Brooms are proof we should have cars

I would like an open world and yes I would like cars I know some people don't care to have them but I really can't stand watching my sims just walk home all the time. It really looks Dum and not very realistic takes them a long time to.

There's been clues:
Boats from Island Living
Brooms from Realm of Magic.

Cars in TS4 doesn't make a lot of sense until the map size is increased and includes multiple neighbourhoods over a distance where it would take too long to walk and a car would do. I always wanted to explore out more areas of TS4's world maps. add to the cars, put boats into the game as well for the likes of Windenburg for those travelling from the island.

However cars and boats as decoration on the lot would be nice. it would add some much needed personalisation between the lots and the types of cars a person drives and what they consider more important. it would be illuminating to see a small dump of a house and an expensive car like a ford fusion on the drive way, compared to another lot next to it with an expensive house and a cheap old banger of a car with an exhaust hanging off, rusted through bumper the whole thing like a citreon 2cv that has seen much better days.

"Writin_Reg;c-17266573" wrote:

"Scobre;c-17266570" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-17266357" wrote:

"SweetieWright_84;c-17266285" wrote:

"Writin_Reg;c-17265405" wrote:
I am happy with brooms - why do we need cars flying off into the air.

That's hilarious. Although, I wouldn't be opposed to flying cars....if they at least included a Delorean :).

Now - THAT would be cool.

I mean would tie into the Sims 4 being like Sims 3 Into the Future pack having flying cars. I would be ok with off road cars too.

I know I really love the stuff in Sims 3 ITF - the hover craft, jet packs, hover boards - all that stuff. My Sims 3 sims spend more time in ITF than they spend in any place in Sims 3. Awesome pack and we could really use all the stuff they have to travel with in Sims 4. Wouldn't even need roads. Like that flying train - We need our own Tomorrowland in Sims 4. I'd love that.

Problem solved for that island in Windenburg.

I was actually just joking but I do think a futuristic pack would be fun. I would especially like it if we go backward in time as well.

The flying train thing also made me think of Back to the Future 3. I wouldn't mind that either. I've always been fascinated with time travel, and the Back to the Future trilogy is my favorite. I feel about those movies like people feel about Harry Potter.

If they do add them, then the cars should come in an Expansion Pack and be locked to the world. Yes, I know, it is frustrating, but it solved the issues of things not making sense. The world could be designed with cars in mind, with usable driveways that can be placed and roads that work with cars.

As of right now, imagine just getting in your car on, I do not know, Sulani and driving across the ocean. It would kill any realism that people want. It would fit well with university and such, but I doubt we will see that happen.

We need open neighborhoods.
We need cars like K.I.T.T in Knight rider, the flying DeLorean in Back to the Future, the yellow bug in Once Upon A Time & a beautiful 1920s volkeswagon.

"aaronrulz;c-17264782" wrote:
what is the appeal of cars for a closed world? you will only be able to see your sims drive to your neighbor's house. Doesn't seem very exciting. It's not like Sims 3 where you can see your sim drive from one side of the world to their home.

I'm honestly just curious, not being snippy. The whole concept of wanting cars in the Sims 4 has been lost on me from the very beginning.

Keeping up with the Joneses.
The Sims is an aspirational game where we live our best lives. Big mansions, lucrative Influencer careers, huge swimming pools... why not include Mercedes and BMWs (or their Sims equivalent) as a new way to flaunt your wealth?

Not to mention, even if it's Sims 2-style, pull out, vanish, reload, that's not the only gameplay cars offer.

• New woohoo/makeout locations
  
• New character value/skill option for teens (learning to drive)
  
• Eye candy to stick on your lawn, as said before (check out the latest Jimquisition for a really good argument for why cosmetic items count as valuable gameplay
  
• Also a new visually rewarding way to communicate career promotions to the player, as suggested by somethingstellar
  
• New source of handiness skill (repairing/washing your car)
  
• New Strangerville-style world progression: get a job in an auto factory (finally, a blue-collar job!) and work your way up to the top. Build gas guzzlers or eco-friendly cars and see them on the road
  

There's lots of potential for cars that are beyond mere "transport".

"PlayerSinger2010;c-17265120" wrote:
They need to re-calibrate the actual roads. That is the problem. Many lots are not connected to any sort of street (Windenburg, Sulani) and would need a lot of work. Maybe they're working on it, maybe they aren't. I don't mind the vanishing at all. Yeah, the carpool was cute, but I like that my sims have more time to get their needs up before they're actually due for work.

This, I disagree with.
With some creative use of clipping, the cars could play an animation that swings out from the driveway and ""through"" the road before vanishing. They don't need to actually route along the road at all. One or two seconds of the car pulling out is all you really need.

Carpools and police cars and delivery vehicles need not even be "real" cars, they can just be creatively-used VFX.
Sim spawns on a spot, plays an animation that shows them "sitting" in a "car", they get out, route onto the ground. Meanwhile the car VFX is playing an animation of pulling up, the door opening, and then driving off later.

You're looking at this like TS3, when you should be looking at it like TS1. You don't *need* to code in an entire point A-to-point B route for cars to travel on. I mean, it's not like the cars we have now are """"real""". They're just VFX, and they accomplish everything a real car would, except without the player control. All we need are objects that play their own VFX.

As for the worlds (Windenburg, Sulani, San Myshuno etc etc) without anywhere to place a driveway or without roads, why not have alternate means of transportation? Bicycles would make a lot of sense, and they don't need roads at all: simply have a Sim route along the jogging route.

I find it weird that they haven't added cars or helicopters with as popular as they were in sims 2. I never played sims 3 but I know they had horses and I think cars?

"Writin_Reg;c-17265591" wrote:

"Oldeseadogge;c-17265556" wrote:

"aaronrulz;c-17264782" wrote:
what is the appeal of cars for a closed world? you will only be able to see your sims drive to your neighbor's house. Doesn't seem very exciting. It's not like Sims 3 where you can see your sim drive from one side of the world to their home.

I'm honestly just curious, not being snippy. The whole concept of wanting cars in the Sims 4 has been lost on me from the very beginning.

When you go to the grocery store do you teleport or drive? Cars add a touch of realism that TS4 sorely needs. Various other uses have been posted, so won't repeat them. They are also a way to express sim personality - sports car, sedan, truck, van, whatever. I've seen TS2 teens go out for the night by teen A coming by in a car to pick up teen B. If you have the Free Time pack you can fix up old clunkers for either sale or use. Extra $ and build your mechanical at the same time. Interesting animations, too. As for the helicopters, not only do they do the car thing, but if you go inside you will see that they have detailed interiors from passenger seats to cockpit area. I find them both to be fun and game/story imersion enhancing.

They can't even do that because FX paths and usable cars cannot share the same road or path. The game is already programmed for all the fake fx cars - so the other cars will not be able to be on the road ways or even the parking spots along the fake roads.

You don't really need to take cars into the road. Sims can drive them from the garage to the edge of the lot through a drive way similar to TS2. The loading screen would show up before the car goes into the road.

You are 100% right, cars its something that was (in my opinion) the first thing you had to save money and buy in TS3, it was big status symbol for your sims wealth! and it was fun to see (and more realistic) how you move around in it,
And i will tell you even more! in the new map "GLIMMERBROOK" its actually small "Open world map" you can walk/teleport from 1 part to the other and even go 1 inch near a house before you press to "travel to this lot"..basically an open world (small one) but still if you ask me ...we need cars like ASAP! and for the future..sims 5 need to be FULLY open-world WITH CARS!

Have a great one all ^^ :)