What CAN be done to fix TS4?

Add Town Editor, Terrain Tool and Vehicle Animation in and i am with you.

I've created my own threads for this, but doesn't hurt to repost and contribute.

FIXES:
1) Pregnant sims not aging until birth
2) Townies taking items from public lots (e.g. a lady sim started playing the Violin. Shortly after, I noticed the violin was missing. When I go back to the lounge, the violin still hasn't returned)
3) Sims reading skill books not increasing skill (only reading like enjoyment with the green circle)
4) All twin births since patch (I know they're working on this)
5) Alert for multiple births for better naming
6) Elderly spouse did leaving a widow. Widow still has option to make ghost husband "Ask to be boyfriend"?
7) Since patch, one of my sims Career goals are frozen (causing him not to get promoted). (i.e. he needs to get guitar and comedy to level 2, but both of them are over that, and it still does not detect this)

DESIRES:
1) Please put in door-locking (so difficult for Romance sim to do their thing without it)
2) Smaller telescope/microscope (no room on lot to put this)
3) Townies living in home dying, please have urn available in visible place, or automatically move out as Unplayed household (Can't locate urn, can't get rid of unwanted ghost)
4) Random trait generator
5) Sims that move out can take items/furniture/household money with them (So much excess money in "parent" lot, but kids who move out are dirt poor. All the poor lots are already filled)
6) Auto-roof
7) Ability to paint custom pictures (like Sims 2)
8) Give adult ability to "Help with homework", especially if it's an aspiration goal and the child/grandchild is not in the same household
9) Still too many elders spawning a townies. Need more children/teens/young adults walking around neighbourhood (I know there is a mod for this, already have it, but it would be nice for Devs to include it)
10) Revert Never Weary trait
11) Children's skills negated when they become teens... why?
12) Children/Teen's homework still in inventory after they grow up.
13) Children/Teen leave homework all over the house.
14) Would like family trees and memories back!!!
15) Toddlers

"SkellySpades;13135871" wrote:
I've created my own threads for this, but doesn't hurt to repost and contribute.

FIXES:
1) Pregnant sims not aging until birth
2) Townies taking items from public lots (e.g. a lady sim started playing the Violin. Shortly after, I noticed the violin was missing. When I go back to the lounge, the violin still hasn't returned)
3) Sims reading skill books not increasing skill (only reading like enjoyment with the green circle)
4) All twin births since patch (I know they're working on this)
5) Alert for multiple births for better naming
6) Elderly spouse did leaving a widow. Widow still has option to make ghost husband "Ask to be boyfriend"?
7) Since patch, one of my sims Career goals are frozen (causing him not to get promoted). (i.e. he needs to get guitar and comedy to level 2, but both of them are over that, and it still does not detect this)

DESIRES:
1) Please put in door-locking (so difficult for Romance sim to do their thing without it)
2) Smaller telescope/microscope (no room on lot to put this)
3) Townies living in home dying, please have urn available in visible place, or automatically move out as Unplayed household (Can't locate urn, can't get rid of unwanted ghost)
4) Random trait generator
5) Sims that move out can take items/furniture/household money with them (So much excess money in "parent" lot, but kids who move out are dirt poor. All the poor lots are already filled)
6) Auto-roof
7) Ability to paint custom pictures (like Sims 2)
8) Give adult ability to "Help with homework", especially if it's an aspiration goal and the child/grandchild is not in the same household
9) Still too many elders spawning a townies. Need more children/teens/young adults walking around neighbourhood (I know there is a mod for this, already have it, but it would be nice for Devs to include it)
10) Revert Never Weary trait
11) Children's skills negated when they become teens... why?
12) Children/Teen's homework still in inventory after they grow up.
13) Children/Teen leave homework all over the house.
14) Would like family trees and memories back!!!
15) Toddlers

I added most of your list, I'm trying to make the list easy to read so I'm afraid I didn't include requests for bug fixes (although I hope they do get fixed!)

Fix the game before adding more content. It's needs a different romance system and other stuff. I don't care what they add to the game. Just give me an option whether to buy it or not in the form of an game pack or EP like previous games. No more of this "you have to download content or you can't play the game" crap. I want to choose what I put in my game.

"LaAbby;13135884" wrote:
All lifestages back in for one, family tree, open neighborhood at least, a better map overview, and much much more. (sandbox play back in to)

But most of all, I wish they'd recover their "vision" and look back at what made The Sims a Sims game.

Could you clarify what you mean by "better map overview"?

Pretty much what everyone else has stated (minus Justine Keaton), plus other service Sims, ownable cars, more color and texture options for furniture, paints and flooring to make color-coordinating rooms easier/better, dishwashers, trash compactors, land lines, a chemistry/attraction system similar to the one in The Sims 2, diving boards and slides for pools, more types of community lots (like grocery stores and movie theaters), and other things that I cannot think of/remember right now.

"FusionFang7;807825" wrote:
Hey guys, (lurker here), I think it's obvious by now that the community is not entirely happy with the game as it stands now; and those who say they are still could have better feelings about the game.

I've read the majority of the "disappointment thread" and the general consensus is that we want TS2 sims in a TS3 world with the improvments TS4 has made like CAS. Obviously a lot of that is no longer possible to implement like Create-A-Style or a fully open world without a complete overhaul of the game engine which we know EA is not willing to make.






So here's my question to you all: what changes CAN be made to make TS4 a game you would like to play?







Let's make a concise list that the Devs can use as a guide for direction in the future.

LIST OF SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS

CAS

Body hair category

Way to hide undesired CAS assets

Way to disable CAS assets for random townie generating

Random Trait generator

More trait slots


BUILD/BUY

Basements

Hip-roofs with overhangs

Smaller Telescopes

Auto-roofs

Vehicles (with animations)


WORLD MAP

Option to display map in color instead of white as it is now.

Town Editor

Way to split funds when merging/splitting households

Way to manage townie generation amounts by lifestage


LIVE MODE

Family Tree

Way to lock doors

Way to paint custom pictures (TS2 style)

Memories

Alert for multiple births (for better naming)

Urns/Graves and ghosts for sims that die off-lot


GALLERY

Option to enable the display of CC in "my library" by default.


OTHER

Fully adjustable lifespans

Toddler lifestage

Pre-teen lifestage

Add a way to set relationships in cas to boy/girlfriend and finacie

Add piercings

Bring back story progression and familie ties.

Bring back open restaurants,cars and hot tubs.

Bring back cuddling,spooning and making out in bed.

Bring back the slow dance and update the regular dance so sims can face each other.

Add a way to place lots and bigger worlds

Bring back the sofa cuddle from TS3 so they stay cuddled.

Oo I like lists. And I like this topic soo~
(also.. guys this is a thread for how to fix this game, as it is now, not adding things into to "fix it"..let's fix our base game before we go and start adding big things. js. Or at least contribute to the conversation about how to fix the base game and then add things in that you'd like to see added to the game..)
**I have two lists. One is my list of things they could do to fix the base game. My second list is what they could add to the game that would be nice to have but not necessary.
Fixes: (in no particular order)

• Items dropping through things (whether it be counters, couches, tables, etc.)
  
• When loading a family they always go back to the sidewalk (annoying because I forget what they were doing the previous time I played)
  
• More reactions! My sims have broken multiple toilets now and they don't even react to it, or when a sim near them is sad and they just sit there smiling..that's not cool. So yeah they should be more aware of their environment.
  
• Faster eating/drinking..I'm sure we can all agree that unless your sim is pretty much alone and eating - they'll never finish. I've had my sims get up two hours before their work or school and they end up being late because they spent so much time talking and randomly taking bites or they lost their plate in a couch because another sim wanted to hug.
  
• Larger neighborhoods/towns. (I know this was mentioned that they'd make more room in future updates, but I've already run out of houses and I'd hate to delete families).
  
• Option to turn off the weird walking, as much as I like how they were trying to make the moods more life like, I for one do not stomp around when I'm angry and am definitely not all hunched over..nor do I mope around when I'm sad. If you do these things then that's great for you but I want my sims to be more like me.
  
• Missing items from lots, it's kinda weird that sims can take things from public lots..kinda annoying.
  
• When we have multiple children it'd be nice to be notified..I've named twins the same name more than once because after entering it once, you feel like it glitched or something and just enter the same thing, thinking it just didn't go through..
  
• Skill books actually improving the skill. (I've had my nerdy kids reading/analyzing books but it does nothing for them really)
  
• The twins problem. (I hear they're working on it and I mean I don't mind it, and I haven't even gotten twins every time but it may get annoying later when I want a small family or it's already too big to handle and just wanted one more..)
  

Wants: (in no particular order)

• TODDLERS - if they end up adding anything major to this game, I'd wish it'd be toddlers - I can live without the rest of this want list, but to skip from baby to a grown child is just too much to look past for me.
  
• Auto roof (i'm so bad at roofing it isn't even funny..)
  
• More town edits - being able to edit public lots, or the ability to edit the town yourself, rearrange neighborhoods or add in more neighborhoods. I never really used the terrain tools or ever built my own towns but I'm sure quite a few people would like it.
  
• Randomize traits option - it's nice when you're drawing a blank and being able to randomize them to see what you get..
  
• Open world-OPTION. I think it'd be a cool idea to make open world an option for those who have computers who can handle it. I miss having my own car or bike and being able to ride myself around, and not have a loading screen do it for you. But I feel it should be an option since it was taken out so that more people could play, since in Sims 3 a lot of people had lag problems with open world. Those who's computers can handle it can turn on the Open World option, and those who's computers can't handle it can keep it off and still be able to play the same way they have been.
  
• More public lots, less of this party hardy stuff, and more things like libraries, grocery stores, clothes store - it'd be neat if it connected right to the gallery and people could share their outfits that they made (either with cc or without cc).
  
• Hospitals with Medical Career jobs
  
• Along with hospitals another commentor made an awesome suggestion that the mom could go there for a sonogram, to see if it's multiples, sex of the baby/ies, etc.
  

That's about it..

Update SIM pics so when they take them together they can be hung on the wall.

Add an online dating feature and bring back the gypsy matchmaker for blind dates.

"AnnLee87;13135916" wrote:
Fix the game before adding more content. It's needs a different romance system and other stuff. I don't care what they add to the game. Just give me an option whether to buy it or not in the form of an game pack or EP like previous games. No more of this "you have to download content or you can't play the game" crap. I want to choose what I put in my game.

Finally someone who agrees with me that we should fix the game before adding even more stuff.!