In Sims city living, there are so many different apartments ranging from tiny and cheap to massive and expensive but is it only me that wishes that there could be apartments every and you can make your own apartment building. I thought of this when I had a teen sims who I wanted to get really successful, just for fun. But I really wanted a tiny apartment to make it more realistic. I also wanted her to live with her parents in Windenburg but a house was too expensive. What do guys think about this? and if there is a cheat to edit apartments, please let me know because I haven't looked that hard :sweat_smile:

Moved this one over from Forum Feedback.Carry on :smiley:

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.)

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Writin_Reg
7 years ago
"Anthonydyer;c-16691598" wrote:
"mikamakimon;c-16687933" wrote:
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've been annoyed with the way noisy neighbors are implemented in this game. In sims 2, you would only have noise disrupting a room if your wall is adjacent to a neighboring apartment. Other rooms would be unaffected. Then you got to watch the funny animation of your sim angerly banging on the wall. I would like to see something more like sims 2. The sims 4 way is too much.

I've tried the townhouse thing, but I found my sims spent their whole time trying to get into the other family's space. That was a very short lived experience for me. There should be a way to designate living space like they had in sims 2. I think if they brought back many aspects of sims 2 apartments, we all would be happy. The sims 2 system was rock solid.

Sims 2 was pretty advanced for its time.

Totally agree.
anthonydyer
Seasoned Traveler
7 years ago
I had the misfortune of renting out an apartment with the lively neighbors trait. One particular neighbor is loud every night. I moved my sim out of there and am looking to put someone in there who works a late evening job, so that won't be much of an issue.
kwanzaabot
7 years ago
I think everyone wants this, tbh.

Hopefully when Maxis inevitably releases University, they'll learn from their mistakes and make dorms 100% buildable. Not much difference between a dorm and an apartment building (functionally speaking), so even if Maxis doesn't release buildable apartments, I have faith that a modder will be able to repurpose the code to add apartments as a new building type.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
"SiliClone;c-16692733" wrote:
"horror_obsessed;c-16688109" wrote:
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.

Daily? You're lucky... It was 5 times a day for me.

Ps: The "quiet" trait is a locked trait specific of some apt and it's not usable by the player unless you unlock it with a mod, like the need TLC one. And even then, you have to add it to every apt in the building to make it works.

Also, the Quiet lot trait is not as it is intended; if you live in an appt that has the trait, your neighbors won't make noise but any loud noise you make, THEY can hear. If you live in an appt that neighbors one with the trait instead, you will continue to hear noises from their "Quiet" appt. I've had very personal experiences with this when I was playing in that appt. I'm not even sure if it's even by design or a bug.

Update: I posted a query about the Quiet lot trait here.
HimoriH
7 years ago
The ideas in this thread are really interesting, sadly I didn't play the sims 2 a lot. Maybe I will.... anyways, being able to build apartments in sims 4 would be like a dream come true to be honest. Hopefully they'll incorporate it somehow, someway in the future. I guess right now we can only hope.
MGGNinja
7 years ago
I wish I could create an apartment building
MGGNinja
7 years ago
"mikamakimon;c-16702879" wrote:
"Anthonydyer;c-16691598" wrote:

I've been annoyed with the way noisy neighbors are implemented in this game. In sims 2, you would only have noise disrupting a room if your wall is adjacent to a neighboring apartment. Other rooms would be unaffected. Then you got to watch the funny animation of your sim angerly banging on the wall. I would like to see something more like sims 2. The sims 4 way is too much.

I've tried the townhouse thing, but I found my sims spent their whole time trying to get into the other family's space. That was a very short lived experience for me. There should be a way to designate living space like they had in sims 2. I think if they brought back many aspects of sims 2 apartments, we all would be happy. The sims 2 system was rock solid.

Sims 2 was pretty advanced for its time.

The townhouse worked out for me pretty well. Each family had their half of the house, but I left the backyard open to both families so that they could freely interact with each other whenever they wanted.

Sims 4 is my first sims game, looks like I missed out on Sims 2. I keep reading again and again how great it was!

I hear so many things that are great with TS3 aswell. I only started with TS4

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