I apologize if my title seems a little misleading for this board, but I chose it because likely my ideas will be using The Sims 4 engine. I appreciate the time anyone is taking to read this topic. Please consider my ideas as mere inspiration to make The Sims even more fun and engaging for players of all types.For quite some time I've been wanting a sequel for The Sims Medieval but set in a different era. Always, in the back of my mind, I wondered if Electronic Arts would create additional games for players who are interested in playing adventures set in the past. As EA acknowledged before, it's hard to play sims from past eras in a modern setting. Plus, I like the story gameplay that the regular Sim games are lacking. Outside The Sims Stories and Strangerville Game Pack, that is.To my point, I can tell by looking at all of the custom content that they are a lot of sim players who are interested in the Rococo, Regency, and Victorian eras. I chose to discuss the Victorian Era because of popular stories such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes, Gone With The Wind, Jane Eyre, Mary Poppins, and so much more takes place in this time period. I think this era provides a lot of room for creative stories and gameplay.Below are ideas for this possible sequel and some gameplay changes from The Sims Medieval.Building Your World: I love how in The Sims Medieval it’s up to you to gain enough points to raise up buildings so to make your world more lively and prosperous. In my personal opinion, raising up buildings using a point system doesn’t feel as satisfying as the feeling that you’ve gathered up enough materials to make it. So like those games where you build cities, it would be fun for our sims to work to gain enough materials to build their city whether through their jobs or missions.Career Ideas: Butler, Maid/Governess, Chef, Teacher, Pastor, Engineer/Inventor, Politics, Military, Physician, Clerk, Farmer, Gentlemen/Lady, Entertainer, Police/Detective, Miner, and Tailor. Obviously, this isn't all the jobs available in the Victorian Era. But these were the ones I could think of from the top of my head.Heroes: Just like in the regular Sim games, I thought that it might be a good idea to allow the players to have more than a handful of characters to control. Not necessarily to control all characters, but at least a townful of people like in the regular Sim games. I say this because it'll allow players to have multiple characters who can share the same career and diversity in personalities and storylines.Aging: I'm pleased that our sim characters do not die from old age after 30 days in The Sims Medieval. (I'm using hyperbole, I know sims will not die after 30 days.) Still, I believe that the aging system should return so that future generations of sims could have their own adventures. Unlike in The Sims Medieval where you have to kill your sims by throwing them into the pit or murdered by another hero sim. Plus, I like the generation after generation stories.Social Gatherings: While the Sims Medieval does a wonderful job allowing our sims to celebrate after accomplishing something great, I love the idea of our sims going to the opera or having balls where sims could waltz with each other with elegance. In fact, it would be cool to have a Cinderella-like story for our sims as a mission.Locations: I thought it would be cool if the players will be able to actually visit the location of their off-world missions. I'm not fussing, but it's a tad boring to be traveling through the forest or the cave in The Sims Medieval only to wait for our sim to finish their heroic deed. I love how The Sims 4 is getting better when it comes to making the world more interactive for the players.Traits/Kingdom XP: I love the fatal flaw and legendary traits and hope they make a return as well as the Kingdom XP. I love how in the original game if you're not on top of your kingdom's knowledge, welfare, culture, and keeping a good relationship with neighboring kingdoms effects your world as a whole.These are my ideas for now. If I come up with more, I'll be sure to post them. Thank you for reading this! Anyone is allowed to comment to give me their honest opinions.

@GlitteryRose, I don't work for EA , but I love your ideas!:eahigh_file: I really enjoyed the Sims Medieval and my favorite time period is the Victorian era! ❤️ I would buy this in a heartbeat! 🥳 (Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books! ) Sadly from what I gather EA doesn't take ideas from people who aren't in the company. ☹️ Your best bet is to get a job with them.🤔https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/how-do-i-submit-my-idea-for-a-game/Your idea was right up my alley, but I'm not an employee, just a volunteer. 😉 But I wish your idea would be made into a game! 🤞Happy Simming! 😇

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GlitteryRose

7 years ago

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The Sims 4 (Victorian Era) Ideas

I apologize if my title seems a little misleading for this board, but I chose it because likely my ideas will be using The Sims 4 engine. I appreciate the time anyone is taking to read this topic. Please consider my ideas as mere inspiration to make The Sims even more fun and engaging for players of all types.

For quite some time I've been wanting a sequel for The Sims Medieval but set in a different era. Always, in the back of my mind, I wondered if Electronic Arts would create additional games for players who are interested in playing adventures set in the past. As EA acknowledged before, it's hard to play sims from past eras in a modern setting. Plus, I like the story gameplay that the regular Sim games are lacking. Outside The Sims Stories and Strangerville Game Pack, that is.

To my point, I can tell by looking at all of the custom content that they are a lot of sim players who are interested in the Rococo, Regency, and Victorian eras. I chose to discuss the Victorian Era because of popular stories such as The Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes, Gone With The Wind, Jane Eyre, Mary Poppins, and so much more takes place in this time period. I think this era provides a lot of room for creative stories and gameplay.

Below are ideas for this possible sequel and some gameplay changes from The Sims Medieval.

Building Your World: I love how in The Sims Medieval it’s up to you to gain enough points to raise up buildings so to make your world more lively and prosperous. In my personal opinion, raising up buildings using a point system doesn’t feel as satisfying as the feeling that you’ve gathered up enough materials to make it. So like those games where you build cities, it would be fun for our sims to work to gain enough materials to build their city whether through their jobs or missions.
Career Ideas: Butler, Maid/Governess, Chef, Teacher, Pastor, Engineer/Inventor, Politics, Military, Physician, Clerk, Farmer, Gentlemen/Lady, Entertainer, Police/Detective, Miner, and Tailor. Obviously, this isn't all the jobs available in the Victorian Era. But these were the ones I could think of from the top of my head.
Heroes: Just like in the regular Sim games, I thought that it might be a good idea to allow the players to have more than a handful of characters to control. Not necessarily to control all characters, but at least a townful of people like in the regular Sim games. I say this because it'll allow players to have multiple characters who can share the same career and diversity in personalities and storylines.
Aging: I'm pleased that our sim characters do not die from old age after 30 days in The Sims Medieval. (I'm using hyperbole, I know sims will not die after 30 days.) Still, I believe that the aging system should return so that future generations of sims could have their own adventures. Unlike in The Sims Medieval where you have to kill your sims by throwing them into the pit or murdered by another hero sim. Plus, I like the generation after generation stories.
Social Gatherings: While the Sims Medieval does a wonderful job allowing our sims to celebrate after accomplishing something great, I love the idea of our sims going to the opera or having balls where sims could waltz with each other with elegance. In fact, it would be cool to have a Cinderella-like story for our sims as a mission.
Locations: I thought it would be cool if the players will be able to actually visit the location of their off-world missions. I'm not fussing, but it's a tad boring to be traveling through the forest or the cave in The Sims Medieval only to wait for our sim to finish their heroic deed. I love how The Sims 4 is getting better when it comes to making the world more interactive for the players.
Traits/Kingdom XP: I love the fatal flaw and legendary traits and hope they make a return as well as the Kingdom XP. I love how in the original game if you're not on top of your kingdom's knowledge, welfare, culture, and keeping a good relationship with neighboring kingdoms effects your world as a whole.

These are my ideas for now. If I come up with more, I'll be sure to post them. Thank you for reading this! Anyone is allowed to comment to give me their honest opinions.

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PugLove888
7 years ago
@GlitteryRose, I don't work for EA , but I love your ideas!:eahigh_file: I really enjoyed the Sims Medieval and my favorite time period is the Victorian era! ❤️ I would buy this in a heartbeat! 🥳 (Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books! )
Sadly from what I gather EA doesn't take ideas from people who aren't in the company. ☹️ Your best bet is to get a job with them.🤔
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/how-do-i-submit-my-idea-for-a-game/
Your idea was right up my alley, but I'm not an employee, just a volunteer. 😉 But I wish your idea would be made into a game! 🤞
Happy Simming! 😇

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EA_Atic
DICE Team
7 years ago
Looks like you got hit by our spam queue, can happens sometimes with bigger post. 🙂

But it's all good now. @GlitteryRose

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PugLove888
Hero
7 years ago
@GlitteryRose, I don't work for EA , but I love your ideas!:eahigh_file: I really enjoyed the Sims Medieval and my favorite time period is the Victorian era! ❤️ I would buy this in a heartbeat! 🥳 (Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books! )
Sadly from what I gather EA doesn't take ideas from people who aren't in the company. ☹️ Your best bet is to get a job with them.🤔
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/how-do-i-submit-my-idea-for-a-game/
Your idea was right up my alley, but I'm not an employee, just a volunteer. 😉 But I wish your idea would be made into a game! 🤞
Happy Simming! 😇
GlitteryRose
7 years ago
Thank for your reply! It always makes me happy when someone other me have the same thinking.
I thoroughly agree with you about EA. In fact, I researched this prior to posting this and found the same article you posted. It's sad, but I understand how there are thousands of ideas floating around for a game as popular as The Sims. Many wonderful ideas, too.
I've heard that game developers would read posts or articles from fans to get a general idea of what fans want for their favorite games. So I'm hoping that one of them would read mine or someone else with the same idea. I'm hoping!
If EA is willing to use just a sliver of my ideas, I'll be content. Just like you, I love the Victorian Era too! I often dress myself up, in modern-day clothes, of course, in the inspiration of that era. I probably would've been born in that era if not in this one. LOL! I'm still waiting for my first carriage ride.
GlitteryRose
7 years ago
Thanks for getting back with me. Okay, I understand now what happened. ;-)
PugLove888
Hero
7 years ago
@GlitteryRose, I'm right there with you! :eahigh_file: Even as a child I was obsessed with anything that looked "old-fashioned". Candelabras and hurricane lamps, iron water pumps (love the ones in Oasis Springs where you can find frogs hiding!), top hats, hoop skirts, bustles, pocket watches, grandfather clocks, carriages, old cast iron stoves, spinning wheels, and Queen Anne style Victorian houses are the best ❤️ (which is odd since Queen Anne isn't from the Victorian era, only Queen Victoria is! ) Luckily I have been on a carriage ride!
I am also hoping that at least some of your suggestions get filed away for later use! 🤞 Especially if more than one person has suggested something similar!
And here's hoping also that you will soon get your carriage ride! 🥳
kreatora
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@PugLove888
I prefer the Medieval - maybe with a dragon 🙂 I think it is cheaper and easier to do - and because of it more real that we can get it from EA. We have equipment that will fit there, a wooden bathtub, primitive benches - a stove for coal, clothes. It would be nice if you could not buy modern equipment there. Finally, the aspiration of the herbalist also fits in there - he would be a doctor. It would be like Sims3 city - no contacts with other worlds - only your sim can move there. Or a completely separate sim world - not included with the rest. If you buy this, you can settle there but you can not travel to any other world - it would be a worse solution - but from the point of view of difficulties and possible bugs if it was a better solution for EA.
Four "careers" troubadour, knight, wizard, doctor herbalist. The instrument from a military career and interactions change a bit and you already have a manikin for exercises with a sword and the guy who is singing with a guitar has been around for a long time.
The dragon could play the role of Mother Plants from Strangerville.
GlitteryRose
6 years ago
Not that I'm saying that you're wrong about the technical difficulties, but EA has already created some objects from Medieval, Rococo, and Victorian times for the Get Famous expansion pack. The objects they made is so beautiful and flawless in comparison to the original Sims Medieval game. Even though their stuff is beautiful too. Anyhoo, I can see how reusing the Medieval animations, for instance, could make the new game easier. But with enough interest, I believe EA games would be willing to create a new Sims game from scratch; set in a new time period.
If you would rather have The Sims Medieval remake, on the other hand, I won't bash you for it. But personally, I feel that there are a lot of eras and cultures, aside from just the Victorian Times, that could be explored to make an interesting game. Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of bringing the Sims Medieval back with better graphics and gameplay options. But bringing our sims into that time period has already been done. Therefore, kinda takes away the initial spark of the excitement of playing a game entirely new from the original Sim games.
Forgive me, I'm not trying to bash your opinion. But this is how I personally feel.
PugLove888
Hero
6 years ago
@kreatora& @GlitteryRose , I love the Medieval time period also! ❤️ But then again I'm for any time period that isn't the present! Yes, Get Famous was a must-have for the costumes that pack included! (Although technically, the costumes for the Victorian period don't have matching hair since it is either from the Regency period, or the powdered wigs of the 18th century, or the Edwardian "Gibson Girl" period (the hair Judith Ward has). Edwardian was the period after Victorian but before the 1920's. People often lump them together. 😃 (I recommend a YouTuber by the name of Karolina Zebrowska for more information of historical fashions and what period they actually occurred in. ❤️ You might like Bernadette Banner too, but I've only seen a couple of hers so far as she is more into sewing, and I don't sew. 😳 )
But I digress, as usual! 😃 The Sims Medieval was great fun! And that wooden bathtub we can make on the workbench has come in handy! 😉 For Medieval toilettes we can always use the bushes that came with Get Together ! :eahigh_file: And you are so right in that the Herbalist skill is a perfect fit! 🥳
GlitteryRose
6 years ago
Another time period that could be interesting is a futuristic setting. I don't know if you'll be into that, but I did like the idea when it was presented in The Sims 3: Into The Future. Unfortunately, for me, the game was a disappointment since you didn't get many assignments to do aside from your very first one. Plus, most of your assignments require you to do them in the present.
But the idea of time portals or portals leading to another world, taking care of aliens, infiltrating a futuristic top secret base could make into an interesting mission.
Then again, what I just described sounds very similar to the new Strangerville expansion pack, which I did enjoy playing. The only downfall to that expansion pack is that once it's over there is nothing left to do. That's why I need another game similar to The Sims Medieval.
PugLove888
Hero
6 years ago
@GlitteryRose,, & @kreatora , I loved Into the Future for TS3!.🥳 (I pretty much like to play or read about any time period that isn't the current one! ) 😃
I also loved playing Strangerville, but I agree that it would have been better if the puzzles changed or something to give it more replay value. At least there are some good architecture items in that pack. Love the Victorian houses!!! ❤️