1. Fix the chickens. I love chickens. love love love love them. But you guys got them quite wrong and I can't take it anymore. They walk like their leg is broken, an easy fix would be to make their head bob with every step and not just every second step, and time the bob right. They also don't do any actual chicken behaviors: I'd love for them to sometimes do the "egg song" and the digging maneuver where they swipe the earth away with their feet and then take a step back and look down to see if they uncovered anything. (And if you add this please make it available on the earth-like floor types as well, I tend to put chickens into mansions and skyscrapers.) Also, the ingame roosters act just like the hens when in truth a real rooster will be constantly vigilant for any danger or suspicious stuff. You could implement this with roosters resting way less, running around more, signaling when there's food, getting suspicious of random items and freaking out or fluffing up their feathers at strangers. Also, I'd love to see a rooster doing the happy tippy tappies to his hens as well as humans he's got a high relationship with.
reference videos: digging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op8DVagnhyY rooster dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1fONt3D6c egg song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhEQ1E8XPp4 dry food can cause sneezing and it's cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VzWaMnjc4
Bigger implementations would be dust baths, perches and musical instruments such as the classic chicken xylophone. Even regular toys to play with. Chickens are quite smart in real life and can solve puzzles and even do math so it makes me upset that they have nothing to do. It'd also be nice if they could use stairs and steps, I rebuilt the three story penthouse and would like to in fact fill it with chickens.
2. I'd like a built-in way to significantly tone down the expressions, poses and noises of the sims. The way the sims just can't keep their face still or talk calmly freaks me out, it's also very distracting in the sim creation. Like, I usually steer towards making sims that are secretly ancient gods or something and the crazy, well, everything about their behavior just completely breaks the illusion. I got a mod that was supposed to tone it down but it didn't quite work for some reason.
Players are in great need of more Flooring/Walls/Terrain Paints along with many more Swatch Options for all mentioned.
By default, there really is little to no variety in any of these areas, even if you have all the packs. How frustrating and disappointing.
We have this amazing Build Mode, but when it comes to the 'details' in Decorating/Decoration, we are Severely Lacking and I'm not even speaking of Clutter, just the Basics.
I'd even pay for some type of Build Mode Kit or Stuff Pack to just get more options in all the aforementioned areas.
This comes as very confusing when I recall all the many and varied options that were available in the Sims 1, 2 and 3.
Please fill this gap.
~Miska
"If you cannot be kind, at least have the decency to be vague."
I would love to see my Sims be able to "test out" of a course in University if their skill in a course area is at max level. For example, one of my Sims went to University with a violin skill level of 10, but she is still required to take the courses as part of her Fine Arts degree. Even if they had to pay for a test (like in real life) it would be worth it for our Sims who have reached max level on skills necessary for a degree, and would be closer to real life.
- Androgynous physical settings, I hate that the sims physically look really square kinda masculine and would like to have a physical form that’s a bit more androgynous for my non binary sims and I’d also like to have a flat chested option for female physical frames sims. (Would also be great if the scars would work)
- More disability inclusion: wheelchairs (and accessible options for build mode, like ramps and bed/bath lifts, kitchen counters and sink counters that can lower), prosthetics, walking aids, blind canes.
- Ability to choose the secondary colour for hair styles i.e. for the split dye style the secondary colour should be chosen by the player and the same with styles that have accessories, we should be able to choose the colour of the hair accessory.
- Purple hair as one of the main hair colours or just generally more vibrant colours.
- Ability to layer clothing, including having a section for jackets that can be placed alongside T-shirts (long sleeve undershirts would also be good, especially for layering grunge style looks.)
- More gourmet food recipes especially if they have specific gourmet dishes with specific expansions packs and kits. Sushi recipes or even a street food expansion pack maybe?
- More careers, specifically: Farmer (why is this not part of cottage living), vet (I can own a vet practice but I can’t just have my sim be a vet), scout leaders as part of seasons, teachers, can we also have more options for freelance careers??? Like traditional artist rather than just digital?
- If pets can’t be controlled like normal sims then why do they have to take up spaces in the household? Surely we could have a separate interaction where we can see the pets like a separate household function just for pets? I’m not explaining it very well.
- Pet shops to purchase treats and clothes etc.
- I know you can adopt stray cats and dogs but is there a function to rehome them?
- Expansion suggestions: Retro 70’s, Alternative (different goth styles, emo and scene styles), arts and crafts (pottery, card crafting, soap making, textile/clothes crafting on a dress form, stuff pack for pet clothing, more businesses to own like the vets in Cats and Dogs but for other stuff like a coffee shop, dentist, teacher maybe? Stuff pack for infants, Soft play for infants and toddlers??? Better hair for the infants too, the choices are awful. Mentioned before but street food expansions might be good, (and could also add another new career) and make more options for ordering food. I hate that the food you can order is all stuff you can make yourself when in reality I only order in food that I can’t do myself. Can expansion packs also have a few more lots available, especially empty lots. I love being creative and building things specifically for each area but there’s just not enough space.
i would love to see top surgery scars and flat chests without bras on feminine frame sims! i enjoy playing with nonbinary characters as well as trans characters who don't theoretically take hormones as i find the masculine frame faces to be rather harsh and don't enjoy completely changing their appearance. if my sim could have top surgery scars and a flat chest without having to change that i feel it would be much more inclusive!
could someone make an update which would allow us to adopt children from the game, which lost their parants because of death in the family? It happened to me several times, that adult sims in one of my families died and children - toddlers, children, infants were missing and I couldnt find them any more. It would be cool if we could adopt them through the adoption call.
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reference videos:
digging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op8DVagnhyY
rooster dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1fONt3D6c
egg song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhEQ1E8XPp4
dry food can cause sneezing and it's cute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VzWaMnjc4
Bigger implementations would be dust baths, perches and musical instruments such as the classic chicken xylophone. Even regular toys to play with. Chickens are quite smart in real life and can solve puzzles and even do math so it makes me upset that they have nothing to do. It'd also be nice if they could use stairs and steps, I rebuilt the three story penthouse and would like to in fact fill it with chickens.
2. I'd like a built-in way to significantly tone down the expressions, poses and noises of the sims. The way the sims just can't keep their face still or talk calmly freaks me out, it's also very distracting in the sim creation. Like, I usually steer towards making sims that are secretly ancient gods or something and the crazy, well, everything about their behavior just completely breaks the illusion. I got a mod that was supposed to tone it down but it didn't quite work for some reason.
By default, there really is little to no variety in any of these areas, even if you have all the packs. How frustrating and disappointing.
We have this amazing Build Mode, but when it comes to the 'details' in Decorating/Decoration, we are Severely Lacking and I'm not even speaking of Clutter, just the Basics.
I'd even pay for some type of Build Mode Kit or Stuff Pack to just get more options in all the aforementioned areas.
This comes as very confusing when I recall all the many and varied options that were available in the Sims 1, 2 and 3.
Please fill this gap.
~Miska
- Androgynous physical settings, I hate that the sims physically look really square kinda masculine and would like to have a physical form that’s a bit more androgynous for my non binary sims and I’d also like to have a flat chested option for female physical frames sims. (Would also be great if the scars would work)
- More disability inclusion: wheelchairs (and accessible options for build mode, like ramps and bed/bath lifts, kitchen counters and sink counters that can lower), prosthetics, walking aids, blind canes.
- Ability to choose the secondary colour for hair styles i.e. for the split dye style the secondary colour should be chosen by the player and the same with styles that have accessories, we should be able to choose the colour of the hair accessory.
- Purple hair as one of the main hair colours or just generally more vibrant colours.
- Ability to layer clothing, including having a section for jackets that can be placed alongside T-shirts (long sleeve undershirts would also be good, especially for layering grunge style looks.)
- More gourmet food recipes especially if they have specific gourmet dishes with specific expansions packs and kits. Sushi recipes or even a street food expansion pack maybe?
- More careers, specifically: Farmer (why is this not part of cottage living), vet (I can own a vet practice but I can’t just have my sim be a vet), scout leaders as part of seasons, teachers, can we also have more options for freelance careers??? Like traditional artist rather than just digital?
- If pets can’t be controlled like normal sims then why do they have to take up spaces in the household? Surely we could have a separate interaction where we can see the pets like a separate household function just for pets? I’m not explaining it very well.
- Pet shops to purchase treats and clothes etc.
- I know you can adopt stray cats and dogs but is there a function to rehome them?
- Expansion suggestions: Retro 70’s, Alternative (different goth styles, emo and scene styles), arts and crafts (pottery, card crafting, soap making, textile/clothes crafting on a dress form, stuff pack for pet clothing, more businesses to own like the vets in Cats and Dogs but for other stuff like a coffee shop, dentist, teacher maybe? Stuff pack for infants, Soft play for infants and toddlers??? Better hair for the infants too, the choices are awful. Mentioned before but street food expansions might be good, (and could also add another new career) and make more options for ordering food. I hate that the food you can order is all stuff you can make yourself when in reality I only order in food that I can’t do myself. Can expansion packs also have a few more lots available, especially empty lots. I love being creative and building things specifically for each area but there’s just not enough space.
could someone make an update which would allow us to adopt children from the game, which lost their parants because of death in the family? It happened to me several times, that adult sims in one of my families died and children - toddlers, children, infants were missing and I couldnt find them any more. It would be cool if we could adopt them through the adoption call.
It could really help.
L.