"Cinebar;c-16763078" wrote:
I will say building in TS4 is not easier. Because it's not. Anyone who builds in these games know how aggravating it is to have to use a porch tool on the roof so you can extend the roof overhead like an awning etc. Time consuming and annoying. Anyone who builds in these games know how the inability to remove one or two tiles removes the entire floor etc. is annoying and the work arounds are time consuming. Anyone who builds in these games know this game doesn't recognize rooms, and I suspect double walls though it looks like it is one wall when it isn't may be related to some lag in certain lots. But I don't know anything, right? :D And because people aren't paying attention to double walls it is more annoying than ever to remove them when you want to remodel and possibly leaves holes in a building until you do a workaround.
Don't even get me started after four years that people are still having to use the pool tool or fountain and place so called rocks around it to make it look like a pond. Terrain tools are great, however, if we can't dig down or slope terrain and other things, then what is the point exactly? One way and it's up doesn't rate to be called 'terrain tools'.
I won't mention the bad design of the roof decorations that sometimes cause wide gaps in floor tile or clip/bleed into the room below inside the walls. And the limitation of only one kind per wall height. (Cornice, I know this is not what it is called in these games but that is what is said around here.)
I use the actual fishing ponds from Debug -- I discovered on a YouTube video that you can size them down or up with the keys and they still work for fishing. Add some rocks and foliage and they look great. I do also like using the pool tool to make ponds especially with the different pool colors from GT and JA.
We've only seen them go up so far -- maybe in this week's stream we'll see them drill down? Also I think @SimGuruRomeo said on Twitter that the tools are a work in progress -- we're getting some now, then they'll be fine tuning them and adding more features over time. Another good reason to keep Sims 4 going for a while, to see where they can actually take tools like this. A single step, certainly, but to quote an old Chinese proverb, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
