As I am a fan of the Olympics, every four years I have high hopes that the developers get inspired and give us a Sport Expansion Pack.
I know that programming multi-sim interactions and animations is very difficult, but I am not expecting EA Fifa quality gameplay.
There could be just refinement for the existing sports objects/animations we already have.
- Equestrian - get the horse competitions out of the Rabbit Hole, -add some official riding boots and white breaches to CAS.
- Swimming (in pool) - add working lap guides, and line dividers, jumping blocks. - add official sporty swimming suits, swimming caps, and glasses to CAS.
- Basketball - extend the half court to a full one. Invent a sim-plified sport (like 2x2 basketball)
- Open water swimming - could make use for uneditable water around the world, place "guidelines" into the water, so the sims would sim in an orderly fashion.
- Cycling Mountain Bike - use the vast amount of uneditable areas around the world, place track markers on the road, so they would cycle properly.
- Free up "Spar" from Military career, sell it as Simwondo, add some matching outfits and accessories, and make a Simwondo mat (like with a dancefloor)
- Free up Boxing from the bag, and let Sims box with each other. Add boxing shorts, gloves, and helmets to CAS.
- Soccer - give more function to that soccer ball -add a soccer goal, invent a simplified game (3x3 soccer), boots, more and more jerseys to CAS. (You made me very happy with the EA sports jerseys)
- Rugby - give more function to that rugby ball/ American futball add rugby/american football field looking items, invent a simplified game. (3x3 rugby) matching bits to CAS.
- Tabletennis - it is there! Just need to add it as Competition. Add to Club activities.
- Running - long distance ones could take place in the world - place track markers and off we go. Running suits to CAS.
As I pointed out, I would not add more large amount of people sort of team games, knowing that is complicated. I would add 1 to 1 sports, for example
- Tennis, needs rackets, net, CAS items.
There are many many sports that does not need sims to directly interact with each other:
- Weightlifting (new object, CAS items)
- Archery (new object, CAS items)
- Diving (new animations)
- Athletics - any throwing event, here again could be a new event invented - plumbob throw, for example.
-Track running, we need a track to run on.
- Golf - could use again the vast unused areas in the world.
- Skateboarding - needs "obstacles, and tricks, but the actual park could be built by players.
- Climbing - could be released from the fitness pack object, it would be something you could place on any wall.
- Gymnastic - invent a new sim apparatus for all genders and frame and merge related sports.
There would/could be a new world I reckon, to accommodate fields, tracks, pools, and other venues involved. But also in an update the existing worlds could have new cycling/running/riding (same as hiking) markers added to them. The University Stadium could come out of the rabbit hole and give space for matches (added to the calendar as a festival) It may even be customizable by the player - is it a rugby field, soccer, or tennis court?
We would have all sorts of sports uniforms, shoes, and caps/helmets. Making sure tops and bottoms have matching colour swatches... Pieces of equipment for the athletes. Decorative Crowd Item, you can put around, and a proper spectator seating area, where real sims can sit, too.
The competition part could use some of the elements from the spicy food contest/ finchwick contest/ geek con contest mechanism. With individuals could be max 5 contestants per event.
With team sports, there could be seasons. Your sim should enter one competition at least per Season(spring summer autumn winter), end of the year the winner is announced.
Winning the game would depend on the level of Skill, level of general Fitness, Mood (Very focused and Very confident is a bonus), and health even, less chance to win if you have an acute llama flu. Or itchy plumbob. Or else.
Also EA could reward us with flags - we have the mesh already for the Pride flags - and just need swatches, country flags for us, players from all over the world.
I faked a couple of pictures - these are tricked ones and obviously without a crowd to cheer. But please enjoy and get inspired.
