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Nekia33painter's avatar
5 years ago

Why Can't Mermaids Use Ladders?

Someone pls explain why mermaids aren't able to use ladders. They can use aqua zips and pool floats but not ladders that came with island living? I hope they patch that with Eco Life Style. I wouldn't make sense that they can climb a normal ladder but not the dock ones.

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  • "Nekia33painter;d-976493" wrote:
    Someone pls explain why mermaids aren't able to use ladders. They can use aqua zips and pool floats but not ladders that came with island living? I hope they patch that with Eco Life Style. I wouldn't make since that they can climb a normal ladder but not the dock ones.


    I don't play with mermaids, but one thought I have is that they haven't fully changed their tails to legs to be able to use the dock ones? Just a thought.
  • "Nekia33painter;d-976493" wrote:
    Someone pls explain why mermaids aren't able to use ladders. They can use aqua zips and pool floats but not ladders that came with island living? I hope they patch that with Eco Life Style. I wouldn't make since that they can climb a normal ladder but not the dock ones.


    I am curious as well, come to think of it. I give them a dock ladder in hopes to make it easier for them to get into the water and they don't use it ever. I usually have the mermaids living as a pod together in Sulani as family. Making sure that they have plenty of ocean to swim in.
  • "GalacticGal;c-17522300" wrote:
    "Nekia33painter;d-976493" wrote:
    Someone pls explain why mermaids aren't able to use ladders. They can use aqua zips and pool floats but not ladders that came with island living? I hope they patch that with Eco Life Style. I wouldn't make since that they can climb a normal ladder but not the dock ones.


    I don't play with mermaids, but one thought I have is that they haven't fully changed their tails to legs to be able to use the dock ones? Just a thought.

    That doesn't make sense because they change into their legs to get on the aqua zips and pool floats.
  • SEREFRAS's avatar
    SEREFRAS
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    Why not just have the Mermaids drag their tails up the ladder?
  • icemanfresh's avatar
    icemanfresh
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    Yeah, I think it's because while they're in the water, they don't have legs, so they can't climb out. I guess they didn't want to make mermaids revert to their legs while in the water, and they didn't want to bother making a separate animation for climbing the ladder with the fin.
  • I guess that just shows the laziness, otherwise they would have put the effort into giving us an animation for mermaids going up the dock ladders. SOOO excited for the regular ladders though. Why EA/Maxis why can't we have an animation for mermaids? Is that so hard to ask for when you make a pack...put some more effort into the animations and don't just reuse old clothing and other objects to make something "new" because it's not new! Please fix this so mermaids can go up the dock ladders in Island Living?
  • SEREFRAS's avatar
    SEREFRAS
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    I so agree. I would love for my mermaids to be able to climb the ladder with their fish tails.
  • Joanne_Snow's avatar
    Joanne_Snow
    Rising Traveler
    5 years ago
    I noticed this too with my mermaid family and wondered if it's a bug. Has it always been like this? This and them hopping out of the water with their tails still on really annoys me xD