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

I definitely thought the cars were a great addition to TS2, and I'm not even a car person. But I always wanted to have at least one blue collar family where one of the adults was a mechanic, my redneck families always had an old junker parked outside, and with the rebuild and paint interactions, it was nice to have sim parents teach their kids how to make car repairs. (I can't remember whether you could literally teach other sims to do anything with the car, but you could definitely have two sims work on the car at the same time.) It was always so cute to see, for example, dad sim working on a car with his teen daughter. Very sweet, and reminded me of my own dad teaching me how to do basic car repairs.

I had this idea for cars for awhile:

They can be Sims 2 style, fixing, sitting and driving animation, etc. PLUS when sim drives off lot into the loading screen (well first you pick the destonation) we could have a little video - 3rd person view of your sim and car driving forward down some road with familiar to us worlds around them (like windenburg going to oasis springs could slowly transition to desert and cactuses instead of trees and green) and itll be like a more visual way instead of loading plumbob spinning, itll be relaxing and when new place loads the car just drives and parks in designated parking lot for that neighborhood and Sim gets out of car, locks it by beep beep, and walks to lot.

What do you think?

I actually don't want cars or open worlds, however, I do think making like a "race park" with some livable lots, in a small fixer upper town would give a lot of people what they want, they can build and work on cars, they can practice and attened raceing events at the track near by, and maybe have a street drift race at night.

idk I would love cars but I don't see too much practicality in having them in Sims 4.

In Sims 2 cars were great because after you called a Taxi you had to wait for it to arrive on your lot, same with going to work, you had to wait for the carpool that came to get you an hour before work started. Your sim owning a car meant that they could leave later for work and leave earlier to go to where ever they were going!

In Sims 3 it worked because of the open world, though I do have an off topic question: was the carpool supposed to stop after buying a car for your sim in Sims 3? Because in my 10 years of playing I could never get the carpool to actually NOT come. But anyway it worked because otherwise, we'd spend most of the sim day watching our sims walk from point A to Point B.

In Sims 4 you open the phone and your sim just falls off the face of the earth, there is no waiting for a certain object to appear to take you somewhere. You just go. I could see a real benefit to cars if they revamped how traveling worked, where they would have to wait for a taxi or SimUber or something to get to work or for traveling to other lots. Otherwise, I see the dev team adding them as nothing other than just decor, which there is already CC for cars out there as decor.

And if they do add cars I dont want to see them just teleport into the vehicles, like how the do with Jetskis and Boats and Cars from Sims 3. I would love to the see the finer details like Sims 2 had, where the junk cars they had to slam the door twice to get it to close, I want to see them actually enter the vehicle and drive down the drive way.

Sims 2-style cars would be great!! Watching our sims enter their cars and drive away was a nice touch.

Sure, this would not work on every lot, and I'd imagine they'll be putting restrictions in place for the lots that aren't connected to the road at all. That's fine. The Windenburg island does not need cars. Maybe it could have boats instead. Maybe we won't be getting JUST cars... let's think bigger; we might get vehicles in general. Bicycles. Boats. Off-road vehicles. Yes.

"SimsAddict_244;c-16482608" wrote:
It's basically confirming that cars in S4 is indeed possible and that they are considering to integrate them in the most meaningful way possible. This is clearly toddlers 2.0 right there, and I hope they are as in depth as they are in this iteration ( bring back car animation, please?).

where do toddlers come into requests for cars feature?

"AfterMidnight;c-15939044" wrote:
While I think cars would be nice to have for decoration purposes, I don't think I'd get much personal use out of them. My sims in TS2 rarely had cars and I mostly had my sims travel via taxi or carpool in TS3.

Actually, you get a need decay penalty for using taxis or carpool for Sims 3. Using a car negates that penalty, that's why cars were needed in that game. Bicycle and Horse were nice alternatives to cars.

But if Sims 4 is going to have cars, then there also needs to be bicycles, motorcycles, and horses. And why not go all out and make helicopters and planes?

We already have bicycles. I think horses are coming this year, though.