The Family Tree Overhaul pt.2
The Sims 4 Needs a Second Family Tree Overhaul Dear EA/Maxis & Fellow Simmers, About a year ago I made a post on here complaining about how bare bones the Family Tree was. Parents, siblings, kids, grandparents, and that was it. Anyone past that just didn't exist as far as the game was concerned, and if a Sim died or got culled, half their branch could disappear with them. If you've ever run a long legacy save you know how frustrating that is. You lose track of who's related to who, and worse, the game itself loses track, which is how you end up with cousins flirting with each other because as far as the code is concerned they're strangers. Then February happened. The Family Tree update gave us ten generations, real labels for in laws, half siblings, step relatives, great grandparents, grand aunts and uncles, the whole thing. Direct ancestors and descendants can't romance each other anymore either. Honestly, it was one of those rare moments where you post a suggestion and then actually watch it show up in the game. So first, thank you. That update was not small. But I'm back because there's still a hole in it, and it's the same hole that started this whole conversation, just one generation further out now. Past first cousin, everything gets dumped into one label: Distant Relative. A second cousin and a fourth cousin and a first cousin twice removed all look identical to the game. And that's exactly the gap that lets it happen again, just further down the tree. My great grandkids from two different siblings ended up developing feelings for each other, and the game had absolutely no idea they were second cousins, even though the tree itself would've told you that in two clicks. So here's round two of the ask, and honestly it's the natural next step after what you already built: Actual cousin degree labels. Second cousin, third cousin, once removed, twice removed, calculated instead of everything past first cousin getting lumped together. In law labels that go further out too. Uncle in law, aunt in law, step in law cousin, not just the immediate parent/sibling in law set from February. Make the relation calculated, not a checklist. The direct ancestor block already works this way, so extend that same logic outward instead of relying on a short list of flags. Worth mentioning, those flags can already break. There are bug reports of cousin relationships silently vanishing if a sibling gets deleted in CAS the wrong way. A slider for how far the blocking goes. Some of us want it locked down tight past third or fourth cousin. Others are doing royal dynasty saves where historically accurate cousin marriage is kind of the point. Give us an option like the Woohoo settings and everyone's happy. Some kind of visual difference for how closely related someone is. Even just a shading difference between close, extended, and distant would help once a tree gets past five or six generations, because right now it's just a wall of names. I know this sounds like a big ask, but it's not really new territory. Crusader Kings 3 already does the harder version of this with zero mods, it calculates actual relatedness between any two characters based on their closest shared ancestor and that number decides whether a marriage is even allowed. Sims 3 never got past first cousins at all, so this franchise has been behind on this for a long time, and inZOI, which a lot of people are watching as the next big competitor, actually went the opposite direction and loosened up who can romance who instead of adding this kind of detail. This is a chance for Sims 4 to actually be the one that gets it right details and all. This isn't just about stopping awkward accidental cousin romance, though that alone would be worth it. It's about the tree actually meaning something again once your save hits ten, fifteen generations. Right now the further out you play, the less the game understands its own family. Thanks again for February. Hoping this gets picked up the same way. A devoted Simmer & generational player
💡 Ideas > 🏙️ Big city world #2
Hi, I really like San Myshuno and Night City (Cyberpunk 2077), it would be nice to get another big city. Some ideas of neighborhood : Shore front / Beach Industrial area : Warehouses, factories and loft apartments Downtown : Mega residential building with Venues included Neon city : Nightlife activities (Dance club, bar, ...)
Most Welcome Improvement and Upgrade Projects[keep Updating]
Most wanting Improvement and Upgrade Suggeston project FROM the past community forum players Vote 1.Swim pool and THE Lot Terrain Edit Tool 2.the create a rolesim's mode FAVORITE system and Color Palette[Favorite system Drinks Chosen option is Missing] 3.Small range of seamless block community———And———THE WORLD OPERATION UI IMPROVE【📌】 Mac OS Roll maps Icon by Early 2014 version❤️[i most love it style personaly]top edge roll or down roll town-maps style Big City/town icon selection view【Default sets】 entire town guide selection view[GOOGLE Earth maps style] you/simmer can decide the diffrence Artist style in your Gameset menu you can see the all detail of The rent lot's furniture and Sims_but only your level can build&buy-edit OBjects Furniture Take your tiny handy telescope and watch your neightbor's.see what are they doing the intersting thing and secret This day.......we really need the seamless block to improve operate feel , EXPECTCIALLY as the For rent tenant or Estate lots Owner,i need this Funtion to Visit my Neightbor without Repeaing/ReLoad,AS you can see it when i want to visit with my up-floor and down-floor neightbor, every-time need to be reloading the lot .can you imagine how it complicated and difficulty The same one community 5 lots and the Same Rent Building won't be the reloading Place...it's imperative。 4.Mysterical Simulations Lost skill Tree[mermaid power islandlivingand Alien power/gettowork] Hybrid/Mixed-blood Occult Simulators Stable running。HAS BEEN-Knowned in CAS[THE GHOST,VAMPIRE.WOLVES.MERMAIDS.FAIRY'S AND THE MAGIC-REALMs Ws+Ws] ALIENS&ROBOTS 6.Discovered university Robot station Actived robots can Disguse Robot's,make the robots themselves looks more like human/sims4 the real person 7.【DREAM HOME DECORATOR function】USE your telephone to purchase furniture now.I mean the Furniture super market LIST in huge Screen like COTTAGE LIVING-grocery shop order】Inventory your furniture‘’s and Put it in your home lot . _YOU DON'T HAVE TOO PRESS F2 BY HIGH FREQUANCY-FROM LIVE MODE to BUYING FURNITURE MODE ANYMORE
Near Death Experience Milestone
I was just thinking it would be cool to have some sort of Near Death Experience milestone. Recently my sim has saved 2 sims lives by pleading with Grim and they're bought back to life and have a sentiment towards the sim that saves them but that's it. I just thought it would be good to be made into something a little more. Even when a ghost is bought back to life there's no sentiment or milestone about the time spent as a ghost or no sentiment towards the sim who bought them back to life. Hopefully I'm making sense :)
We need a Blank State option when starting a new save.
Hello TheSimsDirect & Maxis 😊 I'm not sure how difficult this would be for you to impliment into The Sims 4 but I think it would be a really great options if you could allow us Simmers to start a "blank state" save. What I mean by this is that all of the worlds have all lots completely empty and all of the appropriate Sims are absent. I would assume that the saves would still need to keep the NPC Sims such as Father Winter, Creature Keeper ect, but for non important Sims it would be great for them to be absent. I feel like this would be a much welcome quality of life addition to the game for Simmers who like to rebuild worlds from the ground up and do not wish to go through each world manually.
New base game swatches
Do you have any suggestion of BASE GAME items (create a sim or build/buy) that should get new color swatches? Drop it here. Add the cardigan top color swatches to the cardigan dress and vice-versa. Add the male varsity jacket color swatches to the female varsity jackets and vice-versa. It would be pretty useful for these items have new swatches that included solid/no prints and monochromatic versions. We really need to have at least the 7 rainbow colors, bit we shouod also have pink, brown, black, white and grey, for every clothing and accesory in base game. Exactly like what the swimsuits update brought us.Suggestions: missing DLC items
I'd like to say that i really liked the idea of adding new stuff to old DLCs through updates or events. The packs really need some updates and that includes some items missing in them so this is really good to see. Of course the ideal would be refreshes but as we can't have them, getting items here and there can be good and useful. So here are some ideas of content we should get: (July 2026: Added Mini pigs and Raccons lot challenge) Alien antennaes for Get to Work Bandages for Get to Work: Mainly for head, torso and legs; For arms only if we can use both arms at the same time. Plasma fruit recipes stall for Vampires Vampiric Emporium stall for Vampires Adult version of vampire's children hairs for Vampires Animal ears headpiece for Cats & Dogs/Werewolves/Spooky Stuff Dog houses for Cats & Dogs Clothesline for Seasons: Compatible with clothes wet by rain. Lightning strike scar for Seasons Shark/Dolphin/Eel tail for Island Living Fin-like ears for Island Living/Enchanted by Nature Fixed Patchy's hat for Realm of Magic Mentoring black board/podium for Realm of Magic Functional small cauldrons for Realm of Magic Werewolf body hair for Werewolves Wolfsbane corsage for Werewolves: Weakens werewolves fury and give uncomforrable moodlet. Unicorn horn as sim's headpiece for Horse Ranch Mini Pigs for Horse Ranch (NEW) Racoons lot challenge for Business & Hobbies Fur pants for Enchanted by Nature
