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logionX
Seasoned Vanguard
6 years ago

What online features would you like for the sims?

We pretty much know from mobile games what features we don't want, like microtransactions and grindy events which causes you to grind for hours but what online features would be fun to have in the sims 4 or any future sims game?

Here are some of my ideas, which are pretty much online events that you can do if you want, or completely ignore. Feel free to add your own ideas.

Online challenges, Challenges gets posted on the game with information on how to play it, like the 100 baby challenge. They are added to the game like achievements so the game tracks how many babies you have, like the game tracks other achievements.

Online contests, These contests could be held by Maxis where simmers could upload builds or sims with hashtags, the winners could get prices like satisfaction points or just the honor of being featured on the gallery.

Online events, Maxis posts themed challenges where you could win a lot of satisfaction points, kind of like they do the challenges now but these challenges would be much larger where you would have to create a lot of sims to fulfill the goals, like a goal that requires multiple job roles. The challenges could be things like create a band with multiple sims and have them perform at bars, nightclubs etc. The game tracks if you have completed the event like achievements.

Do you have any ideas of your own or do you think that we should not have more online features for the sims?
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    logionX
    Seasoned Vanguard



    "ListentoToppDogg;c-17072548" wrote:
    I'd rather see an improved version of the main online feature we have (the gallery), than new ones. Like why has it been 3 years since City Living and we still can't share apartments as actual apartments? Why are the photos still so lackluster? Can we get some new poses? And so on.

    I'd like to see the team improve these things instead of making new things.


    Yes, the gallery could definitely offer some more features. I think they are afraid to let people use custom things online and share them, since then they do not own the content.
  • "PlayerSinger2010;c-17072598" wrote:
    "drakharis;c-17072573" wrote:
    "logion;d-959494" wrote:
    We pretty much know from mobile games what features we don't want, like microtransactions and grindy events which causes you to grind for hours but what online features would be fun to have in the sims 4 or any future sims game?

    Here are some of my ideas, which are pretty much online events that you can do if you want, or completely ignore. Feel free to add your own ideas.

    Online challenges, Challenges gets posted on the game with information on how to play it, like the 100 baby challenge. They are added to the game like achievements so the game tracks how many babies you have, like the game tracks other achievements.

    Online contests, These contests could be held by Maxis where simmers could upload builds or sims with hashtags, the winners could get prices like satisfaction points or just the honor of being featured on the gallery.

    Online events, Maxis posts themed challenges where you could win a lot of satisfaction points, kind of like they do the challenges now but these challenges would be much larger where you would have to create a lot of sims to fulfill the goals, like a goal that requires multiple job roles. The challenges could be things like create a band with multiple sims and have them perform at bars, nightclubs etc. The game tracks if you have completed the event like achievements.

    Do you have any ideas of your own or do you think that we should not have more online features for the sims?


    I will never get "Maxis Favourite" because the builds and Sims I share in the Gallery despite my clever and deep backstories for the builds and Sims I share have CC in them. It's basically a popularity contest that is rigged from the beginning. Sorry for the cynical approach. I create my sims and my builds for me not for Maxis and I won't change what I create to please them. Again sorry if I sound cold or offensive in any way.

    I would rather, we the community, come up with challenges like the 100 baby challenge. From there Maxis can decide which ones they want to put into the game based on how many of us participate. But not create a sim or build unless they will start favouring builds with CC in them.


    Why would they favor CC when not everyone uses it? I don't want that stuff clogging my game.


    I think her point is they exclude builds with CC in them from being featured. Therefore if they ran such a contest she would be excluded as her builds contain CC in them and she wouldn't want to change how she builds just to win a contest with the prize of being featured.
  • I rather have more gameplay than online plum tbh the only online thing I want tweaked is some bits of gallery that's all
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    Sigzy_29
    New Spectator
    Yeah none. I already don't like the "online" events in TS4 with Jasmine Holiday. They are annoying, and they limit the content that we get. Still so bothered about those temporary plant sims. We didn't even get a proper plant sim trait, with plant sim clothes/skins and the content gets locked after those. I'm glad that with Seasons some of that content was put into holidays.
  • No more online features, thanks. Just improve what we already have, like the gallery, which can be so much better than what it is. More filters such as number of rooms when searching for a lot, an option to enable/disable maxis faves, select sim poses and lot angles, etc etc
  • Honestly i play the sims freeplay and the sims mobile so in my opinion even if there was no online multiplayer or local multiplayer it would be cool to toggle on and toggle off "online mode" that would give your sims the ability to travel abroad to random player's worlds and interact with their sims to make online relationships and if you are playing in your own world that you have a chance to see other player's sims visiting your world that way the game can be more lively and you when your sims are using the making penpals and chatting online interactions on the computer that you have a small chance to have a random player's sims as a penpal and the random player's sims sent postcards from their own worlds etc etc. Sadly i doubt this will happen but this has been what my idea thought of

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