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    rhaliusrhalius Posts: 487 Member
    We also really need a few convenience things for CAS:

    -Logo's of all packs should be displayed in CAS, maybe on the right of all the options. No clicking anything else first, I want to see all logo's straight away and be able to click on them to filter just seeing stuff from that pack in the clothing category, can always remove the category tag after that. This would make it way faster to find what you need.

    -Ability to hide things in CAS.
    Everything you never use could be hidden, could be a new option where you can toggle what's hidden and not, and if you want to unhide it, you could go back to that CAS option. Would also save a lot of clutter and helps speed up character creation. I'd personally hide all mascot outfits right away, who even uses that?

    -More clown make up options.
    Small thing but it would be nice to have a happy clown face option and also options that do not have the small bandage on the side.

    -More facial hair options.
    Still so few of that in the game. I'd like to see a thin French moustache added, a thicker goatee, impressive moustaches, beards with beads or such in it, a messy beard, longer beards, etc. When in doubt, just bring back facial hair options from Sims 2 and 3.

    -Improve the Bandana.
    It looks really horrible and since some hairstyles of the base game got an update, why not the bandana too? Give it a better shape over the hair and add many swatches and patterns to it. Or add new bandana's.

    -Add sporty dark shades.
    Not many sunglasses options yet and I am pretty sure both Sims 2 and 3 had more sporty black shades in the base game. I'd really like that option.

    -Keep adding colour swatches to things that could use more.
    I know it happens sometimes in a patch, and I am a big fan of that. I am always in favour of having a basic black and basic white option for everything. The less swatches an item has, the more I'd like to see it get more.

    -More voices added.
    I feel like we could use some more, maybe specific to supernaturals. Werewolves should NOT talk normal as they do in wolf form, they need a filter like aliens get, but more gruff.

    -Supernaturals not repeating their animations every few seconds.
    It gets very annoying that werewolves keep howling, mages keep throwing around the magic bubble and vampires keep hissing as you edit them in CAS. Many of us can spend quite some time on this after all.

    -Walk styles with cane added.
    Seems like a base game thing, would add a bit of inclusivity but also some possible swag. Next to a supportive walk that clearly shows a need for the cane there could also be a formal walk and a swanky walk. Could have some options for canes too here.

    -Cybernetics.
    We have medical wearables, why not go a little fantasy with that too with a bit of cybernetics, adding fancier versions of what's there and new options as well. Sims seem to have pretty advanced technology after all, and it would be nice to see the options in those categories expanded.

    -Head tattoos.
    Would be nice to get some options for that too. Like some that could work great with hairstyles shaved at the sides, or fully shaved even.

    -More leg tattoos.
    There's hardly any of that.

    -Traits able to give starting skills where it's fitting.
    Could be only for sims created new in CAS, not sims who grow up and get those traits.
    Virtuoso sims could start with 2 skill points in each instrument.
    Creative sims could have 2 points in painting.
    Some traits could also just give 1 point in it instead, like various social skills giving a charisma point.

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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    lock out certain household members as non playable.
    generate in law family members if married ti npc.
    Incite entire family over as one event without having to try to find them.
    invite members separate list for just them.
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    friendlysimmersfriendlysimmers Posts: 7,587 Member
    how about family christmas events in sims4 with family members and in summer family gathjering partys?
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    kids and teen go away for the summer camp
    summer vacations for them too, or summer school if they are not good students
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    all food menu items from refrigerator, restaurant, cafe, ... second click option to veganize or get vegan version with vegan trait.
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    mzoopomzoopo Posts: 6 New Member
    We need better “daycare” for infants and toddlers!!

    As an early childhood teacher myself, this part of the game drives me absolutely crazy. First off, the term “daycare” is outdated and disrespectful to early childhood educators. It should be called “childcare” or “preschool”. Secondly, I am so sick of my sim babies returning from childcare with their needs all the way in the red. The childcare system in the Sims should work more similarly to how the schools work. The infants and toddlers should have their needs taken care of while they are in childcare. They should be able to make friends with classmates the same age. They should be able to have a few different moodlets when coming back home from childcare too. I also think infants, toddlers, and children alike should all be able to build skills while at childcare/school.

    I’m not asking for anything huge here. I think it's fine for childcare to remain as a rabbit hole in the game. But the way this system is currently set up in the game is just offensive to early childhood educators.
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    Lady_HuffelpuffLady_Huffelpuff Posts: 2 New Member
    Would love a Sims 4 update where the world is more open like the Sims3, also, sims 3 destinations is one of the most thought out packs ever. Would love to have something similar in sims 4, jungle adventures was not it! The expansion packs in sims 3 gave us much more game play than we do get today, Would much rater have bought one supernatural expansion pack rater than having 3-4 different gamepacks, it just not the same experiences. Most of all just miss the old sims 3 game play, where we had thieves, and teenagers got sent home by cops and you actually would se the cops and firefighters, so much more realistic!

    Like what if sims with storys already would have relations and emotions after the thought out story? That would have been amazing too.
    With the risk of sounding like the worst simer ever, who hate my sims, but i want it to be more realistic, i want to have some one who is poor, and is stressed about money, i want a thug to be a thug, and have a gang, i want a drunkie sim who is addicted to alcohol and actually is craving alcohol.

    I want to be able to have good and bad neighboorhoods, and honestly an open world (not online) but where i can walk through the town and all areas are playable, more buildeble lots, and more generel lots, like library, teater, work sights, e.t.c
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    Lady_HuffelpuffLady_Huffelpuff Posts: 2 New Member
    > @Lady_Huffelpuff said:
    > Would love a Sims 4 update where the world is more open like the Sims3, also, sims 3 destinations is one of the most thought out packs ever. Would love to have something similar in sims 4, jungle adventures was not it! The expansion packs in sims 3 gave us much more game play than we do get today, Would much rater have bought one supernatural expansion pack rater than having 3-4 different gamepacks, it just not the same experiences. Most of all just miss the old sims 3 game play, where we had thieves, and teenagers got sent home by cops and you actually would se the cops and firefighters, so much more realistic!
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    > Like what if sims with storys already would have relations and emotions after the thought out story? That would have been amazing too.
    > With the risk of sounding like the worst simer ever, who hate my sims, but i want it to be more realistic, i want to have some one who is poor, and is stressed about money, i want a thug to be a thug, and have a gang, i want a drunkie sim who is addicted to alcohol and actually is craving alcohol.
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    > I want to be able to have good and bad neighboorhoods, and honestly an open world (not online) but where i can walk through the town and all areas are playable, more buildeble lots, and more generel lots, like library, teater, work sights, e.t.c

    And also bring the color wheel back!! had so much fun building my home in sims 3 when i could match all the colors, and create my own hair colors
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    KatietheAngelfishKatietheAngelfish Posts: 1 New Member
    Sims generally likes to make fun of alot of real life things too, so I would like to see the possibility of asking an overweight sim to "feel the belly" like you can with a pregnant sim, and then if they aren't actually pregnant, this would lower their friendship and make the overweight sim anxious.
    This seriously happens to me all the time because of my slightly big belly and I would find it hilarious to see in sims.
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    search households by name from household manager
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    MisfitbaeMisfitbae Posts: 7 New Member
    I would love the following:

    Burglars please bring them back.
    Functional doorbell cameras.
    - sims get a motion notification in the notification panel of game while away from home as well.

    Stay overs events: I would love to be able to send a sims away. Ex. Say sims are divorced and it’s one parents weekend or parent want a break and send kids to grandmas/family/friends house for a few days. I would love for it to be a schedule event that can be set regularly and you can customize it like “holidays” on the calendar.

    More tattoos! Neck tattoos, hands back chest etc.

    Piercings: better nose rings! Studs are way too big. Add industrial piercings, smileys etc.

    Nails: for the love of all things please better nails long french tips, almond shape.
    - add a nail tech career please we need more active careers. This could add onto hustle skill, charisma, art, and entrepreneurship skills. Have to gain clients and try to keep them. Can create narrative conflicts and drama maybe sim messes up client nails can get sued. Be able to put your sims through Cosmetology school.

    Personality: I feel like the game lacks personality. The traits should affect gamplay and it doesn’t. Ex. Slob, the lot should become dirty faster, trash overflow and if they clean it’s half cleaned.

    Relationships: Divorce/separation options. Chose if a sims moves out or stay. Alimony. Child support.
    please add a dating app system for teen, adult and elders.
    - ability to have blind dates or the app tries to pair you with compatible sims based off sims traits and what they are looks for. Ex. Family trait pair with family trait and loyal trait. And pairs with chosen romantic wishes

    Financial: Banking system that separates households income. Create customized accounts savings and checking account. Retired funds etc. Apply for benefits.

    Story progression: please add the option for sims to continue aging up.

    Surrogacy system: sims can sign up to carry for another sim.

    Add better adoption options: be able to give up sims and be able to foster. Chance to get sims back. Option for open or closed adoption. ( clear the family tree or not)
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    MisfitbaeMisfitbae Posts: 7 New Member
    Better weight loss and gain system
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    MisfitbaeMisfitbae Posts: 7 New Member
    A better door lock system for npc sims. Say you having a party or stay over I wish you could allow certain guests in certain areas of the house. For example if your sim has a significant other coming over and you want to allow access to only the bathroom and a specific bedroom and not be all in other rooms.
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    MisfitbaeMisfitbae Posts: 7 New Member
    Rental: be able to own individual units and not a whole building. Airbnb option: being able to rent “rental residential lots.” Be able to make money off of sims vacationing or vacation at
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    StunewlinStunewlin Posts: 3 New Member
    I think we need a different levels for social and romance bars so badly. I would love to have my sims with different feelings for each other, like we had in previous games.

    We could even implement this with the base game sims, like Bob and Eliza, maybe the only thing that's holding their marriage together is that one of them didn't stop loving the other completely, therefore they would have different levels at romance bar.
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    Rob1992Rob1992 Posts: 57 Member
    Misfitbae wrote: »
    I would love the following:

    Relationships: Divorce/separation options. Chose if a sims moves out or stay. Alimony. Child support.
    please add a dating app system for teen, adult and elders.
    - ability to have blind dates or the app tries to pair you with compatible sims based off sims traits and what they are looks for. Ex. Family trait pair with family trait and loyal trait. And pairs with chosen romantic wishes

    I haven't played the sims 4 in a while and when i did i wasn't bothered with marriage, but you can't divorce?
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    OccultmasterOccultmaster Posts: 134 Member
    Rob1992 wrote: »
    Misfitbae wrote: »
    I would love the following:

    Relationships: Divorce/separation options. Chose if a sims moves out or stay. Alimony. Child support.
    please add a dating app system for teen, adult and elders.
    - ability to have blind dates or the app tries to pair you with compatible sims based off sims traits and what they are looks for. Ex. Family trait pair with family trait and loyal trait. And pairs with chosen romantic wishes

    I haven't played the sims 4 in a while and when i did i wasn't bothered with marriage, but you can't divorce?
    Pretty sure you can, it might be a mean interaction.
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    Brindleton Bay Calico Club should have workers at the reception desk and can book you for dinner in a dining hall on the premise, yacht sails, go through loading screen to like secret lots, a build but moving background sipping mimosas, and exclusive small parties, and golfing, loading screen to again like secret lot but golf course and the game play to play and they can ride around in those little golf carts.
    If not here then a vacation world like a club med or miami world with lots of gameplay experiences.
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    haisinhaisin Posts: 957 Member
    Bigger terrariums and tanks for frogs and insects and being able to feed them and take care of them.
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    MaguerillaMaguerilla Posts: 2 New Member
    This is so cool! I'm new so pardon my excitement.

    1. Let the toddlers get wild and jump on some furniture already. They're so vanilla.
    2. Update all of the aspirations - they're too limited. It's probably because of the type of actions, but if not, maybe overhauling these? I would want to see "Class Clown" w/ HSY or; Fortune getting "Retail Mogul" or "Restaurant Barron"
    3. Events need to be updated! How come Get To Work hasn't added "Grand Opening" as an event? That seems pretty essential for owning your own retail shop, or even in Cats and Dogs and being a neighborhood vet.
    4. ASPIRATIONS! I like the idea of "Restaurant Barron" and "Retail Mogul" since they recently added the property owner aspiration.
    5. Time! What a missed opportunity to me! lol Maybe overhaul the game timing. I don't ever want to change it in mccc, because seasons does not care for that. I do, however, want a better calendar planner that shows me an estimate of how much game time an event will automate -and, I'd like the option to "stick around longer" for after party social interactions. Like, chatting up the bartender (w/ guests from the event!), but still in the event, and still with some goals of things to do. But without a proper planner, boy is it just chaos in there.
    6. I think this is my last, but EVENTS!!!!!! - Man it would be so cool if they could find a way to update events so that they mold to the personality or aspirations of the sim that's planning it. Maybe something that can be toggled on and off? I don't know, but it would make some events a bit spicier without having to initiate a negative social interaction! For example, if a deviant Sim throws a party, they can suddenly lock the door for everyone EXCEPT a specific sim they invited (dastardly!), or if an athletic Sim has a pool party, they can toggle an option to have a paid fitness event? It would make the bodybuilding aspiration a bit more engaging.

    Anyhoo - that's all for me!

    I hope there's someone out there that feeeeeeeels this!
    Later yall!
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    stockings for xmas with little gifts you can put inside, an improved gift giving, where you can gift more items from game catalog, and stockings for pets you can stuff with treats.
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    school is /was cancelled due to extreme weather conditions- blizzard
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    SimmingalSimmingal Posts: 9,333 Member
    edited January 15
    • Show Plumbobs on/off option for game options.

    I keep cheating headline effects off for taking screenshots but then I have to cheat headline effects on to check how my lambs are doing or sims names or whatever and it gets pretty annoying

    • also separate on/off option to hide that club thing above sims heads from get together

    speaking of which

    •Show Columns on/off
    so tired of building cool mansions with lots of columns and then those don't even show in live mode unless you view the lot from another planet or whatever
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    AncientMuseAncientMuse Posts: 1,082 Member
    Things I've been desperately wanting in the game since forever:

    - Improve on the BB catalogue search function: currently, you have to try to memorize the exact names of things (because their names have absolutely nothing to do with what they actually are) or you'll get no results (or the wrong results). No search results means you then have to spend the next 30 minutes of your very valuable game playing time searching through the entire catalogue to try to find what you're looking for. And as we continue to add more DLC's into our game, this issue is no longer just a minor frustration.... it's getting to the point of 'road rage'. :|

    - The current BB catalogue is a mess with items not in their correct categories and thus making it a total nightmare trying to remember what category they're in (because the search function sucks). There's no cohesiveness with where things are getting categorized (ie: some kitchen clutter items are in 'clutter decor', while others are in 'misc decor', while others are in 'sculptures decor' - since when is a kitchen flour canister a sculpture?). There's also a problem in the CAS catalogue: many items show up in the general categories (ie: footwear) but not in the subcategory (ie: boots).... looking at you Paranormal SP toeless boots. I don't know about anyone else, but I never look in the general category for something, I always go directly to the subcategory.... Because I don't feel like scrolling forever and ever looking at all the footwear, I just want to look at specifally 'boots' or 'sandals'. :|

    - Please please please bring back the ability to make our own Collections folders in both the BB and CAS catalogues. If you give us this... then you can totally ignore my first two suggestions above because we'll be able to make our own corrections via creating our own custom collections folders. Win win. :|

    - Give us the ability to make and save our own 'styled looks' in CAS. Yours look great, but sometimes ours look even better. :p

    - And last but not least: For the love of all that's holy, please please please give us the ability to carry forward all makeup and accessory settings (or saving them into a 'makeup looks' category or something) into each CAS category. There's nothing worse than spending 20 minutes getting a sims' makeup just right in the party category.... and then moving on to the next category and having to do it all over again (while trying to remember which eyeshadow you used before). Wash, rinse, repeat.... ad infinitum. :|

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