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10 years ago

UPDATED Sims 4 Season expansion pack HAS to have Disasters!!

So everyone was yelling about seasons being the second expansion pack and i agree. BUT i'm tired of the same: Summer,Winter,Fall and spring aspect. I want something more, that would be, NATURAL DISASTERS.

Tornadoes at Spring!
Earthquakes at Summer!
Flood at Fall!
Blizzard at Winter!

So much ideas!

I know all this is very hard and require A LOT of coding. But it will be so worth it!...Share you're ideas and tell me what you think.

EDIT: Since some people don't want disasters that would be cool to be able to turn them off.

EDIT: Okay so here's what disasters would do, but firstly let's start by saying that they will not have a big impact on you're house or you're family, but they will mess with you're game a little bit.

Let's start with tornadoes: Tornadoes will occur at spring time, firstly you will see a warning sign that tornadoe is occuring at certain time and at certain day so you better take a shelter (New tornadoe shelter would be included) Firstly it will start raining then it get dark and then at BACKROUND
you will see a big twister.

And here's the impact on you're GamePlay:

- You will lose electricity and water. (Works the same as you wouldn't pay bills)
-It will give you're sims some scared moodlets.
-You will have some dirt piles around you're house. (Same as when earthquakes occurred in the sims 3 ambitions)
-And if you will not take the shelter you have a small chance of one of you're sims dying from the twister. (The death is gonna be very rare)

Now earthquakes at summer:

-You're screen will be moving
-You're sims will get some scared moodlets
-And you will have some dirt piles around you're house. (Same as when earthquakes occurred in the sims 3 ambitions)
(There is no gonna be death by earthquake)

Flood at Fall:

-Half of you're house is gonna be in water and you're sims will be able to swim in it. (The water will disappear after the time)
NOTE: The flood will not change you're house and will not do any damage.
-From swimming in the flood you're sim may get a playful moodlet, maybe ''Danger is fun''?

Blizzard At winter:

-You will lose water (Because it's so cold and water will freeze)
-ALL of you're sims will get ''Cold'' moodlet
-If you're sim will be in light clothes for example swimwear, and will go outside they will get ''Very Cold'' Moodlet and if they will continiue walking while in ''Very cold'' moodlet, they have a chance of dying from cold.
-Warming you're self near a fireplace will remove ''Cold'' moodlet

And when any of these disasters will occur, you're sims job will be canceled for that day. (Same with children)

So what you guys think now? Do you agree? Share you're ideas.

AlwaysTheSun
10 years ago
Sooner aliens will attack earth
StymieG
10 years ago
I vaguely remember reading something from an article that they thought of adding tornado or flood disaster around the time of Sims 3 Seasons but they scratched it. I think because they thought that It may offend some players that experience those disaster in real life. I couldn't remember when I read that article or if I read a comment about it...
shadowcat85
10 years ago
No thanks given that I live in Tornado Alley I hear plenty about tornadoes already. I don't particularly want them in the sims. I didn't mind disasters in Sim City games but that was less personal you were just building the city and not really involved in the lives of the citizens.

Also given how it rained like every day in seasons in TS3 I wouldn't be surprised if disasters ending up occurring with rather annoying frequency.
MasonGamerBoi
10 years ago
I just want easy access, and full control.
Proteus42
10 years ago
If they add desasters I hope they make them optional (with a checkbox in the options menu to switch them on/off)
kelsisms
10 years ago
I think it could make for interesting gameplay, so long as we're given the option to turn them off.
Annarubanana
10 years ago
If you could turn the option off it wouldn't be too bad and determine how frequent it would happen it wouldn't be too bad! Just might be a bit of a delicate subject on some places.
Equiferus
10 years ago
"shadowcat85;13479411" wrote:
No thanks given that I live in Tornado Alley I hear plenty about tornadoes already. I don't particularly want them in the sims. I didn't mind disasters in Sim City games but that was less personal you were just building the city and not really involved in the lives of the citizens.

Also given how it rained like every day in seasons in TS3 I wouldn't be surprised if disasters ending up occurring with rather annoying frequency.

I hate that too. I mean, weather was cool at the beginning, but soon I turned it off because of that fact.
2HubbiesNLove
10 years ago
For severity of storm sake I'd have to pass on "tornadoes" and "earthquakes" just for the fact that if I put a lot of time and effort in my Sim family and a disaster snuck up on them- losing everything I spent hours working on would just be for nothing. Maybe thunderstorms for ambiance with rolling thunder and animated back drops of lightning flashing. And where I live even though it's a southern state we don't get rain in the fall. It usually starts snowing mid October lol. We normally get flooding bad in the spring to early summer.

I once thought about natural disasters and thought it would be awesome and add a lot of rich gameplay, but than I thought- oh, how much of headache it would be to have my household killed off and/or their home destroyed due to annoying weather. If they did add those types of disasters into an expansion pack than definitely need a option to turn them off. I normally always turn seasons off anyway.
FriendlySimmers
New Traveler
10 years ago
yes to season but no thank you to disaters in the game and i live in an area where there are snow storm so i no went to see snow storms in my game