Future Sim Improvement Ideas

[jeanamariex3]

Which hairstyles are in the boys section?

I would love more pigtails, for girls in the toddler section of hair.

[xFezIsAFreakx]

Probably been mentioned already, but please let the sims paint self-portraits! I know they can use the still life but it just isn't the same.

[jeanamariex3]

I love the Self Portraits idea, Fez! I think it should be especially favored toward Snobs though.

I still want my table interactions though. Sims should play with their food, throw food at others, and play little games at the dinner table. I see it for all Sims, but mostly favored toward Sims that are inappropriate and childish. Wouldn't food fights at the dinner table be so funny? Then the parents could get so mad.  I bet Pam's stories will go even more viral than they were before if Sims were able to do things like that.

[Saltypaws]

They should have kept the best interactions from sims2, slow dancing, holding hands and kissing at the table and incorporate story progression and the best interactions from sims3 and you would have had an awesome game.

[jeanamariex3]

I agree. Open up the Rabbit hole too! I think scolding and punishing (from Generations) should be a choice made by the player, not an autonomous thing. It should be treated like training/raising pets, and have an impact on what traits a child will develop if they don't graduate/age up with an A average. I think Evil Sims should praise their evil children for pulling pranks. 

[MomOfMany]

I agree. Open up the Rabbit hole too! I think scolding and punishing (from Generations) should be a choice made by the player, not an autonomous thing. It should be treated like training/raising pets, and have an impact on what traits a child will develop if they don't graduate/age up with an A average. I think Evil Sims should praise their evil children for pulling pranks. 

I said something similar to that. I definitely think it should be more like the way we train pets! I hate that they get in trouble for things that I don't want them to get in trouble for! And I love the idea that it makes an impact of the traits provided we don't get to pick them!
Jeana you are just full of good ideas!

[FireRaye93]

I agree. Open up the Rabbit hole too! I think scolding and punishing (from Generations) should be a choice made by the player, not an autonomous thing. It should be treated like training/raising pets, and have an impact on what traits a child will develop if they don't graduate/age up with an A average. I think Evil Sims should praise their evil children for pulling pranks. 

Rabbit Holes, unfortunately, have always been apart of the Sims franchise and I highly doubt they will ever cease to exist. As much as I, too, would love to open them, I have resigned myself to cold harsh truth 

I do agree with the scolding and punishing thing though.

I want weather in my game! It doesn't have to be exactly like Seasons for TS2. I would be perfectly content with just it raining every now and then, but I must have it! 

[jeanamariex3]

Thank you MomofMany. 

As for Seasons, I agree with FireRaye. I don't want it to be Sims 2 all over again, I want it different. Kids have time off from school, then go back in the fall, then I could make it Phineas and Ferb style!  I would want other interactions too, maybe bring back some of the old Nightlife interactions at the dinner table, and slow dancing at weddings, as I said before. Not Nightlife 2.5, though, just the old dinner table and romantic interactions, and open just the Bistro and Diner, but leave the other ones closed. Snowmen should be a new occult and treated like IF's, only they come to life around all children, insane and childish older Sims. Kids should splash and play in the water, like before, but add Surfing to the mix. I want kiddie pools as well.

As for the CPU concerns, everyone thinks Seasons will take the computers to a grinding halt, but I highly disagree. I think the biggest, most memory hogging EP was already released and that was Pets. As I remember right, in the Sims Series, typically the biggest EP will be smack dab in the middle, while the others gradually require less and less. Pets is the biggest with the new lifestates, and fur details, which is why it was the straw that broke the camel's back on the integrated chipsets. My problems with Bridgeport, on my Vista magically disappeared, when I got a brand new graphics card, so I see BP as an individual graphical issue, waiting to happen.

[folcon]

I'd be cool with season, as long as you also had some element of control with them.  As fun as it would be, winter snow just wouldn't fit the feel of some of the towns, like Barnical Bay.  And really, Sunset Valley feels too tropical to be to get snow either. 

[samoht04]

What exactly do you mean by the last statement? Do you mean it, like, the Swimwear/sleepwear is disorganized? Or, what?

What I mean is that I don't like how separate clothing is listed down the page and then across the rows are recolours, it makes the catalogue very large and I'm at the stage where I have to wait a while for everything to load before being able to do anything. That and I hardly use the EA recolours at all and prefer my own. I wish they just displayed one model of the clothing, in the MISC patterns or default colours to make it easier to load since Geometrics and Themed take ages to load for me. Then a separate window with the recolours was elsewhere on the screen with the EA recolours and your saved colours, you could then choose to customise in CAS.

I'm weird because I'm fine with the Rabbit Holes, they don't irritate me and really I think if they were open it would just add more demand onto your game. Perhaps if you had the ability to build them, so say you wanted only a certain building to be open then you could do that but still have rabbit holes for buildings you don't use as much.

Also I disagree that Seasons will be lighter than Pets. I suspect that due to the open neighbourhood there is going to be a pretty high spec for Seasons and will cause more issues than pets. Just because of the size of the Worlds and the stuff that will have to change so Trees and stuff. I still want Seasons though! 

[jeanamariex3]

I'd be cool with season, as long as you also had some element of control with them.  As fun as it would be, winter snow just wouldn't fit the feel of some of the towns, like Barnical Bay.  And really, Sunset Valley feels too tropical to be to get snow either.

Still, none the less, It would be so funny if it started snowing in BB or SV. I don't know why, but even though it's a life simulator, it kind of bugs me when people want a more realistic game. I'm not attacking anyone who does, but to me, the "it makes your game more realistic" kind of annoys me. If season's does have its bugs and glitches, like it snows then it's super sunny, I will personally see it as something more realistic in a funny way, because that's how Seasons/Weather work in Michigan.  Like I said, I'm not trying to argue or flame, I'm just not into the whole "make it more realistic." I'm not talking little things, like how it bugs me when a Sim rocks out to Classical Music, or super needy babies, I mean bigger suggestions, some which are borderline inappropriate (on the official Sims 3 forum).

I still want evil toddlers to sneak out of their crib, scribble on walls, and climb on furniture.

I'll take your suggestion on CAS, although I'll kind of miss it since I'm a bit lazy, sometimes, LOL! I just wish they came up with more leopard printed options in CAS, because I can be so lazy sometimes. About Seasons, I'll take it, as long as it's not exactly the same as TS2 was. I said the same thing about Pets, got exactly what I wanted with pets, and now that statement remains with Seasons.

[samoht04]

I know what you mean about realism, I like the hints to realism and that it some senses it upholds the values of real life yet in a fun and imaginative way. Not sure how anyone can want Realistic Weather since it was baking hot today and then a cloud went over and we all rushed to get our coats on cause it was freezing!

[CynKuy]

I'd like to be able to bathe babies and toddlers, diaper changes on changing table, and definitely height sliders for Sims.

[jeanamariex3]

Agreed about the changing babies and toddlers. That was great, giving us something to do. I miss the autonomous dancing Beau Broke did to the radio. I don't agree with the height sliders though. I like having the distinction between teens and adults, anyways.

I don't see height ever, not even in future Sim games because:
-All the major bugs.
-Tall and short Sims look really weird (the Skeletal Stretch gave me nightmares!)
-The romantic interactions will look inappropriate, not to mention illegal
-The individual player will be confused about the age of the Sim

[kattiq]

I wish they had a "slow dance" option. It would be nice to have that for wedding and date night screenshots.