I'm afraid I never saw much about The Sims 3 and I'm not veteran player. I just know some things due to watching my eldest brother play The Sims 2 on occasion when little.
CARS:
I've read of people having so much trouble with the Sims 3 open world and considering there at players even now who can only do so much via their computer and internet... I think the loading screens are fine enough. So maybe do cars like how they were done in The Sims 2. It will still have the loading screen and the separated worlds. It would need a short additional animation entering and leaving the car as well as for the car pulling up or heading out. (Maybe even add in the school bus animation for kids to teens.) Maybe even call up taxi drivers.
Extra: Be able to build garages, buy new cars or repair/make a car from parts. (I think that would be freaking awesome.)
BUILD MODE:
Yeah, definitely spiral stairs. You can sort of make them in similarity to a stairwell, but the room required and the space it takes up is evil.
I'd agree to some extent on the larger lot sizes, but if this is base game only... I think we'd need a few more places added onto the current maps for Willow Creek, Oasis Springs and Newcrest... *Tilts head...*
Extra: Vending games for the base game. Get to Work and University have them and if you have some of the other packs you get the food stalls. They could be so useful when visiting a park or other commercial lot.
LOTS:
A Graveyard lot with some already preexisting tombstones with name, death type and/or epithet like how the decorative one in Pets has, but deceased Sims in your game will actually be placed at the cemetery… none of that, “You have to be on the lot the Sim died to collect the urn or tombstone.”
The last three things don't have to do with base game and would extend into expansion packs. *Shrugs*
I'd also like to see some old NPCS.
NPCs:
From the The Sims I’d like to see
@Player_jp5s5eav I had fun and flashbacks reading your post!
@SheriGRAll great ideas and suggestions.
Careers
I would like to see more careers too. I would like to see thieves, burglars and robbers, fireman, soldiers and even psychotherapists. And i would like these careers to be the same in game play as the scientist, doctors and detectives Sims 4 has now. May be even a in game play school career, where you need to cope with al ages of pupils up on to the university.
Objects
The cars in Sims 3 were nice, the flying saucers were also great means of transportation. I would like to see the elevators return in Sims 4 as well as the spiral staircases. Buying stores, hotels (I see these as objects) and other means of making money could be nice but not really necessary because there ar to many ways to make lots of money (and of course the cheats)
I would like to see the ability to buy more lots so you could play with bigger households or extended families. But also to start a business on.
New extension pack
I definitely don't care for the new extension pack 'knitting'. Other hobbies like you wrote about: 'fixing cars' have my interest too. Hobbies that Sims would be able to do in 'man- or woman caves'.
Faces
There is one thing i would like most and that is more options in CAS. To make it more life like i would like to see te possibility to make a face in two halves. All within 'normal' parameters of course. Wouldn't it be lovely to create a sort of crossed eyed Mary or Jack?
I know that there are a lot of rumors about Maxis EA working on a Sims 5. Let's hope it will be better than ever.
@Trismagistos Thank you for your kind words! I love hearing creative ideas and troubleshooting on gameplay, and pack and game possibilities. It's fantastic that we can post feedback and ideas here and that EA provides and opportunity to do so! 😊
💡Love your career ideas!I agree that the policeman and firemen would be great to see turn up again - and maybe even a burglar here and there - especially if my butler can kick his butt! I'd love if I could report shoplifters in my store to the police, and if those rascally vampires could be called in for home-invasion if you have a nice alarm system or call the police (rather them them taking over the home as soon as they enter the home and there's no fighting them or removing them forcefully. I hate vampires, but if I could fight back without being all 'into' what their folklore and all are, I could have some fun with them.
🤔I must say I am fascinated with this idea of a psychotherapists. I loved Sims 1 & 2, (but unfortunately not 3)... was this a career in the past that I never played? I have no use for playing an 'erratic' sim currently, but if there was something like the chance to get them therapy and improve, etc., I would actually play that and have fun.
👍You mentioned wanting the 'soldier' career/ Strangerville includes the military career, so that should be enjoyable to you then! Also, you mentioned buying stores? My favorite part of Get to Work is the retail business option that it includes - so I build, buy and run retail stores with my sims and love it! And Discover University has the teaching career, so that may be another pack of interest to you.
🏠I also love playing large households (mainly or entirely extended family - it takes a village and all)! I find it a good challenge for many plans, though not always. I would also love to be able to 'officially' live on the same lot as my business. I have built and run businesses with where I had the family (with a 'technical' other home lot) live completely or partially on the retail lot (above the store or in the basement) but you have to do it as a workaround and it involves some inconvenient and wonky details doing it that way.
Thank you for sharing your creative ideas! 💡
