Why not a broader use of religion?
Sims 4 seems to embrace the occult and magic but not religion. Whether one believes a religion is holy or an example of occult and magic, some variety might help. With the Life and Death expansion pack and its interactions, I thought perhaps there would be a place for religion.
There could be at least two major areas where this could add to play:
- Places of worship could be new community lots with different furniture and looks, and provide jobs of priests, healers, evangalists.
- Belief systems based on different religions (customizable) could govern Sim behavior in different ways - forgiving others: condemning activities: paths to worship - think pilgrimages etc.: reforming previous characteristics related to goodness, fidelity, anger, vegetarianism, etc: impact raising children and more.
If you examine all the religious elements already in the Sims, it should be easy to add a more focused gameplay and provide greater variety in the gaming. For example, Shinto is prevalent in Snowy Adventure, spirits abount in Sulani, Specific packs have ghosts, aliens, spells, vampires.
As a plus, religion could be blamed for all the bugs and non working interactions that plague the Sims.
