9 years ago

Seriously, why are we still having these build issues?!

Every single time I get an idea for a build, I quit in frustration because they can't be done. All I wanted was a little cabin, with a lofted area for sleeping. Well, too damn bad. For one, you have to fight the game tooth and nail to make a loft in the first place, because you are not allowed to just delete the floor pieces you want, but the entire floor. So it is trial and error making walls around stairs, deleting floor areas you don't want, changing the wall to railing - nope, the floor's back now. Trying again, now I have a magical floating wall around the stairs I didn't want. Fighting some more - finally got it. Good. Put the roof on. Nope. Game doesn't consider lofted areas a closed room - roof slides right through the lofted area. PLUM! Fine. I'll try to manually place the roof spaces around my room. Nope. The roof sections will not slide up against the walls, there's a gap. Another build scrapped in frustration.

I'm sick of this. The only thing I enjoyed about this game was the building. And in more than two years, they still can't fix the simplest things. You still get backsplash on counters if part if it is against the wall. We still do not have any choice for stairs, still no ladders. You still can't make buildings on the same level different heights. They've never fixed matching colors not actually matching.

I know this will get deleted - everything I post does, but I needed to vent. In the past few weeks I've fired up the game for about 6 build ideas, all abandoned in frustration because I can't get it to work with the crazy limitations in the game.

Finally got the loft the way I wanted it. Lovely little fireplace, just enough space for a bed and maybe a chair and bookcase.
http://i.imgur.com/9jCEQlK.png

OK, let's put the roof on.
http://i.imgur.com/AIll0OE.png

Nope. I don't know what can be done.

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Edit for clarity
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I know you can put a roof on a square building with a loft in it. The problem is when you have protruding areas on the same floor as the loft, and you try to put roofing there. On the same level with the lofted space, it will break the wall if you use a half wall or fence. Please look at the examples I have provided. If I changed this to a boring square, I know I can put a roof on the top with no issues. But I would like a porch area, and I cannot place a roof on the first floor extending over these areas, because it breaks into the second floor. Have I explained it better now?

138 Replies

keylimepiesims
9 years ago
Agree with everything you mentioned 100% although I do adore build mode, it can be so frustrating at times that I pretty much scrap everything I build. :lol:
piperbird
9 years ago
"Simanite;c-15835218" wrote:
But... toddlers.

Yeah. I am really happy everyone got them, but I never cared one bit for them, and have not played them even once. Literally the only enjoyable part of this game for me has been the building. Everything else is so broken I gave up playing more than a year ago. I love playing TS3 and TSM, but build mode for TS4 really blew me away. I had a great time building for a long time. But as I tried to branch out into new build ideas, I just kept hitting snags. It's like the designers didn't even talk to each other. The two roof types don't match each other, there is a round floor but not a round roof option, paint schemes for 'matching' doors and windows don't actually match, it's like the sent 20 people to different cities to design the game, and didn't let any of them talk to each other at all. Maybe it has gotten better with some of the newer packs, but I just can't bring myself to buy them.
zisp
9 years ago
can you not use the wall-less floor thing that indicates a room. I dunno how to explain that thing and can't remember what it's called in the game.
I agree with the floor thing though, about deleting it. I never really build but have been recently and the floor deleting thing happened to me.
piperbird
9 years ago
"Simpkin;c-15835243" wrote:
can you not use the wall-less floor thing that indicates a room. I dunno how to explain that thing and can't remember what it's called in the game.
I agree with the floor thing though, about deleting it. I never really build but have been recently and the floor deleting thing happened to me.

That's actually what I ended up doing to make the loft. But you still can't make the roof not come through if you use half walls or railings so you can look downstairs. I can make a wall and use window cutouts, and that works, but it doesn't look at all like what I wanted. I had SO many ideas for lofted libraries, bedrooms, balconies over pools in sunken sunrooms, and the game just doesn't let you. Unless you like flat rooftops. That's really the only way you can do it. Is there a mod or anything, that can force the game to recognize something as a closed room? I've never used a mod, but I am almost tempted to.
ehaught58
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
@Piperbird Totally agree with you! I feel the same way. TS4 has been such a disappointment for builders. It has so many restrictions and missing tools that I feel that it really kills my creativity. Builders have been left behind.... :(
IsabelaHine
9 years ago
Yeah i first started building with s4, since I was told it was much easier/convenient but I ran into every snag you mentioned in my first build, lol.

But yeah woo...toddlers, I guess.
lomelinde7
9 years ago
In some ways I adore building in Sims 4 because it's a lot quicker and easier than previously. But then there are all these restrictions like what you've mentioned and it just drives me crazy. Like you also can't have a room on the same floor as a roof. I would love having a bedroom with a sloped ceiling because it's under the roof (I don't know if I explained that well). Lofts are also, as you mentioned, not really possible. And then there really should be ways to delete foundation from a section of the house. This game can be very frustrating at times for builders.
Sid1701d9
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Its easier to do the loft on the ground floor and drag it up to the right place. When I did my bowling Alley with the water fountain inside, I was aggravated because it had to be on ground level, but I couldn't get a floor for the bowling alley if I had it as the same room, it deleted the fountain for the room floor I am like No!. I found a solution for the problem I created a small room where I wanted the fountain and deleted the floor, put the fount back, and did a huge room for the Bowling Alley and changed the wall facing the bowling alley to a halfway and it worked.

Edit:

To get the loft to work in the game make a big room on the top floor and delete the floor, now you can add the smaller room.
piperbird
9 years ago
"Sid1701D9;c-15835383" wrote:
Its easier to do the loft on the ground floor and drag it up to the right place. When I did my bowling Alley with the water fountain inside, I was aggravated because it had to be on ground level, but I couldn't get a floor for the bowling alley if I had it as the same room, it deleted the fountain for the room floor I am like No!. I found a solution for the problem I created a small room where I wanted the fountain and deleted the floor, put the fount back, and did a huge room for the Bowling Alley and changed the wall facing the bowling alley to a halfway and it worked.

Edit:

To get the loft to work in the game make a big room on the top floor and delete the floor, now you can add the smaller room.

The problem isn't really making the loft, it is when you have a loft, the game does not recognize it as a closed room, and the roof breaks through the wall. There NEEDS to be a way of making the game recognize it as a closed room so we can make a roof around it normally.
Sid1701d9
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Let, me try a loft I am kinda curious, I am one of the advanced builders.