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Beardedgeek72
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6 years ago

Foxbury Campus - How I learned that devs don't think things thru

(No, not angry :smile: )

Foxbury is a stunning modern campus. It is also extremely impractical from a game play perspective and especially so when it comes to bikes. Not only is bikes pointless on the campus area due to all the stairs, they often bug out because the game's pathfinding isn't smart enough to go around the stairs. There ARE a FEW bike ramps, but only a few and if you live in one of the towers instead of in the mansion you never ever use them.

Basically my feedback is simple: Have the different designers talk to each other:
Do you have bikes? Yes. Should we make sure the neighborhood where the bikes are used works with bikes? Sounds good to me.

9 Replies

  • I do think hoverboard is more fitting as a transportation in foxbury instead of bike, since they can just basically hover over the stairs. Literally HOVERboard and not something with wheels.
  • Messing up the routing seems to be an iffy speciality. A hoverboard indeed would work, or a skateboard. Skateboards and university go together perfectly. And stairs aren’t a problem.

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  • “It is also extremely impractical from a game play perspective
    It’s not real life.
  • You've only now learned devs don't think things through ? God I wish that were me.
  • "happyopi;c-17356870" wrote:
    You've only now learned devs don't think things through ? God I wish that were me.


    Eh. I think this is the first truly annoying one for me. Things like forgetting to make sages spellcasters, or forgetting toilets are... fixable. Replacing stairs with bike ramps is not possible.
  • It's absurd that a feature from that pack can't feasibly be used in a neighbourhood from said pack. The consolation is that bikes can be used everywhere else and there's little in the way of pathing issues in other hoods. Kinda funny in a sad way that most other hoods are bike friendly and the one that isn't is one that shipped with the bikes.
  • I hate to say it, but it sometimes feels that the Sims team doesn't actually play the game during QC, but that couldn't be right, so maybe they only QCd one half of the campus using bikes? More likely the QC people caught the issue too late, but it was decided it would cost too much to fix or take too much time? Took a 'wait to worry' to see how many players would complain?

    To be fair, they are not the only game company that does this, but everytime I run into something like this a little part of me questions why I spend money on this?

    I would happily accept an apology in the form of properly working skateboards patched in. That would be awesome.?

    Hover boards are nice too, but I need a future pack first, they don't fit Sims 4 DU.

  • I had my sims be late to some of their classes because of those stairs it was annoying like I find DU is just a add on to GTW.

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