We Need More Outfit Slots and Types
Currently there are 8 outfit categories in The Sims 4: Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Sleepwear, Party, Swimwear, Hot Weather and Cold Weather. There's also Career, which can only be changed with the cheat sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas.
For each of these outfit types we can give our Sims 5 outfits, so they can have 40 outfits in total, if you fill out all the slots in all the outfit categories (excluding Career).
I think this is too few.
The Sims 4 has 18 Expansion Packs, 12 Game Packs, 20 Stuff Packs and 19 CAS kits. A total of 69 DLCs containing CAS items, which means that the game has in the upper 100s, if not 1000s, of CAS items.
Every time I get a new DLC with CAS items I struggle with giving my Sims new outfits, because many of them have all their outfit slots filled and I don't want to get rid of outfits every single time I get a new DLC.
I also often find myself wanting to have more or less the same outfit in two slots. For example if a Sim has long hair, then it would be nice to have the ability to have one outfit where they have the hair up and one where they have the hair down. Another example is that I like to give my Sims capsule wardrobes, where I mix and match the items they "own", meaning that I very quickly run out of slots.
How about, say, 15 outfit slots? In the very least. (I wouldn't be sad if we got something like 50 😂 but then we would need a better system for it) Plus, how about a few more outfit categories on top of this?
I think we would strongly benefit from an Underwear category. What if Sims changed into pyjamas when they went to bed to sleep, but they changed into underwear when they woohoo in the bed? No more woohoo in pyjamas or sleeping in woohoo-worthy lingerie.
I also think we would benefit from having a Costume category. There are so many times I want to have my Sims go to a costume party or do cosplay for GeekCon, and I find myself having to get rid of one of their other outfits for it. Having a Costume category would also mean that I could give Costume outfits for all the Sims who are going to attend, so that they show up in one of the (likely 5, in my case) Costume outfits I gave them.
It would also be really nice if we could edit the Career outfit in CAS without a cheat.
And one last thing, it would be nice if we could also move around the outfit slots. Now, if we change our mind about the order we have put the outfits in, we have to either have max 4 outfits and click on the plus on one, remove the original, plus on another one, and so on, or we could do it manually, which takes a lot of time.
So, here's a summary of what I think CAS needs in the case of outfit slots:
- At the very least 15 outfit slots per outfit category
- New outfit categories: Underwear and Costume
- Career outfit added to regular CAS
- Ability to move the outfit slots around
The one I find absolutely most important is more outfit slots, because how are we gonna keep having 5 if we already have 69 DLCs with CAS in them and it's not like there won't be any more DLCs any time soon.
