What are you looking forward to with cars?

Sims in the game currently are terrible drivers. They always run through me in their cars. I'm not sure how cars would be used since we just teleport to places anyways. If there was a way we can drive them around it would be cool though. Maybe be able to color and design them like cats and dogs.

"catloverplayer;c-16226499" wrote:

"graventhe;c-16226299" wrote:
Guys, sorry to disappoint you but usable driveable cars are impossible due to game engine
Maybe we can kiss and woohoo in them yes but unfortunately the main feature (driving) is impossible..
They'll have to reprogram the engine so the moving decor cars in the background can be removed and replaced them with real usable cars..
You think EA would do that for us? Lol

If that's the case why were they mentioned in numourous surveys and why did a simguru ask for suggestions if they do bring them back?

Because they meant it like a garage GP, you can fix and rev car engine like in sims 2 freetime and we'll have interactive cars parked IN LOTS but they probably won't be usable on roads.

"graventhe;c-16226516" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-16226499" wrote:

"graventhe;c-16226299" wrote:
Guys, sorry to disappoint you but usable driveable cars are impossible due to game engine
Maybe we can kiss and woohoo in them yes but unfortunately the main feature (driving) is impossible..
They'll have to reprogram the engine so the moving decor cars in the background can be removed and replaced them with real usable cars..
You think EA would do that for us? Lol

If that's the case why were they mentioned in numourous surveys and why did a simguru ask for suggestions if they do bring them back?

Because they meant it like a garage GP, you can fix and rev car engine like in sims 2 freetime and we'll have interactive cars parked IN LOTS but they probably won't be usable on roads.

One of the surveys mentioned a Sims Grand Canyon location your sims could drive to. Other vehicles like bikes and motorcycles were also mentioned in a survey for TS4.

"catloverplayer;c-16226524" wrote:

"graventhe;c-16226516" wrote:

"catloverplayer;c-16226499" wrote:

"graventhe;c-16226299" wrote:
Guys, sorry to disappoint you but usable driveable cars are impossible due to game engine
Maybe we can kiss and woohoo in them yes but unfortunately the main feature (driving) is impossible..
They'll have to reprogram the engine so the moving decor cars in the background can be removed and replaced them with real usable cars..
You think EA would do that for us? Lol

If that's the case why were they mentioned in numourous surveys and why did a simguru ask for suggestions if they do bring them back?

Because they meant it like a garage GP, you can fix and rev car engine like in sims 2 freetime and we'll have interactive cars parked IN LOTS but they probably won't be usable on roads.

One of the surveys mentioned a Sims Grand Canyon location your sims could drive to. Other vehicles like bikes and motorcycles were also mentioned in a survey for TS4.

That means a whole new small world (like forgotten hollow) dedicated for small driving animation in that GP, don't expect much though, remember it's semi closed world and it's only few seconds you may seem ur sim driving then vanishing into loading screens
Unless they made a very big 64×64 lot that is made for car driving show off/racing
Making roads routable for cars isn't compatible with the game engine (I hope I'm wrong)
And don't expect driving in other worlds except in the Cars GP

I'd like to be able to sleep in cars.
I'd like a bucket for washing cars that could also be used as a toilet. Many homeless in area live in cars during cooler times of the year.

Well you know it'd be nice if they actually made a door opening animation lol

I have a feeling that Guru who asked for kind of cars people would like to see was for the FX cars in coming worlds and for those parked in parking lots when they were making BB. If you notice there a some new ones in the parking lots.

As for the early surveys - those were not made by Maxis but by EA's marketing even before the game came out.

It doesnt need to have a functioning road to give us the illusion lmao all they would need to do is have it so the sim gets in the car and drives off the lot. Once it touches the road it can *poof* in to an animation on the road. Itll be functionally the same as leaving the lot and teleporting with the car but the animation will give the illusion they are driving to the load screen.

Somethingstellar - All that has to be programmed in, for one thing; and without programming for a basic road system the car cannot even move in the drive - way, never mind anything else. In sims 2 they used the road system programming that was in the game to make both the drive link and the back up road link they put in the game to show that action - but could not have done that without the road programming in the game already. The modders have been trying to do that since the game came out and the car never moves. It teleports from it's spot and vanishes. The sim vanishes with it - but you never see the car in the destination - it goes right back to it's original spot and the sim has to walk/teleport home. So you know when even modders can't do it - it is not possible. One modder has had car since the first year the game came out - but they can't move no matter what they try.

Also you can't have cut scenes like Sims 2 either - that also takes programming to do - wishful thinking does not make it happen. Like roads that is something they do when they first start programming the game - even before they start building the base world. They cannot add those kinds of things after they make the base world unless things have changed a lot in programming the last few years - you usually have certain protocol for doing base line systems like that before they base game is even done.

After thinking long and hard, I've come up with something.

Why do cars have to be done in the same way they've been done before?
We've never had RVs and campervans, so why not go with something slightly different? Why not have cars in a vacation pack?

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/932071/on-the-road-vacation-pack

"Writin_Reg;c-16227574" wrote:
I have a feeling that Guru who asked for kind of cars people would like to see was for the FX cars in coming worlds and for those parked in parking lots when they were making BB. If you notice there a some new ones in the parking lots.

As for the early surveys - those were not made by Maxis but by EA's marketing even before the game came out.

That'd be disappointing for a lot of people.
Oh well, maybe cars will be included if there's a ts5