There is so much that the game is missing, and a lot of it related to the watered-down engine that stemmed from the game's original premise as a multiplayer social game. To get a lot of it, it's time for TS5.
But the addition of better personalities, emergency NPCs, and a trait/emotion overhaul is certainly doable. I would say horses too and a new worlds suitable for them is as well.
Sims 4 needs a complete overhaul for sims personalities. Period. They have none.
They replaced Personalities with Emotions, which was a very bad move. Emotions cannot replace Personalities, Emotions should be part of Personalities.
If they had kept the personality system from either Sims 2 or 3, and added the emotional system on top, it would have been great. But again, replacing it does not work, because emotions are too fickle and too shallow. It works if you try to give quick motivators to say a 100 citizens in a city builder or something ("Look, we built them a stadium, now they stop protesting and instead tweet how much they love their mayor, until we raise taxes to pay for the stadium..."). But not when you zoom in in detail on a single individual or family.
If they didn't have time for both emotions and personalities, they should have skipped emotions and kept the personalities.
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But the addition of better personalities, emergency NPCs, and a trait/emotion overhaul is certainly doable. I would say horses too and a new worlds suitable for them is as well.
They replaced Personalities with Emotions, which was a very bad move. Emotions cannot replace Personalities, Emotions should be part of Personalities.
If they had kept the personality system from either Sims 2 or 3, and added the emotional system on top, it would have been great. But again, replacing it does not work, because emotions are too fickle and too shallow. It works if you try to give quick motivators to say a 100 citizens in a city builder or something ("Look, we built them a stadium, now they stop protesting and instead tweet how much they love their mayor, until we raise taxes to pay for the stadium..."). But not when you zoom in in detail on a single individual or family.
If they didn't have time for both emotions and personalities, they should have skipped emotions and kept the personalities.