May We Please Have a Way to Bypass CAS?

yeah and itd also be useful when you want to play through the existing households first

i always just randomize sim and delete them as soon as i get into the game or pull someone from gallery

I am pretty sure you don't need to create a sim just to start building. When you click on a lot there is an option to visit for building.

I usually just add a sim from the gallery in that case, that goes pretty fast.

"crocobaura;c-18039167" wrote:
I am pretty sure you don't need to create a sim just to start building. When you click on a lot there is an option to visit for building.

In a brand new save, I have always had to create a sim before I could ever get to the neighborhood screen to actually build. If there's some work around to actually getting to the neighborhood screen and bypass CAS that would be awesome!

Now if I'm playing an existing save, I can get to the neighborhood screen because it will load the last played family's world.

But sometimes I want to build when I"m bored, and my saves already have houses or venues on all of the lots so I have to start a new save to build, and I always have to create a Sim first.

"Chicklet453681;c-18039220" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-18039167" wrote:
I am pretty sure you don't need to create a sim just to start building. When you click on a lot there is an option to visit for building.

In a brand new save, I have always had to create a sim before I could ever get to the neighborhood screen to actually build. If there's some work around to actually getting to the neighborhood screen and bypass CAS that would be awesome!

Now if I'm playing an existing save, I can get to the neighborhood screen because it will load the last played family's world.

But sometimes I want to build when I"m bored, and my saves already have houses or venues on all of the lots so I have to start a new save to build, and I always have to create a Sim first.

Could be you are right. I haven't started a new save in years. :lol: When I feel like building I just demolish something and save lot to the library. Not all the builds I build fit properly within my neighbourhoods, and many of my builds go through changes. I also like to have a sim on the lot to test stuff.

"crocobaura;c-18039167" wrote:
I am pretty sure you don't need to create a sim just to start building. When you click on a lot there is an option to visit for building.

Not when you need to start a new save in order to build on the lot of choice. I made a decision to give my Rock Star a new house, but I wanted him to stay on the lot he's currently living on. 2 Olde Mill Lane in HoB. Every time I move him to a new town, the Starlight Accolades goes buggy on me. So, I had to start a new save to get to that specific lot and build a new place. I've done that twice, now, because I wasn't totally satisfied with the first replacement build. I much prefer the second one I just finished this morning. But, it was a pain in the patoot just to get started. I suppose I could have used the first 'new' save but for some strange reason I decided not to. But the fact still remains that we have to go through CAS to build on a lot that is otherwise 'taken' in the existing save.

It's annoying, and I hate it. I don't want to create a sim, I want to play the premades! Or build, or whatever. Seriously, just make it go away,

And while we are at it, can we also get an option to opt out of getting our newly created households saved into our library? For safety reasons the default should be to save the household, of course, but there could be a checkbox that we can uncheck if we don't want that.

I have a "Townie starter kit" household that I use everytime I start a new save, and every single time the game places a new copy of the bunch into my library.

"GalacticGal;c-18039286" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-18039167" wrote:
I am pretty sure you don't need to create a sim just to start building. When you click on a lot there is an option to visit for building.

Not when you need to start a new save in order to build on the lot of choice. I made a decision to give my Rock Star a new house, but I wanted him to stay on the lot he's currently living on. 2 Olde Mill Lane in HoB. Every time I move him to a new town, the Starlight Accolades goes buggy on me. So, I had to start a new save to get to that specific lot and build a new place. I've done that twice, now, because I wasn't totally satisfied with the first replacement build. I much prefer the second one I just finished this morning. But, it was a pain in the patoot just to get started. I suppose I could have used the first 'new' save but for some strange reason I decided not to. But the fact still remains that we have to go through CAS to build on a lot that is otherwise 'taken' in the existing save.

That sounds complicated. I just build on whatever lot is free (or I can free up), as long as it's big enough for my needs. Once I save it to library, it can be placed on any other lot.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18039323" wrote:
And while we are at it, can we also get an option to opt out of getting our newly created households saved into our library? For safety reasons the default should be to save the household, of course, but there could be a checkbox that we can uncheck if we don't want that.

I have a "Townie starter kit" household that I use everytime I start a new save, and every single time the game places a new copy of the bunch into my library.

This reminds me to do some Spring Cleaning and clear out all of those unnecessary copies of the exact same family/Sim! (Making sure, of course, that I don't accidentally delete those whose skills are still in place, that is.) Oi, it gets full fast, doesn't it?