"wormstache999;c-16498147" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16498115" wrote:
"wormstache999;c-16498039" wrote:
"plopppo2;c-16498010" wrote:
Based on the number of snow accumulation threads and comments, surely it would be easier for the Snow campaign to at least explain how they want to achieve the snow that they want?
I mean, you want snow accumulation - ie depth, etc - but HOW do you want it to be achieved? What's the plan?
I can say I want a 747 passenger airliner to have ejector seats, but there has to be a bit of thought into it - you can't just fit ejector seats to a 747.
But most us aren't game designer (or plane engineers). We're not responsible or getting paid for giving them in-depth instructions on how to make better snow. It's not that we expect something completely impossible. We would just like to have more than recolored grass. Make the snow look like it's actually a few inches high. Maybe it is impossible with the game engine (I think they said there are quite a few limitations?) but isn't it pretty sad to even choose to go this way in the first place then? It's 2018 and once again we have to cut corners in a EP because the game engine can't handle it.
It isn’t about the game engine.
I don't mean to spread false informations. If it wasn't about the game engine, then I apologize for being wrong. But I remember they often repeated that some limitations stopped them from adding things that we had in the past.
The game engine was designed for this game. But it could certainly handle more depth in the snow. I agree that they have said something about certain limitations. But the limitations are clearly about EA’s idea about TS4 becoming a new game with new content and as few repetitions of content from the previous games as possible.
Things take time and if the devs should repeat all main things from the previous game then there would be too little time to make new content. The snow was simplified this time (and so were babies, teens and different build tools). But only to make it possible to make a lot of new and different content instead. We are supposed to focus on the new things and to go back and play TS3 again if we miss the old things too much. But some simmers just want TS4 to have everything :)
