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CrispySims619
Seasoned Hotshot
9 hours ago

A Build/Buy Mode Quality of Life Update is needed!

As mainly a builder in The Sims 4 there are some things that frustrate me. Therefore we really need a major overhaul of Build/Buy mode, especially when it comes to item tagging and also de-cluttering specific areas.

I would like to see Wall Decals be moved into its own special section away from the Wall Art/Paintings. I think we could go even further and have a infant/toddler/child wall art & decal section located in the Kids Bedroom part of the UI and that way it will tidy up the more mature and grown up Wall Art section in the rest of the rooms. I also think Posters could ideally have their own icon in Bedrooms as well. I think Neon Signs could also have their own section, this could ideally be located in the Bar/Dining section of the UI.

We need a drastic but much needed overhaul of clutter items. There are so many clutter items that appear in sections that do not make any sense. For example when you click on Clutter in the Kitchen UI, nearly 80% of those clutter items have nothing to do with Kitchens at all. Each room section in the UI should really have its own Clutter Icon and all of the clutter items in the game should be correctly tagged to appear in those specific sections only.

Wall Textures really need a major looking at as well. There are many wall textures that appear in places that do not make sense.

We need some new ceiling specific textures added to the game.

I also feel like we are in need of another major swatch update with many new swatches for a lot of items.

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  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    4 hours ago

    Oh! And a cheat to disable snap, many times when placing decor on foundations, they snap to the wall above instead, surfaces also have this issue. I can understand snap for "use" items/objects, and to ensure routing, but when that isn't the case, especially for build/decor reasons that shouldn't effect routing/objects use—we would really benefit for more freedom from snap! 

    edit: Also, the ability to adjust lighting without Live Mode (and without a mod), I usually build while in manage world and an no household, having to move someone in to fiddle with lights really annoys me.

  • CirceKnight's avatar
    CirceKnight
    Seasoned Adventurer
    8 hours ago

    Yes to all of this. I wasn’t really all that into building until recently so I didn’t really notice how much of a mess it was until now. Using clutter/decoration items for example I constantly had to go into the see all options  just to find the items I was looking for when decorating, especially to find the bathroom kitchen clutter items.

    The “wall art” category also bugs me to no end. Why are wall details like cob webs and wall patches in the wall art section when they should be in their own category. 

    And as another comment already stated more colour swatches so we can actually match items better when decorating would be nice.

     

  • HollownessDevour's avatar
    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    9 hours ago

    Swatches are VERY frustrating as it stands. There are so many similar non-matching swatches between packs or base game that make many building and decorating options looks just too mismatched. Sadly, some of these are even for newer packs L&D/EbN/R&L can't seem to have the same rich medium wood (and sometimes with a mismatched gold accent), making these packs not look good used together. And some pack swatches don't even match within their own pack too.

    Medium rich/red woods example:

    RoM has no Cabinets so trying to match from another pack is impossible! No cross-pack swatch harmony is really annoying.

    Medium rich/red woods with different coloured gold accents example:

    Some golds are not too terrible for match but still almost never have a match unless the same set from the same pack.Doesn't match from their own pack.Doesn't match from their own pack.

    These are just the tip of the iceberg. I really wish they used more universal swatches, at least when they are clearly using similar/like colours. Sometimes you do not want perfectly matched build/buy objects, but other times you want a level of harmony.

    L&D vs. R&L reds and teals that make me sad, that I can't use better together example:

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