What new activity based pack would you like to see?

1. Back to the Past with an historic world to live for a sim
2. Return to the Future with a futuristic world to live for a sim
3. Space Station with a new big Alien World for Aliens & Hybrids to live on
4. Underwater Adventure with an Underwater World for Mermaids to live in

It was a toss up between art colony or bands but I like the idea of having a sexy glass blowing male Sim or something. Plus the colony/commune feel would mesh well with other packs like eco living. An African themed world would work well also with ceramics and sculpture. You could have a swimmable river and dig up clay on the banks.

Medieval pack for sure!

All of the above.

I picked the crafts one though, because they are not only a hobby activity, but a potential career too.

Only picked past because I want horses. Underwater would be close second.

Back to the past has a lot more possibilities as an expansion pack: the others would make great game packs.
But I want more than one secret "past" world to travel to. Not just medieval times. Maybe the 1800s or so, Wild West. Or caveman/prehistoric days. Or the Titanic (shipboard living). Ancient Greek or Roman times. I remember a site in the Sims 1 days that was all about Roman-themed objects, decorations, and clothing. Anything from the early 1800s or so would be off the grid.

As to the phone, there would be no bars indicating no signal for any timeframe in the past (prior to the mid-80s). I always hated how Sims 3 upgraded to smartphones, then broke their screens once they traveled to the future and they never unbroke when they returned. There was no explanation for the broken screen on the phone, and no way to repair or replace the phone or its screen. Maybe they should have had some kind of time travel device or even a music player, temporarily replace the cellphone, and the phone go into household inventory or the Sim's inventory.

Also, while time travelling, if they take any electronics or small appliances with them and try to place or use them, a popup should appear saying that objects from the future would change the time continuum and they would not be able to get back home. Of course, if they did violate the time continuum, maybe they would find themselves in a steampunk world, instead of home (alternate universe) if they travelled back to the future while leaving anything in the past. Or, they could find themselves in the middle of the desert that had lots of craters on each lot, and all lots were built underground or in protective bubbles because the place was radioactive (think vampires in the sun except affecting all normal Sims with slow but steady health or need loss.) Then the only way to get home would be to go back to the past and put the item back in the Sim's inventory.

Or, the 1960s or 1970s: I am old enough that I actually remember things from the 70s like rotary phones (predated touch tone phones - and everything was landline and worked OFF THE GRID), carbon copies (including for credit card readers), sets of encyclopedias with one or two books for every letter of the alphabet, library card catalogs (replaced by computers), microfiche readers (used for archives), and manual typewriters (finger powered - some of us still have the habit of typing hard on the keyboard as a result).

In the 70s, the computers used punchcards, and one might even take up a whole server room. It wasn't until the 80s that they used floppy disks. The electric typewriters did not come into widespread use until the 80s. We played a lot of board games and card games when we weren't playing tag, jump rope, or hide and seek outside. (Everyone knows about Monopoly, but there were a lot more than that, like tabletop RPGs.)

You could find kids toys in every store, including kid-sized squirtguns, usually transparent in bright neon colors. (Super-soaker toys came along in the 80s and 90s.) Those without squirtguns used water-filled balloons, buckets, or turned the garden hose on each other. Sometimes the more mischievous ones actually threw the water balloons at moving cars when no adults were watching. (Once the parents found out...they might get spanked or grounded.) Some people had small microscopes or telescopes for their hobbies. The huge telescope used in Sims 4 is more of a small observatory than a telescope. Then, there were also binoculars, one step down from telescopes. Kids who were playing alone used dolls or action figures or kaleidoscopes or books, including comic books. I got so bored as a kid at one point when I was home sick for 2 weeks (chicken pox) that I actually started reading the dictionary at one point, because I had already read all the paperback and hardback books in the library.

Batuu already is like the future world in Sims 4. The Sims 3 future world had a lot of similarities to Star Trek, especially the food replicator and hologram computers.

My previous comment in a nutshell: More options for places to go (prehistoric, medieval, 1800s, the 1960s or 1970s, or the Titanic or Greek or Roman times). In fact, the other three ideas could be combined in this type of Expansion pack. Sculpting and glass blowing goes back to around Greek and Roman times. The 1800s or 1960s could easily have artist communes or add more artistic and/or music activities. Yes, there were bands in the 1800s.

For that matter, if we only add new activities to the club menu already existing in Sims 4, along with the sculpting and glass blowing objects, that would make a good Game pack, but not enough for an expansion pack.

Water diving and underwater activities would also make a good expansion pack, but I think time travel has more gameplay possibilities. For that matter, if we go all out, Atlantis could be added as part of the Greek time period, along with the ancient architecture and clothing options.

I voted for the underwater one cause I love playing with mermaids so much and it would rock to have underwater lots again like in Sims 3. Even better if we could build homes there!!

BUT I also would really love a space station one!!!! Like SO much. Or even colonizing another world!

I see this theme working really well with the Sims 4 and its world system and it's something that's never been done before in the Sims franchise and I think we need something fresh and new at the moment. Even if they did a pack about living on the Moon I think that would be pretty cool too.

I’m mermaid/merfolk lover, so I would love to see more water activities and water environments for my merpeople, of course. (And if they ever upgrade/flesh out mermaids more, that would be great as well.)

Besides that, I would love to see bands, more sports, and more arts & crafts.