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Mk_2790
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4 years ago

My top 5 BG updates

#5 - Lawn mowers and grass

Yards needs more care.

Like vacuum cleaners but with an option to deactivate that gameplay, grass must grow in the Sims yard and like in the past games, Sims must ride it by hand or buying a lawn mower for the first time in the main series. Like vacuum cleaners, there will be more than one lawn mower to choose.

No kit, just a BG update.

#4 - Swimming pool updates

Besides water slides, I wanna see how the water of the swimming pool is rotting and Sims will refuse to swim if it's not clean. This gameplay mechanic comes from TS Freeplay and to fix that, Sims must clean the water using a leaf net, the same one from Get Together, or placing an underwater filter in the pool.

And yes, water slides are a must.

#3 - Spiral staircases

What can I say? After the ladders update, spiral staircases should be a thing soon.

There's another build feature like ceiling painting but spiral staircase is first.

#2 - Aquariums

Aquariums needs more life, literally.

A BG update should add at least 3 new normal sized aquariums to TS4 and some options for the BG bowl ones and packs ones, specificaly from Cats & Dogs and Snowy Escape.

Options like feed, clean, replace dead fishes and upgrade the aquariums with feeder or filter can work very well with this update.

Also, beign compatible with Eco Lifestyle using the dew collector water to improve the aquarium quality and using the dirty water after cleaning as both water source and fertilizer for crops.

The oversized ones from Spa Day and Dine Out doesn't need care.

#1 - Telescopes

I can also want pool tables but there's no an oversized pool table in the game, but there it is an oversized observatory like telescope.

Normal sized telescopes can come in a BG update, with a new "astronomy skill" and beign compatible with Get to Work for aliens.

Bonus track #1: Pool tables

No much to say. This thing should be added from the beggining or with Get Together.

Bonus track #2: Water heaters

More dramatism for the game please, water heaters would fit perfectly with the plumbing items, specially showers and tubs.

Like laundry items, placing a water heater should be enough to activate the gameplay mechanic.

Also, a update for Eco Lifestyle will let us place a water heater in a solar panel to reduce the energy consume.
  • Well if we were to make top 5 updates list
    I would make such:

    1. Toggle to disable/enable randomized townies generation (pls im just so tired of the endless spawning)

    2. Npc manager
    (choose all npcs in manage worlds and game keeps them in those roles and doesn't make new sims every freaking time)

    3. Disable/ enable specific occults from random townie generator

    (so we can for example have save where we have cured all vampires because game does not spawn more on its own)

    4. Couple dancing hehehehe you knew it was coming but i think itd be neat to have at least basic slow dance for the base game even if rest comes in pack

    5. Memories system like ts2 (negative and positive memories) but with option to add custom memories and delete memories you don't wish your sims to remember

    aand maybe we could be able to make permanent sentiment between sims that we can later delete if we choose so but it wouldnt just randomly fade