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If they add cars (driving skill)
BabySquare
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If cars are added I personally would LOVE it if driving was a skill, and not just for teens - I'd like my adult sims to learn to drive. I've given this a lot of thought:
They could book lessons one at a time with an NPC instructor who comes to the house and teaches them for a few hours, and then when they'd maxed the skill they could then 'unlock' the ability to drive on their own by going for a test (which would probably be a rabbit hole).
Maybe a series of chance cards would determine if they passed or failed, which could result in a confident or embarassed moodlet respectively.
What do you think? Would you like driving to be a skill, with NPC driving instructors?
They could book lessons one at a time with an NPC instructor who comes to the house and teaches them for a few hours, and then when they'd maxed the skill they could then 'unlock' the ability to drive on their own by going for a test (which would probably be a rabbit hole).
Maybe a series of chance cards would determine if they passed or failed, which could result in a confident or embarassed moodlet respectively.
What do you think? Would you like driving to be a skill, with NPC driving instructors?
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Perhaps there could be an option whether we wanted to watch a longer video, or just as short as possible. I guess it would be fun the first 10 times, but from there not being as interesting unless the situation is particularly interesting. Or, unless they make these video clips kinda mini games where we (as the driving sim) could affect the driving somehow. Adding taxis could give even more variation, as we could not affect the driving.
Hm, I'm warming up...
As for the thought it can't be done, TS2 had driveable cars even if the only animations were leaving and returning. If you took it downtown, you and car were there at the end of the loading screen. TS4 in game has cars going by on the streets all the time, so the set up is there - which is more than I can say for TS2 other than taxis and vacation vehicles. The only traffic seen was in neighborhood view.
The roads have pole blocks on a lot of them - there are no blockades (or fx in the Island water - there is in some of the worlds waters where fx boats travel and probably why they are not even swimmable) in the water for boats - but there are plenty in the different worlds. The roads that don't have them have fx vehicles using them and sims cars could not use fx pathing - they could not occupy the same space from my understanding.
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How about being able to drive their own car even if they don't max the driving skill?
They might make few mistakes like crashing the fence or trashcans on the street. So they have to pay for them!
I wanna see what happens if teen sims accidentally breaking their parents' car. haha
In the event that we'd get cars in a game pack, there could be a community lot that's a driving school, where Sims could go to learn to drive and improve their skill. Or even just head out of their own lot and come back with the skill raised. The neighbourhoods in a lot of places are big enough so we could follow them on short drives (the way we can follow them when they're jogging).
It would require adjustment to the existing worlds to enable cars, of course (removing road blocks and the current fx cars where necessary). But I'd say it's entirely doable.