Let's talk gardening!
Gardening is one of my favourite aspects of the Sims, and I know there are other players obsessed with their Sim plants, so I thought I'd start a thread for sharing tips, tricks, questions and annoyan...
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"Simmerville;c-16861741" wrote:
Superb pond, @Gwiniel ! I never tried this, did you ad some hidden fence to keep sims out of the water, or an they still take a swim?
There's no fence but I haven't tried yet does a sim go to swim either, so I can't answer that yet @Simmerville . I'll give it a try today and reply again. Thank you for your comment.
I kind of hope a sim can swim in it, since even TS3 didn't allow pond/lake swimming, which for me is very natural since Finland has thousands of lakes and we swim in them more than in public (indoors) swimming pools.
Edit: @Simmerville Tested and results are:
1. No - as the pond is on the picture it's not possible to swim in it. The rocks, shrubs, flowers and ground cover plants (those flat squares, etc in outdoor flowers) can't be walked over. So no fence needed.
2. I removed the rock formation and the ground cover plants from 1 square area... however, the sim couldn't move beyond that spot.
https://i.imgur.com/q8r1iY3.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mIqXxRP.jpg
3. To get the sim to really swim in the lake I had to remove some of the bottom plants, lily pads, and all the water jets/fountains and the sim still zigzagged like a drunk. (That hand wave is his complaint about the grass on bottom, that he can't possibly swim over it.... ninny!)
https://i.imgur.com/gBqcr9t.jpg
4. Conclusion: The objects at the bottom prevents a sim from swimming, so if you want to place any, you have to be minimalist to leave as much clear area as possible for the sim to swim. Also the water jets/fountains of any kind unable the sim to move on the grid squares the item and its water sprays use, same with lily pads. Basically you can make a lush pool pond around the pond as long as you leave 1 square clear on the edge that a sim can enter the pool and have mostly clear bottom. You can always recolor it with floor tiles and if you don't want "mud", you could use stone/brick tiles etc.
And now I have to fix the pond to what it was before testing... the game saved itself although I chose not to save :'(
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