The Best Build Mode

"Onverser;c-17636341" wrote:
Sims 4 without a doubt. Although there's some issues, like trying to delete individual tiles. When I first came over from TS3 I tried to delete a couple of tiles around the top of the stairs and the entire floor disappeared! In the Sims 3 you could just delete single tiles wherever you want but in Sims 3 you have to work out how to use the rooms system to make it work which is a pain. And then if you have a room in the roof, place one wall down and suddenly the rooms disappeared to be covered by roof!

THAT! That irritated me soooo much when I first started (well, if I'm honest it still does actually!)

TS4 is better for roofing I feel. And, I do use the push/pull feature for the walls on occasion, but I almost never use the pick up a room and add it feature, I always draw out my walls like old school.

I feel like in TS3 you could make a lot more variety of houses (not that I personally could but TS3 builders had some amazing builds with attic rooms).

In TS3 we could also remove/change the world, so that's a plus for me too. Because some of the worlds in TS4 have trees placed that totally block the view of the front of your house and you have no way to move the tree so you're either stuck with it or you have to build your house with off center to avoid that.

I'm pretty sure in TS3 you could build right to the edge of your lot too, so you didn't have that one sidewalk tile missing.

Plus, TS3 had CASt, that was awesome! And the ability to paint the ceiling, I've been wanting that in TS4 since the beginning.

Although, I would have to say that TS3 & TS4 both have their good things and bad things, I would still have to go with TS3 if I had to pick.

In general I would say the sims 4 but I still miss the pond tool and the tricks I could use in sims 2 to create houses with an outside door to the basement.
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I like TS4 building, but miss stuff from TS2, mainly ponds, stages, possibility to delete single floor tiles around the stairs, building houses on slopes with walk in basements, etc. I could live with pool ponds if we were given some easy to use pond looking border for them.

I miss building ponds too. I either make them from a pool with moo for edge decor or i use the one from debug. It's a shame debug doesn't at least have different shapes and sizes. And it's not cool to only allow 4 sims at a time to fish.

I also preferred ts3 roofing, and the gable decor bits we had.

But other than those 2 things, ts4 building is so much better.

I'm surprised TS4 doesn't have ponds by now. I do what others do and use debug or a pool with MOO on and cover the edges.

Whatever Sims version you prefer, it's pretty undeniable that the one thing that did get better and better every time was the build modes. TS2 was better than 1. 3 was better than 2. That doesn't hold true for all aspects of the game but IMO, it certainly does for build mode.

Editing or moving rooms with drag-and-drop is the best that could happen to build mode. In TS3, extending a room from 4x5 to 4x6 meant removing the wall, adding new walls, then adding wallpapers and stuff. In TS4, it's done in 2 seconds by dragging a wall. Not to mention the stair tools that were eventually patched in.

One of the reasons I don't miss leaving TS3 behind (in addition to awful load times) is the build mode.

Sims 4 because it's sooooo forgiving of my mistakes as I go through the process. But I really miss Sims 3 autoroofing.

Can't vote fair since I haven't used any other of "The Sims" build modes other than 4. ;)

So I voted for The Sims "1" :tongue:

I like about TS3 that we can simply build pieces of floor in the air. Balconies and galleries are so tricky in TS4.

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