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What EPs do you want for The Sims 4?
Cali_Pier92
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Let's give EA a heads up on what packs we want for TS4 so they can give us what we want straight away unlike they did with TS3.
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2. A expansion pack like Open For Business Sims 2
All I can think for now :L
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DESCRIPTION
Expansion pack is based off glamour life, exclusive events, anniversaries, Simscar and Simmy award shows for musicians and actors which will happen once every few weeks. It's based on expanding the luxurious life of our Sims, new party types and bringing back some of best The Sims functions we all like. Also, we'll get tons of new interactions for our Sims, new addition - Likability, as well as singing stage, fashion runways and much more.
FUNCTIONS
Most important function is bringing back the studio town from Superstar, which can only be accessed by people with a VIP pass (or those who pay enough to get in). There can be a tourist bus going throughout the town and Sims can have a reality TV shows for the first time. Two NPC Sims with cameras would follow your every day life (only outside your house, so it doesn't complicate the game). We'll be getting back modeling and singing career. Fashion shows (non rabbit holes) are new events, where access to first rows only have those Sims with an important name or enough money to bribe bouncers. If you have World Adventures, Sims from around the world would come see the show.
Fashion Shows can be outside or inside, they are built using special stage, similar to dance area) where if you click on it you'd get "Model Walk" action. This wouldn't be the event itself, but you have to call others to your fashion show, similar to throwing parties. Then you'd have to hire more models to the the show or alternatively become their manager (double career branch, model and manager).
Finally, we'll be getting back the singer career, which can be hired by a band for their shows or pursue a solo career. Sims who want to have solo career will have to either find a band themselves for the shows or form a group of musicians to perform together (and share the money earned). Singers can become superstars and then attend TV shows to do interviews or shoot music videos. Afterwards, Sims will get a notification (similar to rumors) that people are talking about their music video and in case your Sim is a "Snob", he can brag and talk about the music video with other Sims - and demand their opinion!
With highlights of models, musicians and moguls, you'll get one new addition - Likability! People who often argue with their fans or just friends/family/acquaintances will get a low likability level which will affect their odds of making new friends. Nobody wants to befriend an evil 🐸🐸🐸🐸! As a special interaction, we'll get the huge aquarium-like area where Sims can swim with fish and sharks. This can be part of your very own pool or done by going to a special community lot. Beware - community lots charge fees for this! Sims will also get huge discounts if their likability level is high, or won't if it's low (even though if they have a level 5 of celebrity status).
Sims can also hire makeup artists and hairdressers who will transform you into a beauty deserving of stardom!
SPECIAL FUNCTIONS:
Special function that is going to be brought into this game is plastic surgery that can be used to adjust face and body. This won't directly bring you back to CAS, but instead you'll get opportunity to choose "Fatter Cheeks", "Bigger Breast", "Thinner Belly" etc. These surgeries can go wrong and you'd end up looking 'slightly' different. There is a new lifetime wish 'Revert Me Back To Myself" for those of Sims who want to get back to just being themselves. For those addicted plastic surgery clients, clinic/hospital can reward you with a very special machine that upon usage will bring you back to CAS and let you edit your attributes. This is very hard to do as it requires a lot of surgeries and they cost between 5 and 10 thousand Simoleons.
Short description:
Brand new careers:
1. Modeling Career (Level 5 branch split -> Model / Manager) (Profession)
2. Singer (Profession)
3. Video Producer (Career)
Brand new statuses:
1. Mogul (Extremely rich and influential Sims of no particular talent)
2. Superstar
3. Loved
4. Hated
5. Unknown
Brand new NPC's and functions:
1. Makeup artists
2. Hairdressers
3. Reality Show cameramen
4. Music Video Producers
5. Businessmen
Special objects:
1. Dr. Plastico Kit
2. Seahole / Seapool
Other additions:
1. Runway/Fashion Shows
2. Tourist Bus through city
3. Tour Bus through the studio town
4. Singing at cafe's and restaurants
5. Plastic Surgery
6. Likability
Skills:
1. Model Walk
2. Singing
3. Influence (hidden)
New interactions:
1. Fire/Hire Models
2. Fire/Hire Manager
3. Accuse of ignoring friends
4. Accuse of being mean
As found here: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/579500.page#9337043
And all the golden oldies!
Indeed.
ooooh I really want them to bring it back so bad! lol
Late Night/Open for business/Ambitions/Farm life - all in one.
Might be too big so here from first to last:
Open for business
Seasons
Farm life
Late night
Island paradise
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/758083/petition-to-add-optional-co-op-feature-to-ts4-122-372-signatures/p1
Seasons, Pets, Generations (really though all three of these should be in the base game)
Open For Business, Late Night (with more to do!), University and some type of vacations EP.
As far as new:
Amusement/theme Parks, Farming, and some type of Fantasy pack (sort of like Supernatural and Dragon Valley all combined)
Yeah I'm a traditionalist. I like mostly EPS for remakes.
At least take Sims 1 titles for EPs - Unleashed, Superstar etc. It'll be fun and good for a change.
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What excellent ideas! I would pay more for the base game to have weather/seasons and pets included right from the beginning. I'd even pay the price of the base game plus two regular EPS, if we could just have it to start with. It could be some kind of über-Collector's Edition.
Are you listening, EA?
I'd pick Superstar over Late Night and Showtime combined any time
Also Britney, Christina and Avril
What I would call the "secondary essential" packs are Vacations, Night Life and Open For Business. These are the second most requested to the top three and are pretty much a big part of a Life Stimulation.
Then we have Magic and Fame, which are also highly requested. We had them in 1 and 3, and we had Magic in TS2 Apartment Life even though it wasn't a major feature. But I don't think we had Fame in TS2?
I think those are the three tiers of essential expansion packs, but EA could decide to omit some/add several of the themes into one pack etc.
Then there are the new requests that are popping up all the time that we haven't had before, like farming etc.
I loved the recording studio and the modelling career and being able to see sims acting!!! I'd love a 'superstar' e.p more in that direction. With the Late Night bands and Showtime singer combined!
Then I'd put the Showtime magic and acrobatics in with a circus/fairground type pack, perhaps combined with Supernatural, similar to Makin' Magic.
Well....since you're asking....
I would like a remake of Nightlife, not that Late night, messed up 1/2 of an ep we got for 3, no I want the full, well rounded, interesting, fun, good dating mini game, just the whole The Sims 2 expansion. That was so well done, and left nothing out that we would miss. not like that empty late night. Except for the dancing. They did an excellent job with that, but the rest...? eh!
I think we'll see OFB in the first or second EP release for Sims 4... like how Ambitions brought "bringing your sim to work" theme that was so desperately asked for in Sims 2 and then we got it very early in Sims 3's line.
I want Sims 4 to bring us new and exciting ideas for EP's not visited before, like IP. Like SN. ST. I wanna see those theme's for Sims 4 as well, and a proper Vacation EP. I really do think that Sims 3's open world was a big jump and maybe too taxing on the engine and so we lost out on a lot of the epicness of Sims 2 in 3 because of it. The minute details that aren't present in Sims 3. With that being said, I think the transition from Sims 3 to Sims 4 will be more like the transition from Sims 1 to 2 in that the "step up" will blow our minds. Opening the world up set us back a bit in terms of complexity of gameplay and with that it seems like a template for a more epic sims series in which technology can handle both the complex gameplay of Sims 2 with the open world demand of Sims 3 and most importantly a vast improvement in graphics.
I'm so excited.
This. That way every new expansion pack could build off of pets. So when they do a medieval expansion/world they could use horses, ect.
I would love to see a farming/western theme expansion. I am a massive fan of old westerns and it would be fun to be able to recreate different families, ect.
TAKE MY WANT!!