Storytelling improvements 📖💔

I'm TOTALLY with you on this! Great idea/suggestion! I hope the Simming Powers That Be, pay attention to this thread! Thank you for starting it. :D

A few related suggestions:

- Bring back Sims 2 style memories so we can ‘see’ a Sims’ journey

- Add real life concepts like miscarriage, abortion, surrogacy, ( I know they can be controversial for some but it’s real life, should come with an ability to turn off)

- Add a Sims after Dark kinda expansion which explores crime, stealing, murder etc

They have all that and more in mods. Realistic Reactions mod does just that. Are we allowed to talk about mods here? We are, right? Yes I know we are because there's even a thread for it. So, Realistic Reactions on ModTheSims has infidelity, parental reactions to teens getting into serious trouble (pregnancy, drugs) and the other stuff you mentioned and a whole lot more, are in Basemental and Sacrificial.

"AlexSimmerman;d-971827" wrote:
I just mean it would be cool if The Sims team pre-set a storyline to get us to figure out who the murderer was / whole stole the money etc by placing clues in the game when they released an expansion for example (even if it was too difficult for them to create tool for us to players to make these things happen themselves) it definitely would make pre-made Sims & worlds more interesting if they had pre-running storylines like Bella Goth’s disappearance (Strangetown / Pleasantview in Sims 2)

Isn't this what Strangerville was supposed to be?

The Sims 2 had A LOT of that in their 3 original neighborhoods. Then, came The Sims 3 with an intricate traits system that actually mattered and affected gameplay situations/decisions.

I would love this in game!!!! I love creating drama in my saves, and there are some points where I question how some of my sims are millionaires because you could probably con them out of their fortunes in one conversation!!!

I mean, your neighbor, whom your dad is friends with has a baby that looks a lot like your dad... Hm, neat! Like no, let’s get suspicious lmao! Especially since sims that have the jealous trait don’t have a lot going for them for storytelling purposes. I think being able to accuse sims of infidelity, or being purposefully rude to a sim that their SO is friends with would make the trait more engaging. But I think that they would need to somehow input an attraction system, so the sim wouldn’t just ice out at every single sim their SO is friends with, but rather, sims that meet 1 or more of their SO’s attraction levels.

Maybe I’ve subconsciously taken after my soap watching ancestors, but I really want more drama. I think it would be so funny if they patched in better family trees (for when you find out that the evil doppelgänger coming for your family fortune is actually your long lost twin brother, twice removed- of course), digging through trash for drama, and the potential to sabotage things- the invitations dress code, food, entertainment, etc.

I know there are some simmers who have very particular methods of playing, and the drama storytelling stuff doesn’t apply to how they run things, but both SimTubers and other simmers alike are getting tired of using ‘imagination’ for our Desperate Housewives/Dynasty/Pretty Little Liars save files!

Yas to all of this

I want to play my game like its a freaking telenovela u kno
add some drama and stuff u kno

make my sims more extra about things

(memories, fears and such could help too)

also mysteries are always welcome, especially murder mysteries
keep them classy like hercule poirot though less of that ''bloody horror'' side

"Chazzzy;c-17381078" wrote:
I want them to add child support.

This would really throw a wrench in my "make all the Sims pregnant to see what happens" save. I kind of don't mind, though...

"Simmingal;c-17381580" wrote:
Yas to all of this

I want to play my game like its a freaking telenovela u kno
add some drama and stuff u kno

EXACTLY. The game is too nice now. I’d love to make a telenovela villainess!

I couldn’t edit my post above, but I was trying to say that I’d love for sims to be invited to parties and have the opportunity to sabatoge them from the inside and spread false rumors.

The forged Valentines Day letters you can do in Seasons was a good first step. Although some might find it controversial, I’d even want to take it a step further and have Sims send them to my sims couples unexpectedly. Some Simmers might hate that idea because it might mess up their relationships- but I think that would be so funny. Especially if it was a high school mean girl trying to sabotage a relationship or if it was a fan of a celebrity trying to land a date with their idol, the game needs some randomness and fun in it- and both of those scenarios are so easily roleplayable in terms of figuring out who sent the letter and why. It can be like a mini mystery!

Lmao all of my Sims ideas that I really want gurus to implement are purely “for the drama,” but I need that ??? in my games. They should totally look and see how popular KawaiiStacie’s Slice of Life mod is, it’s popular because it adds depth and potential for drama in the game that it is lacking without it.

"Simmingal;c-17381580" wrote:


make my sims more extra about things

(memories, fears and such could help too)

also mysteries are always welcome, especially murder mysteries
keep them classy like hercule poirot though less of that ''bloody horror'' side

100% need my sims to be more extra about things. Like, apparently Mortimer and Bella were inspired by Gomez and Morticia Addams, but unless you played with specific mods and used specific actions, you’d never really know it. It’s actually really easy to get Bella to cheat on Mortimer, too. It would make the game a lot more interesting and challenging if the gurus put in some sort of bar that you could pull on that would indicate how loyal the sim would be to their partner. So that way it would be more rewarding to play an ambitious sim who wants to be the top of the medical career, while also Woohooing with 16 different people who are not their wife.

I’d also like a bar that has whether or not the sim is interested in monogamy- it would be really cool to play a sim who is non-monogamous throughout their life, and have partners that consent to that type of relationship, or have a sim who chooses to date casually and have multiple romantic interests before deciding to have one primary partner. It sucks because you’ll try to do that, and the Sims romantic interests literally get so upset- even though it’s a normalized concept nowadays.

I’d also like funerals to be a thing too, so the loyalty could extend to the funeral service- Sims who are highly loyal could publicly decree they’ll never marry again, wail unconsolably, and show up in full widow garb. Or the exact opposite and make out with the deceased’s brother in the broom closet while the service is in session.

I’d also like plastic surgery to be a new career, so plastic surgeons can sabotage their clients face- either if they’re an enemy or if they’ve been paid to do so, or certain sims can get surgery so they look different to others for that enemy returning to town to get revenge on those who wronged them storyline. Especially since some sims in the adult and elder stage might decide to get some work done to look younger- nothing wrong with that!

As well as a new introduction- “introduce as fake name.” Which could also extend to Twin sims who could introduce themselves as their sibling- which could be a light prank that two child sims do to their babysitter, or extend to “evil twin trying to ruin siblings life.”