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Hero

Re: sims 4 platform not lowering - error message

@Lavendela91I could answer you in Dutch but here I will do it in English for this is the English page of the forum.

When you want to lower an area you first have to build a foundation. Every tier you heighten this foundation you will be able to add a platform or lower it. you will be able to stack more platforms on top of each other.

According to me this is not a bug as far as I played with it.
There was a stream with a tutorial for the Ep Snowy Escape a week ago or so. Edit: Here you will find the stream on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/786656776?t=7m34s

Best try to get a grip of the way platforms work by experimenting with it on a vacant plot.

Have fun playing. 😉

4 Replies

IngeJones
5 years ago
No, you can lower a platform into the ground without first adding a foundation. But you can't lower the platform if there is a basement already under it. If you make the sunken platform first, and then add a basement below, the game creates a foundation automatically, to the depth of the platform, and the basement is actually created below that, meaning if you take away the platform later and then remove the ceiling of the basement, it starts lower down
Trismagistos
Hero
5 years ago
@IngeJones Thanks for clearing that out! I knew there were more options but I wasn't able to play all of them yet.
Lavendela91
5 years ago
Thank you all for taking the time to message me. However, there were nog foundations and no basements when I tried to lower the platform down. I eventually made a work-around where I made a basement and moved that platform up. The lighting is now a bit strange, but that doesn't bother me too much.
I have had this problem now with several lots.
I did watch a couple of tutorials, I can't seem to find they have the same issue. There is just no possibility to lower the platform on ground level.
Trismagistos
Hero
5 years ago
@Lavendela91 Could you please come over to the Dutch language page? https://answers.ea.com/t5/De-Sims-4/ct-p/the-sims-4-nl. There we can discuss the situation in Dutch. Alvast bedankt.