I really wish The Sims would go more in-depth with living off the land and off grid themes.
- Collect Rain Water
* Washing Dishes
* Flushing toilet
* Washing hands
* Showering
* Watering the garden
- Water filters (to avoid the brackish water taste)
* Store bought (like Berkey)
* Homemade (like the ones you see on survival shows)
- Solar Panels (for lights, tv, computer, etc)
* For Lights (when cloudy have emergency candles or use the lanterns already available)
* TV (limit hours, makes the game more challenging)
* Computer (limit hours, makes the game more challenging)
* Dishwasher (if not running off gas or electric...have the option to convert to solar)
* Fridge (if not running off gas or electric...have the option to convert to solar)
* NOTE: The Solar Panels could look like normal panels that attach to the roof/stay on the ground or could look like the shingles for more expensive homes (aka Solar shingles..is the roof).
- Have Eco-Solar Appliances and/or make an option to Convert them to Eco-Solar (Handiness skill)
- Have Meters
* Tells you your rainwater levels
* Tells you your solar levels (be able to sell the extra your sim doesn't use)
* Could also require repairs/maintenance (that up your handiness skill)
- Chickens
* Collect eggs to eat, use in recipes and sell
* Butchering for meat to eat, use in recipes and sell
* Rooster for breeding
* Being able to sell chicks/Raise to add to your own chicken family
- Goats
* Collect milk to drink, use in recipes and sell
* Butchering for meat to eat, use in recipes and sell
* Maybe add breeding in this one too
- Compost Bin....Could buy or make Homemade (use to fertilize garden or sale)
* Food scraps
* Spoiled food
* Dead plants
- Compost Traveling Toilet
* Be able to put in inventory (for nomads/camping)
* Requires cleaning it every couple of days (contents can be dumped in compost pile/bin or buried)
* Could make a "fancy" or leveled up one to have a built in incinerator that works with solar.
- Small Fridge that goes in/under the counter (like the dishwasher) that will work off-grid/gas/solar.
Pleeeaaseeee! Just some ideas I thought I would throw out there but would like to see The Sims do more challenging things! Makes more longer gameplay time and less burn out (due to the game being too easy to play and way to easy to make money). Greatly appreciate all that you guys do. I've been playing since the first Sims 3 base game and love it a lot.
Thanks for taking the time to read.
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Could have one that fuels a cooktop with it's gas.
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* Laundry doesn't work. It seems weird that you can somehow have running water for a toilet and washing your hands and doing dishes, but you can't fill or empty the wash tub. That was very disappointing.
* Your laptop doesn't work, but your phone does. So I'm guessing you can somehow charge your phone on the lot, but not a laptop? Weidness.
*You have a log-burning stove that...doesn't burn logs? There are also stoves that are obviously designed to look like they're running on gas, but they can't be used, even though the oven that... doesn't look like it burns gas somehow does? And if you are going to make it work on gas, why limit the functionality? That makes no sense... I presume the fridge also runs on gas, and if it does, it also makes no sense to limit its functionality.
*There is somehow enough water to water plants, wash dishes, wash hands, use the loo and take a shower, but not enough to fill a bathtub once in a while? In a tropical island where water isn't exactly in short supply? There's a waterfall right outside...
Suggestions to fix these issues:
* Water: In order of "upgradability" 1) The ability to collect water from a stream. 2) Collecting rain water. 3) A working, placable well. 4) A placable handpump. 5) A capped borehole.
Any of those can be combined with a placable 1) JoJo tank or 2) underground cistern. As long as you keep your tank full, you can have cold, running water.
Upgrade the tank with a water filter to get rid of negative moodlets. Add Electricity, gas or fire to get clean, hot water, getting rid of other negative moodlets.
* Electricity: 1) Placable solar collectors that run only when the sun is out. With it, you can run a pc and charge your phone and maybe a few more items. 2) Upgrade the solar panels with a battery pack for cloudy day operation and limited use at night. This will also allow you to have solar-water heater for warm showers and the ability to have a bathtub. 3) A gas powered generator for "normal" electricity supply.
* Gas powered: 1) Replacable propane tanks that can run your fridge and stove for full functionality. Can also run a gas-powered generator.
*Fire-powered: Let the wood-burning stove actually burn wood. Use the animation for harvesting to "collect wood", which the Sim can then use to fire up that oven for cooking and baking and heating up water for washing themselves and their stuff. Also to use the fireplace.
Another thing that I would absolutely love to see, to go along with this trait... I would love for them to reintroduce grocery shopping. Making it so we have to have the ingredients to prep the meals instead of instantly having to pay for them once we click on them. This way, we can only prep what we have the ingredients for and alas... making the meals we prep free of charge. That would really add to the whole "Off The Grid/Living Off The Land" combo. Gardening and Fishing for all our sims hunger needs, making meals using only fresh ingredients. Never have to pay for meals again. Minus "Thanksgiving and Christmas"... would purchase a turkey and ham for the feast. But, only needing to get groceries for those special meals. Living completely off the land for the regular everyday meals.
I wish they had done a GP for off the grid, maybe we would have had all these things implemented..? Like there are certain objects scattered through all the packs that have been half heartedly adjusted to work with the trait (laundry day), but then you have to have all the packs to have any kind of actual off the grid experience? I hope it gets an overhaul similar to gardening, and fishing at some point (and preferably soon), if they wanna go down the free route.
Weird Al's song Amish Paradise would become my theme song for TS4 if we got all that.
I love the idea of them bringing back the grocery store. It is pretty silly that even though I have a garden, I still have to pay for meals. So my off grid diet it limited. I either fish and grill on the fire pit or eat the fruits/veggies and herbs directly out of my inventory.
It is. The laundry bin can't be refilled, there are only a couple of appliances that are off grid and the water fall and toilet bush are usable but for some reason using the off grid shower/sink makes your sim tense. They really need to go more ind-epth with the trait. They missed an opportunity with this one.
I love the idea of chopping wood for fire, making our own furniture, and sewing. Great ideas!
Agree.
Thank you. I greatly appreciate it.