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What Next in The Sims 4?

MiffoShortMiffoShort Posts: 1,901 Member
edited January 2023 in The Sims 4 Ideas Corner
Other than toddlers and pre-teens what would you want next in The Sims 4? I think for myself I'd love to see The Sims 2 styled cars, for me The Sims 3 ones just weren't very good mainly because they teleported to get inside of the car! If Seasons is the first expansion then I would absolutely love it if they made it so cars could freeze over night, that way in the morning you could defrost the car or if it was so cold that you had to leave the car until the sun came up and melted the ice :) Because I don't want the cars exactly like they were in Sims 2 but I don't like the fact that you teleport to get inside of the car, that always annoyed me!
I only thought of that because my dads car was frozen this morning ;)

What do you want next in The Sims 4?
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    MiffoShortMiffoShort Posts: 1,901 Member
    @SelenaGrey:

    Cool ideas :D
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    DarkslayerDarkslayer Posts: 9,074 Member
    Cyberpunk / Dystopian EP.

    ...it could happen :D
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    MiffoShortMiffoShort Posts: 1,901 Member
    @Darkslayer:

    I really do hope the Dystopian EP happens. Great ideas :D
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    juncedajunceda Posts: 2,614 Member
    I want the capability of chosing life span in a TS3 way
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    I can play at last TS2 TS3 and TS4 So great that toddlers are here!!!
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    Clarkie100Clarkie100 Posts: 1,708 Member
    edited December 2014
    EP's that are packed with new features, clothes, items. Something different too.

    Pets and Seasons are a good choice but both need to be done differently in my opinion.

    Pets where beginning to improve in TS3, they acted more unpredictable with tearing up furniture, sleeping on counter tops and other things. But they always got stuck or failed to complete the action they needed to do, like eat or sleep. They could be improved by having more unique actions like stealing a child sims toy, or cats hissing at some sims.

    A seasons EP needs to be very different, also there needs to be longer or shorter season choices available, in previous ones I always felt each season was too quick. Perhaps even pools being unusable in winter due to being frozen, unless their heated. Sims need to react more to snow by perhaps slipping and falling over, clearing up the snow from their front door. Perhaps any food or drink left outside should be able to freeze solid.

    Plus there does need to be one or two new EP's, ones never before seen in The Sims. But each EP does need to be full of content, like TS1's, they were good value for money in my opinion.
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    catloverplayercatloverplayer Posts: 93,701 Member
    Cars and hottubs.
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    MiffoShortMiffoShort Posts: 1,901 Member
    @catloverplayer:

    Yeah I really want some cars and hottubs too. Nice avatar by the way, very Christmassy... :)
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    MasonGamerMasonGamer Posts: 8,851 Member
    Yeah Cars/motorcycles, Magic again =p
    but maybe pets after seasons those two are pretty essential.
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    dlast1pdlast1p Posts: 1 New Member
    I would like to see swaddling clothes, strollers and changing tables for the kiddos...also they need to bring back VACATIONS!!
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    AnnieX0AnnieX0 Posts: 1 New Member
    edited February 2015
    I think we should have...
    Cars and have Sims can go in and out in the car and if it was a family of more than two see them in the backseat and have them all show.
    Use the train that passes by as a public transport and see them in them and interact with other.
    Maybe woohoo in the bathtub/shower?
    Weather (Snow, Rain, Fog, Hail, and natural disaster like earthquake, tornado, and floods.)
    That's all I can think of for now.
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    abbyshireabbyshire Posts: 601 Member
    edited December 2014
    So many Simmers seem to love TS2's Open for Business EP, so something like that would definitely intrigue me. Also, someone mentioned a Fairytale EP idea that I think would have great potential and it's something we haven't seen yet for The Sims.

    And we really need to have an Island/Beach Vacation EP where our Sims can dive, snorkel, swim in the ocean, and do water sports, etc. (Aside from its bugginess, Island Paradise was probably my fave TS3 EP of all of them.)
    ETA: Darn you, autocorrect!
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    DarkslayerDarkslayer Posts: 9,074 Member
    Just seconding that I'd also love to have a proper holiday expansion pack again.

    To me neither World Adventures or Island Paradise really seemed like "holiday / vacation" expansions to me. World Adventures never really felt like a "Sims" expansion to me in general but was more focused on the adventuring aspect while Island Paradise, though I didn't own it, always struck me as being an extremely unfocused expansion that kind of focused on a business aspect but was really just a bunch of plum thrown together.
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    ElfCharm666ElfCharm666 Posts: 26 New Member
    I would love to see back the Family Trees and I guess the story telling mode.. 'cause I want my neighbors to get married or get kids before they die.. :')
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    joleacojoleaco Posts: 2,250 Member
    edited December 2014
    @MiffoShort said:
    What do you want next in The Sims 4?



    Something.....anything!!!

    My list, not in any particular order:

    Seasons
    Family tree
    Cars
    Releasing the babies from their cradles (I mean seriously, I don't want sound like an annoying whinger but this is so Sims 1 and Sims Freeplay)

    I will stop it there, don't want to seem greedy :)
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    onlyincaonlyinca Posts: 26 New Member
    I want downtown and nightclub
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    OneAdorkableGirlOneAdorkableGirl Posts: 2,379 Member
    edited December 2014
    I really don't know. :( I miss Toddlers way too much. It's been so hard to play.. because it's really affected my play-style since I love playing Legacies. So, I'd REALLY like it if they'd give us toddlers SOON rather than later, because later could mean never. and that really bums me out. But. something I'd love to see in the Sims 4 is an Open For Business type expansion pack. Being able to run a restaurant, or a store, a bakery, a small cafe, being able to create WHATEVER we wanted and be able to run it as a business.. not just have a few choices to choose from. Like The Sims 2 Open For Business were we could customize our own businesses and have a family owned business at our Sims residential lots. Or be able to buy property and build a business on it.

    Run a night club. Hire and fire employees, and I think it would be neat if we could create/or choose a variety of different "Work Outfits" for them to wear. And be able to create our own menus, etc.

    I'd love family trees to come back and be able to customize them. At least be able to add our own pictures to it. I'd also really love a Generations Expansion pack. Add a life-stage after child, before teen; and toddlers.

    Seasons, of course, is always a must have.. for me at least. :P I hope they add festivals again, and even more events and party types and just more activities for our Sims to do during each season.

    Something brand new that we've never had before is always refreshing and fun. But I have no ideas of what we could have. I'd love an Island Paradise expansion pack again and definitely want a vacations expansion pack. I think this one could include an area that had carnival rides, and those little booth games and stuff. It could also have a tropical area, a snow area, and maybe a mountain area (for camping, roasting marsh mellows, etc) and bringing the NPC's back would be cool.

    And I definitely want Magic, Witches, Vampires, Mermaids, Fairies, Werewolves, and even more new Sim LifeState Creatures + (Plant Sims, Plumbots to come back, etc) D; Really need some new gameplay EA. D; I just can't wait for them to finally start talking about the first expansion pack so all speculation and stuff can finally be over.. and we can know what it is that they're working on. I'm sure they haven't started on an expansion pack yet... since Sims 4 has only been out for 3 months? :( But yeah... can't you tell, I'm just really ready for expansion pack content. =P
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    dcads29775dcads29775 Posts: 6 New Member
    edited December 2014
    Bring back the colour and pattern customization we had in sims 3 and also the customizable hair, i.e. highlights, 4 or 5 colours is boring. that's y im not playing it as much. but this could be because after having sims 3 with all the packs and lots to do, come sims 4, its like there is nothing to do. it feels unfinished. don't know if anyone feels that. don't get me wrong i like the game, just think should of come with a bit more in the way of customization and also should have seasons on there as standard. :)
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    luthienrisingluthienrising Posts: 37,638 Member
    I've always enjoyed the things I didn't expect to be brought into the Sims. When Sims 1 came out with a magic expansion, that was unexpected and a lot of fun. It really expanded how I played. Sims 2 Open for Business felt the same way. Sims 3 Into the Future might have felt similarly, but I'd stopped buying EPs at that point because the game wasn't running well for me. I did buy a chicken coop last summer for the game, though, and now I'm rooting for a full-scale farming/rural-life EP for Sims 4! I think that would be a lot of fun. And some people have suggested an expansion that lets those astronauts go somewhere, which would challenge my playstyle in probably a fun way too. So would EPs that turn off technology when they turn back (or forward!) time. And so would something none of us have thought of! I love my old-school generations-of-Barbie-dolls playstyle, but I also love having it nudged about a bit to get me to try new things.
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    MadameLeeMadameLee Posts: 32,792 Member
    a storybook EP-Note: Before I started with ideas I gathered up previously DISNEY DOES NOT OWN FAIRY TALES only: the princess' gowns[​IMG], the names Ariel, Belle, Tiana, and of course talking items or animals like: the Lumire,Mrs.Potts, Gus/Jaq. Or names of Sleeping Beauty's three 'aunts': Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, Cinderella's step-family names, and also dwarves' names (the Grimm version had them nameless), and The Blue Fairy (originally Pinocchio story had her as "Fairy With Turquoise Hair" and Jimmy Cricket (the short-lived cricket in the book was nameless) But other cases like Aurora,Briar Rose, Disney don't own those names, they come from the Perrault and Grimm's Sleeping Beauty stories. Same goes for Cinderella, and Snow White. (I can give you a list of Cinderella movies starting from the silent film era and onwards).


    ow on with the list:
    glass or golden slippers .

    a pumpkin stage coach (for a FT like land)/car (modern day version)

    magic mirror

    Fake death aka, sleep by either apple or SPINNING wheel (or it could go further and the 'potion' could be put on choc late and oranges too..your free to ask how the later two came to be included)
    crown for all ages and genders.

    proper trait (I don't know does for males, if they have a proper trait bow to females?)

    long skirts for woman (when they aren't in ballgowns) and I mean ones that hide the ankles. Not being sexist it just up until like the 50s or so..showing even a little bit of ankle was scandalous.
    How about for special gown option ((coming from either 1)a NPC fairy godmother or 2) whoever "You" choose to be the godmother)) that turns bag into dirty work clothes at midnight-but they would need to fix the clock in the sims so there would be enough time for Cindy to get to the ball and dance with the prince (it could either be an NPC -or someone you choose-I rather it not be a NPC-since as soon as your female sim marries him he wouldn't be a prince unless they can change it that you move into his place instead

    and/or maybe an option so you could choose a) move Prince into your sim's place, b) move into the Prince's castle, or C)random.


    royal family bloodline, a bit like the vampire bloodline, but of course restricted to one or 2 families and not as much spawning, but then sims could have a LTW to marry prince charming; marry a member of the royal family.

    k the fairy god mother thing should be like a profession, and magic is the new skill that it goes with..

    a glass coffin/altar bed



    two different kind of SPINNING wheels-one that is the sleep one mentioned above, and the other one can make straw into simloeans


    two different types of Red Riding Hood cloaks (the difference is if your sim is a werewolf or not) if s/he is a werewolf the 2nd cloak can 'keep the wolf away'.


    A sim life time wish to marry a prince or princess.




    Maybe as an 'evil' profession, a sim can choose to become a "Rumpelstiltskin/Sea Witch" kind of person. If you don't quite understand what I mean it means people who are desperate for anything would go and make deals[​IMG] with the Rumpelstiltskin/Ursala kind of witch.

    Mermaids vs. Sea witch. A sea witch could offer a mermaid different kind of potions for them to be able to spend time on land, if they have no other option too and for different lenghts of period but the mermaid would have to give something up (like her voice-note, that's important in all TLM adoptions not just Disney's) but need to get something in return for the sea witch..

    Also *maybe* if they could get the right from Disney to have Disney related stuff they could have like..a warobe that could take you from the 'modern-day world' to the FTL or there could be a a 'dark curse' for the FTL to take them to the Sims' world. Or a magic hat or magic bean which could take you to Oz, Never, Never land.

    And also you don't have to stick with original story..Like for instance you could have a male Cinderella, or a Male Snow White or Sleeping Beauty. You could have like a female Aladdin.. Or you can have "Handsome and the Beast"
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    abbyshireabbyshire Posts: 601 Member
    ^ I adore this idea!
    ETA: Darn you, autocorrect!
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    MadameLeeMadameLee Posts: 32,792 Member
    abbyshire wrote: »
    ^ I adore this idea!

    thanks some of it I got from others online
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