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Which Sims 4 pack would you like to see a refresh for?
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I really enjoyed the Spa Day refresh, and I think that more pack refreshes would be amazing. Especially Outdoor Retreat (allowing swimming in the lakes and rivers as in Sulani) and Dine Out (bug fixes, quicker dining time, and allowing your sim that owns the restaurant to actually cook there and hire their friends and family). I'd love to see what ideas other people have! Have a lovely day!
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I really want to do a bakery and have my sim live upstairs. I can do it with mods, but I'm past the point of mod overload to fix all these things. And with each update I'm struggling more and more to keep on top of everything, as I've been finding out recently. A live-in bakery, art gallery, or dress shop would be a dream come true.
Hybrids or potions for other Sims would be awesome.
Other packs that would benefit from an update are outdoor retreat and get to work. These early packs could do with some upgrades. I would like more activities in granite falls and to be able to have residential lots there. For get to work it would be great to have updated aliens and the option to have other types of businesses besides retail.
Dine out needs some attention too, but that would fall under fixing not updating
Would love an alien monster too. Something like the kraken π
Seriously, there's so much they can improve, that I don't even know where to start.
But there is one thing that always bothered me and that's child, toddler and baby occults. Seriously, it's totally stupid that they are, basically, normal kids without special needs and powers. This is especially the case with Mermaids. Why they can't have Mermaid form and the same needs as adults? Why, SimGurus? Just... why? Explain it to me. It would be really cool if Mermaid babies had aquarium instead of crib, because they can't yet survive on surface (possibly do this with baby overhaul, which I still hope will come, eventually). That would make more sense to me than what we actually have in the game. And Mermaid toddlers needed swim in the ocean occasionally, for their health. And, for goodness sake, let us create child and toddler Mermaids in CAS, like we can do with any other occults. There's just so much they can do not only with Mermaid kids, but with all occult kids. But with Maxis' history, right now, I am really worried how dull Werewolf kids will be :-(
Plus there should be more businesses we can run, and the ability to run one from our home...
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Dine Out functions very poor. It shouldn't take HOURS for food to be served.
Outdoor Retreat is just boring, there is literally nothing fun to do in Granite Falls.
Refresh = Add new or expand existing content within a game pack, including gameplay and cross pack oversights.
Refresh =/= Fixing bugs within a game pack, returning nerfed gameplay elements to their former glory.
Also I'm only going to talk about Game Packs for this post, or I'll be here all night.
So, with that in mind, while I wouldn't mind a Dine out Refresh where they allow more choice on hires and allow family to work the restaurant, that's about all I see Dine out needing *in terms of a Refresh as I've defined above*
As for most wanted, I'd like to see Outdoor Retreat get some hiking trails like in Mt. Komorebi, rather than a generic "hike around" interaction. If possible, swimmable water (which may not be an option) and in general more options with herbalisim - cross pack stuff with Realm of Magic, the ability to put bug spawners in non Outdoor Retreat locations (so we don't have to keep going back) and generally just... more.
Then Realm of Magic, which needs a lot trait so that spellcasters can use magic autonomously, toddler Spellcasters have a chance of breaking things when they throw a tantrum (like ghosts or the Harvestfest Gnomes), kids have a "practice magic" interaction if not a full on set of kid spells (not "complete homework" - cheating like that on studying seems to go against the nature of learning spells) Also a ton of cross pack expansions to Alchemy - so new potions that require ingredients from other packs. New spells too. And spells having more effect on more things. (Looking mostly at Scruberoo and toddlers/pets.)
Next would be a quick expansion to Vampires to allow vampire kids and toddlers to eat plasma fruit without getting sick. And maybe a few more plasma fruit recipes. Otherwise I'm fine with Vampires as it stands *within the context of a refresh*
And finally Parenthood. Assuming they're not planning to give us a school or Generations-type pack with more after-school activities, then a refresh adding them to Parenthood would be the most logical alternative.
I mean, the others could probably use some refreshes too, mostly in terms of cross pack additions and adding more options for gameplay elements introduced after the pack (I want to cast Zip Zap and Inferniate on the Mother, dang it.)
my biggest issue with or is even if you have a cabin which faclities like toilets are free sims often pay the 10 simolens for the the other bathroom. i rare let my sims vacation becaause of that.
Other than that Discover University, but that's not a game pack but there is soo soo much you could do with a refresh there to make the experience more fun and less repetative.
but I think if they could do EP
Get to Work is top of the list for me
Aliens,retail,lots,detectives,criminals, doctors, scientists...
none of it really feels like the level of detail you would want from it
all of it could do with some improvements
Some of which I will list here for interested:
would play out like regular abduction just that your played alien could be the pollinator
+Alien Abductions made into lot challenge
so people who want them can have them and people who don't can stop asking to nerf it
+Better Alien CAS
like being able to sync forms like with vampires and maybe some more alien face detail or whatnot
(also fixing the alien face melt pls)
+ Additional alien powers
I'm sure there is more they could do like what was that destruction they pulled in ts3 bring it back
+ don't think we have much alien build stuff either
but yeah idk I haven't even finished alien part of the suggestions yet and stuff is kinda secondary but it be nice
and just more of them really
+ having to buy games for computers from one of those display things
maybe there needs to be lot challenge for it or something idk
like id say same for clothes and other things you had to buy in older games
cause I just don't see reason to buy them now as my sims can just snap their fingers
but i do think it would get annoying if you had to always buy things too...
sooo similar lot challenge to simple living but for few other items?
+grocery displays you could buy groceries from
I yearn for the grocery aisles like not just stand let me make a shop
+living on same lot with the business made possible
i mean it kind of is but it annoys me always having to have the extra lot and juggle things
+working at store not owning it
sometimes i just want my sims to work at store without owning one
it just bothers me doodles in goth house is the worst of it
+sims on criminal career possibly getting taken to police station and being held for a while in jail
+being able to have police station anywhere
its just annoying when your sulani sims have to go all the way to another world for work when you could have it next door
+being able to visit police station anytime with sims that are not detectives
i mean what I'm supposed to do about the rest of the family huh can't we have bring your kids to work day
and also can't sims just go to police station to annoy the officers hmn?
+burglars (as lot challenge)
+catching burglars and taking them to jail
+being burglar
+did i mention burglar
+ oh! assigning your own npc burglar
+ being able to use police station items outside of police stations
like maybe your sim would like to be private detective maybe they would like to bring their work home idk
+ being able to visit hospital with any sim anytime not just doctors
+ being able to get your sickness treated at hospital
+ having home clinic so sims come to your house to get treated
+ using the hospital items at home/other lots
+ having hospital anywhere not just that one lot
+ drinking coffee is not a work task
+ using lab items at home
+ visiting lab not being scientist
+ working at secret lab (strangerville)
+ any other strangerville + get to work pack integration
can you tell what career I play most
also would love to have
+more active careers (maybe maid, repairman etc could be)
+npc manager (base game) so I could make sure sims are in right roles and choose my own sims for the roles
+ toggle to disable random townies from spawning cause they spawn like crazy with things like retail
so as more simple option my GP choice would be Outdoor Retreat
there isn't a lot wrong with Outdoor Retreat
there just really isn't a lot to do with it in general
and I feel like if they went with the whole log cabin thing
this isn't really giving me the log cabin dream either
What I would do to upgrade the vibes:
(the world ofcourse could still be used as vacation the way any other world in the game but the restriction to only vacation annoys me)
+ make the lake useable
(really what you go to lakeside for if you don't even use the lake)
+ add lake activities such as making raft, pedalling boats,rolling logs...
idk just something that more than one sim can do at lake if possible
+ add hammocks, telescopes, birdwatching binoculars, backyard games, board games. trampolines, hunting/ archery,treehouses...
yeah idk something more to do those are just what my brain thought of at the moment
+ real and very dangerous bear instead of only a costume
and maybe lot challenge that would summon it so people can also pretend its not a thing and it doesn't get nerfed in a second
+ add more exteriors,sidings, doors, windows etc.
so we could make more convincing log cabins AND camping cars/trailers maybe our own treehouses? hmn?
+add more things to make with woodworking bench
(every item in the house should be possible to make through woodworking like kitchen islands and cabinets and all
and I would love to have more detailed carved furniture and idk something that just shows more skill really and maybe like different wood color options)
+ as unwholesome as it is i would like to have animal heads and rugs for my less wholesome sims to use as decor
and i would love for bear phase kids to sob at them and my unwholesome sims to use the rug as romancing spot like ts1
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And maybe also in update of city living that we can choose a career as janitor of our own building and collect with one household as owner of the apartmentsbuilding and collect rent
Also an update of dine out i would like to see, please let us cook for the customers! what do i have with a 10 cooking skill if i cant cook in my own restaurant. :confused:
Remember how in the Sims 1 Makin Magic children had their own spells and actually got to be unique, we had some pretty interesting things like sending a clone that'd go to work/school then combust into flames and die when its job was done, gnomes would attack you and garden and we got to turn our lawn flamingos into half-naked pink people to talk to when lonely.
Also spells like turning your pets into people or creating charms to give yourself fame? Those spells were seriously fun and took other expansions content and expanded on those because of it. Plus trying to outrun the Magic Checker when he's trying to fine you for negligent use was even more fun, especially when you did escape.
...That and we'd hopefully see Magic Realm turned into something bigger, I'd love to see something to the depths of Makin Magic was with the amusement parks, the livable houses and actual content for children.
Otherwise I'd like to see Get to Work overhauled, it really shows its the first expansion pack, the careers are alright, but there's only 3. They're in some random disconnected town with no name... And the aliens... Eugh they feel like they're lacking in everything but swarming your world once one exists.
Other than that there is so much more that they can do with Outdoor Retreat, I find I either don't really send my Sims there and if I do then I customize it a lot during their stay so that there's stuff for them actually to do.
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I'd also really like a Jungle Adventure refresh to add more temple layouts and maybe another secret gate and new magic artifacts. Some reptilian life (and dangers) would be fun as well.
And how about this; Strangerville: Mother's Revenge. π
I still love Vampires as is, but it would be amazing if we could get some updates for the kids and toddlers to actually have some creepy Vampire qualities including CAS features. And make Vampires inflict fear on Sims when they witness them feed without permission. That should send Sims screaming and peeing themselves. I want to see that Scared emotion in use!
For EPs I agree about Get To Work. Aliens could be expanded to be more awesome, have more styles, powers and gadjets. Also some more Space/sci-fi build/buy. The refresh could also make doctors more useful to sick Sims; make house calls and be able to cure them or give medicine and check the health of pregnant Sims. It would be cool if some of that science stuff could be used outside of the lab too, and if police officers busted kleptomaniacs.
The other EP I'd refresh is Discover University to make it more compatible for rotational players by freezing their progress if you decide to switch households and play different Sims. So when you return to play the students, you pick up where you left off. I'd also like a little more crazy party college life added in and see more of that going on around campus, and update and add classes to fit with all the packs we have. Maybe add more Occultish topics so we could make a magic school or monster university as an option.
What you're describing for the RoM refresh feels closer to what I was expecting when it released. That's why I haven't gotten into it the way I wanted to before I bought it. In my mind when I think of spellcasters I picture someone who is very in tune with nature and knows how to use what nature gives them to work their magic. There is an element of that in there now, but I can't quite explain why it feels different then what I expected it to be. It's like they had the right idea in mind but just missed it a little. I've never been able to put my finger on exactly why it is that I didn't go bonkers with spellcasters. I still want to love that pack even after all this time.
I'm with you on Jungle Adventure too. You can't do a trek to the temple to many times before it gets old because it never changes. I have to find different adventures to send my archeologist sim on to space out the trips to Selvadorada so I don't become burnt out on it. Making Selvadorada a residential world would be nice as well. It's such a beautiful world it would be fun to call it home.
I think Get Famous needs a refresh too. Tame down the paparazzi, they are a menace to everybody, not just the celebs. And more active careers in addition to acting. Singers and bands would be awesome and could be the main focus of the refresh.
Really every single pack needs refreshed in all honesty. Get To Work, Outdoor Retreat, and Dine Out need the most work and have for the longest time. They should be first up, but I would love to see those three I posted get a good refresh too. They aren't unplayable as is, they just haven't had their full potential unlocked.
Dine Out because it's extremely broken and your sims can't cook nor bring food to customers. You can't make a family restaurant.
Cats and Dogs because we deserve to have more toys for pets, more pet beds. Sims can't walk multiple dogs at the same time, short walk takes forever, children can't walk a dog.
I'd like my sims to be able to visit the hospital for general health care.
Some illnesses should be more severe and could potentially result in death if you ignore them.
I hardly bother buying medicine for my sims anymore. The symptoms will go away shortly.
They should revamp the retail system. I really wish the NPCs managing the store would restock items.
I hate having to go to the owner of the store and make them restock so my other sims can buy stuff.
I rarely play sims who own businesses. I create stores so my other sims can buy stuff they don't have the skills or time to make for themselves.
Aliens need an overhaul, so they can be as interesting as Vampires and Spellcasters.