What we would like to see in The Sims 4
Or whatever it will be called.
For a while now we’ve been writing up a Google Document with our ideas and opinions on what we would like to see in the next instalment of The Sims. We haven’t been working on it non-stop – there were times where there were weeks if not months between edits – but we feel it’s time to let everyone see it. It’s still work in progress (and a bit messy) and we’ll continue to add to it and change things. So without further ado, here it is:
Click the image to view the document. You can even comment on it if you like!
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#2 written by Chris 8 months ago
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#3 written by Uros 8 months ago
As I imagined it, it would enable us to live in a suburban world but work as an actor in a busy downtown city nearby. So we can use public transportation, buses, cars, trains or airplanes to get there and back.
By the way, I like how you used The Sims as title, as it seems to be what is going to happen, same as with SimCity. I personally like the idea as The Sims 4 sounds off a bit to me.
Keep up the good work, really enjoyed reading this article!
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#7 written by Nikola 8 months ago
Hello Thesimshub.com… I was creating good ideas for the sims 4.
Hello…
My suggestions for a better season of TS4 Game… )
-Hey, hello EA … I have one question for you … Can you make a option to choose a password for the new game, because my sister always deletes my save! Please for the reply!
-You can make a hat that will be able to put each hair in CAS room?
- I wanted to ask you, if you can create new options for CAS ROOM, I have a suggestion … To take a cap for any type of hair, but each hair particular…
-If you are making expansions for water and swimming, make surfing on the water and boating and boat …
-Make a cocktail-bar
-veins, male and female sex organs ( slider – of the minimum to maximum )
Setting tattos like a APB game … (On body, the clothes, the car)
-Writing OWN graffiti on wall ((that can be made from their own creations, like a The Sims 3 Pattern tool.)
-Some cars export from Need For Speed game… (Because, Need for speed is in also part of EA Company as a Sims)
-Do can be made more than four floors of the house
-New skin tones (I do not want aliens, fairies, wizards and itc. I want real life in The Sims 4!)
-Rings on each finger and each hand
Make-up-bugs-over water in the mountains
-Make a cave where sim can live.
-When creating animals that can do to dress up in clothes
-You can do aqua park with optional extended slide!
–Is there an option for tenants in the house to determine the territory of a tenant by his own measure of our salary so that they build us a house …
Street pole
-Studio recording songs and music career in the concerts, modeling, acting,
-Open all the rabbit hole
-To have an apartment in ts2 series and with them comes an option Zimmer
-Selection of High School
-Business leaders
-Downloading movies through the computer, or via simTorrenta (piracy, the possibility of arrest)
-The possibility of arrest, set up a real jail sentence and maintenance of several sim weeks
-Church-high construction
-If Sims can be offered the option, it is not obscured when the swim …
-We follow sim on every job …
-Slides for the pool
-Option for a tattoo vehicles and interlocking series …
-EA, if you can make expansion which will be the flag state, that we have the option to choose where we are, or what country for all of our sim …?
-that for every T-shirt can go any special jacket
-that for every hairstyle we can put cap?
-to have the option to choose the color of our teeth ledge.
-flying leaves, paper, cardboard on the street. (LIKE A GTA IV game)
-Monitor chatting with another online users.
-The Sims 4 does not many expansion.
-All objects in The Sims 3 game will be in TS4. -
#10 written by Chris 8 months ago
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#11 written by Uros 8 months ago
I think they will do something like SimCity is. Single player will still be there in its entirety, but there would be ways to interact with others as well.
Internet seems to be a must-have for SimCity, either way, but that doesn’t bother me. I mean, we all have internet connections so that’s not an issue to most people.
I’ve heard people complaining about online features and saying how they hate Sims (4) even though nothing has been said about it. People jump to conclusions way too quickly.
By the way, will you update the document all the time with new ideas?
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#12 written by Chris 8 months ago
SimCity’s online makes sense though. I’m not sure TS4 being always online would make as much sense as it does for SimCity. I want TS4 to have an online component, don’t get me wrong, but I would it to be a secondary thing rather than the main thing. Also, as much as I don’t really mind SimCity requiring a constant internet connection, what if you went somewhere with no internet, or the power went down in your house whilst you were playing it on your laptop? You wouldn’t be able to play which is a bit of a bummer.
And yes, we will continue to add to it. I’ll probably tweet about any updates through @TheSimsHub from time to time and possibly highlight new sections so they’re easier to find.
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#14 written by Nikola 8 months ago
The big problem to make a The Sims 4 game online is = what if I want to live in the same city, in the same house as someone, who is also online multiplay user? – In doing so, he may have moved into this house before me and there is not enough land in the city for millions of players … It will be like the The Sims Social on facebook with better graphic or, there will not be any … And if they still made 4 Sims game, everyone will have to create own street where they will live , and in this way, we will all collectively broaden the city – which is the better option.
Great city may have to be “first Server is filled “=” 1. part of city is filled, ”
and then, new users will be make another city, or another server with its streets and houses. ‘d like to be The Sims 4 and offline (Without connection, but with connection) , but when reattaching connection to internet, then will be uploaded online, all that we played in offline mode … -
#15 written by Uros 8 months ago
I don’t think there would be SUCH multiplayer features as “we all live in the same city”.
I think by multiplayer, they mean sharing Sims directly, visiting somebody’s game using friend system from official site (similar to Simport), sharing creations, inviting over for example or something like that.
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#16 written by Damienf519 8 months ago
I’ve been reading over it. I haven’t finished reading It, but sounds okay, so far. However, it really shouldn’t be called the Sims. That’s going to be really confusing. Its bad enough that the new Simcity is going to be called Simcity, instead of Simcity 5. They could make it a reboot, but if you just call it the Sims, people might get it confused with the first game, and some people might end up mistaking expansion packs for the original game as ones for the new one. It would also be too confusing when people would be comparing and contrasting the two games. They really should call it the Sims 4 even if its going to be a reboot, especially if they happen to make another sims game after that, even if that seems somewhat unlikely, its not impossible.
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#17 written by Dominik 8 months ago
+ Possibility to go with the timemachine in a real world in the
past or future.
+ More animals like zoo.
+ For supernatural world in the clouds or something else.
+ Building a house more realistic, like it takes more time en building with bricks.
+ More supernatural like dragons, dwarfts, mermaids, moving tree.
+ Open rabbit holes so you can get inside and see everything.
+ Seasons with twister, volcano eruption, tsunami.
+ You can make the size of your lot how big you want.
+ Something like hawaii for holidays or tropical rainforest with monkeys and other animals.
+ diseases in game like fever, heart attack, flu.
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#18 written by Metje 8 months ago
I would really like to see sim children actually grow and develop. I don’t like the life stage system, in which a 2-year-old toddler blows out her candles and suddenly looks and acts like an 8-year-old child and a 12-year-old blows out the candles and suddenly looks and acts like a 16-year old. In a family with four children e.g. ages 4, 8, 12 and 16, I would like to see a clear age difference between the children. E.g: the four-year-old should look and act like a four year old. He or she should be much smaller and chubbier than the 8-year-old sibling. They also shouldn’t be able to do certain things yet, like “go to the park”. But they can go with their older brother/sister, or with another family member.
It would be nice if the children could grow and develop a bit at the end of each week. Maybe they could just spin around and grow a few sim inches. Even if the children are only one sim year apart, I would like to see a small height difference.
I also want to see older sibling – younger sibling relationships. They should add some special interactions like “Follow older brother around”, “Try to lift little sister” or “Do things little sister can’t do”. Also other general sibling interactions. Like, when a sim child has a favourite toy and his/her little brother starts playing with it, they could have an interaction called “It’s mine!” Then the parents could step in and settle the little sibling rivalry.
I have been hoping for these features since the first Sims and – regarding these features – I was twice disappointed with The Sims 2 and The Sims 3. They would make playing a sim family so much more fun and realistic!
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#19 written by Chris 8 months ago
Some really good ideas there. I’m not sure if they would make kids develop slower with more individual states between child and teen, mostly because it might affect the number of different animations they’d have to make for all the different heights. It’s certainly something I would want to see, but I’m not sure it will happen.
Saying that, I can definitely see maybe a new life stage that takes place after toddler which would be a young child (5-7 years old?) and then the normal child stage after that (at 10-12 years old). That seems more plausible.
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#20 written by Luftersel 1 week ago
I LOVE your concept arts! I really wanted those loading screens from TS2 back and things like that.
I would like to have a few more options in TS4. Things I didn’t like in TS3, mainly because of the ‘open neighbourhood’ thing they introduced:+ the option to turn off the story progress. In TS3 you can do that, but it’s pointless.
– Other sims indeed won’t get a baby or get divorced, but they still they go out and meet new people. They develop new friendships with people I don’t even want them to know and that’s highly frustrating. Or they have fights with people you don’t want them to fight with.
– If you leave sims unemployed and go to another family, they will get a job themselves (often). For example, I don’t want sims that are friendly and good to become a criminal, that just doesn’t make any sense.
– The thing I hate the most: they learn new skills if you’re away. I can’t stand this, because it ruins the whole ‘unique character’ thing they introduced with TS3. For example, if a sim I created is very shy, it’s abnormal that they have got to the top of the charisma skill if you come back.+ the option to freeze the neighbourhood. It maybe looks very similar to the previous one, but it isn’t.
It often bothers me if I can’t find the sims I want to interact with, because they go to a random spot in the town (and mainly just go there to interact with other sims I DON’T WANT THEM TO INTERACT WITH or learn skills I DON’T WANT THEM TO LEARN). It’s like a ‘freeze’ button; the town around you just doesn’t move, if you don’t want it to. Only if your sim is inside someone else’s house, the other sims can move.+ Sims should change back into their normal outfit when they return from work. For example, it is very abnormal that you, if a sim that works as a cook, meet that sim in baker clothing when he’s not working. I don’t create whole outfits for them so that they can NOT WEAR THEM.
+ Workwear should be the same for every sim in the same branch. If workwear isn’t really an outfit or isn’t really required (for example in the spa business), don’t change my sims’ normal clothes at all. I’ve once had a sim that worked in the supermarket, in a SUIT and without SHOES. Just develop an outfit for them, like with the medical or cooking career.
+ Get rid of the stupid, ugly edges underneath the floors or at least simplify adapting them. You can colour the edges in TS3, but the colouring doesn’t fit the rest and you can’t give one story more different coloured edges. If you don’t know what I mean, look at this. http://thumbs2.modthesims.info/img/8/9/6/6/3/3/MTS_Psychosim-1077711-flooredge-replace.jpg
+ Improvement of the ‘in love’ relationship. If a sim in the previous games fell in love with someone, the game assumed the other one was in love with that sim, too. But in real life it doesn’t happen at the same time, or maybe never. You can be in love with someone, without the other even knowing. If you’re in love, you can ask the other sim if he’s also in love with you. If the relationship isn’t stabil enough, there’s a chance he isn’t in love with you. You’ll then have to use more romantic interactions and ask it again later, but the time in between you’re still in love, while he maybe isn’t.
+ The ability to teach sims other skills. If you’re above level 6 of a skill, there must be the chance to teach other sims that skill as well. At the same time, the relationship will improve when you’re teaching them.
+ I want the music options from TS2 back. Back then, you could choose which music you wanted to play when you played the game. You could even turn off particular songs if you didn’t want them to play. In TS3, you could only choose to play the music or not and nothing else.
– Also, I want the option to put your own music in the game back. In TS3, you can put your music in the game, but they only play on the radio. I want to have the option to put my music in the build mode, buy mode, etc.P.s. excuse me if my English grammar isn’t right everywhere. I’m Dutch, so I hope you can understand me.
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OH MY GOD! Honestly, this made my night. I am completely obsessed with The Sims 4 and ideas and 90% of things you said/suggested are what I’d like to see. However, I’d like for Sims 4 to have regions, like SimCity. So we live in one city, but we can travel to another city which is nearby to visit family members. Get what I’m saying? Larger worlds with more than one town in it. Thank you for taking time to write this, I enjoyed every single minute of reading it!