Kids can come trick or treating

"Trashmagic;c-16523335" wrote:

"bizuktag;c-16523318" wrote:

"elanorbreton;c-16523301" wrote:
Maybe they can trick or treat at homes within their neighbourhood? You wouldn't need to load the lot just to go as far as the door.... *hopes in vain*

I thought to interact with anything on another lot you had to visit the lot first?

I know with apartments you can interact with a neighbor at their door without loading their lot, but I didn't think it worked that way in the other worlds.

Thank you @loutredor
Yeah there's a loading screen for visiting other lots and you need to load that lot before it becomes active so that might become a little tedious if so.
Unless the new patch comes with open neighborhoods :tongue:

I was thinking about something more like semi-open neighborhood. You know like in apartments, when your neighbors are loud, you can go and knock at their doors to complain. You still have to load to visit them, but you can interact with the door itself to make them come out. I wonder if something like that would be possible.

I honestly didn't see why they couldn't do it. I mean our sim children can't go door to door without loading screens; but the world isn't completely closed off either as some neighborhoods are big and they can ask random sims that they see walking by (plus with the Spooky Stuff pack, people can ask for treats already during spooky parties). Other sims might show up at your door though. I am glad it is in the game either way, as Halloween is one of my favorite Holiday's along with Christmas and it just wouldn't be the same without it.

"XxAirixX;c-16523427" wrote:
I honestly didn't see why they couldn't do it. I mean our sim children can't go door to door without loading screens; but the world isn't completely closed off either as some neighborhoods are big and they can ask random sims that they see walking by (plus with the Spooky Stuff pack, people can ask for treats already during spooky parties). Other sims might show up at your door though. I am glad it is in the game either way, as Halloween is one of my favorite Holiday's along with Christmas and it just wouldn't be the same without it.

I believe they haven't said anything about the trick-or-treat interaction yet, so maybe you're solution is still possible.

"Dannydanbo;c-16523437" wrote:
Well, if you have Spooky Stuff, you can edit every house in your neighborhood and add the spooky candy dish to a small table or pedestal. Then, dress you sim kids in costumes and go around to each house and take candy from the bowl, but beware the hand!

You'd still have to go through a loading screen for this though.

My main family in TS4 is in San Myshuno. It'd be great to go to other apartments in the building to trick or treat given you can already interact with them at their doors, but I have a feeling if you can't trick or treat anywhere else you can't do it in SM either. Which is a shame because it's probably the easiest place to do it, coding-wise.

"Dannydanbo;c-16523408" wrote:
I hated Trick or Treating in S3. Every time I sent those kids out, two things would always happen. #1. The game would change their costume to a random costume and #2. It always, always rained.

Not to mention that you had to look all over the open world to find a family that was at home, and it would be 11 pm by the time your kids got there. The one time that my kids did manage to go trick-or-treating, the people in the house had been turned into zombies. Great for a story, but not the trick-or-treat experience you want. It sounds like a great idea, but in practice, it just didn't work.

"Dannydanbo;c-16523511" wrote:

"bizuktag;c-16523448" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16523437" wrote:
Well, if you have Spooky Stuff, you can edit every house in your neighborhood and add the spooky candy dish to a small table or pedestal. Then, dress you sim kids in costumes and go around to each house and take candy from the bowl, but beware the hand!

You'd still have to go through a loading screen for this though.

My main family in TS4 is in San Myshuno. It'd be great to go to other apartments in the building to trick or treat given you can already interact with them at their doors, but I have a feeling if you can't trick or treat anywhere else you can't do it in SM either. Which is a shame because it's probably the easiest place to do it, coding-wise.

Yes, you would have to go through a loading screen to Trick or Treat. This is probably the reason that they made it so the trick or treaters come to you. But you and I know how people are. They get fixated on something that isn't exactly the way they want it and blow it up into a big deal until all they see in a pack is what isn't there instead of all the great things that are there. Luckily for you and I, we aren't like those people.

I actually don’t mind this way at least there is some form of it would be cool if the kids could go trick or treating like voluntering in parenthood but still happy it’s their instead of not doing it at all

"MVWdeZT;c-16523506" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16523408" wrote:
I hated Trick or Treating in S3. Every time I sent those kids out, two things would always happen. #1. The game would change their costume to a random costume and #2. It always, always rained.

Not to mention that you had to look all over the open world to find a family that was at home, and it would be 11 pm by the time your kids got there. The one time that my kids did manage to go trick-or-treating, the people in the house had been turned into zombies. Great for a story, but not the trick-or-treat experience you want. It sounds like a great idea, but in practice, it just didn't work.

You hit the nail on the head with your statement! No one was ever home when I trick or treated in Sims 3! Every time I went to a house, the people were out. Cannot tell you how many times my kids never got one piece of candy by the time the event was over. So I just stopped doing that and took them to the fall festival instead!

It would be cool if kids could visit a community lot, like the park, and approach Sims and ask for candy. I'll probably just end up throwing a Halloween party.

"simgirl1010;c-16523642" wrote:
It would be cool if kids could visit a community lot, like the park, and approach Sims and ask for candy. I'll probably just end up throwing a Halloween party.

Wasn't there an event for Hallowe'en once during which you could ask the other sims candy? (probably when Spooky Stuff came out)
Maybe you can do that as a tradition

Edit: wait, I just remembered. I think it's actually a feature that came Spooky stuff and that you can do during the "spooky party" type of event

I hope they can go trick-or-treating at least in a rabbit hole and come back with candy. If not I feel like it's a missed opportunity.