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What type of pack would you like next?
I wondered what the interest of players are now that we have already a bunch of packs to vary our stories. What is something you are still waiting for and would make a great deal in your game right now?
Explain why your voted for that pack and what new features/items you would like to see in that EP
* For me, I think free time is a big deal right now, cause we need more things for our sims to do so they stand out in their personalities and don't all look the same. Along with this I would like some new traits and jobs as well. Not just 2 or 3, but more than that. Sims need to become more unique and shine on their own! I find it hard to find proper jobs for them as well as activities to do that last a life time. Hobbies could do this for our sims. It would need to be profitable in many ways, such as getting skills, interactions that will be unlocked with them, new items to buy and a career out of them such as we have with painting, gardening, writing etc. We just need more of those!
Explain why your voted for that pack and what new features/items you would like to see in that EP
* For me, I think free time is a big deal right now, cause we need more things for our sims to do so they stand out in their personalities and don't all look the same. Along with this I would like some new traits and jobs as well. Not just 2 or 3, but more than that. Sims need to become more unique and shine on their own! I find it hard to find proper jobs for them as well as activities to do that last a life time. Hobbies could do this for our sims. It would need to be profitable in many ways, such as getting skills, interactions that will be unlocked with them, new items to buy and a career out of them such as we have with painting, gardening, writing etc. We just need more of those!
What type of pack would you like next? 352 votes
University EP
40%
142 votes
Romance/dating/wedding EP
6%
22 votes
Teen related EP
2%
10 votes
Resort holiday EP
8%
30 votes
Hobby/Free time EP
10%
38 votes
Farm EP
12%
45 votes
Kids related pack (new activities/games, after school programs)
1%
6 votes
Sport EP
1%
Something else. I would like to get...
15%
55 votes
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There are several GPs that I feel are still necessary including completing the sacred triad of Vampire/Witch/Werewolf and a few more vacation destinations (such as tropical, Asian, Egyptian).
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I would really like to have teen parties back, like in TS3. I feel like it's pretty hard right now to have teen only socialization. Usually when I invite other teens to hang out at the club or the cliffs, most of them just end up going home fairly quickly and my sims hardly get a chance to socialize.
Since the TS4 is supposed to be more about emotions, I would like to see more reactions and emotions from other sims when my sims do something specific. Like maybe if my teen invites another teen over to the house and messes around with them while the parents are on the lot, they get in trouble. I don't know... Just something to make teens feel more like teens. Right now my teen can do just about anything a young adult can do and nothing different happens. I want teens to feel like they are being rebellious if they are doing things teens shouldn't be doing. I do like the idea of sneaking out.
Maybe if there we two choices for teen parties. One like TS3 where the parents leave and the teens can throw a party at home and another where it's a sneak out party and the teen chooses a location, sneaks out and parties there with other teens. Juice keggers could automatically appear or at least have an option for placement.
I also like the idea of cliques or maybe even social groups like in TS3 University. Teens based on their actions and traits could fall into social categories like nerd, jock, rebel, or popular. They could then gain points in these groups to be higher or lower on their social groups scale. Like for popular you could start with "In with the in crowd" and end with "Queen Bee" or something. The sims traits could make it easier or harder to be successful in a social group. Maybe if your teen is has outgoing, athletic, romantic, or confident it would be easier to end up in the popular or jock groups. If they have genius, bookworm, or nerd it may be easier to progress through the nerd group. Rebel group could have teens with loner, creative, etc. Like with clubs you could have members of the groups interact with other groups in a particular way. Of course your sims could be able to go against the grain and have a teen sim with nerd traits successfully make it into the popular group for example. They may just have to work harder by performing certain tasks or actions that will help them get into and rise in a group.
Anything to make my teens feel more like teens!
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There were a lot of things I loved about TS3 University, that I would like to see incorporated in a University expansion pack for TS4. This is how I imagine it:
- There is a separate world that is the university world.
- Unlike TS3 University, you can stay there in a dorm, a sorority or fraternity, or rent a house or apartment for as long as you want. You don't go home at the end of every semester.
- It would be nice to have roommates back in case you're renting your own house and need the money.
- After high school your sims takes a test to try to qualify for a scholarship and enroll in University.
- The sim then moves there, but doesn't lose their regular home. Whenever they decide to leave the university world they just go back to their regular home.
- Going to classes would be like Get to Work and more in depth than classes were in TS3. They would be specific to and based around the classes that the sim is taking for their major. So if it their major was science, they may go to a lab and have to work on the basic science equipment they have for the science career or come up with some new equipment. If their major is art, maybe they go to a large art studio where there are lots of easels, a woodworking table, and sculpture making equipment. They have to complete certain tasks throughout the day to do well in class and get a good grade, similar to GTW.
- Your sim can choose how many classes they want to take per week so if some want to hurry up and study a lot and graduate they can, while others may want to draw it out and focus on the college experience.
- I would like to see social groups come back. I really enjoyed trying to help my sim work their way up a social group and unlock the special career related to the social group.
- College parties like in TS3. Juice kegger, bon fire, maybe something new like gamer party where a group gets together to play each other in video games. Parties that will suit the different social groups.
- Part-time jobs so sims that need to supplement their income can do so and still go to school.
- Different areas to travel to like the quad where festival type events (like in city living) can take place but are based on university. Also a promenade with restaurants, bars, movie theater, and a bowling center/arcade.
- When you graduate you unlock new careers that are only available after receiving a university degree.
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Love you ideas! Hope they look into this! I also would love the university pack soon and i get a feeling we will
This might not go into a full EP. Maybe a game pack.
I love the system they had in TS2 University where you had to go to class, complete term papers, skill levels and assignments to earn a GPA. Also, bring back the idea of probation (and repeat the semester) and face expulsion if the Sim didn't meet the minimum GPA. But keep the ability for Sims to be able to return if they want a second chance to complete the major, or if they need more skills to be able to be promoted.
I would love to see YA and Adult Sims be able to attend. And I honestly don't think Elders should be able to go since you don't know how long they will live, but that's my opinion.
As far as the semesters themselves, one improvement I see would be to have days of the week in the semester. I liked the idea TS3 University Life had where every day your Sims could do something different, like a lecture one day and a lab the next day, and class exams on Friday. Then a final exam at the end of the semester. But an entire 4 years in two weeks did not appeal to me in TS3 Uni Life at all. And add back all the majors and classes from TS2 Uni.
I would prefer for Sims to be able to visit the base neighborhood without aging up from YA to Adult.
Dormies could claim the empty rooms so your Sims had others to socialize with. I never played with the social groups from TS3 so I wouldn't miss that. Bring back the cheerleaders and Llama Mascot but eliminate the Evil Cow Mascot.
I can't think of anything else right now but these are my reasons and features I would want in a University pack (EP or GP).
I'd be about on that level for University too but.. I might have reservations on how it's done. I also very much want more Hobbies and Romance options.
Supernaturals (witches), Superstars and a Tropical (beach) vacation are also still big wants for me, Casinos would be nice too.
I won't be as enthused for Teen, Kid or Sports stuff but it adds even more to the game so will be happy to see it come.
Many of the others I would welcome, too...especially the farm ep. That sounds like fun to me.
Normally I would vote Farm without thinking twice for the possiblity of brand new ways of life but I don't know if I want it right after Seasons. I need something other than family play to have a breath.
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I was going to vote for Romance, but just because I only want slowdancing! haha
That's the pack I want -- whether I'll ever get it remains to be seen.
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Careers that you can ONLY enter after completing University and the ability to start any career at a higher level just by graduating with the proper GPA.
Also, for Teens, bring back the scholarships they had in TS2. For those that were based on the hidden Pool and Dancing skills, a notification that the skill level was high enough to qualify would be nice. Back in TS2, I skipped those because I never knew how long to make my teens work for them.
If I think of anything else, it will be added to this post.