CK213's TS4 Favorite Simming Moments [TS4: For Rent pg. 22]

Like The Sims 3: Generations, The Sims 4 Parenthood will probably be the pack that gets me immersed in the series.

https://youtu.be/MIW6kougM6w

Up until now, I have been playing the same sims since the launch of the game. Never aging, never getting married, and no children.
I've started their lives over again several times. Simming for me was just checking out the features in the latest EP, GP, and SP.
In between the packs, I was just making sims, admiring them, but not really enjoying the game play and the life stages.


I was very interested in this game pack from the start, but now that my plans are starting to take shape, I am fairly excited about playing it.
The plan is to take all my never aging, always single, Young Adult sims and aging them down to toddlers. I will give them parents and raise them to young adults again.

I was inspired by this crew.


I can now play out my sim's young lives and even give them siblings with lots of new game play.
I have yet to play toddlers, children, or teens, so I am about to really start playing TS4, finally.

I have a lot of sims though, so I am not giving everyone families.
I am bringing in Miss Alma Faye Peregrine to help me out.


She's going to run a home for peculiar sims.


My cat sims and Meadow Thayer will live there as toddlers.
My cat sim's backstory is they were illegal genetic experiments created by a mad scientist. They were taken away from him.


Meadow isn't peculiar like the other sims that will be living there, but my current story is that she is fascinated by cat sims.
Now her new story is she grew up with them in an orphanage.


Gamma is an alien, so she's in.


I will also have a vampire and probably a plant sim.
So yeah, it will be a home for peculiar sims.


I gave up on making the house look like the one from the movie.
I'll just let it evolve into its own thing. I still have lots of work to do.


My first wave of sims are ready to go.
I can't dump them in all at once because I don't want birthdays happening on the same day. So I am introducing them in waves, and days apart in the waves.

Meadow and Zane will be the first to arrive at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as toddlers.


Zane is a vampire and Meadow is... Meadow.
We really need more hairstyles for toddlers.


Melonie, Ling, and Cairo have CAS generated parents and will be living in homes around the various neighborhoods.

Next: Miss Peregrine

"rsedorothy;c-15780204" wrote:
Dancing around with glee. This tale is going to be amazing.

"CK213;d-857927" wrote:
The Return of The Sims Diary
I haven't played TS2 in ages, but I remember sims could write in a dairy.
I'm not sure if it was just to occupy your sims or if it actually gave them some fun or built a skill, but I liked making them do it.

I would like to see it come to TS4, but in a big, game-play enhancing way.
The game cannot read your mind and know your opinion of sims in the game. It can't anticipate the scenarios you are playing out in your sim world, but there could be a way that you can input that into the game and have it reflected in game play.

Opinions
We could have our sims write in their diary or journal about sims they have met in the game. You can select a sim from your relationship panel and the diary could have a check list of opinions that your sim could have about other sims. This sims is:
-Beautiful on the inside, outside, both, or the opposite of those
-In The Friend Zone
-An Absolute Jerk
-My secret crush
-My parent's dream
-My parent's worst nightmare
-The town floozy or player
-Not my type
-Envious of me
-Gross
-Soooo Hot!

I play rotational and sometimes I like my sims to pursue impossible relationships, or at least very difficult ones. The In The Friend Zone and Not My Type flags would make some relationships one-sided. So if I played my sim, he or she might have some special social options to any autonomous socials the sim from their diary might have. And if I was playing the In the Friend Zone sim, it would be very difficult to climb the romance ladder like sims normally would. Sometimes you want to flirt, but have it rejected because that is the scenario you are playing out.

Imagine your teen sim with two friends. One is her Parents worst nightmare and Sooo hot! The other is her Parents dream, but Not her type. When both visit they will be treated very differently by the girl and the parents.

Secret Wishes
Your sim can write their secret wish for that sim:
-Ask me out
-Propose to me
-Die!
-Offer me a promotion

There is a chance that the wish will come true. Even death.
This would address the desires of simmers to have other sims be more assertive instead of your sims having to initiate everything.

Results
After you ticked off what all your sim will write about, they will settle down with their diary and write. You will see associated thought bubbles for what you checked off along with the face of the sims they are writing about. The next time you meet that sim, you could be in for some interesting experiences helpful to the scenario you are playing out. This should make playing the game more immersive.

Emotions, skills, and time warping
The Diary could also be used to alter emotions. There should be choices specifically to get a certain emotion. You can also chose to write about certain sims and this will trigger emotions based on the relationships. Writing about enemies could make them angry. Writing about friends can make them happy. Writing about love interests could make them flirty.

They could boost skills by writing about certain topics. It could be a minor skill gain along with need increasing--like fun, and maybe some other benefits.

Perhaps diary writing/journal could be a skill that unlocks some of these features. Time warping could be one. When your sim writes, they could earn the ability to slow down time or speed it up for everyone in the household. This would allow your sims to get more done in the day. Or you could just want to make it seem like they are so immersed that time speeds by, or you just want to get the day over with, but without the sped up play. You will just smoothly change the day to night cycle, but without all the speeding up of animations.

Rotational Play and Social Dynamics
Rotating between all your sims and having them writing in their diaries about other sims could build a social consensus about certain sims in the game, that could give these sims an NPC-like status. They will get special roles with socials and autonomous acts, they will be gossiped about. If there are more than one, they will congregate together and become friends (birds of a feather).

"blazerntq;c-15777433" wrote:
Congrats on the new thread. Hope you receive lots of friendship and fun times from your new thread.