Bring back build/buy collections
With the sheer number of packs now available, not to mention the difficulty sorting BB and the inconsistencies with said sorting in the first place, I think it's really important that the Sims 4 brings back BB collections from the previous games. Let us create custom folders with whatever items we want. Let us label our kitchen objects, art studio objects, garage objects, etc. for ease of access. Hell, allow us to add debug items to them too. It's simply far too cluttered right now. And with the promise of never ending packs it's only going to get worse. Please help us.
For “The Next Evolution of The Sims”
So I was reading EA basically confirming the rumors in PR speak about what is likely Project X. I would like to make a few suggestions for the upcoming project. Presuming it will be a Sims 4 replacement (which is still undetermined) I have my wishes, which I made into a magnum opus post about a year or so ago. I'll give the abridged list. Here are my prioritized wish list Base Game Open World Should be big enough to add lots when new packs come out Open Water for Swimming & Boating Color Wheel & Sims 3 level of Customization for objects Seasons Basics Similar to Sims 2 - planned climates per world Temperature - That effects Sims & Pets Basic Weather - with new weather types introduced in subsequent pack as it pertains to the pack. Desert - Sandstorm Moon Cycle - Of minor importance, but if its in Base Game early on, there can be all kinds of fun things quirky things added that the moon can effect over time Burglars choosing the New Moon for break ins over Full Moons Celestial events for telescope observation Several Occults and magic in general are effected by the moon Maybe some things are hidden until the Full Moon Old wives tales speak of interesting behavior by the mad during a full moon Zombies appear in force on Full Moons Moon Bathing Werewolves automatically change CAS Body Details Beauty Marks Body Hair Freckles Hair - Similar to Sims 3 broken down by section for color customization Root Shaft End Eye Color Customizable Finger Nails & Toe Nails 5-10 Basic Colors & Shapes and French Manicure are fine in BG with new and more interesting designs and colors in later packs Colors sets per outfit Make Up & Jewelry Set Per Outfit Watches are Separate from Bracelets Rings set per finger Rain Gear & Cold Weather Gear are SEPARATE CLOTHING CATEGORIES!!! Traits & Preferences Diet should be separate from all traits Omnivore Pescatarian Vegan Vegetarian Basic Preferences - More can be added later Book Genres Color - Pick 2 Favorite Food - Pick 3 Gem Stone Music Types Weather Type Professional Titles Doctor - Dr. Military - Ranks Police - Rank Teacher - Prof. Attorney - esq. Family Relationships Mother, Step-Mother Father, Step Father Siblings & Step-Sibling Grandparents Aunts, Uncles Cousins Romantic Relationships - Please give ALL the accepted terms for Romantic Partner and let the player make their own choices. If you want to be "inclusive" this is what it looks like. Wife, Husband Spouse Partner Boyfriend, Girlfriend Fiance, Fiancee BG Skills Athletic/Body/Fitness Swimming - 5 level mini skill that improves Athletic Skill simultaneously Almost any physical activity should improve this skill including Dancing Baking - An absolute must. It’s a pain in Sims 4 to find particular recipes between this and Cooking/Gourmet Recipes Charisma Cleaning - Hidden Skill Cooking - No Additional Gourmet Category just set the recipes according to an established level of skill. Some recipes are more difficult that others that is just common sense Computer Programming Dance I think this is a form of exercise that should improve Athletics simultaneously I’d pick two Dance Styles and add new ones in later packs so that we have variety Viennese Waltz should be one Driving - Mini Skill Fishing - All Styles Deep Sea Fishing Ice Fishing Spear Fishing Gardening & Horticulture All Planting and Harvesting Improves this Handiness Electrical, Appliance Repair and Plumbing are apart of handiness as is traditional Tuning Instruments should improve Handiness Bring Back Upgrades Automotive Maintenance should be a separate but related skill Woodworking should be separate but related skill. This should be in another pack though Logic Many sources improves this skill Musical Skills Guitar Piano Violin Painting Main Skill in Painter Career Writing Main Skill for Education, Journalism & The Writer Career Avoidable Annoyances to spare us by putting them in the Base Game Automobile/Vehicle Ownership Set whose vehicle (Car, Motorcycle) is whose Setting Bed Ownership Sleeping Positions, who sleeps on the left, who sleeps on the right Includes Pet Beds Bed Quality You can use any frame you like for beds & and you pay to upgrade the mattress Gate & Door Locking Who gets in Who stays out Set Door Type Business Door Front Door Back Door Interior Door Setting Sink Type Bathroom Kitchen Setting Sound Effects Door Bells - I miss that Sims 3 feature Grandfather Clock & Cuckoo Clocks - Miss that SFX too Phone Ring Tones Gate sound - I think a Creaking Gate SFX you can turn on/off Automobiles Cars, Motorcycles & Scooters Learning to Drive Automotive Maintenance Skill Build Items Garage Door - That Raises & Lowers like Sims 2 Driveway Straight & Circular Parking Spots High School Spots can Be Decorated Harvestable in BG for Food Apple Tree Grafting to get Green Apple Varieties Carrots Celery Cherry Tree Cucumbers Lettuce Onion (Sweet) Grafting/Cross Breeding for Red Parsley Peach Tree Portobello Mushrooms Potatoes Grafting for Sweet Potatoes Rosemary Spinach Strawberry Thyme Tomato Collectibles Metals - Can we please just call them conventional metal names and save the weird stuff for Sixam. EX: Aluminum Brass Copper Gold Iron Platinum Rose Gold Silver Titanium Gemstones - Same conventional naming with Crystals, Gems & Semi-Precious Stones. EX: Amethyst Aquamarine Blood Stone Citrine Diamonds Emeralds Garnets Jade Lapis Lazuli Malachite Moonstone Morganite Onyx Opal Peridot Rose Quartz Rubies Sapphires (Blue Ceylon) Smoky Quark Tigers Eye Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise Build/Buy Must Haves Build Basements Bay Windows with Seat Closets - Easier to put them into Base Game and incorporate them into house builds them try to add them to existing builds later. Clothing Coat Driveways Driveway Gates Garage Doors Outdoor Kitchen Equipment Pools & Hot Tubs Pantry Buy Claw Foot Tubs Bar Backs Exercise Bike Washer & Dryers Water Coolers Future Expansion Notes Pets - Should be at least the first pack. Cats & Dogs should have clothing categories of their own Rain Gear Cold Weather Collars Should have a Lot of Fun Designs how about doing a collaboration with Foggy Dog Costumes Work Uniforms Dogs should come in 5 breed sizes Xtra Small - Chihuahuas & Yorkies Small - Cavaliers, Mini Schnauzers Medium - Standard Schnauzers Large - Labradors, German Shepherds X-tra Large - Great Danes Temperature should effect pets in interesting ways Cats & Dogs loving the Fireplace when its burning Snow being enjoyable to some pets and others are like, nope Pet jobs should make a come back Acting Farm & Ranch Military Police Search & Rescue Therapy Veterinarian should be a Medical Career Sims 4 had as a skill and that was dumb Community Lots we should have Associated with Pets Cat Cafe Dog Park Grooming Spa Pet Store Vet Clinic Occults - I don’t mind them being in different packs as long as they are thoroughly fleshed out. Powers and abilities being a learned tiered things was genius Vampires - Sims 4 was just about perfect in terms of powers, weaknesses, and look. Here is the only suggestions I would make. Keep the all the Sims 4 Powers especially Speed Strength Bat Form Mist Form Vampires should abhor Silver. Wearing silver should make them smoke the same as sunlight. Cannot enter unless invited Evil Vampires should wilt flowers in passing and scare animals. According to lore hunters used to use pure white horses to find their graves. How about an aversion to white horses and unicorns. Eclipsing Fog from Sims 3 should be a Vampire Power The two different styles of teeth was perfect. Nosferatu Fangs vs normal fangs Vampire should have a boost in learning Alchemy like in Sims 3 Evil Vampires should respond to the Question of where did you go to University with Scholomance, which is where Dracula is said to have been taught Keep the garlic, the wreaths and garlands, the scent and the Vampire Aversion Consider adding Bat Houses with bat animations at dawn and dusks with Bat SFX Always have a graveyard with tomb community lot with this pack Spell Casters /Witches I’d make the spells/powers more exciting Spell Classes - Were a great idea just need more classes Add Enchanting & Divination Familiars should have had more going on with them. You couldn’t even talk to them or interact in a meaningful way. I think Alignments from Sims 2 should return along with spells and familiars exclusive to each Alignment. There can be other familiars bonded with (like family Pet’s) however the three listed are exclusive Owls - Neutral Ravens - Evil Phoenix - Good Dueling should not be exclusive to Witches, it should take place between all magic users. Sims 3 had the best Magic Store. I’m bored of kiosks. I think not only would it be cool to have a separate Alchemy Skill to make potions, I also think crafting and Enchanting our own wands would be more fun. I’d bring back the Fortune Teller Career back with any witch pack Caravan Caravan Radio Channel Fortune Teller Services Astrology Aura Reading Crystal Ball Divination Gris-Gris Bags & Charms Against Occults Love Potion #9 Medium Skill Palmistry Tarot Reading Tasseography Werewolves I'd give a bit more flexibility to designing the Ears & Snout. Perhaps with allowing a bit more length to them Like Vampires Werewolves have an aversion to Silver Hotels Community Lot Type & Booking Window and a very basic Front Desk & Hotel Door and Concierge NPC should be added to Base Game. This is so that at least very basic hotels can be added to any vacation style world. All the perks of running a hotel should be in the game pack Maid Service Custom Room Service Menu & Bell Hops Themed, beautiful Front Desks Various kinds of Rooms, Suites and Villas Hotel Rating System Uniform Setting Hiring/Firing Amenities & Multi Function Capability Tropical Vacations & other Beaches Activities Beach Bonfires Beach Clean Up Beach Combing, Shell Collecting & Metal Detecting Boating House Boats Kayaks & Canoes Sail Boats Fire Knife & Hula Dancing Hiking toward the Volcano Hot Coal Walk Sandcastles for Children, Sand Sculptures for Adults Surfing & Windsurfing Scuba Diving & Snorkeling Spear Fishing Underwater Archeology Swimming with Dolphins Sea Rays Sharks Holiday Game/Stuff Packs Should not be the end all be all of when we get Holiday Items. Update! All Xmas Trees should be trimmable Different themed looks New looks come free around Xmas time. Goth Rustic Mantles should be able to support Stockings Holiday Lights would be grand to get new color combinations for different holidaysLogin event unfair
Is there any way to get all the login rewards if you log in by the 11th of January? Due to vacations I haven't been home for most days of December and January. This means I didn't have a pc with Sims 4 on it anywhere near me and no way to login and claim anything. There were a few days where I was home, so I have a few rewards unlocked. I usually always do events, and own most of the DLC. I play through Steam instead of the EA app nowadays.hi karl here
hi guys , i play this game for many years now, i know im not the greatest player arround here but im playing for fun on f 70 and today we had a drop base 4. i have to say its pretty darn fast. or maybe bending the rules like you all want to say. anyways i played this to long and saw to many changes maybe listen to your players and go back old style. ps i think im not alone
Books Written In-Game
I think there's some missed opportunities here with the books Sims are able to write themselves in The Sims 4. Why can't they be purchased by Sims in other Households in the same world? At bare minimum, these should be added to the books available to purchase in the bookcases. In a perfect world, I'd like to see Sims able to sell books in a plopsy situation, similar to buying books from online retailers, or to the e-book service that sounds like Kendall (Jenner)... Maybe as a small business, Sims could stock their own bookstores with books they've written themselves or with books bought from other sims somehow. It would be cute to pick and choose which books you wanted in your store. (Examples include a super-girly romance bookstore and a super-creepy horror bookstore, or a small-on-space bookstore selling your top favorites of each genre.) There would need to be some way to display individual books without full bookshelves though, so customers could better see each item. When I have tried to do this myself, I've struggled to find a way to display individual books. Some retail tables allow a few to stand on top, but so few that this is an impractical way to stock a whole store. The small square box wall shelves work to store individual books as well, but the books are positioned laying down instead of standing up where you could more clearly see the cover. Speaking of covers, it would be nice if sims could further customize the books they create with a selection of covers they could choose from. Perhaps sims with high painting/photography skill could design their own book covers or use art they've painted/photographed from reference. It could be interesting to see sims choose how to advertise their own indie-published book, or choose to publish through a larger publishing house with an advertising plan. Maybe sims could go on book tours to promote their newest release, hold signings in public venues, etc. It would be so fun to see a book do really well and have the option to adapt it into a screenplay that would be made via sims in the acting career, as book-to-movie adaptations are growing increasingly popular in recent years. The demand is high, books are back. One of my favorite hockey teams recently had a theme-night at their arena with a fantasy romance author. The book was about dragons and had nothing to do with hockey, so it was a surreal matchup for me, but not an unwelcome one! Rappers are releasing songs about top romance novels now, too. My last suggestion is keeping an in-game accessible list someplace of all the books my sim has written, because as of right now I've been keeping a list IRL in a notebook beside my computer to record the titles as I choose them, because I like to use the titles of my favorite real life books and once you've written so many it's hard to keep track. Once I sell them, I can only see the titles in the notifications that come each morning about royalities, and as I recall once you write so many it stops showing them all. The in-game notebook will only hold 250 characters (or so) of text, and there's not enough space to type them all there. Thank you so much Sims-4 team for the writing award at the starlight accolades! I've really enjoyed going to the ceremonies (and even sometimes winning!) when my Sim has had a particularly popular release.no complys
i like the no comply feature in this game but when it no comply 180s instead of riding switch u just end up riding the opposite stance (goofy/regular) and when you do the 360 no comply it puts u in switch? just not very logical idk how its been this long and still this way, also maybe a regular no comply option would be cool just to add to trick variations maybe even no comply wallies in the future could be a move. also can we please add switch wallies to the game? streets need this
The Catfishing Situation
Time and time again, this issue is probably raised—catfishing in the online Gallery. Dun-dun-dun? ♪ I know this has probably… most likely— definitely been brought up by many, many players on multiple threads and topics by now, across different platforms. But seriously, it has been going on for years. And with Lovestruck, I was hoping it’d have been remedied by with the implementation of the in-game dating app (for legal reasons, these are not real people on the app, okay?), Cupid’s Corner, distributing Sims from the Gallery. For the sake of anonymity—and they do not deserve recognition anyway, but they, and we, know who they are—I have removed any trace that may identify these creators. Except for SIMS4DENISE, she’s cool, and she makes Sims and households without CC. However, I have kept the uploads their household name and description preview: “pretty girl”, “base game”, there’s even a user who is apparently an EA Partner. I don’t think it’s good that they represent or are some sort of partner for the game to be uploading misleading Sims, exploiting and bypassing the CC-tagging system. And yes, I have individually checked all Sims above by importing them to Create-A-Sim to see if they are the same Sims we see on their thumbnails, take my free download, I guess. :-P For example, and an honest ( but slightly deceptive) one at that, this Sim has her description vaguely crediting the CC used to make her look the way she is in the thumbnails. I say “vaguely” because they’re actually just the CC creators in hashtag form, not the exact mod names. One commented that CC was used and they are in the description if anyone’s confused. I made a reply to that which can be seen in the screenshot. (Shoutout to the people who misuse the hashtag #mccc_include by posting it in the comments.) Sure, this upload is honest about using mods, but if you notice, there is no CC-tag on the upper-left corner in the thumbnail, indicating that the uploaded Sim is modded. This allows them to appear in the regular page of the Gallery, specifically sorting the uploads to Popular Now and filtering only Households, without the need to tick the “Include Custom Content” checkbox, and effectively burying genuine vanilla/unmodded Sims—almost like SIMS4DENISE’s upload in the first image above. An example of a modded and properly tagged Sim is one of mine. I worked on him for a few of days. He’s based off of a custom-voiced follower (mod) for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. I won’t upload him on the Gallery as I only want to share vanilla Sims and builds there, without mods. See the blue shield-style icon embedded on the upper-left corner in the thumbnail, that is the CC tag placed by default if any of the Sim in the household tray is modified in some way via mod/s. Same goes for builds that have custom furniture and decorations. Now here is the modded Sim that was used as an example, imported to CAS without any of the CC. It’s quite… Barbie, but I don’t honestly know what to feel considering that’s not how she was advertised presented in the first place—there are worse cases. Like the next one below the image on the right. (っ- ‸ - ς) Just a quick a mention to this somewhat vague and blurry reference to how we think they do this “trick”, on Reddit. P.S. It is not my post. Even I can’t quite understand how it works. This second example, it doesn’t even mention any of the CCs they used to “yassify” the Sim they made. Just a bunch of inappropriate hashtags forming a wall of text in the description. Some of them even mention packs that weren’t even used to create the teen Sim (yes, teen); among the hashtags are keywords like “sexy”, “hot”, “hot guy”… “girl”? And the use of their vague (I’m sorry, I love that word) tag, “defaults used”. If anyone says we could’ve just reported them, there’s not even a “proper” reason to report any of these uploads, only “Harassment or threats” or “Inappropriate Content”. The latter reason could be used, but there’s not enough grounds for the moderators to take down the reported upload, even with a written explanation as to why we’re reporting them in the first place. I honestly don’t know if the Gallery is even monitored at this point of the game’s lifespan. Please, a EA/Maxis dev or mod can correct me if I’m wrong on this. This thread shouldn’t just be a place to discuss this epidemic in the Gallery, it should also be where we should suggest how to eliminate this problem and put them back behind the modded page of the Gallery. One that I sometimes do is use the hashtag #WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which is used by Simmers who create vanilla (+ packs) Sims, strictly no CC included, unless some of the CC-users tries to slime their way into the hashtag. But that’s almost not possible as it’s sort of widely agreed that the hashtag is meant for no-CC uploads. Then again, what if we want to use other hashtags to find what we’re looking for other than #WYSIWYG but still unmodded? The Gallery’s search bar can only allow one hashtag to be used. If you wish to know the CCs I used for my properly tagged Sim, they are: Lane Hair by Peachibunnii I use the up-do version. Halo Default Skin by magicbats reposted by @polarmoon. Dazzling Light by Pralinesims Maxis-match default eyes. Custom face tattoo I cannot share. Sorry. (◞‸ ◟)💧 And, if you’re curious as to what he looks like without the skin and eyes overrides, and the custom face tattoo, here he is! (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ And to those who create the misleading Sims with CCs and bombard them on the Gallery, at least make them look presentable still when without the mods, the beautifiers, the yassifiers. And an ounce of shame, I guess? There are even Simmers I used to follow who formerly uploaded vanilla Sims—albeit copy-pasted with different outfits—with only custom poses that are now using CCs and obfuscating their existence to make their Sims look better (subjective). Lastly, I would like to thank you, the reader, for taking your time reading this piece. I hope my… personality(?) shines in my writing style, and that it didn’t—doesn’t—bore you. Alright, that’s really it from me. Ciao Bella Goth!This event was disappointing
I’m not going to lie, the login and collect event was not great. My opinion may be unpopular but I much prefer the events where you would have to play through and complete quests. Even if the rewards are not great, you are still able to play through an event and maybe get to interact with game functions that you don’t often use. This can spark inspiration at least. And to add to the benefits of the quest events, you are able to play through the entire event on the last day if you have been busy or forgot to sign in. The login event does not have that type of forgiveness. If you login even a week before the end of the event, you will miss some rewards. I was under the assumption that this event would be a quest event because I had never seen the sims do a login event. The holidays have been very busy and I’m a full time student that doesn’t get a winter break, so I didn’t have much time to login to sims everyday. I was hoping to be able to login towards the end of the event, play through the quest, and collect my rewards. But because I didn’t research the event, I logged in too late and was out of luck. The login event doesn’t even require you to play sims either, you can just open the game and collect, which feels lazy to me. I don’t want sims to turn into a lackluster version of fortnite. Please go back to quest events, login events are boring and quest events are overall better. I’m super sad that I wasn’t able to collect every reward but I guess I was lucky enough to collect the krabby patty recipe.Mythology and Quests in The Sims 4
For years I've been hoping to see Greek Mythology in the sims, and by posting maybe someone with the ability to make this happen will take an interest. I'm imagining the Greek Gods and Goddesses as characters you can interact with, as well as different creatures (satyrs, nymphs, etc.) and monsters (the minotaur, hydra, etc.) you can interact with. Thanks to some recent expansions like Enchanted by Nature and Life and Death, these things aren't that far off. Sims could complete quests they were given by different gods or creatures, compete in tournament-style challenges including chariot races and things, etc. We've seen collaborations before like with Katy Perry and Star Wars, maybe we could see a Percy Jackson Greek Mythology pack with a world designed like camp half-blood? Perhaps a special opportunity only the Demigod children of God-Sims and Regular-Sims could enjoy? It would be cute if the children had special 'birthmarks' to signify which God they had as a parent, similar to the marks the children of Grim have in The Sims already. If not a camp half-blood world, an Ancient Greece with a playable Mount Olympus would be cool too. Perhaps it would be too difficult, but a world where a sim could visit Olympus in the sky, Ancient Greece on the ground next to Poseidon's undersea area, with a secret world (like the alien planet) Sims could access to get into Tartarus. Sims in ancient Greece could craft olive oil like we craft nectar now, craft a special ambrosia nectar that only the Gods or their descendants could drink and would turn any regular Sim into a pillar of fire, etc. It would be interesting to have a "Hero" active career where your sim can slay monsters and quest for magical artefacts, all in a day's work! In any case, these were just a few thoughts, let me know if you think this is a good idea, or if you have any ideas of your own that expand on these!
