Existing KITS are controversial because of a lot of reasons as small amount of content, not matching content, cultural content ect. but I think that KITs have a potential, but EA needs to change the direction. A lot of people love to build in TS4, but also a huge part of the community don't care of build mode ect. Due to that I have an idea to create a KIT just only with recolours. Existing BB KITs have ~25 new mesches with ~12 swatches (sometimes very controversial or useless) per each item. It gives us 300 unique items in one kit. What if EA make a KIT just with 100 recoulors of base game set instead of a new furnitures?For example. We have a lovely set of BlandCo kitchen with fortunately more swathes from the last patch but imagine if a new KIT will contain ~100 more unique variants for that set. In my opinion it could be awesome.

There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.

"crocobaura;c-17984133" wrote:There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors. I really don't think that will happen anymore at this point. They made the wrong design choice in the beginning with restricting each asset to only be recolorable as a whole.

Sims 4 should have come with a color wheel, beds and mattresses separated, couches with pillows separated, and counter tops and counters separated. It should have also come with pools ghosts and toddlers ( which were added later ), and it still needs resl babies. It should have also come where you had to buy the pieces of outfits ( instead of getting them free ) which it didn’t, but they could always add a challenge for that like they did with food (simple living).

I think that it is only possible by recreate some items as follows:https://twitter.com/thiredistia/status/1441766100794937348It's ok that a lot of items has just a general swatches, buy beds and counters definitely need to have separate sections.I afraid that currently EA has a restricion to implement only 12 swatches per item. In the most of cases it's not enough, especially that the colour choice is questionable in the most of cases. Look at DHD GP. In my opinion both kitchen sets and the sectional sofas could be awesome, but someone has chosen weird colour combos and this is sad because now we are stuck with that colours.

Well, I don't know. I prefer the kits with the "unique or different" cas, b/b or gameplay items. And I like base game objects and cas to come with new swatches for free. But yes in general a color wheel would be ideal. I have 3 Barbie's in my game and with a color wheel i could make everything pink and white, and sometimes with a hint of light blue.

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22 Replies

crocobaura
Legend
4 years ago
There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.
83bienchen
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"crocobaura;c-17984133" wrote:
There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.

I really don't think that will happen anymore at this point. They made the wrong design choice in the beginning with restricting each asset to only be recolorable as a whole.
SheriSim
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Sims 4 should have come with a color wheel, beds and mattresses separated, couches with pillows separated, and counter tops and counters separated. It should have also come with pools ghosts and toddlers ( which were added later ), and it still needs resl babies. It should have also come where you had to buy the pieces of outfits ( instead of getting them free ) which it didn’t, but they could always add a challenge for that like they did with food (simple living).
Sthenastia
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I think that it is only possible by recreate some items as follows:

https://twitter.com/thiredistia/status/1441766100794937348

It's ok that a lot of items has just a general swatches, buy beds and counters definitely need to have separate sections.

I afraid that currently EA has a restricion to implement only 12 swatches per item. In the most of cases it's not enough, especially that the colour choice is questionable in the most of cases. Look at DHD GP. In my opinion both kitchen sets and the sectional sofas could be awesome, but someone has chosen weird colour combos and this is sad because now we are stuck with that colours.
SEREFRAS
Legend
4 years ago
I would love for Sims 4 to have the ability of having a large about of color choices & also object frames for all objects.
SimsBarbie
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Well, I don't know. I prefer the kits with the "unique or different" cas, b/b or gameplay items. And I like base game objects and cas to come with new swatches for free. But yes in general a color wheel would be ideal. I have 3 Barbie's in my game and with a color wheel i could make everything pink and white, and sometimes with a hint of light blue.
crocobaura
Legend
4 years ago
"83bienchen;c-17984164" wrote:
"crocobaura;c-17984133" wrote:
There are a lot of useless recolors though. They need to separate the countertops from the counters and the bedframes from the mattress and so on so that we can mix and match ourselves and with less space taken up by recolors.

I really don't think that will happen anymore at this point. They made the wrong design choice in the beginning with restricting each asset to only be recolorable as a whole.

Well, if they started upgrading stuff, maybe they will consider this at least for objects where there is an obvious need. I don't see the point in bloating the game with 1200 re-colours of objects when they could half that number just by making stuff with different recolourable subsets. There is a lot of stuff indeed, but maybe they could start with small section like the kitchen counters.
83bienchen
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I'm not sure if the game even allows for it. I have not seen any CC creator being able to do an object that has seperately recolourable parts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for at and would love them to start with bed as I find those the worst.
crocobaura
Legend
4 years ago
"83bienchen;c-17984287" wrote:
I'm not sure if the game even allows for it. I have not seen any CC creator being able to do an object that has seperately recolourable parts.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for at and would love them to start with bed as I find those the worst.

Well they are the creators of the game, maybe they can implement it somehow. CC creator mostly just clone and use the pre-sets give by Maxis so it's understandable if they cannot do it.
Bluebell23456
4 years ago
I honestly think this could make people hate kits even more. At the very least they introduce stuff that I would consider new. To suddenly lock recolors that were originally free update content to paid kits would feel very scummy to me.

I will admit some people don't care about BB. I've even seen some complaints about getting free update content in general because of computer specs (boggles my mind).

I would not even consider myself what I have come to determine is an avid builder, but I do spend a solid third of my game time there and even upload some renovations to the gallery. I cannot say I want recolors locked behind kits or even necessarily a one off recolor kit.