New World Themes GAME

"LiELF;c-17490535" wrote:
Honestly, I just wish they'd make up some worlds themselves. I never liked the reliance on real people, places and trends that the Sims 4 has adopted. I want to see more fantastical worlds or fictional locations like the magic realm. A goblin bog or fairy tree houses and explorable caves. I'd like strange, crooked trees and weird insect life. Structures inspired by Tim Burton or Dr. Seuss or Bloom County/Outland. Things like that.

I just always felt like the Sims were their own universe and they just had parallels to ours. If they were more unique to themselves, I think the game wouldn't have cornered itself to be so pc and cautious and "safe" and worried about socially offending all the time. It wouldn't have to be so self-conscious because the rules of the Simverse belongs to the Sims and there could be an "anything goes" flow to it. It would still mimic our own lives (like Sims 2 did so well) and the humor would still be there, but sensitive people wouldn't find it so familiar as to take anything personally.

We could even have a larger variety of skin, hair and eye colors that way. Children could be born with blue hair because it wouldn't be assumed it's "dyed" when they get older. There could be optional odd eye textures that are more luminescent or multicolored. Just little extra options to make the Sims seem more special and otherworldly and a little bit "beyond" our universe.

But I'm getting carried away now.

Honestly? My favorite world (besides Windenburg due to its size) is San Myshuno, cuz its not realistic. Its a mix of Japan, Middle East and west USA. And the name?! Its such a pearl... I have even come up with some names...

YORKOHAMA / YOKOYORK (York + Yokohama)
CHIGOYA / NACAGO (Chicago + Nagoya)
PARANTA / ATLARIS (Paris + Atlanta)
PHILADORF / DÜSSELDELPHIA (Philadelphia + Düsseldorf)
KOBOSTON / BOSTOBE (Kobe + Boston)

But... anyway... I think it would be tricky to implement haha they would have to research everywhere to find if its not an offensive word in some languages. maybe would be more interesting to use simlish like San Myshuno, Girbittown, etc

"LiELF;c-17490535" wrote:
Honestly, I just wish they'd make up some worlds themselves. I never liked the reliance on real people, places and trends that the Sims 4 has adopted. I want to see more fantastical worlds or fictional locations like the magic realm. A goblin bog or fairy tree houses and explorable caves. I'd like strange, crooked trees and weird insect life. Structures inspired by Tim Burton or Dr. Seuss or Bloom County/Outland. Things like that.

But I'm getting carried away now.

Me too! I'm with you on this! Please, continue getting carried away... B)

There already is all the basic real-world parallels in the game. Some more unique stuff would be a cool for new worlds. I'd totally go for a Dr. Suess world, or Wizard of Oz type world, I read most of the books as a kid lots of potential there! "The Wizrd of Oz" is actually a small part of the world and story.

"Admiral8Q;c-17491376" wrote:

"LiELF;c-17490535" wrote:
Honestly, I just wish they'd make up some worlds themselves. I never liked the reliance on real people, places and trends that the Sims 4 has adopted. I want to see more fantastical worlds or fictional locations like the magic realm. A goblin bog or fairy tree houses and explorable caves. I'd like strange, crooked trees and weird insect life. Structures inspired by Tim Burton or Dr. Seuss or Bloom County/Outland. Things like that.

But I'm getting carried away now.

Me too! I'm with you on this! Please, continue getting carried away... B)

There already is all the basic real-world parallels in the game. Some more unique stuff would be a cool for new worlds. I'd totally go for a Dr. Suess world, or Wizard of Oz type world, I read most of the books as a kid lots of potential there! "The Wizrd of Oz" is actually a small part of the world and story.

@Admiral8Q emerald city would be Plumbobington haha A city with green skyscrapers, where the tallest skyscrapers has a plumbob shaped roof structure.

Also, I used to love the idea of the Sunrise Crater in Sims Online... Look at it:
https://statscmain-10b33.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/citynew.jpg

There's so much lore-world hsitory they could come up with those things. Like... In my had, in the SIms world, dinosaurs existed alongside sims, jsut like the Flintstones. Would be funny to see a into the past pack with caveman metropolis type of thing.

@Karon That reminds me of the landscape/terrain I made for cities in "Sim City 4"! I still have some of it on my old laptop, I should take some screenshots if I ever think of it.

On a side note about Sim City 4, I did specialize each city in the metropolis. I even had a "Smogopolous" filled with dirty industrial and coal power plants with mayor Cyril Sneer, and a "Trashopolous" that was basically all landfill with mayor Oscar T. Grouch. :D

EDIT:
Mayor Cyril Sneer. :p :D
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/movie-spoof-films/images/3/31/GoldRush.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180321214508

Scottish Highlands: The Highlander with a sword, a woman time travels 300 years into the past to meet the brady Highlander & they befriend Tinkerbell.
Swiss Mountains:
The Swiss Family Robinson meets Heidi & Thor. China Countryside: Mulan Fa meets & befriend Shogun & a friendly baby dragon.
African City:
Roots meets Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Greek Island:
Hercules, Xena, Greek Myth goddesses, Mythical creatures & Mount Olympus.
Italian Vineyards:
Ancient Romans meets The Godfather with a Genie in a bottle.
Spanish City:
Queen Isabelle meets Zorro & Zorro fights the werewolves.
Brazilian Town:
Castaways find Genies in bottles & lamps.
Rainforest:
Amazon's flying on their beautiful large
Dodo Birds.

All the worlds have 15 lots,
Resorts,
An isolated island,
New lifestates,
New better romantic interactions,
Heroic interactions,
Villainy interactions,
Flying sims,
Time Travel.

I LOVE a lot of these ideas.

This is hard lol.

Some worlds I just want to see, but I did not have some specific theme for them I guess. And there's themes I'd like for packs that don't necessarily fit with any of these worlds (and, well, some packs don't really need new worlds).

I gave it a try, though, but doing it the other way around (some I have thought of more than other, so I just tried making them fit in a world):

Romance EP: Greek Islands

• more relationship types and unrequited love
  
• preferences and chemistry
  
• ability to fake being in love
  
• slowdancing
  
• cuddling in bed
  
• bicker about...
  
• kids reacting to walking in on their parents during woohoo or a fight
  
• npcs reacting to public proposals
  
• an option for sims to stop a wedding during the ceremony
  
• best man speeches that could either be well received or embarrassing depending on traits
  
• meet the parents (nothing fancy, like hang out or welcome wagon)
  
• breakfast in bed
  
• chocolate-covered strawberries
  
• bachelor/ette parties
  
• honeymoons
  
• anniversaries (with a surprise free dessert maybe depending on pda level?)
  
• share dessert
  
• double dates
  
• a dating app
  
• a specific area of the world where the interaction to watch sunset appears in the afternoon
  
• maybe a world-specific option to take a stroll holding hands
  

Music GP: Korean City

• concert venues
  
• drum sets
  
• electric guitars
  
• bass guitars
  
• ability to form bands and rehearse
  
• ability to play gigs at bars
  
• vocal harmonies
  
• choreographies (group and solo)
  
• world tours
  
• shooting music videos
  
• ability to form an entourage (so you can travel with your manager and assistant or something)
  
• playable album launch parties
  

Resorts EP: Brazilian Beach Town

• run a hotel
  
• check into a hotel
  
• have a second property and rent it for the holidays as an extra income (with possible negative consequences)
  
• get pissed off at tourists
  
• have demanding guests make a scene
  
• celebrities with bad reputations can trash hotel rooms
  

Medieval GP: Scottish Highlands

• dragons
  
• royalty
  
• piracy
  
• swordfighting skill
  
• archery skill
  
• blacksmithing skill
  
• having to empty the pot chamber
  
• a working well
  

Happy Haunts GP: Spanish City

• that ghost hunter career they mentioned
  
• a ouija board
  

Outdoor Activities GP: Swiss Mountain Town / South African City

either

• surf
  
• paragliding
  
• kayaking
  
• spotting sharks in the water
  
• mountain biking
  
• atvs
  

or

• hot springs
  
• snowboarding
  
• snowmobiles
  
• sledding
  
• igloos
  

both

• a peak they can hike to where the option to take celebratory selfie at the top appears (maybe they can teleport via cable car there too)
  
• go pro cameras
  
• ferris wheel
  
• a new aspiration
  
• adrenaline junkie trait
  
• actual wildlife encounters (not sims in bear costumes, although that's funny)
  
• new deaths
  

Farming EP: Chinese Countryside / Italian Vineyards

• I only know the very basics of this
  

Not-Sure-Of-The-Theme GP: Spanish City

• everything they said about heists!!!
  
• a hand-to-hand combat skill to build on the sparring from the military career
  
• a help others / do good in the world aspiration (that can work with several existing careers like doctor, politician, environmentalist, etc, and benefit from charity and volunteering)
  

I'm not sure what to use the rainforest for, but I sure would love some tree houses. Maybe more occults like werewolves, fairies and elves?

And there's other GPs I'd like that would either need a world not listed (like something in outer space where they can leverage that partnership and like give us light saber fights; or an underwater world) or no world at all, really. There's just a lot of features they mentioned that I'd like to have all together in one EP focused on family play:

• active schools (IF they were to add cheerleading, I'd prefer it to be in this context)
  
• family outings/gatherings
  
• strollers
  
• funerals
  
• that healthy living aspiration (complete with the fitness watch)
  
• pool parties
  
• slumber parties
  
• that portable telescope they mentioned
  
• shopping malls
  
• ballet
  

And some features should just be patched in, like prosthetics, spiral staircases, the ability to check the weather, c o n s e q u e n c e s, multitasking for lounge chairs so sims can talk and have a drink, etc.

I love your ideas.

"Karon;d-975377" wrote:
On the last survey we had to rank new world themes, and I was wondering were each of them could fit in a future pack. So, let's play a game...

Italian Vineyards
Greek Islands
Scottish Highlands
Chinese Countryside
Spanish City
Swiss Mountain Town
Brazilian Beach Town
Costa Rican Rainforest
South African City
Korean City

Those were the themes for new worlds. IF we were to have 5 new game packs and 5 new expansion packs for the next years, which pack theme would the worlds be related to? Tie each one of them with a possible new pack, like Farming, Fairies, Werewolves, Hobbies, Resorts, Schools, etc... Remember, you have 5 Game Packs and 5 Expansion Packs, and only 10 world themes.