Sims 4 Build Mode is Abandoned [ UPDATE] Good News.
UPDATE:
We alreary have:
1 Separate Foundations
2. Terrain Tolls
3. L Shaped Stars
Announced for September 5th .
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Now only missing:
1. Ceiling Tile
2. Pound Toll
3. Single handrail
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When The Sims 4 was announced, one of its promises was a revolutionary build mode, packed with new tools and lots of practicality. And that was not a lie, really many new things have been added, from practicality to new tools (some of them included per update).
Examples:
1. Pools were added to the game.
2. We can choose up to the edge of the pool.
3. Basements were added.
4. Half walls were added.
5. Added a tool that allows us to choose even the style of water from fountains and pools.
6. And we also had new styles of roofs that were added more recently.
(If I forgot something, please let me know).
But still, I feel like the builders of this game are abandoned. It will not be new types of roofing that will change that reality. We are abandoned.
The problem is that since when the basements were released in 2015, no really important and heavy functionality has been added to the game ever since. The improvements and additions were small, nothing that we could classify as really important.
I was really hoping for important things for build mode in 2017, and when I went to see it, it was just a few new roof models in the game.
Lets go:
1. Ceiling Tile.
Since when The Sims 4 was released, to this day, we can not change the ceiling tile. We have to deal with that same white ceiling tile in every building and this is very frustrating. And it gets even worse if we consider that this feature was present in The Sims 3 since the base game was released in 2009.
Talking like a layman, this functionality does not seem too complex to add to the game and I think it might already have been added to The Sims 4 a long time ago. Come on, the game will complete 4 years this year, there was more than enough time for something like that to be added.
https://i.imgur.com/AUJQDMo.jpg
2. Independent Foundations
This is an extremely annoying problem, and I have seen many people complain about it for the past 3 years.
In The Sims 4, it is not impossible to build a building that sits above a foundation while another building, still in the same lot, remains at ground level as we can see in the image below.
When we use a foundation in The Sims 4, it affects everything that was built in the lot, and that's a limitation on how many lots can be built.
https://i.imgur.com/wMFEab9.png
https://i.imgur.com/1MUQ9cB.jpg
3. Terrain Tool
I honestly don't even know why I'm talking about it. This is definitely one of those tools that we are already sure will never return, at least in The Sims 4. This is one of the tools of the build mode that most players have asked for the return, but that so far the producers did not give a word about, and most likely will be like this until the end of the generation.
The terrain tool was an important tool in both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. It was responsible for allowing advanced builders to create incredible buildings, especially when using cheats like: constrainfloorelevation false, which allowed terrain leveling to affect structure of buildings.
This is something that really misses, especially to help in the aesthetics of the lots, and that saddens me.
https://i.imgur.com/vWLWrRK.jpg
4. PoundTool / Lake Tool
This tool walks alongside the terrain tool as it affects the ground level. I really miss building real lakes
Even today the players of The Sims 4 are forced to build pools disguised as lakes. In an attempt to make it seem more natural, players place several stones on the edge of the pool to try to create a more beautiful landscape, and disguise the pool.
Are we going to have to deal with this until the end of the generation?
https://i.imgur.com/8H3QsQn.jpg
5. L Shaped Stairs Tool
I've been waiting for this for years, since The Sims 3, but it seems that stairs is a feature that producers apparently have no interest in improving in the game.
https://i.imgur.com/1BNfODv.jpg
In The Sims 4, players are required to build their homes within a foundation so that it is possible to create something that comes close to a L shaped stair. Of course, many people don't do that because creating a home within a foundation makes it very difficult the way the building is built.
In The Sims 3, the only way to create L shaped stair was by using the constrainfloorelevation code inside the building by changing the floor level, which affected the walls of the house. It was a step back from the third generation and I will now explain why:
https://i.imgur.com/ghLPP6w.jpg
In The Sims 2, in Open for Business Expansion Pack, the stage/platform tool was added. This tool was similar to the foundation, but unlike it, it was possible to add them in the inner part of the house, glued / leaning against the wall. This tool was perfect for building L shaped stairs in The Sims 2, and when it was launched, players no longer needed to use the cheat constrainfloorelevation to make L shaped Stairs. The only problem is that, as far as I remember, it was not possible set the platform height, so the L-shaped stairs always had their initial part close to the ground.
I keep wondering how amazing it would be to be able to build L-shaped stairs in The Sims 4 using a tool of their own, allowing me to even set the height of the ladder.
IMPORTANT: I know that many players want spiral stairs, I also want to, but spiral stairs are actually just an object that producers just need to create. And honestly, I do not know why this has not yet been done.
For now, for me, L-shaped stairs are more important.
It's tricky to deal with so much missing features in build mode.
6. Single Handrail
I don't know if you know, but in The Sims 4 it's impossible to build stairs with just a single handdrail. It turns out that when we use the handrail tool on a ladder, the game automatically adds two handrails, each on a different side of the ladder.
It's a small detail, but I've been through some situations where the ladder would look perfect if there was a handrail only on one side, but as the game adds handrails on both sides automatically, there was nothing I could do.
https://i.imgur.com/8KXp1RK.jpg
In The Sims 3 and The Sims 2, we can only add one rail if that's what we want.
I think the producers wanted to make the players' work much more practical with some things that in the end what they did was disturb the way the players build something.
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@SimGuruHouts , I beg you, help us with build mode, all the things I've said here are important, and at least 2 of them do not seem to me to be very complex to introduce, like the case of individual handrails and ceiling tile.
I want to take the opportunity and invite @ehaught58 to join the discussion. I know you've been one of the great advocates of new tools for game building mode.
We alreary have:
1 Separate Foundations
2. Terrain Tolls
3. L Shaped Stars
Announced for September 5th .
---
Now only missing:
1. Ceiling Tile
2. Pound Toll
3. Single handrail
---
When The Sims 4 was announced, one of its promises was a revolutionary build mode, packed with new tools and lots of practicality. And that was not a lie, really many new things have been added, from practicality to new tools (some of them included per update).
Examples:
1. Pools were added to the game.
2. We can choose up to the edge of the pool.
3. Basements were added.
4. Half walls were added.
5. Added a tool that allows us to choose even the style of water from fountains and pools.
6. And we also had new styles of roofs that were added more recently.
But still, I feel like the builders of this game are abandoned. It will not be new types of roofing that will change that reality. We are abandoned.
The problem is that since when the basements were released in 2015, no really important and heavy functionality has been added to the game ever since. The improvements and additions were small, nothing that we could classify as really important.
I was really hoping for important things for build mode in 2017, and when I went to see it, it was just a few new roof models in the game.
Lets go:
1. Ceiling Tile.
Since when The Sims 4 was released, to this day, we can not change the ceiling tile. We have to deal with that same white ceiling tile in every building and this is very frustrating. And it gets even worse if we consider that this feature was present in The Sims 3 since the base game was released in 2009.
Talking like a layman, this functionality does not seem too complex to add to the game and I think it might already have been added to The Sims 4 a long time ago. Come on, the game will complete 4 years this year, there was more than enough time for something like that to be added.
This is an extremely annoying problem, and I have seen many people complain about it for the past 3 years.
In The Sims 4, it is not impossible to build a building that sits above a foundation while another building, still in the same lot, remains at ground level as we can see in the image below.
When we use a foundation in The Sims 4, it affects everything that was built in the lot, and that's a limitation on how many lots can be built.
https://i.imgur.com/wMFEab9.png
https://i.imgur.com/1MUQ9cB.jpg
I honestly don't even know why I'm talking about it. This is definitely one of those tools that we are already sure will never return, at least in The Sims 4. This is one of the tools of the build mode that most players have asked for the return, but that so far the producers did not give a word about, and most likely will be like this until the end of the generation.
The terrain tool was an important tool in both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. It was responsible for allowing advanced builders to create incredible buildings, especially when using cheats like: constrainfloorelevation false, which allowed terrain leveling to affect structure of buildings.
This is something that really misses, especially to help in the aesthetics of the lots, and that saddens me.
https://i.imgur.com/vWLWrRK.jpg
4. PoundTool / Lake Tool
This tool walks alongside the terrain tool as it affects the ground level. I really miss building real lakes
Even today the players of The Sims 4 are forced to build pools disguised as lakes. In an attempt to make it seem more natural, players place several stones on the edge of the pool to try to create a more beautiful landscape, and disguise the pool.
Are we going to have to deal with this until the end of the generation?
I've been waiting for this for years, since The Sims 3, but it seems that stairs is a feature that producers apparently have no interest in improving in the game.
https://i.imgur.com/1BNfODv.jpg
In The Sims 4, players are required to build their homes within a foundation so that it is possible to create something that comes close to a L shaped stair. Of course, many people don't do that because creating a home within a foundation makes it very difficult the way the building is built.
In The Sims 3, the only way to create L shaped stair was by using the constrainfloorelevation code inside the building by changing the floor level, which affected the walls of the house. It was a step back from the third generation and I will now explain why:
In The Sims 2, in Open for Business Expansion Pack, the stage/platform tool was added. This tool was similar to the foundation, but unlike it, it was possible to add them in the inner part of the house, glued / leaning against the wall. This tool was perfect for building L shaped stairs in The Sims 2, and when it was launched, players no longer needed to use the cheat constrainfloorelevation to make L shaped Stairs. The only problem is that, as far as I remember, it was not possible set the platform height, so the L-shaped stairs always had their initial part close to the ground.
I keep wondering how amazing it would be to be able to build L-shaped stairs in The Sims 4 using a tool of their own, allowing me to even set the height of the ladder.
IMPORTANT: I know that many players want spiral stairs, I also want to, but spiral stairs are actually just an object that producers just need to create. And honestly, I do not know why this has not yet been done.
For now, for me, L-shaped stairs are more important.
It's tricky to deal with so much missing features in build mode.
6. Single Handrail
I don't know if you know, but in The Sims 4 it's impossible to build stairs with just a single handdrail. It turns out that when we use the handrail tool on a ladder, the game automatically adds two handrails, each on a different side of the ladder.
It's a small detail, but I've been through some situations where the ladder would look perfect if there was a handrail only on one side, but as the game adds handrails on both sides automatically, there was nothing I could do.
https://i.imgur.com/8KXp1RK.jpg
In The Sims 3 and The Sims 2, we can only add one rail if that's what we want.
I think the producers wanted to make the players' work much more practical with some things that in the end what they did was disturb the way the players build something.
------------
@SimGuruHouts , I beg you, help us with build mode, all the things I've said here are important, and at least 2 of them do not seem to me to be very complex to introduce, like the case of individual handrails and ceiling tile.
I want to take the opportunity and invite @ehaught58 to join the discussion. I know you've been one of the great advocates of new tools for game building mode.
