WHAT does the community WANT in 2020?

Just this...

Consolidation

That is ...."the action or process of combining a number of things into a single more effective or coherent whole". :) <3

Expansion Packs:
1. Just give the family players "Generations" and get it over with. They're like a mom complaining about you cleaning up your messy bedroom--they won't stop nagging until it's done, so you'd better just get it done before they storm in and destroy your life.

2. If there's one more GP this year, I'm rooting for werewolves. No more 2-year waits between occult GP's. Finish the set.

Build/Buy: I just want paintable ceilings. I can live without the spiral staircases. I can wait until Paralives for rounded walls. But I NEED to be able to paint the ceilings on my builds! I build a lot of old-style buildings, ones where that bland white ceiling just doesn't work. I. Need. Paintable. Ceilings.

Base Game Updates:
1. A Dyed Color/Natural Color toggle in CAS and unnatural hair colors finally added for Children and Toddlers. I don't care about the Babies being glued to the crib, but all hair colors not being available for all ages and fully heritable has been driving me crazy for the past. 6. Years. I shouldn't have to make CC or hunt for Red October all over the internet for it just so my pink, white, gray, blue, green, purple, and cyan haired sims can have kids with what I consider to be their natural hair color. Get the swatches and the toggle done, like, 5 years ago!

2. Balance the emotion system properly. Give negative emotions Uncomfortable as an amplifier, get that Fear emotion in there, and nerf the environmental Happy buffs.

3. Fix the Away system, because it has no sense of logic to it besides scattering sims around the house when you get back to make like the sims back home were still alive while your active sim(s) were off the lot. Get some better placement parameters in there at the very least...

Star Wars Pack Episode II.

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.
  

I just forgot it! :)

Gallery enhancements

• Spark’d: filter submissions not compliant with the rules. For instance, in Golden Age all households without elders + using custom poses shouldn’t be submitted.
  
• Improve gallery default pictures for households and homes. It would be great to have headshot default thumbnails for sims.
  
• Rework the filters for lot kinds. Sometimes when you apply them some of the most popular buildings don’t appear on the list.
  
• Include special buildings in the filters for lot kinds (Resistance Camp, Chalet Gardens...)
  
  

Extra tips for better immersion:

• - Spawn NPC characters to assigned objects, no matter the lot type. For instance: baristas will be automatically hired if a espresso bar is placed inside a library. Or Yoga instructors if a instructor mat is placed in a park.
  
• - Assign certain sims to NPC job careers (including being a Sage!). Make them keep their career even if you play with the household.
  
• - Assign 2-3 lot types to a same building. For instance: library + cafe, retail + gym... as well as retail + residential, or vet + residential. It would be great to live over your own shop, so a household doesn’t have to “occupy” two different lots.
  
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Base Game updates:
Negative consequences
More entry level jobs
In depth traits
More venues
Cars

My wish list, sorry if any of these where already listed

for a hairstyle a Mad Scientist hair cut would be cool

Adopt pets to other sims or at pet store

Time travel or way to make sim young adult again by spell or potion

Pizza delivery career would be nice There is alot of careers I could think of to be honest

More supernatural sims and more abilities and stuff for the ones we have for example a Graveyard for the dead and ghost sims that keeps a list for bringing them back at anytime.. adding goblins rather then just a gremlin trait would be cool or even super hero sims

Firefighter career

I'll probably keep adding to this as I think of more since I pretty much think of something every 15 min while playing but, forget it as I rarely post online about anything.

I know there is a mod out there but, I play console and would really love necter making back that included the racks for aging..

I want Sims to react appropriately to certain situations. I cheated on Katrina Caliente right in front of her and she didn’t even bat an eye. Yeah our relationship bar went down but nothing happened. This was not the case in previous games where Sims would run up to you and slap the living daylights out of you for cheating.

The emotion system needs to be severely improved. If a sim they know dies, they need to be sad. For like days. And they need to be crying over their death, even after they die. But because of the moodlet system the Sims can switch between several emotions in the matter of minutes. Honestly I think the only way to fix emotions is to get rid of moodlets. Or at least make it so moodlets don’t directly impact your emotional state.

Traits need to be revamped as well. As it is now, traits only give your sims special social interactions (which big whoop because all the social interactions are about the same) and some give you special abilities like being a kleptomaniac let’s you steal. None of the traits influence a Sims automatic behavior and mannerisms. Except for maybe the Erratic trait because they talk to themselves and have mood swings but even this trait can be improved upon significantly. A neat sim should be cleaning all the time. Even with objects that don’t need to be cleaned. Slobs should be leaving messes everywhere. My active sims rarely workout on their own accord. Some traits I don’t even know what they do like Cheerful, goofball, evil, lazy, clumsy. There’s literally nothing special about most of the traits.

I don’t care what kind of packs we get at this point as long as it’s not something stupid like Star Wars. What I would like to get eventually though;
- a farming expansion with horses and other livestock
- A mountain ski/snowboard resort vacation pack
- Werewolves game pack
- Fairies game pack
- A romance pack
- World adventures pack
- A generations pack

There’s a whole lot of things I would like to see come to the Sims 4. I have my own thread listing what I want: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/967291/sims-4-list-of-features-the-game-needs/p1

But if the top three game overhauls don’t come to the Sims 4 or even the Sims 5, then the series will never live up to its full potential and greatness that it once had.

Woohoo and violence.

oh...
Drums, bands, and werewolves.