This is what Sims 4 is lacking

"JoAnne65;c-17415457" wrote:

"Christabelle73;c-17413195" wrote:

"Karon;c-17412372" wrote:
@Christabelle73 honey, I love CAS and Build and Build in SIms 4, but the game is THE SIMS, not THE CAS, not THE BUILD. the focus should always be the characters.

Um... you have to BUILD a home for them to live in... you have to BUILD community lots... YOU CAN'T PLAY WITHOUT SOMETHING BEING BUILT... HELL YOU CAN'T PLAY WITHOUT USING CAS TO CREATE A SIM!!!!!!!

SMH, everyone "plays" different but we all "play the Sims" ... no where does it say that "playing" means only using the characters.

"Christabelle73;c-17414315" wrote:

Ummm, in 2 and 3 you could build. And you could place lots where you wanted them. Heck, in 2, you could even use a world template and create your own world complete with all the "community areas" and how you wanted to place trees, and rocks, and whatever your heart desired in to those common areas.

Even since the original sims, I have never NOT built in my game.

In 3, you could create your whole entire world.

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That's what I'm talking about, 2 was better, there were building cheats that don't exist in 4 that made building so much more fun. My version of "playing" the game is to build houses. That is what I enjoy. I even build shells for others to decorate. I play the actual sim part and get bored, lol.

It’s perfectly okay when you use the game to just build or create sims and building mode and CAS indeed are important. The thing is, while it’s awesome the game apparently caters players who love building (actually not for sims to live in; I’m convinced there are thousands of houses in the Gallery no sim ever lived in, like there are thousands of sims who never left their tiny box in the library), it doesn’t cater those who like the franchise because they love to play with the little people. And then I think it’s totally justified to say hey, this game is not called ‘Builders Dream” or “Dress a Doll”, it’s called The Sims. The game is built around the idea to play with life.

All my homes are playable as long as you use #moo.

I do have 4 sims I'm trying to max their skills without cheating, well I use the lock decay cheat so I can speed through on high. With books and things that they walk away from I tell them to do it 7 times and keep it at 7. I only spend 2-4 hours a week on them.

I am thinking about using some custom sims to create 6 toddlers and max their skills all the way to teen or young adult but again only with the speed on high.