I was thinking the other day about how often I see certain features for the game get requested on the forum and when I think about those features they just don't sound fun to me at all. One example of that for me is cars.
Are there any popular ideas or requests for the game that you see often in the forums, that you yourself don't care for?
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Occults, however, I need!
My Families Via PlumTree App
Tropical islands
Mermaids
Tweens/preteens
"preschoolers" (that's what toddlers are...)
Laundry
Dorms
Cheerleaders
Fairies
- Cars - I'm happy enough with the toy cars I can just enlarge to make them look like actual cars. I would find this addition pointless (unless we get more options with them besides travel)
- Shorter Teens - even though they have the same height as adults, they are clearly distinguishable from young adults, especially the random generated ones
- Farming - not my cup of tea to be honest
- Horses - never cared about them in TS3, but I would like small pets being added back, something like birds or reptiles
- Improved Babies - babies in TS3 had many different interactions available, they also weren't tied to the bassinet, yet I still thought they were boring. To be fair, I don't really care about babies in real life either.
These are just those I can think of right now I couldn't care less about, yet they seem to be really popular requests.I like to build stuff
And anything to do with babies.
1. Cars. I liked them in the Sims 3 because of the open world, but I don’t think they make sense for the Sims 4. It’d just be a few second long cut scene of a sim getting into a car before it disappears.
2. Any more “supernatural” life states. I prefer to play realistically, I never use the aliens or vampires so I know I wouldn’t use witches or werewolves
2. Color Wheel or CaST - I know we're not likely getting these, but people keep asking anyway. I think we generally get a good selection of swatches, so I like using them. I wouldn't mind a couple of new odd hair and eye colors altogether, but the general selection is pretty covered. I don't feel that nuances in color shades would make a huge difference, but I also use CC so I tend to get stuff elsewhere anyway.
3. Ocean Swimming - I know I'm going to get crucified for this, but I honestly don't need swimmable oceans. I really don't think I'd use it much, I don't even use pools that much - only when I download a house from the gallery that happens to have one. But I will say that maybe it's because there isn't much to do in pools, so they're boring. If we had floaty rafts and water games and slides and stuff I might change my mind, but I still think the novelty would wear off quickly for me. But if we were to get creepy mermaids with sharp teeth and a Lovecraftian flavor, or dangerous Sirens, I could quickly become enthusiastic for ocean swimming. I suppose it's all in how it's executed.
4. Cars - I also have no real desire for cars. I like to play a lot of occults, fantastical and historical era Sims, so cars just kind of mess things up in my environment.
5. Disabilities - I just don't think I'd use them. As I wrote above, I usually play fantastical Sims and very unrealistic games, but maybe I could find a place for a disability here and there in a historic-based household, but I feel like I'd be dreading the next game bug that messes something up badly, or hearing about a new controversy surrounding the game because somebody was using disabilities offensively in gameplay videos on Youtube... I just feel like it could end up being a fiasco.
But fur is perfectly okay. Like on a Werewolf.
Tweens
"Preschoolers"?
Farms (Zzzz, boring!)
CASt
Laundry
Tropical vacations
Mental disabilities
Supernatural EP- Felt like such a novelty pack that would only cater to some and not a majority. Vampires were done nicely for a gamepack and could see another occult possibly added in this same manner. But risking it all once again on a EP like that that was lack luster? No thanks.
Height Sliders- Dunno, if people actually know the work that has to go into this and it's been 5 years and tehre's been so many animations between sims from packs. It's just going to be a thing. Yeah, I've seen height sliders in certain games, but it hardly affects animations with other characters (hugging them, kissing them etc~) or has no purpose other than personal detail. Even with mods you can see why they aren't a thing.
Disabilities/Disorders- I can see why some folks would want them, but it seems like an awful lot of work to put in. Think the only disability I can see being implemented fairly easily with sims and would be good is sign language. I know a lot of us like to emulate the sims as close to life, but I'd just hate to have my sims suffering from disorders. I don't want a reminder of that nor need every little thing like that customized in the game.
Horses- I just don't get it other than personal preference and like for horses there's not much of any room to be riding around with them anywhere, especially with a lot of places being suburban areas. They only have a place on a farm for the most part. I don't need more animals wandering around in bridelton bay getting sick.
Not interested in extra life stages either. What we have is fine.
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1. Anything supernatural. I HATE them. But if we get an EP I will buy it for the furniture, and other CAS items.
2. Farming. But again, if we get a GP if the items are nice I will buy it on discount.
3. Back to the Future or Into the Future type game play. Blech!
University. Or rather... university as it was in TS2. It felt so unlike the university experience I had in real life, also because you had to move into a dorm rather than it being an option. I do like the idea of getting degrees that will make work life easier and/or bring about other benefits, but even then, it's just a "nice to have" kind of thing for me, not something I desperately want or need.
Improved babies. Especially if they're going to take development time away from other features. I once read a tweet from a guru stating that they consider revising elders, but babies are higher on the priority list, and I was like, what? This incredibly short life stage that isn't even that interesting in real life either is somehow more important than our elders?? They shouldn't be stuck to their cribs, I agree on that, but... what else could you really do with a baby?
Preteens. Just give me slightly shorter and younger-looking teens instead. Unlike many others, I cannot distinguish them from adults unless I click on them and see that the romantic interactions are missing.
Any occults that aren't witches. Then again, I wasn't terribly interested in vampires either until we got the TS4 version of them, so I guess I might still change my mind on this depending on the execution of any future occult ideas.
A fear emotion. This has come up a lot since the Jungle Adventures teaser showed a sim getting scared of a skeleton, but I don't see how it could add anything to the game that isn't already covered by the Tense emotion. I would appreciate a CAS setting to let sims have individual fears, just like pets have them, but again, it would be enough for me if those sims just became tense when faced with the thing they fear.
New radio stations. The number one thing people ask about whenever a new expansion is announced, but we already have so many of them, and they all do the same thing anyway (except you can't dance to some of the music). How about an option to create custom radio stations and put in our own music instead? That should satisfy everyone.
Body hair. Once upon a time I argued in favour of this, but when I think about it, I probably only did that because I couldn't understand why something so basic and natural wasn't in the game, rather than because I actually wanted it. Just like tattoos, I would probably apply it to four or five sims in my entire world, and then forget it even exists. I don't like body hair at all, I don't think it's sexy or even necessary anymore, and evolution should finally get rid of it.
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I don't use MCCC.
Enhanced babies. I mean, it wouldn’t be a bad thing, but I’m fine with how they are now and would rather see them make something else. Like ferrets. Give me the cat-snake fur babies so that I can live vicariously through my sims, please.
And I’m not super keen on cars? I don’t think I’d use them other than to add garages to my builds.