5 years ago

Domestic Features Needed...

I want to see more domestic actions in the game. I really need these for some story ideas in game play like a Cinderella & Desperate Housewives, etc. stories & challenges; my sims needs CHORES! Chores that take time. To do these chores frequently & regularly maybe the game can require this behavior of sims with a aneat Freak trait which can be a SUPER version of the Neat trait. This way, the players that would prefer to avoid this gameplay can opt out by simply not applying the trait. These sims can do tasks that other sims have no option to do. Neat sims only get a few (the bare minimum tasks that they cure do). For instance, we have had washing machines and dryers, but how about the neat freak sim having an option to separate colors & accidentally getting a colored sock mixed w/ white laundry? What about:

- Vacuuming and sweeping all unoccupied areas of floor
- Clean toilets though they look fine
- Yell at sims that leave there personal items around the house
- Mopping/scrubbing bathrooms and kitchens even without a puddle or them looking dingy
- Dusting around the house
- Ironing clothes and sorting them into piles and putting them away into each room w/ a bed & closet/wardrobe
- When washing dishes either in the sink or dishwasher it doesn't just disappear but they put it away in the cupboards
- The ability for sims (especially kids) to break dishes
- Kids can overflow the bathtub
- Cleaning/scrubbing the oven, not just the top of it
- Cleaning out the chimney if the house has a fireplace
- Make bed & option to change sheets
- Wash windows
- Whisk furniture
- Send a sim grocery shopping (interface pop up where players pick the food/cleaning/books, etc. the house needs) then the sim disappears down rabbit hole for 30mins - 1.5hrs depending on the number of items. They return home w/ items in inventory. (PLEASE GIVE AN OPTION TO EMPTY ALL NON-SPOILD FOOD ITEMS INTO THE FRIDGE!)
- Send sims down other rabbit hole to go pickup kids from school (let players choose this when toddlers age up... ‘do you want your child to walk home/bus home/or will you pick them up?’ If parents pick bussing then they have to get their kids bus passes (no matter what aging cycle the players select make bus passes require renewal every 30 sim days & a parent sim even if not the at home parent can go down the rabbit hole to get & pay for new passes. If kids have no pass they can miss school or parents can take them to school. If parents opt to pick up kids they must also take them in the mornings & they get a reminder pop up 2hrs prior.)

ALSO, PLEASE FORCE SIMS TO EAT THEIR SACK LUNCHES WHILE AWAY AT WORK & SCHOOL. 🤗

x4m1r4
5 years ago
Sounds great! Love it! It should be applied to the butler & maid too. :D
elliandre
5 years ago
Love it! I would like to buy a Home Maintenance Stuff Pack. Every time I hang the Ironing Board on the wall I wish I could use it. I would add some outside home maintenance chores to your list too, like:

shoveling snow off patio, walkways
mowing the lawn
cleaning the eavestrough
sweeping the patio, walkways
weeding dandelions from the lawn
removing ant colonies
removing beehives from the wall or roof
knocking down icicles from the eavestrough
repairing leaks in the roof
Gagea25
Hero
5 years ago
Shouldn't this topic better be moved to The Sims 4 Ideas Corner?
Purrloin9
5 years ago
I'd love more chores and household duties. Vacuuming, dusting, ironing, lawn mowing, and fence painting are at the top of my list. I'd also like chimney sweeping. And a 100% YES PLEASE to a grocery store. I want my sims to go grocery shopping so much. I can't believe 6 years into this game, we don't have something as simple and common as going grocery shopping.
invisiblgirl
5 years ago
I miss some of the domestic chores we had in previous games, but I can see that many players would say, 'I hate doing this in real life, why would I want to do it in the game?', which is why many things have been eliminated with progressive Sims games. Personally, I hate cleaning, but it's fun with my Sims. (I think because things actually get clean, and there aren't as many chores as in real life.)

Things I'd like to see return: bed-making (choice rather than automatic), light bulb changing (though it was sometimes annoying) and watering the non-harvestable landscaping plants. I think we used to be able to wash windows, as well?
thecatsred
5 years ago
I really miss my sims having to make their bed in the morning. It added a level of personality that some sims fixed it up, whereas others left it until bed the following night.

All of your suggestions sound amazing, they'd add a nice level to the game!
Fluteline24
5 years ago
That sounds... so boring. I know it's a life simulator, but I don't want my sims to constantly be doing chores when they could be out socializing, building their skills, or doing something fun.
SimAlexandria
5 years ago
I would love these things :)
SimAlexandria
5 years ago
"invisiblgirl;c-17396669" wrote:
I miss some of the domestic chores we had in previous games, but I can see that many players would say, 'I hate doing this in real life, why would I want to do it in the game?', which is why many things have been eliminated with progressive Sims games. Personally, I hate cleaning, but it's fun with my Sims. (I think because things actually get clean, and there aren't as many chores as in real life.)

Things I'd like to see return: bed-making (choice rather than automatic), light bulb changing (though it was sometimes annoying) and watering the non-harvestable landscaping plants. I think we used to be able to wash windows, as well?

It'd be nice if bed making was tied in to some of the traits. Like neat Sims would automatically make the beds, and slob ones would never do it automatically. Other sims would maybe do it sometimes but if they didn't you could tell them to, like washing dishes now, and maybe the more you tell them to the more likely they'd do it on their own.
keekee53
New Spectator
5 years ago
"PlayerSinger2010;c-17396967" wrote:
That sounds... so boring. I know it's a life simulator, but I don't want my sims to constantly be doing chores when they could be out socializing, building their skills, or doing something fun.

Hire a maid?? Currently, the maid barely has anything to do. The bed is made, dishes are usually done and maybe the maid will have load of laundry to do if you have the stuff pack. I stopped playing with the butler in my wealthy sim homes because they spent all day spraying desk with a spray bottle because there was nothing for them to really do.