Lol! I like the idea to cook with it! xD

It’d also be funny if you cook the fruit into a food and get possessed. A bit like weed brownies and having a trip… lol

But yeah…

To be honest if the possessed sims (from eating frutit and getting infected) could STAY possessed even fter the Mothes has been defeated UNTIL you cure them then I’d love it. It’d make a cool challenge, it’d be great for storytelling, or making a creepy world of some sorts. They could be some kinds of occults. But since the effect only lasts for a few hours, yes – it’s a complete waste in my opinion too. So yup, in this form a lounge chair would’ve been cool, or a normal diving deck, spiral staircae animation, anything.

I guess the question then is, would you prefer that they added in the possession animations or a lounge lawn chair with an equal number of simple and fitting animations? (Sitting, lying down/napping, and getting up, all modified to fit the shape of the chair.) To be fair, the possession amuses me and it serves the purpose of grabbing the player’s attention but I feel like it has a more limited use. I’d be happier if you could grow one of the mutated plants, which throws out a limited but harmless possession buff temporarily on nearby Sims, making them use those three animation cycles while they’re around it. Even better if you could basically control who gets it… Otherwise, I’d take the chair because it’s easy to place it in any world, on any lot, and it’s a common feature around communal pools. Even if you don’t think that’s fitting for a desert, they could’ve worked on it instead of the possession and added the chair in the later patch. 🙂

Those are just my thoughts.

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TS3 graphics at least had a valid use for textures. Even when having to load a new lot on the fly with the open world though, the game would use dummy placeholder art, and draw the scene as best it could while continuing to load the real art in the background.

None of it would matter if simple material shaders were used for the 99.9% of TS4 art that doesn’t warrant more than a single color, and a material type(metal, glass, grass, cloth). Even with crap compression on sound and T-Shirt writing, it would still load lightning fast. Modders could even insert better shaders, and end up with near photorealistic graphics without having to edit a single object Maxis spat out.

A lawn chair could allow a Sim to get a happy buff, a romantic buff if they ask someone to rub sun-tan lotion on their back, or remove stress the way a bath does. They could get a sunburn which makes them uncomfortable for awhile, until it goes away… A sim could take a nap on a lawn chair and a mischievous sim could draw a mustache and glasses onto the sleeping sim’s face (or something else amusing, sort of a pseudo-vanity that focuses on weird options.)

We could even have lounge chair floats that go into the pool! (Like Sims 3.) It could tie into having other pool floats and pool options.

It could be more than just another chair. It could be a major feature in a beach resort vacation style pack where sims can swim in the ocean. Why are you limiting your imagination? This isn’t spiral stairs. 😛

Of course they could veto the idea but just because they haven’t done it yet doesn’t mean it would never happen. Sims 4 has pools. It has toddlers. They even released laptops in a patch after putting it into the most recent game pack. Lawn chairs could be a free update for summer if they really wanted to, especially if they released a beach vacation style game pack. It might be an incentive if the free ones don’t come in black and white.

people don’t normally have a lawn chair in their apartments in the city.

A private pool in a penthouse would have some nice, expensive lawn chairs for people to lounge on. lol

It’s called having a luxurious lifestyle.