Sims 4 Future Pitch Ideas!

Crime and Law Expansion!

I think it would add a lot of drama and fun to the Sims if Sims could sue each other, go to court and end up in prison - or if crimes in general had repercussions.

You fed your neighbour to your cow plant and their disappearance got traced back to you? Jail!

You launched a space ship (that you built with scrap and without any engineering knowledge) from a private lot in the middle of a city without any permits and endangered the all of Willow Creek? Well your neighbour snitched you out. Jail!

Poisoning your rival, theft, digging up graves, tax evasion, printing your own money, littering or getting caught up in a brawl? See you in court! Your neighbors are having loud parties every day of the week? Call the police.

But oh - you have enough money to afford the best lawyers or to try your luck with bribing? Good for little evil you, being able to get away with everything.

No one wants to defend you so you end up hiring the most fishy lawyers? Watch out, they might start throwing hands in the court room, sending both of you to jail.

I think it would be necessary though to set custom laws for a Sims World, so that the strictness of a legal system can be adapted for certain play styles. There would need to be more options for illegal activities and already existing activities would have to get evaluated on that scale (possession or distribution of cow plants etc, theft), and you would need to be able to choose wether each of these are legal or not.

The law and criminal career would need to get updated and would be a lot more fun and the police career could add a more in-depth prison guard role and later on superviser or director of a jail.

Imprisoned Sims would get sent to Jail for some time, where they would need to do tasks and find things to do in their spare time, be it educating yourself or plotting with similar-minded inmates, maybe even giving sims a special trait.

This would set the game up for lovers being separated because one was jailed, babies being born in prison, underground ciminal organisations that back each other up, reputations being destroyed, neighbours dragging each other to court over the stupidest things, black markets for forbidden potions or stolen art, …

This can be spun so much farther. I would love to have a neighbourhood drama where they drag each other to court all the time over stupid stuff and dive deep into their mutual loathing. Just lighthearted criminal energy! Nothing truly evil of course. Just lots of pettiness and suing over ridiculous stuff, conspiracies and drama.