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Modding apartments(?)
hafizchan
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Do you think modders could eventually find a way for us to make our own apartments?
Since the shell is 1 object. So we start by picking the shell and then building the insides!
(Or is this just wishful thinking?)
Since the shell is 1 object. So we start by picking the shell and then building the insides!
(Or is this just wishful thinking?)
Happiness!
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Given that Zerbu is creating a mod that is kind of like Create A World for The Sims 4 (it will allow you to add your own neighbourhoods that are cloned from the games' neighbourhoods) we may possibly be able to use his mod when he finishes it to create our own apartments, as they function like neighbourhoods in their own right as I understand.
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Really? That's awesome, but I thought Zerbu was retiring from modding? Unless I was misinformed....
He took a break that he wasn't sure he'd come back from, but is back.
I thought he said awhile ago that it just wasn't possible. Is he trying again?
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Thank you. I just read up about it, seems like he's having a bit of trouble. He can't finish the mod until after the CL patch, so hopefully with the help of SGMS he'll be able to finish it.
Yeah - he's been posting about it on Twitter. Whatever it turns out to be will have limitations. I haven't kept up on the details, but not everything everyone wants in this tool is going to be possible.
Oh, cool. Guess I should follow him on Twitter.
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Anyone know if zerbu has a patron? I'd love to support him
I'm sure he does. Such info would be available on his website
...Why? That's like buying a broken product and refusing to use tools that would fix it, just because the tools come from third a party. Is there a particular reason aside from having to update whenever there's a big patch?
That is awesome, can you perhaps link me to his twitter, I would like to follow his work.
https://twitter.com/ZerbuTabek
Anyway, they could have given us BOTH. The excuse that it wasnt possible with the new system is so old and EA keeps using it. Its sad.
They could keep the system as it is now and just give us simple apartment lots for other worlds too.
Just to have different front doors, blacked out rooms if you choose a final apartment to live in and thats it. I dont see how they can say its not possible to combine when they are two different things that could be given separately as well. The new world could only have their system and buildings and since we can use lot traits everywhere now, why not in a apartment lot we have build ourselves? Now we are forced to live in THEIR buildings, just because they want it that way. But maybe i do not like the look, maybe u do not care for the 20 level floor for every single apartment building. A two or 4 floor is also fine with me. The reason is a bit....
la..me. The real reason is that the engine probably wouldnt handle it, if the game lets us build however WE want and with the amount of rooms WE want. They could actually also limit that to 4 in a way, but no.. this is easier so thats what we get now. Thats why this whole EP is again.. a waisted chance for me.
Do you have some sort of insider knowledge pertaining to this game engine?
You don't know what it's capable of, and neither do we. We know what Maxis has done with it, and so far it hasn't been very much. Doesn't suggest anything more complex can or will be done with the game engine.
It was built for an online game, and runs exceptionally well on old hardware. That alone says there are extreme limitations that hinder its ability to perform.
Allowing to build apartements from scratch wouldn't be possible without rising the hardware requirements significantly. However: When releasing new features (apartements) devs are always trying to reach that point where the engine is providing an optimum of gameplay + customization + aesthetics + performance (such as FPS + loading screens) AND at the same time being relatevly low in demand when it comes hardware power. Again: That does not mean that they couldn't do more. It all depends on their priorities.
Of course I have no insights in their data to tell you where exactly the break point is (by that I mean, when the engine loses its efficiency to perform under certain aspects such as the paramaters I described above) but that is not even necessary, it has more to do with common sense than anything else, if you ask me.
Edit: In the end it's not a question about the engine but whether most of the simmers could handle it (probably not).
Also: Sims 2 got a full ep dedicated to apartements. In Citiy Living apartements are only one (!) thing on a list of several features.
I don't consider the game to be broken. Is it missing things that I wish it had, yes. Were decisions made that I wish had been made differently, yes. But the game can be played. I can and do make things work. I have an imagination, so I put it to work. There are the challenges that I give my sims in the game and I have challenges playing the game. I will not use CC because I had a ton of CC in S3 and it slowed my game down and took forever to load. I will not use mods to "fix" my game because they must be updated with almost every patch and I don't want to rely on someone else to take the time to update their mod. They have lives that might interfere and then where would I be? So, for this version, I made the decision to play CC and mod free.
"An apartment (in American and Canadian English) or a flat (in British English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, correctly, on a single level without a stair."
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment
Conclusion: Yes, these, in fact, are apartments.
Yes and no. In a sense every apartment-complex is a neighborhood on its own, so this does not say much. But from a technical perspective: Apartments provide a slightly different functionality than ordinary neighborhoods. An example for such a functionality would be the addition of special gameplay features --> community-life (for the first time you actually see your neighbors leaving their living space and taking care of their business, they can affect your well-being by triggering special interactions etc.), landlord, the 'key' feature, fuse box and so on.