Pools are boring.
Do you even make your sims swim? All they can do is swim laps and splash people. There's the jumping platform but that's just a way to get into the pool. I like building pools but they're so borin...
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"astera00;c-16755854" wrote:
Pools definitely need some love. Having played Sims Freeplay before buying Sims 4, it was a real downgrade in terms of pool interactions, can you believe? In Freeplay, there are various water slides (curved and straight ones!), diving boards that comes with a diving hobby (the kind that looks like a plank), inflatable pool furniture, lifeguard chair, lounge chairs, more pools-specific interactions between sims including romantic ones and a vollyball net that you place in the pool where up to four sims can play vollyball! There are even towels that you lay on the side where you can sunbathe and relax.
The pool gets dirty if you don't clean it for a few days and sims refuse to swim in it if it isn't cleaned. Which makes for more immersive gameplay (haha, immersive:sweat: ) As this is a freemium game we're talking about, you can buy a pool-cleaning robot to do the task for you. Oh and I like how you can build an island in the middle of the pool that sims have to swim to.
So yes, remembering that I can get all this on Freeplay reminds me why some aspects of Sims 4 can feel a bit hollow at times and why I spend more time in CAS and build mode. I do prefer 4 a lot more overall, I mean the whole enjoyment in Sims comes from the creation aspect of it for me, but yeah I don't think a paid version of a game should have so much less than the free version sometimes.
This.
I do like that they can sit on the edge and talk or swim laps, and converse while swimming. The death is pretty shameless but it's probably my favorite as far as challenges go. Yeah, I'd like to see some equipment, less childish slides, floaties/floating furniture, games, synchronized swimming, and maybe even a WooHoo option. Hey, it could happen....
Actually, a part of me was hoping you could turn a pool into a skating ring come winter and just have your family skate on it without even leaving the house, but oh well. Maybe one day.
Pools were likely an 'afterthought' considering they were added in a patch, so I'm not sure we'll ever get anything new. Unless it's something out of another EP/SP. What I hate most is when you have a pool already and your sim is steady rolling a want for one. Like, really? You have the best pool in the neighborhood and still want more? They're greedy little rascals, I tell ya. >. >
