Game pack/Expansion pack suggestion
I would like to see a new game pack or expansion pack that has a new tween life stage. To me it seems children are going right from a child between ages like 6 to 10 to a 16 or 17 year old. There needs to be a tween life stage to bridge that gap a little bit. Also, with it maybe have a home school function with option of kids being homeschooled and/or online learning. Some kind of a band skill or something being that most tweens attempt a year or so of band so make it some kind of after school club or something where they can play an instrument. Maybe have them go through a try out thing to get put with a specific instrument. Instruments would be flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone, percussion etc. Maybe also school choir or club. After school sports or clubs that change with the seasons would be good too. Have these options for the teens too.
A career or profession that is still missing is some kind of firefighter/paramedic career. There's doctor and police but no firefighter career. I feel like this should have been in the GTW expansion. Another career should be some kind of counselor career where they can end up being a high profile psychologist and/or psychiatrist (maybe that's where the career can branch out between the two). With that, sims can battle depression/anxiety or ADHD or the like starting at the previously meantioned tween life stage. Another career with that could be a pharmaceutical career. That could be the traditional pharmacist top career branch and have some kind villian career branch where they can disperse medicine or sell it in a harmful manner rather than a good manner.
All this can be set in a suburban town/city that is kind of a city but not a full on city like a suburb (so no sky scrappers). Possibly have a neighborhood that's meant to look run down and old and old industrial looking warehouses turned into houses/apartments or the entire town has that theme to it with maybe a lot trait/challenge of having fires start easier or at random (in comes the firefighter career) then more of a middle class neighborhood and a higher class neighborhood. Maybe can have the old red or brown brick style school building for the tween life stage school. The school doesn't have to be an active usable school like the high school years expansion but just look like it's there somewhere if that makes sense.
I also think somewhere there should be some kind of independence day holiday that should have been included with the seasons expansion. Or some kind of holiday that can act as such that won't offend anyone. Something that involves fireworks (again in comes firefighter/paramedic career). With that a new fireworks activity (teens and higher and younger life stages can watch and maybe have a play with sparklers activity that kids and up can enjoy).
Other new activities can be a water slide for the pool, and a trampoline of some kind and ability to play tag or something similar for outside play. More family indoor card games or board games of some kind. A pool table.
I hope something can come of all or most of the above suggestions and I'm not the only one that wants them. I'm sure there's more things that I'm not thinking of right now but this was a hefty start.
