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Are you interested in building your own apartment buildings?
Sakuske1
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Do you think we will ever be able to build our own apartment buildings again, à la the Sims 2? I used to LOVE building them and setting them up, and while the apartments in the Sims 4 are great and quirky and fun, I'd love to be able to make my own in the other neighborhoods. It would not only add character and realism, but it'd be a great way to add more space for Sim families to live that doesn't include adding more neighborhoods, blank or otherwise, as multiple families will be able to live on one lot.
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Are you interested in building your own apartment buildings? 93 votes
Yes, please!
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No, thank you.
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Indifferent.
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The most I have managed in-game is to create semi-detached houses so some of the family can move next door and have their own house with the other members of the family locked out!
Right?! I want to make row houses, and brownstones, and painted ladies (I know these three examples are very similar; I have a type haha) and typical, everyday, 2-3 story apartment buildings like you find EVERYWHERE, unlike the tall high rises in cities (which are still great, but shouldn't be the only option). Plus, just think of all the famous tv apartments that would flood the gallery! How fun would that be?!
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Now Sims 4 limits me to actual, literal apartments in a city. That's beyond boring and a waste of what used to be a powerful feature.
I get that reasoning, but you don't need to be a "builder" to appreciate this feature; I don't consider myself to be a "builder" either. I do enjoy building and creating homes and such when the mood and inspiration strikes, and I fancy my houses enough to upload and share them, but I am not nearly on the same level as some of the builders in the gallery. If they added this, the gallery would be overrun with so many beautiful apartment buildings that everyone would be able to download and enjoy! It would really make the game that much richer.
1. Neighbors - Multiple units with different families living in them. And being able to visit them
2. Building your own elevator systems.
3. Trash shoots
4. Building events
5. Building Super
6. If I remember correctly you could customize a little more
I like a few Sims 3 features as well
1. Hearing neighbor noise
2. Parking lots
3. Liked the lobby of the high rise apartments
4. The mail area
Actually I can see how the game allows us to build an apartment. Maybe we'll just have to put a special door and automatically the whole room and the other rooms connected will be belonged to one household. Perhaps we'll have a tool to change a normal door into "apartment door". Another possibility is that we'll have a tool of circling the area of an apartment unit using tiles so that the household will possess a little bit of garden or backyard instead of just some indoor rooms.
That's a really good idea, might even be able to do it with the room tool we have now.
honestly The penthouse would be epic!
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there are many gallery builds that imitate apartments or townhomes (that are VERY GOOD), yet only one family can actually live there. it takes some real imagination to pretend your neighbors aren't members of your family.
I used to love building in the Sims 2 apartments styles. Those were perfect to me and we could play up to 4 households in each apartment too. I think those were the best apartments the game has ever had.
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I agree, The Sims 2 made it SO easy and simple; all you had to do was place the correct front door and make sure things were all enclosed and (as far as I remember) you were set! I don't see why they can't implement something simple like that here in the Sims 4 (but I'm not a programmer or coder in the slightest and I apologize if I'm making a huge simplification out of something that is actually very complex).
I wouldn't even mind terribly if they operated like the current San Myshuno apartments with loading screens to visit other neighbors in the same building, just for the opportunity to be able to build my own apartments again in whatever world I want.