Thank you for this opportunity!
Wants & Fears
Bring back the “wants & fears system”. It adds depth and we can choose which wants/fears to ignore and which we lock to fulfill. Obviously the wants/fears are based on the Sims personality and aspiration. This makes Sims feel more unique.
The whims system doesn’t work as well and feels useless to me. You did a great job with the the lifestyle system, this was a step in the right way. I enjoy playing more after this was added!
Memory system
Bring back the memory system for milestones. Not just so I can keep track of what my Sim life is like (if I didn’t play for a while with that family I forget the story I was telling) but also for my sim to remember who cheated on them and should not be trusted again? Making a romantic relationship more difficult with that sim. Or maybe they don’t trust any romantic interest for a while after being cheated on? The whims are too shallow and only take a few hours.
Relationships
Make it possible to have one-way relationships. Not all feelings should be mutual! One Sim should be able to be in love without having those feelings returned. Sims can crush on a celeb without having those feelings returned. Maybe they broke up with their ex and they hate them for cheating but the ex still loves them because the other sim did nothing wrong? This should relate to the wants and fears system. Wanting an ex back. Wanting to be friends again. Wanting to marry that celeb. Fearing rejection of ex. Suggest to “try again”. A romantic sim would be more willing to take back an ex.
Turn on and turn offs
It feels like every Sim can now connect with every Sim. I want to chose their preferences , if they only like men, women, or both. Or maybe they don’t care about gender at all but only about hair color or what kind of job a sim has? Or is this sim attracted to celebrities? This is so much more realistic and makes relationships feel less random. Turn on’s will make it very easy to fall in love (although it might be only be one Sim in love with the other and the feelings are not mutual) but it will still be possible to fall in love with Sims who don’t have those qualities/traits/looks. Turn offs will make it very,very hard to make it into a romantic relationship.
Baby’s and teens
Please fix baby’s and teens, I can’t make you understand how much it ruins my game the way they are now. Both feel unrealistic at the moment and are no fun to play with. my teen should not look like an adult sim. The baby is an object... it feels shallow playing like his. Toddlers could be better too, having wants and fears would definitely help with that.
Detailed behavior
Behavior should be more detailed like in TS2 and TS3. Cuddle in bed, small things like that made it more realistic. It’s what we miss in the game now, the small little details the previous games had. More special interactions for different relationships. Make soms actions only unlockable with certain levels of friendship/romantic levels. It has that a little now but it should be more like this, make it feel like we have to work for it. It shouldn’t be so easy with every sim. And please bring back Sims really dancing together and slow dancing.
At last, and I know this might be difficult and I can live without it. But I just loved to play with different family’s in the same timeline and their lives would continue (make sure we can disable the feature too). I would come back and my sim would have a new relationship (based on their wants and fears!) or got married, have a baby. LIFE just happened. It’s those fun little surprises that really made THe Sims so great.
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