Sims game for Builders - Cross Between SimCity & the Sims

@NationalPokedex some level of control, but not micromanaging - go to the bathroom, go eat, study your opponents on the computer. Just high level stuff. But yeah a cross.

Like I would love to build a cliff house and design the entire environment around it. Determine if it is a city or small village and then let it grow as I design element around the town. Sims can move in - maybe click into a home or commercial lot and see what is going on, set some things in motion, but not granular like controlling the sims in The Sims

I'm kind of playing like that... i've set all my worlds to my liking. Each world has a lot trait that sets the character of the world. The same for each neighbourhood. Each neighbourhood also has a specific nap. I've created clubs for each community lot, so that a specific vibe is set. Then i play all the sims in the world in no order or schedulle. I cheat their needs so i don't have to do the same basic stuff over and over. I just play the stories and big happenings in the community. It's being fun.

@Nate_Whiplash1 I started in the Sims ecosystem from SimCity 4 which I loved and wished they had created more expansion packs for it. I like SimCity, but they abandoned it and killed the one aspect of the game which I loved, and that was being able to expand the city's footprint. Plus someone is a pyromaniac, because they like for you to build the city and let it burn to the ground.

Nah, the game I am describing would be a variant of the two games - allows you to design the entire world but also create lots too.

@phantasmkiss I didn't say TS4 wasn't a game for builders. The game concept I am describing is building beyond the lot to building the world.
TS3 World builder tool is for programmers - I am talking about a game that end users can play without having to code it. And a game that isn't buggy and laggy and built on a modern game engine.

"AnnLee87;c-17653232" wrote:
If you just want to build you should play Cities: Skylines or other building games. I love watching Flabaliki (aka James Turner) play other games.

Raptor is another great channel for building cities and stuff.

I am definitely a builder, I feel like the Sims 4 is still the best for me. I like the idea of doing like a Sims City where you can create the entire town but everynow and then I do like to play as my sims too. Although I do wish there were a lot more options for Build/Buy

@ClarionOfJoy Exactly - a different game, which is why I called it a Sims game for builders

I think a spinoff would be best, allowing more build and interior design features, and as many furnishings, appliances, and decorations as possible.

What I would like is a combination between Simcity and The Sims. Simcity with the ability to create your towns and develop new areas with cities and to be able to select one family and control their every day life within the city/town/rural area while interacting with other sims within that town. Assets could include retail outlets, commercial and industrial districts with places that our sims could go to work much like in the Sims but on a larger scale. You could have the option of keeping the development small...(keeping it a small village or grow it into a town or a large scale city) while your sims go about their daily lives with you controlling them as in the Sims (with the interactions the same) the only thing is that you now get to control the growth of your "village"/town/city. Build your city the way YOU want it to look. Take it from a small village of about 10 or 15 families to a city of hundreds of thousands...though of course...when you go into interact mode...the rest of the non-active become NPCs and the only NPCs that you can have actions with are the ones that you directly interact with; the rest go about their daily business like "passerbys" - just as you do in real life except that each one that you approach...will convert to interactive NPCs not decorations like in TS4. You only have to initiate interaction as a trigger for that particular NPC to become an NPC that is interactive and when that interaction is no longer taking place, it will go back to being passive...with the computer controlling what it does, where it goes and Story Progression.

Like in Simcity...you can conduct trade with other computer controlled cities...and build airports, train-stations, and other amenities that will be conducive to trade and increasing the value of your town and increasing what is in your city coffers. As well you have your own family wealth to monitor. Your sim can start a business or buy one of the businesses in the town and run it.

That would be my ideal idea of Sims 5; a mixture of Simcity and to be able to play your Sims within that city with a vibrant interactive

Sims already have building tools, especially in Sims 3 and some of Sims 2.

I don’t like building or decorating much, so I want to make sure the focus is more on the simulation of Sims than on just building, though I welcome and encourage for the inclusion of all of the creative tools.

But, I don’t want Sims to be just a SimCity. I play Sims for the Sims. I don’t want to be a mayor managing a big city.

A civilization or city managing game should be a separate game, not a main iteration of the Sims.

Well the Sims is supposed to be about the Sims' lives (though the sims 4 is very focused on building), so it would be very off-brand for them to release a pure building game.

A cross between the two however is an idea I'd be into and I talked about this in a thread about the game Simsville https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/981803/what-is-simsville-and-ideas-for-the-sims-5#latest