July 2011
Stuff Packs are intended to provide simmers with additional buy and build mode objects, clothing, hair, and accessories. They bring new styles and variety for simmers who love to decorate homes and dress up their sims, as well as giving simmers more content to add to their games between Expansion Packs. However, some simmers don't see the value in them and expect them to be something they were never intended to be: Expansion Packs.
I've always enjoyed Stuff Packs because I use a lot of content in my game and I crave variety. I have content from multiple sources: EPs, SPs, Store, and CC. But, I have always felt that Stuff Packs could provide a little more value with some additional features.
I propose that EA bring more value to stuff packs by pumping up their theme with these key features.
-A Signature Object
-New Application Objects
-New Socials and Moodlets, and possibly sim animations and a trait
The Signature Object
A signature object is a new-to-the-game object that strongly supports the Stuff Pack's theme. It has new game play, animations, and effects.
New Application Objects
New application objects do not bring any new game play, animations, or effects, but they are designed in a way that allow simmers to use the object in situations that the Base Game and current EP objects can't, or don't represent as well. They strongly support the pack's theme.
Good examples of new application objects are Outdoor Living Stuff's refrigerator and the Rock Speaker. The game's regular appliances and electronics don't look like they belong outside. These objects look like they make more sense for the theme.

H&M Stuff for TS2 also had good application objects. It contained objects that allowed simmers to put on a fashion show and create a convincing clothing store. I would like to see a lot more new application objects than we are currently getting in Stuff Packs.
New Socials, Traits, Sim Animations, and Moodlets
These will most likely appear when they make good sense for the Stuff Pack. Mansion and Garden Stuff and Fast Lane Stuff has experimented in this area already. I can see one or two. The intent is not to create an expansion pack, but to strengthen the Stuff Packs theme.
A High-End Loft Stuff Example:
If I were to recreate High-End Loft under this concept I would have a compact kitchen as my Signature Object.
Signature Object
This handy dandy item concentrates a trash compactor, dishwasher, oven, sink, microwave oven, and refrigerator in a compact 4x4 foot print. It rotates to present the needed appliance to the sim. It strongly supports the theme.
For my new applications, I would create computer desks for a 1x1 grid space and to use in a room's corner.
New Application Objects
New Social and Moodlet
Sims will get a new social for sims visiting their homes. Keeping with the theme, they can show off objects in their homes that have high price tags, high need benefits, or are the new Signature and new Application Objects from the pack. They get a negative or positive moodlet depending on how their guest reacts.
A Fast Lane Stuff Example:
I would have given Fast Lane a new transportation object as the Signature Object.
This could be humorous spoof of the Segway. It allows a sim to travel quickly on just about any path A sim can run on and it is all-terrain.
Signature Object
I would have 2-passenger motorcycles as my new application objects.
New Application Objects
