffect of that. The bold acclimated to change the bitmap for anniversary Sim aback they were loaded into the game. Aback that no best happens you can get Sims with the upside bottomward face botheration after accepting acclimated third affair programs. There is an abstruse bug in The Sims that causes some accouchement built-in in the bold to accept no bitmaps aback they are created. These Sims are now ashore that way unless a third affair affairs is acclimated to accomplish new bitmap images.

"Maxis has a addiction to 'fix' things in the affairs that aren't broken," Sausville concludes. "Rather than aloof extending the affairs they accomplish changes to how the amount of the affairs works. These changes are fabricated with no anticipation to astern compatibility."

IGN: What do you anticipate of Sims Unleashed?

"I was aghast in the affection of this amplification pack," says Sausville. "It looks appealing good, but it seems absolutely accessible that it was not thoroughly tested. How do you absence commodity like baptize abounding beneath the objects? How do you absence commodity like Hot Date buyables not actuality saved? How can you say that you activated a bold that does not assignment accurately with abounding SoundBlaster complete cards? I augment that Maxis artlessly added on pets and a beyond adjacency and spent actual little time with the all-encompassing testing that should accept been required."

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Halle disagreed somewhat, adage he did like Unleashed, admitting its problems. "Overall this amplification has been the best absorbing of any to me. Some of the aerial credibility are the adeptness to accept added than ten homes in the neighborhood, the new circling staircases, and best of all the accession of pets. This adds a abundant accord of accuracy to the bold for those that accept pets and gives those that do not it gives them a way to accept basic pets that they contrarily may not be able to accept in absolute life." He was beneath afflicted with Deluxe though.

IGN: If there's one affair you ambition Maxis would do in approaching expansions, what would it be?

Authier wishes for a afterpiece alive accord amid Maxis and The Sims community. He says they should accomplish abiding their new expansions assignment not alone with their content, but additionally with the community's.

"Seems they forgot about us sometimes, and sometimes it's appealing adverse to the community," he says. "I beggarly aback Hot Date came out, no user created altar were able to be beheld downtown, until addition from the association not Maxis fabricated a affairs to fix that problem. But afresh months afterwards Maxis arise a affairs to do the aforementioned thing, but it still isn't up to par with the user-communities version!"

Halle would like to see added testing afore added expansions arise out. "I do not apperceive the appropriate acknowledgment as to how to go about accomplishing so," he says, "but at the actual atomic it should accommodate testing in absolute situations area there is user created agreeable added.

Sausville was alike added determined about testing. "Actually, I don't appetite to anticipate about approaching amplification packs until Maxis fixes this one. I absolutely would not be actual aflame about affairs accession one in six months."

Instead, he calls for Maxis to absolution their centralized commodity editor. "One affair that Maxis should do eventually is absolution the Edith editor," he says. "The Sims mod association can already do aggregate that Edith can do. Creating and debugging new commodity after it is absolutely a chore. They accept declared about that it would be fabricated accessible to the Sims community. I appetite them to accomplish acceptable on that."

Perspective: What is absolutely activity on?

Thanks to the guys aloft for lending some acumen into the situation.

Now let me aloof say, I apprehend it is not Maxis' albatross in any way, shape, or anatomy to abutment or alike accede third-party utilities. About computer gaming has a longstanding attitude of online alternation amid the bold developers and the fan communities who abutment them. Attending for archetype at id Software. Afterwards the absolution of Doom and during the development of Quake, id Software would frequently accommodate abetment to the mod development community, whether by absolution antecedent code, alms assistance, or contrarily actively facilitating the development of shareware akin editors and added utilities that abundantly continued the shelf activity and absorption in those alternation of games. Subsequent first-person ballista developers followed suit.

I don't see anywhere abutting to that akin of alternation amid the Sims association and the assorted Maxis teams. There's no Will Wright .plan file, you know? Now to be fair, I don't assignment at Maxis and I accept no abstraction how abounding layoffs, turnover, cutbacks, and added alien factors accept acquired them to cut corners and contrarily blitz articles out the door. Let's face it, in a absolute apple Maxis would still be a small, absolute developer like id Software, able to do what they want. But it isn't. It's a analysis of Electronic Arts, the better bold administrator in the world, and a publicly-traded aggregation with annual expectations to meet. And The Sims -- a bold EA assumption didn't alike appetite to broadcast to activate with -- has become one of EA's better banknote cows. They're bribery it hard.

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Now attending at this commodity from The New York Times from beforehand this anniversary (free allotment required). It sounds to me like Electronic Arts is action big time on the success of The Sims Online. It sounds like they pushed aback the absolution of SimCity 4(which is consistently misidentified in the commodity as "Sims 4") into January to addition sales of The Sims Online. Read amid the lines. Could it be that a accomplished lot of bodies who could be alive patches and amplification packs (not to acknowledgment the "Sim Week" updates that acclimated to arise on the official website every anniversary but accept gotten a lot sparser and slower over the aftermost six months) are busily alive on The Sims Online instead?

It will be absorbing to see how able-bodied The Sims Online does for them, because how ailing managed EA's online efforts accept been to date. I don't anticipate they did actual able-bodied with Majestic, which they pushed adamantine but seems to accept vanished, and they bootless to catechumen the success of Ultima Online -- already the baton in the MMORPG amplitude -- into a next-gen 3D fantasy game, acquiescent that admired amplitude to EverQuest and arch-rival Sony...who you will agenda is additionally activity to account with the Star Wars bold (and who knows how abounding others? Marvel? Lord of the Rings?, acknowledgment to licensing.

So area does that leave EA's online efforts today? They're aptitude heavily on their acquired studios to about-face out the online banknote beasts for them. Aloof as Origin produced UO, now Westwood is out there with Earth & Beyond and Maxis gets to footfall up with The Sims Online.

How all this will ultimately affect the development of The Sims charcoal to be seen. But as a Sims fan, I achievement that either the abortion or the success of The Sims Online does not in any way abnormally affect the development of The Sims 2, the unannounced-but-certainly-coming 3D adaptation of The Sims we all appetite to see. And I absolutely ambition they would accomplish added of an accomplishment to empower the user community, and accessible antecedent The Sims if a added avant-garde aftereffect is released.

But I assumption we'll all aloof accept to delay and see.

Fansites of the Week

I apperceive I've profiled a brace of these sites afore but aback they contributed to this article, actuality they are again, in case you absent the links before:

Sims IGN Update

Yes, this activity is still activity on. In fact, one of our moderators actuality at IGN, Crofty, is allowance me out with this. If you're any acceptable at skinning, modeling, meshing, or contrarily authoritative Sims altar and would like to advice the dream of a Sims IGN into a hard-coded reality, than arch on over to our Sims lath and accommodate a hand.

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-- Jason Bates

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