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Sthenastia
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4 years ago

European Expansion Pack

On the last expansion packs EA was inspired by real countries/regions. Thats I got the idea how to represent Europe. Currently our beautiful continent has a low and stereotipical representation in The Sims 4. I know that EA can not give us 30+ expansions to show every country. Due to that I tried to reduce the number of expansions. My idea is simplyfied. Please do not be mad that some countries are together or wrongly represent, because I am not omniscent. I just want to give some representation for countries which will never have their own expansion.

Ok. Lets start. Europe is small but our countries have a lot of languages, different cultures, climate ect. Due to that it is hard to close our variery in a several expansions, but I will try do my best to do that.

How Europe looks like:
https://www.nationsonline.org/maps/countries_europe_map.jpg

Sorry that I will skip former Yugoslavian countries, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. I do not feel enough good to suggest something here.

1. Germany - We have Get Together expansion so I do not think that we can get something new here. I will skip this region.

3. Spain + Portugal + Andorra - Expansion Pack
Theme - Hotel and Resorts
World - 32 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 8 lots - inspired by Lisbon (coastal) - festivals + portugal culture and food + houses for locals
Neighborhood 2 - 5 lots - inspired by modern Madrid - business tourism + nightlife + modern apartments (2/3 per lot)
Neighborhood 3 - 5 lots - inspired by old Madrid - festivals + spanish culture and food + tounhouses/apartments
Neighborhood 4 - 6 lots - inspired by Barcelona (coastal) - clubs + catalan culture
Neighborhood 5 - 8 lots - inspired by Mallorca (island) - family tourism

3. Italy + Malta + San Marino - Expansion Pack
Theme - Showtime/Fashion
World - 35 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 5 lots - inspired by Venece (coastal) - festivals
Neighborhood 2 - 6 lots - inspired by Frienze - street art + Got Talent
Neighborhood 3 - 8 lots - inspired by Rome - opera/theater + X Factor
Neighborhood 4 - 8 lots - inspired by Milan - fashion + Top Model
Neighborhood 5 - 8 lots - inspired by Napoli - food + Master Chef

4. The Netherlands + Belgium + Luxembourg - Game Pack
Theme - Carieer / Business
World - 25 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 7 lots - inspired by Amsterdam - Shiphol Airport + pilot carieer + festivals (as Kings Day, Pride day ect.)
Neighborhood 2 - 7 lots - inspired by Rotterdam - Europoort + shipbuilder (or architect) carieer
Neighborhood 3 - 6 lots - inspired by Brussels - ambassador carieer
Neighborhood 4 - 5 lots - inspired by Luxembourg - functional bank

5. France + Monaco - Expansion Pack
Theme - Romance/Hot Date
World - 32 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 8 lots - inspired by Bordeaux - festivals + elegant festivals
Neighborhood 2 - 8 lots - inspired by Paris - apartments + festivals ect.
Neighborhood 3 - 5 lots - inspired by Paris suburbs - french village houses
Neighborhood 4 - 6 lots - inspired by Marseille (coastal) - yachts + clubs + romantic vacation destination
Neighborhood 5 - 5 lots - inspired by Monaco - casinos + expensive penthouses and apartments

6. Norway + Sweden + Denmark + Iceland + Finland - Expansion Pack
Theme - Generations
Pack Idea but in Scandinavian scenery

7. Poland + Czechia + Slovakia - Expansion Pack
Theme - Crafting + Vehicles
World - 32 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 6 lots - inspired by Gdansk (coastal) - fashion designer/seamstress (LPP brands)
Neighborhood 2 - 6 lots - inspired by Poznan - bakery + bakers (St. Martin croissants)
Neighborhood 3 - 6 lots - inspired by Katowice - train/trams production (a lot of companies in this region)
Neighborhood 4 - 6 lots - inspired by Praque - cosmetics production (Dermacol)
Neighborhood 5 - 5 lots - inspired by Pilsen - beer production
Neighborhood 6 - 6 lots - inspired by Bratislava - car production (VW factories for example)

8. Switzerland + Austria - Game Pack
Theme - Spring Touring
World - 20 lots (functional train between locations)
Neighborhood 1 - 8 lots - inspired by Wien - festivals + functional composer carieer + more instruments
Neighborhood 2 - 6 lots - inspired by Basel - chocolate and medivial festivals
Neighborhood 3 - 6 lots - inspired by Alpine village

9. Hungary + Romania + Bulgaria + Croatia + Slovenia - Game Pack
Theme - Supernatural
Obviously erevolwes, faelies, dragons and another mythical creatures.

10. Greece + Cyprus - Expansion Pack
Theme - Ancient
World - 30 lots - possibility to visit Ancient Greece by visiting the temples or something.
Neighborhood 1 - 8 lots - inspired by Athens
Neighborhood 2 - 6 lots - inspired by Thessaloniki
Neighborhood 3 - 6 lots - inspired by Crete (Herkalion)
Neighborhood 4 - 5 lots - inspired by Lesbos
Neighborhood 5 - 5 lots - inspired by Corfu

11. Lithuania + Latvia + Estonia - Game Pack
Theme - School (one of the best education system is in Estonia)
World - 20 lots
Neighborhood 1 - 8 lots - inspired by Vilnus - highschool (type 1)
Neighborhood 2 - 6 lots - inspired by Riga - highschool (type 2)
Neighborhood 3 - 6 lots - inspired by Tallinn - elementary school

12. Uniteg Kingdom + Ireland - Game Pack
Theme - Farming (huge lots)
The world inspired by villages in UK and Ireland with commertial town inspired by Edinburgh

What about objects. It should be another topic. In Europe we have a tons of objects which are not common in US for example. Kitchen is the best example I guess.

Typical European modern kitchens looks like below:
https://www.ikea.com/images/6f/56/6f56fea2f1ea24213735c7955d0a8405.jpg?f=s
https://img.shmbk.pl/rimgsph/337197_4c0c533a-4b0d-44cf-863f-b3e85109ed61_max_1600_1052_zdjecie-kuchnia-styl-nowoczesny.jpg
https://www.scraperka.pl/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/bobdyn.jpg

I can not find items in my game to built something like that. I hope that one day Europe will have a better representation in TS4. I really doubt that we will have enough packs to represent every country, but I hope that some of my ideas (or something similar) will appear in our game.