SimGuruGraham has confirmed that the three mentioned above will NOT spawn in “downtown” worlds like Bridgeport! Sweetness!
Update!
I know some understand why they did this, but other do not. Think of Bridgeport as a major city similar to Downtown Los Angeles, New York Times Square or Downtown Tokyo. In these places, you will NEVER see wild deer or horses. Maybe a raccoon, but that would be at night. This is why EA has done this. Wild horses running down main street in NYC doesn’t happen, thus it’s the same way with Bridgeport. Also, to know which towns will and will NOT allow wildlife in Pets, look at the pic below.
If a custom world has the same buildings icon that Bridgeport has (on the left), wild life will NOT spawn in that world. However, if it has the house icon that Sunset Valley has (on the right), they WILL spawn in that world. I hope this clears up any confusion that anyone might have had about this.
That’s good. I have a few city neighborhoods (Los Aniegos and Oahu) that I play and they would look strange with horses and deer running around. Not to mention, I wouldn’t have space for stables anyway.
that’s good idea
id imagine raccoons would be able to appear in cities so thats weird…. oh and why doesnt anyone ever mention the skunks?
Cities have raccoons… small cities have deer on the outskirts, for sure… Bridgeport has an urban area but also a very open area, similar to the city I live in, and there’s plenty of wildlife here. However, you would want to have it spawn in some areas and not others, and maybe that was not feasible.
Still leaves open the question about where in towns like SV the animals could spawn… should you be able to get wild horses in Sunset Valley’s downtown park, for instance?
I don’t know if I like this very much honestly. I live in an urban city and I see Deer cross the street all the time.
There are no skunks in the game.
Makes sense to me, an urban area would rarely have animals like anyways.
yah, I can’t imagine wild horses running around downtown near bars and the such. But they should let racoons and smaller animals near places like the “star houses” section of bridegeport (the one across the bridge), because wild animals are usally atracted to trash left on streets, even if it is in the city. But it makes sense, seems like a wise choise.
This video might be good to post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1LwyL5paQE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
It’s a picture/content slide show. I enjoyed the pictures on it, the town seems very nice!
thank you for your time. 🙂
Aw man…I cant joke with my friends about hoses dancing in dance club anymore….
@LDC not everyone see deer in urban city, also, they wanted to make it like a REAL urban city(metrocity?)
@Captain THPS4
You cant expect everyone make a downtown with free space for wildlife to roam around.
Apologize for double posting….
Correction for hoses->horses
Question:
New death?(Sorry for neurotic again).
Also, I never played The Sims 2. So can pets go in an elevator by itself?
Not good…I play in a CAW called Harmony. It’s labeled as a Late Night city but there’s plenty of open space away from the downtown for wildlife to roam. Racoons should have been allowed in city worlds at least.
Well at least that’s a relief. Not what I wanted to know specifically but at least it rules out things. Maybe its something in the coding of a world that controls the animals. If so then it may be possible to isolate the code for raccoons and insert that into your world.
Think of Bridgeport like Times Square NYC, Downtown LA or The Stip in Las Vegas. You’re not going to see heards of horses or any animal running through there on the roads or through the alleys, same goes for Deer.
Every Sims 3 town/world excluding Bridgeport, is like a small town. Country, island. and mountain towns. Like I said in an above quote, Bridgeport is like the downtown area of a major city. You’d NEVER see wild horses or deer in such a place… unless they escaped from a zoo or something similar.
no new death for Sims and large pets only die by old age. Adult and Elder cats and dogs can use stairs and elevators but kittens and puppies have to have a little help from Sims to get to other floors and up and/or down stairs/steps.
Skunks were originally planned to return in Pets, but they were dropped/removed at some point in development.
Knowing Twallan, he might make a Mod for that.
Good to know:) It makes sense for them to not appear in the cities, except town/rural.
A skunk was in the leaked trailer months ago, guess it was removed or they only appear in the consoles.
Sims MX has already modded animal appearance in the CAP demo.
As for horses in LA… go into the Hollywood Hills, or gated communities like Bel Air (right behind Beverly Hills), and you will find wild land, deer, riding trails, and large estates with stables. I would definitely provide at least some of my Bridgeport celebrity mansions with stables.
BH and Downtown LA are two different things. You won’t see wild horses running down the 405 or on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater. HUGE difference in areas.
This is garbage and does nothing for us.
I’ve been complaining about this since Pets was announced and have been mostly ignored. I can see some real issues here.
The problem is that it will only be EA’s city world that we can control them in, they have not given us the ability to select a world type in CAW, so all user made worlds are fair game to horses running down the main street.
They gave us CAW, so they could at least give us the ability to control it.
The way they are doing it means that we’d never have them in any City world at all, I asked them to do a spawner for them that is on a radius of a specific distance, that way we place it where we want them to stay, and we can have them in any world. This is not a valid solution.
I should have added. I do build worlds and my worlds tend to have a town area, a country area and a suburban area. I do want wild animals in the worlds but I want to control where they go in that world and controlling by gnomes on lots does not enable me to control them in my high streets. I would very much prefer a spawner that I can place in the country areas for horses to go only out to a certain distance, or I’d like some sort of object, similar to the gnomes that are used on lots, that can keep wild animals away from where you put them, this could easily be an invisible item like the for emitter or it could be something useful like a fire hydrant.
I really hate what they’ve done, this is even worse now.
Bridgeport has a city area but it also has a suburban area. I live int he biggest city on my country and we have wildlife in suburban areas.