If your Hero is a Drunkard, consider stocking up on barley as well as cheap food ingredients. They’re only happy and focused when being left alone. If your Sim is Solitary or a Misanthrope, try to have them avoid other people as much as possible. The more disgusting they smell, the happier they are which will boost their focus. If you have an Unkempt Hero, keep them away from wash basins and baths. This means every Hero is different and excels in different areas. Play to your Heroes’ strengths. Every Hero has two traits and a fatal flaw.It pays to take a break from questing now and then to live a little. Don’t be afraid to stray off the quest path sometimes. Things like making friends, courting a new love, getting married, and having children provide Heroes with massive focus boosts! Just having a baby will add +80 to your focus alone.Neglecting Responsibilities will saddle your Heroes with big negative focus penalties which you want to avoid at all costs. Add that with all the tips mentioned above and your Heroes will have maxed out focus meters for most of the day with little trouble. Finishing both responsibilities will add +40 focus. Don’t neglect your responsibilities. Finishing your daily responsibilities is the easiest way to give your Heroes a huge focus boost.Don’t overlook these little tasks when your Heroes get up in the morning. Warming your hands at a cooking fire and gussying up in a mirror also provide small focus boosts. A little TLC goes a long way. While your Sims don’t have a Hygiene or Bladder motive, taking baths, using the chamber pot, and washing up in the wash basin still give your Heroes positive buffs that increase focus.Your focus meter will thank you for not eating gruel. Pigeon, turnips, and onions are all cheap ingredients that can be used in the easiest recipes. Instead, hit up the local merchant’s stalls, or head to the Village Shoppe to purchase some basic cooking ingredients. The more complex meals requiring lots of rare ingredients provide the best focus buffs but your Sims don’t always have time to cook such an elaborate spread. Eating literally anything else will provide a positive focus buff, instead. DON’T TOUCH THAT GRUEL! Sims can cook gruel without needing any ingredients but it slaps them with a negative focus buff.Energy and Hunger are the only two motives your Sims need to take care of, so it’s not hard to keep these motives satisfied. Stay well rested and full. Simple enough.The time of romance and chivalry is back with The Sims Medieval. From having a baby to competing in a royal tournament, what happens to their Sims is up to the player. Players get close to their characters, not only sending them on epic quests, but also making sure they carry out their daily responsibilities such as healing the sick, trading for exotic goods, or forging armor. Players can choose to customize every new Hero that comes to the kingdom, including selecting their traits and their fatal flaw. Will players build up their kingdom through internal expansion, or perhaps look for a more imperial type of domination, expanding their rule by conquering territories? Will they take on quests in pursuit of fame, or focus on the health and wellbeing of their people? The choice is theirs! With the start of every new game, players will be able to select a new ambition for their kingdom, and embark on a new set of stories.Įverything in The Sims Medieval is crafted to create an immersive medieval world, from the quest-based gameplay, to the medieval objects such as swords and stocks and thrones, right down to the warm look of the characters, and the painterly approach to the world itself. The destiny of the kingdom rests in the players’ hands. The Sims Medieval Deluxe Edition, rated T for Teen, will be available on November 22, 2011.

The Sims Medieval Deluxe Edition includes this year’s newest standalone base game from The Sims Studio, The Sims Medieval, and this fall’s adventure pack, The Sims Medieval: Pirates and Nobles, an adventure pack includes a new epic storyline, additional quests and a new Kingdom Ambition for players to embark on in their kingdoms. Every quest plays out differently depending on which Hero Sim the player is controlling. It provides a host of storytelling possibilities in the form of quests, from crafting a legendary sword to arranging a royal wedding, to protecting the kingdom from an evil sorcerer, to finding the fountain of youth. The Sims Medieval offers players a chance to build up a medieval kingdom, controlling characters from all walks of life, from Kings and Queens, to Knights and Wizards, Blacksmiths and Bards.

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