Sims 4 2024 & Beyond - What are your ideas?

Better teen stuff like we had with the sims 2 teen style stuff since we have no cars.

Open For Business in Sims 4... I want to live in my business, operate it and socialize with my customers like a community/multifunctional lot. 

Thousands of simmers have wanted this for years and years.🙂

Stuff Pack Idea: Pet Shop Stuff Pack
New lot type - Pet Store
The pet store has pet snakes
Pet birds
Pet  lizards
Pet frogs
Pet fish (new interaction children and older can feed fish)
Pet turtles
Pet Ferret
Pet bunnies 

Things you could add if you build your own pet shop and had other packs: 
Pet dogs to adopt (If Cats & Dogs)
Pet cats to adopt (If Cats & Dogs)
Pet baby chickens to adopt (If Cottage Living)
Pet Rodents like the guinea pig (If My First Pet Stuff)
Rabbit (bunnies) outfits can be bought at pet store (If Cottage Living)
Dog outfits can be bought at pet store (If Cats & Dogs + My First Pet Stuff)
Cat outfits can be bought at pet store (If Cats & Dogs + My First Pet Stuff)
Decoration for stores has different leashes
Can buy dog beds, cat and dog toys, food bowls, and animal treats (If Cats & Dogs + My First Pet Stuff)
Can purchase bird seed
Can purchase bird feeder (If Backyard Stuff Pack)
Decorative bird houses
Decorative kennels, toys like a hamster wheel, food, bird cages, fish tanks, etc.

Or if not adding a whole new animal themed stuff pack then do a refresh to the My First Pet Stuff Pack to add snakes, birds, lizards, frogs, turtles, ferrets, bunnies, etc.

Young Teens Idea Part 5: How the Young Teen Stage may interact with other packs:

Growing Together - Milestones Ideas

I know that if you have High School Years and Growing Together teen sims can hit a milestone of puberty but if there were Young Teens I think that milestone should be transferred to the young teens. 

‘Firsts’ Milestone Category:

• First Use Of Deodorant
• First Date
• First Crush
• First Kiss (On Cheek)
• First Breakup
• First Growth Spurt
• First Small Job
• First day of middle school

Other categories in Growing Together Milestones I did not write ideas down for but you get the idea 

Confidence System: These Sims can gain and lose confidence just like children Sims

High School Years: If you have High School Years installed young teens can shave, wash face, and gain pimples too

Young Teens Idea Part 4:

World: A beautiful new world with a movie theater. A movie theater would be a great new location for dates or for young teens to hangout. A pool lot would be another great location for young teens to hangout. An arcade (If you have Kids Room Stuff Pack you can add the voidcritter battle station too, and if you have Get Together you can add the arcade game) This is a place for young teens to gain the video gaming skill with various games, and to hangout and chill; don’t worry there’ll be a small concession stand for snacks like nachos and cheese, pretzels, candy, chips, pop, etc. A skate park I think this pack should add skateboards because other Sim life stages have bikes, so young teens can use skateboards. Or I also thought maybe the world could come with a mall for the young teens to hangout. The mall is mostly decoration but has a functional food court and arcade. 

Gameplay Feature: When sending your young teen on a date, the caregiver Sim gets a popup menu and you can decide to either...

• (1. Go with young teen as chaperone 
• (2. Send a chaperone (then pick an older sim) 
• (3. Send Alone 
• (4. Too young to date (this cancels setting up for a date) 

Gameplay Feature: Young Teens can do small jobs like ‘lawn mower, babysitter, or dog walker (If Cats & Dogs)’ Young Teens can sign up for after school activities like the football team, the basketball team, the art club, the drama club, the scout thing if you have Seasons installed, etc. The young teen will go to the activity on their own, similar to the Parenthood pack and volunteering. The activities would improve the correct skill. Young teens should be able to cry into the giant stuffed bear, because sometimes being a teen is overwhelming and frustrating. Kind of like the dart board, there should be a new indoor basketball net that can hang on wall, and needs some space to function but is still functional indoors.

Young Teens Idea Part 3: Gameplay/Features

Idea #1: Mini Crisis

• Inspired Copycat - This sim suddenly has been inspired to change their look. (Can be triggered by reading a teen magazine, or admiring a caregiver or older sibling sim) This sim may want to change their hairstyle or color, or change their clothing style. (So you don’t have to switch to CAS in the middle of your game, you can click on mirror and click randomize outfit, or randomize hair color, or use the hair dye box I discussed in part two that would be in build/buy)
• Feeling Misunderstood - This sim may feel tense, sad, or angry because they feel like no one understands them. (Can be triggered by social interactions) This sim can talk to caregivers, friends, older siblings, or write it out on a computer. 
• Suddenly Self Conscious - (Can be triggered by showering, bathing, or talking in front of the mirror) This sim has noticed something different about them-self, perhaps a pimple, stretch mark, or hairy leg - this sim is afraid others will notice. This sim can talk about their insecurities with an older sibling, caregiver, or friend.

(Depending on the relationship with older siblings, maybe the sibling teases them, or maybe they are understanding and offer advice)

Idea #2: Growth Spurts 

A popup notification will notify players that their sim is in a growth spurt stage and may become exhausted quicker, be uncomfortable from aching body, and have an increase in appetite

Young Teens Idea Part 2: The Expansion Pack following the Young Teen update: Growing Up Expansion Pack (Just a detailed Idea I have)

CAS would include

• Lots of new piercings
• Regular hair colors, plus new hair colors like purple, different dyed hairstyles and colors
• Facial hair options
• Pimples
• Maybe some new makeup styles
• Some clothes that Teens have
• A section called ‘ temporary tattoos’ 

(CAS needs to have colorful hair options, unique hairstyles, crazy makeup, and different fashion statements because being a young teen is all about exploring what you like and who you are)

New aspirations for life stage - like 

• Trend Setter - this Sim wants to be popular, maintain many friendships, and have a social media presence 
• Soul Searcher - this sim is trying to figure out some stuff and may want to change their hair color more often, or change their style, or try new hobbies

New traits for life stage - like

• Moody - this sim experiences frequent mood swings
• Insecure - this sim is insecure about growing up and needs lots of reassurance from their caregiver - they can become embarrassed or tense in social situations more often
• Class Clown - This sim finds it easy to interact with others, they love telling jokes and making others smile

Build/Buy Stuff

• Decorative magazines (functional bookshelf)
• Posters
• More decorative makeup, cologne, and perfumes
• Bean bag chair
• Messy room clutter (similar to the messy room clutter in parenthood)
• New desk styles
• New loft bed styles
• Headphones clutter 
• Decorative in the box action figures or collectibles to put on shelves
• New mirrors
• New rug styles
• Decorative alarm clock
• A new bed that looks like an unmade bed
• Decorative overflowing laundry basket
• Hair dye box you can set in the bathroom (with a function to select a new hair color for your sim without entering c.a.s.)

Young Teens Idea Part 1: (This is just a very detailed idea I have, but it’s just an idea.)

Big Update Idea: New Life Stage - Young Teens (Like we have young adults) (I don’t want to call it preteen because when I think of preteen I think of 10 - 12 because those are double digits without the term ‘teen’ in them but our current teenagers to me seem to be 16 - 18, so young teens would be 13-15)

Base Game Stuff for Young Teens That I’d Like To See:

For friendly social interactions I would like to see stuff such as “talk about growing up,” “talk about insecurities,” “complain about growing up,” and “talk about crush.” I’d like the base game update to include decorative teen magazines and posters. I think when adding young teens the young teens should be able to have crushes and romantic relationships which could include features like flirting, kiss on cheek, or holding hands.

Other things I want the young teens to be able to do: Young teens are in a stage of being not adults yet, but not really kids anymore so I think they should be able to do some things adult sims can do and some things kids can do. For exercise some ideas would be riding bikes, jogging, walking pets (if Cats & Dogs is installed), using punching bag, using treadmill, skating (if Seasons is installed), basketball (If City Living is installed), swimming, soccer (If Discover University is installed), and more. Some child activities I think young teens should be able to do include, using the voidcritter battle station (If Kids Room Stuff Pack is installed) and playing with child sims at the station, talking to the giant teddy bear, playing on monkey bars, using the art table for children sims and being able to draw more advanced drawings then child sims, and playing dolls with infants, toddlers, and children sims. I also think young teens should be able to help children Sims with homework. I would like young teens to be able to hold infants and toddlers. Children and toddler sims have a section called ‘fundamentals,’ I think young teens should have a section called ‘life skills’ and in this section they can begin learning skills like cooking, and maybe for young teens it is maxed at level three or five, until they age up. I think under ‘life skills’ they should also get to learn a little bit of handiness. They can learn other skills too, I’m just expressing that cooking and handiness can be in an area called ‘life skills’ like toddlers and children have 'fundamentals.’ We have random mood buffs that say “awkward encounter” from socializing, young teens can get an angry buff randomly when talking to adult sims the buff says “I’m not a baby” and the sim is mad because they feel like they are being treated like a child. Adult sims can get a tense moodlet randomly when talking to a young teen and it says “That Sim just rolled their eyes at me! How rude!” - If they did add young teens or preteens ever, I kind of wish the limit of Sims in the household would be updated to ten not eight, because currently we have Young Adults, Adults, Elders, Child, Teen, Toddlers, Infants, Dogs, Cats, and Horses all counting as part of the household count.

Base Game Update: Sidewalks

I build a lot of parks and I'd love if we could lay down our own side walk pieces to build a walking trail. Then you could set the trail as a bike path or a jogging/running/walking path. Sims could walk their pets here, ride bikes here, or even have infants in the back carrier and walk with them. I want this because I want a controlled area my sims are walking, jogging, or biking in, and not just running around the neighborhood out of my sight lol.

Especially with For Rent, working elevators.

For Rent also sparks an idea, that would be great if it could work in tandem with For Rent, but would settle for a second pack/lot type. The Return of Home Businesses. Having a unit be a "Retail, Vet, Restaurant" and then "Residential", so your Sim could leave the business section. I'm not sure how taxing it would be for running the game, but I could see it being fun, if First floor was a restaurant/diner, then the rental units, including landlord,  were above them.