but you have start over completely with a new kingdom, new monarch (though I suppose you could just load in the same level 1 monarch you had before, if you saved him/her), new everything, from the very beginning. (Okay, that's sounds cool, let's do that.). You can move on to one of the new unlocked ambitions. So basically you're frozen in whatever state you were in when you completed the last quest. but we're going to turn off all XP gain so that you can't build your Sims up anymore. up until you run out of quest points, that is. The only quest I ever got less than a platinum on was the very first one, and that's because I kind of rushed through it and didn't let the bar build up enough. But you'd have to really suck at the game for that to ever become an issue. So, if you do somehow get really far behind, you might find yourself scrambling to try to do three or four steps of a quest at once and then, before you know it, the quest is over and you're stuck with a silver rating or whatever. It just seems to push the timer back a little bit is all. This is because when you complete a section of a quest, it doesn't reset the timer completely.
My only real problem with the timed aspect of the game is that once you do start falling behind some, it's difficult to get caught back up again. The rating meter fills up slowly and pretty much constantly, as long as you keep your mood bar (renamed to "Focus" in TSM) in the green and don't get too far behind on completing quest objectives. In fact, for most quests it doesn't even really come into play at all, because if you want to get the platinum rating for them (and you will want to, because it gets you more Resource Points, money, XP, and aspect points), you actually have to kind of draw it out and ignore the quest goals for a while, so that the rating meter will fill up. It's fairly laid back, though, and doesn't put too awfully much pressure on you. And you're on a time limit as well on all quests.
well, see the paragraph after this one for more on that).
The main problem, such as it is, is that there's no free play mode, really (at least not at first, and even then. That said, if you didn't care for those aspects of World Adventures or Ambitions, then let me just say it flat out, right here and now: stay far away from The Sims Medieval, because that is pretty much all there is to it. The quests are like the ones in Sims 3 World Adventures or the new professions in Sims 3 Ambitions, except longer and more complicated. You create other heroes and then use them in new quests and such. When you start on the first ambition, "New Beginnings," you begin with a monarch that you either pre-select or make in Create-A-Sim (I made all my heroes in CAS, though I gave more attention to some than others).
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