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What Packs would you like to see be added that have never been done before?
GothicSimmer
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Now that The Sims 4 has now got all the packs that we essentially need to make the game more like a simulation (Pets, Seasons, University). I really want to know what types of new packs you would like added to the game!
I would really love to see a road trip pack, a cruise ship pack, and also something like happy haunts. Comment below what you would love to see added into the game, I really can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
Happy Simming All!
I would really love to see a road trip pack, a cruise ship pack, and also something like happy haunts. Comment below what you would love to see added into the game, I really can't wait to see what you guys come up with!
Happy Simming All!
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I’m dying (lol) for a big Happy Haunts EP too!!! I really want my Sims to be psychic and/or working with Grim. I think that would be incredible!
High School EP Concept
The High School wouldn’t be fully active. I believe that, while the pack wouldn’t be fully *immersive,* I believe that the developers would be nervous that the gimmick would lose its charm after some time. However, there would be more things to do in class “stare out the window,” “sneak onto your phone,” and more that can potentially get your phone taken away, and/or lead to embarrassed moodlets. There will also be more pop ups that have lasting consequences or can lead to you meeting a new friend or getting into unexpected situations... or detention!
What should be active instead are extracurricular activities, as well as a system I call Moments That Matter: important moments of a young Sims life. Things like confessing to your crush, asking a love interest to prom, and other moments that can create certain lasting sentiments within your teen. There are also new text prompts, and some that can create sentiments, more emotional buffs, and new friendships/rivalries with other sims.
In High School, slightly similarly to The Sims 3: University Life, there are groups: Popular, Athetes, Nerds, and Misfits. These are different from groups in Get Together in that you cannot create your own, nor can you set any activity. You have to do certain activities, have certain skills, and impress them to be on their radars. Misfits are the easiest to join, but they are the most difficult socially. Popular kids tend to avoid them as much as possible, and it’s not advantageous for anyone of a higher social standing to interact with them for a longer period of time.
If you want to impress and get your foot in the door for one of these groups, the best way is to join an extracurricular activity. There are multiple clubs and sports to join, as well as Drama Club now being active. With Nerds joining crew and tech, and Popular kids killing each other to be cast as the leading role. There will be a goofy auto-generated play, and a humorously over dramatic director to lead your Sims to victory. Once the rehearsals are over, Sim families can go see their hard work. This reintroduces the camcorder from Sims 3: Generations, so your sim parents can go all Regina George’s mom in the audience.
There is also cast parties to have afterward (for anyone unsure of how wacky these can be, please check out the SNL Skit: The Crucible Cast Party.)
The more socially advantageous, the more likely the club is locked by tryouts and auditions. Your Sims have to get their skill on, and cross their fingers to make sure they don’t end up humiliating themselves in front of their peers.
If that’s too much commitment, your Sims can throw raging house parties to impress the popular kids (or to just raise your reputation in school in general) or, if they’re courting the Nerds, do a Plumbobs and Llamas Campaign session. The higher your writing skill, the more likely you are to create a killer story to immerse the players. Sometimes, your players might even think they’re in the story themselves! Let’s just hope if you’re throwing a rager, that you can clean up in time or that your parents don’t come home at a bad time. You could risk humiliation, or worse... grounding.
Another group gathering is sleepovers! Child and teen Sims can start their own, or be invited to one autonomously! Sims can watch the new tv channel for them to watch (a parody of the CW shows like Riverdale) and share secrets and gossip. There are more sleeping bags, as well as pillow fights and enough snacks to get into a food coma. Sims can log their crush and a rival. A rival can be in their crushes affections, or just academically or in their extra curricular activities. A sim can choose these randomly, or a simmer can choose for them. If you’re not into that, you can simply turn it off! Eavesdropping is a thing sims can do! So if you’re sharing your crushes at a sleepover be warned about a sneaky sibling or a loose lipped friend. With Parenthood installed, your Teen sim can talk about their crush or rival in their journal, and have that leak too from nosy friends or siblings!
Sims (child and teen) have group projects. With teens having the stereotypical baby project among others. Teen sims can bribe or beg their teacher to place them in a group with their crush, or simply shoot their shot and ask to be in a group with them. I can see the baby project as being hilarious btw.
There are also tests, essays, and exams will pop up occasionally and Sims should definitely level up the particular skill and study. Sims can study in groups to prepare. If they bomb they can try to hide their bad grades, or attempt to modify their results— either by hacking into the school or by fiddling with the written grade on paper— to varying success. They can also get help from the new Llamafy feature. It’s a music streaming platform where Sims can choose their favorite songs, put them into playlists, and ascribe a particular emotional buff to their playlist of choice. This can be focusing, inspirational, etc!
Prom is also an active event, with tacky themed decor, punch (that sims can prank), and plenty of dresses and general formal apparel for teens! Sims can also be nominated for prom court, and can rig the vote (but potentially be found out for doing so.) Teen sims can prom-pose (to potentially disasterous consequences.)
Misfits can sneak out of their houses and go on late night adventures. Just hope they don’t get caught by the police! They also can write about their experiences— either as poetry or as songs. If they have enough musical skill in an instrument, they can start bands with other sims and audition for the school talent show or perform in venues across town. They are also more inclined to throw pranks on annoying neighbors, siblings, or other high school groups. If they aggravate another group too much— they’re could be an all out group warfare! Group Warfare can happen between any group at any time, and the battlefield can be online or in the cafeteria with food fights!
Plumbook is a new feature in game where Sims can (it would be optional) create their own profile. Sims can upload their Simstagram selfies, add a profile picture, and release their recorded videos from the camcorder too! Sims’s emotional blog posts will be uploaded onto Plumbook, and certain Sims will like and even respond. You can also access other Sims’s profiles and post comments on their posts or wall depending on the Sims current emotion and relationships to that sim. This can cause an all-out internet brawl!
Sims will also post on your wall too about your Sims goings on around the town/city. Sometimes Sims will ask you about rumors about you (either true or false) and could
potentially reveal something embarrassing to the denizens of the interwebs. So try to make sure you don’t have bladder failure in public! This will also feed into the gossip system, which adds public sentiments (connected to your Sims reputation if you have Get Famous installed.) If a rumor is proven untrue, you can have the sentiment removed quickly. But if you’re caught cheating on your spouse, expect your house to get egged and have difficulty interacting with other Sims for a while!
Sims can also text prompts to their friends like, “what’s going on around town,” “any gossip I should know about,” or “any parties tonight?” Sims can also ask about Sims that way, if Get Together is installed, play matchmaker via texting, or ask another Sim their opinion about their crush or current relationship partner.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
I don't know if this would qualify as a GP or an EP, since I can't find any overarching feature that would benefit to the game as a whole AND to the pack's concept
They did this in Sims3 somewhat with a world expansion. I cant remember what it was called now, something Boardwalk. I did like it and I like the idea, It could be expanded on from what they did in three. The version in Sims3 was a bit of a miss because the park was always empty.
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I think this is my number one want at the moment.
I also really want Mythology. Something that covers ancient gods (even if fictitious) and creatures from various cultural mythos like dragons, Harpies or Naga. An extensive CAS with creature eyes, horns, claws, scales and knotted hairs. Body hair too! A build/buy for creating ancient temples and sacred places. Choose objects of worship and create your own religion.
Also, Simms' Fairy Tales. Based from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales where we can have Fairies, Goblins and Werewolves and a new storytelling tool to create our own adventures that can have happy or grim endings. Wings, fur and a good, scary, wolfish Werewolf form. Fairy tale objects like magic mirrors and enchanted spinning wheels. A world that has hidden portals, defies physics, contains swamps and treehouses and cottages.
Superheroes and Villains! Bring back crime and police, have purse snatchers, burglars, candy thieves and sabotagers. Create a Villain and gather minions for nefarious purposes or play a Superhero and choose your symbol for the police to shine in the clouds when they need you. Have imbued superpowers that manifest when your Sim hits their teens, or do experiments that backfire and give you strange new powers!
Love, Romance and Frenemies. A pack that builds on Sim relationships and behaviors so that now Sims have romantic preferences, desires, turnoffs and flaws. Sims can have rivalries and drama and new dating options.
Simpocalypse! The world has gone to snit! Natural disasters destroy roads, homes and luxury living! Sims must survive and rebuild without the comforts of technology. The world is yours to create or destroy and for the first time, players can utilize a world tool and change their city environments. Handiness and Logic matters! Build a Steampunk generation or go back to simple living. The choice is yours!
That's all for now.
- dragons. We already had them in some form in sims 1 and 3 but I would like a pack dedicated to them.
- the possibility for sims to live in space. A new world with lots under a glass dome with a view on the stars. Or perhaps you can move into a space station (these lots could use the same principles as apartments where you can't edit the exterior of the space ship.
Love these!
- many types of couple dancing
& other romance options
- big mighty dragon friends
- occult activities & occults
- past themed gameplay and objects (archery, spinning wheel and such)
- evil & dark gameplay additions
- disasters
.... wait aint that just plot of sleeping beauty...
anyway
i also want some more cultural content and new themes and unique stuff for build buy
and also amusement park things be cool as well so i could recreate magic town vibes from ts1
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I want this too - it would be a pack I would buy on the first day its available (rather than waiting for a sale as I usually do - I still dont have EL/Batuu or the new one as although I am a huge Stars Wars fan I dont think weapons should be brought into the Sims, plus Eco Living sounds like a nightmare with NAP's and different environments etc plus no swimmable water and hardly any plots to build)
This is another must have wish for me too going forward
No more new EP until we get Generations!
Then I'd like:
Casino and poker tournaments, Resorts, Grand Prix or car rallies and car shows, fashion shows, Opera, Oceanographic Museum...
or...
Renaissance Fair with
-Stages for performances such as; plays, audience participation comedy routines, dancers, magicians, musicians, jugglers, and singers.
-Streets or lanes lined with crafts and even make your own craft and food stalls where vendors sell medieval and Renaissance-themed handcrafts, clothing, books, artworks, (which could include candle making, jewelry making, glass blowing, knitting, paintings, wood working, forging, etc...) and food and beverage with option to dine with the King and Queen.
-Attend the knighting ceremony or become a knight by entering the tournament in Archery, Jousting, and Sword Fighting
-Dress up in medieval attire as Lords and Ladies, peasants, pirates, belly dancers, 🐸🐸🐸🐸's or other fantasy characters and become a costumed guest (playtrons).
-Enjoy Games and Rides to include Archery, Jousting, Sword Fighting, Jacob’s Ladder, Axe Throwing, Knife Throwing, Oriental Stars, Darts, Drench-a-Wench and Soak-a-Bloke, shoot Captain’s Cannons, Test your Strength hammer, Throw juicy tomatoes in Tomato Torture, Climb the King’s Tower Rock Wall, jump for joy at Jester’s Jump bounce house, ride in an air balloon, enter the labyrinth or explore the haunted pirate ship and seek its treasure, and I'm sure much more...
-Explore the Fairy winged forest, Pirate's Cove and the Mermaid Lagoon, Story Time at the Princess Palace, take part in the maypole carousel,
-Enjoy an Elephant or Camel ride, watch for the Falconry, or keep it simple to the basic farm animals petting area like pigs, goats, chickens, sheep, cows, horses, etc...
-Have your fortune told by either a crystal ball, card reader, or fortune teller...
-Take home a Dragon's Egg and watch it grow
I think the game is still missing some core features, but this is something that hasn't really made it into the Sims in other than bits a pieces here and there.
The cruise ship idea sounded cool, but then I think to myself, this is TS4, so it would probably just be a rabbit hole and your sim would come out 3 days later.
A Generations pack would also be on my wishlist, because I just don't think there's enough activities for sims besides YA/Adults to do, but that's been done and the OP asked for "New Ideas".
If I had to come up with something, I would want a pack that was all about Group Activities, where more than 2 people could do things, you would have thought with the name "GET TOGETHER" that would have introduced such activities, but again, this is TS4. Hiking together in SE is a start, but sadly, that's tied to just that single world.
I'm actually sort of just done and over TS4 and all it's plethora of packs that introduce bugs upon bugs. By the time this iteration is over there will be like 50 packs! LOL
I'm just ready to see what TS5 will be like. So, whatever else they come up with for TS4, I'll just go with the flow.
Scenario editor Expansion, so you can create various Sims Objectives and Scenario that will happen to them.
Instead of Usual unlock everything, You can also set to restrict Object/Area/Clothes etc and set the Mission or Objective to unlock them. You can set Objective with time limit and condition also what will happen if the Sims failed to accomplished the Objective.
You can share or download Scenario via Gallery.
I think packs like farming, owning a business, running a restaurant, etc. have such huge appeal in The Sims, and we should see more of them. In The Sims 2, owning a business was so expanded upon that it truly felt like I was playing a shop simulator within The Sims. I have no doubt that a farming pack, if done right, would make us feel like we're playing Stardew Valley or Harvest Moon inside The Sims.
Also high school drama that should work with sentiments such as making up or spreading rumors about certain Sims. High school cliques like jocks nerds goth. Its time teens become a full time playable life stage not stuck in a rabbit half the day this is their active career.