It has been 3ish years since the base game came out. They released pools about a month later after release and toddlers took about 2 years. Are they actually never going to add basic NPCs (mainly burglars & firefighters but also mailmen, police) that the past games had? I know there’s been numerous topics but it’s actually laughable that it wasn’t in the base game or added by now.
Did the developers or gurus ever comment on the matter? Having NPCs for me at least really added some “realistic” gameplay to my families-like having to call fire fighters/police for emergencies and not just treating it like anything else that could happen in the game.
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A (very, very dumb) reason has been given for not including burglars, and therefore we'll probably never get police NPCs. Not sure what's going on with the lack of firefighters, though---we definitely have fires.
I actually have never seen mailmen! Never really looked though just got notifications that they couldn’t reach the mailbox. I guess I was thinking about newspaper kids but that along with house phones is obselete now in most houses I assume.
Yeah. It can be easy to miss them, but they're there.
I miss them too. The burglar music made me instantly tense as hell, but still.
TS4 needs the Matchmaker also---so the game can generate new townies for my Sims to marry and I don't have to waste time creating them in CAS.
I miss the matchmaker too and it's not like they added online dating to fill that hole in a modern way. As for the music i remember the first time I heard it in sims 1 I ran from the computer room to get my older brother to help because I was so scared bit I loved it anyway.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/924539/features-that-needs-depth-and-ways-to-improve
I don't see what the big deal is.
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I thought Sims was supposed to be a "Life Simulation" type of game. Clearly, I was TOTALLY wrong!
That is true, Sims 2 had the best special NPCs. I think one of the best ones was Mrs. Crumplebottom-she actually hit your sim with her purse when you were doing romantic interactions on a public lot during a date!
How awesome would it be if a sim you made to be a police officer could be the one to arrest a thief (a sim who's in the criminal career)
So many possibilities in TS4, too bad no one cares to add these features in. The base is already there!