TS4: Wishlist
Hey 👋🏼 I’ve been playing abit of Sims 3 lately, and there is SO MUCH stuff missing in TS4 that really shouldn’t be in 2022. Below is my wishlist that I hope Guru’s notice: ✨ Realm of Magic Re...
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BG updates
Seasons
Get To Work
Get Together
Dine Out
Island Living
Discover University
Parenthood
BG updates
Spoiler
- Mid adults
- More traits (see here for inspiration)
- Specific teenage aspirations
- More lot traits, and one lot trait for each venue type allowing for combinable lots
- Babies that are more than objects, or at least that are more versatile objects so you can move them around, like you can a book.
- An attraction system
- An online dating system
- I second the repo-man
- Make all careers semi-active with work from home options.
- Add careers for the jobs we see in game (library, nanny, repairman...)
- Add a career for museum curator and add more activities tied to the museum (such as art class or archaeology classes where the museum curator can mentor similar to how a gym trainer can mentor you)
- More versatile stairs (spiral, curved)
- Make it possible to create ghosts in CAS and change ghosts' needs so that they are not the same as for the living (ghosts wouldn't eat for instance).
- Make it possible to limit ghosts to certain lots (similar to how you can limit werewolves to moonwood mills). Options would be "lot they died on", "lot their urn/gravestone is on" (allowing for graveyards with lots of ghosts), or one or more of the hidden lots such as Sylvan Glade or Forgotten Grotto to create an afterlife realm where you can visit, but they can't leave. Setting should be per save.
- Make it so that bartenders, baristas and vendors autospawn on any community lot if their objects are present.
- Libraries have all books available in game in their bookcases.
- Allow for using the calendar for setting up dates.
- More games for kids that doesn't include objects
Seasons
Spoiler
- More holiday traditions from around the world
- More holiday icons
- Holiday event where you invite people over to take part in any particular holiday's activities (event that is tied to the holiday itself, so what you do is the same things. Eat a grand meal, countdown to midnight...)
- More weather settings
- Rain clothes is its own category and actually keeps you dry from rain.
- Sims will automatically change out of rain clothes and cold weather clothing when going inside.
- Coatracks can be used to put rain clothes and cold weather clothing on as well as taking it off for one sim or every sim on lot.
- New career: ice-skater (athletic career)
- New after school activities: Skating practice, athletics team, school paper, painter, comedy club, music lessons (choose which instrument), astronomy club (each one gives skills, emotional traits and allows for meeting friends)
- The ability to choose which holiday traditions a sim or a sim family takes part in
- The ability to set a holiday calendar per world (ie. in Mt Komorebi not the same holidays would be celebrated as in Willow Creek)
- Pool party event
- BBQ event
- New aspirations: world class skater, holiday maker, master florist
- New traits: child of summer/spring/autumn/winter, holiday lover, holiday hater
Get To Work
Spoiler
- Make it possible to limit aliens to specific worlds (Sixam=no aliens on earth at all, Strangerville and/or Oasis springs=more alien activity than today but only in those worlds). The setting should be voluntary and per save.
- Make it possible to set things for sale in a shop from buildmode (so you don't have to buy it to make it work). Similar to how you can set up a functional restaurant without owning it first.
- Add more clothing racks with more interactions for browsing
- Add a general browsing interactions that can be done in groups, so that sims will walk around, look at what is for sale and discuss it
- Changing booths with the activities - buy outfit (costs money, brings you to CAS) or whoohoo (might get you into trouble if caught by employees)
- More things that can be for sale, things like art supplies (paint, canvases - if you buy them painting will be cheaper), groceries and produce (instead of growing your own), seeds and fertiliser, yarn (for nifty knitting)...
- More different types of shelving, with ability to move things to whatever position I want it to be in rather than snapping to fixed positions. All bookcases should be available for stores so you can buy things in them.
- Combinable lots making it possible to live on the same lot your business is in.
- Combinable lots to make malls (restaurants, movie theatres, bowling alleys, shops, gyms, spa and shops)
- Hire anyone including family
- Set opening hours, hire manager to run your store so it runs in the background making you money.
- Ability to open "shops" that do things other than sell objects, such as massage parlors, nail salons, fashion consulting (style influencer career) and the likes.
- Add a hairstyling chair that works (you can choose the hairstyle you want from CAS, the skill of the hairdresser determines how good it looks).
- Add jewellery-stands that works similar to mannequins for jewellery shops. Rings and earrings would be on trays to choose from. Looking at them should be available as a group activity.
- Aspirations for each new career, but also aspirations for running a business, baking, shopping
- New traits: shopaholic, world class baker, entrepreneur
- New after school activity: Science club
Get Together
Spoiler
- Allow toddlers in clubs
- Make sure more activities are available for clubs
- Make it possible to create clubs for people living in certain areas (adding where you live as a trait)
- Make it possible to create career groups not only for the whole career but also for each career path (so food critic rather than just critic).
- Make it possible to create clubs for people who have family ties to each other
- Add single status to the marital status list - rather than having just married/not married. Also allow for more statuses in general (engaged, promised, going steady)
- Allow us to create clubs which autogenerate members to keep going
- Allow us to manage clubs from world view (rather than needing to find the leader of each club)
- Allow us to use the calendar feature to set meetings for the club, either on a regular basis (every other Saturday paragons meet and do these activities) or on a one time only basis (This Saturday the Paragons will meet and do these activities)
- Allow for more members in clubs
- Allow for more clubs per sim
- More instruments, bands, allowing for playing and practicing together.
- Allow us to lock doors to certain clubs from buildmode
- Allow us to pick generic lots for club lots
- More clothing options such as type of clothing rather than style (formal, party, active...)
- Pool tables and pool table skill
- More ways to dance (ballet, couples dancing, slow dancing, hip hop...)
- New semi-active career - dancer or DJ as career paths.
- New lot type: arcade (also as lot trait for combinable lots)
- New after school activity: DJ-club, Dance-class, Band-practise, Ballet class
- New aspiration: world class dancer/DJ/musician
- New trait: gamer, follower (wants to be in clubs, but hates leadership)
Dine Out
Spoiler
- Carls' Dine out Mod, just do what he did.
- Ability to live at the same lot as the restaurant
- Ability to hire someone to run the restaurant, set opening hours and make money from home
- Ability to hire whomever you want including family
- Ability to work as host or chef in your own restaurant
- Pizza oven, Kebab grill, Tandori oven
- More recipes tied to different types of restaurant (Indian, French, Moroccan, Middle eastern, Greek...)
- More decor tied to specific types of restaurants (checkered cloth, winebottle candles...)
- More presets for waiter/host uniforms tied to different styles of restaurant
- Host stands that work on counters
- The ability to add bartenders and entertainers to the look of the restaurant (same as with waiters, hosts, chefs)
- The ability to manage bartenders and entertainers as you would other staff
- The ability to have different shifts of workers so they aren't so tired
- Combinable lots!!!
- New Aspirations tied to owning and running a restaurant, as well as tied to visiting restaurants
- More romantic interactions such as playing footsie, holding hands while sitting at a table, table proposal
- Children's birthday parties at restaurant includes balloons, cakes, and staff singing
- Proposal help from staff (putting ring in champagne glass) - comes with a very small risk of the ring being swallowed and not noticed.
Island Living
Spoiler
- Real scuba diving
- Surfing
- Ability to limit mermaids to Sulani
- More powerful mermaids (possibly a game pack with a mermaid world of its own)
- Ability to limit specific island clothes to that world
- Tie the traits "child of the islands" and "child of the ocean" to a location trait for those born in Sulani.
- Add the various island activities to the calendar and give them notifications similar to all other festivals/events
- Make the diving, fishing and life guard careers semi-active
- Make it so the lai necklace that can be placed on top of any clothing
- Make the flower crown available as a hat so that it can fit any hairstyle
Discover University
Spoiler
- Add the ability to create your own university clubs if you also have get together (ie. university student, Foxbury student, Britechester student should be added to the traits, as well as university alumni, Foxbury alumni and Britechester alumni). You should also be able to create clubs for people who are studying the same subject.
- Make homework and term tasks more varied by adding practical tasks to them (For example: Language and literature: write a book, read and analyse Crisis barn. Fine art: Paint a medium size pop-art painting. Robotics: Create a microchip).
- Make rotational play possible by making sure people pass their courses more without interference (make failing tied to traits such as irresponsible, lazy...)
- Make it possible turn off auto-generation of robots completely so only robots I create are in game
- Make it easier to get on time to class, running in stairs - yes please.
- Make it so that those with bikes don't automatically take them out whenever they are told to go somewhere, especially if there are stairs in the route that will make using a bike impossible anyway
- Make biking a learnable skill for kids (that can be taught by an adult).
- New after school activity for children and teens: robots club, debate team, soccer team, e-sports team
- Make all after school activities beneficial for things like chances of getting into a distinguished program and being rewarded scholarships.
- Make course books a necessity for passing courses, removing the free homework book
- Make sure course books can be gotten at libraries and read there for students low on money
- Make ping pong a game kids can play too
- Add thermostat to all DU buildings for those who have seasons
- More aspirations tied to Uni life, tied to sports, social activities, clubs and studying
- Make those extra classes you can take tied to more than the three careers given in the pack but relevant to all
- Make YAs seem younger, with different needs and whims to adults
Parenthood
Spoiler
- Children break rules more often and are less likely to do what parent say. Make parenting harder over all.
- Make homework matter and build skill.
- More teen traits and aspirations, making teenagers feel like teenagers. Let them have different needs and interactions that are limited to that age group.
- Give adults phases too (midlife crises for mid-adults, parenthood phases connected to the life stage of children, such as "empty nest syndrome" when kids are moving out or "fretting parent" who constantly checks on the baby and do web searches on baby illnesses)
- Ramp up the rebellion phase so that it's actually a rebellion
- Let parents set chores to the kids
- More family activities such as board games, playing catch, having picknicks.
- More children activities where kids can play with other children and make friends
- New events: sleep overs, play dates, school trips, school dance
- More nursery items
- More interactions between grandparents and grandkids, overall more things to do for elders.
- New item: photo-album/scrapbook - create together, view and reminisce about events. Can be passed down through generations.
- More kid-traits and kid aspirations
- New traits only available to elders: grandparent, living life, bitter...(reward trait given by game based on life lived)
- Get rid of the dramatic music when a new phase is introduced, also make sure sims don't wake up in the middle of the night because they get one (I'm sure little Lisa can wait to find out that she is now a picky eater until the morning).
- Make it possible to stop a kid that is making a mess as a parent, rather than waiting for them to finish before disciplining them. Make this action autonomous if the parent is in the same room as the toddler and kid making a mess.
