In The Sims 4 we have a closed world. To get to a lot, you have to wait for a loading screen. This isn't any different from previous iterations, except The Sims 3 with its open world. I was bummed out that we don't have open world in The Sims 4. What really makes me more dissapointed is that we don't have any form of transportation. Your Sims just teleport anywhere they want! Or they walk to the edge of the neighbourhood and then we see a loading screen. I think this really breaks the immersion of my game. I'm not even asking for ownable cars here, even though I don't think that's too much to ask. We don't even have a simple carpool, taxi or school bus! We had all of these three in the original The Sims, EIGHTEEN FRIGGIN YEARS AGO! (fyi same goes for ponds and simple terrain tools). I just think it is so absolutely ridiculous that eighteen years ago we had simple transportation and now we don't have any!It's just the fact that they won't even bother doing these simple vehicles in the game just dissapoints and angers me. Of course I can't expect much anymore, but still. It is so mind-boggling to me! Some it won't bother maybe. It's just a few seconds of some animations, but as a life simulation game I find this a very important issue.Here you can see the carpool and school bus in The Sims:https://youtu.be/LVBGEwWEbNo?t=7m30sHere you can see a Sim calling a taxi in The Sims:https://youtu.be/BESKdrzaX4o?t=8m38s

I agree. Not sure why they didn't included vehicles or at least the car pool and cab (or open world, though I have a feeling why). And yet a game form 2000 has them.

Maybe because there is no road system in the game or the game engine. You need a road system and it's programming to have usable vehicles in the game. What looks like roads is not roads it's paths - the programming is walking, teleporting, and fx pathing- nothing else. Should have been in the game first - not after the fact. They obviously had no thought of having vehicles of any kind in this game from the begging of settling on this design other wise they would have had usable pathing and roads - not paths made to just look like roads.The minute I saw the raised curbs and meridian - in base game I knew at least that world would never have cars or bikes or anything else that required roadway programming. Sims 1 - 2- and 3 all had roads and road programming in base game even though Sims 1 and 2 had no ownable cars in base game - they did have usable vehicles though. Eventually Sims 2 did get ownable cars as well, sims 1 never did.Sims 4 has none of that.

teleportation IS a form of transportation! wish i had it in real life. . . that said, I am hoping we get something to spice things up soon. cars, bikes, broomsticks, etc.

They clearly did not have vehicular transport in mind when creating TS4, and newer worlds still follow the same example. Just look at Cavalier Cove in BB; most of the housings there are inaccessible to the main road. I think though SM is the biggest offender of this still; the Spice Market is the only district that's even at street level and connects to roads. The Arts Quarter is more of a heightened plaza connecting to the road, the Fashion District is an elevated plaza that I learned is only connected to the city's supposed subway system, and don't even get me started on Uptown.

Actually there is a form of Transportation in the game. Walking! The sims have to use their legs and feet to get to another places. Unless your Sim is a vampire and has the ability to transform into a bat. Plus, Teleportation is a form of Transportation. Maybe not the most favorable one, but indeed it is. Obviously we won't get cars, bikes, cabs and the school bus but I'm still hopeful to it. And more than that I hope we get at least one form (or more) of Transportation for Witches (if they are coming to the game).

We still don't have any form of vehicular transportation!

46 Replies

GoldenBuffy22
8 years ago
I agree. Not sure why they didn't included vehicles or at least the car pool and cab (or open world, though I have a feeling why). And yet a game form 2000 has them.
Writin_Reg
8 years ago
Maybe because there is no road system in the game or the game engine. You need a road system and it's programming to have usable vehicles in the game. What looks like roads is not roads it's paths - the programming is walking, teleporting, and fx pathing- nothing else. Should have been in the game first - not after the fact. They obviously had no thought of having vehicles of any kind in this game from the begging of settling on this design other wise they would have had usable pathing and roads - not paths made to just look like roads.

The minute I saw the raised curbs and meridian - in base game I knew at least that world would never have cars or bikes or anything else that required roadway programming. Sims 1 - 2- and 3 all had roads and road programming in base game even though Sims 1 and 2 had no ownable cars in base game - they did have usable vehicles though. Eventually Sims 2 did get ownable cars as well, sims 1 never did.

Sims 4 has none of that.
littlemissgogo
8 years ago
teleportation IS a form of transportation! wish i had it in real life. . . that said, I am hoping we get something to spice things up soon. cars, bikes, broomsticks, etc.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
They clearly did not have vehicular transport in mind when creating TS4, and newer worlds still follow the same example. Just look at Cavalier Cove in BB; most of the housings there are inaccessible to the main road. I think though SM is the biggest offender of this still; the Spice Market is the only district that's even at street level and connects to roads. The Arts Quarter is more of a heightened plaza connecting to the road, the Fashion District is an elevated plaza that I learned is only connected to the city's supposed subway system, and don't even get me started on Uptown.
killedPersephon
8 years ago
Actually there is a form of Transportation in the game. Walking! The sims have to use their legs and feet to get to another places. Unless your Sim is a vampire and has the ability to transform into a bat. Plus, Teleportation is a form of Transportation. Maybe not the most favorable one, but indeed it is.
Obviously we won't get cars, bikes, cabs and the school bus but I'm still hopeful to it. And more than that I hope we get at least one form (or more) of Transportation for Witches (if they are coming to the game).
Writin_Reg
8 years ago
Chazzy they are going to tell you the game has cars - just look in parking lots and running up and down their FX streets - sims just can't see them or use them. Maybe you ought to be more specific.
MidnightAura86
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
"Writin_Reg;c-16405801" wrote:
Maybe because there is no road system in the game or the game engine. You need a road system and it's programming to have usable vehicles in the game. What looks like roads is not roads it's paths - the programming is walking, teleporting, and fx pathing- nothing else. Should have been in the game first - not after the fact. They obviously had no thought of having vehicles of any kind in this game from the begging of settling on this design other wise they would have had usable pathing and roads - not paths made to just look like roads.

The minute I saw the raised curbs and meridian - in base game I knew at least that world would never have cars or bikes or anything else that required roadway programming. Sims 1 - 2- and 3 all had roads and road programming in base game even though Sims 1 and 2 had no ownable cars in base game - they did have usable vehicles though. Eventually Sims 2 did get ownable cars as well, sims 1 never did.

Sims 4 has none of that.

This. That’s why I don’t expect cars or any kind of transportation.

This isn’t directed at you Writin_Reg but since when was teleportation a form of transportation?
In a life simulator attempt, it shouldn’t be the sole method. In fact it’s sad if anything that four years in almost its the only “method of transportation”
SimmerNickYT
8 years ago
"MidnightAura;c-16406422" wrote:
"Writin_Reg;c-16405801" wrote:
Maybe because there is no road system in the game or the game engine. You need a road system and it's programming to have usable vehicles in the game. What looks like roads is not roads it's paths - the programming is walking, teleporting, and fx pathing- nothing else. Should have been in the game first - not after the fact. They obviously had no thought of having vehicles of any kind in this game from the begging of settling on this design other wise they would have had usable pathing and roads - not paths made to just look like roads.

The minute I saw the raised curbs and meridian - in base game I knew at least that world would never have cars or bikes or anything else that required roadway programming. Sims 1 - 2- and 3 all had roads and road programming in base game even though Sims 1 and 2 had no ownable cars in base game - they did have usable vehicles though. Eventually Sims 2 did get ownable cars as well, sims 1 never did.

Sims 4 has none of that.

This. That’s why I don’t expect cars or any kind of transportation.

This isn’t directed at you Writin_Reg but since when was teleportation a form of transportation?
In a life simulator attempt, it shouldn’t be the sole method. In fact it’s sad if anything that four years in almost its the only “method of transportation”

Yes. Thank you. I had to change the title because multiple people were saying that walking and teleporting is transportation. While that is true, it doesn't mean I have to be happy with those being the only methods of transportation. And pointing out the fact that those two are transportation isn't very relevant to what the OP is actually about.
Loanet
Seasoned Ace
8 years ago
Well at this moment in time the OP has answered their own question - when you want to get to another lot, it's just a loading screen away whether you walk to the front door or not.

We're only now reaching a point where vehicles would come in handy.
SimmerNickYT
8 years ago
"Loanet;c-16406572" wrote:
Well at this moment in time the OP has answered their own question - when you want to get to another lot, it's just a loading screen away whether you walk to the front door or not.

We're only now reaching a point where vehicles would come in handy.

Yeah, you get a loading screen either way. But still, having loading screen is not any different from what we had in TS1 and TS2, and those iterations did deal with the issue. My question in the title was more rethorical though, I feel like that is misunderstood. And how are we only now reaching a point where vehicles would come in handy? Didn't many people want vehicles for a long time already?