I did that and my game tells me one of the files is missing or corrupt and doesn't start. I don't understand why we could add subfolders in TS2 just fine, but now TS3 & 4 need to have their files tampered with to do that. My logic is that things should get easier as time goes on.

The Sims 4 looks a little fun but I'm not willing to spend 70 bucks on it. I kinda want it though, but won't pay for it... Maybe I'll ask for it at Christmas so then I don't have to pay for it lol.

I don't mind being able to over use the sliders, I would want it but not to the point some of the uploads have it. I find the sliders in the demo very restricted for my desires but some go overboard.

I really don't care if Sims 4 come with rocket ships, or any other childish stuff the goofy nerds that are suppose to be developers come up with. I am perturbed they left out players like me, left out build mode assets and trying to direct me in a direction that I could ignore in past games. That made me lose faith in their abilities, see no creativity to include multiple styles of game play and total control being slowly swiped away by a mooching, greedy company with their hand trying to get in my pockets. Do less for the game with half ass game play and expect more money from the fans, it's worst than Sims 3. SMH

That's why I loved the modding community because they publish mods that will nerf the goofy stuff and I can ignore it, but I don't think there will be nothing left for me to play with after that. I don't see it. We will see how EA develop the series but I have no expectations that it will include anything worthwhile for me to enjoy. Anyway it don't matter, I got the message loud and clear, they don't want me in the community. EA or the big names that are the "most creative" (gotta laugh at that) who get invited to their events. *sigh*

When I play the sims 4 since the world is so small, and there are a small number of sims, it's going to be total annihilation on the pre-mades, so my own sims can move into there homes. Are we going to be able to bulldoze lots to make them empty like the sims 3, or are we going to have to do it the old fashioned way and sledgehammer everything?

You don't have to sledgehammer anymore, just pick a home from the gallery and place over it. I guess you can build a home on an empty lot, save it to the gallery and then replace the house in the world but don't know if that only in "live" mode or edit world.

Don't give EA ideas we won't like. .

Just watching that French gameplay video and in one of the loading screens below the plumbob (around 1:44) it says "Boosting bloom"...

I wonder if it would be possible to open those teen jobs to adults.

You know I won't be surprised if they come out with an expansion pack around Christmas time, and hopefully they would've had a patch available before then as well...

They're trying so hard to piss us off...

Because we love The Sims, and are pissed off at what EA has done to the game.

I had the same problem too, I thought it was just me doing something wrong. Reinstalling hasn't fixed it, so if you manage to get it working again, could you post how?

Newbie (to the forum) opinion:

I'll admit it, I liked Sims 3 over Sims 2. Because I like story progression. And yes, I couldn't stand toddlers. I never played (yet) as a Legacy family. But the great thing about the prior games (3 and 2) was that you could customize them to play how you wanted. I don't like toddlers, I set the age length to 2 days. Someone else wants it more realistic, they set it longer. I like supernatural sims, I can click those on in options. Someone else doesn't, they can click them off. Someone else hates story progression, they could turn it off. It was really easy to play your way, I thought. And that was such a strength, that one game could support so many playstyles.

Sims 4....that's gone, in my opinion. EA has decided how the game is going to be played, and you'd better fit into it, or too bad. And their way of playing isn't mine. So after buying every EP for Sims 1, every EP and SP for Sims 2, and nearly every EP for Sims 3.....I'm done, EA. And I wonder how many more people there are like me who just quietly won't buy on September 2.

For now just delete the modified .cfg and the game will generate a new one. I guess we'll have to wait for a way that works for everyone to surface.

Oh thank goodness, that worked! Thank you!

that routing made me cry
kid gets a bowl of food out of the fridge while the mom is near the stove so she just casually walks into the kitchen island to go to the sofa then later they share and the mom grabs a bowl just to walk into it again
also kid can "joke about toilets?" (right at 9:40) ugh... what is it with the sims team and pee/toilet jokes It's starting to really make me angry at this point... . (and i will admid it gets me double mad because of private reasons i'm not gonna get into here because game forum not irl, but god it's starting to get to me )

About the graphics glitches I see some too. In the CAS demo my sims hands go through her skirt. I understand why this happens with some of those big rococo gowns int he sims 2, the outfit is wider but this should not be happening in the sims 4 regular dresses.

So if all that work on better routing was accomplished by simply eliminating collision detection and allowing clipping, what did they do for the rest of their development cycle?

Oh, right. Rocket ships and Space Rangers.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion regarding this new game that's going to be released. I didn't disagree or agree with your post and I'm glad you're going to give TS4 the benefit of the doubt and are willing to give it a go. As for me, as a player of TS2 and TS3 both of which I thoroughly enjoy.. let me clarify my point of view.

First and foremost I'm a builder and a decorator. I love building homes and decorating them and populating them with my sims. Not EA canned sims (eww gross, how repulsive). I do play, and I have several game styles. My TS2 games are legacy, play, vanilla (build only) and my TS3 games are vanilla (build only), legacy, challenges, and play. All different styles of play for me. I play TS2 because I love the charm and quirky sims and their interactions. To me it's a much fuller life simulation game than TS3 is. TS3 has it's charms but the most important feature of TS3 are the open world and CASt. That's just me.

My husband also happens to play this game (he introduced it to me) and he's strictly a legacy player. He creates a self sim, creates my self sim and literally "goes forth and multiplies". A small world like the TS4 ones would be overrun with all his progeny in no time. He's already over run Bridgeport with Gen 17 and everytime he looks around for a suitable mate for one of his sims, they're related!! Which of course frustrates him to no end. We just both got Island Paradise 2 weeks ago and his Isla Paradiso is in Gen 7 already and he's starting to feel closed in by relatives. Not only that, he skills all his sims and I mean ALL... in EVERYTHING. From the time they age up to toddler, he's got them reading and learning. All his sims learn EVERYTHING there is to learn. He can't do without all the life stages. TS4 would never work for him. He was very much gung ho about this game until all these cuts surfaced and his first view of the "world" in TS4. So.. in the end, we're both not getting this game.

Having said all that, given the list of features taken away from The Sims 4 doesn't encourage or entice us to give this game a chance of anything. We'll be happy playing TS3 until a better iteration of The Sims game shows up. TS5 hopefully will have more in it's base game then TS4 ever will... we can hope. If not, then The Sims 3 will be our last life simulation game until someone else can create or rather, re-create it.

Let's speculate about the first expansion pack.

Obviously the first expansion pack was going to be OFB - there was no OFB in The Sims 3 only Premium Content from the Store (which was a smart move since a lot of users requested OFB and then had to buy restaurants and cafés and shops seperatly). But the lacking of toddlers, family tree's and a lot of other feautures is a game changer for EA - they know what the fans want and it's only an EP away - so I think there will either be a Generations/Family Life as a first EP, or some kind of OFB.

Because the thing with the first expansion pack from The Sims 3 was that the whole concept of The Sims 3 was the open world, but users did explore Sunset Valley and Riverview fast as both of them we're not that big of a city. Giving them an adventure EP with 3 new worlds/destination would trigger the whole '' open world '' concept even further.

If TS3 is anything to go by your resource.cfg should look like this to allow for 3 subfolder levels:

You should be able to copy this directly into a new text file and save it as Resource.cfg. Just make sure that it doesn't accidentally save ending in a .txt
For comparison this is one of my TS3 resource.cfg files that allows 5 subfolder levels inside the Packages folder which is apparently not needed anymore:

^This!

And, also, I can't speak for everyone, but the reason I keep coming here is because some small part of me--the part that loves The Sims--maintains hope that there is actually something indisputably spectacular about this game that will pull me in and make me want to play it. Like the open world, story progression and CASt of TS3. If they had kept any of those things in this newest generation, I might have been willing to give it a chance. But as it stands, with all the features they cut--a lot of them being major ones, it's not worth my hard-earned cash. At least not at the asking price.



^So much this!

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I just came here to say the same thing I'm starting to think Grant's head is not properly working.

Some of the trolling, like the Boasting Bloom loading screen, I don't mind. I mean, I find it a bit weird that they would pick such an obvious fight with their consumer base, but I guess they think it's funny or something. Lord knows it's not the only immature decision they made regarding this game, so that doesn't affect me or anything.

But to use the "better rourting" as an excuse to all shortcomings of the game, and tell fans repeatedly that "routing is much improved", is straight up messed up if that video, along with EnglishSimmer's, is representative of the final version. It makes me wonder how these people can be proud of their work if better routing equals making sims going through objects and other sims. All the time, that absurd amount of clipping was their solution? It's no wonder why the game was being locked down for the most amount of time possible.

Also, considering the lack of open world and CAST, have they come up with an excuse as to why the worlds are so small? I just realized how tiny they are. I mean, I knew they were small, but this new video really highlighted the fact that 80% of the worlds is decoration and public spaces. Are those the smallest worlds since TS1?

And for such a lively game, that park was surprisingly empty. Did anyone else notice that there were no other sims around apart from 3 or 4 of them?

It's hyenas feeding time
'Missing' Features in The Sims 4 (PART 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNQVeQHClTo
'Missing' Features in The Sims 4 (PART 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6qtxbNVYA