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An Expansion Pack Idea
FoxyLovesKitty
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Name of expansion pack: Sims 4: Shopping Madness
General idea:
The expansion pack would focus on a new big venue, at the size of a big park, that would be a large shopping center/mall. It would be located at a -new- world, and at the center of it, just like the big parks in the base game. It would include different kinds of stores such as: a toy store, a book store, a gallery, a grocery store, clothing store, a bakery, etc. The shopping system would be similar to that of Sims 2: Open for Business. The empolyees at the mall would be NPC's. The mall would also include one or two employees that would clean the place, and other exclusive characters only to the mall area. The stores would have exclusive items that cannot be found in buy mode. A clothing store for example, would have special hats, underwear, pajamas, and so on that cannot be found in the closet. A toy store could contain a mix of existing objects and new objects for children. The grocery store would include a dairy section, a vegetable & fruit section, a fish section and so on.
Ideas for special new places:
1. 3 functional restaurants, each has a different theme. One is a dinner (expensive), the other one is fast food like McDonalds (cheap), which would include a happy meal for kids, the third one could be Japanese/Chinese (new possible feature: ordering food by phone from these restaurants). Each restaurant comes with its own style. The player is able to see the kitchen and the chef inside, cooking. All of the workers are NPC's. It would be nice to have a menu to pick the dishes and drinks. There would also be a teenager to pick and wash the dirty dishes.
2. Same concept as restaurants, only a cafe or a bakery. The cafe would serve hot drinks such as tea, hot chocolate, expresso, etc. Also, special pastaries and cakes can be found only at the cafe.
3. Cars make a return: the mall has a parking lot, garages for houses, bikes, etc. Cars can break and sims have to fix them or call a repairman who specializes at fixing cars. There's also a new skill from taking care of cars.
4. The ice-cream parlor: Sims can go to the ice-cream parlor. New object in game: ice-cream machine. New trait: sweet tooth.
5. Cinema: Sims can go to the movies now. The cinema would probably be a venue of its own. Sims would have to buy movie tickets, one ticket per sim for 1 movie and it won't be cheap. There would be a functional snack bar where sims can buy popcorn/drinks (expensive). The player can see the sims inside the cinema watching films. The movie itself would be different than the regular shows on the TV. Example: a short video of sims Titanic for a tragedy movie, a short video of sims James Bond for an action movie.
Additional idea:
Vending machines.
New features:
1. When dating, the second sim will follow the main sim around. The main sim is able to invite the other sim to dinner/ to eat ice-cream/for coffee/ to a movie/ etc.
2. Sims can buy romantic gifts for their dates.
3. The mall/cinema can be edited by the player. For example, if the player prefers to have a music store instead of the special toy store, they can edit the mall as they like. The special mall objects can be used in other community lots.
4. New career option: Players can -rent- space in the mall and make their own store there (and not in their house like in Open for Business) in which they could sell whatever they want. Players would have to pay the rent every Sim day. They could also hire employees.
Summary:
The shopping expansion pack is about the life outside the sims' houses. New clothes and objects are about and for shopping/going out with the whole family/dating. The expansion pack will include 1 new world with a shopping theme/industrial theme, a shopping venue and a cinema venue. All stores and restaurants are functional, no rabbit holes. In addition, there would be new moodlets available for buying new objects and clothes (negative and positive), and also new traits. I would also suggest that the new objects that can be bought in the shopping center should be expensive so it won't be too easy to collect them. When a pet expansion pack comes out, a new store could appear in the mall: a pet store.
General idea:
The expansion pack would focus on a new big venue, at the size of a big park, that would be a large shopping center/mall. It would be located at a -new- world, and at the center of it, just like the big parks in the base game. It would include different kinds of stores such as: a toy store, a book store, a gallery, a grocery store, clothing store, a bakery, etc. The shopping system would be similar to that of Sims 2: Open for Business. The empolyees at the mall would be NPC's. The mall would also include one or two employees that would clean the place, and other exclusive characters only to the mall area. The stores would have exclusive items that cannot be found in buy mode. A clothing store for example, would have special hats, underwear, pajamas, and so on that cannot be found in the closet. A toy store could contain a mix of existing objects and new objects for children. The grocery store would include a dairy section, a vegetable & fruit section, a fish section and so on.
Ideas for special new places:
1. 3 functional restaurants, each has a different theme. One is a dinner (expensive), the other one is fast food like McDonalds (cheap), which would include a happy meal for kids, the third one could be Japanese/Chinese (new possible feature: ordering food by phone from these restaurants). Each restaurant comes with its own style. The player is able to see the kitchen and the chef inside, cooking. All of the workers are NPC's. It would be nice to have a menu to pick the dishes and drinks. There would also be a teenager to pick and wash the dirty dishes.
2. Same concept as restaurants, only a cafe or a bakery. The cafe would serve hot drinks such as tea, hot chocolate, expresso, etc. Also, special pastaries and cakes can be found only at the cafe.
3. Cars make a return: the mall has a parking lot, garages for houses, bikes, etc. Cars can break and sims have to fix them or call a repairman who specializes at fixing cars. There's also a new skill from taking care of cars.
4. The ice-cream parlor: Sims can go to the ice-cream parlor. New object in game: ice-cream machine. New trait: sweet tooth.
5. Cinema: Sims can go to the movies now. The cinema would probably be a venue of its own. Sims would have to buy movie tickets, one ticket per sim for 1 movie and it won't be cheap. There would be a functional snack bar where sims can buy popcorn/drinks (expensive). The player can see the sims inside the cinema watching films. The movie itself would be different than the regular shows on the TV. Example: a short video of sims Titanic for a tragedy movie, a short video of sims James Bond for an action movie.
Additional idea:
Vending machines.
New features:
1. When dating, the second sim will follow the main sim around. The main sim is able to invite the other sim to dinner/ to eat ice-cream/for coffee/ to a movie/ etc.
2. Sims can buy romantic gifts for their dates.
3. The mall/cinema can be edited by the player. For example, if the player prefers to have a music store instead of the special toy store, they can edit the mall as they like. The special mall objects can be used in other community lots.
4. New career option: Players can -rent- space in the mall and make their own store there (and not in their house like in Open for Business) in which they could sell whatever they want. Players would have to pay the rent every Sim day. They could also hire employees.
Summary:
The shopping expansion pack is about the life outside the sims' houses. New clothes and objects are about and for shopping/going out with the whole family/dating. The expansion pack will include 1 new world with a shopping theme/industrial theme, a shopping venue and a cinema venue. All stores and restaurants are functional, no rabbit holes. In addition, there would be new moodlets available for buying new objects and clothes (negative and positive), and also new traits. I would also suggest that the new objects that can be bought in the shopping center should be expensive so it won't be too easy to collect them. When a pet expansion pack comes out, a new store could appear in the mall: a pet store.
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