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Base Game improvement
Thornwillow
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Do you have suggestions for (base) game CAS, BB, Gameplay or Gallery? What are your ideas to improve the game in general? Do you have any other specific requests?
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1. Making all NPC roles (librarian, firefighter, principal, busker, weirdo, etc) active and/or rabbit hole careers for our sims so we have more options for making money and storytelling
2. Making all vacation worlds residential
3. Adding swimmable areas and harvestables to all worlds
4. Adding option to make travel between neighborhoods cost $ and between worlds cost $$$
5. Ability to combine lot types (residential and retail, park and museum, etc)
I'd love all of these! Unfortunately, I think they've said that 2 and 3 are impossible without breaking people's saves, so fair enough (maybe a voluntary update could be a possibility?), but number 1 and 5 definitely would be doable.
I would add, that the people you give a job are the people you then see when going someplace. So if I make Bella Goth a librarian in Willow Creek, my sim will meet her when going to the library in Willow Creek!
Another thing I'd really want is the option to have people in the household be asleep when you get home late at night. So when my teen has snuck out, the family will be in bed when she returns.
Child Gameplay like children should ay tag, play Ms. Mary Mack, play Marco Polo in the pool, play make believe or dress up, and have more play grounds like a castle playground or even a regular play ground.
Romantic Interactions and reaction like Sims surprise proposal, Sims react to fights but they don't react to a proposal right in front of them
Walking Hand in Hand and Arm and Arm
Snuggling and Cuddling at night.
Make out needs to make a return.
> My ideas for base game improvements:
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> 1. Making all NPC roles (librarian, firefighter, principal, busker, weirdo, etc) active and/or rabbit hole careers for our sims so we have more options for making money and storytelling
Maid and Butler active careers would be cool, you get to be invited into rich people homes and then drink their blood before sleeping with them, stealing their stuff and murdering them like a murder mystery, I could build buy a death trap with ease.
But unfortunately without the mods the game still doesn't have any attraction system, but since the Sims2's chemistry system, and the sims3's traits compatibily method failed, maybe the players rather should choose manually the attractiveness of each sims e.g. on a scale of 1-10.
> I want more autonomy for the sims, and improve the quality of the interactions between them. I just mentoined that recently in another post, when a guest visiting the players family, he just goes straightaway to play with our laptop completely ignoring the whole household members..
> But unfortunately without the mods the game still doesn't have any attraction system, but since the Sims2's chemistry system, and the sims3's traits compatibily method failed, maybe the players rather should choose manually the attractiveness of each sims e.g. on a scale of 1-10.
Old Bella was a 10 and was much more accurate to the Sims Lore, Old Bella resembles Sims 2 Bella more than the ugly imposter we got in the refresh, who BTW is clearly a 1.
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The Sims 4 General Discussion• Give each life stage 3 birthdays (for early, mid and late years) expanding the sim's lifespan and giving time for every growing changes.
• Mute option for voices.
• New Walkstyles:
- Timid/Shy
- Hands behind back
- Jumping (For kids)
- Walking stick
• Relationship preferences:
- Monogamic or Poligamic
- Open or Closed
• Aspirations:
- New category: Integrity
- Body category > Healthy Lifestyle
- Family category > Good familiar
• Saturation and Brightness slider for hair colors.
• Layer different facial hairs from different categories.
• Separeted muscle building in CAS and during gameplay (Ex.: "Build thighs muscles" in weight machine).
• More anatomically correct muscles, bones and frames.
• Sim's paint mode: Place any tatto wherever you want and create skin patterns/paintings.
• Torso accessories for backpacks
• Missing items:
- Dark undereyes circles
- No smile lines (for adults)
- Skin colors: Yellow, orange, pink, dark red and light green.
- Amber eye color
- Mohawk Updo hair dye
- Buns back hair split dye
- Medium curtain bangs hair dye
- Lord Lycan's werewolf hair
- Lord Lycan's werewolf sideburns
- Different belly buttons, abs and nipples
- Body winkles
- Body scars: Appendectomy, Cholecystectomy, Herniorrhaphy, Sternetomy, Electrical discharge, Stitches, Smallpox vaccine.
- Forgotten woman dress
- Fishnet gloves
• Color variations for Darth Maul costume, Grim's costume and hood.
• Male and female varsity jackets sharing their swatches.
• Option to add CAS background.
• Poses for sims in CAS.
BUILD MODE
• Unsafe lot challenge: Reduced bill taxes are great but now burglars seem to be attracted by this lot. (Residential lots without this challenge have a security tax).
• Cemetery lot and funeral event
GAMEPLAY
• Social traits influences the interactions you're able to make. Ex.: Sims with "Good" trait can't make mean interactions.
• Ghosts:
- Progression: Perk tree/Spectrology Skill
- Select death cause in CAS
- New interactions: Possess, Attack, Teleport
- Death color
- Don't automatically break things
- Always cross materials
- No hunger, hygiene and bladder need
- Spawn:
Mourning brings sad ghosts
Violate grave brings vengeful ghost
• Plantsims:
- Full Life state
- Body vines/Wood skin texture
- Leaf hair/ Change hairstyle and/or hair colors
- No hygiene need
- Create beans to get rid of strong emotions
- Manipulate sims emotions with pollens
- Poison/Intoxicate sims
- Photosynthesis animation
• New interactions:
- Ask relationship preferences
- Ask to open/close [your] relationship
- Invite to join/exit [your] relationship
- Ask to join/exit [others] relationship
- Take herbal bath (to bathtube)
- Blow nose (to tissues clutter)
- Paint nails (to nails polish clutter)
- Apply perfume (to perfume clutter)
- Turn off/on room's lights (to light switch)
- Brush teeth (to toothbrush)
- Remove shoes (to shoes rack)
- Remove hat (to coat/hat rack)
- Try out clothes (to coat rack)
- Ask for visual description (to other sims)
- Read in braile (to books)
• Hire mechanic for object upgrades.
• School bus animation.
• Discover sims likes, dislikes and sexuality slowly (as it works with traits) with each one having it's own notification.
• Sim Signal language skill.
• Get a notification being invited to spend the day at a friend's house or attend events.
• Cops NPC: There are guards around the neighborhoods that can send you tickets if you get caught breaking the laws (Leave food, start a fight, woohoo in public, steal objects, etc.).
• Caeers and part-time jobs as semi-active with workplace:
- Astronaut = Labs (GTW)
- Culinary = Events, Bar, Nightclub, Restaurant (DO)
- Entertainment = Events, Bar, Nightclub, Museum
- Painter = Museum
- Writer = Library
- Style Influencer = Retail (GTW)
- Babysitter = Residential
- Barista = Café (GT)
- Fast Food employee = Restaurant (DO)
- Manual Laborer = Residential
- Retail Employee = Retail (GTW)
- Librarian (NEW) = Library
- Community gardener (NEW) = Neighborhoods
GALLERY
• "Favorites" category in My Library
• "Only my packs" search filter
• Group/Lot/Room's cover photo edition
- The time in the game still passes too quickly, and therefore a day flies by too fast. The time should slow down a bit more.
- The characters' intelligence is still not at the level I would like. Honestly, this part hasn't developed much since the sims1. There is barely any difference between the traits, actually it wouldn't really matter if you just left it random in the creator. Even after so many years I still feel the characters kinda empty, so instead of rapidly expanding the game, maybe the main focus should be rather on developing the npcs personality.
- And finally there is still no attraction system. It means even if you create a stunning beauty princess, the male npcs will show no interest. Yeh, not even a longing look from them ..nothing... It's boring. I tried many mods which provide attraction system, but all of them was weightless on this matter.
I think until these parts won't improve in the sims4, there isn't too much chance for that the Sims5 will be better.
Basically, change the way terrain height works. Let the ground next to a wall be higher than the base of the wall, and let the ground on one side of a wall be a different height than the ground on the other. I have no clue how complex this would be to implement.
@MarlJ YES i was expecting it in GRO era, but they missed that opportunity. I hope they're not just ignoring us but saving it for an elders pack (and its BG update). But the fact that they didn't added puberty, midlife crisis and burnouts in BG makes me worry if everyone without this pack will be able to get those features.
I still think that Plantsims should be the first priority when it comes to Improving Base Game, I'll also add Plantsim Babies to Plantsim Gameplay.
It's also disturbing when you visit a public place, you are almost always the first one there, and the other people just start pouring in after you arrived. This isn't too realistic.. But what is even more annoying is the most of them just stay there for about two minutes and then they move on.. In fact, all npcs in the game are moving aimlessly from one place to another like a robot. This hasn't changed since the sims1 either..
Yeah, I'd take an extra few seconds of load time if it meant some sims would be put on the lot and already doing things when I showed up.