LAST UPDATE: August 15, 2015
So here's my question to you all: what changes CAN be made to make TS4 a game you would like to play?
(Try to keep your answers restricted to what you think is necessary for a "base game")
Unfortunately I cannot add your suggestion to the list if it is not technically possible, or not in the spirit of the game (i.e. drugs, suicide, or teen pregnancy)
Let's make a concise list that the Devs can use as a guide for direction in the future.
LIST OF SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS
CAS- Body hair category
- Way to hide undesired CAS assets
- Way to disable CAS assets for random townie generating
- Random Trait generator
- More trait slots
- Turn ons/offs
- Favorites and Astrological signs
- Way to set relationship as Boy/Girlfirend or fiancee
- Piercings
- Scroll bar for traits
- More variety of natural hair colors
- All Hair colors available for children
- More ethnic hairstyles
- Eyelashes and length slider
- Personality point system (TS2 style)
- Interests
- Opacity sliders for makeup
- Option to assign initial skill levels for sims
- Scroll Bar (or a Wider Display) for swatches. (They tend to get cut off if the asset is the last on the list)
- Way to select poses for gallery icons instead of having poses randomly assigned
- Piercings
BUILD/BUY- Basements [GTW Patch]
- Hip-roofs with overhangs
- Smaller Telescopes
- Auto-roofs
- Round and Octagonal Roofs
- Vehicles (with animations)
- More color option (especially ones that match)
- Way to change colors of different parts of an object separately (i.e. bed frames and sheets)
- Dishwashers, trash compactors, landline phones
- Slides and diving boards for pools
- Hot Tubs [Patio Stuff]
- Terrain elevation tools
- Increased floor limit [GTW Patch]
- Split-levels
- Way to upgrade beds/chairs/showers to the same stats
- Chests for storage of collectibles (fossils, slides, crystals, flowers...)
- Tilt control, for TS4 camera
- Less picky lot requirements
- Greater attraction of NPC sims to 'generic' lots
- Cooktops, Built-In-Microwave Ranges, Wall Ovens
- Way to rotate entire lots (some lots get placed backwards) [GTW Patch]
- Spiral Stairs, stairs with adjustable landings
- Collections
WORLD MAP- Option to display map in color instead of white as it is now.
- Town Editor (especially way to add lots)
- Lots bigger than 50x50
- Larger neighborhoods (more than 5 lots)
- No Population Cap and more control of Population size
- Way to split funds when merging/splitting households
- Way to manage townie jobs
- Way to manage townie generation amounts by lifestage
- More venue types (grocery stores, movie theaters, restaurants, clothing stores, hospital, cemetery, arcade, coffee shops, town hall)
- Things that make going to the library/Gym better than simply building one on home lot [CoffeeKatt: pg.4]
- Option to control culling of townies when limit is reached
- Option to pause townie generation
- Option to rename the worlds/workplaces/schools
- Show service NPCs explicitly or have a way to sort for them in the household management
- Option to disable supernatural species
LIVE MODE- Family Tree (and increased recognition of relationships: in-laws, first and second cousins) [Genealogy Patch]
- Way to lock doors (room assignment)
- Way to assign beds
- Way to paint custom pictures (TS2 style)
- Way to paint posed portraits, and still lifes [GTW Patch]
- Memories (more automatic)
- Alert for multiple births (for better naming)
- Urns/Graves and ghosts for sims that die off-lot
- Service Sims (firefighters/police/burglar/newsie/nanny)
- Reactions to events (cheating/death/divorce)
- Better tuning for time-consuming multitasking (like eating and talking)
- Medical career [GTW]
- Military career
- Political career
- Allow babies to be removed from bassinets
- Option to change last name after marriage
- Option to change babies' clothes
- More interactions with babies (like bathing them)
- NPC's generated for bartenders, maids, and mailmen. (explicitly shown in townie listing for editing)
- Game consoles
- Nervous=>Scared=>Frightened emotion
- Compound emotions (angry & focused, angry & playful)
- Sub-skills (categorizing skills so the starting level for a sim with some skill is higher)
- Handiness: Woodworking, mechanical, electrical, and more...
- Logic: Programming and more...
- Visual arts: Painting, sculpting, photography, and more...
- Performing arts: The instruments, Stand-up comedy, acting, and more...
- Culinary arts: Gourmet and mixology. Basic cooking is covered as this umbrella skill.
- Carpools & buses
- Way to reorder actions that have already been queued
- Action blocks/bundles for consistently scheduled interactions [LPent: pg.3]
- Way to sort/filter and sell multiple inventory items at once
- Way to influence other sims (TS2 style)
- Way to add tattoos outside of CAS
- Illness (TS2 style)
- Ability to see Emotional Auras
- Closed Social Groups (for dates)
- Option to homeschool children
- Clothing racks that function the way dressers do
GALLERY- Option to enable the display of CC in "my library" by default.
OTHER- Fully adjustable lifespans
- Toddler lifestage
- Pre-teen lifestage
- Story Progression
- Remove load screens between lots (if possible)
- Increase 20 sim load limit
- Create-a-world (if possible)
- Recolor tool (even if external program)
- Less linear, more sandbox
- More mature sense of humor (no more poop jokes)
- Control of non-user initiated romantic relationships (too much cheating occuring)
- More Slots for Save Files
- Option to disable Auto-Save
Comments
FIXES:
1) Pregnant sims not aging until birth
2) Townies taking items from public lots (e.g. a lady sim started playing the Violin. Shortly after, I noticed the violin was missing. When I go back to the lounge, the violin still hasn't returned)
3) Sims reading skill books not increasing skill (only reading like enjoyment with the green circle)
4) All twin births since patch (I know they're working on this)
5) Alert for multiple births for better naming
6) Elderly spouse did leaving a widow. Widow still has option to make ghost husband "Ask to be boyfriend"?
7) Since patch, one of my sims Career goals are frozen (causing him not to get promoted). (i.e. he needs to get guitar and comedy to level 2, but both of them are over that, and it still does not detect this)
DESIRES:
1) Please put in door-locking (so difficult for Romance sim to do their thing without it)
2) Smaller telescope/microscope (no room on lot to put this)
3) Townies living in home dying, please have urn available in visible place, or automatically move out as Unplayed household (Can't locate urn, can't get rid of unwanted ghost)
4) Random trait generator
5) Sims that move out can take items/furniture/household money with them (So much excess money in "parent" lot, but kids who move out are dirt poor. All the poor lots are already filled)
6) Auto-roof
7) Ability to paint custom pictures (like Sims 2)
8) Give adult ability to "Help with homework", especially if it's an aspiration goal and the child/grandchild is not in the same household
9) Still too many elders spawning a townies. Need more children/teens/young adults walking around neighbourhood (I know there is a mod for this, already have it, but it would be nice for Devs to include it)
10) Revert Never Weary trait
11) Children's skills negated when they become teens... why?
12) Children/Teen's homework still in inventory after they grow up.
13) Children/Teen leave homework all over the house.
14) Would like family trees and memories back!!!
15) Toddlers
But most of all, I wish they'd recover their "vision" and look back at what made The Sims a Sims game.
I added most of your list, I'm trying to make the list easy to read so I'm afraid I didn't include requests for bug fixes (although I hope they do get fixed!)
Could you clarify what you mean by "better map overview"?
No I want that voracious disease away from my game...
Better map layout* I really hate how uncreative it looks, it's white and plain. I just wish it'd look differently, something like Sims 2 I guess.
Add a way to set relationships in cas to boy/girlfriend and finacie
Add piercings
Bring back story progression and familie ties.
Bring back open restaurants,cars and hot tubs.
Bring back cuddling,spooning and making out in bed.
Bring back the slow dance and update the regular dance so sims can face each other.
Add a way to place lots and bigger worlds
Bring back the sofa cuddle from TS3 so they stay cuddled.
(also.. guys this is a thread for how to fix this game, as it is now, not adding things into to "fix it"..let's fix our base game before we go and start adding big things. js. Or at least contribute to the conversation about how to fix the base game and then add things in that you'd like to see added to the game..)
**I have two lists. One is my list of things they could do to fix the base game. My second list is what they could add to the game that would be nice to have but not necessary.
Fixes: (in no particular order)
Wants: (in no particular order)
That's about it..
Add an online dating feature and bring back the 🐸🐸🐸🐸 matchmaker for blind dates.
Finally someone who agrees with me that we should fix the game before adding even more stuff.!
I am quite impressed actually.
This is a well thought out, balanced and would be a wonderful addition to the game. Very excellent suggestions.
This topic is not about adding things, so much as it is about making the base game more playable for more players. I understand bug fixes are important too, but I wanted to make a list of all the features we want to make TS4 a good base game.
Exactly. That's what I also mentioned in my list comment. (although I did include bug fixes because fixing the bugs is included in the topic of making this game more playable..)
I don't think an open hood is possible but they probably could cut the loading screens when you visit your neighbor.
Hey CLP, I will try and remember to do that, and if not I hope you or one of the other members of the community could.