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Are pool tables even possible?
ehaught58
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Is there a good reason why we do not have pool tables in the Sims 4? I, and many other people, have been asking for pool tables since the Sims 4 release. I just don’t understand why pool tables, which we had in all of the previous versions of the Sims, is not in the Sims 4? Can anyone give me a good reason why?
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As for why they haven't done them yet, personally I think it's because the current team for Sims 4 is just focused elsewhere. They seem to be very focused on things that are important to the Twitterverse social media crowd and Pool/Billiards is probably not hip/fashionable enough for that crowd to care about.
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A pool table, don't you understand?
Friend, either you're closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the calibre of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your community
Well, ya got trouble my friend, right here.
To the depths of degradation!
Now friend, let me tell you what I mean
You got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table
Pockets that mark the difference between a gentleman and a bum
With a capital "B" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!!!
Yeah!
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This old codger still enjoys playing a game of billiards (usually after a night of competing in our monthly darts tourney).... sipping on a frothy dark ale and exchanging some chit-chat with the local townsfolk.
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like maybe sims can makeout while playing billiards
maybe they can teach other sims flirtatiously
maybe 8 ball is magical and may cause deathful accidents...
maybe they're still trying to get animation of dragons torching the table just right
who knows probably not though
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I would guess it's because of multitasking and the socialization system of TS4. Think about it, I can't imagine four Sims will stand still long enough to play an actual game of pool like they did in TS2 or even TS3. I can see where one would hide the pool stick to go hug somebody. Or your Sim stops shooting pool to look at a fixture on the wall.
It's probably more pain that it's worth.
Or maybe they don't want to animate realistically the balls moving on the pool table. Heard that they didn't animate properly the chess pieces either, they just move randomly on the chess table.
Like this ^^^ is ALL that I have been asking since sims 4... I need a proper sports bar okay!...well that and more Family activities, but yeah, PLEASE EA can I have a pool table already!
You are correct on the chess table. In TS2 they played an actual game anyone familiar with chess could follow and appreciate. Not in 4 since its release. It's a great multi-sim activity, and one they head right to if it's available. Would be a lot of work to get it right, though.
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Four Sims can play at the foosball table without interuption as long as they don't have a pressing need like going to the bathroom
I think they just haven't gotten around to it. Like some one said they do seem to be more focused on current trends and other such things. But I also wonder why we see a lack of new animations, interactions or animated things. I'm curious if it's hard to do, too time consuming, too expensive or something else.
Because right off the top of my head I could think of so many new things that would be awesome. And great interactions for multiple sims.
I do think we would get one eventually. I would love to put one in my clubs for the boys🤭
Sure, but if you remember bowling was a very limited animation. Sims couldn't talk to each other, sit down and wait for the other to bowl nor did they build relationships and or fill social and fun at the same time as in older games. All that had to be patched in later, much, much later. It was a very rigid, restricted animation setup.
Considering the times Sims in TS4 break away to go hug someone, and or go over to another table while at dinner with a Sim, and or stop to run off and go talk to a stranger, and or stop and start doing pushups, and or don't 'join' at all but leave the lot (which have all been player complaints even when Sims are playing games together, for the past seven years) I doubt any of us would be happy with the results.
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And that might be difficult to do with the limited amount of packs that they are releasing, I'm not sure how many packs that they are planning to release every year from now on.
Well the foosball table do demand a lot of animations and the Sims can play that forever, what I heard EA is still looking to fill a lot of positions and have a hard time filling them, so maybe it is a staffing problem.