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Things I'd Still Love To See Added In TS4
Arries
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I think the toddlers are super, ridiculously amazing. I love everything about them. However, I'd love to see an addition where they can be breastfed. They gave it to our babies in TS4, which I thought was brilliant (as much as I hate the TS4 babies), but a lot of parents don't stop nursing until their kids hit 2+. It's not crucial to my game. I won't cry if it doesn't happen, but I'd love to see it.
ZOMG height sliders. For the love of god and all things holy. I'd love my ladies to be a little shorter than their male counterparts. I'd love for people in general to be different heights. That's how the world is. If I can adjust the tiniest most obscure details, why on earth can't I make someone an inch or two taller/shorter?
Pre-teens. Teens suck. I've said it. You've said it. Everyone has said it. Teens are basically adults that go to school. Sure, they have some different interactions, but we go from like 7 to 18 in one age transition. I'd love to see a middle ground. Pre-teens could go to middle school, deal with acne, whatever. A Generations themed EP or GP would be lovely for this, as many others have suggested.
Of course, pets. I love having my german shepard in the game. In fact, I frequently go back and play TS2 because I'm still in love with OFB, and I always have my dogs. And adding a crazy old lady with a housefull of cats to deal with is another fave past time of mine. I'm sure they are working on getting this one out there, but two years without my pets in game has been lame.
Weather. It'd be great if it was optional, like with the ability to toggle it off. I know some people don't want to deal with rain (I don't know why, personally, I think weather is super amazing.) I loved how in TS2 different seasons were ideal for different things. (Like, in Autumn skills were gained faster, etc.)
I'm certain there are a million other things I'm missing. And don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for all we have in this game. I absolutely love TS4, I just feel like we're still missing so much.
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I'd love for Sims to have the option to homeschool their kiddos. I know there are mods out there that allow your kids to stay home, but I'd love to see a real homeschooling option, where they have course work on the computer or in notebooks, rather than just not going to school at all.
Laundry. I miss this. I loved it in TS3. Such a simple element of gameplay, but it added so much realism. And I don't know how other people build their houses, but I generally find floorplans online, and build those. Most of them have laundry rooms. Sometimes I just eliminate that part of the floorplan, but I have probably a dozen houses that just have huge sinks in a small room, in the hopes that I can replace the contents of the room with a washer and dryer eventually.
ZOMG height sliders. For the love of god and all things holy. I'd love my ladies to be a little shorter than their male counterparts. I'd love for people in general to be different heights. That's how the world is. If I can adjust the tiniest most obscure details, why on earth can't I make someone an inch or two taller/shorter?
Pre-teens. Teens suck. I've said it. You've said it. Everyone has said it. Teens are basically adults that go to school. Sure, they have some different interactions, but we go from like 7 to 18 in one age transition. I'd love to see a middle ground. Pre-teens could go to middle school, deal with acne, whatever. A Generations themed EP or GP would be lovely for this, as many others have suggested.
Of course, pets. I love having my german shepard in the game. In fact, I frequently go back and play TS2 because I'm still in love with OFB, and I always have my dogs. And adding a crazy old lady with a housefull of cats to deal with is another fave past time of mine. I'm sure they are working on getting this one out there, but two years without my pets in game has been lame.
Weather. It'd be great if it was optional, like with the ability to toggle it off. I know some people don't want to deal with rain (I don't know why, personally, I think weather is super amazing.) I loved how in TS2 different seasons were ideal for different things. (Like, in Autumn skills were gained faster, etc.)
I'm certain there are a million other things I'm missing. And don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for all we have in this game. I absolutely love TS4, I just feel like we're still missing so much.
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I'd love for Sims to have the option to homeschool their kiddos. I know there are mods out there that allow your kids to stay home, but I'd love to see a real homeschooling option, where they have course work on the computer or in notebooks, rather than just not going to school at all.
Laundry. I miss this. I loved it in TS3. Such a simple element of gameplay, but it added so much realism. And I don't know how other people build their houses, but I generally find floorplans online, and build those. Most of them have laundry rooms. Sometimes I just eliminate that part of the floorplan, but I have probably a dozen houses that just have huge sinks in a small room, in the hopes that I can replace the contents of the room with a washer and dryer eventually.
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Pets were found in the code that came with the patch for toddlers.
we don't even have cars..
Based on the different age categories, this is how I personally view them (approximately):
Baby 1month - 2 years
Toddler 2-5years
Child 6-12 years
Teens 13-17 years
Young Adult 18-29 years (ages start becoming a little more vague for me here)
Adult 30 -59ish years
Elder 60-90? 100? Whatever you would like to imagine.
The problem is it seems Teens = Young Adult in the game instead of having that 13-17 year age range that I personally believe it should be. I'm pretty sure they have no major differences besides just going to school. They practically look the exact same.
So what I propose is not that we get a preteen life stage, just that they change teens to be act more like teens.
I guess I'm suggesting to have the same actions/looks/behaviors as they did in Sims 3 with the Generations EP.
Just wishful thinking haha
I'm sorry, I can't have people speak for me about what I want. Don't include me in "we". I'm so tired and people saying "we don't need pre-teens". Stop including everyone as a whole, people. Some of us want do want pre-teens.
I haven't seen any cc creators making shades of grey hair palettes.
the babies not be tied to the cribs I hate that! I'd love for them to actually be able to crawl around at least. Preteens is a good idea too..Cars, Phones, I miss those. That's all I can think of right now.
I absolutely agree with you. I think in TS3 I got like 2 or 3 sims through college, and never did anything with it again. In TS2 I made everyone go. It actually benefited them for the rest of their lives to go. I did enjoy that any of the older life stages could go in TS3, but you had to go back to actually finish, and the benefit of completing school was overshadowed by the effort involved, in my opinion. I'd love to see a merge of the two, like, anyone can go, but it actually changes the dynamic of the Sim, and you don't have to keep sending them back to actually graduate.
As far as progressive aging, I feel that may be too much for the dev team to do in TS4, but it's something I'd LOVE to see in TS5.
The only reason breastfeeding comes to mind for me is because I nursed my daughter until she was two. It would just add another layer of realism in my self-sim family. It's definitely not crucial to my game play, and I won't be upset if it never happens, it was just something I'd be happy to see.
Ah, teens need acne and they should have random mood swings. Preach
I started the post with "I think I would rather them update the teens." The only part I used "we" was when I was talking about what I was proposing. I didn't intend to speak for everyone. I just thought, grammatically, it would be weird to say "So what I propose is not that I get a preteen life stage."
Oh
Diversity in height will make every sim unique.