The Sims 4 Ideas

Some more ideas that were thought up over the week...

- Allergies: this could be a randomized trait in which sims could have allergies to pets. Something like this does occur with plants (sims get itchy), so let's say something similar happens where sims could be allergic to pets, but this is beyond the player's control (i.e. this would have to be a programming thing that is totally random and a surprise to everyone). Unlike with plants, this isn't something that goes away after a few sim-hours whether you do something or not to lessen the effect. This would be more real life where sims would have to buy medicine and/or go to the doctor to get treated;if the sim just lets the symptoms go on, the effects keep piling (sneezing, hives, headache, and so on). This would bring more purpose to the clinic other than the profession itself or pregnancy. Players could actually voluntarily have the option to go to the clinic.

- Building your own clinic: we can operate our own vets, why not our own clinics?

- Tennis courts/Country club: add a tennis court asset for more variety (especially since there's already a cute little tennis skirt the females have!) and/or just have a massive country club building that houses tennis courts, rock climbing, basketball courts, bar, recreational gaming, etc. For the country club, however, there is a membership fee per hour or sims can purchase a membership card at a higher price but automatic access; this could also be a party venue. Sims could even work at this establishment (chef, fitness trainer, etc).

- Pet permanently running away setting: ok, ok, before people rip me to shreds on this one, I already know this was a debated topic (pets permanently running away). But what about a happy medium- in the game settings, have a new option where players can choose to turn this feature on or off? That way, players who want more of a challenge getting their pets back can have it. As is, the worse that happens is sims get sad, but the pet will come back eventually (and no, I'm not talking about when they just wander off for some time). If this option is turned on and the pet runs away, sims can go around asking other sims if they'd seen their pet. Just like the detective, sims can be helpful or not; the more helpful sims can be more descriptive with where they saw said pet. Or maybe sims could receive calls saying their pet was spotted in [fill in blank] location. If the sim can't find their pet in 4-5 sim days, the pet won't come back on its own (but can still be in the game like other strays, which would mean that if the sim eventually finds their pet as a stray, they'd have to go through the same processes as with other strays).This would be in conjunction with the other methods of locating a pet already implemented in the game.

- Kneeling: occasionally, sims will kneel on the ground on their own. Add the option if you click on the sim, they could "Kneel Here." I find kneeling makes it better for taking pictures of toddlers since they're, you know, so close to the ground lol. With that, there should be a way regardless to take pictures of toddlers, even with the photo booth thing.

- Punish for skipping school: this might have been an oversight, but I had a child sim skip school with her friend and I purposely brought one of her parents over because I wanted them to catch their kid in the act. Long story short, there wasn't anything about disciplining the kid for not being in school (in fact, the kid wanted to dance on the dance floor with the parent lol). Just a thought for an additional reason to punish a kid/teen.