Like the title what is on your sims 5 wishlist?Me I would love to see building and create a sim like sims 4. Have actual babies where they can do things not just sit in a crib or baby swing or baby mat and do nothing. Bunkbeds. Smaller arcade machine and be able to make an arcade (I miss that in 3) be able to build inside roofs. Maybe open world even tho it takes two million years to go into a sims 3 game maybe bring some sims 2 charm like the little cutscenes or the children running and hugging their parents when they get home or the kids running to one of their parents when they get a good mark in school just the little things like that

I want an open world. The open world gives you a true sense of community and not just one lot at a time. I believe modern computers can handle it also. I want a strong personality/trait system just like Sims 3. I want Sims to be unique and not just a product of their emotion. I want a fully real world. I want real streets also. In Sims 4, worlds are very artificial; streets are merely a decoration and many of the houses that appear in worlds are fake. I want a house build mode similar to Sims 2 and 3 again. As a builder I find Sims 4 too prefabricated and restrictive. I want to specify what areas get foundations, what areas get floor tiles, and so on. It is annoying how sims 4 automatically generates everything with merely the construction of a wall.

My daughter and I have been playing Sims 4 a lot during quarantine. We think that it would be awesome if you could have a gender reveal party for your baby in the Sims and with that.. allowing you to find out gender of the baby before if you choose.

What I want are things that were in the previous games.Sims 2 style wants and fears. Not this "whims" system we have. They really helped to give the sims personality. Cassandra goth's get married want and get left at the altar fear combined with Don's get married fear instantly told you everything you needed to know about their relationship.Sims 2 style memories. It helped the families have a sense of continuity, and it was nice to see them sometimes reminisce about important events in their life.Sims 2 style supernatural hybrids. I enjoyed combining all the life states and creating abominations whose existences contradicted themselves. It was fun making plantsim vampires who simultaneously needed sunlight to live while also being fatally weak to it.Open world somewhere between sims 3 and 4. I don't mind the scaling back sims 4 did too much, but it would be nice if you had the option of loading all the visible lots in your current "neighborhood" so there would be fewer loading screens while traveling. It would be a nice middle ground.Sims 3 options to toggle off individual supernatural types, stray pets, etc.Body hair because I don't see why I'd have to wait for a potential werewolf expansion for the sims to finally have a customization option that should have been part of the base game.**Story Progression** A big one for me. I didn't enjoy having to frequently go to manage households and pair off the townies/give them kids to prevent my worlds from being filled with single, childless elders infesting all the community lots with a lack of young, single sims to keep my families from dying out. Thankfully mods solved this, but I shouldn't have had to resort to mods to fix this.

I'll echo a sentiment... story progression. Unless you plan to have one kid and only one kid per generation, a lot gets full quickly when three kids grow up, marry and stay in the same house. That leaves only two slots for kids. Moving them out just means they do nothing but age. They don't go to work, they don't earn money, they don't fall in love/get married/have kids without having to physically play it myself... or use MC Command Center. But even that mod doesn't quite work the way I'd prefer, but beggars cannot be choosers. We need more personality development. Three slots is good, but unless you complete an aspiration with a bonus trait, buy one with aspiration points, or cheat to add one, you kind of get to a point where all the sims feel kind of the same. Yeah some are kleptomaniacs, some are romantic, but they all feel like they're the same person with a slightly different buff depending on the time of day/what they just did. The parenthood personality stuff is nice, but I'd love to see expanded personality traits and trait slots for more unique sim creating.A deeper game. I've said this a few times in a few places recently, but there needs to be more depth to the game. I feel like the only real motives in the game are to grow up, have kids, make money, and keep doing that until you get bored and create a new sim to do it all over again. I just also feel that the aspirations need more depth. I can knock off several of them in a sim's lifetime. If this is someone's life goal, they're not all that easy to attain. And in TS4 it feels like it was made needlessly easier than it every should've been to attain these life goals. And the work from home feature isn't really working from home. It's basically do a chore and get paid. Expanding the game laterally is great, but deepening the game would be best in my humble opinion.Insecticide. TS4 is really, really buggy. I don't know if this is because so many packs and updates cause it to be so... buggy... but by TS5 this has to kind of be worked out. I still have to save and exit and relaunch a save to stop my sim from changing back into her hospital gown after giving birth. People are walking upstairs past four sinks to wash a dish. Why do the sims have to play musical chairs when they have a conversation? Lots of bugs and kinks to be worked out of a game that's 5 years old already. I assume that means not much will come on that front, but with TS5, you have the opportunity to launch a game that's not nearly as buggy. Though, sadly, I've come to expect that from EA titles over my years of playing EA's sports franchises.Swatches. Do you know how hard it is to coordinate colors in TS4? I know you've done a lot to make it better, but shading is a big problem. My sim has a dark blue shirt, but the pair of pants that would be best for it only has light blue or something to that effect. That fridge and stove go great together, but one is a mid-gray, the other is a dark or light gray. So, it's mismatched now. Eclectic some call it, but I think it could be better. I know it's a pain in the plumbob to give every item in every conceivable shade and color, so how about a nice paint tool so we can color match ourselves? CAS. I don't know the programming that goes into a game like this, but I am certain that it's massive and complex. I do believe the average computer these days is leaps and bounds past anything that was new in 2015. Since many players of TS4 do seem to have at least above-average rigs to play on, it stands to reason CAS can be expanded to allow us to really get into detailing our sims. Again, I don't know the limits of the game itself or how that's determined, but it would be very nice to layer clothing beyond underwear and socks. To be able to tweak and tuck and pull and nudge the face, cheeks, jaw, chin, forehead, etc... in a much more detailed way than we currently have. I don't really mind the 'cartoony' look of Sims, but a bit more realism wouldn't hurt either, IMHO. I feel like I'm asking a lot for a game that costs $40 for it's base pack. But when you start adding up all the expansion, game, and stuff packs... we're talking hundreds of dollars. For that kind of coin, it'd be nice to have something more in depth than what TS4 currently is, have more personality options, story progression, less bugs per dollar, a paint tool to help us match item colors across packs, and the ability to customize our sims more than we currently do.

Swatches, I miss the customization from sims 3. Sims 4 is very restrictive because the colors are different shades.Open world. This was one of my favorite things about sims 3. More real. I love the graphics of sims 3 so much more than 4. Sims 4 looks so fake to me and makes me sad. I would LOVE more real graphics, like you see in playstation or xbox games. Hair strands etc.Would love babies to do something other than be a blob. Swings, throw up, something. More things for them. And why no cribs? They get a bassinet and that's it. No rocking chairs. Sucks.Please for the mother of God give us more animal pets! I have birds and I was super sad to not see any real small animal excitement. And I would love farm animals. Can that be an expansion pack? I miss my sims being able to swim and fish wherever they wanted like in sims 3.Supernatural sims. I feel like sims 4 really failed at this. I miss my fairy sims. Sims 3 is my favorite. If you could add emotions, farm animals, some more baby stuff, and more traits to sims 5, that would be perfect to me. I like the options and silly things that happen in 4, but sims 3 was a way better game in my opinion. Oh and what happened to cars? Sims 4 has so much less than sims 3 had... It felt like a step back.

What you think we could use in the sims 5?

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ThornandTime
5 years ago
There are a million UI, technical, CAS, and BB things on my wishlist, but instead of getting technical about what could make it possible, I think I’ll just layman’s terms it in what I want it to be able to do.

I my ideal Sims game, it would be open world, and you wouldn’t be locked to playing a single household at a time (nor would you be forced to play EVERYONE in a household if you just wanted to focus on one or two members).

And I would want it to be POSSIBLE (not mandatory or even the default! I’m a big fan of toggles and sliders for things like difficulty and free will) for you to make a bunch of complicated sims with unique personalities and individualized automation, put them in a setting, press play...

And for the game to play itself.

All previous games if you do this generally one of two things happens:

1. Nothing. They take care of themselves okay but not great and beyond that do nothing interesting. At worst maybe in a system with turn-ons/turn-offs they might flirt with someone outside their relationship. At best maybe they’re autonomously going to work eventually gets them a promotion. But overall? Nothing happens.

2. They start a fire and all die.

And that’s not what I want. I want them to be able to (if you have the game set to allow it) quit their job, get married, get a divorce, have an affair, get pregnant, make a new enemy, join a new social group, get a new job, get promoted, get expelled, ruin their social life, ruin their career, start a life of crime, etc etc etc.

I want it to be possible for sims to, on their own, live out the kind of soap opera zany tabloid adventure that I would never dream of for them. And I want what happens to be a combination of randomness and deeply based on individual personalities and circumstances, so that it matters who these sims are and the same thing is never gonna happen twice.

I want the sims to be deeply simulated, basically. I want to lean into the simulation part. I want it to run on its own if you let it. I want to be able to watch my game like a tv show and be startled by what happens next, motivated to intervene before my sims ruin everything (or to maybe egg them on), but not obligated to.

I want my sims to be ridiculously smart. Not “can keep from dying” smart, but the kind of smart that wraps back around so they make bad choices for complicated (artificially) intelligent reasons. And, yeah, maybe that kills them sometimes. But I don’t think more death is the only kind of chaos the game really needs.
Chicklet45368
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Nikkei_Simmer "I also want to see effort on the environment and the sims. Plainly put the cartoon-esque environment with Fisher Price trees and Little People style clay hair base sims gets really old, really quick."

OMG! I feel the exact same way! I've always thought the art style of TS4 was like a Fisher Price dollhouse and furniture! That is one of my biggest pet peeves about that game and the reason I have to have a TON of CC to get rid of it and make it look more realisic-ish!
Chicklet45368
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@QU33N31 "With that being said I think the sims 5 should incorporate with that a hair salon or a fashion design career choice where you would be able to do said things above :smile:"

Ohhh I want that too, so much! I was so disappointed that TS4 did not have any type of hair salon/fashion active career. That was my favorite thing in TS2!
Chicklet45368
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@StripedSims "More meaty packs. The sims 3 Packs were so full of things to do and the ts4 ones are very lackluster. Ex: Sims 3 Island PAradise came with houseboats, ladders, hotels, resorts, paddleboat, speedboat, snorkeling, lifeguards, mermaids, treasure, beach parties, poolside bars, and more. This list just puts sims 4 island living to shame. How are we moving ahead in time, where technology improves, and getting worse with packs."

I feel the exact same way! I am always gravitating back to TS3 when I wanna "play" and not create.

The only things I miss about TS4 when I'm in TS3 are:

The ability to raise/lower objects
The ability to freely place wall items where I want
The ability to enlarge/shrink objects

That's pretty sad that TS3 has basically everything else I love!
Dcballin90NTG
Seasoned Newcomer
1 year ago
Realism, body autonomy skin bone inner structure, realistic items skin and inner items for realism cooking, proper mechanics, wet dry sticky slippery ect once the mechanics is complete just group all items to them according to the levels and make sure it refreshes when consumed are used also u should create dedicated zones for the mechanics meaning the graphics and mechanics should be on different memory consumption trails as well as the weather giving all sector the necessary dedicated memory accordingly to avoid lag and make ur modded items smaller ive noticed that some of the items are extremely big when measuring real life to the computer mechanica. There as big as the statue of liberty. We would also appreciate an adult sector where not children anymore modders are just having all the fun plus it would definitely bring a bigger base. Cinematic features would rock too but that's what packs are for and realistic birth and babys being able to talk to the Sims using a mic would be nice. The mechanics are already in place so don't fuse same as a lot of other mechanics working on the mechanics is the most important and where to direct the memory flow. So it want collide but u really don't want more than 3 or 4 memory cords with one main which distribute to them all but take none from them with a secondary which distribute but refreshes at an high rate while the other refresh at a mid rate a third might not be bad but 🤷 the water should be on one which cycles through natural release showing and rain through the sewer system and ocean like a globe with water above and waters below and a planted earth in the middle
ttuthill
New Adventurer
1 year ago
To become MAYOR in a new way. With a SIMCITY DLC. Allowing me to make the most amazing SIMCITY Worlds, populated by MY SIMS.
To have SIMCITY RCI demands in my SIMS Worlds. To have linking Transportation options and all the goodness SIMCITY brings with it.
With a STREETS OF SIMS Cities DLC, to DRIVE in my SIMCity/SIMS Worlds ( first person driver's seat ) and work for the SUPERHEROES and LAW. Or Criminals. To upgrade my vehicles w smoke screens, oil slicks, armor, machine guns, missiles, etc. To listen to great stuff on the vehicle radios.
With a SIMS Cities FLIGHT DLC to be able to access the COPTER and other aviation options. To do missions ( in first person cockpit ) and earn money and a whole lot of other things related to how SIMSCity works.
To eventually stop being a broken record constantly repeating the same wants and desires in SIMS and SimCity forums for decades . :)
Cheers & Best!

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