Diversity and depth for Sims.

"Armilus616;d-931757" wrote:
I read a lot of people complain about Sims having not much to do. But new activities, skills, careers and so on are added with every new pack.
New Clothing and accessories are as well, but they don't do much about how different Sims are from each other.

In order to make each Sim more unique, I would like to suggest a few things.

- Likes and Dislikes.
Allow us to decide what the sim likes and what he or she dislikes. For Example: Haircolors, Colors in general, Food types, Radio Stations, TV channels, Movies... you get it? If you allow for 3 likes and 3 dislikes, that is already an improvement. More is of course welcome. The Sim should have emotional reactions to those things.

- Zodiac signs, culture and main hand.
Allow us to pick a zodiac sign for our Sims that is separate from traits and affects certain things in his life.
Also, we should be able to pick a culture to have our sims behave accordingly. What should I do if I want a sim to eat with chopsticks instead of a fork and bow down instead of waving the hand? With that, I would just pick the Eastern culture. With Eastern culture, A sim would act like how it is common and polite in china and japan. There would also be Western and Middleeastern culture selectable.
And I would like to decide if my Sim is a lefty, a righty or can use both hands equally. (Forgot the Therm for it)

- CAS Options.
Clothing and Hairstyles are well and good. Keep them coming. But also...
Add Body Hair. People have hair on their arms, their legs, their backs and chests.
Maybe different hights? I am aware that adding hight differences makes it difficult to animate stuff, and you would have to recreate each animation for every hight and perhaps more, but it would make Sims more diverse. It could be 3 buttons instead of a slider as a compromise.
I would also like more walkstyles that are less exagurated. I am alsowaiting for a limbing walkstyle.
Also, the walkstyles should affect the way a Sim stands, sits, dances and more...
More Traits are a must.

The Gender Patch was a good thing, even though I was a bit angry because it broke mods.
I think those additions would make the sim world and the sims much more alive.

I like a lot of these ideas. I'm iffy about the 'cultural' thing, though, as I suspect it would create a lot of potential minefields for the creators. I mean, how to define cultures and would people from those cultures be offended by those associations. Also, there is no such thing as 'Western' or 'Eastern' culture - I'm British, British culture isn't the same as American culture in a lot of ways, nor is it the same as European culture. And I've lived in Japan, and Japanese culture isn't the same as Chinese culture or Korean culture. And believe me, there's some feeling in that particular equation. I think the idea of more options is good but not terming them in the framework of our world. Just having the options 'eat with chopsticks' as an option for any sim to be selected or not selected (as an example) is probably less contentious, especially since the Sims is very fluid with ethnicity and names. I still would like hijab to be added to the clothing options because if we can have diwali stuff, Iand in the past, I think, menorah? Do we still have a menorah?) not to mention a Christmas tree...I don't see why a hijab is a problem, but I think (as with woohoo and plasma) terminology has to be carefully thought out...

I like the idea of right or left handed or ambidextrous :) I'm naturally ambidextrous so that would be fun :)

The thing I am most on board with, though, is the likes/dislikes. Especially in terms of chemistry. I liked the old TS2 option of 'check sim out' which could also determine if a sim liked men or women (although we need a 'both' option tweaked in there as well). Also liking red hair, or blue eyes...those kinds of things. Then I agree about likes and dislikes with food, with stuff, with movies, with people's traits (other than good vs evil). I think the potential for it is there, it just needs fleshing out. Emotions are fine but it would be great to take that further.

I think maybe bits of this could be solved by more options for sim traits and also aspirations and jobs as well, but more would need to be done on personalities and preferences. That could almost be a pack in its own right - the Sims Personalities...