sooo maaanny foos!

"puzzlezaddict;c-17212037" wrote:

"AbellaKellaher;d-964940" wrote:
Anyone else wonder why there are 57 thousand types of foos ball tables in the sims but not one air hockey table or a board game or a simple card table

Maybe because after they wrote the code for the original foosball table all those years ago, all they had to do was design a few new shells for the table and resell each one as new content.

Oh this obviously is the reason they recycled the foos, sure, but there are plenty of other things they could have recycled. They recycled the Gnubb set with horseshoes, a poker table for home was already in TS2 and the animations were already in TS3 so a card table would have been easy. Board game games would be pretty easy to adapt other animations as well - shaking dice could be accomplished with the same animation to make a drink, moving pieces could easily be recycled from chess or dominoes. Heck, dominoes could have been recycled as Scrabble easily. :)

A card or board game would require new animations, and can you imagine the work it would take to program the puck on an air hockey table to properly ricochet? Much less effort to stick with what already exists.

Actually that animation already exists, too, with pool tables. And honestly that's not that difficult really. I like to consider myself slightly more computer savy than most but in my family I'm surrounded by coder savants lol. Mimicking ricochet is nothing but math really. It's direction + speed + redirection - speed. In fact if you want to be technical, it'd be more difficult to program pool table ricochet due to the 3 dimensions of the sphere and the 360 degrees of possible english, but I haven't watched the pool games in this game closely enough to see if they account for english as well as direction and speed. They also use ricochet with the foos table balls I think, though I could be wrong :)

I think there are mods for other kinds of games though, if you're interested.

Other than a few basic NRAAS mods (and a couple other well known ones like anylotsize) I strive to remain CC free. It's just always been bad news for me lol. But thank you for the suggestion! I get pretty tempted for CC now and again but so far this time around I've remained strong :)