Editing the Studio Lot

"DreamaDove;c-16846016" wrote:

"Sucom;c-16845807" wrote:
The problem for me is that Sims 4 has been turned into a game like any other typical game - the player follows specific gameplay. In previous Sims games, specific gameplay was always there for the player to follow if they wished, but at the same time the tools were available for the player to create his own gameplay, using the players' own unique style. This is something which is really missing for me in Sims 4. I can't do things the way I want to. I can't create my own game which is something which always attracted me to Sims 3. I would like to rule my own game and now I can't. I definitely don't rule.

I've started playing ts2, and while I love it it just makes me bitter because it is so detailed and dymanic and fun and BETTER than ts4. Ts2 is a game from 2004... how can it better than a game that came out 10 years later?! I've spent so much for ts4 for an empty game... It just makes me feel like a fool.

and to keep to topic, I refuse to play any pre-built maxis lot. It's not like they're particularly thoughtful with them and design them to be most efficient or reduce lag. Maxis lots are just random mediocre lots. Much beautiful and better functional lots are in the gallery. Honestly, it's just pitiful they won't let the player even change the wallpaper.

Unlike the GTW lots - no matter what you do to the studio lot - the minute your sim leaves that lot - it automatically goes back to being how it was before you change it. No cheat will allow you to keep it changed. It is very much AI game control programming that only allows change as your actor improve at their job and go up in fame - and the game also makes the pitiful improvements - it allows.

I see no point in anyone trying to do it over, because when their sims leaves the studio, and returns the next time it will be exactly as it was before you changed it.

At least in GTW you could use cheats to change it and it would stay that way - but that does nothing in Studio town. You are simply stuck with AI control and your sims climbing the ladder to get your studio looking better.

Their idea of looking better and mine is two very different things too. It really never looks a lot better from what I have seen in videos anyway.

It's like living in someone else game or house - I could never get comfortable living like that in real life - I like to be surrounded by my own ideas and things - not someone elses. That might be fine for young players who have never had their own houses or apts - but not so fine for adults that decorate to suit themselves. It's how we each make a home our home - and in this case the game our game. It has always been what the Sims was about - and now it's not. Eventually there is going to be nothing left of what has always made the Sims - THE SIMS!

It's just plain sad to me to see what it was and what it is - as eventually with the AI empowered game control/build, people are going to tire of the lack of creation - as it just keeps getting worse. Used to be creation was at least half of the game. Now the game creates it self and in ways not a lot of us appreciate, or player friendly, or worse - even like.