Pools are boring.

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-16755224" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-16754900" wrote:
I love giving my Sims a pool in my game, but I agree it would be nice to have more things for interactions with it. Although, there is more than what you have mentioned to do, for instance @TheGoodOldGamer's ideas and you're right by the way, GT does have group interactions for the pool. I made a club for the patients in my Asylum Challenge that included swimming and diving. They had a lot of fun with it, especially one guy. He loved to dive and every single time, he'd get out naked and then walk around looking all proud shocking all the other patients. lol

Sims can also sit by the pool and read or eat, talk (and I think kiss?) in the pool, swim laps, spash each other (as mentioned), they can teach their children to swim and if their bladder is low, even pee in the pool. o.O Gross, I know, but still it made me laugh the first time it happened in one of my saves. Oh, and if you have Seasons, there's a special day for a Polar Bear swim in the Winter. ;)

They can teach their children to swim? It's the first time I see this mentioned, how does it work? If it's true is really cool.

It doesn't do much. A sim (any age) can click another sim and ask to be taught to swim/offer to teach swimming. Then the student goes on swimming normally while the teacher sits down at the pool's edge and gesticulates. When pools got introduced I was very exited about the feature, but it got old pretty quick.

Still love pools, couldn't imagine my game without them (those early pool-less weeks were hard), but, yes, they need much more love by the devs! I'm especially wishing for shallower pools where sims do other things than swim. Visit any hotel pool and you'll find only a few people actually swimming in them. It's more bathing and relaxing.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-16755744" wrote:

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-16755224" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-16754900" wrote:
I love giving my Sims a pool in my game, but I agree it would be nice to have more things for interactions with it. Although, there is more than what you have mentioned to do, for instance @TheGoodOldGamer's ideas and you're right by the way, GT does have group interactions for the pool. I made a club for the patients in my Asylum Challenge that included swimming and diving. They had a lot of fun with it, especially one guy. He loved to dive and every single time, he'd get out naked and then walk around looking all proud shocking all the other patients. lol

Sims can also sit by the pool and read or eat, talk (and I think kiss?) in the pool, swim laps, spash each other (as mentioned), they can teach their children to swim and if their bladder is low, even pee in the pool. o.O Gross, I know, but still it made me laugh the first time it happened in one of my saves. Oh, and if you have Seasons, there's a special day for a Polar Bear swim in the Winter. ;)

They can teach their children to swim? It's the first time I see this mentioned, how does it work? If it's true is really cool.

It doesn't do much. A sim (any age) can click another sim and ask to be taught to swim/offer to teach swimming. Then the student goes on swimming normally while the teacher sits down at the pool's edge and gesticulates. When pools got introduced I was very exited about the feature, but it got old pretty quick.

Still love pools, couldn't imagine my game without them (those early pool-less weeks were hard), but, yes, they need much more love by the devs! I'm especially wishing for shallower pools where sims do other things than swim. Visit any hotel pool and you'll find only a few people actually swimming in them. It's more bathing and relaxing.

Thanks for the info. Doesn't sound very exciting but I had no idea this was in the game!

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.

Most fun I've had with a pool is in a house where I just went through the gauntlet of raising an infant to child and two Yorkies and their puppy... Things were not feeling all that 'fun'. When the toddler suddenly became chunky I aged her into a child so she could get some exercise, and since it was turning to winter I thought I'd try an indoor pool in the basement rec-room. Added the bubbles too - which was pretty cool since now steam and bubbles were present...

So, I get done and it's a steaming addition to the corner of the basement, and I 'tell' the child to swim in it. Then I look over and the two little dogs are hopping around at the edge of the pool (so I'm afraid they'll drown or something!), then suddenly they jump in, swim around, jump out, jump back in ...rinse and repeat. It was a hoot and I was laughing aloud to myself in the middle of the night like a crazy woman. :D :D :D :D

Maybe an awesome ts4 modder can make us pool floaties lol. It's insane how much I rely on mods to make my game playable.

"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.

wow. that sounds amazing and it makes me incredibly bitter.
Why is ts4 like this. It just makes me feel like EAxis is cheating us. I want to love ts4 but there's so much missing and I feel like such a fool for supporting it monetarily.

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-16755814" wrote:

"EnkiSchmidt;c-16755744" wrote:

"AlbaWaterhouse;c-16755224" wrote:

"Karababy52;c-16754900" wrote:
I love giving my Sims a pool in my game, but I agree it would be nice to have more things for interactions with it. Although, there is more than what you have mentioned to do, for instance @TheGoodOldGamer's ideas and you're right by the way, GT does have group interactions for the pool. I made a club for the patients in my Asylum Challenge that included swimming and diving. They had a lot of fun with it, especially one guy. He loved to dive and every single time, he'd get out naked and then walk around looking all proud shocking all the other patients. lol

Sims can also sit by the pool and read or eat, talk (and I think kiss?) in the pool, swim laps, spash each other (as mentioned), they can teach their children to swim and if their bladder is low, even pee in the pool. o.O Gross, I know, but still it made me laugh the first time it happened in one of my saves. Oh, and if you have Seasons, there's a special day for a Polar Bear swim in the Winter. ;)

They can teach their children to swim? It's the first time I see this mentioned, how does it work? If it's true is really cool.

It doesn't do much. A sim (any age) can click another sim and ask to be taught to swim/offer to teach swimming. Then the student goes on swimming normally while the teacher sits down at the pool's edge and gesticulates. When pools got introduced I was very exited about the feature, but it got old pretty quick.

Still love pools, couldn't imagine my game without them (those early pool-less weeks were hard), but, yes, they need much more love by the devs! I'm especially wishing for shallower pools where sims do other things than swim. Visit any hotel pool and you'll find only a few people actually swimming in them. It's more bathing and relaxing.

Thanks for the info. Doesn't sound very exciting but I had no idea this was in the game!

TT.TT It's just more recycled animations. I'm so sick of these.

"SheriGR;c-16755924" wrote:
Most fun I've had with a pool is in a house where I just went through the gauntlet of raising an infant to child and two Yorkies and their puppy... Things were not feeling all that 'fun'. When the toddler suddenly became chunky I aged her into a child so she could get some exercise, and since it was turning to winter I thought I'd try an indoor pool in the basement rec-room. Added the bubbles too - which was pretty cool since now steam and bubbles were present...

So, I get done and it's a steaming addition to the corner of the basement, and I 'tell' the child to swim in it. Then I look over and the two little dogs are hopping around at the edge of the pool (so I'm afraid they'll drown or something!), then suddenly they jump in, swim around, jump out, jump back in ...rinse and repeat. It was a hoot and I was laughing aloud to myself in the middle of the night like a crazy woman. :D :D :D :D

One of my Main Save Sims has a Bernese Mountain Dog -- moved them from Oasis Springs to a house in Windenburg with a small pool, and found out the dog absolutely loves to swim, while the Pomeranian his brother's family owned wouldn't go near their pool.

I agree that they're boring. My Sims hardly ever swim and I never build them at their homes because I just don't see a point.

"MidnightAura;c-16755614" wrote:
I agree pools are dull. Bring back Timle Tourneau (Marco polo) from sims 2, bring back slides and floated and things to do in the water like holding your breathe underwater and floating.

100% want this too.

Also, pool slides would be cool. TS2 seasons had one. Pool waterfalls would be cool as well.