Sims is great and everything, but it kinda leaves people who do not have the ability to walk out if they want to make a 100% accurate self-sim. I recently started a different poll for what people want to see added to the game and had a huge response to "disabled sims". Feel free to comment and tell me why you made your choice.
***Please keep in mind that this is just a servey and it is in no way meant to offend anyone!
I will be playing a bit of devil's advocate, so be prepared if you comment!
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I wouldn’t want them to throw in some half-baked, half-plummed afterthought attempt this late in the game though. It would require a lot of game revamp to accommodate properly and something like this deserves 100% effort.
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There are too many new animations associated with the addition of wheelchair (eating, sleeping, hugging, talking, woohooing and what about other activities such as swimming or working out for sims with physical inconvenience, which of course would all require new animations because of height differences.
Also the developers have to consider if this is what the majority of players really want for their life simulating game? To sum up, this whole new experience is way more complicated than just proposing the idea of adding in a wheelchair and to be completely honest I really can't see the developers even consider adding this "feature" for the game at all.
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I just don't think it would be any harder to add an "acceptably" good functioning walkstyle.
Maybe for people with canes or crutches is doable but wheel chair bound sims may have extra animations look on getting on the bed cuz it will be awkward to suddenly make them stand up and move the blanket to get inside like the default animation. XD
Just playing devil's advocate
The moving the covers part is not a huge deal but more so the "transferring themselves from the wheelchair to the bed". Also, it's a question on how injured or handicapped the person is. Some people can still do it themselves but others might need help from other people. This all will complex things as well.
The reason they do it for toddlers is cuz everyone was complaining about wanting toddlers.
I just think they will feel like majority of people might not even use these walk styles. Heck, even I don't use much of the walks types cuz technically, you can give them just a normal default one. XD I don't know if people know about this, but yeah.
Also, the fact that a lot of people don't even change, or know how to change walkstyles is why I think even a basic animation would be fine if they did it well.
Another thing is, for the people, like myself, who do use walkstyles, there is the infected walk, vampire walk, goofy walk, etc., that contort the sims figures. Are these not complex as well? I'm just saying the complexity of the sitting, moving a sims arms, and moving the sim+wheelchair isn't a hard animation to complete, especially in a relatively low graphic game.
It actually would be very fun for me!
I've always thought that a wheelchair would be kind of fun to have in the game, at least for the purposes of a hospital, because women are often transported that way from room to room when they're about to have a baby (and often times after their baby is delivered). Even in general after having surgery, they're used all the time in a hospital.
@Kendrana I've always thought that a surgical room escort chair would make sense in the game, more so than the sim waddling uncomfortably back to a surgery table.
Of course, take the time to make sure everything is respectful. But I feel making small changes to be a little more inclusive is always better than not being inclusive at all.
@Mouselline, that's well said. Sims 4 has elevators in apartments, so I don't think adding those to buildmode to make second and third floors accessible is that big of a deal. So far, what people seem to be worried about is the animation aspect, which could hold a slight challenge. Nothing to huge in my opinion, but still.
@gardenlobster, I love the fact that you pointed out the elder icon! It feels like the idea is there, just not acted on in the game. As for the ramp thing, I've done several builds where I used an angled roof to make a drive in garage and have been waiting for a ramp of some sort. Maybe we'll get one soon.