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.
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)
