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Tibbinova
New Scout
2 years ago

Dear New Sims Team: Build Mode and CAS Improvements

CAS: Auto-Display Liked Items

It would be great to have a toggle to automatically display liked items in CAS. For example, if I'm creating a new Sim with the following likes and dislikes:

  • Fashion: Basics, Outdoorsy, Polished
  • Colors: Red, Black, White

It would be a time-saver if there was a toggle or lock to always show only these types of clothing and colors. This way, we wouldn't have to keep filtering items out. 🙏

Build Mode: Decor Styles

  • View Likes/Dislikes: It would be helpful to have a toggle in build mode for the main Sim selected, so we can easily see their likes and dislikes. I often forget these details, and having them visible in build mode would be very useful. 🙏

  • Hover Over Styles: It would also be great if, when we hover over an item, it shows its style without needing to filter it down. 🙏

  • Pack Icon in Buy Mode Clickable: It would be helpful if, when browsing buy mode, you see the item's pack icon in the top left corner. Making it clickable to automatically bring up all items from that pack would save time with filtering and building. 🙏

  • Matching Floor Baseboards/Hardware: None of the floor baseboards match, for example, the Floral Bat Motif from the Vampires Pack. Like if you wanted a soild wallpaper with the same baseboards of that Wallpaper there is none. It's these little wallpaper detailed that get missed. Same with hardware on furinture, all brass or black its hard to find matching ones. 🙏

  • Sims Radio in Build Mode: Lastly, I would love to play the actual Sims radio in build mode. A mini player that lets us pick the station and play songs while we build would be amazing. 🙏📻

I just really want to see more UI helpful features like these added to the game. The music feature is something I really want. One crazy idea I have is to add new "Taylor Swift" songs to the game, similar to the Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack, if EA can afford or get Taylor to do that. It would be awesome! What ideas do other players have? Thanks! 🙂

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  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @Tibbinova You have some great ideas here! 🙌 Thanks for sharing them!

    Addressing one of these thoughts (maybe)... even though I love the idea of getting the artists you mentioned to do a Sims song/feature(as this has been really cool in the past to see the songs they did with other artists), I thought I's mention the ability to add your own music in the game. I used to do this all the time in previous games, but hadn't done it in Sims 4, so I just did a little experimenting. I took songs I have in MP3 form for a couple of friends of mine, and I experimented with them. In a quick initial test I found that:

    • When I added the MP3 of several songs into the 'Custom Music' file for certain inner-folders ("Soul" and "R&B" in this case), I did find that in live play in my game these showed up mixed in with the game's songs in that channel:
    • However, when I added MP3s to the "Singer-Songwriter" and "Faves" folders, no corresponding channel showed in my game. That's not necessarily anything but an initial test, as there could definitely be other ways that you can play items in those folders. Perhaps others will add info about that.

    Anyway, it's something you may want to experiment with in your game if you're interested in playing songs from specific artists in your game during live play. 

  • Tibbinova's avatar
    Tibbinova
    New Scout
    2 years ago
    @SheriGR Thanks I hope some of these can be added to the game. I do love all the Simlish songs like the soul channel, I Will Survive. Wish they would add more to that channel. I might try and add some real songs to it later. Maybe NF, I would die for some NF simlish songs. 🙂
  • SheriGR's avatar
    SheriGR
    Hero
    2 years ago

    @Tibbinova Thanks for your response. I agree, the Simlish words to songs we know are so fun and clever! I remember watching a video of Becca Hatch recording a Simlish song and it was a hoot... and seriously clever and difficult to do. I was extremely impress with both the effort and the result! 🤩

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