Comments on: To Be Or Not To Be? That is the question when it comes to new content on TSO

By: Gladys

Gladys — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:39:53 +0000

By: hotel

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By: RB

RB — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:09:35 +0000

Yeah bob, are you one of those killer tomatos from that b-grade 80′s horror? LOL.

I see things only as how they are without the glossy overcoat or wool eye covers.

And yeah i do still enjoy things in TSO =P

House building and making $ from it. =D

- RB

By: xyz

xyz — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:40:49 +0000

d00d, I can’t keep lurking after this… at least RB doesn’t take his screen name from a vegetable star of Veggie Tales! this “love it or leave it” meme makes me want to hurl. Maybe if Maxis listened to critics like RB, TSO wouldn’t suck so bad. And maybe if *you* listened to him you wouldn’t be such a cheerleader for a game that’s getting worse by the day. You know, sometimes you cheerleaders are a bigger problem than the griefers and critics. Put away your pom poms and face reality. Either that or rent Veggie Tales and keep watchin it, since you seem to luv it so much.

By: Bob the Tomato

Bob the Tomato — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:43:30 +0000

RB……. is there anything you actually enjoy still about TSO, all i ever see you do is moan and rip it to shreds. Perhaps you should stop playing it if it’s really that bad?

By: justasimmer

justasimmer — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:34:59 +0000

FYI it’s pretty much common knowledge that custom content for TSO had been scrapped long ago although no officisl word has been made.. Those of us with friends inside maxis have known this…

By: RB

RB — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:01:32 +0000

The new post describing what’s finally “coming soon” (after heaps of people demanded a fraction of communication and wanted an update on the matter) is mostly bland and not worth mentioning.

The only signifigant thing being ability to move sims between cities without re-creating.

Keep in mind “coming soon” in EA speak is anywhere from or between 0 – 6 months – whenever we get round to it.

- RB

By: Bob the tomato

Bob the tomato — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:05:19 +0000

Erm…. lack of custom content going to kill the game? No chance. Its all the complainers about not getting this and that particular little feature that they wanted making such a damn fuss that is going to make Maxis decide to pull the plug, they don’t need the hassle, and it’s only gutter cyber-press like AH that highlights the bad anyway. Before you go on about Stratics being biased, read the rules of conduct, if you can’t abide by them then don’t moan when your posts get pulled for violating them. Like everything else, if you can’t follow the guidelines don’t complain when you are chastised for breaking them. Speed limit 55? You do 80 and you are going to get caught and given a ticket. Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean you can ignore it.

Uri, you linked to AH which contains links to cheat sites, forbidden. You didn’t comply, action was taken. Thats the real truth, none of the other rubbish you told the press.

RB, your post could be seen as impersonating a moderator, which is forbidden. You got a warning for it. It’s in the rules. Try reading them.

Guys, girls, whatever you all are, they are legally binding contracts you sign up to whether its TSO, Stratics or whatever. Abide by them or don’t, it’s your choice. But if you don’t, then don’t expect to get away with it, then complain when you are caught.

And before you all carry on saying that ‘things look bleak’, check out Tigger’s post about what’s possibly coming, plenty there, maybe it’s not your thing but unlucky. VP/BJ wasn’t my thing either. It’s not your game, its everyone’s game, and not everyone is going to get what they want. In that way, TSO is just like reality. Wake up and smell the coffee.

By: RB

RB — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:05:22 +0000

Relating to this issue, i have found it very displeasing that the “roc” rules also cover maxis employess and you are not allowed to make jokes using them.

Stratics TSO forums Admin – Aydan, your such a bore and need a sense of humour. You also provide invalid reasons for account suspension for 24 hours because of the below post that *was* in the BJ and VP thread:

===Hide’n'seek is EA’s game of choice. lol.

[Maxis Rep] And yeah, don’t you know all this new stuff and promised old stuff is just a figment of your overactive imaginations caused by playing TSO too much? It never really existed in the first place.

As for the technical reasons for BJ and VP going *poof* ? Well to tell you the truth, we never really got round to it and have spending most of our time drinking rum’n'coke while playing table soccer all day. Either that or watching movies in the rec room. All thanks to the latest budget cuts and siphoning off of resources to the sims dev. team. Snobs over there, i tell ya. Yeah the truth sucks. oh well. [Maxis Rep]

yeah i made all that up, but it’s amusing and better than just assuming things.

- RB
The Premier name in TSO Business and Financial Matters. ===

You need a clue =)

Good day.

- RB

By: Mr.Mystic

Mr.Mystic — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:36:40 +0000

The “technical reasons” angered many when Maxis won’t give what sort of technical problem caused the cancellation, and it was also suggestes by Maxis rep Tigger that TSO is more forthcoming to players than most online games, which I don’t see that at all, most online games usually have progammers reports or diaries on what they are working on, Maxis has nobody but Tigger address the community on the whole, and little if any official postings on what is going on is ever put on stratics.

Many wonder if any of the old designs will be implemented, and if Blackjack, most programmers consider as simple coding can’t be done how do they expect to get custom content, I am betting you won’t ever see custom content on TSO.

New content is what keeps a game going, it seems all the cool stuff Maxis promised to it’s TSO players over the past year or so might never make it to the game, and you have to wonder what if anything really major will make it in, servers seem to have been cut which has lead to cities being “full”, and talks of TSO being a disappointment to Maxis and EA you can bet that money for development is not being sent to TSO as well if it was the hit they expected.

If all the designs promised by Maxis have been scrapped, then it looks pretty bleak for TSO, I keep thinking that “technical reasons” might be another tearm for “lack of funding”.