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Seasoned Ace

6 years ago

Get to Work Needs Some Updates

I think it's time for The Sims 4 Get to Work (GTW) to get some updates. It was the first expansion pack, so it's already 4,5 years old. So, I've got some suggestions on what could be done!

This wouldn't only be nice for the players but also for EA. Why? Because there are still a lot of TS4 owners who don't own GTW, and they would then be more prone to buy it with these updates! EA would definitely profit from an update like this! And the players would simply love it! Of course this would need to be a free update for those who already own GTW, but I really think that EA would profit from it because of all the new GTW owners they would get. Also, those who already have GTW will be more prone to buy other packs because they’ll like EA more if they got an update like this. It's a win-win situation.

Police, Burglars, and Doctors

In GTW we have police and burglars/villains, but these live in their own little world. You can't have burglars breaking into your sim's home, so the police can't come to your sim's home to solve the cases. It would've been more interesting if you actually could have burglars breaking in, so that you had to call the police. Maybe they could break in when the sim isn't at home or is asleep, and if the sim is asleep when it happens they won't react to it until the morning (or whenever they wake up), so that they have to call the police when the burglar isn't there any more. When the police arrives it'll be one of the sims that actually have the job, and the burglars are the ones who work in either the criminal career or as a villain in the secret agent career. Would've been fun to have Nancy Landgraab breaking into your home, wouldn't it?

Also, if you have Cats & Dogs installed you could be able to go to the police if your pet runs away, and the police can search for the pet.

Another thing is the doctors, it would've been interesting if they actually could visit you when you're very sick (even though it is very practical to just buy medicine on the computer or phone).

Townie Jobs

I find it a bit boring that I can't choose which sims I want to work as mail-deliverers, maids, food-stall vendors etc. It would've been nice if those jobs were available for played sims too. And if you play rotationally you could meet them out in town when they're for example delivering mail.

And if they introduce this they could also upload Kaylynn Langerak (https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Kaylynn_Langerak) to the gallery!

Maybe these kinds of jobs aren't like careers, so that you can't be promoted.

It would also be nice to make it possible for us to choose the sims' jobs from Manage Households.

As a side note, it doesn't make sense that the vendors in the Magic Realm are the normal vendors but in ghost form. There should be proper ghosts working as the Magic Realm vendors.

Fire-fighters

What if you could get a fire-fighter coming to put out the fire, wouldn't that be nice? Sometimes the fires get very big, and then it would make sense that you could call the fire-fighter. When I played just yesterday my sim started a fire, but the sim couldn't reach the fire because something was in the way, and I couldn't go into buy mode because there was a fire, so I had to wait for the fire to become bigger so that my sim could reach it. In such a situation it would've been nice to have a fire-fighter to help, and it could be implemented so that the fire-fighters always can reach the fire, for example by being able to stand farther away from the fire when putting it out.

If we don't get to have townie jobs this doesn't have to be a job your played sims can have.

Worlds

It's sad that you can't visit the Police Station, the Hospital, and the Science Lab, if you're not in any of those careers. I think it would've been great if you actually could visit these places. For example, as I wrote above, you could go to the police if your pet ran away.

When it comes to the Science Lab there can be visitors (though most/all of them are aliens), when your sim works there, but you can't actually visit the lab yourself. That doesn't make sense to me.

I think the Police Station and the Hospital could be in Magnolia Promenade, and for the Science Lab there could be a new world. What if they introduced Strangetown to TS4 GTW! That would've been a great place for the Science Lab.

When StrangerVille was released Maxis put a lot of (or even all?) of the TS2 Strangetown sims on the gallery. It's just that StrangerVille is pretty small, and four of the lots already have inhabitants, so you have to evict them to have room for all the TS2 Strangetown sims from the gallery, if you want them to live in StrangerVille. Since they were uploaded to the gallery just in time for the StrangerVille release it feels like they're supposed to live in StrangerVille.

Personally it doesn't bother me at all if we had two worlds called almost the same, and also to have three desert worlds. Oasis Springs feels like an African or Asian desert, while StrangerVille feels more like a North American desert, so they aren't even the same types of deserts. Strangetown could be the type of desert as it was in TS2, if I remember correctly it was like an American dessert but less red than StrangerVille.

Live on Sixam

I've written a post about this before, but I really want it to be a thing. I think Sixam is boring. It's really beautiful, but it's boring. The only thing you can do there is to get collectibles. Well, if you're in the science career you can sometimes be invited to an event on Sixam, but that is very rare and it's like any other bar night but without toilets.

Also, you can make aliens in CAS, so it's very odd that you can't have even the aliens living on Sixam.

Here's a link to the Sixam-post I made a little while ago: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-and-Feedback/It-Should-be-Possible-to-Live-on-Sixam/m-p/8206547

Summary

- Police and burglars should exist outside of the police career

- Townie jobs should be available for played sims

- Fire-fighters could help to put out big fires

- Police Station and Hospital in Magnolia Promenade

- Introduce Strangetown and put the Science Lab in that world

- Making it possible to live on Sixam

Come on EA, I promise that this is a win-win situation!

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17 Replies

Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@RonneeSimmer Well, I've played them all and I can definitely say that each one was MUCH different than the others. Sims 1 was very new and brought things noone had ever seen before. Sims 2 expanded the world by quite a bit. Added a lot of new features. Sims 3 enormously expanded the world, quite a bit TOO much because it ended up being too large for most computers to handle, even today. Sims 4 completely redesigned how sims work and interact with the whole "moods" thing. CAS was improved greatly.

Each one has good points and bad, we'll just have to keep telling EA what we want and see how it turns out.

The only way I won't purchase 5 is if the make it multiplayer. I can't stand multiplayer.
SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I just found this fan-made Strangetown map drawn in TS4 style. 😍 There are Strangetown-sims in the TS4 gallery, it would make sense to also have Strangetown, so that they have somewhere to live, don't you think?
Note that I don't own this picture, you can find the creator here.
PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@SqueamishNerd, it would make sense to have Strange Town if we didn't already have 2 desert towns, one of which is called Strangerville. 🤨 That is just too close to warrant another similarly named desert town. 😉 Plus, that would be a lot of work for EA since a good portion of the people who play TS4 never played TS2 and don't even know what Strage Town was! ☹️ It is a lot easier to make Sims in CAS than it is to make a world. Most people would just put their Strange Town Sims in either Oasis Springs or in Strangerville! 🙂
SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@PugLove888But IF we got Magnolia Promenade updated with the police station and the hospital, where would the science lab go? The science lab is in the desert, and since it came with GTW it can’t be placed in neither Oasis Springs nor in Strangerville. And IF they gave us access to the police station and the hospital, but not the science lab, people would probably get angry that they didn’t get the science lab too. So, basically, they would have to give us another desert world if we were given access to the science lab.
Also, TS2 Strangetown is about aliens, which we got in GTW, so it would make sense to have Strangetown coming with GTW.

Btw, Strangerville has only one empty lot, and three empty houses, where one of them is too small for more than one sim to live in. So, it doesn’t make that much sense that they put the TS2 Strangetown sims on the gallery just when they released Strangerville but didn’t give space for them in Strangerville. The Strangetown families can’t live in Strangerville if you don’t evict and rebuild some of the lots.
PugLove888
Hero (Retired)
6 years ago
@SqueamishNerd, your ideas are very creative and interesting! 🙂 And it would be nice to have some updates. I just don't think that EA is going to go this way. I really don't see them spending time upgrading something that isn't base game! 😞 I can just see everyone upset that instead of giving a free update to the base game that everyone can enjoy, they give one to an EP ... everyone on Twitter and elsewhere will be very angry at this "What do you mean I have to buy a pack I didn't want just to be able to get the free content this update is offering?!? That's not fair" or if they give out something big like a science lab to everyone the people who bought the game will feel ripped off! That will really cause anger.
However, if they are planning on making a TS5, your suggestions could be put to use there! These aspects will be easier to implement from the ground up anyway. 😉
SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@PugLove888Yeah, most of this will probably never happen, I can just hope!

But making the Sixam lot habitable would be possible though, I’m pretty sure of it. I mean, I don’t know how it works with the lots that are locked to be one type of lot and can’t be changed, if it’s easy for them to change that, but the knowledge I have in programming tells me that it’s probably just set as a rule that can easily be changed.

I came to think about something with the townie jobs, actually it wouldn’t make sense to update that only for GTW, it should be in the base game.
SqueamishNerd
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
So, I've been thinking, and I've realised that townie jobs (or NPC jobs) shouldn't be updated only for Get to Work, it should be in the base-game.
So I made a separate post about townie jobs: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion-and-Feedback/Manage-Jobs-and-NPC-Jobs/m-p/8375411#M17615