You can make 3 improvements to TS4 to perfect it. What would you improve?

you know what? I really like your first point...the scale thingy would've been awesome!!!! SO much better than the "traits" we have now.

"StrawberryYogurt;d-927969" wrote:

Mine:
1. A personality scale/gradient. Introverted to extroverted. Snobby to slobby etc.
2. Preferences. A Romantic & platonic. Romance has physical ones (doesnt like blondes, attracted to fit people ) on the platonic scale, your snobby sim isnt attracted to slobby sims. (Whether a romantic relationship or friendship).
3. A photo album where you can type descriptions for photos taken in game. Includes abilitity to bold and italicize, and no character limit. Can rearrange photos to make stories.

What's funny about this is that we had all of those options to some degree or another in previous Sims games. Just proof of how much the Sims 4 is lacking. Personally I would want to see actual smart sims, not what the devs consider smart, so something like the Sims 2 sims but further improved. I'd also like to see neighbourhoods where you can place your own lots, like in Sims 2, rather than being restricted to the number of lots they decide to give you, and be able to edit the world. I'd also want all of the small things that make the game feel like a full game they took out, added back in. So the NPCs, the NPC vehicles (eg school bus, police car etc), dying from things other than those silly emotion deaths, having Santa come if you place a Christmas tree etc.

- Real free will off mode (no choosing their own conversation topics, no wrestling control from the player if needs drop into the red, choosing the closest seat to eat instead of the nearest sim, no sitting down when not ordered to during conversations)
- Pre-teens (or make the teen faces younger while preserving their adult height; at the moment I can either create a teen that looks like an adult or one that looks like a teen but never loses that kiddie face later in life)
- Sims 2 style passage of time (tracked for each household seperately)

Runner up would be a Sims 2 style family album.

While I can create very diverse looking sims, I can't create very diverse acting sims so anything that would remedy that would be welcome.

1. A fears and wants system.
2. Likes/dislikes/attraction/zodiac
3. A better variety of traits that actually do more than prompt whims or tension.

1. i would have an open world to eliminate all that waiting time every time you travel.
2. careers that play as intended in GTW.
3. traits that work and an attraction system.

"StrawberryYogurt;c-16134932" wrote:
@RnM92 Yes Sims 2 is my favorite iteration, thats where I got the ideas from. But it didnt have a preferences for platonic relationships. Im not sure if that was a feature in ts3, but i think that would be a cool edition too.

Me too, I love the Sims 2. And I agree about platonic relationship preferences, that would be a good idea. It's things like that to develop the sims more deeply that would make a great sims game IMO, not sparkly gimmicks like the emotions system that doesn't do much. It's terrible that the fourth iteration has sims less detailed than the second one. In fact even sims in the Sims 1 had more complexity in some ways (eg relationship building wasn't as easy and if someone cheated then it damaged the relationship).

"fullspiral;c-16134885" wrote:
While I can create very diverse looking sims, I can't create very diverse acting sims so anything that would remedy that would be welcome.

1. A fears and wants system.
2. Likes/dislikes/attraction/zodiac
3. A better variety of traits that actually do more than prompt whims or tension.

Pretty much all this.

1. Open world or better open neighborhood as in visit your neighbor without a loading screen.
2. likes, dislikes, zodiac
3. Better family interactions like babies actually being bathed or adding a changing table, kids getting time out for being bad or low grades, teens sneaking out or ditching school & getting possibly caught, reflecting the in laws in the family tree

I know you said 3 but these two below I believe could actually make it in the game with an update...hopefully:
1. Entering the neighborhood and it reflects day or night time
2. Return of the school bus, work car, or social worker car actually appearing in front of the house instead of sim disappearing into thin air & the return of cars & garages even though they will be more similar to TS2.

3 improvements, eh?

1. For starters, I'd scrap S4 and re-visit what made the game so appealing in the first place.
2. I'd stop worrying about being politically correct and non-offensive to the over-sensitive.
3. I'd re-introduce a world creator and just have fun with a real parody on life (both the good and the bad).