4 years ago

What if... (new features ideas discussing area)

While comparing my real life to my sim life I questioned some features that are missing in game but that are fundamental in my everyday life. So I thought "Why not asking other sims if they have the same ideas?"

So I came up with some features missing from game that I'd find cool!

- an online marketplace (like amazon) where you can buy any kind of goods and sell your used ones (like second hand);
- ~~the chance to get other foods with the delivery, not only pizza~~ now available with Cottage Living pre-EP patch
- the chance to plan the meals for the family in advance (meal and time for the sims to cook it and serve it);
- new community lots like boutique (distinct between formal/everyday dresses, wedding, accessories);

EDIT 7/15
- the chance to plan activities for childrens and teen agers, such as piano lesson or sport lesson or cooking classes, painting classes. They can be rabbit holes and last one hour but could be a nice activity added to their instruction and give learning points.

EDIT 8/2
Please, be aware that this post is intended for new features inspired by everyday life.
I am happy to see your suggestions for new packs and features, but try to keep it more about your everyday life rather than sci-fi or else. Thank you!

Feel free to add your features down below!

SUGGESTIONS DIVIDED BY CATEGORIES
ACTIVITIES
- having a band
- ballet
- sculpting
- glassblowing
- sewing

BUILD
- customizable ceilings
- spiral staircases
- build items to decrease their quality over time and sims to be able to upgrade them (like repainting windows, doors, walls etc)
- updated doors to be set closed or open
- doors divided by arches (es. placing a doors but then deleting them and having only the arch)

BUY
- pool items (slides, wave machines, waterfalls, new pool loungers es. flamingo)
- new musical instruments
- hand torches
- heartshape bed
- ~~typewriters for off-grid lots~~ actually included with Cottage Living EP
- new romance/wedding items
- board games to be playable and used as playable deco
- newspapers & magazines

CAS
- body hair
- vintage inspired clothes
- eyelashes
- new CAS section with costumes
- new CAS section with wedding attires
- new wedding attires (new dress, veils, tiaras, bouquet)

CAREER
- truck driver
- investigator
- owning a radio station
- improved carpenter/builder career (chance to plan the job step by step)

LOTS
- churches
- graveyards
- hotels
- improved museums (sims can donate their finds and gain skills from visiting and interacting with objects)
- ballrooms
- ballet school
- bank
- themed park
- high school

MISC
- cars
- improved weddings/romance
- ability to live inside destinations worlds
- hangouts and date at selected time
- go-carts for kids
- rowing boats into swimmable waters
- open beaches
- new radio stations
- creating your own music
- bank system (loans, debts, stock market)
- burglars
- improved babies
- New poor to rich challenge
- bachelorette party
- improving childrens playing together without using toys
- a talent system
- improved game setting options to slow down skill progress
- skills slowly declining when an hobby is left for some time
- chores to be assigned to childrens
- kids saving bank account to pile up pocket money gained from chores
- dishes piling up in the sink
- mowing lawn
- shoveling walkway
- chance for sims to be bad at skills (es. not being able to max up singing but loving it and still sing your heart out while showering)

Fluteline24
New Spectator
4 years ago
"DominicLaurence;c-17934976" wrote:
Tbh, I just want a game pack with bank systems, loan, debts, buglars, fears, maybe even stock market. Every bit of realism "realistic" players conveniently forget to mention.

I'm kinda tired to have to force and make pretend any challenges in game.

Want something fun of this gp? Make a bank building in the likes of Harry Potter. Horaay, dealing with accounts is super fun now.

I love Harry Potter. Dealing with a Gringotts doesn't sound remotely interesting.
katgualtieri
4 years ago
"RRyle9she_her;c-17934636" wrote:
Not sure if this is the right board for suggesting new features, but a dream pack for me (as in it probably won't happen) would be a mystery pack. I'm not the biggest fan of the detective career in Get to Work, but I really like the Investigator profession in the Sims 3 Ambitions. It would be cool to have the return of the Investigator Career track return but you get to choose two types of "tracks":

- Private Eye Track: Where you're more of a Noir style detective in the vein of the Maltese Falcon or Columbo.
OR
- Consulting Detective Track: Where you have to solve crimes in a "closed circle" whodunit such as And There were None or Clue.

And for added measure, perhaps they could bring back a world similar to Roaring Heights since I think these careers could work for both settings. Alternatively, include clothing and objects that can present a retro aesthetic that's less formal than the Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack. Heck! They could even have a typewriter as an off the grid computer!

This sounds like something I would play! I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes
katgualtieri
4 years ago
"BabsTheBuilder;c-17937703" wrote:
I wish they would add chores and make it so they can be assigned to kids/teens. Dishes could pile up in sink, we already have garbages and laundry, but maybe also add lawn mowing, shovelling walkway.

Also building maintenance, have doors break, kids playing sports could accidentally break a window.

This has been mentioned before but separate bank accounts so chores could amount to something for kids/teens.

It would also be nice to turn off control for other sims in household.

Have out of town relatives that come to visit and drive everyone crazy. Lol

Assign meal times so the sims don’t just eat leftovers or quick meals immediately once hungry.

I'd love for more realism like the dishes piling up, mowing the lawn and shovelling walkway.

About turning off controls for other sims in household: I thought this was a thing yet. Like, you can set your preference in the setting panel to only have autonomy set off for the Sim you are playing at the moment. If you select so, other sims in the household will live their lives autonomously.

Having out of town relatives come visit: am I dreaming or you can have it with University? I remember having my parents come and visit me at Uni while attending it. But I am not playing sims since nearly 2 months so I might be forgetting about it.
katgualtieri
4 years ago
"SheriSim57;c-17944940" wrote:
I’d like to see a costume category, so when our sims go to Costume parties, or Geek Con or even just Halloween we can have all sims, inside and outside the household dressed in outfits we pick, whether they are traditional or not.

I also want a wedding category so we can have our sim dressed as we want for their wedding too, and other people dressed in certain ways too at the wedding. l want to see different wedding attire too. I think the categories should be basegame, but I’d love to see a romance/wedding game pack, with wedding showers bachelorette parties, lots of outfits including veils, tiara’s etc.

I would also like to see children be able to play together without being attached to toys, like tag, cops and robbers, hide and seek etc.

Also it would be nice it we could buy board games to put on book cases, tables, etc, and also be useable to play.

And how about bringing back newspapers and magazines.

How I miss the newspaper!!!
And everything suggested is so much needed, like a category for costumes? A dream!
SimmerCarl92
New Spectator
4 years ago
Better to be A Music Pack with the ability to form pop/rock bands + Ava Max Simified and 5 of her songs re-recorded in Simlish
SheriSim
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
"RRyle9she_her;c-17934636" wrote:
Not sure if this is the right board for suggesting new features, but a dream pack for me (as in it probably won't happen) would be a mystery pack. I'm not the biggest fan of the detective career in Get to Work, but I really like the Investigator profession in the Sims 3 Ambitions. It would be cool to have the return of the Investigator Career track return but you get to choose two types of "tracks":

- Private Eye Track: Where you're more of a Noir style detective in the vein of the Maltese Falcon or Columbo.
OR
- Consulting Detective Track: Where you have to solve crimes in a "closed circle" whodunit such as And There were None or Clue.

And for added measure, perhaps they could bring back a world similar to Roaring Heights since I think these careers could work for both settings. Alternatively, include clothing and objects that can present a retro aesthetic that's less formal than the Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack. Heck! They could even have a typewriter as an off the grid computer!

HOB does come with a typewriter that is an off the grid computer.
User_577435777
4 years ago
"ncisGibbs02;c-17934709" wrote:
"12JEREMIA;c-17934654" wrote:
I must say that we all needed more diverse radio station (R&B, reggae, country, geek rock, etc.) cause the non-diverse radio stations (Romance, backyard, summer strut, etc.) seems to make me feel like... I don't know, like can my R&B station be back this year, cause it's been 5 or 6 years during the works of all content packs of The Sims 4.

There is a need for more diversity in music. ?.
How about if Sims could make their own music or even own a radio station? ?.

I mentioned this in another thread. Totally agree on new radio stations your Sims can own! I doubt that would not be a rabbit hole career, though.
ghamrick75
4 years ago
"RRyle9she_her;c-17934636" wrote:
Not sure if this is the right board for suggesting new features, but a dream pack for me (as in it probably won't happen) would be a mystery pack. I'm not the biggest fan of the detective career in Get to Work, but I really like the Investigator profession in the Sims 3 Ambitions. It would be cool to have the return of the Investigator Career track return but you get to choose two types of "tracks":

- Private Eye Track: Where you're more of a Noir style detective in the vein of the Maltese Falcon or Columbo.
OR
- Consulting Detective Track: Where you have to solve crimes in a "closed circle" whodunit such as And There were None or Clue.

And for added measure, perhaps they could bring back a world similar to Roaring Heights since I think these careers could work for both settings. Alternatively, include clothing and objects that can present a retro aesthetic that's less formal than the Vintage Glamour Stuff Pack. Heck! They could even have a typewriter as an off the grid computer!

Would love this as well. I'd actually bugged SimGuruGraham (I think that was his name) about the idea before he left working on Sims 4 about it. He admitted he was a fan of the idea.

though I think I phrased it more as a "Freelance Detective Track that would be called Private Investigator".

Definitely would love more "retro" and "vintage" items and fashions as well as the off the grid typewriter. (while there is one in Cottage Living, it doesn't really fit the aesthetic that I am thinking of. :smile:
Ulf-Gunnel
New Spectator
4 years ago
"KokoaMilk;d-991534" wrote:

- an online marketplace (like amazon) where you can buy any kind of goods and sell your used ones (like second hand);

ONLINE WEBSHOPS
Instead of the current webshops:
Open an Online webbshop at home = Private account
Open an Online webbshop for your Bussiness = Bussiness account (Functional Rabbit hole store / Retail store / Restaurant)
Manage Prices / Supply (ex. ?️Groceries / ?Outdoor Equipments / ?️Candles / ?Pet Medicine)
Get rated from ⭐ 1-5 stars ⭐ (Customer Satisfaction / Price / Quality / Social interaction)
Sims can purchase from the Webshops in your save
Online goods cost a bit more (pay for shipping!) and will Arrive in your Mailbox (smaller goods) / Package outside door (bigger goods)

+Improved Plopsy (Create an user + 2nd hand stuff + candles / etc added)
gammerkitten123
4 years ago
there is what I want vs what I think the game needs I hope for a get to work or Parenthood updated next because they are the best for gameplay that or a HOBBIES Expansion but a fairy's or werewolf's game pack would be my wish list because I love occult sims