And yeah, I am very hopeful for a new engine in S5, if we get a 5. Not holding my breath on how it’ll turn out because there’s no way of telling… but I blame EA’s budget more than the team.

As far as selfish goes, I want some big, enclosed area where I could ride horses (similar to the huge intermediate areas between lots in Selvadorado) but it’s silly to say no open world when we already have a half-assed open world in place that takes up valuable CPU anyway. My old computer chugged really hard any time I went to San Myshuno for a festival, which sets up outside of the actual lots. And just look at all of the looping animation effects in Del Sol Valley. I could be presuming too much, but I think they had to cut down on the number of lots because of how intensive everything around them was.

But maybe I’ve misunderstood; maybe it’s not about streamlining everything for lower end computers.

But even before that, the mother was stuck in limbo, thinking she was still at work. Resetting her didn’t solve it and she wouldn’t go to work the next day. Giving her the day off didn’t help either. I tried getting her to leave but it didn’t give me any options so I think it was after her work-shift when I first tried. This was a separate bug that I still don’t know the reason for; she wasn’t in a custom career or anything like that. I had to basically give up, recover as far back as I could, and follow some advice I found online which thankfully wasn’t the most drastic option (quitting her job.) I told her to come home early during office hours and that finally fixed her. Now she had an inventory again, I thought maybe everything was okay, and THEN the next day, the sack lunches kicked in once more, which was downright infuriating (both parents would’ve had promotions if not for all this), but I realized very quickly what the problem was… They all had sack lunches this time and I confirmed that bug with an online search.

Worst of all, the challenge counter didn’t reset when I opened the recovered save. Still, I thought I could do it. The teenage daughter was on the quest, she could’ve pulled it off, but then I couldn’t get the conversational good deeds to pop up and the cleaning ones wouldn’t work all of a sudden. Her grades had already suffered and I was just done at that point, so I cheated for this one family. (Prior to that, I finished it properly with an unemployed sim in a different save, which is one of the reasons I knew she was bugged.)

Long story short, I should’ve done Save As the second Mama got stuck at work but I didn’t think of it at the time. And I just can’t use the sack lunches at all (much as I can’t really put beds against the wall without fear of that one stupid glitch. And don’t get me started on pets.) I swear, I’ve had way more problems with EA bugs than any CC. 🙁

I’m just going to keep it all down my throat, except for two words.

Please don’t.

I’ve explained why many times already, and.. All I’ve really gotten were selfish responses. I’ll keep it at those two words, but going any further is trying desperately to win a battle that just can’t be won. Not this community..