DEPTH:
Car pools
The simple thing of watching your Sims go to work in a carpool or children going into the school bus. This added a huge amount of depth.
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This simple animation gave you a feeling that Sims were actually going somewhere. That‘s what I mean by depth.
Story progression - Sims lives outside of the household should progress without player input. For example, NPC Sims autonomously find partners, get married, get children, get divorced, find new friends, make new enemies, etc.
It makes you feel like the world around you is alive and has depth to it.
Unpredictable random events - I want life events that are thrown at me that I have to deal with in gameplay. The game currently is too predictable. Examples for random life events would be: One of my Sims gets hit by a meteor and dies. Or a burglar breaking into my house. Or my house getting a cockroach infestation I have to deal with like in Sims 1. Or the TV randomly falling off the wall like in Sims 2. It’s those things that you won‘t discover first hand. Most players are still finding new things in Sims 2 to this day (like the TV falling off the wall)
More events at night. Nighttime is quite boring in Sims 4. I would want more random things to happen in the neighborhood at night. In Sims 1 there would be a bear suit NPC (Claire the Bear) that would roam through your trashcan at night.
Or raccoon NPCs that roam the neighborhood at night.
CHALLENGE:
Burglars - I want the Burglars back that your Sims have to fight off. Burglars would break into your home at night and make nighttime more interesting. Your Sims could fight the burglars if they‘d got high Fitness skill. Or they could upgrade their doors with burglar alarms if they have high Handiness skill.
This motivates player to play with these skills and level them up.
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Prices of B&B objects - The prices of most B&B objects are pretty low compared to previous games. This makes the game too easy and less challenging. Once you earn enough money, you don‘t know what to buy anymore because everything is so cheap.
The prices of middle- and high-end B&B objects should be raised.
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