The store team needs to restrict everything that our sims can use in that world so players don’t have the immersion spoiled, which is, as I said, beyond ridiculous.

The editing of clouds and moon is a change of probably a line or two of coding. Vehicles are possibly harder.

Assuming that there’s going to be a Sims 4, I don’t think they’ll learn anything beyond ‘Hey, ppl really will spend $12 on reskinned furniture’ and possibly expand on it.

If they can edit the clouds for Aurora Skies and the Moon for Lunar Lakes then why not the vehicles that appear in their themed worlds? The cell-phone is probably a bit more complicated since sims are more or less surgically attached to their device.

I’m sure it seemed like a good idea when they made the base-game but it turns out to be less than ideal. I just hope they learned something and won’t make the same mistakes with TS4.

Ppl do need to be prepared for the eventuality that Dragon Valley won’t be ‘historically accurate’ though.

Telling somebody off for suggesting mods in that eventuality is counter productive. There’s nothing wrong with most mods or using them.

Simply put, it’s store content. Having read one long thread on the officials about a store product one of the store guru’s (depending on whether you choose to believe them) said that EA doesn’t allow them to add in products to the store that coding doesn’t already exist for. So basically unless there’s existing coding for the cars and cellphones to disappear, it’s not going to disappear.

Whilst I agree that the product shouldn’t be defective when throwing large amounts of money at the product (which is a big ask), ppl’s preconceptions and expectations have a lot to do with things.

I do happen to think if it were possible for them to alter base game coding and have vehicles look world appropriate they would’ve done so with Lunar Lakes.