We still need separate foundations!

I agree that we need this! I want to build a farmhouse with a wrap-around porch and a barn for animals but I am stuck with either the barn being on a foundation, which just doesn't make sense, or with the farmhouse not having a foundation and therefore no porch either. It would be perfect if we could give individual foundations to individual rooms. I hope that maybe they'll include this with the cats and dogs patch but I'm not holding my breath.

"Karlia;c-16087808" wrote:
I agree that we need this! I want to build a farmhouse with a wrap-around porch and a barn for animals but I am stuck with either the barn being on a foundation, which just doesn't make sense, or with the farmhouse not having a foundation and therefore no porch either. It would be perfect if we could give individual foundations to individual rooms. I hope that maybe they'll include this with the cats and dogs patch but I'm not holding my breath.

I have no idea how they could do this in TS4, because you can't have this in TS2 or TS3 if the house is attached to a part of a building (like garage) without terrain tools. Then you use a cheat so you can build and with the garage (with no foundation) attached to the house with a foundation and there is a huge learning curve of the cheat but even I eventually figured out how to do these things. I hope if they add anything they go bigger than just allowing two separate buildings on one lot to have different a foundation and the other not to have a foundation. That's cool but it needs terrain tools to make a garage attached to a house.

I have been hoping for this for the longest time. The foundation of the house dictating the foundation of any other builds on the lot you may want to make just doesn't work.

Foundations should be linked to a room instead of to the entire lot

I remember I really liked the fact that foundations were just a slider for the whole lot. I wouldn't have to constantly delete walls or stuff to change the foundation. But now that I'm building more, I do find it aggravating. I like having my houses on foundations, but I routinely build garages - simply for my sake since there are no vehicles (I usually throw the woodworking table, treadmill, and now I'll be chucking washers and dryers in there as well) - but how does a garage sitting on a foundation make sense. :neutral:
No foundation on my house or no garages, it's a hard choice to make from build to build :lol: .

An idea would be to just have a foundation tool like in previous iterations, but then have the presets when you click on the foundation, similar to changing heights on walls. That way we would be able to place foundation on specific parts of the lot while still retaining the you-don't-have-to-delete-everything-to-change-the-foundation ease. Or, maybe we'll be able to retain the slider. In that case, we could just block off which parts will be affected by the slider - kind of like how there's the outline of the basement on the ground when creating it. Then when we use the slider it only puts a foundation where we placed the outline.
Shrug.
Too many ideas, unsure of the limitations of the game/engine and what could be possible. :lol:

"ehaught58;c-16086764" wrote:
All of these things people wish we had and hope it will come out in the next iteration of the game, let me just say this ... isn’t that what we were saying and doing in the Sims 3 waiting for the Sims 4? And look at what we got!!!

When you're right, you're right. Each version of the game comes with its own inherent expectations that it will be better than the last.

As I mentioned elsewhere, TS2 and TS3 were both groundbreaking. For the majority of players, those games lived up to the expectations gor new and more advanced game play. TS2 got 3D graphics as well as aging. TS3 got an open world and all that entails, including the ability to explore and to visit other Sims in their homes.

Unfortunately for Sims 4, the decision to make EA games online-only set it back quite a bit. The push back from the community with Sim City caused EA to rethink the whole premise of forcing online play. Which led to a game that had to change horses mid-stream. As a result, what we got was a base game that was rushed and not very good at anything outside of CAS or build mode.

If there is a Sims 5, I would hope that the game has a vision from day one that the developers seek to meticulously and loving bring to reality. Which is what was done with the other games that came before.

I believe that this will happen. I believe, simply because I see the improvement in each subsequent game pack that has been released for TS4. EPs still need a lot of work. However, the game packs show the attention to detail that the base game should have had -- that a TS5 base game can have.

Will add my two cents to agree wholeheartedly that we need the ability to have some structures with foundations and some without. The other day tried adding a carriage house to a Victorian lot and made the unhappy discovery. What was possible in older editions should be possible in the new.

I hope this will be addressed sometime in the NEAR future. I don't understand why the game has this anyway. My back yard shed doesn't need a 5ft tall foundation to match my Victorian home. Please let us separate the foundations!

Yes, I need this so badly. I honestly would go back to the pain in the rear end system of ts2 and ts3.
Trying to build basements and more complicated splits in the floor levels sucked in ts2/3 but this system is just so infuriating to me. I just want to build a shed/shower-room for the pool/ garage, this shouldn't be so hard to do.
(I just came from a frustrating build where I realized this problem. Very convenient this thread showing up)

That's the one thing about the new foundation system in TS4: it's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I can now plan the overall shape of a build on the fly and add foundations, decks, and porches later more easily. On the other hand, I can't build ground-level out-buildings like sheds, greenhouses, garages, guest houses, or glass-walled indoor pools (warm year-round while still being surrounded by the outdoors) because the foundation of the main house extends to the entire lot. It's crazy-making.