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Zoe 2014 年 2 月 22 日 下午 10:20
Is Late Night expansion pack any good???
Before i get this expansion pack i want to know if it is worth getting what does everyone think??
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Malaficus Shaikan (已封禁) 2014 年 2 月 22 日 下午 10:31 
If you already got seasons, university, generations, supernatural, into the future, then yes it is good. if you dont get those first.(in that order)
Zoe 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 1:42 
Okay whys that
Zoe 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 1:45 
引用自 Malaficus Shaikan
If you already got seasons, university, generations, supernatural, into the future, then yes it is good. if you dont get those first.(in that order)
what makes the difference???
Proteus 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 2:07 
They add more to the game ;)
(but of course this is a matter of individual taste ... I for my part definitely agree with Seasons and University ... not so much with generations and supernatural ... and would rather mention Ambitions on third place)

Late Night adds Stardom (together with Paparazzis that may haunt you if you are a celebrity), Bars/Clubs and Penthouse-Appartments ... as well as a new neigborhood that includes the new building types ... so, it surely is worth its money
Ballantyne 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 4:29 
If you want apartments, vampires, and a "City" (Bridgeport). Then yes.
Emmeraldyne 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 8:59 
Wow I can’t believe some people are recommending this ep. I started writing and quickly ended up with a 500+ word essay on why NOT to get it. In short, if you can believe it:
  • If you’ve played the Apartment ep for Sims 2 and expect Late Night to bring the same thing, DON’T.
  • The celebrity feature is too easily achieved and your fame can never decrease. It’s difficult to avoid being a celeb. If one married sim is an occult, there will be a scandal every time they woohoo (even if they’ve done it five times).
  • Vampires spread too quickly (you can turn that off finally). Being a vampire was the #1 cause of death because the sims you don’t control will nearly always get themselves sunburnt. Seasons SAVED vampires by giving them parasols. And then Supernatural went ahead and gave vampires to you anyway.
  • Using the subway actually takes longer than staying in a taxi because there’s no traffic.
  • The added instruments, while good, do NOT count for the music career (you must play guitar). Bands don’t receive enough gigs to justify them.
  • The bars are the best thing about LN, but you must use the bars that come with this ep. As a result, if you want a functioning bar in any other town, you have to replace every. single. bar.
  • Hot tubs, once a huge feature of LN, are now available in just about any other ep.
Proteus 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 9:23 
引用自 Melden
If you’ve played the Apartment ep for Sims 2 and expect Late Night to bring the same thing, DON’T.

I agree ... unfortunately there is no single Sims 3 EP that comes close to Sims 2 Appartments ...
although people have been known to cobble self made Appartments together with AFAIK the dorm sharing functionality of Sims 3 University + the callboxes of Sims 3 Latenight

引用自 Melden
  • The celebrity feature is too easily achieved and your fame can never decrease. It’s difficult to avoid being a celeb. If one married sim is an occult, there will be a scandal every time they woohoo (even if they’ve done it five times).

Actually it is pretty easy to avoid celebrity status ... you can opt your own household out of the celebrity sytem via checking a simple checkbox in the optione menu ;)
Also I cannot agree with every time there being a scandal ... my last Sim who was a 3 star celebrity (before my current family) had a lesbian relationship with a fairy ... their first woohoo (in the university world) led to a scandal ... further woohoos (when they were married and had returned to their neighborhood) didn´t cause any further scandals ... despite the fact that Woohoos were a pretty common pastime for them.

Maybe it has to do with Paparazzis or other people being able to see them during their Woohoo ... for which the Late Night expansion has a nice countermeasure ... a huge gate to your estate that keeps out Paparazzis and other Vermin, unless you invite them in ;) )

引用自 Melden

Vampires spread too quickly (you can turn that off finally). Being a vampire was the #1 cause of death because the sims you don’t control will nearly always get themselves sunburnt. Seasons SAVED vampires by giving them parasols. And then Supernatural went ahead and gave vampires to you anyway.

Is this the case with EA story progression?
(I always use Twallans Story Progression [much better in many regards] and never encountered a spread of vampisism in Bridgeport or other neighborhoods)

引用自 Melden
...The bars are the best thing about LN, but you must use the bars that come with this ep. As a result, if you want a functioning bar in any other town, you have to replace every. single. bar.

Interesting, never knew about this ... which on the other hand is no surprise ... I never tried to put LN bars into another neighborhood (actually Bridgeport has been the standard neighborhood for the last few families I made ... there is no other (official) world that would, without complete redo, in a similar way reflect the feeling of a large city center as Bridgeport does)

引用自 Melden
Hot tubs, once a huge feature of LN, are now available in just about any other ep.

True ... they are also available in the Sims 3 Store en masse :D
最后由 Proteus 编辑于; 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 9:26
Emmeraldyne 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 10:47 
引用自 Proteus
You can opt your own household out of the celebrity sytem via checking a simple checkbox in the optione menu ;)

Yup. It’s what I’ve been doing. The problem occurs when I have one sim that I want to live the celebrity life, and another who’s a loner and doesn’t want the attention. If they are friends (or worse, lovers) they will both be celebrities.

引用自 Proteus
Also I cannot agree with every time there being a scandal

I know. I couldn’t believe it. It happened every. single. time. And I couldn’t build a fence around my property because I lived off of the cliff in Sunset Valley. I wish EA had it so, if the sim kept doing the same scandalous behavior, the public would desensitize. They were harassed well into their senior years.

引用自 Proteus
Is this the case with EA story progression?

It used to be. It’s been so long since I’ve allowed vampires to spawn that I don’t know anymore. It was terrible. There was a good stretch of time where every party my sim attended a vampire died of thirst. It was both hilarious and sad.
I’ve never used Twallans Story Progression… I’m assuming it’s good then?

引用自 Proteus
I never tried to put LN bars into another neighborhood

Whoa, really? It’s standard procedure for me for every new town. I have a set of blank saves where all I’ve done is replace the bars in town with the ones from LN. It takes forever, especially when 50% of the time I get the glitch where the bar is unusable and causes the sims to reset (which I never know about until after I finish redoing all the bars. grrr). It’s a must for Starlight Shores, which is my favorite town :)
Proteus 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 11:27 
引用自 Melden
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引用自 Proteus
Is this the case with EA story progression?

It used to be. It’s been so long since I’ve allowed vampires to spawn that I don’t know anymore. It was terrible. There was a good stretch of time where every party my sim attended a vampire died of thirst. It was both hilarious and sad.
I’ve never used Twallans Story Progression… I’m assuming it’s good then?

Yep, it is extremly good ... EAs story progression just is a statistical SP ... that is, it just uses population statistics to deduce who gets promoted, married and so on.
Twallans SP however more or less plays every family out (to a certain degree) ... this way it really creates a plausible story around every Sim and foregoes a few of the problems that EAs SP has (like the neighborhood after some time dying out).

The only drawback for Twallans SP (in comparison to EAs SP) is, that it uses up more system resources, meaning that Sims 3 might run slower on older systems.

The only worlds were I still use the normal EA story progression are the university and World Adventure neighborhoods (Twallans SP always asks you the first time when you load a new neighborhood whether you want to use Twallans SP or not)

There is only one Mod that (according to what I read) puts even more detail into the individual story progresion (by playing each and every action of every Sim in the whole neighborhood out ... and that is "Awesome Story Progression" ... I never tried it however ... AFAIK it is supposed to put an even greater burden on your system (when running Sims 3) than Twallans SP

引用自 Melden
引用自 Proteus
I never tried to put LN bars into another neighborhood

Whoa, really? It’s standard procedure for me for every new town. I have a set of blank saves where all I’ve done is replace the bars in town with the ones from LN. It takes forever, especially when 50% of the time I get the glitch where the bar is unusable and causes the sims to reset (which I never know about until after I finish redoing all the bars. grrr). It’s a must for Starlight Shores, which is my favorite town :)
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Isn´t all too strange ... I usually have enough work with placing one specimen of every type of special buildings from the EPs into the town ... due to the fact that I have all EPs and therefore there are so many types of special buildings, I am usually glad when I am able to place at least the most important of them into a new neighborhood without having to replace any already existing buildings by them (or having no free building lots remaining because thre are buildings everyhwere) ... considering the scarcity of available community lots in most of the neigborhoods that uaually leave me with no place for LN bars :D

Starlight Shores is actually where I am currently playing in, with my newest Sim ... but I didn´t do any work with it, as it is supposed to be just a temporary home for my Sim ... after completing his study and marrying his girlfriend he will move to Isla Paradiso ... therefore I saw no need to make the Starlight shores neighborhood especially fancy
最后由 Proteus 编辑于; 2014 年 2 月 23 日 上午 11:27
Malaficus Shaikan (已封禁) 2014 年 2 月 23 日 下午 11:02 
引用自 Melden
Wow I can’t believe some people are recommending this ep. I started writing and quickly ended up with a 500+ word essay on why NOT to get it. In
We recommend because we encourge everyone to eventualy get all exp packs. this one is just medium priotity(above the stuff exp but below the good onces)
Emmeraldyne 2014 年 2 月 24 日 上午 10:39 
引用自 Malaficus Shaikan
We recommend because we encourge everyone to eventualy get all exp packs. this one is just medium priotity(above the stuff exp but below the good onces)

I suppose if you have the others you might as well get them all. But still, if you've only got so much money you can spend I'd recommend a different ep.
This definately clears up your initial comment though.

I think it's also worth noting which expansions work well together and which ones don't. IMO Late Night and Showtime complement each other, whereas Late Night (particularily it's town) doesn't work well with Pets.
Zoe 2014 年 2 月 27 日 下午 9:52 
引用自 Melden
引用自 Malaficus Shaikan
We recommend because we encourge everyone to eventualy get all exp packs. this one is just medium priotity(above the stuff exp but below the good onces)

I suppose if you have the others you might as well get them all. But still, if you've only got so much money you can spend I'd recommend a different ep.
This definately clears up your initial comment though.

I think it's also worth noting which expansions work well together and which ones don't. IMO Late Night and Showtime complement each other, whereas Late Night (particularily it's town) doesn't work well with Pets.

What makes it not work well coz i have pets
Emmeraldyne 2014 年 2 月 27 日 下午 10:20 
引用自 Zobo
What makes it not work well coz i have pets
Bridgeport (the town that comes with LN) brings highrises into the game. Most highrises use elevators (no stairs). Pets (especially housebroken dogs) can tie up the elevator through use. Bridgeport also has a very limited ability to have horses or place pet-specific lots becuase it's so cramped. The highrise apartments themselves tend to be small (and cannot be expanded), and it may be difficult to cram pet-related items in your home.

As for play style, Late Night is best when you're playing sims that can go out and do stuff for long hours at a time (bartend, party out, play for tips, fun little time-sinks like that). Unless you want two pets so they can socialize with each other, lonliness can be a problem.

Then again, if you have Pets and want to try playing someting different, this is an option. If you really really like owning pets in every family you play, you might be better off with an expansion that adds to what you already like.
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