Cars Leak?!?

"Amapola76;c-17750678" wrote:

"crocobaura;c-17750289" wrote:

"Amapola76;c-17750279" wrote:

"Simmerville;c-17570283" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-17518910" wrote:

"Patrice;c-17518583" wrote:
Cars would be awesome!! but then we need garages :|

Garages will most likely be included on the same day we get cars.

Problem will be that too many lots are so small, there won't be room for any garage. But street parking (or inventory parking) will do.

Just because there are cars, it doesn't mean that every sim has to have a car, just like in real life.

Like why would you ever give cars to the San Myshuno sims? Or anyone living in the old town area of Windenburg.

In previous iterations, I've mostly given cars either to my wealthy sims, or to... let us say... rural sims with a beat-up old car. Or for the mechanically inclined sims in TS2, a car to repair.

Why wouldn't San Myshuno or Winderburg residents own a liberated car? City people do have cars and so do people living in ancient houses.

I lived in downtown areas of big cities (in different states and even countries) for more than twenty years, and can count on one hand the number of people I ever met who owned or regularly drove a car. Most people rely on public transportation and ride sharing.

There's nothing to say you can't give your sims in cities a car, I'm just saying I personally wouldn't, because it would not be realistic in my experience.

In my observation, it depends heavily on the extent of the public transportation network. Speaking only of select US cities, cars are more or less unnecessary in cities like New York or Chicago (unless you're going out to Suburban Cook County from Chicago, and even that has a pretty decent network of busses) while I've generally been of the impression that Miami and Los Angeles have more drivers, comparatively, though you can still get by without one easily enough.