Firefighters 🔥🔥

Day of Patch/Pack Release - Simmers deck their homes out in flammable materials and set their sims' homes on fire :naughty:

I wonder if there will also be female firefighters. Now give us burglars and police officers.

"jimbbq;c-17510286" wrote:
I wonder if there will also be female firefighters. Now give us burglars and police officers.

I mean, obviously there will be female firefighters. It's just a randomly-generated Sim in a preset outfit. It's not like Sims 1-3 where there were specific townies specifically created before release to be firefighters.

i have missed the firefighters but we also need the burglars and police officers...i want to see someone steal something and watch my sim get upset....now we can watch our sims with the firefights..

"popstarissa;c-17510178" wrote:

"Louise_G0325;c-17510160" wrote:

"kwanzaabot;c-17509949" wrote:


Don't. Don't thank them for something that is a core gameplay feature. A core gameplay feature that's been missing for 6 years.

It's nice to have, but this is something they should've included on day one, or at least in the first year, after they brought back pools and ghosts.

Thanking them tells EA that this is okay, and that if they do it again in TS5, the community will lap it up.

Not being grateful for these features would indicate to the devs that we don't care about these features, thus possibly causing them to not add in more of these features since it doesn't seem (to them) worth the hard work.


I am super excited about all these wonderful updates. It honestly feels like I just got a new DLC for free. It, paired with the survey about improving the sims themselves, gives me hope that we might actually have a full core by the end of the run. Of course it is bad that we haven't had a full core from the start, but I think the greatness of TS4 will hit us like a truck once the core is put to its full potential. Think about all the detail that has been put into other aspects of the game. What now seem like "unnecessary" features could blow us away down the line when all of them align.

The billing system is funny to me in how it makes me stress when I look at it, and that's exactly why I love it. Adding things that make the game more difficult/stress-inducing and that actually impacts the game is exactly what we need. I also wonder how the shutting off of utilities and the repo man will work together now. Maybe shut off for 2-3 days and then the repo man comes?
Firefighters are awesome to me bc of the nostalgia. I hope they add in newspapers and/or magazines as a throwback as well. And, of course, burglars and cops. I hope that they will have added functionality with GTW and that sims can actually go to rabbit hole jail again with the BG, or at the police station with GTW.

I was actually suspicious that they didn't move the camera at all when the firefighters arrived and departed. Made me wonder whether they're hiding a vehicle. Since we already have bikes, it would be easy for them to create motorcycles since they function in a similar way. From there, cars. I think cars are in development, and that we might get them by the end of the year.

Finally, free window/door placement :weary: :heart: I have been so frustrated so many times bc of off-center placements of doors and windows not being the perfect number of tiles for a wall. This will make building so much better.

@Louise_G0325 loving everything about this ?????? Wow love your interpretation of the potential car situation 10/10. Billing system is so awesome, I also felt the same way when I saw it.

I’m obsessed with all the cross-pack integration. I have been on team complain about TS4, but I feel like this patch and pack are such a turn in a great and new direction.

Absolutelly!

Do they automatically come when there’s a fire or do Sims have to call them? I hope it’s not automatic because sometimes I want my sims houses to burn down.

"Simprincess;c-17510607" wrote:
Do they automatically come when there’s a fire or do Sims have to call them? I hope it’s not automatic because sometimes I want my sims houses to burn down.

There's an option to either extinguish the fire yourself or call the fire department when you click on the fire - you can see it in the stream when SimGuruGeorge does it at the end.

"Simprincess;c-17510607" wrote:
Do they automatically come when there’s a fire or do Sims have to call them? I hope it’s not automatic because sometimes I want my sims houses to burn down.

If you have the smoke alarm firemen will come automatically.

Yay! It's Sims 3 Ambitions again.
Now all I need is the rest of the Sims 3 Supernaturals, Generations, Showcase, Mastersuite, High Loft, World Adventure, Pets, Midnight Hollow, Roaring Heights, 80s Stuff & Into The Future to be in Sims 4.

Don't. Don't thank them for something that is a core gameplay feature. A core gameplay feature that's been missing for 6 years.

It's nice to have, but this is something they should've included on day one, or at least in the first year, after they brought back pools and ghosts.

Thanking them tells EA that this is okay, and that if they do it again in TS5, the community will lap it up.

Unless someone specifically says, "Thank you for waiting 6 years to give us basic NPCs, please do it again!" I'm sure we'll be good.

Edit: Also, EA isn't a monolith; not everyone who works for EA is "evil" as some would say. Maxis may be dead, but there are still people working on The Sims Franchise that still care about the game. I've met people who work in the game industry and more often than not, their good efforts never see the light of day because of things out of their control (i.e. corporate interference).