the sims5 possably in 2020 so start posting what you would like in the sims5 basegame from day1

I would like to see spiral staircases, to follow my sims to work like in the sims3,see sims cut their yards with lawnmowers.

The article is just some person speculating with no sources and mentioning over and over that nothing is being hinted at as far as TS5. As far as the gurus have said, Rodiek said they have content planned until 2021 (since he said it in 2018). Hopefully they take their time and make a solid base game that is entertaining from the getgo.

I agree that Seasons and Pets should finally be in the base. Start of with maybe just rain (as intended with TS2) and add other weather effects throughout later EPs. Pets should be dogs and cats with other animals added later. This way we will not have to buy a Seasons or Pets EP for a forth time!

I also think that the game should come with a built in world editor to edit the world as and when you want and chose your own lot sizes. Let us chose a community or residential lot. No restrictions and no cartoonish looks.

We also need CASt again as well :smile:

"LeGardePourpre;c-16904359" wrote:

"@invisiblgirl;c-16903836" wrote:
It also forces players to have things in their game they might not want. Even if you could toggle everything, you're still paying for it.

Just all the video games already get things I don't want but I'm still forced to pay for these things too.
But I can choose to pay the full price at launch day or wait for the sales and pay a price up to 10 times smaller.

Nobody force you to pay $500 when a few of years later you can get it at $50.

The DLC system makes the base features be optional.
Originally Toddler DLC was a paid content but they understood it would make the community very angry.

At that point, it would be an abandonned game with no support from EA, because it would have sold so poorly at the initial price. Those who could pay hundreds of dollars wouldn't, and it would be out of the range for most people. I'm not kidding about the price - to put all those things into the base game would take hours and hours of development, and developers like to get paid. If you start out with a completely new game, you can't just copy code from previous games.

The toddler update wasn't free - the developers got paid, and we paid them by purchasing additional packs. (Sales of the game and expansion packs since the toddler update have proved that this marketing decision was right. EA has made the money paid to developers many times over from revived interest in the game.) Toddlers had been part of the base game since Sims 2 (and were modded into The Sims by a talented modder). It was a huge mistake to take them away, and they should have been the first priority after release.

The rest of this stuff has never been part of the base game (except for cars). I would rather developers focus on the game itself - better AI, more options for building and customisation, a more robust engine and fewer bugs.

I would understand laundry from the get-go, but asking for seasons and pets too is maybe overstepping. The base game might as well be +$100 then.

"LeGardePourpre;c-16904359" wrote:

"@invisiblgirl;c-16903836" wrote:
It also forces players to have things in their game they might not want. Even if you could toggle everything, you're still paying for it.

Just all the video games already get things I don't want but I'm still forced to pay for these things too.
But I can choose to pay the full price at launch day or wait for the sales and pay a price up to 10 times smaller.

Nobody force you to pay $500 when a few of years later you can get it at $50.

The DLC system makes the base features be optional.
Originally Toddler DLC was a paid content but they understood it would make the community very angry.

Where did you get this bit of misinformation from?

Lounge chairs, my pools look so empty without them.

1. CASt.
2. Open world/neighborhood.
3. Ability to edit the world/neighborhood including being able to place lots where we want them.
4. Terrain tools.
5. Limited backdrops. Backdrops hamper our ability to customize our worlds/neighborhoods. It looks a bit ridiculous to create a medieval
neighborhood or farming community, for example, with modern-looking or high-rise buildings in the background/backdrop.
6. Toggles. Give us options to choose what we want to play with and what we want to exclude. Some people play with one save, but a lot of us
have multiple saves. Gives us the ability to customize each save, to be able to toggle certain features on and off.
7. A true mute/silent feature for the phone. I use a mod called Unlisted Phone Number that let's me chose who can call/text me. It prevents
every random sim who every inserted themselves into a conversation uninvited from spamming me with unwanted text messages.

@LeGardePourpre Surveys are simply to gage interest. It doesn't mean that everything in the survey was definitely going to be an expansion pack. (Or a paid pack, at all.) As you've observed, some were created as gamepacks, etc. Only EA knows what the plan was with toddlers.

"@ClassicalSim;c-16907479" wrote:
1. CASt.
2. Open world/neighborhood.
3. Ability to edit the world/neighborhood including being able to place lots where we want them.
4. Terrain tools.
5. Limited backdrops. Backdrops hamper our ability to customize our worlds/neighborhoods. It looks a bit ridiculous to create a medieval
neighborhood or farming community, for example, with modern-looking or high-rise buildings in the background/backdrop.
6. Toggles. Give us options to choose what we want to play with and what we want to exclude. Some people play with one save, but a lot of us
have multiple saves. Gives us the ability to customize each save, to be able to toggle certain features on and off.
7. A true mute/silent feature for the phone. I use a mod called Unlisted Phone Number that let's me chose who can call/text me. It prevents
every random sim who every inserted themselves into a conversation uninvited from spamming me with unwanted text messages.

Good suggestions :smile: