I've given alot of thought to that. There's pros and cons to that...
On one hand, there'll be no more "Grandma is actually younger than her Grandson" since I've been playing Grandson, but not Grandma...
But, you lose a certain amount of control.
For me, I'm really looking forward to it. I want a fresh challenge.
My last game, the one I played for like a month, I started to do five generational challenges, all in the same neighborhood. I wanted to see this neighborhood get populated by the families of these generations, but... after a while, I ran out of challenges.
I love the 'Rags to Riches' challenge. The one that says 'OK, you're a single person. You have $20,000. Without cheating, how comfortable can you make your house?' and the answer is, inevitably within a generation, pretty comfortable. It got boring and dull.
I'd try other challenges. I tried to make one family be the tourists and tour all the vacation spots and do everything, and there were glitches in the game that made that near impossible.
And so I'd go back to these families and I'd be like "I don't know what to do with you. You've succeeded! What do I do with you now?"
I like the option of being able to work around a whole community. I'll probably eventually have a really busy city, with all sorts of people with all sorts of personalities and each with their own challenges.
And I like the option of saying "OK, you've succeeded. I'm happy for you. I'm going to let you live your life out now and deal with someone else for a while."
But... we'll see. I THINK it'll work out great, and it'll be great watching the community itself grow and live without our having to micromanage EVERYTHING!
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Date: 2009-05-05 07:00 pm (UTC)On one hand, there'll be no more "Grandma is actually younger than her Grandson" since I've been playing Grandson, but not Grandma...
But, you lose a certain amount of control.
For me, I'm really looking forward to it. I want a fresh challenge.
My last game, the one I played for like a month, I started to do five generational challenges, all in the same neighborhood. I wanted to see this neighborhood get populated by the families of these generations, but... after a while, I ran out of challenges.
I love the 'Rags to Riches' challenge. The one that says 'OK, you're a single person. You have $20,000. Without cheating, how comfortable can you make your house?' and the answer is, inevitably within a generation, pretty comfortable. It got boring and dull.
I'd try other challenges. I tried to make one family be the tourists and tour all the vacation spots and do everything, and there were glitches in the game that made that near impossible.
And so I'd go back to these families and I'd be like "I don't know what to do with you. You've succeeded! What do I do with you now?"
I like the option of being able to work around a whole community. I'll probably eventually have a really busy city, with all sorts of people with all sorts of personalities and each with their own challenges.
And I like the option of saying "OK, you've succeeded. I'm happy for you. I'm going to let you live your life out now and deal with someone else for a while."
But... we'll see. I THINK it'll work out great, and it'll be great watching the community itself grow and live without our having to micromanage EVERYTHING!