General Discussion

In our most recent At A Glance article, Community Manager Laura Genender takes a look at the free trial for The Sims Online.

When I first found myself in the world of The Sims Online, I wasn't really sure what to do. There were so many options, and so little guidance. My little experience in The Sims (offline) over two years ago gave me a small idea of what I needed to accomplish - as did the falling Needs meters.

The first thing to do was to find a home. Most of the servers had the same ghost townish population, with 20 to 100 people online (depending on the time of the day and the server) at any given time. Once picking a city (server) to live in, I bought a small plot of land in an inexpensive but not overly hilly area. New players start with 10,000 Simoleons, and with this I built an extremely modest home.

Read the whole article here.

What I find the most amazing must be that Sims Online has survived for as many years as it has. Its an incredible feat with its history  and lack of largescale community. Its a bit like a slap in the face of the followers of Earth and Beyond that actually had a real game, one that did not exist in a free singleplayer mode, and still died several years before SIms Online. (If my memory serves me right they were released in the same year)

Fun to see someone visit that old horse in modern times.

Originally posted by Broodwich
Did I miss the conclusion the reviewer was making? Other than saying they picked a boring job and they bought a dog? What other jobs were there how empty are the servers when you sound hounded by people wanting to give you money? Is the community in general that giving and social?

This could had just been posted in the general forum as a standard thread.

The "At a Glance" series of articles intend to give you a new player's perspective on the game.  There was no great epiphony- this was just the first week or so of gameplay for me :)

The servers were pretty empty, like I said, but what population was there usually banded together in the same 2 or 3 properties.  You make more money when doing jobs together; you skill up faster when working on the same skill as other people in the zone; you have more fun in general when others are around.  While the majority of the server was a barren wasteland, the people I did meet were very surprised and pleased to see an actual new player and offered me all sorts of help.

Originally posted by alienpriest
This article confirms my suspicion.

The Sims Online == YAAAWN!