sims CAN take a bicycle ride wherever

Sounds still ambiguous. Wherever for all it could mean is "anywhere in University worlds". If they did manage to do it (which sounds to good to be truth), then oOf past PR (wouldn't be suprising, because they done it in the past). Not to shower parade, but the opportunities where they could have done modification in all worlds for features to work in them cross-pack (like ocean swimming, which is yet inclusive to all worlds) would need to be justify for why they're absent (cars???? CAW????). I mean I very cleary remember a guru told that world's cannot be altered because that may lead to save file corruption because of said modification. So, was that a lie / misinformation of a dev?

"DragonCat159;c-17301436" wrote:
Sounds still ambiguous. Wherever for all it could mean is "anywhere in University worlds".

Nah, the question specifically mentioned Willow Creek, making it clear that the person asking the question meant anywhere as in all worlds. If the answer was no, then they'd ignore that particular phrasing of the question.

And bike riding would work just like jogging, I'd imagine. There isn't much they'd need to do to make that work.

"DragonCat159;c-17301436" wrote:
Sounds still ambiguous. Wherever for all it could mean is "anywhere in University worlds". If they did manage to do it (which sounds to good to be truth), then oOf past PR (wouldn't be suprising, because they done it in the past). Not to shower parade, but the opportunities where they could have done modification in all worlds for features to work in them cross-pack (like ocean swimming, which is yet inclusive to all worlds) would need to be justify for why they're absent (cars???? CAW????). I mean I very cleary remember a guru told that world's cannot be altered because that may lead to save file corruption because of said modification. So, was that a lie / misinformation of a dev?

I don't know, "wherever" in response to the question that was asked (uni world only or also WC or others) isn't ambiguous to me at all. Wherever means both uni world and other worlds. If it was in response to "only campus or other places too", I'd understand that it might mean "Britechester only" but not here.

They very likely didn't need to alter worlds: Sims will be able to bike on existing jogging and walking routes. Water in non-Sulani worlds wasn't initially designed for Sims to go into it so it would've needed a redesign: adding routes for Sims to move on, making sure they *swim* there and don't end up looking like they're walking in water.
Cars would also require a redesign of the existing roads (make sure FX cars don't move through the interactive ones, that trams don't crash into cars, that Sims don't start walking in the middle of the road...).

I wonder by wherever, do they just mean whichever world (since the original question is just about which worlds bikes can be used in), or literally wherever Sims can route to.

In TS3 you could only ride bikes on the actual roads. It’s going to be a massive improvement if you can ride them to literally anywhere.

"gemjas;c-17301446" wrote:

"DragonCat159;c-17301436" wrote:
Sounds still ambiguous. Wherever for all it could mean is "anywhere in University worlds".

Nah, the question specifically mentioned Willow Creek, making it clear that the person asking the question meant anywhere as in all worlds. If the answer was no, then they'd ignore that particular phrasing of the question.

And bike riding would work just like jogging, I'd imagine. There isn't much they'd need to do to make that work.

I pretty much seen how sims can jog. So basically, if in willow creek, your Sim would take a one round jog on a sidewalk ? That would be very anticlimactic.

Yeah, based on some early screenshots, it seems like bikes aren't exclusively ridden on roads, so I guess they don't really need a working road system in the world

"DragonCat159;c-17301462" wrote:

"gemjas;c-17301446" wrote:

"DragonCat159;c-17301436" wrote:
Sounds still ambiguous. Wherever for all it could mean is "anywhere in University worlds".

Nah, the question specifically mentioned Willow Creek, making it clear that the person asking the question meant anywhere as in all worlds. If the answer was no, then they'd ignore that particular phrasing of the question.

And bike riding would work just like jogging, I'd imagine. There isn't much they'd need to do to make that work.

I pretty much seen how sims can jog. So basically, if in willow creek, your Sim would take a one round jog on a sidewalk ? That would be very anticlimactic.

Yes it is anticlimactic. Which is why I don't get the excitement. Bikes to me always looked like it worked exactly like jogging just with different animations. Since there are more efficient way to travel in game, I think it is a novelty that will lose it charm in my gameplay very quickly. I am glad others are enjoying the concept, though. Not everything needs to appeal to me.

I never really got why that was a concern because in game mechanics, worlds all function the same (even dry Sulani) and it would require more work to program a world for bikes specifically.
The easiest option probably was "if sims can walk by, there can be bikes".
There are walk-by paths in the worlds already. Sims jogging don't take random routes.

Finally good news.

Since the gurus are replying only to questions about DU, that leaves a lot of room for speculation on what is going to be in the pre-DU update. We haven't heard one word about the content in the update yet. It's been confirmed bicycles are in the pack, but nothing about the kids being able to ride as well. The degrees will be set up so having a degree will impact the level at which a Sim starts a career, and seems to include all the careers we have so far. Including the ones that came in various packs. Those are not changes being made to the base game. Those changes are pack-dependent, and will only be available to players who buy DU. So there is no way to know if kids will have bikes in the update, or not. It is probably a stretch to think it is possible, but the teams have surprised us before with new content in updates. Keep the hope alive. It could happen.