Dev Question: Duplexes and Large 2B Apts hate elevators?

[KhalunQalli]

I don't understand why they would hate elevators. They're going to hate climbing stairs. Why the hate for elevators? They want to be on upper floors, I assume, so what the heck? At minimum this means they must be 17 cells away from the elevator, limiting their usage to very wide buildings.

What gives?

[HobbyCathartic]

Noise I suppose. Have you ever lived in an apartment near an elevator? It's terrible.

[[57th] AngryHatter]

Upgrade time.

[Klumpatsch]

Yeah, it's extremely noisy. The constant beeping and rattling, the doors opening and closing, and of course the people's screaming, laughing and steps can be heard on the whole floor if a house has thin walls like mine. Ordinary people will just live with this, but people that rent luxus-appartments rarely consider themselves "ordinary people".

[KhalunQalli]

Ah but that's kind of my point. The way I see it, folks that live in duplexes or two bedroom aparments would be "ordinary people" and not mind elevators. They might not want to be near shops and such, but should be seeing the elevator nearby as a convenience more than a hinderance (like the regular 2BR Apts.). By the same reckoning, I would think that Luxury level apartments (Lux Studios, Lux 1BR Apts, Lux Lofts) should be the ones that didn't want to be so close to the elevators.

(Yes I understand that by my reasoning, Lux Lofts would then require huge buildings or buildings with the elevators shunted to the sides, unless you can live with them being unhappy about the "Traffic" generated within range of elevators. But I'm okay with that because they're not ordinary people and should require more effort to keep happy.)

Corporate HQs (essentially Luxury Offices) already function this way...

[esculapio]

There must be a bug here because I am leaving an 8 tile buffer lobby between my luxury apartment and the elevator and they still complain about the noise.

[Tarot1970]

Originally posted by esculapio:

There must be a bug here because I am leaving an 8 tile buffer lobby between my luxury apartment and the elevator and they still complain about the noise.

Radius of elevator effect is about 16 tiles. Look at the overlay (top left).

[vacanize]

If you use the noise overlay it shows that the elevator does not produce any. So what's the deal there?

[esculapio]

Originally posted by Tarot1970:

Originally posted by esculapio:

There must be a bug here because I am leaving an 8 tile buffer lobby between my luxury apartment and the elevator and they still complain about the noise.

Radius of elevator effect is about 16 tiles. Look at the overlay (top left).

Wow, thats a bit too much, but I guess it is to prevent spamming luxury apartments.

[Enclear]

They hate elevators but also hate walking the stairs, I can't make them happy doing anything.

[KhalunQalli]

Originally posted by esculapio:

Originally posted by Tarot1970:

Radius of elevator effect is about 16 tiles. Look at the overlay (top left).

Wow, thats a bit too much, but I guess it is to prevent spamming luxury apartments.

Except it's not the "luxury" apartments that hate the elevators...

[FalseGiraffe]

To address the real problem, I'd love to be able to buy quieter elevators. They DO exist.

I'm aware there is another type of elevator, but as far as I'm aware the only difference is that they can start anywhere.

SimTower had express elevators that only went 10 floors at a time. This would be interesting, but yes, a lot more in the direction of an elevator simulator than the devs have already said they intended.

[Meredius]

What about individual appartmenr upgrades to say:
--> Concrete walls
--> Air conditionning
--> Appliance (like a dishwasher included).

And the 16-tile example is traffic pattern in green when you highlight elevator paths but the noise overlay is at nothing... although if there's a lot of traffic people complain about noise too. Seems contradictory a little? :)

Cheers,

[Tegron]

Elevator upgrades... Digital displays & AC *nod*. Mood Lighting? :P

[Meredius]

You knoww Barry.... some nighttime graphics for the building would be nice. It just dawned on me that SimTower had that!