WHAT does the community WANT in 2020?

5 years ago

Base Game enhacements

Already hidden in the game

New relationship types: if you enable Debug cheats with the MCCC mod, there is a Debug option called “Cheat Relationship”. And it includes a plethora of new relationships not visible on the game, like Bromantic Friendship, Archenemies and so on. How to improve it: make those relationships visible like the rest (Enemies with Benefities, Soulmates, etc.). Even better: add some of those relationship types in the CAS menu. Right now you can only choose to be Husband, Son or Father of your sim, or simply household member. Even just adding best friend, friend, romantic interest, partner and engaged on the CAS menu, and step-parents/adoptive parents, would make sim interactions richer from the start.
Improve memory system: right now, in-game screenshots can be associated to the sims appearing on them and trigger memories, giving them the same buffs they were feeling on the screenshot (flirty, angry...). How to improve it: associate those images to key moments as well, the ones giving buffs/showing purple notifications (new friend, new partner, first kiss, first fight...). Then make this feature more accesible for users, integrating it on the sim’s control menu in the bottom-left corner (along with the Relationships, Personality, Needs, Work menus..)

Already done by modders

Improve autonomous interactions: avoid starting idle-chat interactions so more active interactions can be triggered, depending on the sims’ personality and relationship. Sample mod that applies this perfectly: Better Personality Please! By Polarsims
Increase romance buffs and interactions: add special buffs when sims are close to somebody they love/like/despise, and special chat interactions like announcing/reacting to pregnancies, confessing/reacting to cheating, confessing to have little experience... Sample mods that apply this perfectly: Road to Romance by Lumpinou, Improved Relationships by Zero, True Happiness by Roburky.
Include an attraction system: similarly to selecting favorite drinks/movies and so on, it would be great to select favorite personality traits/physical traits, or disliked ones, and make sims react to them. It could add way more depth to the game, same as having more relationships or improving autonomy. Sample mods: many simmers use a certain non-T rated mod just for this characteristic.

Additional ideas

Important: make townies with more realistic, healthier body shapes. This game is T-rated, and kids and teens are highly influenced by beauty canons. So having sims like Candy Behr with realistic waists and legs would really help! This is definitely improving in new packs, but still need.
Add babies as household members, just like toddlers.
Retrieve popular interactions from previous game versions, like cuddling in bed from Sims 3.
Include sims from trailers in the packs, or at least on the gallery on launch day. (Cora from Journey to Batuu, Claire from Eco Lifestyle... Tess and the original sages where added way after the Realm of Magic launch).

DLC enhancements

Already hidden in the game.

Vampire hunters: the game already offers you the option to “slay” vampires by fighting them and forcing them to take the cure against vampirism. And you can also learn vampire lore as human, make garlic braids and learn to prepare the cure against vampirism How to improve it: make this a trait/career, even if it’s a three-level one. There are mods that already apply it.

Already done by modders:

Increase occult’s powers: confess being an occult (vampire, mermaid...) and reacting to the news, add more water interactions to mermaids... Mods that apply this perfectly: Immersive vampires by Zero, Expanded Mermaids by SpinningPlumbobs.
Rework/remove situational outfits: no more tourist outfits in San Myshuno, no more strange situational outfits for Sages/spellcasters in the Realm, give Sims the option to use everyday outfits in Batuu. Simmers usually craft sims’ outfits carefully, and it really breaks the immersion to see Caleb Vatore with a Hawaiian T-shirt after a trip to San Myshuno, for instance.
Restrict townies mostly in their towns: try to keep them restricted to the towns they live, specially occult/famous sims (Forgotten Hollow, Del Sol Valley).
Make Brindleton Bay and Evergreen Harbour swimmable. Add skating animations to frozen water.
Include more icons and actions to Clubs and Holidays. (Imagine a Selvadorada Historical Society with archaeologists, or a Wellness club! Or a Pet Training one!). Not make Club members appear in bike (this is comical in case of Vlad Straud or Sages :))

Additional ideas:

Make at least 1 underwater lot in Sulani with a free DLC update, even if it’s through a cave like the Forgotten Grotto. And make mermaids/scuba divers explore it.
Increase non-US based worlds in the Sims. So far we have Windenburg, Sulani and Selvadorada. It would add more representation to the game.

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