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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If you can come up with some gameplay ideas for a particular disability that would work in the Sims 4 you will have a much higher chance of it being implemented but it is really hard to do something like this. It has been brought up many times here. One thing I regularly see mentioned are wheelchairs but that is simply not possible in the Sims 4. Maybe in the Sims 5 if there ever is one.
@jpkarlsen I love how the Sims Team is always saying stuff like: That's not possible in the Sims 4 because of the game engine or whatever, but they wrote the engine, if they ever felt like giving us cars so we could have wheelchairs, they could but they won't. We have a wheelchair mod based on bikes but it's clunky and only manual. I loved the Sims 2 because they had a power wheelchair mod based on cars and it was awesome...
I don't know about the sims team but I do know about programming.
You are correct that they in theory could rewrite the game from the ground up to add lifts and ramps to new houses and change every existing world so they would be able to accommodate wheelchairs. Even beds would need to be changed to work with a wheelchair.
Let's face it neither you or anyone else is going to pay for all this just for wheelchairs in the game.
I hope you learned something about the work involved with your suggestion.
- @jpkarlsen I already knew about the work involved with the suggestion, just because I can't code myself due to spatial and math learning difficulties doesn't mean I don't know how hard it is. My background is in film and TV but at one time I worked at Best Buy. I know a little about a lot of things. The OP is right, EA needs to stop thinking that inclusion stops with sexuality choices and pronouns. I'm not saying they are not important but game companies need to think bigger. I guarantee you that if I could code, I would but disabled characters in my games.
