Time period - 70’s expansion pack. They could do multiple expansions titling it Time Period - (whatever the decade is). This hasn’t been done and could be a new fun idea for an expansion pack. When creating a neighborhood or town with this expansion pack there will now be an option to choose a time frame. The options could include. ( Current) ( 70”s) or whatever else decade. But in order for a flesh out time period expansion pack if they were to do these expansion packs, they should do each one with their own time period. Not combine them. They could even do a mid evil time period expansion, since I know fans would want that. When selecting the time period for your town. You sims are suddenly transported back in time. The rules are different than a neighbor hood or town that is current. For example in the 70s sims do not have cell phones and if they visit this town their cell phones will be non existent while they are there. There is only landlines with the older type of phones that hang on the wall or that you spin to dial. In create a sim the only options available are 70s fashion that you can customize with create a style and hair styles. The town will automatically be obsessed with disco and a new disco event party will be mentioned and announced weekly in the news paper. With time period expansion packs some other packs might interfere with the time period thing so it might not be a perfect time period experience but I think it could be done well enough most people wouldn’t care if there were glitches here and there or things that didn’t make sense. Cutting out cell phones would help it feel like a much older time for sure. Given certain styles to l the townies automatically would be cool based on the time period could other sims still visit the time period, maybe? But in order for the time period to feel authentic maybe it would be a good idea to limit that. Maybe it’s better if the sims living in this time period are cut off from the other worlds, like their in an alternate reality to say?
Because if sims from all over can visit this time period it may not feel like it’s still that time period, say a modern day girl wearing modern fashion visits the time period town, they might feel out of place? Maybe this could be a toggle or option in the expansion for the player to decide how authentic they want their time period town to feel. But the 70s time period expansion would add a lot of 70s decor and building items, to make up for no cell phones, they would add more news paper stories and options with the news paper. They would add cheesy sitcoms to the television, 70s style furniture. Disco would be the party scene, with disco type music channel. And sims could learn disco style dancing moves or it could be a skill they learn. There could be type writers and no computers! Just fancy type writers and books, is how a sim would learn and read. Bills would be different, certain things would be differently priced in this town/ world. There would be vintage looking cars and motorcycles for transportation. The modern cars wouldn’t exist in this world, they could also add vintage looking bicycles to get around in. The only thing players might not like about this pack as it might limit things sims can do in this time period versus modern worlds or towns, but the whole point is it’s a time piece, and for what it lacks it could probably find ways to make up for in older ways! It could add some older careers that were popular back then, such as a type writer for the news paper, jobs that sims can do that back then didn’t have the technology for. I think this type of pack could be a huge hit and a lot of fun. Not to mention they could come out with all different types of TIME PERIOD Packs, all bringing something different and Nastolgic to the table.