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Pricing Overhaul
We need a pricing overhaul, badly. Items across different packs were priced by people who weren't even attempting to match the pricing structure of other packs, and so many things in buy mode make little sense. This also makes finding items very difficult because you scroll too far trying to find pricier things and they're way too cheap. Immediate example: Guess which of these fire pits is 450, 350, and 150 simoleons. Did you guess left to right? Wrong! Other way around. The one that's rocks with crummy logs is 450, the one that's better rocks with nicely stacked logs is 350, and the giant one is 150. There's another giant one with nicely stacked rectangular rocks...and it's also 150. Go look at the swingsets and tell me which ones you think would be costlier...because they're not. They're just random prices. Despite being the same basic object with no benefits or downsides, they're randomly priced. Many major, major activity items also just have bizarrely low prices in general. The Celestial Crystal Crown- a literal gilded crown that you can slot gemstones into for magic healing powers- costs...100 simoleons. It costs less than ordering two pizzas to have a permanent source of magic powers. Shouldn't something like that be a big-ticket item? I would say 10,000 minimum for something that powerful. From game consoles to TVs to bookshelves to any and all activities, nothing seems priced correctly anymore. Base game windows were very expensive, now much larger much fancier windows are very cheap- we're talking 250 for a small window in base game and 35 for a massive extravagant window 10 years later. This issue clutters the catalog and unbalances the game's admittedly historically shaky economy. Bigger, better things should have bigger, less achievable prices- as a drive to make money and have an excuse to spend it.
Higher zoom/resolution in Tattoo Paint mode (and other improvements)
When using the Custom Tattoo Paint mode, it would be super helpful to be able to zoom in closer on the area, like how the 'Detail Mode' on faces can be accessed in CAS. Having an option for finer linework and smaller stamp sizing would also be great, though I'm guessing the resolution limit is there for resources/performance reasons. Other tattoo improvements high on my list are free placement/scaling of existing tattoo designs (i.e. use like a stamp), copy/paste, ability to save a layer as a stencil/stamp, and symmetry options. Thanks for considering!
New sims pack idea🤔‼️‼️
Okaii hear me out guys! We need like a outdoors living like camping tents or even cabins with a forest or mountain get away idea with ofc the furniture and stuff surrounding that idea. i was also making a shelter and labeled it national park just in case any sims with no homes wonders in they have everything they need. I pretty much built a shelter lol so that brought the other idea to make a pack with a shelter build or some sort of community build or something. I’m just spit balling since I already built a shelter and a lil camping area 😭😂 what do you guys think???? Honest opinions💕‼️‼️‼️
FRUSTRATED
I am frustrated because with all the games, expansions, stuff packs and kits that EA keeps giving us that's nice and all but we all wish that they EA would just fix the issues, fix the glitches and stuff before putting out new packs and kits. Please EA fix these problems with the games. Sulani still does not work right a lot of the worlds, the lots are so messed up you can barely play in them. I know one thing I will not be buying anymore until these issues are fixed.
The game is slowly getting filled with buggs and it ruins gameplay
So, I have been playing sims 4 since October 2023 on PS5. I have been getting DLC's gradually and have noticed that buggs are accumulating and I wonder what can be done about it. First, I have Cottage Living which is the first DLC I got, before ~the animals would maintain their lifespans even if you didn't play with the family for a while and now say i dont play with a family for a few in game weeks and then when I return to the family animal and they die (chickens,cows,llamas) they die. I purchase another animal and it happens again. It becomes this endless loop of animals dying even if I have the age option disabled and even if I donplay with the family which in other words, it's a broken option. Another thing is, not all finchwick fair competions work anymore. Another thing most recent, the fridge eats eggs lol. I made a sim by dozens of eggs with simple living lot trait and now the fridge just doesn't register the option even if i stocked 2x in a row. Which is maddening cause what's the point of having the lot trait if the fridge doesn't register what you put in it.. With Seasons. It. Rains. Inside. Houses. My sims stop actions like cooking, bathing and open up a **bleep** umbrella... like .. why? That did not happen before. Sulani: Fishing in the designated fishing spots in Sulani absolutely don't work at all in the entire world itself. I could put the trap in the very middle of the fishing pool and not even that works. It's maddening cause the world supposedly comes with a lot of new exotic fish and dishes and yet no access to them... Discover University: Say I play with an enrolled sim, If I don't play with that enrolled sim until they graduate the entire thing~ they fail the term otherwise which is un logical. Cause one plays with them to an extent and would like to pause such type of game play and play other things and then when you come back~ boom failed a whole term and then that sim get on academic probation. I should be allowed to play how I want without feeling this type of obligation. Curious enough it started happening when I got Seasons I think, not sure if I am just looking for excuses The game crashes a lot more than it should on it's own and no it's not the console (it barely has games in it and is in optimal conditions in it's system) the console itself creates a small video to show how it just crashes and sends it.. somewhere and has me restarting the game sometimes 2/3/ 4 times particularly in buy mode. .. All of these things one may consider them small but all are things that didn't happen before (except Sulani, that was always broken) , everytime the game updates I notice how something else breaks through time and the fact that keep adding up through time is one of concern cause it's so much money that goes into this product to an extent and as a customer I shouldn't be having a digital product that breaks through time. That didn't happen in Sims 1 or 2 or 3 ~ it was a finished and complete product and yet here is one spending double if not triple to have these things happen. I would kindly like to know what is going on.
I wish "High School" had an on/off feature for unrequited love
I wish "High School" had an on/off feature for unrequited love. I think it would be easier to play if you could turn off unrequited love for people other than your partner, like the on/off feature for "charm" in "Lovestruck." Also, it would be nice if there was a feature that lets you "forget" someone you have a crush on at any time. Since I often play teenager characters, this would be really nice.Sims 4 Ocean Exploration expansion pack [Aquariums, scuba diving and houseboats]
Underwater Diving areas There are underwater diving areas that Sims can explore and that are interactive and actually visible to the player. Players can find treasure chests, explore underwater caves or ruins or sunken shipwrecks, harvest seaweed and catch fish swimming around. The fish that have been caught can be brought to the surface and exhibited in an aquarium. There is a scuba diving skill. The higher the skill level, the longer a Sim can stay underwater and the less depressurizing time a Sim has. Aquarium There is an aquarium in town that you can fill up with fish and other marine life like starfish or colorful sea slugs. These can be caught while scuba diving. There are giant aquarium tanks that you can stock with fish. There is an aquarium tunnel object that Sims can walk through. Aquariums are a new type of community venue. There are saltwater tanks (with corals and rocks) and freshwater tanks (with kelp and wood branches) Houseboat Houseboats are a new type of home that Sims can live in. Houseboats are editable in Build Mode like a regular lot, except you can't add a basement. Upgrade your houseboat Players can add upgrades to the houseboat at the wharf building. Houseboat upgrades include… Ladder for ocean swimming Fishing net to catch fish Custom anchor styles Headlights for the night Faster houseboat speed Whale watching There are whales jumping out of the ocean that you can go watch with your houseboat. You can offer paid whale watching tours or diving tours with your houseboat by clicking on the tourist information center. Driftwood furniture Collect driftwood at the beach and craft new driftwood furniture using the woodworking table from base game and Handiness skill. Expanded mermaids Mermaids should get their own skill tree like all other occults and more scary looking like Sirens. Sirens could also be a new type of occult. To expand Mermaids they should get… Aquatic ears New mermaid tails Seaweed hair Fish scale skin tone that makes the whole body have fish scales Barnacles on body Sims can become a Siren by getting bitten by a Siren. (Like vampires) Mermaids/ Sirens can drink blood like vampires, but don‘t need to More fish-like appearance Fish-like eyes Freezing abilities Stronger manipulation powers The Siren/ Mermaid skill tree Australian world The town is inspired by Australian beach towns like Airlie Beach in Australia. It consists of two marinas where houseboats are located. New collections Sea slugs: Verco's nudibranch Black-margined sea slug Leaf sea slug Clown nudibranch Orange side-gilled slug Chromodoris nudibranch Starfish: Cushion starfish Eleven-armed sea star Reef starfish Firebrick starfish Seven-armed starfish Blue spiny starfish New fishes Harvest edible seaweed Seaweed grows underwater and you can harvest it and eat it.
Yeah, GTW still needs a refresh.
With burglars back and the new pack coming out, that surprisingly already needs tweaks [not being able to go on a date at a small business, selling all servings instead of a single plate, not being able to use the will system for small businesses, not being able set the styling chair as a spa activity, and more [but this isn't about B&H]] GTW desperately needs a refresh! First and foremost, the retail system. With B&H, I don't see a reason to even open a retail. Sure, you can't set floor objects for sale [so no furniture store] but that's about it and for players who only like selling what they can make through gameplay the woodworking table is disappointing when it comes to large objects anyway. How to update: Inventory/Packing/Bulk displays - bring back full to empty displays based on what's inside - a fish display, a produce display, clothing rack, bookshelves, shoe display, small trinkets display, card/comic displays etc to be ordered and/or restocked via inventory of the owner or via employee [from a stock room] Pricing/discounts/sales based on seasons/holidays or competitor pop-ups, maybe even some kind of loyalty program for repeat customers [a punchcard?] New register and bring back shopping bags, self-checkout. Same shady/goody aspect but on a corporate/franchise level with more serious consequences* Online orders/e-commerce integration/expansion with Plopsy and/or delivery services Social Media Marketing packages to purchase to drive sales or foot traffic and/or a person to hire to do the same Running the store without being there Employee morale and striking Studying trends and making changes to business has an effect. That sign spinner idea, for this instead. And that's just the retail system [make the loading screen worth it], the hospital, the police station, and the science lab would be updated as well. All three careers could be updated to have different career paths bonuses. Hospital: player sick sims can go to the hospital to get treatment, checkups, fractures/scuffs from bike, fights, or random events, first-aid class, CPR certification, seasonal allergies, heatstrokes in summer, frostbite in winter, introduce different departments [pediatrics, gyno, ER, etc], medical history, [I would say wheelchairs and canes but that really should be base game], house calls for player sick sims, Police Station: criminal/spy/lawyer/cop update to interact with each other, consequences for too many failed mischief interactions, for failed pickpocketing, for being caught breaking in, for tagging walls [for a much needed graffiti update], for werewolves peeing in public, for vampires caught compelling for a drink, for hackers being caught, player sims who are taken to the station can dig out again, player sims will get a record with time in jail based on it [continually caught, continually behind bars], favors and events, counterfeit machine [I just want her back] Science Lab: more mad science, tours/field trips, a voodoo dissection station [to be a PG version of frog dissection], small microscope, Beaker Family and all their machines, update to aliens with their own skill tree and flying saucer vehicle, different sciences, interaction with engineering from DU, better cross pack integration in general Could there be more, possibly but for now this is my perfect GTW refresh, it's such an old pack that needs so much help imo.Can we have a india based world? (Expansion Pack)
I've heard a few things about that country like some kind of a tradition such as: festival of lights (diwali), holi party, Makar Sankranti, Vasant Panchami (divali) to name a few What if some of these things can be added as an event just like a couple of worlds like San Myshuno, Henford-On-Bagley, Mt Komorebi, Copperdale and Ravenwood? Clothes wise: And some accesoires i don't know the name for it Hindu buildings A very hot climate It needs to come as atleast 1 or 2 aspirations and personalities Buildings you can interract with even if you can't edit them Similair to other worlds with a small shop you can buy items (speaking for worlds like Tartosa and Ciudad Enamorada to name these 2 worlds but there are other worlds you can buy some unique items) More curly hair options...longer hair too More food options when order them at a bar I can't think of other things, these are based i came up with but we barely have an Asian based packs and worlds (Mt Komorebi and Tomarang)High School Years + Spa Day Cross Pack Compatibility
I had a teen sim age up into YA with acne - I don't mind the idea of my sim having acne scars. I think it could be cool though for YA + adult sims to have a skincare routine to take care of it if desired. Since spa day has face masks, I was thinking this would be a good cross-pack feature. I'm not sure if aging up with acne is a bug, I actually like the different skin textures. One sim had difficult acne even with using facial cleanser daily and the other sibling had their acne go away after a couple uses (I personally like the variance and adds a bit more depth to the game). I just think having a way for YA + adults to address acne scars should be included and then spa day could add extra features for skincare/acne management.
We need more relationship kinds that aren't family or dating.
So many options are still possible here, why should it all be about friends, family and dating? The only one we have that's none of those is enemy. I'd like to see a few new ones added, to better define other relationships instead of needing to have them merely implied. I have a few suggestions there: -Rival. Depending on how well they like the other, it could be a friendly rivalry but also a bitter rivalry. It would make enemies more interesting when there's also a rivalry going on. Rivalry can also be one sided, and could be fully dependent on traits so it won't just pop up where it makes no sense. Like active sims could see another sim performing better than them in sports as a rival, the average sim would not care if another is better than them at sports. This could add a lot more depth to traits. Genius sims could compete to see who is smartest, self absorbed sims would not want other self absorbed sims to steal their spotlight, etc. Jealous sims could develop rivalries of all kinds though, and the paranoid trait could just amplify feelings of rivalry from their other traits. It would come with unique wants, wanting to prove they are better than their rival in some ways. Like getting a specific skill up higher than their rival, getting a better paying job if materialistic, a higher ranking job if ambitious, wanting to beat them in a game, etc. -Boss/Employee. They really need to open up more household styles, I think many of us have had an employee sim of sorts part of a household? Like a live in butler, maid, bodyguard, apprentice, etc? Would be nice to be able to define that relationship in CAS, or have sims be able to hire another. What for could be left pretty open, could just be listed as employee. Would be up to the boss to define what kind of working relationship they have. Could be casual, professional, strict and maybe other options too. Best to keep plenty of freedom in what the job is though, by keeping it as a basic employee description, so we can make of that what we want. The boss can offer praise or scold them for their work, can fire them too which means the employee leaves the household, the employee can also quit. It could be impossible for relatives to be employees, but it could be possible to be romantically involved with an employee. Once engaged or married, they'd no longer be an employee though. It could come with new interactions too, the boss could always tell the employee to do stuff, but the employee can't do that the other way around. If the relationship is set as professional or strict, casual interactions won't happen between them. They would never automatically talk as friends, the employee might even stand at attention when the boss enters the room. -Rolemodel. Especially for children it could happen often, and they might look for it. To them, this sim is just the best and they want to be like them, taking any advice from them to heart even if it's horrible advice, they are also extra hurt when their rolemodel is mean to them or worse: Disappointed.
The Packs the SIMS 4 still desperately needs
Those are the most important pack ideas that the Sims 4 needs. some most Of which are famous fan-requested packs. Now mind you this is not just some rubbish talking, this post is long, though those ideas are well explained and not just some crazy ideas. I am trying to be as realistic as possible in the sense of that they are very possible to make but considering how Un ambitious cheap and lazy the Sims team and ea have been I can only imagine that most of those basic expected features being half-made or not made at all. And this is not ever possible if they are going with the very cheap and low standard for expansion packs like the 3 latest ones we've got especially for rent as one feature and system change revolves around a whole 40$ pack.(multi-units in 1 lot made a whole expansion pack no real estate no nothing else) This new standard of expansion packs is horrible for the sims 4 and will cause the game to end in failure and misery. If I missed a pack idea do mention them below but other than that These are the 7 in-total pack ideas : 1. CARS The only reason the Sims team has an excuse that they took 10 years and still no Cars is the fact that sims 4 world are not open world. Though as many people have noticed sims 4 neighborhoods are becoming bigger with longer roads. With that the sims 4 can now do cars , motorcycles, wagon on horses and we what so ever don't need an open world for cars anyways. Drive until the end of the road is fine. THE PACK IS probably coming in an expansion pack and must come with car racing with other sims and a mechanic career and a garage place where u can customize and upgrade your vehicle and a car sales showcase shop and job would be wonderful. The world must be like TOKYO with futuristic skyscrapers neon lights fast cars on the roads would be a wonderful opportunity to get a city world once more. 2. HOTELS are now super simple to make as they follow the same system as the bare minimum pack of for rent. You build a hotel a put the shared space and each hotel room where each guests can only view their own rooms and shared spaces. the only things they would have to add is multifunctionality that let's u have restaurants spas etc... In the hotel. Obviously, new activities must come with too. As for the world, the pack can come with a game pack but ea pricing it for 40$ wouldn't come as a surprise to me so the world should come as a Caribbean tropical African world like maybe madagascar or south africa with beaches more vast than the beaches in the island living pack sulani. So basically the pack should take inspiration from the movie BLENDED for the ones who have seen this movie, as it is a vacation in Africa with hotels. if it's an expansion pack. And this would a great opportunity to implement the long-awaited water pool activities such as diving boards volleyball pool etc.. 3. An expansion pack with another CITY a city with high skyscrapers and apartments. As we already have a modern city San Myshuno in the sims 4 city living and a super modern one that should come with cars based on Tokyo or Dubai. We should get an older city like New York Brooklyn with busy streets. Like the world we got in sims 3 BRIDGEPORT mixing it with the Roaring Heights world basically a 1920s GATSBY PACK where we can get an overhaul to parties and make it bigger and more fun and a fixer-upper car. Obviously this for an expansion is not enough IT WOULD be essential to add BANDS and Music careers to it where bands can perform in the rooftop of skyscrapers and have concerts in the southern subborn neighborhood of the city. This pack as it only comes with bands should give us all the other miscellaneous features, activities, careers, hobbies and skills thats been missing in the sims 4. And have it a bit like the ambitions pack in the sims 3 from a dentist career in the city and REAL ESTATE which is essential to owning business(lots) and making revenue and more. they can go beyond with this pack and make it wonderful as we know the sims 4 is coming to a close end so we deserve all this and more and they should make this thier love letter to the sims community and this sims 4. 4. You know what the sims 4 is deeply missing in the fun gameplay aspect of the game? CARNIVALS-AMUSEMENTS PARKS. We need to get a game pack that comes with roller coasters and carnival rides etc... All that fun stuff, and make it nothing like the boring pier park in high schools years Cooper dale because this is filled with fake rides and is a joke. ARCADES SHOULD ALSO 100% come with this just adding arcade machines etc.. And an arcade lot type not repeating the same mistake with the bowling stuff pack of which had no bowling type lot. Furthermore, we need a world for all those carnivals and parks so giving us a a small world like DISNEYLAND where there is an already fixed place u can vist that has rides and roller-coaster and a whole Disneyland-inspired world set up. 5. WORLD adventures expansion pack where we get 3 worlds exactly like the beloved world adventures pack we got in the sims 3. An Egypt inspired world, China world and an Italian-inspired world. Each with approximately 5 lots and each having its own unique stories and features and skills. It would make another really nice love letter to the fans before the sims 4 ends. 6. Since we are deeply lacking African worlds we need to add another one to the list. A game pack where the sims introduce a very new experience to the sims franchise that would go along really well. a SAFARI-type game pack In the African savanna with ZOOs as well, where there are wild animals basically functioning like cottage livings cows and llamas coming with an object but u can still care for them and having them come out of their shelter exactly like the cows and llamas. Being a zoo owner and zoo keeper would be very cool too. If cats would have come out which they should, they could do the whole safari experience with the safari bus driving around the savanna looking at animals in the wild so not only in the ZOOs. The world should come with livable lots too. 7. FAIRIES gamepack. fairies is the last occult missing in the sims 4. So these are the final packs that should come within the final years of the sims 4. Important to mention that they are a lot but not hard to do by any means if u understand closely each pack idea and its features alone you'll understand that any million-dollar company can do it let alone a billion-dollar company and nothing here is off the charts with its ideas everything is simple and based on previous packs they did the sims 4 and in previous titles including the sims freeplay which shows that's its very possible if they try a bit and stop being lazy and cheap. So a hotel expansion pack , cars expansion pack , city living 2.0 /bands music expansion pack, carnival game pack, world adventures expansion pack, zoo safari African-based pack and fairies game pack. 4 expansion packs 3 game packs. And THIS is ladies and gentlemen how the Sims 4 can become a fully-fledged game before it ends.CAS and BB Items We Need more of
Now that the Sims has introduced eyelashes, body hairs, and moles; and additionally blank picture frames, pillows, and vanity tables in various packs and in Deliveries. I believe it is time that future packs include more. If these items weren't in base game (with the exclusion of vanity tables) I could understand opposition, BUT since most of these are in base game now, I'd like to see more shapes, textures, and variants. I don't want to see another large pack without at least 1 of the following. For pillows, I want some granny pillows. You know the type, floral. Lacy. Round, Square. I'd also like some more arty pillows with artsy and quirky patterns like those cursive faces. Or color block. And some easier to swallow modern patterns and designs. I'd like some in different shapes now that Simmers have proven we don't mind having to hit CTRL 9 to lift pillows up since they don't snap to chairs. We should have more pillows. In different shades. Pastel, bold, neutral. I really want some round pillows, though. We also need some more variety in the empty picture frames. I'd like some large oval picture frames, small cute round picture frames in various swatches and styles. I wanted more gilded picture frames, wooden picture frames. Some that look modern, some that look historic. And some that loom antiqued, like they've been there for a while. I want some that are clustered in a gallery...but I think it's time to introduce individual picture frames of various shapes, sizes and swatches. And styles. And maybe some table-top ones. Fancier ones than the "Add Frame" option. Enameled and dainty ones that go on your dressing table. Wooden ones. Metal ones. But you know, I love HOW many beautiful gallery walls the sims gives us. They are gorgeous. I wouldn't mind some gallery walls with blank picture frames so instead of some random Sim's photo in my living room. it's a relative instead. I would like some more vanity tables, please. I know we have 4, and that's amazing. But can we have some 1-tile vanity tables, too? I have that cute rattan vanity from Urban Outfitters that's round, and i think that would be a great 1-tile vanity. Like that cute Italian one from the late 60s that was round and cute. But even if we don't use that, just a petite vanity with an oval or rectangular mirror would be so darling. And I'd like some Victorian vanities, too. And some Jacobean vanities. And some art deco ones, and old hollywood. And some country french with the glass top and pastel table skirt and matching stool. Oh, that would be so cute. There are a lot of vanity styles y'all can gives us still! And honestly, I wouldn't mind a new window seat. And some more historical looking paintings. Now, for CAS Can we get a coupla more eyelashes in some packs? Since they are base game, it would be nice to have more. Some that flutter more and some that give more of that feline affect. Can we get a mole that is on the corner of a chin and a mole that is in the middle of the cheek? Also, can we get new bodyhairs? Can we have curlier options. And some chest hairs that don't go all the way to a Sim's throat? And can we get a nice mustache on the game? One that just frames the face nicely? Not too thick, but not too thin. But we should also get a nice Clark Gable mustache, too. I'm not too worried about CAS. I mean, i want these things. I enjoy making Sims. But Buy Mode is what I want to see more of..
Forever Free Packs for Everyone
Sims 4 is already a 10-year-old game with around like 90 packs. And new packs will continue to be released for many years. Inzoi, with $40 (1 ep price we have 16 of them), might be able to cover 70-80 of these 90 packs, and with the base game without DLCs, they'll likely complete the missing ones within 1-2 years. I think Sims should adjust some of the older packs to be permanently free to prevent losing in the competition and keep players engaged. For example, packs like Seasons, Cats and Dogs expansion pack, and in game packs Get to Work could be free. If they make 2-3 packs from each pack type free, it would be great for new players, and they can complete the rest without pirating. By the way, I have almost all of the Sims packs. For those who already have these packs, the upcoming kits could be available for free for a month, similar to the Desert Luxe kit they gave for free when Sims 4 became free.
