lukaszek: did you consider making a poll regarding next actions of given characters?
A: I would love to do this. But really the emergent nature of the game's narrative is making it harder to plan. I welcome chaos. I've seen too many unscripted shit that enhances the narrative. Here are a few good and infuriating ones:
1. Abu Bakar's public rape in the Grind.
Crowd gathers around him as the cop arrives. Only for the script to fail to arrest him. It was something unexpected. Something definitely broke and I ran along with it.
2. Slaviks moving out of their original apartment, leaving Hassan behind and having their first and second baby.
I didn't expect this either and blame
dibens insistence on giving his Sim the 'Family oriented' trait. I am wary of the pop outs involving the Slaviks, they tend to involve baby coming out of Eva's hole. They cannot keep this up. My greatest fear is taking control of their household and be confronted by a third pregnancy.
3. Excidium having another sister
This is background action once again triggered by 'Family oriented' trait of Fatima.
Excidium II is very upset about this. I can understand why.
4. Kalin x Bianca's marriage
This is the most upsetting and ruined many planned scripts. And for the pop outs like 'Bianca and Kalin is seen having public display of affection etc while shopping for baby's clothes' appearing during the rape of Elsa in the hands of Jamal was a very intense mixture of
(over the rape) and
(over Kalin's unplanned marriage and baby). It results in a
moment. I think that man deserved a happy ending, but not in the way the game intended. Oh well, that is why I did not have him shoot Jamal. He is completely out of the picture and is in blissful marriage while Samir is constantly under pressure and resent Jamal for bringing his family to Sweden.
I hope this answers your question as I ponder the next direction of this shitshow.