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Which existing packs could be expanded?
Eliharb
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If the developers were to revisit an existing pack, which addition would you fully be okay with paying extra for ($10 to $15?)
To clarify: most of the packs we got have some elements which could be expanded.
My first pet was a disaster because it had furniture and outfits noticeably made to be part of Cats & Dogs but left out, and a guinea pig which could have been part of the pack, or saved to be part of a small pets game pack/stuff pack that's a standalone from Cats & Dogs for those that only want birds, snakes, lizards etc.
My question is: would you be willing to accept that some packs require that you own base game+an EP to add more gameplay to that pack? Can the devs revisit a previous theme from those I listed (or something else) that would be a justified extra purchase?
EDIT: By "travel worlds", I meant destination worlds.
To clarify: most of the packs we got have some elements which could be expanded.
My first pet was a disaster because it had furniture and outfits noticeably made to be part of Cats & Dogs but left out, and a guinea pig which could have been part of the pack, or saved to be part of a small pets game pack/stuff pack that's a standalone from Cats & Dogs for those that only want birds, snakes, lizards etc.
My question is: would you be willing to accept that some packs require that you own base game+an EP to add more gameplay to that pack? Can the devs revisit a previous theme from those I listed (or something else) that would be a justified extra purchase?
EDIT: By "travel worlds", I meant destination worlds.
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Which existing packs could be expanded? 131 votes
Adding buildable apartments (City Living)
29%
38 votes
Adding surfing gameplay to beaches
2%
3 votes
Adding underwater gameplay like scuba diving in TS3
8%
11 votes
Adding transportation (planes, boats, train rides) to "travel" packs instead of just teleporting to a travel world magically.
9%
12 votes
Adding small pets (snakes, birds, iguanas etc.) to expand Cats & Dogs
9%
13 votes
Full Music Career (performing in small pubs, recording, to eventually do Concerts). Ties in with the celebrity system.
19%
26 votes
Other
21%
28 votes
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Note C&D already has its own stuff-pack, and was reportedly the lowest-selling of the stuff-packs due to the backlash against having DLC for DLC.
I don't remember celeb adverts for any other stuff packs.
There are no actual sales figures for the packs. We don't know what place it is in or was in. We do know that according to Graham (or was it Grant?) that it did well, not the best, but not the worst.
We're never getting them, but I want birds and reptiles, treated with more care than the rodents and rodent adjacent we had in MFP. So not a random plastic cage unfit for the small pet in there.
It should be it's own pack where sims can make bands, play on stages similarly to showtime, and there could be a band perk system (with GF obviously they should get fame by performing together at venues). I read somewhere that in actuality bands and it's perk system was initially going to be part of Get Together but it was either scrapped or put on hold. But I'd like if sims could form bands again, and there could be activities in GT that relate to bands like "jam together" and things like that.
eta: @Sigzy05 -- if it were fleshed out as fully as the vamp-pack was fleshed out, that could be fun! But a game-pack, rather than a stuff-pack.
That said, it SHOULDN'T be something we need to pay for, but a free update.
Allowing Scientists to invent more gadgets and gizmos and experiments that is not strictly geared towards Aliens, but Vampires, and soon Mystics.
New crimes and mysteries to Solve for Detectives.
and New inflictions for doctors to cure.
Get Famous
Initially What I was hoping for was Singing and Acting to be the Main two careers.
I think had Singing been a well thought out career, I would have purchased Get Famous.
and being a Celebrity, Having to worm your way to achieve that so called "Glamorous Life" and what goes on behind the scenes as well as on camera.
My Mood:
I've got literal threads about what they could do with opened up oceans, and world changes.
Like literally:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17164491#Comment_17164491
However, I would pay for the Music add-on. The rest of that should be free updated content. We've already shelled out hundreds on the games, don't try to milk us for more. Especially not when it's for stuff you had made the decision to take away in the first place, foolish though the idea was.
Like toddlers.
Get To Work: Let us open businesses at home, and own more than just retail stores, like... restaurants. Seriously, why is Dine Out a separate pack? Never understood that. I could easily look past Magnolia Promenade being so tiny and uninteresting if the pack had all those other features like its predecessor TS2: Open for Business did, even though I still wish we had gotten an editable Sixam-themed alien world instead of that glorified Newcrest neighbourhood.
Get Together: For being basically the only new gameplay feature introduced, you'd expect the club system to be a lot more elaborate. More club icons to choose from, more than 8 possible members, and the option to set a time for weekly club meetings would already go a long way.
City Living: As suggested by the poll, building our own apartments would make a huge difference, especially since you can't use anything from this pack other than the CAS and BB items outside of San Myshuno.
Cats & Dogs: Ugh, where do I even start... Let's just say I'd like more things to do with my pets than just styling them in CAS. I personally don't even care anymore that rodents are being sold separately, even having them in the EP wouldn't change the fact that the cats and dogs, the main feature of the pack if you couldn't tell by its name, are boring as hell. And while I don't buy the old "We had to make sacrifices to bring you the vet career" excuse (because the vet career is just a recycled doctor career from GTW), I'll never get over the fact that they sacrificed pet jobs, animal shows and small animals for a million different pet diseases and golden poop. Let that sink in for a minute.
Seasons: My favourite EP and the most complete in my opinion, I only have minor gripes with it like bee-keeping being relationship-based rather than a skill. If I could add one thing to it, it would be a world with a cold climate and snow all year, because we don't have that at the moment, and even if we ever get it in a future pack, it won't be the same without the weather and temperature effects for players who don't own Seasons.
Get Famous: When you hear "celebrity", I bet the people that immediately come to your mind are actors and singers, so there should be a proper singing career as well. It doesn't even have to be as elaborate as acting, I would be fine with a career like the ones from the City Living where you can either send the singer to a rabbit hole or fulfil a few tasks, which in this case means going somewhere public and giving a concert. The option to play in a band, or at least have one sim sing to the music played by another sim, would also be great. Granted, this would require Singing to become a base game skill, but reserving that for City Living was a stupid idea to begin with.
Island Living: Haven't played it yet, but from what I hear, players seem to be disappointed with almost everything about this pack that isn't the visuals. Personally, I wish the volcano was interactive, but then again, I wasn't even expecting a volcano in the first place, so that might be a moot point.
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The restaurant system is part of Dine Out period.
But they could patch the retail system. Fixing it would be the best since celebrity costumers can't be interacted with retail interactions. Beyond that they could, add the business stars from Dine Out to retail, add costumer loyalty, add the shopping bag animation, add escalator stairs, add more objects to display and sell harvestables, add changing room objects for sims to use while trying out clothes, etc.
its really that simple
it should be free updates or features should be included in other pack that does not require the existing packs
in which case it would make sense to pay for them if you want them
options you listed:
(City Living) Adding buildable apartments
this is something that has to be updated if they ever make it a thing it can't be pack feature for other pack
because apartments are big feature of CL and I don't see them in other pack nor would I be paying extra for just that feature
(IL) Adding surfing gameplay to beaches
Adding underwater gameplay like scuba diving
tricky ones because it all depends if Sulani is going to be only world with open water
if so underwater can only be free update because you'd need open water to be going underwater
but if they decide open water is not only IL feature then I can see another pack for underwater and different aesthetics like pirates or something
surfing could be possible to put in other pack than IL because they could add a sort of object you could do surfing on
like in ts2
in this way I can see it as part of other pack and that they would just add option to do it in open water area as well if u have both packs (except that there isn't really any big waves to be speaking about so idk?)
Adding transportation (planes, boats, train rides) to "travel" packs instead of just teleporting to a travel world magically.
added cars and planes and such would make a whole pack it wouldn't be ''part of a pack''
unless what you are talking about is just updated loading screens which in itself is not something to pay for
Adding small pets (snakes, birds, iguanas etc.) to expand Cats & Dogs
its called cats and dogs for a reason
either those are base game update or another pack side feature if added
and I wouldn't put any money on them as stand alone feature
Full Music Career (performing in small pubs, recording, to eventually do Concerts). Ties in with the celebrity system
this is also material for other pack that has nothing to do with get famous as a whole
i can see gp or ep centering around bands or performances in general such as concerts, show magic and such
if you didn't have get famous you'd just do those things without ''getting famous''
overall its a free update or feature in other pack that should not in any way require one of these packs to work
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I think all of them need some things added there is no perfect expansion up to date not since ts2
its just I don't think its fair to charge players more to update things
and some of those clearly can be part of any pack not just the packs that already exist
and some deserve their own packs or even have more suitable pack to be included in
also feel the overall putting things to base game after we bought expansion for it
needs to be compensated by adding things to expansions to make up for those things
that were taken to base game
for example since photography is now not only GTW feature
they should add something to GTW to fill that hole
would prefer it to be extra career or skill.
get together fire dance was put in IL
you should add something to get together since that is a double buy of exact same feature
also the clothes that were taken out of some of the packs should be compensated with new clothes
meaning if you take jacket from get famous you put new jacket in get famous
(or well it doesn't have to be jacket but something that is not smaller add than the previous object was)
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