"Godleyjeans;d-947831" wrote:
So having just come back from seeing a YouTube video based on sim guru grants twitter reply to a question about the idea of sims having a disability in game, I wanted to know what YOU, The simmers, had to say this subject.
@Godleyjeans Could you please link to the youtube video (PM me if need be). In the mean time I'm going to answer your questions. You can find my answers quite long but I had over 4+ years of thinking about this
Also, if they were to add such a feature to the game, what would you want to see? Or not want to, if There were options.
Wheelchairs (hopefully different kinds-ie Manual and electric), Walker? visually impaired, and hearing impaired. Asthma. This also includes prosthetics I'm a little picky about calling a broken arm or leg a disability. I think that should be a separate thing
How would your sims live and what would the feature entail?
For all disabled sims if you have the Cats&Dogs EP you can "get" a service dog. For hearing impaired sims there would need to be a visually fire alarm and other visually stuff. For a visually impaired sim who is um "Fresh" to the game save the sim can call for a "service person"-until they know their way around and lots of audio alarms. Would be nice to see some wheelchair height garden boxes, Wheel in sit down showers/bath combos. bed with railings. Separate stoves/oven combos (for wheelchair sims). counts that your wheelchair sim can wheel under. Canes? Scooters
Disabled sports? ie: Wheelchair basketball, etc
Additional note:
For non-disabled sims with the C&D EP they can be a "puppy" family and train a dog for being a service dog
How would family and friends be around that sim?
Depends on their traits. Also if you're "telling" a story. But since most sims don't really bat an eye when they discover so-and-so's partner is the same sex. Or they don't bat an eye when discovering X is an alien. Most sims would probably just see what the sim CAN do and not what they can't.
Would the disabilities be mental? physical? Both?
I sort of talked about this up above. Physically mostly but I wouldn't mind if there was also mental. Where would diabetes be under? "other"?
Would there be a toggle option?
Yes since if this was to be in a patch-which I assume it would be. The people who don't want it can toggle it off
Should certain disabilities, as in real life, greatly affect how they go along their day to day?
So I'm assuming you're talking about what some disabled people call "spoon theory". Like for instance one day you might only need 1 spoon to do a task. But another day you might need at least 5 spoons to do the same task. But it depends on the Sim's disability
Should, like in real life, there be machines and objects constructable to make that sim or those sims, able to go further?
I wouldn't mind seeing the idea Grant had about stairs turning into ramps. Also elevators we can put into buildings ourselves. I think a stair lift thing would be a nice idea. Hearing aids. Also maybe this means they can actually fix the glasses business (I hate when my simself went to work the simself wouldn't have glasses but all the rest of the simself's outfits did)
If you want this feature, what would you WANT to see and WHY do you want it?
I basically said in all the above questions what I would want to see if this was implemented. Why do I want to see it? I think my version of Utopia is lacking when you can have anything but disabled sims- and when anyone baby-elder can become disabled at any point through either genetics or via an accident. Disabled folks are the biggest majority minority in Western society-so why shouldn't that be reflected through a Sims game?
I have a trailer Idea for it if you're interested-once I remember it!
