They should do a real star wars expansion pack, with Bespin neighbourhood.
I quite like the Journey to Batuu game pack, but it's main problem is that it's too small. Like a small sample. You won't even get any new electronic objects in a star wars pack or really much in the way of new objects to interact with.
So I'd propose that instead of giving up after their minimal effort approach, they'd redeem themselves with a full expansion focused on what would be most popular: An expansion focused on original trilogy content featuring outfits and content actually seen in the movies.
For that I think Bespin is ideal. It would give us star wars type apartment buildings, and it is neutral territory.
They can create a great mechanic here where you could even have an impact on aiding rebels or the empire here.
Both have their own secluded area, their hidden base but in between that there's three neutral areas. The places with shops and other activities. You can aid the republic or empire to conquer these regions, which would change what security walks around there, what stuff you can buy and of course your sim gets a reward for helping conquering the region.
Lando could always be a consistent spokesperson to ask about Bespin, he'd be around for that function whether the Empire or Republic is in charge.
But each of the three neutral areas, would have a rebel alliance character and Imperial character attached to it. They serve as the contact you do tasks for to conquer that region if they don't own it, perform some menial tasks for when they do to supposedly maintain it, or oust them for the other side.
The upper class area with fancy shops and entertainment like an opera house or such could be linked to both Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin. Conquering this area could be all about gaining popular support so take more political actions. It's sims after all so no fighting in this one.
You can also just do things on your own to restore it to a neutral state and not take sides.
The lower class area with a cantina, gambling den and ship hangars would be linked to Han Solo and Boba Fett. Controll of this area could shift based on your daring. Winning at gambling, competing in races, stuff like that. With Han in charge you could smuggle goods, and with Boba Fett in charge you could go bounty hunting, taking NPC sims in alive after tracking them down.
And finally, there could be an area, one part of where Luke and Vader had their duel, maybe by the big window, where you'd have to defeat either Luke or Vader to gain control of that area and rewards here would be lightsaber hilts, unique crystals and stuff like that. If the area is neutral, a randomly spawned NPC with lightsaber could be wandering here and needs to be defeated.
As for objects, the expansion should come with computers, TV's, beds, toilets, showers, etc. Everything to decorate your home with in the Bespin style but they could also include an Imperial and Rebel alliance style objects and everything, so you'd get three distinct styles to play with.
Banners and some decor of neutral areas taken over would change to reflect the owner.
But there'd be a lot of objects to develop your skills with. Like the chess type game the droids play with Chewbacca to improve logic.
Also star wars type rocketships to build for the rocket building skill. Seriously, how they missed that in the Batuu expansion I don't know.
On Bespin there'd also be the possibility to freeze a Sim in carbonite, which would stop their aging and needs untill you get them out of there. In a way that carbonite slab would be like an urn, only without a ghost but the "dead" sim would be bound to it in a similar way, taken out of the household but not gone.
Lightsabers could be made a bit more useful, like if a Sim picks a fist fight or any fight with a sim who carries a lightsaber, they'd draw their lightsaber to instantly end that fight before it begins and get the other sim to back off. Also next to the friendly sparring that's already there, sims could also challenge another sim to a fight which would end with the loser injured. Not killed, they wouldn't do that in the sims, but it would be a fight for real, like you'd also have against Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
As for clothing, they could put in all the familiar outfits from Bespin WITH colour swatches, along with other well known outfits from the original trilogy and Rogue One, as well as hairstyles.
For example you could get Han Solo's familiar outfit, but in different colours. No weird garbage that never appeared in the movies like in Batuu, but actual genuine outfits from Star Wars. They could even update those cheap halloween costumes to have colour swatches and become the real deal of what they tried to portray. Like Leia's hair would become an actual hairstyle and not a cheap wig limited to one colour. And that white dress you'd now get in like 12 different colours.
Could also be a new Force sensitive trait that lets a sim use some force powers. And yes that should be a trait, not a life state. It could also allow them to train athletic faster with the lightsaber.
So I'd propose that instead of giving up after their minimal effort approach, they'd redeem themselves with a full expansion focused on what would be most popular: An expansion focused on original trilogy content featuring outfits and content actually seen in the movies.
For that I think Bespin is ideal. It would give us star wars type apartment buildings, and it is neutral territory.
They can create a great mechanic here where you could even have an impact on aiding rebels or the empire here.
Both have their own secluded area, their hidden base but in between that there's three neutral areas. The places with shops and other activities. You can aid the republic or empire to conquer these regions, which would change what security walks around there, what stuff you can buy and of course your sim gets a reward for helping conquering the region.
Lando could always be a consistent spokesperson to ask about Bespin, he'd be around for that function whether the Empire or Republic is in charge.
But each of the three neutral areas, would have a rebel alliance character and Imperial character attached to it. They serve as the contact you do tasks for to conquer that region if they don't own it, perform some menial tasks for when they do to supposedly maintain it, or oust them for the other side.
The upper class area with fancy shops and entertainment like an opera house or such could be linked to both Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin. Conquering this area could be all about gaining popular support so take more political actions. It's sims after all so no fighting in this one.
You can also just do things on your own to restore it to a neutral state and not take sides.
The lower class area with a cantina, gambling den and ship hangars would be linked to Han Solo and Boba Fett. Controll of this area could shift based on your daring. Winning at gambling, competing in races, stuff like that. With Han in charge you could smuggle goods, and with Boba Fett in charge you could go bounty hunting, taking NPC sims in alive after tracking them down.
And finally, there could be an area, one part of where Luke and Vader had their duel, maybe by the big window, where you'd have to defeat either Luke or Vader to gain control of that area and rewards here would be lightsaber hilts, unique crystals and stuff like that. If the area is neutral, a randomly spawned NPC with lightsaber could be wandering here and needs to be defeated.
As for objects, the expansion should come with computers, TV's, beds, toilets, showers, etc. Everything to decorate your home with in the Bespin style but they could also include an Imperial and Rebel alliance style objects and everything, so you'd get three distinct styles to play with.
Banners and some decor of neutral areas taken over would change to reflect the owner.
But there'd be a lot of objects to develop your skills with. Like the chess type game the droids play with Chewbacca to improve logic.
Also star wars type rocketships to build for the rocket building skill. Seriously, how they missed that in the Batuu expansion I don't know.
On Bespin there'd also be the possibility to freeze a Sim in carbonite, which would stop their aging and needs untill you get them out of there. In a way that carbonite slab would be like an urn, only without a ghost but the "dead" sim would be bound to it in a similar way, taken out of the household but not gone.
Lightsabers could be made a bit more useful, like if a Sim picks a fist fight or any fight with a sim who carries a lightsaber, they'd draw their lightsaber to instantly end that fight before it begins and get the other sim to back off. Also next to the friendly sparring that's already there, sims could also challenge another sim to a fight which would end with the loser injured. Not killed, they wouldn't do that in the sims, but it would be a fight for real, like you'd also have against Darth Vader or Luke Skywalker.
As for clothing, they could put in all the familiar outfits from Bespin WITH colour swatches, along with other well known outfits from the original trilogy and Rogue One, as well as hairstyles.
For example you could get Han Solo's familiar outfit, but in different colours. No weird garbage that never appeared in the movies like in Batuu, but actual genuine outfits from Star Wars. They could even update those cheap halloween costumes to have colour swatches and become the real deal of what they tried to portray. Like Leia's hair would become an actual hairstyle and not a cheap wig limited to one colour. And that white dress you'd now get in like 12 different colours.
Could also be a new Force sensitive trait that lets a sim use some force powers. And yes that should be a trait, not a life state. It could also allow them to train athletic faster with the lightsaber.
