Your Makin' Magic Questions Have Been Answered! - Part 2
Your Makin' Magic questions have been taken from the BBS and answered here!
Your Makin' Magic Questions Have Been Answered!
Welcome to Part 2 of your Makin' Magic questions. Let's get right to your questions.
super_dude_brad: Will there be a dragon???
Yes, there is a pet dragon! You can buy the dragon egg at Magic Town, and bring it home. Depending on how well you care for the dragon egg, you'll get variations on the personality of the dragon that hatches.
Johanna_Grumblin: I hear talk about a new oven for baking bread, and also some grapes/winery stuff. Will these be new home business, meaning can I bake bread and then sell it, or produce wine and sell it, or will the bread and wine be part of some magical spell?
Not wine, nectar. And yes, you can make & bottle multiple types of nectar, and then either sell them for Simoleons, drink them, or in one case, trade some nectar for a secret spell ingredient.
Johanna_Grumblin: I'm personally not into magic, but it might be fun going to Magic Town to watch a magic show or go with the funfair facilities (despite my age... *shrug*). Will it be possible for us non-magic Sims to visit as an audience, or is Magic Town closed to anyone but the magicians?
Absolutely! Non-magic Sims can have an entire carnival experience at the new Magic Town location.
Thursday: Given that it's rare for one expansion theme to be unanimously thought up, I was wondering what other ideas for themes for expansions were knocked around the office during initial brainstorming sessions, as well as what selection criteria (if indeed there is any typical criteria) were utilized in the process of selecting a particular theme to approach.
We're always knocking around ideas. The selection criteria is basically centered around what we think will be fun for you guys to play with.
Tazzyluck: Is it true that this Expansion Pack is going to have a patch for bug issues in Superstar? Or... will there be a patch for Superstar available for download on this site?
There were some issues with Superstar that we discovered after it shipped, thanks to fans reporting problems. (We would never have shipped with those problems if we'd known about them and could have fixed them!) Through the course of developing Makin' Magic, we have done our best to address those issues, and expect that Makin' Magic will be the most problem-free release to date. And we have doubled our testing efforts to make sure that's the case.
ctfields: Will MM expand the kids at all "outside" of magic -- are we going to find the kids a bit more active in this pack?
[see above]
ctfields: Who is the green-skinned girl in one of the screen shots? Are we going to have some "other worldly" skins or is she an NPC?
Makin' Magic introduces some of the craziest characters yet and there is a charms spell. The green-skinned Sim you mention is Vicki Vampiress, who is one of the Magic Town Vendors who can sell you spell ingredients, or send you on quests to win them.
pepperonicheese: If the Magic salesman came and you deleted the objects he gave (the starter kit), can you ask him to come back again?
You can always find him at Magic Town.
pepperonicheese: And will the portal to Magic Town be like a fireplace?
No! It will be much cooler than that!
pepperonicheese: And do MagiCoins count as inventory?
Yes they do.
pepperonicheese: Are there more other-expansion-related objects?
You can bring to life the Sims 1.0 Flamingo and the Livin' Large Garden Gnome.
pepperonicheese: How big will the game be? 
There are more objects and items in this expansion pack than any we've ever made. So I would say... big!
Narmir: Will I really have to go out and get Livin' Large or Deluxe for the gnome-maker?
No, the Gnome Workbench comes with Makin' Magic.
Narmir: What will determine whether certain sims are magical or not?
Whether or not they have a magic wand, of course!
Narmir: If one Sim can do magic, does the whole family have to?
No, you can have as many or as few family members you want perform magic.
thefragile3: Is the magic skill as difficult to gain as the fame skill in Superstar, or will it actually make the Sims lives easier?
Magic is not a skill, like in Superstar. Magic spells are created by the Sim from ingredients, and then exist as charms in the world, or as spells in the inventory. The game is to keep finding all the ingredients so you can keep making the magic. So it's a completely different type of gameplay than Superstar... much more of an adventure. We hope you like it!
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