Expansion Refresh - Get to Work

Open up the hospital so sims can go there when they get ready and that includes when they get sick or just if you want to send them there.

100% agree with that!!!! Perhaps even add police station and science lab to the list of places sims can visit? By introducing robberies perhaps to the base game? And as way to transform metals and crystals and such from the base game instead of sending them away?!!!

Also just thought how cool it would be to flesh-out aliens a bit more. Give them some cooler powers. This is the only expansion pack without a livable world...why not add a residential and commercial Sixam?!

I'd love more interactions for sims in the active careers outside of their work hours. My doctor sim can check her partner for hotness as a romantic interaction....but if someone is actually sick in the household, I don't really see any interaction option for her. Would be nice if she could actually give a check up, send a sick sim to bed to rest, or write a prescription and the medicine would appear in the inventory. For detective sims, maybe have some interaction with sims causing mischief, some kind of confrontation with vampires openly feeding on other sims, breaking up brawls, having a word with those showering in the rain in public, there's so many things they could potentially do. For scientists, perhaps more conversation options or activities with aliens, though I'm quite happy with all they can do already with their inventions. I also thought a scientist should have some advantage to solving the Strangervillle mystery over a regular sim.

The poor Aliens so needs to work more like Vampires. Also, the 4 lot world needs to expand to 12 lots. And, the careers needs some improvements as well.

I loved get to work. I have always thought of retail as a very important feature in a sims game. And I love the active careers with work places. I wish we had more of them!

My greatest hope in refreshing ‘Get to Work’ would be to bring about a clothing challenge where you have to pay for clothes to open them up in your CAS. And by adding clothing racks ( full body, pants, tops ), hat boxes, accessory counters (jewelry, socks, glasses, lingerie etc.) rather than having to buy a whole outfit off of a mannequin.

For the careers I wish they would add a work from home option.

The second main feature I would like to see is to have retail more like Dine Out, where you can set up a store without having owners if you want to. I use retail mostly to buy things rather than running a business.

Also, I would like to see them add fruit and vegetable bins for us to use in our grocery stores as well as maybe some frozen/canned meals. It would be nice if we could store flour, sugar, spices and other things that don’t require a fridge, in the cupboards.

Someone else added being able to have a business at home. If that is possible I would like that too. I know we have the sales tables now, but we can’t sell the furniture made without owning an outside business.

It would also be nice if we could enter the work places. Maybe talk to the people while they are going about their jobs autonomously., and, adding a few additional empty lots to Magnolia Promenade would sure be appreciated too. It would be great if we could combine lots ( retail, restaurant, bar as example ) to make a mall, but I can also see that in a pack of it’s own.

I’m really glad they gave us these careers and retail early in the game.

@simopolis I would like to see a refresh for ‘Get Famous’ too. It desperately needs some beach lots and things.

Added because someone in another thread said I should also share this here.

A sim that gets extremely angry should be able to medicate or be treated by a doctor in GTW, maybe have surgery ( anger can cause high blood pressure, or a heart attack), before actually dying. However I still think some emotional deaths are dumb, like dying of laughter. I would like to be able to push my sims emotions to the limits making them extremely uncomfortable without them actually bitting the dust. Extreme laughter shouldn’t cause death, it should cause extreme happiness, giddiness, and possibly a dazed emotion, and being extremely embarrassed should cause extreme discomfort, tenseness, a miserable feeling, not death. I would love to see more diseases ( like high blood pressure from anger ) that make sims have to see the doctor, get medicine or surgery or something, and if they don’t take care of it, then they could die of it. Our sims should be able to go to the hospital for treatment before death.

The retail system needs a complete overhaul. While it's great they added it, this system lacks some important stuff and became more and more bugged over time. The ability to open a business on your own home should be added, and some functionality from later systems like vet clinics or restaurants should also be taken into place.

I don't really care about aliens or even been able to visit the hospital (though it'd be a great addition) but I really think the retail system is the main flaw of GTW.

Aliens need some skill tree and more CAS customization to look more alien.

Love the clothing idea @SheriSim57 !! Great ideas everyone!! Seems like this would be a good one to refresh!!!

Aliens need more attention in this pack, especially because they are important part of scientist career. For example I think they should have different reactions when abducted than ordinary sims. My alien scientist was abducted and the moodlet said “Aliens, awesome!” and something about amazing alien technology which is ridiculous because she IS an alien, lol. Also alien males when pregnant or abducted should have different reaction than dazed by “aliens using their probes” or the uncomfortable with not knowing what’s going on. This is what really disappoints me. Aliens can have sad or happy memories of Sixam while looking at piece of space rock, but when meeting their buddies in spaceship they act like it was the first time. Sometimes it seems like this occult state was forgotten along the way, which makes me very very sad. I hope some small improvements come in the future.

Expanded aliens and an expanded & liveable Sixam!