yeah, the recycling of animations and lazyness of new ones is a true let down...I love good animations, there are a lot in this game that I really like but they are overshadowed by the constantly repeating ones (for different actions).
sliding down the ladder screams lazy, it's like the teleportation in Island Living (from water to watervehicle and vice versa) all over again...
I am HOPING they sacrificed the "climb down ladder" animation for a different, new one (or multiples) that we just haven't seen yet.
In general I can understand sacrificing rather unimportant animations for more important ones (I mean who is gonna actively watch their Sims climb up and down the ladder all the time?) and this would be okay if there wasn't an obvious big lack of differing animations (just look at the conversation animations, the same ones over and over again for many different topics).
