PLEASE update Plant Sims for Seasons
I'll be blunt, the plant sims we have in sims 4 are a complete joke. Granted, they were free, so I don't expect too much. But as it stands, Plant sims are just Green skinned sims that need water/sunlight and play an occasional leafy animation. Nothing else.
So here are the things that I think need to be added as an improvement.
1: Make it permanent/genetic. Plant sims should only be able to reproduce asexually like in sims 2. Sprinkle some spores in the ground and a baby plant sim appears.
2: Remove the energy need. I actually don't know if sims 4 plantsims need energy, I can't remember, but sunlight should replace energy and hunger, they should also have the option to burrow into the ground as a bush like sims 3.
3: Give them unique interactions. Plant sims emit spores when they're happy that give all sims nearby a happy moodlet. Plant sims can also give a poison kiss that causes sims to pass out, a spore kiss that causes sims to be flirty, they can absorb puddles, talk about nature etc.
4: Give plant sims unique attributes. Plant sims are great at herbalism and gardening. They can talk to plants and actually have plants talk back. They also have the ability to speed up the growth of plants. What this does is every so often they can click a plant and have it grow to the next stage instantly like in sims 3. If used when the plant is fully grown, it will bear fruits. They can also evolve plants much easier.
5: Give them unique Clothes/Hair styles, but DON'T force us to use them, just make them the default. I'll use the leafy hair style most of the time, but options are great.
Lastly, I really think Seasons is the perfect expansion to bring them back. How cool would it be to have them affected by seasons and weather for the first time in the sims series? During Spring they don't require as much water and usually have a flower trail, during summer they don't need as much sunlight, during the fall they start needing more water and their leaves start turning browns reds and oranges, and during the winter they need a lot more sunlight to keep up with the colder weather, their bodies also turn more of a dark brown like tree bark to represent the lack of leaves.
Here's a video that compares plant sims from each generation, sims 4 is actually pretty sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-sE16g7Nhw
By the way, there actually is a mod on mod the sims that adds a lot of these interactions if you're into that, but it'd be cool for these to actually be worked on :)
Edited to add the link! http://modthesims.info/d/593202
So here are the things that I think need to be added as an improvement.
1: Make it permanent/genetic. Plant sims should only be able to reproduce asexually like in sims 2. Sprinkle some spores in the ground and a baby plant sim appears.
2: Remove the energy need. I actually don't know if sims 4 plantsims need energy, I can't remember, but sunlight should replace energy and hunger, they should also have the option to burrow into the ground as a bush like sims 3.
3: Give them unique interactions. Plant sims emit spores when they're happy that give all sims nearby a happy moodlet. Plant sims can also give a poison kiss that causes sims to pass out, a spore kiss that causes sims to be flirty, they can absorb puddles, talk about nature etc.
4: Give plant sims unique attributes. Plant sims are great at herbalism and gardening. They can talk to plants and actually have plants talk back. They also have the ability to speed up the growth of plants. What this does is every so often they can click a plant and have it grow to the next stage instantly like in sims 3. If used when the plant is fully grown, it will bear fruits. They can also evolve plants much easier.
5: Give them unique Clothes/Hair styles, but DON'T force us to use them, just make them the default. I'll use the leafy hair style most of the time, but options are great.
Lastly, I really think Seasons is the perfect expansion to bring them back. How cool would it be to have them affected by seasons and weather for the first time in the sims series? During Spring they don't require as much water and usually have a flower trail, during summer they don't need as much sunlight, during the fall they start needing more water and their leaves start turning browns reds and oranges, and during the winter they need a lot more sunlight to keep up with the colder weather, their bodies also turn more of a dark brown like tree bark to represent the lack of leaves.
Here's a video that compares plant sims from each generation, sims 4 is actually pretty sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-sE16g7Nhw
By the way, there actually is a mod on mod the sims that adds a lot of these interactions if you're into that, but it'd be cool for these to actually be worked on :)
Edited to add the link! http://modthesims.info/d/593202
