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A future for apartments
Atreya33
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A while ago there was a discussion on this forum about DLC for DLC and it got me thinking about apartments.
I think there should be room for apartments in a new pack, and not as DLC for DLC. The reason: there are already features being repeated in packs.
- The most prominent feature is going on vacation. JA borrowed 'the vacation code' work from OR but it is not set up as DLC for DLC. You don't need OR to go into the jungle. And this allowed the team to make create new features for JA which results in a different type of vacation. The resetting temple and the closed gates make you go back more. As a bonus having both packs will allow you to combine them and use tents in JA.
- The new actor career is based on the get to work careers yet improved with variations on the set, the ability to stay after work, more career diversity through agencies,... I don't believe we would have gotten this career if get to work careers were not already created.
- Perks/weaknesses from vampires have similarities to the perks and quirks for get famous. But they gave it a twist in no longer being able to choose your weakness, it is now added at random.
Other features have also been repeated like food stalls in several packs
So when it comes to apartments, I think they should be possible in a new pack but with a new twist. And the first difference that comes to mind would be roommates. Give sims the possibility to live with a roommate (in apartments or in houses) And if you give the appartments a different setting, perhaps a smaller scale (a house with 3 or 4 units to live in, but not a big building underneath) or more suburban, so you notice immeadiatly you are not in San Myshuno.
If people want apartments with festivals and the big, shiny city they need City Living
If people want apartments with roommates in a new setting and hopefully some other features they would need a new pack.
Should people get both, they can combine features and they would be able to have a roommate in the big city San Myshuno.
I think there should be room for apartments in a new pack, and not as DLC for DLC. The reason: there are already features being repeated in packs.
- The most prominent feature is going on vacation. JA borrowed 'the vacation code' work from OR but it is not set up as DLC for DLC. You don't need OR to go into the jungle. And this allowed the team to make create new features for JA which results in a different type of vacation. The resetting temple and the closed gates make you go back more. As a bonus having both packs will allow you to combine them and use tents in JA.
- The new actor career is based on the get to work careers yet improved with variations on the set, the ability to stay after work, more career diversity through agencies,... I don't believe we would have gotten this career if get to work careers were not already created.
- Perks/weaknesses from vampires have similarities to the perks and quirks for get famous. But they gave it a twist in no longer being able to choose your weakness, it is now added at random.
Other features have also been repeated like food stalls in several packs
So when it comes to apartments, I think they should be possible in a new pack but with a new twist. And the first difference that comes to mind would be roommates. Give sims the possibility to live with a roommate (in apartments or in houses) And if you give the appartments a different setting, perhaps a smaller scale (a house with 3 or 4 units to live in, but not a big building underneath) or more suburban, so you notice immeadiatly you are not in San Myshuno.
If people want apartments with festivals and the big, shiny city they need City Living
If people want apartments with roommates in a new setting and hopefully some other features they would need a new pack.
Should people get both, they can combine features and they would be able to have a roommate in the big city San Myshuno.
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None of this is possible in TS4. You're given several premade apartment lots in one world, all of which are high up in their respective buildings, and you can change the interior, but that's it. Many fans complain that they once again got less for their money than in previous games, but I have to defend City Living in that regard because, as the name implies, it's a pack about sims living in the city, with all that comes with it, and apartments are just one element of that, so it's okay that they're not fully fleshed out.
But does that mean we can never get fully fleshed out apartments in the future? I don't think so, and if we do, it will open up a lot more possibilities than we have in the game now, so I wouldn't feel like I'm paying for the same content twice. In any case, I would find it preferable to never getting the ability to build our own apartments at all, and that is what I really want from apartments, not just more premade apartment lots just like the ones in San Myshuno.
Something wicked this way comes!
I don't use MCCC.
Apartments need to be based out of build mode, not created using world props. The latter is a feature killer. I get where they were going with the one’s in CL, but they knew what players were wanting and decided against it for an inferior design.
I always wondered what the problem was.
I was also a bit fan of sims 2 apartments. I didn't build many from scratch but I liked having the possibility. It was great to create lower apartments, not all of them had to be in a high building. I would be great to have something like that in Sims 4 but I think it is unlikely to happen.
This is what I’m hoping for. Box roommates and buildable apartments/dorms.
Omg yes! ESPECIALLY since they played around with having lots right next to each other in Get Famous.
I personally don't like the npc roommates and enjoy the neighbor aspect more. I think it would be better with opening up more floors in a building though so a lobby and amenities areas could be added. Sims could sit by the pool and chat with neighbors. Maybe nicer apartments would have basketball and better amenities.
They need to give us another city world though. Apartments were a great new feature that a lot of players always enjoy getting. To give us 1 city so far without the ability to place apartments anywhere else or build is kind of terrible. I think we deserve a new city free in a patch. Especially with how bad Del Sol was, it should have been that new city.
Roommates would be cool but should be completely optional for those who don't want them.
Your suggestion about lobby and pool makes me longing for a 'public' area on the lot which all tenants can use and which we can edit.
A new city would be welcome, and I mean a real city with houses built against each other and appartements not del Sol valley which is basically a city dressing over normal lots.