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I'd be happy to see more interactive toys for kids. Despite owning all the additional packs for kids I still feel like they all end up with the same limited selection. The base game toys were really odd and annoying, I mean what is the point of that little pram? I often blow it up and place it in a nursery and do the same with the little red car so it's like they have one to peddle about in... even though they can't. The model toy cars get blown up and placed on drives in the absence of real cars.
As for the outdoor toddler activity things, you need a mansion to fit them in as they take up half the lawn. I have one Sim family that has the space for the biggest one with tunnels. I added them to a park and toddlers turned up unaccompanied it really freaked me out and my played Sim rounded them up one by one and took them home! So that idea was immediately scrapped.
So I'm happy to see it looks like we might be getting something more realistic in terms of activities and/or items possibly.
I added kids shops selling the collectable toys and knitted llamas, turtles, etc. There's kids art, collectable posters, snowglobes and the cracker toys too, just so that kids could have a few more things in their rooms.
There's wierd looking dolls that appear in their inventories when they get home from school which seems to be linked to the kleptomaniac trait. I think that could be expanded upon because it's extremely rare. One little girl named Thalia got a few of them in my last game but nobody else got any. I couldn't interact with them so they just sat in her room. But I like that idea of locked or hidden toys that just appear in the inventory depending on the traits/activities.
I don't have many elders as there seems to be a fair few elder townies already. But mine are often parents and grandparents that I add as peripheral characters/family that I keep in Other Households. They are usually pretty active though. I don't have deaths in my game and I wanted them to be youthful seniors.
- PugLove8883 years agoHero (Retired)
@simsplayer818 , when you talk about kids' toys and you mention the pram (stroller for people in the U.S.) , do you mean the fancy purple one? If that is the same one you mean, that isn't supposed to be a pram, but instead it is supposed to be an old-fashioned carriage, but it does look out of context without horses in front of it! 😅 I never thought of it as a pram, but I can now clearly see how you (and I'm sure other people) have thought that! 😀
Interesting thing about the Kleptomaniac trait in children, is that that is how I learned of the hidden items in the game (the ones that aren't locked by achievements)! A lot of the dolls that end up in their inventory were swiped from dollhouses! 😅
Normally I don't like the idea of children stealing things, but in the case of this trait, it does give some much needed personality to some of my child Sims! 🤨- simsplayer8183 years agoHero@PugLove888 Is that what it is lol. I blow it up into a frilly pram! That's made me chuckle.🤭
Thanks for explaining about the dolls, the first one that I found in the inventory was a particularly creepy looking one, I was like, eek! But I really don't like frilly dolls personally I was more for the Sindy/Barbie kind of doll. I just think these stolen dolls add more variety when toys are a bit lacking in the game so I started looking forward to checking her inventory when she got home from school.- PugLove8883 years agoHero (Retired)
@simsplayer818 , yes, well, I have seen carriages like this (though not in purple!). 😉 But your idea of blowing it up in size to become a toy pram is a great idea! 😎
I don't know which doll is the creepy looking one, unless you mean the doll from the Paranormal pack. 🤔 But that one is supposed to be creepy! 😅 I was always a big fan of frilly dolls and dolls you can cuddle, and never cared for Barbie much at all! So we are opposites in that regard! 😄
Other interesting things that my Klepto children have swiped in the game are dirty plates!!! 😯 I mean, why would anybody want that!?!?!?!? 😣🤢🤣