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Heddelviven
Rising Ace
3 years ago

Bicycle frustrations

I just want to share my frustrations with bikes in the sims 4.

There are supposed to get your sim from place A to place B in a time-efficient way. But they don't.

Also I have some more frustrations with bikes in general.

Here is why:

1. I feel like my sim also gets onto a bike when walking would be more efficient. Because first my sim has to take the bike from the inventory, get up the bike, ride the bike (for a relatively short distance), then get off the bike and putting in back in the inventory.

2. My sim always tries to get onto a bike right before a stairs, so my sim has to get of pretty much right away. After the stairs are taken by foot, my sim decides to walk the entire remaining distance.

3. Sometimes my sim gets off the bike, and then has routing problems. My sim can't walk elsewhere because he/she is blocked by the bike. Even putting back into the inventory is not possible. The solution here is simply to travel to another lot.

4. My sim rides the bike indoors.

5. The bike helmets change color everytime the sim mounts the bike. Why? Why can't we set the helmet color by clicking on the bike, like we can set the umbrella color by clicking on the umbrella stand.

Thank you for reading. I would love to know if there are others who get frustrated with bikes in the sims 4.

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  • @HeddelvivenOn the issue of riding the bike indoors there's an open bug thread here, if you want to click Me Too on the first post.
    I agree bike riding is a bit glitchy. I find it worse with the Full Wood Jacket bikes from Eco Living. It's a shame because I think they are the nicest looking bikes too.
    I usually get my Sim to exit the bike away from the entrance to any building and away from any steps so they don't get stuck or travel using the stairs while still on the bike... because that just looks dangerous! On the Full Wood Jacket bike that can be tricky though as it sometimes says you don't own it.
    Also, as the bug thread here says once you have a bike in your inventory always select "Walk" instead of "Go" so your Sim doesn't hop on their bike indoors peddle across the living room. My Sim did that in someone's fancy house and, I mean, it was just embarrassing.

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-SAVES-DU-Sims-riding-their-bikes-through-building/m-p/9895479/page/2