First of all, I nearly had an aneurysm while writing that title because I couldn't figure out why my fingers were not doing what I was telling them to.

Anyway, out of the Sims series games, I have been playing only TS4 since release, so almost two years and over 2000 hours. I've been struggling with TS4 for a while. Even with the new content, I was getting a little bored. I kept taking a break, playing a new game and then going back after a while. Something that had been working for me pretty well throughout the series. But this time, when I went back to play TS4, I was still bored. It wasn't getting 'fresh' again.

To me, most of the new content has been something I played with a few times, but didn't make any sort of massive change in the way I was playing.

So after getting really frustrated trying to find new games to play, I loaded up the dreaded, ugly, glitchy, buggy, near unplayable TS3.

OMG it's so great.

I spent years convincing myself that TS4 wasn't just better looking (some of it is) or smoother running (not sure on this one anymore) but also that it was more fun.

TS4 is so empty to me now. Sure, my unmodded sims are ugly AF, but I play pretty zoomed out anyway. But there is so, so much to do! Holy hell!

There are a few things that I miss from TS4, but surprisingly few. Surprising to me anyway.

One thing I thought I would really miss was multi-tasking. Part of my brain still misses it. "oh no, I need fun and food! Shit, wish I could eat and watch tv!" But then I remember it takes a tiny fraction of the time to eat in TS3. The first time this happened I was shocked. I sat my sim down with some food and went off to check a few other things, then looked up 2 seconds later and she had finished all of her food. Wow.

Anyway, I thought I'd drop this bombshell here and see what you thought. Pretty sure /u/GrijzePilion should be the first to know.

What is this place?

Do you have technical or in-depth questions? Do you like getting the most out of your Sims games? Do you like hanging out with Simmers who are as passionate as you are? Or do you like talking about the state of The Sims and life simulations in general? Welcome, then!

Why?

You might be asking this because there obviously are Simming communities like this already. Our answer to that is that Reddit is actually a very suitable platform for the kind of interaction that goes on between, say, modders and their mods' users. When an OP says or posts something, different people can post feedback to that independently, which allows for non-linear discussion. And that's very handy when you want to keep track of things. A traditional forum such as ModTheSims, SimsAsylum or MoreAwesomeThanYou does not allow for this.

But of course, it's not just modding. We'd love to see your latest and greatest creations, ideas, questions and observations. And we also allow rampant speculation about future titles and other games that are like The Sims.

Edit 11/5/16*: Have any questions? Ask them below.*

Sims 4 had a lot of new features coming from Sims 3, which one do you think adds the most to the Sims concept as a whole?

Two major things we're gonna be seeing soon are improved indoor lighting and unisex Create-a-Sim content. It's fair to assume that these features will be implemented in the base game, and will therefore be available to all players. It's a nice initiative on EA's part, but do the developers have their priorities straight?

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Mechanics, definitely tiny bits of code, how things ACTUALLY work out. I wonder if they would really have any answers. But some of the questions would be great to ask.

We've been closed for a few days. Our old CSS really sucked, so we got a new one. Now that the construction crews are gone, everyone else is fully welcome again. Just make sure to wipe your feet, this flooring was expensive.

Anyway - it's not 100% done yet, but at least you can read text boxes now.

Found this bit of advice in the sims sub. Anyone know if this works or is worth doing?

Sims 3 textures look so awful in comparison.

If you have a dedicated graphics card, turn off the built-in AA and go to the card's control panel (NVidia Control Panel or AMD Catalyst) and force anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, and texture filtering on TS3. For some reason, goodness knows why, Sims 3 doesn't have built-in texture filtering of any kind, so all the textures look like arse, especially those viewed at an angle. Here's a comparison of the default in-game vs forced texture filtering (on the right). I'd also forgotten to force anti-aliasing on the right one, hence why the bloom suddenly vanished and the borders are all jagged. With forced AA the bloom returns to normal and the game looks much better. Obviously not TS4 levels of good, but better than normal.

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