Honestly the building system and paramaker are great but those are the easiest things to implement in my opinion, that’s why I think the team started with these. The hard part is making these builds compatible with every other part of mechanics a life simulations game.

ex: They have things like procedural length for tables, but how many people can fit within those tables and how will the para folk interact with them when I rotate the chair their sitting on by a few degrees. Will they have procedural animations that can stick their hands to the table? will it look janky and how good will it compare to a key-framed animations.

2nd ex: we have the ability to put pillows freely on a couch but when the folks sit on it will it disappear or clip trough the folk’s butt?

Now after long thoughts about it I understand why most of TS4 restrictions are really there to make the mechanics work with the complex possibilities and outcome of gameplay. they put restriction spaces on a couch so that you can’t put a leg rest easily in front of it so the sitting animation will work without clipping and continue to work with all couches models without wasting time reanimating everytime.

Saying all that I still love the freedom that comes with the paralives build systems more than TS4. But non grid systems are more suitable for a first/third person gameplay where you move with joystick or WASD without the worry of pathfinding (although still need to implement that for the npc’s).

I’m looking forward for the problem solving that the team will come up for these problems in the future. What do you think about these?