It's a basic list and many may think these wishes are stupid, but I wish for these things so very much!
1. My entire worlds are designed around Harry Potter. Because of this I desperately wish for Private schools and boarding schools. This way I can use private schools for my snobbish & posh sims. This way they are not attending public school with the regular sims and I can have my Harry Potter kids got to Hogwarts as a boarding school. With the boarding schools I wish we could go visit and play those sims like in Sims 3 University Life.
2. Sims should have messy beds unless they have the "Neat" trait
3. Sims sleeping animations: allow for toss and turn, snuggling, back to back, spooning, and introduce a "Wild Sleeper" trait and these sims will be bedhogs. Bedhog sims can toss and turn in excess where they steal the covers or bump the other sim out of the bed. The other sim can get up and stomp their feet in their usual aggravated manner and wake up the other sims and yell at them before going back to bed.
4. Reading newspapers! Allow sims to read newspapers and have jobs working for the newspaper and news channel as reporters, anchors, copywriters, producers, gossip columnists, etc.
- The Gossip Columnist can print real sim-life scandal stories of famous sims and have sims that the stories are about get mad at reporter, fight reporters, and try to bribe the reporter into not releasing the story.
- Anchors can report on stories of famous sims and crime in towns and the weather. Maybe even report when a drug dealer gets busted by police.
- - Would work w/ mods
5. More and longer cleaning interactions like mopping wood and tiled flooring, vacuuming, dusting, and window washing
- If sim does NOT have a Neat trait they do quick bare minimum cleaning
- If the sim has the Neat trait they do extensive cleaning and even double-check dishes in the dishwasher and maybe re-clean them. Neat sims also should demand ALL their kids and teens or spouses/roommates bathe after being outdoors for any activities like basketball or playing.
6. MORE ROMANTIC & FAMILY INTERACTIONS!!!
- Hold hands walking as a couple
- Snuggle/cuddle while watching TV (non- of this rubbing heads together stuff. just lean into each other and enjoy the movie/show)
- Random wallaby tickles and kiss on cheeks or butt patting
- Lounge together in bed
- Read together in bed
- Watch TV together in bed
- Let children sleep between parents when afraid of thunder or the monster under their beds
- Let kids walk w/ grand parents/parents/aunts/uncles/siblings holding hands
- Piggyback rides for children
- Play hide & go seek w/ kids
- Adults & teens play make believe w/ children
- Kids "help" parents cook (make cookies or hand them ingredients when preparing grand meals, etc.)
- Give kids a toy kitchen, army/Barbie/baby dolls to play with w/ their friends and adults
- Parents teach kids to read and write
- Parents teach kids to tie their shoes
- Parents argue w/ children to eat all their food
- Parents carry kids to bed and tuck them in
7. Have family of famous sims either hate being related to the famous sim or thrive off of the other sim's fame.
Comments
Love number 7!
Number 4 - I miss having sims read the paper and get notifications on neighbourhood goings on like they did in TS3, but it probably doesn't really work unless you have an open world.
Saying "not to be rude", then blatently being rude does not excuse rude behavior.
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For the time being I recommend adding in Pancake1's Chemistry Alpha 5.1 MOD and Kawaiistacie's Slice of Life MOD. These allow you to add specific likes/dislikes which then impact the interactions between sims a lot in gameplay.
Back when we used to have the Dev's Q & A section in the forum - one of the devs - it may have been Daniel - I forget now - said they actually tried the hand holding while walking for sims between couples as well as between kids or parents and kids and found out it did not work right because of the multi-tasking programming - it was said it was the same reason we didn't get lounge chairs, recliners, slow dancing and carrying infants around. So unless they figured a way around that issue since they posted that over 3 years ago - I doubt those things will ever happen in the game.
From the sound of what they wrote then any visual actions between sims are a problem - thanks to multi-tasking programming. Made me ask then why they did multi-tasking then as I for one would like all those other things. Of course I sort of got poo-pooed by other players who loved the multi-tasking - but I have never changed my mind. I don't see where it does anything but keep us from having things we had before or things we wished we had.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....