More Fun DLC & Pack Suggestions for The Sims 4:

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1. Bring back The Urbz (fashion changes by district, unused Urbz social interactions, and fashion inspired by Urbz)! This could also be an Urbz inspired expansion pack, perhaps a city with multiple districts, or game packs based on each district. There are some aspects that can be updated, of course. Either way.

2. Bring back as much as possible from The Sims 1, Bustin' Out, and especially Sims 2 and 3. Lovestruck is a good start, but there are many additional features that should return to The Sims 4. The Heart Hot Tub, burglars, cars, (more to say about that in a bit) drummers and rock bands, and Into the Future needs to make a return.

3. The genetics engine in this game is great, but could be improved a bit. Genetics with even better quality/more accurate genes: gene dominance, blending and hybridization, incomplete dominance, and basic recessive traits showing up 25% of the time, etc., hair dye not passing down genetically (you should be able to set natural color separately, or indicate it even if not visible, for genetic purposes). You should be able to set dominant and recessive inheritance for hair color, eye color, skin color, and body type for each sim (phenotype AND genotype). This should also apply to cats, dogs, and horses properly, based on real life genetics. Freckles, etc, should be inherited. Also, personality could be 50% genetic. Sim children should inherit some of their personality traits. Puppies and kittens too, etc.

4. Plastic surgery should make a return, but it should NOT affect genotype or genetic inheritance of Sims, just outer appearance. Maybe it should be age restricted, expensive, and only for young adults and up, or requires asking a parent first for teen Sims. Tanning bed (not just sunbathing) or changing skin tone temporarily by a limited amount up or down would be okay, if it reverts after a season. Maybe this can toggle OFF if players don't want it. Same thing with liposuction, rhinoplasty, etc. Limited, and not exactly like initial CAS Mode.

5. Sims should be able to color their hair in the sink or shower without going into CAS Mode! Especially if we are not getting the color wheel back. Maybe it costs a small amount like 5 to 20 Simoleons and lasts for one season, then reverts to original (CAS Mode selected) color, or natural color. Colored and cIear contacts for Sims with glasses that you can change at the sink. Glasses, sunglasses, and hats off and on at the mirror, etc. Hairstyles could be its own EP, with a better name of course. A career also. Optometrist is another career. Hair should grow in say, 3 or 4 gradual lengths. You should be able to cut your hair, etc. There could be 4 to 8 high fashion universal looks like a blowout, etc. that you can only get at salon chair. That are similar styles but come in each texture and length as variations. Include a few elaborate updos here for weddings maybe?

6. Please give us a Catsitter and Dogsitter part-time job, a Martial Arts career, with the other branch being Pro Wrestling, and the ability to own a football team, baseball, or basketball team. I remember our Sims owning a football team in part 3, haha. A Martial Arts movie or anime-influenced World perhaps set in a newer Asian-inspired World, in lower hills or mountains and not another snowy place like Mt. Komorebi, for example, or maybe in Brazil, (capoeira). The USA is also a good backdrop, but give us somewhere different. The rest of the East Coast, aside from New England for example? New York? Florida? How about Canada? Other West Coast locations? We could have an MMA ring, wrestling ring, etc. Keep it simple, not too violent, but fun to watch.

7. Cars of course. Motorcycles, RC cars would be nice. Also mechanics. You could have a whole world devoted to this for Gearhead types. In this sterile, silvery world, many things are broken or DIY. Maybe a central or Eastern European world with a lot of snow and Sims stay inside making machines, which they can race only in the summer. Alternatively, Victorian England or USA steampunk-inspired would be great. Also, please give us eyepatches in CAS. And more headgear for these Sims, as well as elaborate hats.

8. Languages and dialects would be awesome! You could assign languages, dialects, or accents to your Sims. Language learning and world travel could be an Aspiration. Maybe Simlish is like Esperanto, but there are other languages or dialects. These should not be random, they should be player assigned, with the exception of Townies.

9. It would be nice if your Sims could have a To-Do List Post-It with your Top 3 things you as the player want to do, and you can choose from Aspirations, Whims, Relationship Interactions, Career Objectives, Skills to level by one, or other wants and dreams. Maybe an Aladdin-inspired World with a Genie making a return.

10. Add Middle Age to the Sims 4, this should be the life stage AFTER Adults (and possibly, a Mid-Life crisis) and BEFORE Elders. It can be jarring seeing Adults transform into Elders. This age would be in-between in appearance and makes aging more gradual. (Retirement should occur after this age as an Elder as it already does in the current game). Adding Pre-Teens would be nice, also though this is already a popular suggestion.

11. Give Adults and Middle Aged Sims +1 Trait each to represent evolving in the course of life. This makes each age group special and gives players a reason to enjoy Adults and Middle Age Sims for their complex personalities. Career or Skill proficiency could peak for adults if physical, and Middle Age if mental. There could be some additional, higher skills or levels that drop back to 10 once an elder. Middle Age Sims should have a Bucket List that keeps going as Elders.

12. Elders could lose a trait to represent the challenges of advanced age. Each age should add a trait (+1) except Elders who lose (-1) or even (-2) if we also get Pre-Teens, for example. Sims need to go back to having 5 traits in adulthood, if possible. Permanent traits begin in childhood. So, children get 1 trait, pre-teens should have 2 traits, teens 3. Maybe young adults should have 4, adults 5, middle age 6, elders 5.

13. Time Management could be a skill that is for Adults and Middle Age, for example. It could allow faster implementation of mental tasks a Sim has already mastered, etc. There could be seminars for this and it could be a Career path as well.

14. We should be able to select gender specific language like Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Husband, and Wife, or gender neutral terms. The player should decide this preference for each character in CAS.

15. We should be able to designate additional relationships from CAS Mode like Ex, BFF, Friends, Frenemies, Cat Mom, Cat Dad, Cat's Fav, Dog's Fav etc. We should have options to characterize relationships with pets, exes, friends. BFFS should be Close by default. Childhood friend would be a nice designation, also internet friends, etc.

16. Please make it easier to manage extended family and family trees, Genealogy could be the focus of a pack and career path. We should be able to set In-Laws, First Cousins, etc. when creating characters without having to make each linking relationship. Also, blood relatives should be platonic for at least 5 or 6 generations.

17. Fashion phases (temporary) would be great for Teens, Young Adults, and Mid-Life Crises! There should be set outfits like Goth, Grunge, Preppy, Polished, Streetwear, Costume, etc. You should be able to save outfits in CAS Mode (not only for phases, but in general) and use them on more than one Sim. Maybe even upload them to The Gallery, though, I'm not sure about that.

18. A Board Game and Video Game Pack would be great. Add old school arcade game cabinets and venue to a world, etc. There could be different genres of games. RPGs, Fighting, Puzzle, Sims, Horror, FPS, and also different board games like Monopoly, Risk, tabletop RPGs, etc. Even social games like Murder Mystery dinner games and reality show social and/or talent games. Also, don't forget DDR-style dancing video games (As in The Urbz) and seated arcade racing games. Amusement Parks are another great idea to revisit. A roller coaster.

19. Please give us a Safari pack! Sim Cheetahs, Lions, Tigers, Wolves, Crocodiles, Zebras, Pandas, etc. It would be nice to set this in an African-inspired World, if possible. Sims should have a brief Jeep Safari and/or Zoo or Wildlife preserve visit for the family. The point here is to see beautiful exotic animals with your Sims. An Eco Lifestyle environmental change mechanism would be nice to implement here. New career paths as well.

20. We really need a DECADES Expansion Pack. There could be a Time Rift and a new Townie family stuck in each decade (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, at least) with a house obviously designed to match. The technology from this pack, or lack thereof, helps storytelling with this game. (Midwest) USA is good inspiration for this one. The popular Decades challenge could be partially incorporated here to assist players, especially on console.

sailorleontine · Answer

i'd like if everything get its return like doing make-up and doing hairs on others but about the burglars, they're in basegame since February or March but i want everything else to have is comebacks

the hairs isn't mentioned in this post but i mentioned 2 other things which should be in basegame Can we have a clothing shop and a new lot challenge? | EA Forums - 12086009 and Can we have a supermarket? | EA Forums - 12082347 with the lots traits or challenge based on my idea should be possible to make it more challenging

as for the car ideas, there's a survey and 3 out of the 7 are based on cars and other vehicles, i made my own version Could these cars ideas be into 1 pack? | EA Forums - 12067904 i just copied all of the ideas that's on the survey and i think they should add a new venue type you can live in and even smaller than tiny living, either a caravan or a trailer venue type, i just added my ideas that match with the car pack ideas and honestly it should be in 1 pack, i do think some of the options should be in basegame like rabbit-hole car riding, upgrate some items, going to work by using the car or a taxi that will pick you up for work, calling a taxi to travel somewhere (more realistic than walking in some places that may be too far away from your home)

having schoolbus in basegame like the earlier versions to pick up your kids and teens to go to school

the rest of the upgrades should be in the pack and same for more car options in general

i'd love to have a dogs and cars sitters, maybe even horse sitters

i'd love to have more winter based world, especially for european countries

i'd love a plastic surgery and having more realistic appearances, i want the new generation to skip one generation, like for examble if your parents has brown eye colour, your kid can have blue eye colour and same for hairs, The Sims 2 had them, it's dissapointing The Sims 4 doesn't have them

i'd love if your sim can dye their own hair on a sink or shower so CAS isn't needed

i'm dying for more aspirations

Life And Death pack kind of have a to-do list your sim can do

i'd love to have tweens/preteens in the game and same with middle ages, i hated the big age differences, i heard there were no toddlers when The Sims 4 just came out untill they have added toddlers in 2017 and they added infants in 2023 so it should be possible to add the 2 other life stages that isn't in The Sims 4 yet

i have school ideas for toddlers and children but none for tweens/preteens

Can we have a school pack based on children? | EA Forums - 11172051 (children based pack)
Can we have a toddler based pack? | EA Forums - 12111749 (toddlers based pack)

i'm thinking of having a home-school game pack too (new world isn't necessary in my opinion though)
here's some of my ideas: Home Schooling game pack idea | EA Forums - 12109479

also yes for more trait slots for like each ages (minus infants and toddlers) and having slightly less trait slot for elder people

also yes for time management skills and having that as a career

yes for more options like frenemies, friends etc in CAS

i want better family trees too like step mom, step dad, step sister, step cousin, step son, step daughter etc, after like 3 generations they're no longer family related if both are on the 4th generation, that's not even realistic, they should be family untill like the 8th generation

yes for a fashion option for teens

a gaming expansion pack, i'm definitely in for that expansion pack idea

i'm open for a safari park

about the 80/90's pack idea: i don't know if you have saw it but it's in the survey so i'm sure the team is thinking about creating that pack, i have some ideas after reading what this is all about and here's my ideas (it also leads you with the link it's shared there so you can vote for that pack idea) 80/90's pack survey idea | EA Forums - 12116693

i'm in for like each ideas, i also made my own version with some pack ideas

Can we have a castle fantasy Game Pack? | EA Forums - 12113570 a history based pack and i'm thinking of having an Egypt based world, i want more packs based about the past so we get to experience it in the game

Can we have a india based pack? | EA Forums - 12087656 an india based world with ideas based on their traditions, events, cultures and activities

A dreaming pack idea | EA Forums - 12078113 we can have a lucid dreaming option when sleeping so you enter a secret world to talk to ghost sims and makes peace with them for whatever reasons

Hotel pack ideas | EA Forums - 12023771 a hotel based pack not only in that certain world but also in like each worlds and having a career you get to work at a hotel

An updated version from this pack idea | EA Forums - 11878992 the older version mentioned a business venue but it's in the businesses and hobbies pack so that's the only type that doesn't count so i made this version with even more options the team should add in my opinion (and as a game pack too)

Can we have a sport pack? | EA Forums - 11878540 more sport activities and even events you can visit at and do activities there

Can we have a pack based on The Netherlands? | EA Forums - 11250572 someone added stuff that's much better than mine but i want a pack based on The Netherlands

Can we have a fairy pack in the sims 4? | EA Forums - 11171798 it will be a dream coming true if something like that happens

Can we have a pack based on multi-community venue type? | EA Forums - 12067163 and multiple community venue type and more as a game pack since adding a new world isn't necessary but it will be so usefull for bigger lot types

Can we add something with some kind of food/drinks allergies in CAS? | EA Forums - 11970774 both in an already existing packs and in basegame update

i want to have more eye colour options in the basegame update Can we have more eye colours options as basegame update? | EA Forums - 11895483 and same can be spoken with skintones but more the unnatural/fantasy one: Can we have more unnatural skintones? | EA Forums - 12099159

Can we have a auto-roof in The Sims 4? | EA Forums - 11892689 this should also be in basegame in my opinion

More walls and floors option for The Sims 4? | EA Forums - 11250361 this one also should be in basegame

Can both wants & fears and whims be optional to toggle it on/off? | EA Forums - 12119727 this one should be optional in my opinion

i do have some ideas what some of the packs should be about and even having basegame update that isn't in The Sims 4 yet