Would you like to have grocery stores in TS4 ?

https://i.imgur.com/pubabMY.jpg

(Imagine that this was in TS2!!)


It’s something I’ve been wanting since I’ve been playing TS4. A supermarket/grocery store lot, similar to retail stores, where my sims could go grocery shopping like regular people (rater than have everything appear In the fridge), where sims could work, or that you could own.

I might be the only one, but I liked going to the Grocery Store In TS3 (even though it was a rabbit hole).

So I’d like to have one in TS4 too.

1000000% yes. This is one of features I want more than anything else. It's mind boggling that we still don't have grocery stores in a 6 year old LIFE SIMULATOR.

Really? More boring pointless chores?
Absolutely NOT. I still remember hating you had to go to a store and BUY your new outfits in Sims 2.

Only if I could still "order in" on a per meal basis.

The only reason I go to the store in person IRL is because I like control over what produce and meats I get and I know what I can do without and what I must find a substitute for - and what substitutes work for whatever I'm planning. It's a level of nuance I don't need in a game where 24 hours in game takes 30 minutes in reality.

I have so many other things I want my sims to be doing - skilling up, collecting, writing books, harvesting the garden, etc - and stories I want to tell (I don't need "difficulty" to make the game fun) that having to put that on hold to send someone to the grocery store ... no thanks. Maybe if it didn't put the whole plum household on pause for actually getting stuff done when I left the lot, it might be interesting on occasion.

They did introduce the produce kiosk in City Living, so there's some precedent for it. And I wouldn't mind if they had something similar for meats, dairy, breads and such, and the overall cost was less than if you just paid for ingredients as you do now.

I wouldn't mind if they added a Grocery store.

I just don't want it to be mandatory.

"Sk8rblaze;c-17422867" wrote:

"Beardedgeek;c-17422861" wrote:
Really? More boring pointless chores?
Absolutely NOT. I still remember hating you had to go to a store and BUY your new outfits in Sims 2.

Everything not handed to you and having to play the game? Oh, the horror.

I’d love grocery stores and having to buy clothes from TS2 in the next game. It’s a life simulator, give me more objectives and goals to work for aside from pointless aspirations and rewards which only simplify an already too easy game.

You got me all wrong. I hate how extremely easy Sims 4 is compared to older titles. That said, I don't see the connection you try to make.

Quite frankly I find playing a game that is just like reality absolutely pointless. After all, I am alive. I know what being alive is like, I don't have to simulate it.
What I WANT is to be able to do the things I CANNOT do in real life. Which is why I love Island Living, I guess. Actually spending my days living on the beach, in a climate without any of that utter horror I experience every winter, namely winter. Actually making enough money as a freelancer to only have to work two days a week and spend the rest sunbathing, diving looking at turtles, or well wear as little clothes as possible everywhere. Or having enough motivation to actually get a six pack and go to the gym four days a week.

Going to the grocery store ads absolutely zero to my gaming experience, just like laundry (or knitting) ads zero to my gaming experience. I get the same enjoyment from doing laundry in Sims 4 as I do from pausing the game and do laundry IRL. But at least I can fast forward past it, I guess.

Instead, give me some actual goals and motivations with challenges. Remove the reward store, or at least remove all "cheats" (the mermaid kelp, the potions, the total immunity to needs). Make it almost impossible to reach more than one aspiration per lifetime and only make it possible to change the aspiration when you age up so picking the correct one will be important. Make me CARE about skilling up, and not just see it as something I fast-forward thru to reach my next 100 rewards points in my latest Aspiration (of what I will have completed about 6 aspirations at death, having 30 000 reward points and earning 12 000 Simolions a day. As I said, Sims 4 has 0% challenge for anything).

"DaWaterRat;c-17422879" wrote:
Only if I could still "order in" on a per meal basis.

The only reason I go to the store in person IRL is because I like control over what produce and meats I get and I know what I can do without and what I must find a substitute for - and what substitutes work for whatever I'm planning. It's a level of nuance I don't need in a game where 24 hours in game takes 30 minutes in reality.

I have so many other things I want my sims to be doing - skilling up, collecting, writing books, harvesting the garden, etc - and stories I want to tell (I don't need "difficulty" to make the game fun) that having to put that on hold to send someone to the grocery store ... no thanks. Maybe if it didn't put the whole plum household on pause for actually getting stuff done when I left the lot, it might be interesting on occasion.

They did introduce the produce kiosk in City Living, so there's some precedent for it. And I wouldn't mind if they had something similar for meats, dairy, breads and such, and the overall cost was less than if you just paid for ingredients as you do now.

I wouldn't mind if they added a Grocery store.

I just don't want it to be mandatory.

Exactly.
As I mentioned in another thread, I find myself stuck in between the two major blocks of Simmers:

The "We want everything Supernatural and as unrealistic as possible" gang
The "add ALL the pointless chores I hate IRL but love to do digitally" gang

I don't fit either, at all, and it is also telling because the expansions I LOVE everyone else seems to hate, and the other way around.

I could see giving different options: automated (current model), online delivery, and grocery stores.

I would love to be able to shop for groceries.

One of the first retail establishments I built when we got Get To Work was a grocery store. I had cc shopping carts and cc items for shelves and I made all the aisles with all the things on the shelves (which took forever btw!) and it was a pretty cool looking grocery! But the Sims 4 retail set up is extremely lacking and as a shopper at any retail venue in sims 4, it leaves a lot to be desired. You click on an item, buy it, and the experience is over.

I don't know. I think it would just be another let down in terms of how they implement anything in this game.

Personally, no. I would rather have my sims do other things other than grocery shopping or having to go to a bookstore to buy books. I actually like that I can save time by buying things through phones or bookcases. I have GTW, and Dine out and restaurants are the only "retail" places I send my sims to.

Non-rabbit hole movie theatre is what I would prefer.