Well...............I'm sure your voice will finally change any day now. Maybe.

But the YAs look barely 20 thanks to their ultra-smooth skin...

That's why certain Chillgood doctors are supposed to be in their basement toiling away on blemishes. Tsk.

Hey, I was a brain surgeon, not a plastic surgeon.

I realized that TS4's brain was too chemically damaged to heal. If EA would come up with the wonder drug to reverse the brain damage, I could enhance TS4's brain function beyond average.

It's one of those things that actually already happened. It's not like all of these things still have to happen.

I think you may have misinterpreted my argument.
My point was, that it probably IS harder to put toddlers (or any life stage) into the existing game than say, add werewolves, plumbots, ghosts, or any other life state that can use the existing animations and interactions for, let's say, the adult stage.

So using Sims 2 University as an example where they added a life stage that was exclusive to that expansion, hopefully they could make an expansion for Sims 4 where the base coding of that expansion could allow toddlers to function. But I see no precedant in the Sims series for adding a life stage to the base game itself and therefore toddlers would be exclusive to the theoretical expansion.

I'm a scientist/statistician by trade (could you tell ) and I wanted to try and make sense of all the hedging that EA are producing about this topic by observing what we already know, rather than rely on tweets and heresay.... and getting all worked up about it, as we tend to do

I also think they have badly miscalculated the strength of feeling about toddlers and because of what I've summised and the fact they left them out of the base program for whatever reasons (probably cutting corners), have painted themselves into rather an awkward corner.

Whew! I need a drink after that load of waffle....

Urm, wasn't Sims 4 supposed to have that very stable, very flexible FOUNDATION, a very good base for further additions etc. pp ad infinitum?
Although right now even toddlers wouldn't pull me back in. Even an open world and CAST wouldn't pull that off, because, and I really start to understand the Sims 2 crowd, I already have that. And I really don't like the overall style of this sequel - the should rename it to "Normcore Simulator 2014".

Oh, by the way, being over 30 and feeling so much younger: I thought so myself, and then I had to go back to school. The real one, not university or College - I think the equivalent in the US would be the last classes of high school. Dear Lord. I'm so not 17 anymore. And I never, ever want to go back there. As a matter of fact, I'm aging rapidly and now I am over 30 and feeling like 60. The weirdest part is that they brought the 80s back around here just in time, why would you do that? Back than I was young and I didn't know what I was doing, but now my eyes are open and jesus, the hair, the hair alone...

I was also routing for a tool like that, and than I saw this video: https://youtu.be/GBLMwocAFrk?t=9m49s

This is what the "world" looks like if you only zoom out far enough. It's also the answer to never ending discussion about bringing back open worlds, after you've seen that, you just know it won't happen, and you also know that you don't want CAW anymore because it's the final disillusionment.

Exactly why I say they have painted themselves into a corner. They went on about this "great engine" but they forgot a few things which are now coming back to bite them....

BTW... if your feeling older than you are... remember this, "you are only as old as you feel"... so go and do something that makes you feel younger and DO NOT mention the hair! Mine left with the ex

p.s. It's rooting for something you want, routing is finding a route or destination. But be careful how you use rooting because in NZ and Aussie it can have a totally different meaning!

Nah, it's machining out a groove in timber :P

Actually, if every "neighborhood" is just a couple of lots inside a "bubble" like that, wouldn't it be easy to just create new bubbles? Sure it's not a large unified world (though I thought that was pretty clear from the very start) but this should actually make it easier to just create a lot of new "neighborhoods"/bubbles.
Just sculpt a bit of Terrain, place lots, decorations, set where the sun and moon should appear and place the fake horizon.

Makes you really effing wonder why they included so few of these bubbles with the game or why are so stingy with adding new neighborhoods/worlds/whatever with GTW.

Or why they haven't given us a CAW yet; Could it be that they are embarrassed about how they set things up?

Yes and it does make the town interesting for my unplayed households, even if it's superficial and limited, not the mod's fault. Pregnancies and hook-ups are going on now for the unplayed sims.

ETA:


If it does happen, it may take a couple of years because animations is so hard and would take many months to complete. I've stopped looking forward to toddlers.

I played GTA V that my boyfriend bought on release. I managed not to kill anyone, and survived.

That world!

Oh.My.God.

Let me say that again: Oh.My.God.

Well, apparently, I'm almost speechless.

I want this technology for my Sims! Pronto! Now! Yesterday! And tomorrow!

ETA: imagining my Sims dropping coffee cups on the floor (clumsy!), hitting their heads on the edges of the tables, cats climbing over the cabinets and jumping over half-walls onto the dining tables, then skittering underneath it; kids scraping knees by accidentally slipping down the stairs - because the floors, the cabinets, the half-walls, and Sims' heads and knees are actual, physical objects in the actual, physical world. Actually, it's virtual, but there's hardly any difference for the Sims

As Eric Cantona (the King) would say, I love you Don. I don't know why, but I love you. Here, take this

I am having visions.

I am actually having visions now. Have I gone mad?

Thanks for that explanation I wasn't aware of the second meaning. As you may have noticed, I really really don't like to be misunderstood and can become very ehm..passionate about getting my message across clearly and won't stop easily. At this point, ppl who know me then usually tell me 'Yeeeeess!, it is perfectly clear now, geez ! Now shut up already!' Which I then take as a sign that it is time to shut up :/



Ah ok. I don't like that generalising for whatever reason. So I wasn't taking sides or anything. When visiting this thread that day, I just saw some do it and wanted to write something about it. Just so you know, if it was done by people who like TS4, I would've written the same thing.

GTA V is amazing. Best one in the series since San Andreas. If we could get that world for the Sims, I'd be beyond happy

Hehe, I'm going to show this to the person that I am currently trying to convince to love me: "See? There are people who love my without knowing why. And I goddamned want you to do the same!" Love without reason, it's the best! :lovestruc :grabs more chocolate and rum:

And for the person who disagreed on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router_(woodworking)

Wasn't me, honestly! :lovestruc

I used to own a router years ago... nearly took my fingers off with it

I watched Looking for Eric last night (I love Ken Loach!), it's such a good film. "Love without reason, it's the best", that's exactly what they say at the beginning of the film!

And a router is a fantastic tool actually!

Well, that one is easy, why give people a fishing pole, if you can sell them one fish at a time.

You mean one fishing spot, do you :P

A fish wouldn't be so bad. This is more like selling you the fish a few scales at a time.

...and the scales look suspiciously like they are made out of plastic and have never seen a fish, and of course they can't swim in the ocean. Or the river. Or the lake. Only in the pool, and that's complicated enough.

So, EA is Lew Zealand?