When did pool ladders become useless?

They are there mainly for decoration/animation now. It's more realistic that sims can climb out without them, and sit on the edge to eat/socialise etc.

If you want to drown them, fence in the pool once they are in it.

I think some still use them, but it's like in real life. Sure I'm not the most athletic, but I can still haul myself out of a pool (although admitted I use the ladder in the deep end. Deep water scares me)

Awe, that's the way I used to off pesky NPC sims. Just disappear the ladder.

"EmmaVane;15638631" wrote:
They are there mainly for decoration/animation now. It's more realistic that sims can climb out without them, and sit on the edge to eat/socialise etc.

If you want to drown them, fence in the pool once they are in it.

I think it's quite realistic to leave a pool using a ladder? :o

"JoAnne65;15638643" wrote:

"EmmaVane;15638631" wrote:
They are there mainly for decoration/animation now. It's more realistic that sims can climb out without them, and sit on the edge to eat/socialise etc.

If you want to drown them, fence in the pool once they are in it.

I think it's quite realistic to leave a pool using a ladder? :o

It is, but it's unrealistic that they couldn't climb out WITHOUT one. That was my point.

Growing up my local pool had ladders at the deep and shallow ends. The entrance to the changing rooms was in the middle, no ladder there. Easiest to climb out without the ladder in the middle, than go to the end and potentially have to queue at the ladder.

Were the ladders always decorative in Sims 4? I never noticed till today.

"lsnishi;15638722" wrote:
Were the ladders always decorative in Sims 4? I never noticed till today.

I actually dont have a long answer to this.
But yes, we have always been able to get up from the edge, since the pool patch. :)

Thanks all! I guess I've been unobservant and assumed they had to use the ladders like in Sims 3.

"calaprfy;15638663" wrote:
No point in having a pool at the moment with sims not wanting to swim.

Are they still not able to swim and do laps? The only thing my sims will do is use the diving board repeatedly till they are bored and wander off to do something else

"EmmaVane;15638666" wrote:

"JoAnne65;15638643" wrote:

"EmmaVane;15638631" wrote:
They are there mainly for decoration/animation now. It's more realistic that sims can climb out without them, and sit on the edge to eat/socialise etc.

If you want to drown them, fence in the pool once they are in it.

I think it's quite realistic to leave a pool using a ladder? :o

It is, but it's unrealistic that they couldn't climb out WITHOUT one. That was my point.

Growing up my local pool had ladders at the deep and shallow ends. The entrance to the changing rooms was in the middle, no ladder there. Easiest to climb out without the ladder in the middle, than go to the end and potentially have to queue at the ladder.

Ah, sorry, like in 1 and 2 you mean, my bad ;) It's odd they can't use the ladder though isn't it?

I tried to find the asnwer to the question by the way (were they able to use a ladder before) and found this article.

Vaughan said that player reaction to a Sims game without pools was so intense that developers knew they had to rectify the situation as soon as possible. This time around, however, Sims have the ability to sit on the side of pools and climb out without use of a ladder, eliminating the fan-favorite way of knocking them off.

Sitting on the side is new (and great, I think the way sims in and out of the pool can interact with each other has improved anyway), but climbing out 'this time around'?





I must have one headstrong Sims 3 sim :p