"The sims 4 can't have cars. Cars are useless without the open world"

"ChadSims2;c-16482476" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-16481070" wrote:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGrant/status/997503402992066560

Love this tweet now we can finally have a end to the cars are not possible in Sims 4 comments. We're really trying to think about how to make them interesting and incorporate them in a way that is meaningful sounds like a lot of discussion about cars has been happening with the Sims team, there was a Guru asking what we would like to see with cars last year so hopefully the work is being done on it now and they are past planning.

They sent out a survey about cars long ago so that should have ended the debate, anyway. I think some people forget that developers can pretty much add whatever they want to a game (within reason.) Whether or not some 'system' is currently in place for it is irrelevant. They can add what's needed to make it work.

"Dannydanbo;c-16482621" wrote:
The most meaningful way possible does not necessarily mean driving.

Soooo.... We'd have cars but could not drive them? That's the way it is now, lol. I can't see that happening; cars would definitely be drivable in some way.

"Dannydanbo;c-16484286" wrote:

"IceyJ;c-16484273" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16482621" wrote:
The most meaningful way possible does not necessarily mean driving.

Soooo.... We'd have cars but could not drive them? That's the way it is now, lol. I can't see that happening; cars would definitely be drivable in some way.

How? Half the worlds don't have roads and lots don't connect to them. Plus, the roads you do see are fake, FX, not real. It would be like a child with a toy car trying to drive it on the road in a movie on television.

I don't know how because I'm not a developer. You can ask Grant, though. Do you think the team would be wasting time on cars if they wouldn't be drivable?


I remember in TS3 when everyone said there was no way we'd get boats when we didn't even have swimmable oceans. Just because we don't know how it's done doesn't mean it can't be done.

"Dannydanbo;c-16484289" wrote:
They have said many times that they do not, will not, can not back up and "fix" worlds to add things like ocean swimming and routable roads. Any driving will be in a future pack and probably only that one pack, if at all.

There could be a lot more to cars than just driving on and off a lot.

They do not and will not. As for can not, most things are actually possible they just aren't worth the time. If they decide to add cars they will either update the current worlds, add a new one, or make the cars pull out of the driveway only. Each of these 3 scenarios still means drivable cars. I also agree that there will be a lot more to cars that just driving on and off the lot.

I guess the best we can expect when it comes to cars is that IF they ever decide to add them, they will be a mixture between Sims 2 cars and Sims 3 cars.

The animations Sims 2 had (opening doors, getting in, woohoo and whatever) and the porting The Sims 3 had.

For above mentioned reasons: There are quite a few lots not connected to any road, so they HAVE to make them port to the road if they want to do it.

I am pretty sure they can make ''porting points'' on the ''fx roads'', but the real question is; will they ? Do they think it's worth the amount of work or not?

I am not seeing cars appearing like they were in Sims 2. I doubt they will drive off the lot onto the roads.

It’s pure speculation (but since that’s where we are here that’s allowed :p ) but I still thinks cars were supposed to be part of Sims 4 initially because Grant said so in a 2013 interview. For some reason they were removed from the concept apparently, like toddlers. It’s clear they are seriously considering to bring them back though (and able to do so).

Could they fix the road problem in a patch like they did for toddlers and swimming in the ocean in S3 or would it be too massive to do so? Maybe in a future EP/GP?

I think that the TS4 cars will basically be just like TS2. At least, that's how they will function in the worlds that exist as of today.

Players with large enough lots will probably be able to lay down driveways and build garages. Possibly, the cars will appear at the end of the lot, roll up the driveway and into the garage that has an animated door, like TS2 and TS3.

However, in subsequent worlds, I see no reason why the cars couldn't be able to pull off the lot and drive to the exit point of the 'hood. For worlds that haven't even been built yet, it's quite possible to have drivable roads. Maybe even car pools.

Players who are satisfied with cars that simply teleport off the lot can simply keep their families in the existing worlds. Those who would prefer to see the cars actually driving through the 'hood would need to move their families to a newer world. Or, a good compromise would be something like the community vehicle lot idea that I had for City Living/apartment dwellers -- tenants take the "elevator" portkey down to a garage lot. They can interact with their cars from there.

Whatever EA decides, cars are a possibility. They have already proven with Cats & Dogs that they are perfectly capable of compartmentalizing certain features to specific worlds.

Edited to add: Whatever object that EA uses to direct the cars on a lot (a driveway or something else) I hope that it will be visible in build mode and be invisible in live mode. That way, we can use terrain paints and/or tiles to have the drives look however we want, rather than to be stuck with the colors/textures that EA decides that we should have.

More than a sim owning a car I missed the cars that take our sims to work, buses for school. The way sims teleport is the thing that I really hate about sims 4.

not having cars in The Sims 4 is like not having shoes.
Sims 3 players would say "why have shoes in The Sims 4 if there is no open world? they are useless, you can't even lace your sneakers, delete them from the game!"

maybe is because it is so common to the human experience, almost everyone in the world have shoes, just like almost every household in the world have a vehicle, teaching your teen how to drive, getting your first car, getting a ticket, a crash accident, buying a better car as you get richer, getting a wild car to go for a ride with your friends, customizing it, restoring an old car, having talks in the car, camping on the back of your truck, it has so much meaning to our lives. anybody who lives in a house that doesn't have a car don't know how much they are a part of our lives, without them, life is just not complete.