Suggestion - Sims 4 - Sims with Disabilities
I honestly believe Sims 4 is the perfect environment to represent people with disabilities. There are very few major games which do so. Elements that could be put in include: Wheelchair Bound Sim...
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Sorry but this is just not doable. There are no elevators so wheelchairs is out. While ramps could be done it doesn't help much. The gameplay you suggest would be unmanageable. Take the suggestion to make everything mostly blacked out for blind Sim. What would happen when you changed to a seeing Sim? AAC devices. There are no real talking so redundant. while I do sympathize with the disabled much of what you suggest would make for very dull gameplay and most disabled that do play don't do it to be reminded of their disability.
As a person with disability, I have to say that it's not true at all that most of us don't want to "be reminded of our disability". First of all because it's not something that we can forget about and even if it was, doesn't mean that we want it. Disability is not something horrible that we suffers off, it's just a normal part of life, a big part if who we are.And I would love to be able to play with sims that recembles me and my friends.
If now it's impossible in the game, well that's exactly why it was suggested to change it. And it shoud! Maybe if we had more representation, people without disabilities could star to accept us instead of thinking that we are a problem and that it would be impossible do things that acomodates us.
If you are not a person with disability, stop talking like you could speak for us. You don't represent us at all. Your comment was very ableist ans only show that behind the "I do sympathize with the disabled" mask you don't care at all about us. I suggest you star listening to what real PWD says.
@jpkarlsen wrote:Sorry but this is just not doable. There are no elevators so wheelchairs is out. While ramps could be done it doesn't help much. The gameplay you suggest would be unmanageable. Take the suggestion to make everything mostly blacked out for blind Sim. What would happen when you changed to a seeing Sim? AAC devices. There are no real talking so redundant. while I do sympathize with the disabled much of what you suggest would make for very dull gameplay and most disabled that do play don't do it to be reminded of their disability.
First off I'm disabled but not in a way that can be seen (permanent heart insufficiency if you wonder) and I personally know a wheelchair bound person (my brother in law (Parkinsons)). And I do know a few others so I do have some experience in what I'm talking about and with my programming background I also understand something about what is easy to program and what isn't.
If you have specific disabilities in mind that you feel can be incorporated in the game please create a new thread for each so it can be discussed and EA would be able to see the suggestion.
Can you imagine all the sims 4 characters with walking sticks? They'd be so cute bless them, them just waddling along trying to go about their daily business. 🙂 I always smile when I see elderly people with walking sticks, but I feel so bad as well because sometimes I see some of them really struggle and I just want to help. But that'd be embarrassing and weird (for myself personally) to do that to someone I don't know.
@RubyTina91 @HorseObsessed If you would like a height slider your best bet for now is using a mod. There are a few different mods out there, the one I use is from Mod the Sims. With this mod I can make my Sims taller or shorter by increasing or decreasing the size of their feet in CAS (larger foot = taller Sim, smaller foot = shorter Sim). The game does a pretty good job of compensating for height differences & most animations involving Sims of different heights look very natural. I know many people prefer not to use mods-- they must be maintained properly and they frequently need to be updated after every game patch or they will cause problems with your game-- but for height sliders, mods are currently the only way to add them to the game.
