Get to Work Needs Some Updates

I have fond memories of burglars breaking into my sims homes in uhhh was it sims 3 or sims 2? Either way it was fun, the alarms went off, police came to the home-lot to try and catch the burglar. 

I don't know why they didn't add this in sims 4. Also, the get-to-work pack of sims 3 was waaaay more fun than the one in sims 4. It had ghost-busters and other cool jobs that were fun to play!

With sims 4 I played the detective career track once and the scientist career track once, after that I don't feel the need to do it anymore. "ben there done that", not replayable content in my book. And retailing, ugh what a chore, not for me. Also the reason I don't buy the dine-out game pack, it will probably bore me after one time playing or I will dislike the gameplay like I did with the retailer job, and 20 bucks is not something I am ready to waste on a glorified stuff-pack. 

Basically jungle adventure is a glorified stuff-pack to me, beautiful flora and tile/wall textures, but the gameplay I did not enjoy. Took two 3 day trips to selvadora, did what there was to do, and never went back again, because again, it's okay-ish to play for me the first time around because it's new and I'm exploring the new content, but it's not super fun or something I will repeatedly do. So yeah, never visit selvadora anymore because been there done that, it's boring, aka, glorified stuff-pack. Again a pack that doesn't even come close to the quality of it's predecessor "vacation days" on sims 3. 

@SqueamishNerd You have some great ideas! I commented on your other post about living on Sixam (all for it), so I won't go into that one.

I think that incorporating your police, burglars, and doctors into the game is a great idea! Using the sims you have played & employed in those fields for the game-generated reactions (if they are not from the active household) would be fun. For instance, if one of your played sims is a detective and a burglary happens on a different active sim's lot, it would be fun if one of the detectives that shows up at the house was (or could be) that sim from your other played household. Same thing with doctors and other careers. 

I think being able to add a home security system to avoid the burglars (or maybe all but the very most skilled ones) if you have enough money to purchase the system, plus insurance to help cover the cost of the burned or stolen item like in Sims 2, would be cool. I would love to have your butler be able to beat the tar out of a vampire and guard your home while you're sleeping. I also think it would be fun if you could call the police and report a vampire or other intruder that will not leave your home when you ask them, and the police would arrest them at your request for trespassing. Same thing with a clepto-shoplifter in your store.

I also would love to see the ability to vacation in Sulani if you own Island Living, or build in vacation worlds without cheating. It would be nice to have the option to live in Granite Falls or Selvadorada if you own those packs. 

Anyway, just wanted to give your ideas a big thumbs up! Thanks for sharing! :eahigh_file:

@SheriGRIt would be great to live in Granite Falls and Selvadorada. It feels a bit odd that those places are only for vacation while Sulani is only for living there. I think it would’ve been nice if we could live or go on vacation in any world. It would be nice if all empty houses anywhere could be rented for a vacation, and that the houses in Granite Falls and Selvadorada could be bought.

There’s even a Maxis-made sim on the gallery, Kurt Lumberjackson, who’s said to have lived in Granite Falls.

Interesting ideas, however as others have mentioned, it would be a time-consuming process for packs that have already been out for a while, and have served their purpose.

If anything I would see it more likely just being another release down the road as something else in incorporate new careers or gameplay; that or you'd have to find mods that would include the various gameplay features you are looking for. (Unfortunately, mods usually need to be updated to keep up with ever-updating patches, so the updates on mods are completely the responsibility of the player.)

While I would love to see things like Burglars, Firefighters, and more elements that give the Sim Life a bit more spice and flavor; I think we've already crossed the proverbial Rubicon to incorporate those without it just being a suggested feature for a mod.

- B

@PsychotpsOkay, let's break it down.

Police, Burglars, and Doctors

We already have these jobs, well, if burglars were the sims in the criminal career or being villains in the secret agent career, so these jobs don't have to be made. The difference is that the villains/agents should be like vampires, that they can break into your sims' homes, and instead of biting you they will have the kleptomaniac animations, which is the same animation as when a sim picks up anything and put it in their inventory, and maybe some additional animations of them sneaking around.

The only difference with police would be that the police who are tagged as police can come to your home and solve the crime. It doesn't have to be the same animations as in the played police career, but some of them, it should be made waaay simpler to have a police come to you compared to when playing the police career, like fewer interactions and so on.

When it comes to doctors being able to visit they already have the animations and such, the difference would be that they can come to your house. Also here, the doctors who come should be those who are already tagged as doctors.

Townie Jobs

Townie jobs shouldn't be active careers. Think of it, it would be pretty boring. Everything already exist when it comes to animations and such. The only things that have to be changed is that the townies who are tagged as maids, mail deliverers, food stall vendors etc will still keep their job if they become played sims. When they are in the played household that would mean that the jobs would be rabbit-hole jobs, but when they're not in the played households it would be EXACTLY as it is today, that you meet them when they're working.

Fire-Figthers

This should just a new townie job. It will have animations that sims already have, such as putting out fire and running (but jogging to the fire instead of running away in fear). They don't have to come in a car, because maids etc don't come in cars.

Worlds

We already have Magnolia Promenade, and we already have the police and hospital neighbourhood. The difference would be the picture of the map of Magnolia Promenade, and that the map will have two new links to the already existing police station and hospital. The current Magnolia Promenade and the police and hospital neighbourhood would still be different neighbourhoods, so when you're in one of them the other one will not be seen, just as with all the other neighbourhoods in TS4.

Here are some examples (the red rings) of where the links to this neighbourhood could be placed (and that part of the map would have to be repainted). I don't remember exactly how far you can go in the Magnolia Promenade neighbourhood, but it has a edge, so there's surely some reasonable place to put the police and hospital neighbourhood on the map without changing anything of the two existing neighbourhoods' looks of the edges.

About Strangetown it would be like creating any other world, and, as I said, they gave us Newcrest for free. They don't have to put the actual houses there, if they don't have time, making it an empty world, but if they have time they could put the houses there or in the gallery. TS2 Strangetown has 11 lots (one of them is empty) which is quite a lot, but Newcrest has 15 lots, so it's not totally unreasonable. But TS2 Strangetown is quite wide, so they would have to make it more compact, so that the neighbourhoods don't have to be so big, I don't mean big as in the amount of lots, I mean the actual size of where your sim can walk and where the edges are.

Live on Sixam

Sixam already exists. They just have to make the existing lot like any other lot, i.e. possible to choose if you want it to be a residential lot, a bar, or whatever you want, and they have to paint a map. It doesn't have to have more than this one lot, it's just that the lot today is extremely boring, and Sixam is boring, and if the lot could be inhabitable, even though it's only one single lot, it would be much more fun.

@Psychotps   

To be honest, though the graphics are absolutely amazing, I have been so disappointed with Sims 4 that I doubt I'll waste money on a Sins 5. I've barely bought much of Sims 4 expansion or stuff packs. I find myself scrutinizing each new releases . Looking carefully at all the new content and reading the forums to see how others are liking it before I purchase or, much more often, choosing not to purchase.

I remember being so excited about new releases and new content with Sims 2 and 3. I would pre-order my games and wait with such exhilaration for it to arrive in the mail or rush to Game Stop so I'd be there when they opened their doors. I haven't felt any of that since the initial releases of the Sims 4 base game.

@RonneeSimmer, I would probably wait until we know more about The Sims 5 before making such a decision.  While I don't expect to ever get the amount of fun and satisfacton as I got from TS2, I still have enjoyed TS3 and TS4.  
However, with TS3, I had a ton of problems.  It is my least favorite version of The Sims. ☹️  I still love it because it is a Sims game, but it was pretty much unplayable as time went on.  Great ideas, but great ideas arent' enough if you can't play the game. :_( 

But, if i wrote off all future Sims titles, during TS3 , then I never would have discovered that TS4 was improved (from my perspective)!   So, you might find TS5 (if and when we get TS5) to be completely different and more to your likeing.  You don't have to have high expectations, just don't throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak! 😉  

I also don't listen much to strangers' reviews, unless they have in the past tended to the same conclusions as I have.  A trusted reviewer, friend, or family memeber are people I take more stock in when it comes to things like this.  (Even with resturant reviews... I prefer to listen to people who know me and my likes and dislikes and not some random person.)  I realize that I am a random person to you, but I'm not telling you to absolutely buy TS5 or to absolutely not buy TS5 -- I'm just suggesting that you wait and see, and also keep an open mind ! 😉