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Cars coming back in a patch? is this possible?

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Hi all, I was just wondering if you think cars will come back in a patch at some point. since pools and ghosts already did, maybe there is a possibility of cars coming back for free. or would cars be useless without an open world? i think it'd be nice to have other things to do with them

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    JimilJimil Posts: 4,443 Member
    Yey. I can't wait for my sims to drive for like 10 feet each lot and every loading screens o:)

    Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.
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    llamacornllamacorn Posts: 190 Member
    > @Jimil said:
    > Yey. I can't wait for my sims to drive for like 10 feet each lot and every loading screens o:)
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    > Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.


    I want better animations while on the car :flushed:
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    JimilJimil Posts: 4,443 Member
    llamacorn wrote: »
    > @Jimil said:<br />
    > Yey. I can't wait for my sims to drive for like 10 feet each lot and every loading screens o:)<br />
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    > Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.<br />
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    I want better animations while on the car :flushed:
    Well at least that's the only thing you can surely hope for. But driving anywhere? It's very unlikely..
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    jessathemessajessathemessa Posts: 2,342 Member
    I seriously doubt it will come for free. They aren't exactly useless, I know a lot of people like to have them. I personally am good with having the ones for decoration. If you played Sims 2, cars would have to be like that. You would see them drive off of the lot. I wouldn't go and buy a SP or EP just for cars, but I would expect them to definitely be coming in the future one way or another.
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    Ashes2AshesAshes2Ashes Posts: 145 Member
    Better the 10 second drive off than Sims walking everywhere as if they live in rural Africa.
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    llamacornllamacorn Posts: 190 Member
    > @Ashes2Ashes said:
    > Better the 10 second drive off than Sims walking everywhere as if they live in rural Africa.

    Your answer made me LOL so hard my family and dog are staring :smiley:
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    Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
    llamacorn wrote: »
    Hi all, I was just wondering if you think cars will come back in a patch at some point. since pools and ghosts already did, maybe there is a possibility of cars coming back for free. or would cars be useless without an open world? i think it'd be nice to have other things to do with them

    I think it's possible for them to come in a patch just the way cars were introduced in The Sims 2 Nightlife, but I don't personally think devs would put them in the December patch, I mean they could surprise us with such feature in it, but it would be too good to be true... :\
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    llamacornllamacorn Posts: 190 Member
    > @Sigzy05 said:
    > llamacorn wrote: »
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    > Hi all, I was just wondering if you think cars will come back in a patch at some point. since pools and ghosts already did, maybe there is a possibility of cars coming back for free. or would cars be useless without an open world? i think it'd be nice to have other things to do with them
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    > I think it's possible for them to come in a patch just the way cars were introduced in The Sims 2 Nightlife, but I don't personally think devs would put them in the December patch, I mean they could surprise us with such feature in it, but it would be too good to be true...

    Thank you for your response, I am 100% sure they won't be on in this upcoming patch, but maybe later... :smile:
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    DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Posts: 4,220 Member
    Jimil wrote: »
    Yey. I can't wait for my sims to drive for like 10 feet each lot and every loading screens o:)

    Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.

    I absolutely loved TS2 cars. They were far superior to TS3 cars.
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    EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 2,795 Member
    what is the point to have a car if we can't drive???, if just for deco you have a mode for this:
    http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=534655

    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????, for me is pointless have "cars' if we can't use, or to be just a masked rabbit hole O.o(instead of the sim walk and vanish a car come and the sim vanish, still the same rabbit hole but just masked), have a car without at last the open neighborhood is just giving free money to maxi/ea.

    if is about decoration use that mode.
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    llamacornllamacorn Posts: 190 Member
    > @Ellessarr said:
    > what is the point to have a car if we can't drive???, if just for deco you have a mode for this:

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    > what is the point to have a car in a closed world????, for me is pointless have "cars' if we can't use, or to be just a masked rabbit hole O.o(instead of the sim walk and vanish a car come and the sim vanish, still the same rabbit hole but just masked), have a car without at last the open neighborhood is just giving free money to maxi/ea.
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    > if is about decoration use that mode.

    I would like to be able to makeout and woohoo in the car just like in the Roaring Heights car :smile:
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    Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    what is the point to have a car if we can't drive???, if just for deco you have a mode for this:
    http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=534655

    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????, for me is pointless have "cars' if we can't use, or to be just a masked rabbit hole O.o(instead of the sim walk and vanish a car come and the sim vanish, still the same rabbit hole but just masked), have a car without at last the open neighborhood is just giving free money to maxi/ea.

    if is about decoration use that mode.

    The point @Ellessarr is to make the game feel more realistic, (it's a life simulator if you forgot) and it's always better than just disapearing, at least you could see some cool animations and interactions with the car. :)
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    FairyGodMotherFairyGodMother Posts: 7,406 Member
    If that happened, I agree it would be like in Sims2. Which, to me is better than this game offers!

    I would like to be able to park a car on your lot or build a garage for a car. A fixer upper would be good.

    Then again, we have such small lots. Wouldn't be able to have a pool and a car :s

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    CrackFoxCrackFox Posts: 1,507 Member
    Possible in theory but I see no reason why they'd do this. People don't expect cars in the base game and patches are only there currently to fix bugs and add content that should have been in the base game. They can sell us cars quite easily. As far as "is having them in the game worth it without open worlds" my answer is definitely. Each game so far as failed to make them perfect. With 2 you had car interactions and realistic parking, getting in and out, alarms systems etc. With 3 we had none of that but we were able to see the car actually drive to the destination. Both we're flawed. I personally prefered the interactions with the car more than the 2 second drive about town we got in the Sims 3. So it's down to which flawed system you got the most out of.

    Cars in 2 gave a sense of ownership because of the interactions associated with it.
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    icmnfrshicmnfrsh Posts: 18,794 Member
    Jimil wrote: »
    Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.

    At least your sims could do things in them, like make out, woohoo, or listen to the radio. The ones in TS3 are mostly cosmetic (which isn't completely bad, because aesthetics matter a lot in a game like The Sims).

    Unlike open world (which would require a serious overhaul of the game engine), I think having cars included in a patch isn't that farfetched an idea. Maybe if players want them badly enough, they'll be included soon.

    Still hoping for toddlers, though. (Yes, I am one of THOSE simmers)
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    Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
    If that happened, I agree it would be like in Sims2. Which, to me is better than this game offers!

    I would like to be able to park a car on your lot or build a garage for a car. A fixer upper would be good.

    Then again, we have such small lots. Wouldn't be able to have a pool and a car :s

    Build the pool inside the house? :#
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    llamacornllamacorn Posts: 190 Member
    > @icmnfrsh said:
    > Jimil wrote: »
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    > Think TS2's cars. That is how it's going to be like.
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    > At least your sims could do things in them, like make out, woohoo, or listen to the radio. The ones in TS3 are mostly cosmetic (which isn't completely bad, because aesthetics matter a lot in a game like The Sims).
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    > Unlike open world (which would require a serious overhaul of the game engine), I think having cars included in a patch isn't that farfetched an idea. Maybe if players want them badly enough, they'll be included soon.
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    > Still hoping for toddlers, though. (Yes, I am one of THOSE simmers)


    I'm really hoping for toddlers too :smile:
    I know they'll be added somewhere in the line
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    EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 2,795 Member
    edited December 2014
    Sigzy05 wrote: »
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    what is the point to have a car if we can't drive???, if just for deco you have a mode for this:
    http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=534655

    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????, for me is pointless have "cars' if we can't use, or to be just a masked rabbit hole O.o(instead of the sim walk and vanish a car come and the sim vanish, still the same rabbit hole but just masked), have a car without at last the open neighborhood is just giving free money to maxi/ea.

    if is about decoration use that mode.

    The point @Ellessarr is to make the game feel more realistic, (it's a life simulator if you forgot) and it's always better than just disapearing, at least you could see some cool animations and interactions with the car. :)

    how have a car which we can't drive be more realistic"???? if is about go to work, you know not all peoples goes on a car to work, and we dont know "how close a person live to the work to need or not a car and again just see a sim enter in a car and vanish still the same of walking and vanish, it's totally pointless have a car and being unable to drive is just give free money to ea/maxis.

    i will use myself as a exemple the first place where i worked a long time ago, was just behind my house, i dont needed a car to go i just needed "walk".
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    DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Posts: 4,220 Member
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????

    For starters, car dating.
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    libra_stylelibra_style Posts: 1,229 Member
    I'm thinking that if they do decide to add cars, they'll probably do it like how our sims jog around their home area without loading....that can be a possibility, but knowing the sims team it would a basic animation of sim get in car (hopefully) and then BAM!!!!!! a loading screen to where you are going. It would be nice to have them back though.

    I can also see them possibly making the trolly and the ship accessible to sims in like an expansion pack to downtown and such maybe.
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    FairyGodMotherFairyGodMother Posts: 7,406 Member
    I'm thinking that if they do decide to add cars, they'll probably do it like how our sims jog around their home area without loading....that can be a possibility, but knowing the sims team it would a basic animation of sim get in car (hopefully) and then BAM!!!!!! a loading screen to where you are going. It would be nice to have them back though.

    I can also see them possibly making the trolly and the ship accessible to sims in like an expansion pack to downtown and such maybe.

    I don't see them making the trolly and ship accessible. Its like the backdrop. Just fake :s

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    DannydanboDannydanbo Posts: 18,057 Member
    If they add cars, then in OFB EP we could create movie theater drive-in where sims could watch movies, eat snacks, makeout, etc.
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    EllessarrEllessarr Posts: 2,795 Member
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????

    For starters, car dating.

    what you means car dating??? making woohoo inside the car like the telescop??? well and what more??????,
    ok again have a car to "make woohoo and vanish in a rabbit hole is "real life for yours???? for me real life is being able to drive it to where i want even this means go to a load screen, have a "static" object car is not even close to have a car O.o.
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    FairyGodMotherFairyGodMother Posts: 7,406 Member
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    Sigzy05 wrote: »
    Ellessarr wrote: »
    what is the point to have a car if we can't drive???, if just for deco you have a mode for this:
    http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=534655

    what is the point to have a car in a closed world????, for me is pointless have "cars' if we can't use, or to be just a masked rabbit hole O.o(instead of the sim walk and vanish a car come and the sim vanish, still the same rabbit hole but just masked), have a car without at last the open neighborhood is just giving free money to maxi/ea.

    if is about decoration use that mode.

    The point @Ellessarr is to make the game feel more realistic, (it's a life simulator if you forgot) and it's always better than just disapearing, at least you could see some cool animations and interactions with the car. :)

    how have a car which we can't drive be more realistic"???? if is about go to work, you know not all peoples goes on a car to work, and we dont know "how close a person live to the work to need or not a car and again just see a sim enter in a car and vanish still the same of walking and vanish, it's totally pointless have a car and being unable to drive is just give free money to ea/maxis.

    i will use myself as a exemple the first place where i worked a long time ago, was just behind my house, i dont needed a car to go i just needed "walk".

    I would rather have a car stop in front of my Sims house to pick them up for work. A school bus to pick the kids up for school. Even if it goes to a loading screen because its more realistic.

    We might get cars now since you mentioned giving free money to maxi/ea B)

    Even if a Sim worked in a building behind their house, you wouldn't be able to walk to it, the loading screen would kick in ;)

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    Sigzy05Sigzy05 Posts: 19,406 Member
    Also, there were cars in the base game in the sims 2 if you don't remember, your sims could not own them but there were carpools and school buses and the services vehicles and even those had animations, I think they could at least put those... :(
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