This is my first day off of work since Dream Home Decorator was released, and so I've spent the morning exploring and reading the descriptions for the items, and there's a shocking amount of references to school in this pack's item descriptions. I might be projecting, but I hope this means they're developing a pack for the near future that includes some schooling updates! I don't believe it will be the expansion pack coming within the next two months, but perhaps a pack later this year or early next?Here's a list of the items that stood out to me: Too Cool for School Top Bunk - "Be ready for anything that school can throw at you... a nook to study in for that big test" Naturally Nestled Bunk Desk Combo - "Kids these days just end up cramming for tests or staying up in the wee hours of the night studying..." Masterpiece Chair - "...missing family dinners, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, weddings, and PTA meetings." Rags to Riches Chair - "The chair was teased relentlessly, excluded from many sleepovers in elementary school, and forced to eat alone at lunch on the playground." Plush-yet-Firm Chair - "... Kind of like one of those kindergarten teachers who is really sweet to you but still won't let you make faces at Kelly Schwartz even though she was totally out of line for taking the last graham cracker during snack time." Cuthbert B. Table - "They don't teach this sort of thing in schools or the internet, but now you know the true history." Studious Retro Desk By L.U.M.B.E.R - "Sometimes as adults we reminisce of our youth, specially our school days. Those times in a classroom, being assigned a desk and making it your home... and dealing with a desk companion that you kinda couldn't stand halfway into the school year." The Rounded Desk... brought to you by Be Modular - "Take functional to the next level with actual work or school productivity..." Hassle-Free Tassled Rug - "Before tassles were added to this rug, it was doing poorly in school, hanging out with a bad crowd and just not applying itself."Let me know what you think! Do you agree? Disagree? Think I'm reading too much into it? Are you Hopeful, or could you not care less? Did I miss something that you've found? I haven't seen a topic created on this yet, so I'm sorry if there is already this discussion going on.

I don't have Dream Home Decorator, but this all sounds very promising. I think people have noticed school hints elsewhere as well. But I feel like I was seeing a million romance references in the last few packs, and so far a romance pack has not appeared (and I don't think it's the upcoming EP), so even if they are hints for packs, who knows when they're coming?

Oooh I was curious what people would pull from the new pack item descriptions for speculation. I think between all these hints, the hint at the end of the nifty knitting trailer, and the survey last year, a school pack is in our future. I know a lot of people would enjoy an active school pack. Personally, I want to keep it a rabbithole but with lots of new features to add depth in a full fledged generation pack. Hopefully this'll be an expansion at the end of the year.

I would love a school related and I also wouldn't care for it to be a rabbit but I want to do stuff like after school clubs and assignment like working from home kids can look for stuff talk to people like a mix between strangerville and Bantu and work from home assignment but for teens and kids and also add field trips like in Sims 3 but this time they write about when they get home.

I hope they introduce things like class trips to museums, forests, factories, etc., sports day, practical lab experiments like soap making and water and nectar distillation, home economics class where you learn to sew dresses and mend socks, make preserves, pasta necklaces, etc., I'd like reading books to have some meaning to it and for sims to be able to put together their own personal book collection.

My prediction is that the next EP is going to be farming in a Scottish Highland world. I hope and pray this happens. I will literally levitate and spin for joy the moment a farming expansion is officially confirmed. I then predict we FINALLY with get an expansion similar to Generations for the November EP release that we've been getting every year for a while. It will most likely have active school for teens and kids and HOPEFULLY fill out needed interactions and objects for each age stage besides the young adults and adults who already have tons of things to do. I hope and pray that I am correct! :)

Sakuske

4 years ago

School Related Pack Coming in the Near Future?

This is my first day off of work since Dream Home Decorator was released, and so I've spent the morning exploring and reading the descriptions for the items, and there's a shocking amount of references to school in this pack's item descriptions. I might be projecting, but I hope this means they're developing a pack for the near future that includes some schooling updates! I don't believe it will be the expansion pack coming within the next two months, but perhaps a pack later this year or early next?

Here's a list of the items that stood out to me:

Too Cool for School Top Bunk - "Be ready for anything that school can throw at you... a nook to study in for that big test"
Naturally Nestled Bunk Desk Combo - "Kids these days just end up cramming for tests or staying up in the wee hours of the night studying..."
Masterpiece Chair - "...missing family dinners, birthdays, graduations, anniversaries, weddings, and PTA meetings."
Rags to Riches Chair - "The chair was teased relentlessly, excluded from many sleepovers in elementary school, and forced to eat alone at lunch on the playground."
Plush-yet-Firm Chair - "... Kind of like one of those kindergarten teachers who is really sweet to you but still won't let you make faces at Kelly Schwartz even though she was totally out of line for taking the last graham cracker during snack time."
Cuthbert B. Table - "They don't teach this sort of thing in schools or the internet, but now you know the true history."
Studious Retro Desk By L.U.M.B.E.R - "Sometimes as adults we reminisce of our youth, specially our school days. Those times in a classroom, being assigned a desk and making it your home... and dealing with a desk companion that you kinda couldn't stand halfway into the school year."
The Rounded Desk... brought to you by Be Modular - "Take functional to the next level with actual work or school productivity..."
Hassle-Free Tassled Rug - "Before tassles were added to this rug, it was doing poorly in school, hanging out with a bad crowd and just not applying itself."

Let me know what you think! Do you agree? Disagree? Think I'm reading too much into it? Are you Hopeful, or could you not care less? Did I miss something that you've found? I haven't seen a topic created on this yet, so I'm sorry if there is already this discussion going on.

28 Replies

Reedfight
4 years ago
I don't have Dream Home Decorator, but this all sounds very promising. I think people have noticed school hints elsewhere as well. But I feel like I was seeing a million romance references in the last few packs, and so far a romance pack has not appeared (and I don't think it's the upcoming EP), so even if they are hints for packs, who knows when they're coming?
LunaLight15
4 years ago
Oooh I was curious what people would pull from the new pack item descriptions for speculation. I think between all these hints, the hint at the end of the nifty knitting trailer, and the survey last year, a school pack is in our future. I know a lot of people would enjoy an active school pack. Personally, I want to keep it a rabbithole but with lots of new features to add depth in a full fledged generation pack. Hopefully this'll be an expansion at the end of the year.
Briana2526
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I would love a school related and I also wouldn't care for it to be a rabbit but I want to do stuff like after school clubs and assignment like working from home kids can look for stuff talk to people like a mix between strangerville and Bantu and work from home assignment but for teens and kids and also add field trips like in Sims 3 but this time they write about when they get home.
crocobaura
Legend
4 years ago
I hope they introduce things like class trips to museums, forests, factories, etc., sports day, practical lab experiments like soap making and water and nectar distillation, home economics class where you learn to sew dresses and mend socks, make preserves, pasta necklaces, etc., I'd like reading books to have some meaning to it and for sims to be able to put together their own personal book collection.
alan650
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
My prediction is that the next EP is going to be farming in a Scottish Highland world. I hope and pray this happens. I will literally levitate and spin for joy the moment a farming expansion is officially confirmed. I then predict we FINALLY with get an expansion similar to Generations for the November EP release that we've been getting every year for a while. It will most likely have active school for teens and kids and HOPEFULLY fill out needed interactions and objects for each age stage besides the young adults and adults who already have tons of things to do. I hope and pray that I am correct! :)
DaWaterRat
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17901142" wrote:
Have they hinted before in item descriptions about future packs we actually got later?

People have drawn that conclusion. The plates object in Snowy Escape has a pop culture reference to Poltergeist, which some took as a retroactive hint to Paranormal stuff when that came out.

I mean, I think a school pack is in the pipeline, but not because of item descriptions.
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
Thats a lot and hard to ignore
but also

"Reedfish;c-17901029" wrote:
I feel like I was seeing a million romance references in the last few packs, and so far a romance pack has not appeared

that being said these combined could be hint for generations kind of pack

i don't think next ep is it because well idk bond with nature just didnt spell go to school and get a bae and have big life events

but it could be november ep perhaps
Simmingal
Hero
4 years ago
"DaWaterRat;c-17901171" wrote:
"Chazzzy;c-17901142" wrote:
Have they hinted before in item descriptions about future packs we actually got later?

People have drawn that conclusion. The plates object in Snowy Escape has a pop culture reference to Poltergeist, which some took as a retroactive hint to Paranormal stuff when that came out.

I mean, I think a school pack is in the pipeline, but not because of item descriptions.

at least few times related items or descriptions have appeared in ep/gp that was released before ofc they will say its not hint cause officially they are not allowed to hint but really tho... if you dig deep enough you might hit one
Reedfight
4 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17901142" wrote:
Have they hinted before in item descriptions about future packs we actually got later?

Nothing ever gets confirmed, so you can kind of decide for yourselves if item descriptions contain hints. But like someone said the plates in SE had a poltergeist reference, and then Paranormal came out. Before that, in Eco Living, there was a mound of clothes item that talked about 'mountains' of socks, and an 'avalanche' if you talked too loudly, and then we got Snowy Escape. There were a bunch of magic references, including literal spell effects, in the items in Laundry Day, and then Realm of Magic (eventually) came out. It's like any other hint - different people have different ideas about whether they're really hints or not, just the same as with dev tweets or thought bubbles in a different packs trailer. I personally do believe they're hints, and when they really go to town mentioning the same thing over and over again, like school in the above hints, it's a pretty good sign a pack is in the works.
elelunicy
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Chazzzy;c-17901142" wrote:
Have they hinted before in item descriptions about future packs we actually got later?

Very few packs were predicted from item descriptions. People always find something in game after a pack was announced and then retrospectively claim they were hints.

The reality is that you can find references to pretty much anything in game, due to how many objects there are and how much text there is. People that want farming find farming related hints. People that want Generations find Generations related hints. People that want occults find occult related hints. Guess why there weren’t Dream Home Decorator hints? It’s not the #1 most wanted pack for most players so they simply weren’t actively looking for its hints.