@icedquinn my hope is that mods really blow the lid off any restrictions, because the base game is a really solid foundation and it seems to perform pretty well too.

@beardalaxy we'll see. they don't consider gameplay to be moddable.

@icedquinn we definitely will see

@beardalaxy people said there was no 'work from home' but there actually is. it works the same way as the sims builds without the business expansions.

theres a couple things you can make on computers and sell. seems like you can actually make entry level job money with it too

@icedquinn I saw someone saying that they were crypto scamming as their job in it lol, don't know how true that is but still funny

@beardalaxy there are options to do scams and/or stonk investing yes. i dunno about them. my hackerdoodle ended up workin in management and i thought about switching to being a reporter because that makes a lot more sense for an individualist but that person is antisocial af though so eehhh

made a new person to be more social.

@beardalaxy i wonder if paralives will come out this year too

that one might do a lot better. they seem to understand the assignment, if a bit.. slow

@beardalaxy
> there is an instant pot
> "electric rice cooker"

> it doesn't work

@icedquinn early access is coming this year supposedly

@beardalaxy @icedquinn I wonder if it could be moddable enough along with having online play so that two people would essentially be playing two different games while being connected to one server.

That's one of Sim's creator, Will Wright's ideas when creating the original Sims, back when it was still called Dollhouse. One person could be playing a restaurant simulator, commanding workers in an RTS-style gameplay while another person could be playing a DOOM-like FPS and try to rob the store, all on the same map.

https://yewtu.be/nsxoZXaYJSk?t=4374

@beardalaxy so far i've found the gameplay a bit dead. WASD is very annoying. i don't really want to micromanage a single sim the whole time, which is a mistake sims 3 expansions made. you can get traditional sims view by click-drag on the floor, and unlocks the camera, but wasd will never move the camera and will lock back to the active zoi to control them (probably cancelling their queue.)

denuvo is gone but it requires steam be in online mode, so, :/

when i played schedule 1 i went in to hyperfocus for like 9 hours. with zoi i think 70% of the time i've had it open its been in a tab and i end up doing something else

@icedquinn part of the fun for me is micromanaging sims lol, but i definitely won't be using wasd. there's the weird facial and motion capture stuff too that i can only assume means, in combination with stuff like wasd movement, the idea is to get it to an online multiplayer kind of thing eventually where you can do something like GTA V RP servers. idk if that's actually the goal or not but that's kind of the vibe i'm getting.

@beardalaxy face/image capture networks could be neat. i tried one of the buttons and it told me i needed to scan qr codes and use an iphone. also can't use smartzoi because i don't have nvidia. so.

AI brained zonks pushing features that don't actually work as their headline features

@icedquinn yeah I don't have an iPhone but it seems like that feature is literally just motion tracking which is cool but serves ZERO gameplay purpose, which leads me to believe it's only there for content creation (which is still cool) or they have much bigger ambitions.

@icedquinn also I have an Nvidia card but I don't have smartzoi available idk what's up with that

@Mr_NutterButter personally, I am still looking forward to paralives more since it seems like the sims but better, whereas inzoi is its own thing just in the same genre. I'll definitely keep posting about this though.