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What Improvements Would You Like For Sims 4?
TeeSea
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Toggle: Turn off environmental change completely but still use the solar panels and dew catchers to lower your bill.
Toggle to turn off random aging
Choose which NAPs can be voted on.
Create your own NAPs
Sliders for how many days each sim life stage is.
Add 21 days per Season
Unlock a Supper Efficient Pet Care at level 5 pet training which has your sim brush, pet, then hug the pet. Then your sim tells them to eat and go potty outside. Then their needs get filled up.
Have every rabbithole job also have a work from home option.
Be able to keep recipes and blueprints you learn from all careers.
Let us save a household with all the money and items in their personal & household inventory.
Sims that have degrees from university and are moved into a new save file will have a graduation photo(s) and degree(s) in their inventory.
Show progress on skills like ice skating
Kids & Teens should learn basic skills while at school
Toddlers should learn skills at daycare and be able to choose an away action for toddlers like you can with other Sims.
Be able to store all harvestable items in the fridge and insect flour & nuggets
Let kids drink fizzy juice
Bring back true nectar making back
More worlds with different cultures and traditions
When traveling to Batuu time doesn’t move forward for the rest of the world. Batuu time would be Weeks but no season.
Be able to go to the hospital when you are sick, to get your kids their vaccines and wellness checks and get ultrasounds.
Dentistry Career with braces, have checkups and cleanings and fillings if your Sims don’t take care of their teeth.
Baby Showers, Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties, Funerals
Graveyards
Let your sim save themselves by giving the grim reaper a death flower if they have one in their pocket
Store upgrade parts in the robotics station.
I could go on and on but I would like to hear your ideas.
Let us be able to do any past challenges like the grow fruit or the kindness challenge when you want.
Toggle to turn off random aging
Choose which NAPs can be voted on.
Create your own NAPs
Sliders for how many days each sim life stage is.
Add 21 days per Season
Unlock a Supper Efficient Pet Care at level 5 pet training which has your sim brush, pet, then hug the pet. Then your sim tells them to eat and go potty outside. Then their needs get filled up.
Have every rabbithole job also have a work from home option.
Be able to keep recipes and blueprints you learn from all careers.
Let us save a household with all the money and items in their personal & household inventory.
Sims that have degrees from university and are moved into a new save file will have a graduation photo(s) and degree(s) in their inventory.
Show progress on skills like ice skating
Kids & Teens should learn basic skills while at school
Toddlers should learn skills at daycare and be able to choose an away action for toddlers like you can with other Sims.
Be able to store all harvestable items in the fridge and insect flour & nuggets
Let kids drink fizzy juice
Bring back true nectar making back
More worlds with different cultures and traditions
When traveling to Batuu time doesn’t move forward for the rest of the world. Batuu time would be Weeks but no season.
Be able to go to the hospital when you are sick, to get your kids their vaccines and wellness checks and get ultrasounds.
Dentistry Career with braces, have checkups and cleanings and fillings if your Sims don’t take care of their teeth.
Baby Showers, Bachelor/Bachelorette Parties, Funerals
Graveyards
Let your sim save themselves by giving the grim reaper a death flower if they have one in their pocket
Store upgrade parts in the robotics station.
I could go on and on but I would like to hear your ideas.
Let us be able to do any past challenges like the grow fruit or the kindness challenge when you want.
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All service NPC jobs become an option for played sims' career - bartender, director, maid, mailman, etc - they then show up in that role when the lot is visited by other sims and could even get paid for visiting the lot and doing those actions like an active career!
Ability to set starting funds and career level for each sim in CAS.
Ability to "approve" of and build relationship or "disapprove" of and lesson relationship with other sims based on their performing actions that the sim does or does not like - would require adding to likes and dislikes system but would add depth by creating potential for uneven relationships.
Sims build or lesson relationship with other sims after ingesting, reading, viewing, listening to, poorly or well crafted food, art, music, books, etc. which would create another chance to build uneven relationships.
Relationships provide monetary and other incentives by having friendship bar increase likelihood that sim will send card with money, send food, rare items, other small gifts, etc.
Sims leave assets to sims left behind in their will proportional to their relationship towards that sim.
Flowers lesson in resale value so offer more challenge.
Ability to restrict walk-by and visitor sims to "in-world sims only" through lot trait.
Ability to "forget" sims in the relationship panel.
Ability to "leave out" sims during group conversations.
Make destination worlds livable.
Make all finances individual with option to combine resources to purchase home.
Ability to rent all lots.
Ability to own residential lots and charge rent.
Ability to own commercial lots and charge usage.
Add curator NPC to museums who gives tours which increases skills.
Make lot traits that increase skill builds only applicable to commercial lots.
Make inventories individual so sims who move out can bring their own furniture/heirlooms.
Decorative items gain value over time so there is more incentive to purchase and hold on to decorations and family heirlooms.
Add more events and aspirations so no part of the game is left untouched by the aspiration system.
Update whims to include all DLC.
Sims can be given up for adoption and adopted by other families.
Ability to make sim leave lot or change outfit even if they are unknown to the sim.
Inability to drag and drop plates or rubbish.
Editable personal bio for each sim that is shared after interaction: deep conversation, created in CAS, updated in manage worlds, and accessed via the notebook during live mode.
For example, "read 3 books" for the Renaissance Sim/Nerd Brain aspiration first level or "reach level 5 Tech Guru" for Computer Whiz; if you reach level 5 TG while working on something else but then quit the job, the game will credit you for having reached "Level 3 in 3 careers" for Renaissance Sim—so it knows, obviously—but won't credit you unless you're actually in that career while working on Computer Whiz. And if you don't read the book with the RS/NB aspirations active, it doesn't count.
This needs an overhaul because it can be restrictive (and annoying to change aspirations to suit what a sim's doing in order to get points for it.)
And remember this above all. Our Roman gods are watching. Make sure they are not ashamed!
My NBA site, Pace and Space
Agreed there! I have had Grand Master Vampires who already read everything on the internet, read the first book and the last book, and yet these things were not accounted for.
There are so many things that could be better, it's almost the job of The Sims 5.
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The Sims 4 General DiscussionUpdate on whims seriously one feature that was actually decent base game disabled and never updated again for newer content even if you use it making them pointless.
Map editor
Ocean swimming on older worlds
Babies
Travel enough of the poofing add cars and other forms of public transportation busses for city living train station for Snowy Escape and so on
Option to lock camera on floor level instead of bouncing on terrain.
ADD Lots with mixed terrain instead of just flat.
Option to raise basement level out of ground so we can add windows and maybe doors for walkout basements. Windows could allow teens to sneak out..
- Children and Teens and University
Mix up child and teens school days, even university. By the time you do all the homework, projects, assignments there isn't much day left. Genius sims should be able to get through homework a lot faster, ADD a lucky trait and sims with that trait can get away without doing homework. (Lucky adult sims could have a higher chance to win lottery - I have never won)
Perhaps one of the parents is a gardener and has a perfect apple, this could be used to bribe teacher for a week or few days to get out of homework. Lazy sims could cheat or buy homework online or from a friend.
I've taken tips from other simmers and added a holiday for the summer to allow my children or teens to have a summer vacation. It would be nice if this was built into the game and then during summer vacation they could go to a camp or summer school.
> @TeeSea said:
> Kids & Teens should learn basic skills while at school
> Toddlers should learn skills at daycare and be able to choose an away action for toddlers like you can with other Sims.
I really love the idea or children and teens learning basic skills while at school. I wish that depending on their traits it would allow different away actions that could help build different skills.
- Traits
I am really hoping that traits can be overhauled to have more depth. Maybe it's just me but I assign these traits and I find during gameplay while I let my sims have free reign they are boring. They drink a lot of water, snack a lot, play computer games and listen to music.
I want my evil sims to be actively evil and break things, kick doors, scream into pillows, blame others, try to get co-workers fired, teach kids bad habits..
I want good sims to have neighbors come by and ask for help, do chores for sims that go on vacation, babysit other kids for a night (add inflatable mattresses that can be stored when not in use).
I want lazy sims to be able to sleep on couch, use socks to clean up puddle, make excuses for everything, store their laundry on the couch or bed (if they are single with a double bed and build the pile of laundry big enough they could gain a sense of cuddling after sleeping), eat on bed and put plate under it (they can't smell it but special guests sure will), if they hired a housekeeper it would be a lot more expensive.
I want hot headed sims to be able to ground their children for no reason, to phone teachers angry and demand a better mark (their children could gain a sentiment for a defensive parent), ask for manager at restaurant (be a Karen lol) to get free meal.
I want jealous sims to be able to check other sims emails, pickpocket phone to check phone, try to make their partner jealous. I could go on and on.. I really would like more actions that are dependent on traits.
What could be fun is evolving traits dependent on their reputation. If your reputation is atrocious all your traits have stronger evil options, whereas if your reputation is pristine all you traits would have stronger good options. Regardless of trait. For example an atrocious jealous sim should be able to gossip about the person their are jealous with and create such bad rumors that they get fired, divorced. They could demand their spouse not look at other sims, or visit their work for a unexpected lunch. A pristine but jealous sim can talk themselves down in the mirror, do yoga/meditate to keep emotions in check. Have desire to get in shape. Maybe once a certain point is reached the trait becomes dormant unless acted on.
Another example, the art lover trait. An atrocious art lover could counterfeit art and make money. A pristine art lover could see beauty in all things and sell as art.
Another example, the erratic trait. An atrocious erratic sim could chase kids down the street, talk self into a fight or flirty mood. A pristine erratic sim could go to neighbors house and offer help, sing to self and birds, carry on conversations with babies and understand them. (maybe the babies can give them errands lol)
Memories, wants/fears, attraction system
Change costar for acting career in romance scenes
Make your own neighborhood
Personality,depth,humor,consequences,lore,customization.
Remove all clothing option (very useful for full makeovers). Save makeup on all outfits. Layered clothing (combine shirts with jackets for example). Save styled outfits. Disable for random option. Height adjustment. Backpacks. More modern accessories (smartwatches, earpods). More beards.
World:
Own lots. NPC role manager. Improved and reduced townie generation. Townie outfit manager. Optional story progression. More options where we can disable certain features from packs.
Live mode:
Larger aspirations. Life goals. Work overtime. Ability to do more activities together. Cuddling in bed.
Added content:
Cars. High Schools.
I totally agree 👍🏻
@logion
I miss the cuddles when coupled up Sims sleep.
2. An option for all Townies to be dressed from the pool of styled looks.
3. An option for more perminant sentiments, in that they don't shift unless a significant effort is made, rather than just time decaing them.
4. Chemistry system.
5. More group activites.
6. More personality to sims. Some improvements have been made here recently, but more is needed.
7. Community lots changed to being traits rather than seperate lot types, so you can have more flexible community lots.
I like that idea of a cost to travel to different worlds. Adding a cost for neighbourhoods I'm not so keen on. Of course if it was an option, you could keep everyone happy.
OMG the townies joining conversations is so annoying!
Please EA/Maxis, been waiting so long
I miss those from the Sims 3. Also Elevators that work in homes and be able to use more than one on a lot.
These are just 7 of like the hundreds of things they need to improve, aside from bugs of course