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Would you like an "Elementary School Days" Expansion?
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I wouldn't mind an expansion in regards to elementary school for the child life stage.
I wouldn't mind an expansion in regards to elementary school for the child life stage.
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I know there's a Parenthood pack, but as a single parent, I don't need that kind of stress. Less attempting to instill morals, more playing dress-up in treehouses, please.
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would not mind base game updates tho to make kid lifestage bit more like ts 1/2/3 with boarding school options n such
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Sure, there is some "drama" with elementary school kids, such as staying away from the kid who eats paste, but I'm not sure how they would handle it.
I do think it would be cute, if done right but I just don't see what elements they would add to make it fun.
But, I don’t want clubs that are rabbit holes. I want them to be able to do after school activities in the pack like ballet and karate, being able to throw a baseball to each other or a parent.
I’d like them to have science projects that deal with things like frogs (base game), insects (outdoor retreat), rats etc. (My first pet stuff), like have them in the classroom, learn about them, go on a field trip to find and collect them (well the insects and frogs anyway). Maybe introduce a new pet like lizards and tarantula’s in the pack. I remember teachers having things like iguanas and tarantula’s in class while I (and my children) were in grade school. Have a science project (parenthood) and participate in a contest with it. Also, this would be a great time to add a small microscope. Learning math, like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, maybe using flash cards for math. And reading, they could get extra credit by reading books and doing book reports on them. Another thing for them to study could be art, we already have all of those art desks in base game and many packs, and the clay. Perhaps they could add paper mache projects. Maybe a different class each day of the week. They could also introduce choir and band/orchestra, introduce some new instruments. That would make one different class per week, and a large recess/lunch. In an elementary pack they could drop tests, instead just have them spend a little time practicing one of the subjects for a brief time at home. And they should have an extensive recess, we already have the monkey bars, maybe they could add tetherball, 4 square, and hopscotch. Who doesn’t remember recess in grade school?? And for a base game update I would like chikdren being able to play things like tag, cops and robbers, marbles and jacks. If they added things like this grade school could be a really exciting time, and not a drag.
I do think like someone else mentioned though, that you should be able to join your sim, or send them alone.
Anyway, I think they could make a fantastic childhood pack adding elementary school, and some exciting things to do there.
They need to show that they can make packs that are fun and also support the game better before I would buy something like that.
As far as education goes, I greatly enjoyed discover university but I am not touching high school years. I don't like the social bunny and have no desire to follow teens to class. I don't mind rabbit hole schools. In fact I would like a rabbit hole kindergarten for toddlers or a rabbit hole boarding school (children go there during the week and come home in the weekend)
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No way I do not want an "Elementary School Days", because that's not what I really want before 2022 will be over
Cause guess what? I see musical/stage performance-related words all over the build/buy features from High School Years. All I've been thinking about what the next expansion pack is gonna be is something musical, is because I wanted singers and bands, and what I like about singers and bands is that I want my sims to become singers or established their own bands. Just asking y'all very nicely, and if y'all want anything after something musical hints something about the next expansion pack this year, y'all should help me get my second favorite music back to The Sims 4 before 2022 is gonna end. Please simmers, we are all real here, y'all know better about how I want what I want, cause there are other black simmers I know who all enjoy hip hop and R&B very much like I do every months, days, and years ago, period
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Plus, I think there's a lot of potential for an elementary school experience, especially if it involves active field trips. I'm envisioning something like the dialog that pops up when you ask a sim on a date, where it takes you to the world map and you decide where you want to take your class on a field trip. Then you could get a goaled event with activities based on what kind of lot you're on and the items that are there, so the player could design all kinds of custom group experiences for kids. This could come along with a museum revamp to make museums more interactive and interesting, maybe adding gameplay items like a planetarium dome or fancy aquarium-style fishtanks with new interactions. They could use the likes and dislikes feature to add interests, so a field trip might spark a kid's interest in space or reading or wildlife (frogs, fish, bugs if you have Outdoor Retreat, etc.), with different items you might view (at a museum or elsewhere) linked to different interests (perhaps reading the info stands at the Von Haunt Estate makes your sim to decide to like or dislike history, for example). These interests could be life-long and linked into the wants system, so that a kid who decides they have an interest in performing arts after using the puppet theatre might want to join drama club, then want to get a drama degree, then want to join the acting career, and same with any number of other life paths (telescope -> interest in space -> wants to do a rocket science project, get a physics degree, become an astronaut, etc.). Many of us tell those stories already, but having an in-game system for it would dovetail nicely with a ton of other already-released content, make the wants & fears system more meaningful, and add some unique gameplay to the child life stage while also affecting other ages, too. I would love to see something like that.
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Anyway, here is the short version. No.
Highschool was great but it's not something I'd want for all ages.
Child sims are at one of the best stages of life where you are wild and free without drama, burdens or worries, (speaking generally). I have two main child sims in my save that I play and while the older sims in the house are living out life's drama they are out exploring, looking for bugs, riding bikes (bike mod), building cardboard forts (I love building those in sims) creating hideouts and things like that. A dream pack for me in regards to kids would be just adding tons of interactions and fun stuff to kids to do!
I was surprised how many people really don't play as kids much and I think this would really raise interest in playing because they don't have much.
Things like jump rope, more playground equipment, piggy back ride, hand games, pool games, tag, hide n seek, fort building of all different types of cute little forts. Similar to how they did the tree house.
More social interactions for them,
Jumping on beds and couches, leaving beds messy, more games, hula hoop, ballet, gymnastics,traits like hyperactive, caregiver dependant dependant that are attached and follows around caregiver, tattle tail, bad kid that's always looking for mischief. (Traits would have better names of course).
I could go on but you get the idea.
BTW I'm super grateful for what kids got in this new pack🙏 But compared to other sims (adults especially) they still need so much more and have so much more potential! (Let's not forget childish sims too😁😁)