Lots of changes happen indeed to 11-13 kids, thanks to you for writing it, @iasparran!
I'll forward your feedback, thanks again for taking the time to post it 🙂
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-Mai
@Belladonna74, no need to be rude. 🤐 Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't' make their idea stupid! ☹️
However, @Nian223, technically children are pre-teens, as are all stages of life that occur before a person reaches their teens! 😉 But we realize you were referring to the particular stage of life commonly called "preteen". Functionally I don't see pre-teens bringing any different gameplay, as all things experienced by them that make them unique would never be put in a Sims game, and the rest of their behavior is a combo of child behaviors and teen behaviors. Since those behaviors already exist in the game, I doubt they would create a new life-stage for behaviors already present.😕 (The actual interesting stuff is the actual start of puberty, but that can be gross and embarrassing even for the people playing the game, not to mention controversial, so it makes it more doubtful that EA would add this).
Gameplay aside, I understand that for reasons of simulating our real lives, preteens can be valuable in our game.🙂 It is similar to the laundry debate. Those who want laundry like their game to reflect real life. Those that don't want laundry would rather have more unique gameplay.
Now, they are adding laundry to the game next year. But I think adding a new life-stage is a lot more difficult to implement in the game than laundry is.😃 Yes, they did add the toddler life-stage, but toddlers have much more unique gameplay options that weren't covered by the life-stages that came with the base game, so it was more worth EA's trouble to make them.
But it is still good that you let EA know of your wishes! 😇 They might just surprise us and add pre-teens, but even if they don't in TS4, they may do so in TS5 (if there is going to be a TS5)! 😉
@adduapinamaybe you will get your wish! 😉 It can't hurt to ask! 🙂
As for The Sims being a somewhat realistic reflection of our real lives, if EA really wanted to do that even more, then they would have to add cars, bikes, and garages back to the game, as well as baby strollers. But the single thing I want to make my game more realistic is to add more color choices to CAS and Buy/Build Mode. It really bothers me when I can have pink earrings in the ice cream cone shape, but not in the small crystal shape! Or I find the perfect pair of pants, only to find that they only come in muted colors and not jewel tones or pastels (or to find the perfect shirt that comes in pastels or jewel tones, but not muted colors!) 😬 I end up with combinations that I would never put together in real life, or there are articles of clothes I never use because they aren't in the right colors! Same goes for furniture! 😢 If they don't give us the color wheel, then at least give us more colors or all the colors in every article! 🤨
@PugLove888 Yes to the baby stollers. I would love to see those in the game for toddlers.
I would also want them to add jogging option with the stroller as well. I see irl people
jog with stoller, not just walk. I also wish they would go back to adding SETS of furniture
that MATCHES to the game. I so dislike trying to find furniture that matches. If it matches
one way, like wood, it then doesn't match in color or style, gggrrrr, lol This is one of my
biggest issues in game. Have an awesome day.
Happy Simmin
@Bubblye, These are good ideas! A jogging stroller would be fantastic for our more athletic Sims! And I also would prefer our furniture to be in sets again because I also hate mis-matched furniture, and even if it does match, sometimes it is difficult to find all the matching pieces without it already being grouped into a set! (I miss the Moroccan furniture set from previous versions of the Sims! 😢 It was so pretty. )
@PugLove888 I must admit, I can't believe the amount of time that I waste trying to find build items (wood color, colors, etc) that will work together and come even close to 'matching'... Plus, as you say, there are many times I have to remove/not use an item or build item (wood, wallpaper, etc) because I just can't make it work with the other items in the room/build. For example, on furniture/floors/walls, there is dark brown brown, a muted brown, a red-ish brown, a warm brown, a pale brown, & cream. BUT... not all of those options are offered in the couches you are looking at, wallpaper, flooring, cabinets, trim, or it is close to the same range but is different enough that it looks bad next to each other. Not everything has to be an exact match (though having all of those tones the same and available on all items makes sense to me), but so many items just won't work with very many pairings, or the whole color scheme would have to be worked around them and thus would be very restrictive. Not sure if this makes sense, but it eats up a lot of time in my creative process. Also, there are things like the browns in some stairs or fences are hard to find a good match for with certain builds (if you are looking for a narrow/specific style - which the fence is, but no gates seem to be that style/color combo - such a 'quaint'/homey style, etc.). If I build a 'modern' style build I have a lot more choices that work together, but that's oftentimes not the look I'm going for. Not sure if I'm describing this well, and sorry to go on and on. Thanks for your patience. 🙂
