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SIMS 5 BRAINSTORM MEGATHREAD
simmerorigin
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(Note: It hasn't been confirmed that Sims 5 will be announced or when it will come out if it is announced - this is all purely speculation for now)
I wanted to create a dedicated Sims 5 thread for providing suggestions and brainstorming for the next generation Sims game. Feel free to provide them in this thread.
For further discussion on specific topics see:
What would make or break the game for you: Sims 5 dealmakers vs dealbreakers
Rotational gameplay: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST support rotational gameplay
Smart AI: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have smart AI
Open vs. closed world: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have this pseudo-open world concept
Personality system: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have this personality system
Online and multiplayer: How do you want a Sims 5 online multiplayer mode to work
Occults and life states: What mythological creatures should be in the Sims 5
Art style: TS5 realistic or cartoony graphic style
I wanted to create a dedicated Sims 5 thread for providing suggestions and brainstorming for the next generation Sims game. Feel free to provide them in this thread.
For further discussion on specific topics see:
What would make or break the game for you: Sims 5 dealmakers vs dealbreakers
Rotational gameplay: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST support rotational gameplay
Smart AI: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have smart AI
Open vs. closed world: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have this pseudo-open world concept
Personality system: I beg you EA, Sims 5 MUST have this personality system
Online and multiplayer: How do you want a Sims 5 online multiplayer mode to work
Occults and life states: What mythological creatures should be in the Sims 5
Art style: TS5 realistic or cartoony graphic style
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Yes, I strongly agree diverse representation options should be available in the base game. Much more than what we had with TS4.
@Randie_Reigns You have some great ideas
This would be great!
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
TS4 has a good UI and well, easy rotational play. CAS is not a nightmare. ]
I think that after ten years, a LOT needs to be changed. However, I feel the core of the game should heavily use TS2 for reference.
I'm sort of on the fence with character models. I have noticed the software for creating 3D characters is getting so good, they can turn out almost photorealistic results.
I am curious about possibly implementing something like this in the game for a new CAS feature.
https://www.reallusion.com/character-creator/headshot/
So, just like Spore creations (in that, individual creatures are saved to Sporepedia, and you can preview them which takes them to a 3D view where you can spin around and see their abilities, I wasted lots of time just browsing Sporepedia and looking at all of the creations. Sporepedia also lets you comment on other people's creations)? I first played off Spore, so the whole household way of organizing Sims was a bit convoluted for me.
Plus, Spore saves individual creations as png thumbnails of your creation with embedded metadata. It's amazing for sharing, because you can drag the png into the game and the game will load and save your creation.
They should have a few devs spend several hours playing all 3 games. Each game has had the things they excel in and the things that they need some serious work in. Even Sims 2 has areas where the other games did it better.
All should give at least a couple hours to each game.
And by game I mean fully loaded, all EP's and SP's.
While a few hours to even several hours would not be enough to be fully informed on every detail of the game, it will give developers a base level idea of what people mean when they say they want X from Game Y.
Idk about the sims 5 team but a lot of the ones on sims 4 have played sims 2 or even worked on it
The number of patches and spaghetti code in TS4 is so frustrating.
I would not buy TS5 if it follows this path. Also fixes should not include items. I never wanted half the stuff we got given yet to get the patch to continue playing meant you had to.
I’m not an engineer so I don’t know if it’s possible that new packs complement the existing codes and are just allowing new interactions.
The main thing that would be a big deal maker. 😊
Clearer pack categories.
To me, Expansions should be world changing packs. Brand new world, an activity, big build and CAS items fitting what the expansion is about. I.e. Seasons or Pets would be Expansions as it causes world changes.
I would like game packs changed to Theme packs. It’s a middle pack. Nifty Knitting for example would be a theme. Changing the name to theme might help people decide if it’s something they want to add or leave out. 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Stuff packs used to only add mainly build items and/or CAS. Sometimes houses to place on lots or new community lots.
No kits!!! 😫
Online only
Closed world
I don't disagree with you. Each game has something that it really excelled in. But my point was that, arguably, Sims 2 really did the heavy lifting when it came to providing the foundation of lore for the entire franchise. But yes, there are reasons for all of the devs to revisit Sims 1-3.
I am really excited for Unreal Engine 5 (allegedly). This is a big deal. If true, at least the base game's foundation will be extremely strong as it's relying on the back of one of the best engines. But of course, EA can still mess up the game with poor game design or creative decisions.
Just letting you know this was moved. When/if The Sims 5 is officially announced we'll allow posts like these on the Sims Franchise board, until that point I'll continue moving them to the Off Topic section of the forum.
Biggest thing I hoping for is a massive step up in graphics and facial features. Sims 4 sims look a bit cartoonish. I'd love for a more realistic models. And please, no block of clay looking hair.
Diverse worlds would be great as well. Real cities with actual skyscrapers, large buildings and lots of cars. Which would be graphics intensive, but would be more immersive. Rural areas would be more sparse with lots of farmland. And we could have areas in between and open up world building to the community.
In this recent announcement, Catharina Lavers Mallet talks about "continuing to create entertaining and unexpected content for The Sims 4 for years to come while also building the future of The Sims franchise" i.e. drawing a distinction between The Sims 4 and building the future games of The Sims Franchise that is not the Sims 4. Does this mean we can now brainstorm about the future games of The Sims Franchise in the Sims Franchise board? @EA_Cade
Not yet. I'll allow this type of thread in Sims Franchise Discussion once a product is officially announced by Maxis.
Give me pixie wings (among other wing varieties), silk, textile creation of the silk, fashion designing, and fashion creation: sewing, embroidering, knitting, crocheting. Give of cotton farming, too. And, wool ranching from various wools (sheep, cashmere goat, angora rabbit, merino goat, yak, vicuna, llama, etc). It'd also be great to include banana silk, and lotus silk farming.
It's kind of important for me to have this. I'm not myself without it.
Make sure there's lots of fae fashions in the craftable clothes, too, among for other occults given to us, more than fairy(butterfly)-specific, include sprite(bee), pixie(dragonfly), nettle(hornet), lady/lord(ladybug), mayfly(mayfly), mothy(moths in general), silky (silkworm moths), etc. Silky, mothy, fairy, and spider mixes should all have innate silk production.
Include spies(spiders), too, please, because they'll be at home crafting clothes for the community, too.
Give us shoe-making, too, please.
And, let us run fashion boutiques, and sell online, too. Online sells should be available to sims in all our playable worlds, not just the one we live in.
~General Farming Pack~
Also, give us full-scale farming (even if a small farm for our local world), not just gardening. And, let us stock the grocery store, and sell excesses to other worlds if we have an abundance of farming in a world.
Also, make sure we can go to the grocery store, work in the grocery store (full time, too, not just part-timers), grocery shop for 2-7 days worth, and use a grocery delivery service. The delivery service will be helpful for when a disabled & elderly sim expansion pack is put in.
~Disabled & Elderly~
Yeah, also a disabled & elderly expansion pack, please. Have it give disabled, and elderly housing. Group homes for disabled, and elderly, too. And, assisted living. And, elderly communities. And, disabled & elderly health insurance. Also, disability, and elderly benefits. At least include all the most common disabilities, please, if there's too many variations out there to include everything.
~A Medical, Psychiatric, & Dental Pack~
Please? With various insurance options, making sure some are affordable or even free to poor sims?
This could give us a lot of injury, and illness possibilities, and can be designed to go with the disabled & elderly pack, please?
Make sure various medical, psychiatric, and dental careers are added with the pack, please!
~A Garden, Yard, & Florist Pack~
It should include all basics of this area.
It should include both the local flower arranging standards, and Japanese flower arranging for a flare of other countries.
It should also give hot springs creation, pond creation, pool creation, and hot tub creation. Not just cookie-cutter hot tubs, and hot springs, please.
~A Politics Pack~
One of the changes possible to make in politics should be votable tax-paid health insurance for either just those too poor to afford insurance, or even for everyone. They could vote if they just want it for the poor, if they just want it for kids, or if they want full equality in tax-paid insurance for everyone.
Give the city hall an option to check on basic information, like what needs to be farmed, or if lots of people have no insurance, or if lots of people have no job, etc.
Put lots of other cool ways politicians and voters can change the world, such as making it green, and whether caring about litter, etc.
This should also include possibility of creating, running, and joining Home Owners' Associations, as a sub-government locally that helps keep your neighborhood healthy if you have one.
~A K-12 School Pack~
It should give school politics, such as improving schools.
It should give donating to schools when they seek handouts to help them if they don't have enough tax funds, or enough private school funds.
It should give a lot of alternative schools, such as a rich kid one, a military school, a school for kids who drop out or get expelled from public school, etc.
It should give boarding schools.
It should give us X-gene mutants like in the X-Men, and include the Xavier School as one of the boarding schools.
It should include earning scholarships for college & university for their future, and scholarship earning to go to nicer schools than one's parents can afford.
It should include school sports games, dance recitals, band concerts, orchestra concerts, choir concerts, plays, musicals, and dances.
~As usual, a college & university pack~
Make sure there's not only expensive universities; but, cheap, local colleges, too.
Like the K-12 pack, include all the different events they should have.
Give them daycares, please!
~A Club Pack, Again~
Make sure it's not only for adults, but that kids can have school clubs, and sub-culture cliques.
But, remember to encourage inclusiveness next time. Such as that a club can have way more members than just 8, and that it can be joined if taken to the internet by sims in other worlds.
~A Wateringhole Stuff Pack~
It should add more stuff for pools, hot tubs, hot springs, water gardens, koi ponds, and goldfish ponds than the expansion that gives creating themdoes.
Have it give us lots of poorer full-time, and part-time jobs.
Have it give poor people benefits, such as food stamps, and poor people housing.
Have it give the possibility of living homeless if you fail to afford or keep a home, and of their being homeless NPCs around.
Don't forget homeless shelters, donation centers, and donation drives!
For more than just wool. Cows. Horses. Goats. Chickens. Pigs. Fish. (Why do they call it fish farming in the industry, when it's factually ranching? Fish aren't plants, their animals.) Etc.
~An Orchardist Pack~
Giving lots of accurate trees for fruits and flowers.
But, have the mass-produced, basic clothes and shoes be stuck in only a small number of looks options.