Base Game improvement

My big thing for basegame would be changing the way basements work to allow us to build walk-out or half-submerged basements.

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.

Would love to see the elders falling sick, needing a cane, losing teeth, losing memories, sagging skin. Its just too dull that elders just dies of old age. Maybe they could improve and concentrate on elders now that babies are improved?

@wizardbob I strongly agree with you, i love the community atmosphere provided by community spaces, Neighborhood Action Plans and errands from Eco Lifestyle and Cottage Living and feel that they should be BG features, so everyone could feel like the sims communities are alive and cooperative.

@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 want to be able to make paintings in a landscape orientation, wider not taller

"Kakkant;c-18279572" wrote:
I know that in this game the open world is over, but it's quite frustrating that if you just want to visit the neighbour's house next to you, the game starts loading anyway. The game turned back to that old mechanic that was already twenty years ago in the Sims2 period.

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.

I think the main priority improvements I'd want are:

- Option to turn off the mobile phones completely. No autonomous use, no calls, no texts, no unwanted invasion of random townies trying to contact my Sims just because they were in the same place at the same time once. Just the ability to stop the madness.

- World editing tool. I want to customize my neighborhoods the way we could in the other games. Even if it just meant basic object placement areas, I really really want to get rid of all the excessive playgrounds and barbecue picnic areas and put something interesting there instead that I would actually use. Or I'd just fill them with gravestones. But it's a huge downgrade that we can't change anything at all in the neighborhoods.

- More Sim tuning with reactions and animations. This would cover a bunch of things, but mainly, further tuning to make Sims more reactionary to their traits, likes and dislikes, preferences, quirks, reputations, etc. Also, instead of all Sims having the same default reactions to the same things, like decorations, radios, computers, etc... have them behave according to their own personalities. Materialistic? Then sure, react to the nice decorations. Foodie? Then sure, be happy when you have a nice meal. But others without the appropriate traits? Not so much. This would also require autonomy tweaks as well. Autonomous behavior should also match a Sim's personality. If a Sim hates children, why would they autonomously try to care for an infant? If a Sim is mean, why would they hug someone after a fight or pretend it never happened? They should mock them instead. It all needs to make sense. And maybe it would help if object appeal was turned down in general so that Sims gravitate more to each other rather than objects. But not if they are Loners, of course. Also, we need new conversation animations. The current ones are so tediously repetitive.

Some base game items still need additional textures. The Cargill (sp?) counter for example - we sorely need more colours on a lot of basic items.
Base game objects are crucial to gallery builds that work for everyone or are challenges. I appreciate the items that have been updated to include more swatches!

Some of the base game hair isn't shiny and lacks depth. Many of the hair meshes display the same colour differently. I suspect UV mapping and specular mapping, not necessarily the texture.

Base game white clothes look grey. Please please, can they be white? Just add white textures/swatches to all the clothes pleeeeeaaaaaase!

(I still wantneed the Barcelona counters from Sims 1 to be base game objects)

Update all BG hairs with better textures and more hair swatches in general especially greying and unnatural hair.

The ability to turn on closed captions for simmers who are Deaf or HoH. Right now that accessibility is missing for simmers and so they miss out on all the cool parts of Simlish. I'm honestly surprised that this feature doesn't already exist.

I think that decreasing the amount of time it takes for sims to eat & drink would be very beneficial as well.