💡 Ideas > THINGS we want to see in The Sims 4 !!!

Business Empire :

An Aspiration for super rich households only because to become a board member the sim will have to invest large amount of money in the company.

Board Member active career will set the career level depending on the size of the initial investment :

• 30% is level 9 "Big Investor", The player can invest more but the other board members will maintain their 70% control of the company. So the player will have to forge alliance (ally) or force them (enemy)
• 50% is level 10 "Company Leader", the player can rename the company. At this level, the founder family will try anything possible to restore their control, depending on the played sim's relationship with the other board members, they might help the founder.

The game could have 3 existing empires :

• Landgraab Industries :
  • Strength : Financial stability
  • Weakness : Community hatred
  • Social Influence perks : Influence by Money (Corruption)
    • "Call in the favor" :  Landgraab Industries controls power and water so the other sims should be cooperative if they don't want to see their home suddenly becoming off-the-grid for "maintenance" reasons.
    • "Sponsored Reputation" : "Donation" (bribes) to counter negative public image caused by Alto's perks. 
• Worthington Global :
  • Strength : Social Influence
  • Weakness : High scandal sensitivity
  • Social Influence perks : Influence by Reputation (Dishonor)
    • "Social Erasure" (Blacklist) : The ability to ban any sim from a specific venue by Worthington's social influence.
    • "Endorsement" : It minimizes/nullifies the negative effects of Alto's and Landgraab's perks on the "Protected" sim.
• Alto Syndicate :
  • Strength : Information control
  • Weakness : Internal betrayal
  • Social Influence perks : Influence by Information (Manipulation)
    • "Fabricate a scandal" : Using Alto Media Network to spread fake information about a sim
    • "Big Reveal" : Using any social event as a trap to publicly sabotage somebody's reputation

Dance Festival

As simple as people dancing in the street

Additional Soap Opera gameplay

In addition to Scandal & Dynasty, I would like to add :

• Fake Death : Maxis already told some stories so it would be nice to allow the player to do it. It could be a resurrection within 3 SimDays after the death. Once this secret is revealed two outcomes would be possible : Heroic Return or Scandalous Fraud
• Trial & Justice : When no scandal is available as leverage, Justice could become another battlefield for rivalry. 
  • Legal Dispute : "Bribe the Judge", "Intimidate Witnesses" or "Trial by Combat" for nobles (vampire/werewolf duel, spellcaster duel, sword duel) (Risky, it could backfire)
  • Frame-up : Instead of finding secrets and scandals, just "Put evidence" (fake or true). Pretend to keep a secret but behind the back set up a trap.
• Dramatic Roles : like Agnes Crumplebottom and Roommate archetypes, the player could set some predefined roles. Club and Dynasty set activities but The  Sims 4 doesn't have ways to set behaviors with an impact on the story. For example be scandalous, be a loyal companion who will take the blame or cover up, be nosy and spy other sims, be ambitious by doing actions with a positive impact on the career, ... 
• Plot Twist (Chaos Card) : Unexpected events (Optional)
  • Wedding : Scandal revealed or an evil twin was stealing the identity of one of the spouse until the original sim shows up in time.
  • Will reading : Secret child revealed as the unique heir or huge debt to pay to the Landgraab family.
  • Business : Hostile take-over

Thank you so much!!! I would give anything to see a pack like this happen, especially with scuba diving!! 

Definitely need spiral and curved staircases!

Love your life’s a beach idea 🏖️ 

Sims 4 Island living / Life’s a beach

To be honest the island living pack is nice but not what I was hoping for out of such a pack. These are some changes I would love to see happen to the island living pack, as well as a whole new pack idea of the same theme.

ISLAND LIVING:

~ Mermaid Re-haul
More tail options / shapes / colors / customizability to paint your own tails like you can with fairy wings. (For both Mermaids and Sirens)

I would love to see a lot of work done for mermaids, but I think the coolest thing would be to split mermaids into 2 playable classes:

~Mermaid
Standard mermaid as we know it today, only the basic mermaid abilities they already have

~Siren
Has all the standard mermaid abilities + additional abilities in a separate UI like a witch or vampire where they can learn and train their siren spells and use them for water related mischief like:

~Enchant people with a siren song to bend them to your will, bringing up additional interactions after enchanting them like “make them clean your house”, or “make them prank your enemies” and an option for “make them forget” to end the enchantment and send them on their way. (Or times out after a certain amount of interactions)

~Summon wave to take people out to sea / summon a second wave on the same person to drown them

~Call a Kraken / shark friend the way mermaids can call a dolphin friend

~Craft potions to drain a persons needs instead of replenishing them like witches can

~ Siren song to steal life force from another sim, resetting your current age up meter and making them age up 1 whole day

~ Mermaid beds / Decorations
We got a little tease of what this pack could have been with the new “Meruroke Bassinet” and it just makes me want this same style of seashell bed in all sizes / life stages. I would love to see more actual mermaid style items and decorations, even if it has to be a whole new pack, I just want a whole ton of beachy / mermaidy CAS items and Build / Buy items

~ Scuba diving / Snorkeling
I would do anything for some underwater content like in past sims games. Even if I had to pay for a new pack for this I would 1000% because that’s a huge ask but I know so many of us would LOVE it, and could add more gameplay for regular sims but especially mermaids, and could even unlock new career paths / collectible items you can find while snorkeling to put in your home or sell

LIFE’S A BEACH:
(This is just my idea for the new pack name I don’t care what they call it) ~ (Also could include Scuba diving / Snorkeling in this whole new pack rather than updating island living)

~New pack
Speaking of a whole new pack, IF they did release a new pack full of beachy / mermaidy content, this is what I would like to see:

~ Seashell beds
At least one or two different kind of seashell / clamshell beds for each life stage

~ Oyster shell / Barnacle covered couch
For a mermaid to feel like she’s swimming in the sea from the comfort of her couch

~ Jellyfish lamps / ceiling lights
Nice cutesy lighting

~ Seashell string lights / Coral chandelier
Some more nice cutesy lighting

~ Stove top with coral shaped burners
The metal grates on the stove top could be made to look like they’re made of coral instead

~ Fridge covered in barnacles
A fridge recovered from the deep and given a second life

~ Polished slate rock countertops
Some nice kitchen counters that look like they were just pulled and polished from the sea, maybe with some remnants still attached like a starfish or some barnacles different remnants for each different shape / type of countertop to keep it from looking repetitive. Or maybe randomize it if possible

~ Tube coral toilet
A toilet made from a giant tube coral, maybe nustled into some sea rock to get the proper shape, with starfish and other corals attached

~ Seashell / Fish shaped mirrors
Some mirrors for the bedrooms / bathrooms in the shapes of shells or sea creatures like fish / dolphins / octopus / sharks or even mermaids

~ Boat shaped bookshelf
We’ve all seen these in real life, a mini boat shaped shelf or real boat repurposed to be used as a shelf for beachy decoration

~ Mesh / Fishnet curtains
I need some curtains that give similar vibes as the captains curtains but they look like you took a cast net and stapled it to your window (in different colors of course)

~ Bubble / Coral / Fish wall decals
Some wall stickers of bubbles and corals and swimming fish

~ General rope & fishnet decorations
Simple, some rope spool on the floor and some rope to hang on the wall, and some more tattered fishing nets to hang up as decorations

~ Starfish
We need some non-debug starfish that you can place on more than just the ground. I want real starfish that I can place on the walls and on some shelves

~ More variations of collectible seashells in different colors
I know there is already 13 different collectible seashells but half of them are the same thing just in two different colors and I want more!!! And if not more collectible seashells, then I need some more seashells and corals in build / buy please! I’m trying to make a mermaid paradise here!

~ More corals / barnacle rocks / seaweed
I love using the live edit debug corals in the island living pack, but it would be nice to have some things like that in the regular build / buy menu and not in debug, where they unfortunately disappear if you zoom too closely in on them. Some seaweed options would be nice to, to be able to decorate in the oceans of beach front properties

~ More CAS items
I’m picturing cutesy / whimsical / frilly dresses and mermaidy clothing. Here’s some ideas I had:

~ Cutesy mermaid beach wave hairstyles (wet and dry versions)

~ Short frilly dress with a seashell bra corset as the top of the dress

~ dresses with coral patterns / seashell patterns

~ Starfish bikini top in different colors

~ Pearl beaded bikini top

~ A rope fishnet sarong with small seashells dangling from it 

~ More long and short sarongs / pareos in some cute light colors & beachy patterns

~ Costume category two piece seashell bikini top with puffed sleeves and a sarong bottom to match, covered in shells / corals / starfish & maybe some florals (I would like to see multiple styles of something like this as a whole body outfit)

~ Starfish earrings

~ Multiple different seashell necklaces including a nautilus shell in multiple colors like standard color, silver and gold

~ Assorted seashell crown

~ Starfish hair accessories

~ Seashell / Fish scale high heels

And I was thinking for Siren style Mermaids, even if they don’t add that Mermaid variation, we could still have some Siren style clothing for Mermaids. Here’s some ideas I had:

~ Messy updo hairstyle with seaweed caught in hair

~ Messy wet / damp looking hairstyles

~ Long & short dresses made of tattered seaweed / tattered netting / torn sheet fabric

~ Long dark dress with a tattered slit up the side and a rope tied around the waist as a belt

~ Waterlogged shirts & shorts with barnacles all over them

~ Sleeveless top that looks like an eel wrapping around the torso

~ Spiky sea urchin half-shell bra bikini top in dark colors (Black & dark purple, etc)

~ Tattered fishnet tights with little pieces of seaweed / tiny starfish caught on them

~ More long and short tattered sarongs / pareos in some dark colors

~ A ripped fishnet Sarong with fish scales caught in it 

~ Seaweed shawl, one giant long piece of seaweed as a throw over shawl

~ Long & short fishnet gloves

~ Tentacle / seaweed & barnacle crown

~ Tentacle high heels

Expanding on the growth during pre-adult life phases...

Having the appearance of Sims be continuously changing is probably too much of an ask. So maybe their could be sub-phases.

Newborn, infant, and toddler are pretty short phases, so they could be left the way they are.

Child is 2 weeks (normal lifespan), so that could be divided into early childhood (smaller) and late childhood (larger, almost pre-teen).

Teen is 3 weeks (normal lifespan), so that could be divided into three sub-phases, roughly middle school, early high school, and late high school.

Is there a place where we can submit ideas and vote for them like with the bugs ?

~ Character height adjustment in CAS
This would be great! My first couple character builds were game versions of my wife and myself. I'm taller than my wife, but I couldn't get the game versions to reflect that.

~ Pre-teen life phase
Another possibility would be for pre-adult Sims to grow as they progress through a life stage. Rather than have a child magically turn into a teen (who looks almost like an adult), a child could start shorter and less mature, and then grow to pre-teen size before aging up. And teens could start a little taller than pre-teen size, and then grow to nearly adult size before aging up.

~ Why does my sim always wear a bikini?
Likewise, Sims should change out of their sleepwear if another Sim visits in the morning.