February Patch Speculation 2018 (Out Now New skintones,new female hair and shirt)

I'll play along! I like speculation! Fact or No fact! :smile:

I'm really hoping for a CAS patch....It's kinda awkward that the CAP function is so much more detailed than CAS which is one of the main hooks of the Base Game. More variety in hair colours is seriously overdue. I needs my Strawberry blonde/Violet/Plum hair colours!

Are there any followers of Sims Community? The Sims mobile has recently added a patch which adds basic stories for relationships into the game when you trigger an interaction with another Sim (ie a mean function triggers a story where you can either be frenemies, arch nemesis or a story where the Sims fall in love. It would be useful to add a more complex (and optional) function like this into the game. Just in time for Feb and Valentine's day eh?

"Dannydanbo;c-16268410" wrote:

"Simsfan99111;c-16267427" wrote:
Cars and Garages would me amazing. The game is a life simulator yet sims cant own or use cars.

Simulating life has nothing to do with cars. Not everyone in the world has a car.

Not everyone has pets, lives in a city, is part of a club, or is a doctor either. What's your point?

"Dannydanbo;c-16268638" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16268563" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16268410" wrote:

"Simsfan99111;c-16267427" wrote:
Cars and Garages would me amazing. The game is a life simulator yet sims cant own or use cars.

Simulating life has nothing to do with cars. Not everyone in the world has a car.

Not everyone has pets, lives in a city, is part of a club, or is a doctor either. What's your point?

My point is that this version is not now, or ever will be set up to drive cars like in past versions. At best, maybe.....maybe, they will be objects like any other object that can raise a skill or serve a purpose, but never, ever for cruising the hood.

Perhaps. For the first time, lots aren't explicitly connected to the road. Maybe we won't get cars, or maybe we will. I'd like to keep the possibilities open for the more plausible options (CASt probably won't come because they'd have to go back and apply it to everything, for example). And I think transport-based cars could still be possible with some tweaks. I mean, I thought toddlers would never come back, and I was wrong, so I'm more open this time.

"Dannydanbo;c-16270400" wrote:

"LoveMcQueen5683;c-16270346" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16269581" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16268752" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16268638" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16268563" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16268410" wrote:

"Simsfan99111;c-16267427" wrote:
Cars and Garages would me amazing. The game is a life simulator yet sims cant own or use cars.

Simulating life has nothing to do with cars. Not everyone in the world has a car.

Not everyone has pets, lives in a city, is part of a club, or is a doctor either. What's your point?

My point is that this version is not now, or ever will be set up to drive cars like in past versions. At best, maybe.....maybe, they will be objects like any other object that can raise a skill or serve a purpose, but never, ever for cruising the hood.

Perhaps. For the first time, lots aren't explicitly connected to the road. Maybe we won't get cars, or maybe we will. I'd like to keep the possibilities open for the more plausible options (CASt probably won't come because they'd have to go back and apply it to everything, for example). And I think transport-based cars could still be possible with some tweaks. I mean, I thought toddlers would never come back, and I was wrong, so I'm more open this time.

Cars could be a great addition, even if they are only objects. Forget about driving or transportation and think on what can be done with a car object and ask the devs for that.

For example:
1. mechanic skill
2. auto restoring skill
3. listening to the radio
4. making out
5. woohoo
6. catching teenagers making out
7. star gazing in a convertible
8. child/toddler pretending to be a racecar driver with animations (similar to play object with pirate or space animations)
9. décor (having a car in the driveway for realism)
10. a place for your cat to climb on (my cat always left footprints on my hood)

These are just a few off the top of my head. I'm sure other players could think of more.

But people are going to want to drive and its not really going to work out nicely in this version of the sims.

If it hasn't occurred to those people yet, then let me enlighten them. There is absolutely no form of transportation in this game and there probably never will be. No cars, no bikes, no skateboards, no boats, no buses, no trains, no planes, no hot air balloons, nothing, zip, nada!

There might be exercise bikes or roller/ice skates and, if we're lucky, cars as objects, but no forms of transportation.

For Pete's sake, they added a boat to C&D but your sim doesn't even get into it before they teleport.

I'm wondering if you said the same about toddlers because I heard similar reasoning with people saying things like "this game was never built to implement toddlers" "Sims cant pick up babies they would just put them in their inventory this is why babies are locked to the bassinet you will never get toddlers" and yet we have toddlers if they put the time and effort I say its possible will they who knows.

Whether we get cars in a patch or not, I don't know. But I don't understand why people say cars are impossible just because we've never had means of transportation before? Sims 2 didn't have it for a loooong time, and just bc TS3 had transportation from the beginning people seem to think it's not possible to implement it any other way.

"Alve;c-16270711" wrote:
Whether we get cars in a patch or not, I don't know. But I don't understand why people say cars are impossible just because we've never had means of transportation before? Sims 2 didn't have it for a loooong time, and just bc TS3 had transportation from the beginning people seem to think it's not possible to implement it any other way.

Actually we got cars in the sims 2 in Sept 2005 with the second EP Nightlife. Only a year after release. Before that we had the illusion of cars with carpools, school buses and taxis. Sims 4 doesn't even have that. I think @Dannydanbo is correct, we may get cars as some sort of object but not as transportation. Look at the boat in BB - totally fake. I don't even consider that a form of transportation since the load screen kicks in when your sim is half way there. So many of the worlds and lots don't have functional roads alongside them for cars to use.

I'd like new CAS items - I just never feel we get enough of those.

"Alve;c-16271265" wrote:

"MidnightAura;c-16270719" wrote:

"Alve;c-16270711" wrote:
Whether we get cars in a patch or not, I don't know. But I don't understand why people say cars are impossible just because we've never had means of transportation before? Sims 2 didn't have it for a loooong time, and just bc TS3 had transportation from the beginning people seem to think it's not possible to implement it any other way.

Actually we got cars in the sims 2 in Sept 2005 with the second EP Nightlife. Only a year after release. Before that we had the illusion of cars with carpools, school buses and taxis. Sims 4 doesn't even have that. I think @Dannydanbo is correct, we may get cars as some sort of object but not as transportation. Look at the boat in BB - totally fake. I don't even consider that a form of transportation since the load screen kicks in when your sim is half way there. So many of the worlds and lots don't have functional roads alongside them for cars to use.

True, now when I think of it it was I that didn't have it for a long time hehe, never bought nightlife but the free time (?) ep finally gave me one! :)

The gurus have said from the beginning that the world map is updatable and expandable after we yelled at them for being so small and lacking. Its basically a cartoon interactive map. They could easily update it so that the places missing roads or transport could have it (like the island on windenberg). In fact if they turned that useless pier there in to a ferry i would be happy because you cant even fish off of it and its such a useless tease

Previous posts about cars got me thinking It would be so cute for toddlers to have those little electric ride cars they could zoom about in the garden and outside the lot.

Wow I completely forgot about cars. I have this theory that they've been releasing a "Nightlife" EP in chunks (Get Together, Bowling, Restaurants, Vampires...). So maybe cars and the attraction system are the last things to check off their list?

I think cars the way they were handled in TS2 would be great in TS4. In lots where sims can't park the car, it would just go in their inventories.
Otherwise, I reaaally hope you guys are right and that there might be a big base game update ahead. Those are seriously the updates I get excited about the most.