EgonVM wrote: »

Ok. Let us all calm down. Remember, this discussion is about the game.

Let me state my opinion on the matter.

For me, The Sims should be a sandbox game, meaning players should be able to play it however they want. So I won't be against it coming to the game. However, I would like some toggles due to the Neighborhood Stories feature.
The Sims should be played the way the player feels comfortable.

With that preface out of the way, literally all my social media (which isn't very much since I really only use tiktok and some YouTube but still) is full of talk of the sims 4 right now. Even people I don't follow are popping up freaking out over all the new updates and hints for the sims.

And over the past several days I've been absorbing info, and putting things together in my brain. I already made a post about how I feel like a refresh will be coming. Particularly one for Get to Work. Or at the very least, one should come based on the groundwork being laid by this new EP and infant update.

But with all the horse chatter, that perhaps we might be getting a Cats and Dogs refresh as well, which would update the Vet career, and allow for a branch of vet that treats farm animals and also like horses. (Idk the name of that kind of vet.)

I also, through comments with other people here, came to realize that we're getting a tooth fairy in this EP, which would be the first fairy we ever got in this game. Like even a reference to. And while cute, that would inevitably cause Occult players to want their fairies back even more. And having already experienced the tragedy of mermaids (beautiful but lacking) and the emptiness of aliens (and their literally empty homeworld); they wouldn't sit quietly for crappy representation of fae.

So that made me wonder what exactly is going on here. We're getting 2 expansion packs this year. We haven't had anything like that in so long, it's almost out of memory. And they keep teasing horses randomly. They also introduced a bunch of content that not only buffs the game, but also allows growth in many areas, including health.

So is it possible that the reason we are getting these big packs instead of 1 big pack and some smaller ones, bc we are getting some refreshes, as well as some game changing content?

Or are we getting it in an even more extreme way?

I saw in a YouTube video that the creator thought Horses might be a gamepack by themselves. But I wondered if it would be like a horses and fairies combo expansion pack. Like a Fairies' Glen world with wild horses, and magic. Maybe we even get a new Occult Sim type that we didn't have before.

⭐️Or maybe Horses are a gamepack, or part of a refresh, and we have both refreshes. What of Fairies? What if the expansion is a Supernatural type expansion? Introducing the missing Occult Sims, fixing the lackluster ones, and bringing in new worlds. Maybe this year is the year they are working on addressing the communities that haven't been getting addressed properly in game.

They brought in more clutter, are trying to represent minority groups (not always getting it all the way right but working on it), finally are fixing the family aspects, and are teasing the rest of the animals and one of the last occults.

Anyway this is just me trying to put together my thoughts into words.

****Seahorses was me wondering if they do add horses would they add Seahorses so mermaids could ride them bc that would be super cool as long as they aren't terrifying 😅

I was thinking of how I , and others, had thought we would get an active career in this pack because of all the tooth imagery we got in the roadmap. Thinking a dentist career was coming. Then it turned out to be a clutter kit. But then we did see a child sim lose their tooth, and toothfairy proof. And for a second I thought that was it.

BUT THEN (forgive me my exuberance) I remembered I saw the infant sim teething, the teething ring stack in the trailer, and an infant without any teeth at all. Plus we saw a Sim nursing an infant. If you know anything about nursing, it can be painful, and if your baby is getting teeth it's worse. Once they have teeth 😬. Let's start them on food yeah? Soon as possible, bring in the bottles more yeah too. (Also made me think of how they said it would be an intensive experience but I digress.)

Thinking these things I was like wow getting teeth really IS going to be an actual growing experience with this pack, maybe even without it bc infants will be for everyone, who knows? But they didn't mention any careers like dentistry. It could be a surprise for later. But they mentioned the other features already...

Hmm. Well you know what would be cool, Piedatrics? Then we could take our babies for check ups, monitor their growth, even our toddlers. Get more gameplay. Right now we only have doctors when you're really sick. But the hospitals are so buggy, that unless I'm playing a doctor I just buy the medicine.

Wait...we just have doctors. And that's when it hit me. We have doctors already. In another expansion pack. If they added any form of human doctor in this pack it would be as if you needed this pack to make content for that pack better. When they did university it affected every job, basegame included so that was different. But doctors are GTW exclusive. Like Veternarians are Cats and Dogs exclusive and only bc they literally are for pets.

And so it occurred to me. What with all this updated gameplay for all ages, new medical wearable category, scars, birthmarks, teeth growing, etc, doctors could and maybe will get an update. The entire pack could get an update.

And in doing so, more professions could be added. Issues with businesses could be fixed. We could get our own private practices, and have/be family doctors. So that you wouldn't have to load the hospital all the time. And place one in Newcrest, and maybe have a clinic in several worlds. Like how you can be a Vet with a few working under you, or just own the business itself, and have vets under you. You could be a dentist. Same with like being a Private Detective or Researcher.

And it's just occurring to me, with all those hints about horses apparently popping up, that a Cats and Dogs Refresh might be coming up too, which would likely bring in Equine Vets (or whatever they are called), and one for other Farm Animals. Because the Vet is in Cats and Dogs so having it be upgraded to be able to work on farm animals would be fine, if you have the pack it would kick in, just like if you have University you get the extra levels of jobs. And If you have High School you get the diplomas and it helps you into University.