When did pool ladders become useless?

"JoAnne65;15639319" wrote:

"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

"king_of_simcity7;15639454" wrote:
They have been useless since TS3 as some players who wanted to drown their Sims may have found out :hushed:

"MidnightAura;15639477" wrote:

"king_of_simcity7;15639454" wrote:
They have been useless since TS3 as some players who wanted to drown their Sims may have found out :hushed:

I found out the hard way!

In my defence...the sim in question was obsessed and I mean obsessed with the deep fat fryer thing. Every meal he was at it. He would have got fatter, I was just putting him out his misery early.

Or so I thought.

"DreamsInPixels;15639448" wrote:

"JoAnne65;15639319" wrote:

"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

Yeah I was gonna say...wasn't the ladder usless since ts3? lol

"lsnishi;15638768" wrote:
Thanks all! I guess I've been unobservant and assumed they had to use the ladders like in Sims 3.

"JoAnne65;15640406" wrote:

"DreamsInPixels;15639448" wrote:

"JoAnne65;15639319" wrote:

"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

Yeah I was gonna say...wasn't the ladder usless since ts3? lol

Not useless in the sense they can also use that if they want to ;) But if you want to drown a sim in 3 (guilty as charged...) you'll indeed have to build a wall around it :p

"lsnishi;914912" wrote:
Hi all,
I just noticed that my sims just haul themselves out of the pool and that when I click on the ladder, no options appear. Has this always been the case and I just never noticed? I always put ladders in the pools to avoid sims drowning to death, but I'm wondering if there is any use for the ladder at all.

Thanks