I had a discussion with a friend on a potential prison pack, and the more we talked about it the more I actually started wanting it.Features would include the official return of Cops/Burglars, which would be patched into the base game. The pack would come with a new prison lot type. Doing actions such as starting fires, pickpocketing, breaking into a sim's home, severe pranks, starting fights, stealing, hacking, etc may end you up in sims jail. Sims Jail is an actual playable lot where you are assigned prison clothes, a cell and prison mates. Keep in mind, this is the sims, so it's all light hearted and silly. A new interaction is to ask your prison mates "What are you in for?" With silly dialogue options like "I washed the dishes in the bathroom sink.", "I fed my neighbor to a cowplant", "I said I didn't want free ear buds." etc. Your sim can serve their time, attempt to break out, start riots, bribe guards or judges to get away with things, or hire a lawyer to get you out.

I love playing prisons and, in historical saves, penal colonies! Ironically that's why I'd be sceptical of such a pack, because I enjoy setting my own rules. CAS and BB would be very welcome, the actual gameplay could be hit or miss. For example I wouldn't want the game to put pop up dialogue into the mouth of sims that are in my rotation. (The regular speech bubbles are already hilarious enough - I fondly remember one of my sims giving a defense speech in court and instead of defending them, he threatened the court with the image of a tank. The sim in question was a Hot-Head, so that left little to the imagination, lol.)Therefore a tentative "Yes, I might want this" from me.

only if i can turn off those features via game options but most of my sims ill behave

as much as I'd love thisI feel like this is something they should have done with GTWlike most assets already exist in that packalso another thing is I imagine other inmates would either be randomized sims (which I do not allow in my save)or random premades for random crimes which would bother me even more tbh since it be incorrectlike for example say Olive Specter was jailed (awesome!) but turns out she was just jailed for stealing someones pumpkin? (not something Olive would do)I would be very disappointed.for this all to work nicely for me there should be way to select which sims are jailed and for what

I play prison themes occasionally but I can never quite work out what the long term goals are. I started making the prisoners students with their university course loads determining the sentences, but it gets annoying with a full household so I get bored quickly.

Yes, I would buy it. I think it would require more work than some other themes, though. I would rather EA pumped out more of the easier to create themes than fewer harder to create themes.

Would you purchase a prison pack?

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SEREFRAS
Legend
2 years ago
Yes please! My Burglar Twins so needs that. Mah, ha, ha, ha. >:) :D :p ;)
Briana2526
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I would especially for the fun and stories like a kid gets in trouble drops out of highschool or expelled, then live life of crime, go to prison and maybe have a redemption or have a redemption challenge. Even set up a prison break.
ChadSims2
Seasoned Rookie
2 years ago
Sims 4 is way to childish for this theme to be fun for me. I'm not totally against prisons they should have been a playable buildable lot since Get to Work was added in every world but I just don't see much actual prison game play would be there.
thefirsttemplar
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
At this point it might be more something for a competitor of the sims that does not aim for all content to be suitable for six year olds.
The series has lost all it's edge over the years, I figure sooner or later a competitor will be smart enough to pick up the pieces.
luthienrising
Hero+
2 years ago
I wouldn't purchase one (and I'd be tempted to not install it if I had a free game code -- I can't see myself playing it), and I don't think they'd make one. There's not a lot of wholesome gameplay there.
thefirsttemplar
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
That's sadly the whole theme for Sims 4: Making it the most wholesome/boring Sims experience there is.
crocobaura
Legend
2 years ago
They could make the prison lot a new type of residential lot that you need to meet certain requirements in order to leave. Your sim could be assigned kitchen duty or cleaning duty or some other type job in order to earn some small amount of money and an NPC prison warden could come by every day, maybe they could work in shifts, and they maybe could give you tasks to do and you could maybe schmooze them up to try and get early release. Or they could get extra time if they mess up. I suppose it could be interesting for some people in the same way university pack is for some except that sims will get a different set of skills and maybe some prison quality tattoos.
Redrogue60
Seasoned Veteran
2 years ago
Given that the prison system in the US tends to be very revenge oriented and not as interested in reducing recidivism or even hiding how it sentences certain groups to incarceration and for longer, and this would be the model…nope.
ChampandGirlie
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
In one of the other threads we were talking about the idea of a Victorian steampunk world with detective content (that could be played either occult or realistic) kind of like Sherlock Holmes. I think if they brought in light-hearted crime in that way it could work but it would need controls because not everyone wants random crime in their games. I'd also be interested in a playable court system because I sort of do that anyway. I know they have a lawyer career but I agree that they could add a playable court system with active lawyers and judges. They could also make it that the player can send sims to the Get To Work jail.

I will say that there is gameplay in having a working court system. Villainous sims could be punished. If they want to bring in rehabilitation, I'm all for that. I'm not sure if there is a demand but they could add therapy and counseling to help sims solve their problems or act better.
kukkahilla
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
No, I'm not really interested in playing that.

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