I like to look back at my sims’ family tree and trace their ancestors, but I have been a bit disappointed in the family treees of TS3 and TS4. I would like it if:
- The picture of each sim wasn’t so tiny and, for dead Sims, it wasn’t just an image of a ghost which doesn’t show what they were like in life and is hard to see anyway
- You could see more info about each sim when you clicked on them in the tree (career, cause of death, a picture of them at each life stage)
- When a Sim gets culled, they don’t disappear from your tree. I know this doesn’t always happen as I have some sims who were culled but are still on family trees. But, I have some unplayed culled sims who disappeared from family trees without a trace.
I’ve actually started a family tree for my sims on ancestry (LOL) since I have it for my (real) family’s family tree, and it’s much better. The pictures are bigger and clearer, you can add more pictures to each person and whatever info you want (cause of death, marriage, employment, their traits etc).
Is it just me, or would others like the family trees in TS4 to be a bit more detailed?
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I like to build stuff
In ts3 I used to make my own. Some of them got really huge! I see other simmers who use family tree software etc to make them outside of the game, and this is probably the best idea as you can tailor them to suit your own needs, putting whatever info on it you want and your own nice pictures.
It would be great, of course, if they were better in-game but the game doesn't even recognise certain relationships does it? Like step-parents, cousins etc???
The trees on TS4 actually do recognise step parents and half siblings. One of my sims’ kids (well, he’s an adult now) is the result of an alien abduction and his father’s wife is marked on his family tree as his step-mother and his father’s daughter is marked as his half-sister. That surprised me as in the relationship panel she isn’t marked as his step-mother and the half-sister is just labelled as his sister. I’d like for these things to appear in the relationship panel, too.
I’m not sure if the tree recognises cousins, I’ll have to check.
Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
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Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
Breed Out The Weird *COMPLETE*
Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
Breed Out The Weird *COMPLETE*
I love genealogy and created my own trees in TS2 and TS3 (some), but did not yet for TS4. It's good idea though to have a routine for saving those portraits, in case I decide to make a tree in the future...
Have used it for TS3 families.
A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
Time enjoyed is never time wasted
The sims need story progression back as well. Also make it a option that can be turned off like everything else if you do not want your world to have story progression. The progression mod doesn't cut it for me, its alright, but you can tell its not something done by EA it doesn't blend well with vanilla gameplay it feels like a mod... its okay to feel like a mod of course, it is what it is.
Every year I wait for EA to release content to enchances these aspects of the game but they don't.... legacy is why I play the sims... and I feel like sims 4 is weakest game in the series for legacy based gameplay experience.
Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
Breed Out The Weird *COMPLETE*
It’s strange, because The Sims 3 focuses more on the world Sims live in and, yet, it managed to give us family trees. Even with that, we had proper babies (albeit lacking limbs) and toddlers.
The Sims 4 claims to have focused all around the Sims themselves, but we’ve seen time and time again how it has failed to do so. It lacks a clear vision, and I hope The Sims 5 does not make the same mistake.
Legacy: https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/public.html#59acd9dc03a89f01b73bbf4e
Not so Berry: https://www.theplumtreeapp.com/public.html#596592475e3b3a0e268e7f7f
Family Dynamics: https://theplumtreeapp.com/public.html#5b565bffcb9247000fe6d4d4
A big family tree was destroyed. I do not know why????? I play the games without CC and without mods. I wanted to play a family for a long time today. And what happened ?! 2 ancestors have disappeared and can no longer be seen in the family tree! Instead of the two there is simply an "empty" icon.
I want to ask it again; that the important problems in a "LIFE SIMULATION GAME" should be also corrected. Should EA say: that the game will not be playable afterwards, then finish this Sims 4 crap and create a new one!
It is time that we make such a gamelike this ourselves. Apparently EA no longer gets ittThey have to create a "full-fledged" game and let their players, if there is real problems and thats when you have play the game or family for more than 30 hours and then something "broken" goes.
The fun is currently not available in this game. There are countless problems and bugs that are just there and have been coming up again and again for 3-4 years, where EA just does not work on it - the main thing is making money and putting out one Add On after the next one . Which again brings more and more problems that make other things "broken". : s
pl. fix
Oh--you'll find the mods tend to close threads that have such a long time gap between the last post & the newest one (necroposting).
I doubt they will even though I would love to see that happening. They're notorious for leaving already shipped stuff intact.
All I want is for them to prove me wrong and improve family trees, occults, and inventory but that's almost certainly not happening.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/997947/cas-qol-improvements