They were annoying anyway, always complaining about stuff which wasn't even an issue/was obvious. They were sims 1 characters that you could import( sims 2 wasn't even out when SC4 was released**, let alone sims 3), and even then you didn't have to import to get access to sim characters, you could access them entirely within SC4, importing just allowed you to get a specific sim from the first game and bring them to your city. But if you wanna focus on your power grid, that's cool. 'Sure, I have quasi-realistic traffic modeling. It was just more subtle, less in your face. That was the nice thing about SC3k, really. You can see which roads are heavily trafficked in one of the map overlays, then if you build other roads which are both close enough and parallel it'll reduce the traffic on the main road, and more importantly, it'll lower your road maintenance costs overall. Oh and while the system wasn't as detailed, there is a traffic management system in SC3k. Which isn't a bad gamme, but I should miss a feature of SC4 unless I go buy another, mostly unrelated game. If the feedback had been somehow changed based on your Sims' personality or something that would've been cool, but as it stands it's just a way to sell more copies of The Sims 3. In SC4, you had to import your own sims from The Sims 3 to get THE SAME DAMN FEEDBACK. In 3000 you had the ability to get feedback from random citizens. I prefer SC3k just because of the lack of a The Sims tie-in.

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