Cars Leak?!?

"Onverser;c-17565679" wrote:
To be honest I hope so just so it stops people whining every 5 minutes, then again people will find something else to whine about if they bring it out same as ladders

@Onverser and thats their right to complain, Sims 4 has been handled poorly.

I like the idea of cars since we will never get Horses again at least open up the world!

"Nushka;c-17762504" wrote:

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"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.

Yeah, that's very true (although my friends in LA also don't drive). My original point, though, is that not every sim would necessarily want or need a car, and I was giving of examples of places where I personally would not give cars to most of the sims.

I think that's a neat idea. New traits for Sims that are averse to cars or want nothing more than a new ride.

It could also mesh well with EL, introducing new NAPs for car-free neighborhoods and an impact on the footprint, like how using the rocket makes it go industrial, using cars could do the same thing.

Ooh, that would be awesome to have a gameplay way to opt out of cars if desired.

"KTZ;c-17767625" wrote:
The moment when they do put cars in the game, but as decorative items :smiley: "There's your car, now shut up, we didn't say it would be functional"

Pretty much, that's the way it is already. There's a handful of different cars and trucks that are used as decorative objects that show up with the "BuyDebugMode" and "ShowLiveEditObjects" cheats are on, and are already used as "set dressing" in most worlds. I've used them to make parking lots, but there's no need going to all that trouble to end up with something that just takes up space.

Now, there have been mods that allow these cars to sort of be drivable, but they never seem to work.

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"EnkiSchmidt;c-17523772" wrote:
I'd love to have cars for the tinkering and upgrading aspect, but am afraid they'll be just another bat/broom teleport thing.

Cars would require a major overhaul. First, there are the fx cars and cable cars zipping around everyhwere. I have lots of screenshots of them "running over" pedestrians (that's when the bandages come in handy). For real cars to not suffer the same fate, all the fx vehicles would have to get overhauled. Sims, including pets, would need to be made aware of the new cars and the new cars of sims and pets.

Next is recognizing roads as routeable territory. Whenever I try to keep my bicycle and motorbike (recolored bicycles) driving sims on a road, they route back to the sidewalk.

I can only imagine what nightmare that is/was/would be. Cars being in the works for a year sounds about right!

The game needed an overhaul to get toddlers and we got them.

Adding a life stage is nowhere near as complicated as overhauling every single neighborhood to make them car friendly. Brindleton Bay has land locked houses that aren't even near roads. Roads would have to be made pathable like the sidewalks so that Sims would drive on them - this would require them to renovate them completely from purely cosmetic props in neighborhoods to actual usable parts of the world. Then there's travel altogether. Travel as it is now either involves Sims walking to the edge of the lot and disappearing, or just cutting straight to the destination screen. I'm not sure what people would expect for cars. Like do you want your Sim to get in the car, get on the road, then drive to the edge of your entire neighborhood area where you'll then cut to the destination screen? I can get using cars to travel within the same neighborhood, they'd operate like bikes in that sense, but for long distance traveling like going to San Myshuno, it'd just waste a lot more time than the current travel methods. Overall, implementing cars in TS4 will take a pretty massive overhaul to all of the worlds in order to function how people will expect them to function. This isn't TS2 where cars were already built into the game from the get-go. This isn't TS3 where neighborhoods are fully open and explorable and cars make sense. This is TS4, where nothing at all is optimized for road travel.

Yes its a huge overhauled requirement to implement car routing etc... in the game, but for some of the worlds, such as Brindleton Bay, according to the sims logic, they could simply get in the car, car being teleport to the nearest road and than take off... That would work too. Or they could had some parking spots outside the lot where you can park your car into. There is side road possibility parking spots in that specific world, and if you noticed, all the worlds after that came with pre-existing parking lot in front of lots, or simply, there are roads nearby lots. And I think in snowy escape the top neighborhood is not having roads, than they could get in the car, on their lot, and disappear. That is a bit lame, but only for one neighbothood, its kind of ok to me, especially since, just the realism that it brings for building in a game, and also, are you not all tired of those fake/cartoony/non functionnal cars in the game right now. I imagine them being way better if they released such a feature. That could serve as a new teaching lesson for teenagers and also a woohoo spots... a mechanic/build/mod skill for cars and making one on your own. Also, not just for the sake of cars, but, trucks, limo, helicopter, school bus, firefighter truck...

If we get cars I hope pets can ride in them.

That's one of my reasons that I keep going back to play Sims 3 is for the cool cars.

"SERVERFRA;c-17768965" wrote:
That's one of my reasons that I keep going back to play Sims 3 is for the cool cars.

The car from the store in TS3 added animations while sims were in it.

These vehicles with garages must come this year.

I wonder if Sims will have to learn to drive? Maybe that's what is taking the Devs so long; adding a new skill.