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The one thing that ruins the game...
R_Moorcroft
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Is the frigin taxis!!!
I meen what is the point of buying your own car, if you can jus walk outside and a taxi is magically waiting there for you. Ready to take you anywhere in the city in 5 seconds for no amount of money.
It allows you to get to all those great places in the city effortlessly.
I think to get a taxi you would have to phone one up and it costs $20. It should also take about 20 (Sim) minutes to get to you.
This would allow sim owned cars to be more useful, and allow athletic sims to jog to places (They already can but it'd be more useful.)
Plz tell me if this is a bad idea. The one excuse I will NOT accept is "OMG you are going to make the game to hard!!! For my little billy, who wants to get to level 10 in the music career in 2 days and go wherever he wants!!!"
PS. It doesn't really ruin the game, it just makes you wonder.
I meen what is the point of buying your own car, if you can jus walk outside and a taxi is magically waiting there for you. Ready to take you anywhere in the city in 5 seconds for no amount of money.
It allows you to get to all those great places in the city effortlessly.
I think to get a taxi you would have to phone one up and it costs $20. It should also take about 20 (Sim) minutes to get to you.
This would allow sim owned cars to be more useful, and allow athletic sims to jog to places (They already can but it'd be more useful.)
Plz tell me if this is a bad idea. The one excuse I will NOT accept is "OMG you are going to make the game to hard!!! For my little billy, who wants to get to level 10 in the music career in 2 days and go wherever he wants!!!"
PS. It doesn't really ruin the game, it just makes you wonder.
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edit** I can't spell haha
I know that.
But the problems are it costs no money and it come instantly.
Also instead of sims taking there own cars, they just catch a taxi?
Lol. Its just weird is it not?
Yes, it should probably cost you money, but do we really want to wait an arbitrary amount of time for it to arrive?
I mean, if your sim goes jogging with their sports car in their inventory, they can stop jogging at any point and drive off...
I don't really think it "ruins" the game though
However, I wouldn't mind if they added a small fee for using the taxi cabs. Maybe like you said $20, but I strongly disagree with the idea that we should have to use the phone for the taxi to come. It would just be annoying, although since the taxi does just magically appear in front of your house, maybe it wouldn't be too bad. Though I'd rather not have to make a call.
I do find it a bit annoying that the animation has changed for driving one's car to and fro. But I don't seem to be having any trouble getting my sims to use their own autos.
I simply click on the auto and select from the resulting pie chart. Then they go out to the street and click their remotes and his/her car appears, and whoosh off they go.
In fact, when it's time for them to go to work, if I can click on their car before the carpool comes, then they will ignore the carpool in favor of their own car.
Does it not work this way for everybody else?
P.S. I have run into a glitch, where upon being instructed to 'Go Home' they will once in a while drive all the way into the livingroom. But that's another story.
just the **** carpool still appearing when I set my sim as car owner (so he takes the carpool and not his owned car)
Being from NYC, it makes perfect sense to me (except for the free part).
I thought it was just me who felt that way.
Seriously, if you drive your own car to the park, you should be able to drive it back to your house.
It defeats the purpose of having a car.
If that was the case, then no one would need cars.
We'd just use Taxis to get around.
They should have just made a place on side the rode for the cars to park, like in reality.
When the Sim is done in that place, they can just get in their car and leave elsewhere.
annoying if you have your own car.