Terrain Tool Functions Are Incomplete AND WHERE is the Water Tool?

Yea I was also wondering if they will end up letting us create natural ponds

I really miss the water tool, too. And my terrain paint hasn't been working at all since installing Get Famous, but that's another issue.

"SnowWolf58;d-951532" wrote:
So now that we can alter the terrain in our sim's world... WHY does the Paint Tool NOT work on the raised terrain???

WHY do we always get a "Glass is Half Full" type of addition whenever EA decides to grant us a feature that we as part of the Simming Community have asked for since the inception of Sims 4???

Perhaps the Paint Tool can be developed to paint on ALL the terrain whether it's raised or not in a future patch. This would make it a fully developed and logical tool addition to Sims 4.

Also need to add a Water Tool in a future patch so that we can have authentic streams and other water elements on our sim's home lots and parks, restaurants, etc.

Just once, it would be so nice to see EA produce and give us fully developed game aspects... is that too much to ask for after the majority of us have spent hundreds of $$$ on this game franchise over the last 18 years. Fini.

If you use a laptop to play Sims 4 & have LAPTOP MODE ON, TURN OFF LAPTOP MODE. It should work. I had the same issue not being able to use Terrain Paints. I went to SimGuruGrant's Twitter with this issue & someone else suggested that solution. Hopefully a fix for this issue will be released soon.

"atrainor;c-16841624" wrote:
I really miss the water tool, too. And my terrain paint hasn't been working at all since installing Get Famous, but that's another issue.

Why don't you update - terrain paints were fixed for laptops today as well as several other major bugs. They even fixed a CC bug - something I've never seen Maxis do. I don't use CC - but I thought that was mighty nice seeing they stepped out of that comfort zone for the CC users too. Good job Maxis -

now about the number of lots in DSV.... how about turning our frowns upside down too as no matter how badly I want that pack I cannot buy it with just one affordable lot for my sims. It's not a gp.... You show tons of high rises in this world - how about making a couple of real, usable ones and removing the fake ones. It's not a movie - it's a game and I need homes for my characters not bountiful vistas to look at. This is after all Sims 4 the game, not Sims 4 the Movie.

Thanks WritinReg for commenting on my post here. We've been at this for a very long time haven't we? I was Wolfstarz7 and known as Wolfie on the Sims 2 & 3 forums back in the day. I'm glad to see you're still here fighting the good fight along w/those of us who know how great this game series used to be AND still could be... if TPTB would actually listen to the Sims Series long time players/simmers.

What a concept, huh? I agree w/you about the number of lots in this newest EP to Sims 4. Pretty pitiful and WHERE are the GROUP ACTIVITY things we've been asking for ad nauseum over the years? I have seen plenty of Celebrity Homes both in magazines and on TV that have POOL TABLES so they can have a party w/their friends and actually have some FUN!

There are so many more group activity items we have been asking for and yet EA just continues to produce EP's like Get Famous w/small neighborhoods and hardly any NEW FUN content. It looks like we're probably going to have to wait for Sims 5 to see any real improvements that involve Sim Families & Friends being able to have FUN together!

Nice to see you here again! <3

Where is the round tool? Right, we don‘t have one.

This feature will be probably ignored like many other features. ?

Our woes in this department likely stem from the original online version. In an online game your sim/player character merely interacts with the given world. No building is possible (as least in the ones I've been to) because the world must remain the same in order for the many players that come and go at any time to have the same gaming experience in terms of where they can go and what they find when they get there. Stability and continuity are first and foremost. Yes, the game is now offline, but the roots are still there and show in the paucity of lots, the massive amount of scenery, the still limited tools, and all the rest of it. The game, unfortunately, is Sims the movie by intent and design, interactive to be sure, but still just a movie. Real and meaningful change demands a new game engine on the order of a modern version of what we had before. That is not happening in TS4.

"Oldeseadogge;c-17153147" wrote:
Our woes in this department likely stem from the original online version. In an online game your sim/player character merely interacts with the given world. No building is possible (as least in the ones I've been to) because the world must remain the same in order for the many players that come and go at any time to have the same gaming experience in terms of where they can go and what they find when they get there. Stability and continuity are first and foremost. Yes, the game is now offline, but the roots are still there and show in the paucity of lots, the massive amount of scenery, the still limited tools, and all the rest of it. The game, unfortunately, is Sims the movie by intent and design, interactive to be sure, but still just a movie. Real and meaningful change demands a new game engine on the order of a modern version of what we had before. That is not happening in TS4.

I think most of the fans know that! I just can't understand why we are keeping with it. The Sims 4 shoud have died in the beginning. We as community accepted this terrible game and now we are stick with it and always complaining about something because this game will never be as good. If it was the second in the franshise it would be fine but we just can't pretend we aren't in 2019 and forget about both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 existence. More than EA or Maxis, we as fans have fault too. Boycott was what we should have been doing!

Yes, of all the Sims incarnations to decide to carry on for more than 4 years, this was totally not the one!