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Apartments everywhere?
M_Valentine22
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In Sims city living, there are so many different apartments ranging from tiny and cheap to massive and expensive but is it only me that wishes that there could be apartments every and you can make your own apartment building. I thought of this when I had a teen sims who I wanted to get really successful, just for fun. But I really wanted a tiny apartment to make it more realistic. I also wanted her to live with her parents in Windenburg but a house was too expensive.
What do guys think about this? and if there is a cheat to edit apartments, please let me know because I haven't looked that hard
What do guys think about this? and if there is a cheat to edit apartments, please let me know because I haven't looked that hard
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Carry on
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I know that you cannot edit the buildings' exteriors but I tear down all the walls of my Sims' apartments and rebuild and decorate the insides to my liking all the time. It comes from living in an apartment myself I suppose.
Apartment building, if we get it, will probably be one of the last features to be added I expect. I hope I am wrong as I did enjoy building them.
I think there is a lot trait for apartments that it called quiet or silent. It basically means no noise will come from it
However, I'd love to be able to build my own apartments. Also, since apartments are stacked in reality, I don't understand why we have such few apartments per building available to use. We should have instead of 2-3 per building something like 8-12 and to view them you just click the up and down arrow like you do to see different floors. They could all be identical, which is realistic too, and we can decorate them, anyway.
Also, for those who want quiet, does the game still put people in neighboring apartments if you untick 'fill empty houses' in the game settings?
I used to build so many awesome lots in Sims 2 using the apartment cheats. Cannot do that in the newest version I am stuck with a handful of (IMO) poorly designed units that don’t reflect my own apartment experience. One of the biggest mistakes they made aside from the whole design of apartments was locking the interesting gameplay into like 2 of them. No leaky pipes, sparking utility boxes, mice, roaches or anything in any residence beyond those two apartments.
I did not know that, thanks, I'll make sure to check next time!
I would love to build Apts and also edit them but EA/Maxis had denied the players that option. CL right now is on my unpopular list for that reason. I wish I can build outside of the city that came with CL an forced playground of an city but I can't do that. For there are not an lot of editing tools in building that allows the player to alter thier lot or neighborhood for that matter. I have not seen any cheats that allow the user to edit thier apt and if there are it is only within the confines of your apt and not the common areas, no true building of Apts from scratch.
I've been annoyed with the way noisy neighbors are implemented in this game. In sims 2, you would only have noise disrupting a room if your wall is adjacent to a neighboring apartment. Other rooms would be unaffected. Then you got to watch the funny animation of your sim angerly banging on the wall. I would like to see something more like sims 2. The sims 4 way is too much.
I've tried the townhouse thing, but I found my sims spent their whole time trying to get into the other family's space. That was a very short lived experience for me. There should be a way to designate living space like they had in sims 2. I think if they brought back many aspects of sims 2 apartments, we all would be happy. The sims 2 system was rock solid.
Sims 2 was pretty advanced for its time.
Totally agree.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
I'd have to agree with that, the way they did it in TS2 was brilliant, I particularly liked the San Fransico type lots they had.
Hopefully when Maxis inevitably releases University, they'll learn from their mistakes and make dorms 100% buildable. Not much difference between a dorm and an apartment building (functionally speaking), so even if Maxis doesn't release buildable apartments, I have faith that a modder will be able to repurpose the code to add apartments as a new building type.
Daily? You're lucky... It was 5 times a day for me.
Ps: The "quiet" trait is a locked trait specific of some apt and it's not usable by the player unless you unlock it with a mod, like the need TLC one. And even then, you have to add it to every apt in the building to make it works.
Also, the Quiet lot trait is not as it is intended; if you live in an appt that has the trait, your neighbors won't make noise but any loud noise you make, THEY can hear. If you live in an appt that neighbors one with the trait instead, you will continue to hear noises from their "Quiet" appt. I've had very personal experiences with this when I was playing in that appt. I'm not even sure if it's even by design or a bug.
Update: I posted a query about the Quiet lot trait here.