Improvements to TS4's Core Game Engine??

"Chazzzy;c-17860260" wrote:
I don’t believe that hiring one additional employee is going to all of a sudden miraculously make the game a million times better. Any improvement will most likely not be substantial and will take a long time to implement.

It does say multiple locations. 5 to be exact.

Multiple Locations: Redwood City, California, United States • Orlando, Florida, United States • Austin, Texas, United States • Seattle, Washington, United States • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

"Chazzzy;c-17860260" wrote:
I don’t believe that hiring one additional employee is going to all of a sudden miraculously make the game a million times better. Any improvement will most likely not be substantial and will take a long time to implement.

Well you could very well be right, but I always have the mind set of "Some improvement is better than NO improvement". Only time will tell, plus they said TS4 has years and years to go still, so maybe it won't have massive improvements soon but hopefully it will have significant improvements before they end this iteration so at least those who decide not to move on to a newer version will have a better version of TS4.

"simgirl1010;c-17860280" wrote:

"Chazzzy;c-17860260" wrote:
I don’t believe that hiring one additional employee is going to all of a sudden miraculously make the game a million times better. Any improvement will most likely not be substantial and will take a long time to implement.

It does say multiple locations. 5 to be exact.

Multiple Locations: Redwood City, California, United States • Orlando, Florida, United States • Austin, Texas, United States • Seattle, Washington, United States • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Huh, are Maxis located at more studios in the US and Canada now? I only knew of Redwood City, California and Austin, Texas.

This is interesting!

Some of these ideas are pack specific and some are not. The reason I included stuff for packs is because in a survey once they asked us about improving packs. So now here’s their chance.

Fixing the Sims personality by either fixing Whims so they are less generic, or adding Wants/Fears. Add more in-depth Aspirations.

Animation: Please fix the water balloon fight so it’s not so slow.

Animation: Cooking to add more using of cabinets and drawers.

Animation: No more just the slamming the refrigerator door closed.

Animation: Adding interactions for the current decor cash register so it can actually be used as cash register and not just the tablet.

Multifunctional lots!!!!!

Give the elemental collectibles more uses aside from just decor (like making them resources for crafting items).

A feature to toggle off the cellphone entirely.

A mechanic that allows you to accept or decline a promotion.

A way to completely turn off the random generating of townies.

Swimming in all worlds.

Adding more activities for the Club activity options, as well as Holiday traditions.

Make the lots on the coast of Del Sol Valley playable.

A new free world!

Some sort of option to “Throw Away” things from the Inventory with no monetary gain, not just trash and spoiled food but random things possibly found while fishing or something.

In B/B, creating individual swatches when an object has multiple surfaces to be colored (for example the bed - separate into bed frame and comforter so you can choose each of their colors individually).

Changing the way the object slotting works so that small decor items can actually fit on shelves and even on top of the refrigerator or more on a counter etc.

Pond tool.

I’ll come back if I think of more.

I would definitely like to see better interactions between family members and body hair! Hopefully the people they hire will be sims players as well as software engineers. They should also offer to collaborate with modders. They really have a feel for what the community wants.

"Implementing game features for Create-a-Sim, and animations" as well? Now we're talking. Always room for new animations (and while they most likely would never do it, I can dream of that awful woohoo cheering animation to be changed - I want my Sims to be either romantically flirty or at least taking this seriously, not like they've won tickets to some public event).

I do so want additional options in CaS, like body-hair and some torn clothing for the hiking adventurer + bandage option for arms, legs, body and head.
Wouldn't mind some occult clothing, like fairy-dresses and clothes (yes, I know we don't have them... yet, so my mermaids will have to do) made out of leafs and flowers, and a plain hooded robe for the skulking spellcaster.

A "faithful" locking option for those Sims who only have eyes for each other, even with flirty Sims running all over, and if an attraction system gets implemented, we'll have the options of making our Sims faithful and reject all attention, even when the attraction system makes the other Sim the perfect dream-match for your Sim.

And placeable water would really be nice. With the option to swim in it. And while we're on that path, placeable fishing spots to go with it.

"Sharonia;c-17860144" wrote:
Whatever improvements they need to make the Sims 4 more like a game and less like a story telling tool is what I would like to see. I want my sims to have more life in them so I don’t have to decide every single aspect of their lives for them.

This is what i would want too. I'ld love that sims would be able to acknowledge their environment and their relationships better.

"SimsLady2000;c-17860377" wrote:
I would definitely like to see better interactions between family members and body hair! Hopefully the people they hire will be sims players as well as software engineers. They should also offer to collaborate with modders. They really have a feel for what the community wants.

They did hire Luumia on the EA team recently who is known for body hair CC. Actually like how they are supporting the mod community more.
https://twitter.com/luumiasims/status/1379952248923549698

"Chicklet453681;c-17860578" wrote:

"Scobre;c-17860565" wrote:

They did hire Luumia on the EA team recently who is known for body hair CC. Actually like how they are supporting the mod community more.

Ohhh I thought he was hired to do the cinematic stuff and not as an actual CAS artist, that's pretty awesome if so.

Yeah I think how SimGuruSteve explained it is he was hired on to do the trailers for the game. I would love if they allowed him to do some CAS work as well. I know SimGuruFrost was able to do some CAS designs too, so there is hope even if it isn't in their field. At least he is hired on. He is one of my favorite Sims 4 CC artists.

"logion;c-17860114" wrote:

"SamDenny;c-17860107" wrote:
Requires C++ yet the game is running on python. This is what I struggled with when I was thinking of pursuing a career in game development. I started with C++ and did that off and on for 2 years but everyone kept telling me that C++ is 'old school' and everyone uses python now, so I switched to python, then I found that basically C++ does the actual building, while python handles data. My head can't juggle between 2 massive programming languages.

@SamDenny TwistedMexi explained it like this in an old article on simsvip: The Sims 4 is split into two main components. You have the modding-friendly Python code (script mods), and the typically closed-off C++. These two languages do not talk to each other, so instead they’re bridged by something called Protocol Buffers, or “Protobuf”.

Yes I figured as much and it's like that for many games. I disagree with the modding friendly part though. C++ hasn't changed much in terms of jumping into it and getting it. Python was like that at first during 2.x, but it got more technical and big wordy as years went on. The source codes for Sims 4 is also..untidy and hard to read. A hobbyist will have an uphill climb. Most people say to just avoid python scripting and go with the easier XML modding.

"Scobre;c-17860208" wrote:

Yeah C ++ is the starter language. I took a coding class too and hated it. Tax law is more up my alley. Most games either use Unity or Unreal engine these days and flash got phased out for games. I was trying for an accounting information systems minor but ended up graduating with an entrepreneurship minor. I even gave education a try for a minor too.

I'm self taught. I can't afford classes. I freaking love C++. I work retail XD because it's the only thing I'm very good at and I aimed to change that by using my head instead of my hands heh.