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What I think about the lack of Transportation in SIMS4
DOKKOM
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I want to talk about a topic. This is actually a subject that I should have brought up three years ago. It's a subject that anyone who is bound by a planet should think about. - The Transportation.
Everyone knows that The Sims 4 has no means of Transportation. I feel a lot of inconvenience there. I would like to present it in three ways.
1) No characteristics of Worlds
That is not to say that the worlds of The Sims 4 do not have any characteristics. Hydrosphere, Ecoregions, Climates - Each world has its own characteristics, and the <Seasons> pack has been added, its features have become even clearer. But our worlds have no Transportational characteristics.
We consider a lot when choosing our accommodations. Isn't it cold? Isn’t it too cloudy? Isn't the neighbor weird? And of course we also worry about Transportation. Is it close to work, school or the station? Is the facility accessible? Is there a parking space? Isn't the traffic jam bad? In the real world we cannot avoid these issues. And according to these issues we divide the area into cities and villages.
Thus in The Sims 4 where there is no <Transportational Characteristics>, Technically speaking The San Myshuno is not a city, although we can find a variety of cultural events and amenities in this World. Comparing the accessibility to a particular workplace or hospital, San Myshuno has no distinct advantage from other Worlds. In other words, we have no reason to live there at a high cost. In fact, even the cost is not clear in The Sims 4. Oh, It's a city without rush hour! What a Saint! Perhaps the Sims 4 politician would do a quarter less than the real politicians.
2) No stress
If you have a job or have to attend a school, what time do you get up to get there? Your answer will depend on the Transportation to work. We are always suffering from the rush hour. We should walk, run, or line up and learn to drive to go somewhere - Sometimes we can get badly hurt or die because of this.
But Sims don't have to do that in Sims 4. Because the Supernatural Pack is included in the Sims 4. 『The sims 4 Supernatural -Teleport!』
There is no need to worry about traffic jams caused by heavy snow, and there is no reason to worry about going to and from work even if you live in a remote mountain. You cannot find a patient who was injured in a traffic accident in any hospital. Of course, there is no reason to worry about the cost of Transportation or carpool, and no reason to buy insurance.
Unfortunately, these physical freedoms were not given to objects. Pizza, groceries, and other things you can buy on the Internet cannot use teleportation. :-(
Anyway, Sims are free from the stresses of traffic and as they are free, I feel a sense of emptiness and disjunction in the game.
3) No cars
No Transportation is similar to no Telecommunication. Imagine a world in which everyone has telepathic powers and doesn't need a cell phone. No one carries a cell phone. You can't buy a cell phone anywhere. It is very awkward, isn’t it? A world where no one owns a car is also awkward. In The Sims 4, no one can own a car except for Kids.
Teenagers do not take tests to get a driver's license. The Young don't have to save money to buy their own cars. No matter how fancy you live in your mansion, you don't have a single car, even if you have enough money to keep buying a lot of Rolls Royces.
In modern society, cars are not just a means of Transportation. Like houses and clothes, they are not only must-have necessities but also luxuries that represent the wealth and status of the owners. We deduce his occupation or guess his fortune by looking at his car.
There are no police cars, no fire trucks, no used cars, no broken cars, and no expensive cars in The Sims 4. Is it eco-friendly utopia? Has EA so much emphasis been placed on environmental value that it erased the car at Sims 4? And is it a completely equal world where everyone shares the same means of Transportation (a teleport power)? Don't we need to feel a relative deprivation in a Hollywood star's exclusive helicopter anymore?
So far, I’ve talked about things that are inconvenient because there is no Transportation in Sims 4. I've been waiting for traffic patches since 2014 when The Sims 4 was first released. Since I have played very passive so far, I'm not sure what other users will think of this game. But I've summed up what I think is lacking in Sims 4 from the point of view of Transportation. Some are too late to resolve with additional patches. I am deeply sorry for that.
It has been four years since the first release of The Sims 4. There have been many things to be thankful to Sims users and developers. However, it was a long time ago that Sims 4 felt funny. I don't know how to get there. This is the Sims 4 I feel today.
Everyone knows that The Sims 4 has no means of Transportation. I feel a lot of inconvenience there. I would like to present it in three ways.
1) No characteristics of Worlds
That is not to say that the worlds of The Sims 4 do not have any characteristics. Hydrosphere, Ecoregions, Climates - Each world has its own characteristics, and the <Seasons> pack has been added, its features have become even clearer. But our worlds have no Transportational characteristics.
We consider a lot when choosing our accommodations. Isn't it cold? Isn’t it too cloudy? Isn't the neighbor weird? And of course we also worry about Transportation. Is it close to work, school or the station? Is the facility accessible? Is there a parking space? Isn't the traffic jam bad? In the real world we cannot avoid these issues. And according to these issues we divide the area into cities and villages.
Thus in The Sims 4 where there is no <Transportational Characteristics>, Technically speaking The San Myshuno is not a city, although we can find a variety of cultural events and amenities in this World. Comparing the accessibility to a particular workplace or hospital, San Myshuno has no distinct advantage from other Worlds. In other words, we have no reason to live there at a high cost. In fact, even the cost is not clear in The Sims 4. Oh, It's a city without rush hour! What a Saint! Perhaps the Sims 4 politician would do a quarter less than the real politicians.
2) No stress
If you have a job or have to attend a school, what time do you get up to get there? Your answer will depend on the Transportation to work. We are always suffering from the rush hour. We should walk, run, or line up and learn to drive to go somewhere - Sometimes we can get badly hurt or die because of this.
But Sims don't have to do that in Sims 4. Because the Supernatural Pack is included in the Sims 4. 『The sims 4 Supernatural -Teleport!』
There is no need to worry about traffic jams caused by heavy snow, and there is no reason to worry about going to and from work even if you live in a remote mountain. You cannot find a patient who was injured in a traffic accident in any hospital. Of course, there is no reason to worry about the cost of Transportation or carpool, and no reason to buy insurance.
Unfortunately, these physical freedoms were not given to objects. Pizza, groceries, and other things you can buy on the Internet cannot use teleportation. :-(
Anyway, Sims are free from the stresses of traffic and as they are free, I feel a sense of emptiness and disjunction in the game.
3) No cars
No Transportation is similar to no Telecommunication. Imagine a world in which everyone has telepathic powers and doesn't need a cell phone. No one carries a cell phone. You can't buy a cell phone anywhere. It is very awkward, isn’t it? A world where no one owns a car is also awkward. In The Sims 4, no one can own a car except for Kids.
Teenagers do not take tests to get a driver's license. The Young don't have to save money to buy their own cars. No matter how fancy you live in your mansion, you don't have a single car, even if you have enough money to keep buying a lot of Rolls Royces.
In modern society, cars are not just a means of Transportation. Like houses and clothes, they are not only must-have necessities but also luxuries that represent the wealth and status of the owners. We deduce his occupation or guess his fortune by looking at his car.
There are no police cars, no fire trucks, no used cars, no broken cars, and no expensive cars in The Sims 4. Is it eco-friendly utopia? Has EA so much emphasis been placed on environmental value that it erased the car at Sims 4? And is it a completely equal world where everyone shares the same means of Transportation (a teleport power)? Don't we need to feel a relative deprivation in a Hollywood star's exclusive helicopter anymore?
So far, I’ve talked about things that are inconvenient because there is no Transportation in Sims 4. I've been waiting for traffic patches since 2014 when The Sims 4 was first released. Since I have played very passive so far, I'm not sure what other users will think of this game. But I've summed up what I think is lacking in Sims 4 from the point of view of Transportation. Some are too late to resolve with additional patches. I am deeply sorry for that.
It has been four years since the first release of The Sims 4. There have been many things to be thankful to Sims users and developers. However, it was a long time ago that Sims 4 felt funny. I don't know how to get there. This is the Sims 4 I feel today.
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Unfortunately, I doubt very much that cars will make a come-back to TS4. I mean, where would we use them? Cars would only make sense to me, if the world was open like TS3. Its pointless even IF they open up the individual neighbourhoods, as they are really too small. There are no places to drive.
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(It was sort of fun to see my Sims get whisked off to work by helicopter in Sims 2. But I'm just not all that interested in seeing a car materialise to get my Sims to work and then disappear.)
I'm meh on adding drivable cars to Sims 4 at this point (they could be added to the base game of the hypothetical Sims 5) but I'd like a return of the fix-it car from the Sims 3 Store (came with Roaring Heights). Would be an additional way to build Handiness, Sims could work on it together to build relationship, and it could be upgraded. Maybe Sims could take it to a lot and show it off, like people go to car shows to show off classic cars they've restored.
In many large cities, cars are a rarity. My husband's best friend from high school lives in NYC and doesn't even own a car; he uses the subways and buses to get where he needs to go, and if he has to go out to the 'burbs he rents a car. Parking is so expensive and difficult in big cities and they have excellent transit so it makes no sense economically. I use my imagination and figure when the Sims are traveling between neighborhoods in SM they're riding a bus or the subway.
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And the trolly is empty, like that Twilight Zone episode where there is no one driving the buses, trolly, trains etc. Because it's a model set with giant child playing with her model of a town and it's 'decorations'.
Are you playing either of the previous versions? I seriously could not imagine a world without my sims.
They added cars to Sims 2 when it seemed pretty pointless because of the loading screens. I'm meh on cars at this point -- there are other features that I'd prefer take priority -- but if they do it, fine.
What features that you want that would help return the "joy and fun" to your gameplay? And would you be okay if some of those features came in paid DLC rather than in free patches?
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Actually, there would be an difference between Sims 2 and Sims 4. In Sims 2 you had one loading screen versus multiple screens in Sims 4 if EA/Maxis does it the way I am envisioning it, I do not mind one loading screen. I would love to see terrain editor tools, neighborhood creation tools and lot creation tools. It is not just the matter of paid DLC which I would not pay for being it was included in Sims 3, it is up to the engine and if it is not possible then for me Sims 4 has peaked and at this stage I see no earth breaking features coming. Sims 4 did not evolve as other games in an series evolved meaning they use new features along with old features and not too many old features was cut. Sims 4 was the opposite it sort of evolved backwards and majority of the features was cut. Even if they do add cars or transportation it is not enough for me.
I hear you, although I can't really say that the fun has gone from playing Sims 4 because if I'm truthful, the fun (for me personally) was never really there to begin with. Although some features are well done, it still lacks everything I like about a sims game, ie - edit town, adding lots in odd places around the map, travelling to town, CASt, CAW, etc. Nearly every house I ever see has either a car on a driveway or a car parked on the road in front. It seems that nearly everyone in the world has a car except the sims found in Sims 4.
For me the lack of cars in 4 is immersion breaking in the same way it’s immersion breaking watching children leave for school by teleporting at the end of the lot. It’s unrealistic and quite frankly weird after four years a basic feature is still missing.
Then people say they don't need, just want. And I'm like, couldn't they make something more amusing with that time?
That is one reason I wanted the run here option. Because that option isn't in TS4 and some Sims will run through the woods in WB and some will walk and it does take a long time. I never knew which one was going to walk those miles or run them. We do need a run here option.
I particularly loved it for one of my mansions that had a long driveway. It's always nice to see your sims drive up to the house after a long day at work.
TS3 didn't have the nice detail, since they simply transported out of the car and the car teleported to a parking space.
Driving through town made up for that.
I don't think TS4 would be as nice as they will probably teleport to their parking space, and not as good as TS2 or TS3.
That said, I would still love to have cars because I would build garages. Cars would be another way for sims to spend their income and provide more evidence of their financial status, tastes, and lifestyles.
I'd like to place cars into driveways or garages for builds, or to work on, but I wouldn't use them. I still remember back in Sims 1 when you'd have to leave a community lot because your needs were dropping, you'd call a cab, and then you'd have to sit there and hope you'd get back in time. No thanks. Even put in some teleporter object mods back then to avoid that very thing, lol.
That's because TS1 had more realism. Cats, Sims or anyone else sat in the road and actually blocked the cars. And when you hailed a limo in the EP to leave the studio Sims and other cabs and limos were blocking the route to leave. Just like real life.