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geniusiknowit
Seasoned Newcomer
4 months ago

Features that I have been asking for, FOREVER.

I wish they would give us innovative new features. I've been playing since the game was released and most of the time when I close the game or just forget about the game altogether it's because of limitations. I would like to see

• U & O Shaped rooms

• 1x1 rooms (they patched the glitch)

• More walls & floors, in bulk. Give us packs. Not just one or two every so often in a hunt. I want to be overwhelmed with choices, as if I'm playing Sims 4 or TSM.

• Door and window sets that MATCH. Why do I have Homestead windows & doors, a double doorframe, but no single doorframe?

• Matching colors under the wrong names. Why are there 5 different shades of white, pine, oak, etc? Why does one item called "pine" have the shade of another item's "walnut"??

• More pet fashion & furniture

• Ability to swap the side the driveway is on for driveway homes. Yes, we can put a patio on the other side, but come on, you know a driveway connects to the street, not just the sidewalk ;(

• An automated work schedule for employed/enrolled sims. I usually work full time, so it would be nice to click one button that sends all unoccupied sims to their roles, or like with the VIP cakes, check off which ones I want to go and hit send at once.

• Stop making events for us to build our own schools & daycares. I don't always have time to manage the babies and toddlers and feel guilty for making them watch TV & hibernate while I work on other things...

• To follow up my last point, design the lots already in-game to be interactive, which in turn opens more interactive jobs. I would love to send my kids to daycare, even interact with them as a teacher at school (as a job, like the police/hospital/spa), or explore the Art Museum and Musician buildings, etc.

• Re-release edges. It's been over a year, they are a favorited feature by many builders. Either run the Midcentury Mod hunt again or release them in the store as a purchasable pack.

• Cheapen EVERYTHING. Simflation is hurting the player base and morale. I can't complete the desert or forest lots because each house costs MILLIONS. I can't build any of the superyachts. I can't even build the Cafe. There should be a limit. We all put so much time and money (real and fake) into completing professions for them to only come home with §3000 and the monuments don't add much. Why oh why is a coffee machine §500,000?

• The obvious inventory concerns... sorting, searching, archiving, bulk selling... We all have been begging...

• More diverse decor, lots, and fashion. Give us East Asian, give us Slavic, give us more Latin, give us Middle Eastern, give us more African. Enough of the wild west, French, baroque, and millennial greige...

• Clothing and hairstyle sorting. If they can do it on the Sims Mobile, what's stopping them on Freeplay? I definitely customize my sims 90% less than I used to when they got rid of the gendered items. Yes, that should have been an option. No, it should not have been introduced without the ability to sort by "long, short, feminine, masculine, unisex" etc.

• The volume of pets. I have to play with the volume off because I don't want to hear barking and meowing every 2 minutes.

• The bug where window shades & shutters close on their own when you leave the lot or close the game. I don't even use certain windows because I have to open them manually every single time I re-enter the lot. With the dynamic lighting update this is especially frustrating.

• The bug where you can be building in a on one floor, tap something, and it will take you to a completely different item on a different floor? Am I the only one having this issue? It's consistently happened since the dynamic lighting update came out. It happens all the time...

I hate to be critical, especially of a game that has given me so much consistency for the past 10+ years in my difficult life. But I'm finding myself frustrated and bored more often than I find myself excited and satisfied like I was years ago. It's still my most played mobile game, but I'm feeling limited and lead-on. I hope the team will see this discussion and anything else you guys reccomend, and take it to the board room. 

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  • Agreed, I have just started playing. Things are so expensive and I’m trying to get my house built and my sister’s house. I have to wait on the L shaped rooms to finish but I would love to see a feature adjusted to allow multiple levels but keep one level ground floor only without trying to add extra levels to it when it’s connected to a house. I have a back room that is ground floor but had to add a balcony so it wouldn’t add more floors and also the ability to add a covered porch without that issue too and have it look right. I also have an attic window that I won’t be able to add in the game for this reason. Then we need some different designs of stairs especially for my sister’s house that I want to build as they’re all different from what we can choose from in the game. 

    Her upstairs stair way has a small set going to a landing then you go left up the rest of the stairs to upstairs. Then her basement goes down to a landing then you go right down a small stair set. 

  • MsMeka2009's avatar
    MsMeka2009
    Seasoned Novice
    4 months ago

    I don’t know why this post isn’t getting more attention. You nailed everything that’s wrong with this game. The game is made for folks with absolutely nothing else happening in life. And “Simflation” is sickening. It’s become less and less enjoyable with every update

  • I agree. I've been playing since it was released also. I took a survey and listed a couple things I wanted to see change also.  Hopefully they see it! 

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