New Official Sims 4 Expansion Pack Survey
There is a new EP survey with 9 potential new Expansion Pack themes. SimsCommunity posted about it. https://simscommunity.info/2024/09/19/sims-4-expansion-packs-survey/
Forum Discussion
Most of these suggested themes sound interesting & I like elements from each one. In the order of my interest, I would rank them:
- Post-Apocalyptic Survivor: I absolutely love this EP concept. I like playing off-the-grid & rags-to-riches & I think that this pack could add a lot to those play styles. I also love crafting with my Sims. I want my Sims to be able to craft/build & repair their shelters, tools for survival (fishing rod, campfire, etc), make more types of furniture, etc. I want more skills & harvestables. I also like the idea of having exotic pets, expanded fishing, and a survivalist career, and a resource management mechanic.
- Gritty City: I think TS4 needs more gritty elements & that an active criminal career would be fun. The possibility of having a new superhero/villain “occult” also sounds interesting. Finally, I want NPC burglars back.
- Coastal Town & Ocean World: I would love to: build & design a functional aquarium; have houseboats; more sailing options; & to have a dive-able underwater area that sims can explore. I hope that this EP would come with new sailing, swimming & diving skills.
- Adventurous Exploration: I would like to see museums improved upon, more things for children to do & the existing fossil collection expanded upon. (The elements from this one also seem like they could also fit well with the Ocean Word theme).
- Retro World & Malls
- Sleepaway Camp
- Modern Monarchy
- Cyberpunk
- Van Life: I like the idea of a mechanic career & trading goods & recipes. However, I can’t see how this concept would work without having to go through hundreds of loading screens.
Oh, ranks sound fun. I'd go with
- Cyberpunk
- Gritty City (If it's a superhero pack - 8 place if it isn't)
- Exploration
- Ocean World
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Monarchy (The MODERN aspect kills a lot of the hype)
- Retro Mall
- Van Life (I want cars, but van life is lame)
- Camp (It should be a game pack at most)
1-4 are things I'd actively be hyped about.
I liked most of them too.
- Sleepaway Camp
- Ocean World
- Gritty City - Would love a Superhero/villain theme for this one
- Post-Apocalyptic Survivor
- Modern Monarchy
- Cyberpunk
- 80/90s Retro World
- Adventurous Exploration (I agree that this one could easily fit into the Ocean World)
- Van Life
The first six choices I put down as very interested and the last three are in the somewhat interested category.
I would go with:
- Cyberpunk (Great setting to play with poor and rich sims and their lifestyles and how they live)
- Ocean World (If they add underwater worlds I think this could work great)
- Post Apocalyptic World (Could work really well, they could make it like a survival game)
- Van Life (Travel around lots with a van could offer some expansive gameplay, but we still have no cars?)
- Exploration coastal world (Could work, if they do it well)
- Crime fighting (Could maybe work? But I'm not sure.)
- 80's-90's world (Doesn't sound very fun when you read their ideas for the pack, play table games, use landline phones)
- Modern Monarchy (I don't think this will work in The Sims 4, their ideas sound like things people are already doing)
- Sleepaway camps (sounds like a game pack)
Here's my list;
- Criminal City.
- Summer Camp!
- Cyberpunk City.
- Retro 90's Mall.
- Van Life.
- Sulani 2 but Underwater (hopefully) and with houseboats.
- Post Apocalyptic World.
- Archeology Museum.
- Monarchy.
I honestly would love to see more gameplay with elders though, so I wouldn't mind getting Van Life as long as it had that "spend your retirement traveling around the world in a van" aspect to it, but I would also like to see maybe a large retirement community with a large garden and biking trail and a pond where your elders could sit on benches and feed the ducks, a working pickleball court, maybe an area where they could sometimes find a yard sale, or maybe even donate items to the yard sale, just things like that.
Also, the superhero/supervillain idea sounds awesome. It could be a type of occult sim that has specific superpowers such as super strength, super speed, etc. and you just have to decide whether you want to use those powers for good or for evil. It could maybe tie in really well with the criminal or cyberpunk packs.
