Apartments everywhere?

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The problem with City Living is that there doesn't seem to be any way to avoid the noise coming from other apartments and I don't like random people walking into my sims' apartments. I've tried evicting neighbours, but even empty apartments generate noises?! The next best thing I found was having my two families live in the same lot. They lived in a townhouse, and by locking doors I was able to keep one family in one half and the other family in the other. I haven't found many, but there are some decent builds in the gallery. I'm also currently trying to convert the salt house into an apartment loft with two apartments and some communal areas.

I loved building apartments in the sims 2, but I hate sims 4 apartments with a passion. Not just for the noise but also for the visitors 24/7 at the door asking to get in to eat of spend time and randomly walking in for no reason without being invited. it's far better to build a dummy apartment on a regular lot.

I do not like the city living apartments at all. You can’t edit them, and there is no way to create your own buildings anywhere. Apartments are one of the most poorly executed features this game has ever gotten, and I doubt they will ever develop this feature correctly in the Sims 4.

Sims 2 Apt. Life is the only Sims game that did apartments right and build-able anywhere and easily done. Both Sims 3 and 4 totally failed at apartment living and building. I never play apts in Sims 4 and just use CL for the festivals and friendships. I did try it and quickly did not like it as I do not like neighbor annoyances - never mind unable to have apts in other towns or build them myself. Makes no sense to me why a 2004 Sims game had no problem doing it right - but Sims 3 and Sims 4 both do it all wrong. Sims 4 is the worse when it comes to apts. Even though I like the game - things like apartments, small neighborhoods, no real roads, no real zoom in maps, and large family control are badly done in my view. So the best bet for me is just avoid apartments and avoid large families, then I can enjoy the game. I have my sims limited to 1 or 2 kids at most - the majority are lucky if they get 1. (That way I can play my beloved toddlers at least.)

I very rarely live in apartments. I prefer my sims being able to sleep rather than being awakened by intense woohooing. If it happened once every season I could handle it, but daily is waaay too often. I wish they had an option to turn off rowdy neighbors.

"drake_mccarty;c-16688038" wrote:
I do not like the city living apartments at all. You can’t edit them, and there is no way to create your own buildings anywhere. Apartments are one of the most poorly executed features this game has ever gotten, and I doubt they will ever develop this feature correctly in the Sims 4.

I know that you cannot edit the buildings' exteriors but I tear down all the walls of my Sims' apartments and rebuild and decorate the insides to my liking all the time. It comes from living in an apartment myself I suppose.

Apartment building, if we get it, will probably be one of the last features to be added I expect. I hope I am wrong as I did enjoy building them.

I would like to build the type of apartments my friends and I rented when we first left home. They were either houses converted into 2 or 3 apartments or flats above businesses. Which brings my to another problem that is why sims can't live above their own business without the hassle of having a second empty lot. I don't mind the spice district apartments other than for the annoying neighbours and in sims 2 the neighbors were also noisy.

I acutally like the apartment visitors and the noise. I'ts realistic and it makes me feel like I'm more connected to the environment. Sims usually exist in a bubble, so the deeper integration in apartments is a welcome addition by me.

However, I'd love to be able to build my own apartments. Also, since apartments are stacked in reality, I don't understand why we have such few apartments per building available to use. We should have instead of 2-3 per building something like 8-12 and to view them you just click the up and down arrow like you do to see different floors. They could all be identical, which is realistic too, and we can decorate them, anyway.

Also, for those who want quiet, does the game still put people in neighboring apartments if you untick 'fill empty houses' in the game settings?

"Writin_Reg;c-16688066" wrote:
Sims 2 Apt. Life is the only Sims game that did apartments right and build-able anywhere and easily done. Both Sims 3 and 4 totally failed at apartment living and building. I never play apts in Sims 4 and just use CL for the festivals and friendships. I did try it and quickly did not like it as I do not like neighbor annoyances - never mind unable to have apts in other towns or build them myself. Makes no sense to me why a 2004 Sims game had no problem doing it right - but Sims 3 and Sims 4 both do it all wrong. Sims 4 is the worse when it comes to apts. Even though I like the game - things like apartments, small neighborhoods, no real roads, no real zoom in maps, and large family control are badly done in my view. So the best bet for me is just avoid apartments and avoid large families, then I can enjoy the game. I have my sims limited to 1 or 2 kids at most - the majority are lucky if they get 1. (That way I can play my beloved toddlers at least.)

I used to build so many awesome lots in Sims 2 using the apartment cheats. Cannot do that in the newest version I am stuck with a handful of (IMO) poorly designed units that don’t reflect my own apartment experience. One of the biggest mistakes they made aside from the whole design of apartments was locking the interesting gameplay into like 2 of them. No leaky pipes, sparking utility boxes, mice, roaches or anything in any residence beyond those two apartments.