Future Sim Improvement Ideas

[FrostFlower]

I wish that children could play instruments. I know many people, myself included, who started learning an instrument at a young age, so it has never made sense to me that it's an off-limits skill until sims are teens.

I also wish there were a wider variety of instruments--including some more "orchestral" kinds like a violin, flute, or harp. Most if not all of the instruments are "form a band" types like guitar and drums.

Finally, I was hoping Starlight Shores might come with another instrument, since it's a performance-oriented expansion, and since I don't want to get Late Night because I'm sure the celebrity system would drive me batty. But I guess my musical sims will all be stuck with the guitar.

[Coocoo girl]

I wish there was a clothing store and that you had to pay for the clothes.  I also wish that you could actually make the birthday cake.  And have to buy ingredients for it and the cake looks different depending on the ingredients.  Maybe one day the EA will make an expansion called birthday dreams! Hehe   

[FrostFlower]

Maybe one day the EA will make an expansion called birthday dreams! Hehe   

If that was expanded upon a little bit, I think that could actually be a really good idea--something like "Sims: Celebrations" or "Sims: Milestones." You could have more items and/or content for birthdays and weddings and maybe introduce things like graduation parties or funerals. Throw in some Christmas & Hanukkah stuff and some more fireworks. I don't know that it's necessarily enough for a whole expansion pack, but it'd make an awesome stuff pack and would be something truly different from the others they've done thus far.

[Seabody]

introduce things like [...] funerals.

They're in there already. Once a Sim dies, have a family member throw a party - a Funeral is an option. I've done it, but a while back.

[Sportsfan]

They're in there already. Once a Sim dies, have a family member throw a party - a Funeral is an option. I've done it, but a while back.

Apparently it's really fun too:
http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=41.0

[FrostFlower]

Really? I had no idea! Thanks! (And the funeral that Anushka linked to in that thread was bewildering and funny. "Great funeral everybody, turn the music up!")

[Coocoo girl]

It would be so cool if we could give Christmas presents in the sims 3!   If they made an expansion pack or stuff pack like that then they might have actual ornaments that you could put on the tree!  Another thing I wish they had is dictionarys.  Then maybe if they had the dictionarys they would have a new interaction called Stun sim with words!  Hehe, it would be fun to make a sim pass out with your sims extensive vocabulary!  I would also love it, if sims could go to College.  And I would also like it if they actually had to graduate to get a good job and then go to college.  But the catch is, in my hopes, you would be able to control them in the college. Sort of like a sims 3 vacation with world adventures, only your at school!  I can only hope for an expansion pack called  Sims 3 College days!

[MomOfMany]

It would be so cool if we could give Christmas presents in the sims 3!   If they made an expansion pack or stuff pack like that then they might have actual ornaments that you could put on the tree!  Another thing I wish they had is dictionarys.  Then maybe if they had the dictionarys they would have a new interaction called Stun sim with words!  Hehe, it would be fun to make a sim pass out with your sims extensive vocabulary!  I would also love it, if sims could go to College.  And I would also like it if they actually had to graduate to get a good job and then go to college.  But the catch is, in my hopes, you would be able to control them in the college. Sort of like a sims 3 vacation with world adventures, only your at school!  I can only hope for an expansion pack called  Sims 3 College days!

Sounds a lot like the Sims 2 University! I don't know if you ever played Sims 2 but they had that there. I think that they will add something like it in one of the expansions but I don't know for sure.

[jeanamariex3]

That was in the Holiday SP! I think it went with Seasons or something, but Santa would appear giving everyone gifts. I thought it was cute.

I would like to see more generated green, red and blue townies moving in. I mean, everyone's too normal, skintone, and we need more vairity. I would like it if those new townies had different voices once in a while too. After the third or fourth generation everyone literally has the same voice. I would like an orange fake tan skintone as well. No Barbie glowing skin though, please! Just a normal EA Sim look with fake orange tan. I know people will be against the idea, but I personally think it's funny. Sims are suppose to be a bit cartoonish looking.

[warr2098]

That was in the Holiday SP! I think it went with Seasons or something, but Santa would appear giving everyone gifts. I thought it was cute.

I would like to see more generated green, red and blue townies moving in. I mean, everyone's too normal, skintone, and we need more vairity. I would like it if those new townies had different voices once in a while too. After the third or fourth generation everyone literally has the same voice. I would like an orange fake tan skintone as well. No Barbie glowing skin though, please! Just a normal EA Sim look with fake orange tan. I know people will be against the idea, but I personally think it's funny. Sims are suppose to be a bit cartoonish looking.

I kind of agree! When going to sunny holiday locations (france eqypt) your sims get tans! 

[xFezIsAFreakx]

I think if we get sims getting tans, they should get burnt skin as well. They have to put sun cream on to get the tan instead of the burnt skin, and they get either more tanned or more red badly burnt skin depending on how light they are naturally and how long they've spent outdoors. Question is, what will the red sims look like with burnt skin? In fact, what would any of the weird colours look like with a tan?

[Twinmum]

I think if we get sims getting tans, they should get burnt skin as well.

When we got Seasons in Sims 2, Sims did get sunburn if they stayed out too long.

[xFezIsAFreakx]

When we got Seasons in Sims 2, Sims did get sunburn if they stayed out too long.

Teehee, awesome! Maybe we'll get it again with the up and coming Seasons for TS3.

[samoht04]

I never did get any Sims with a Tan though from Seasons. I couldn't get the Sun-Bathing part right... Lol. 

[FrostFlower]

If I could change only one thing about the Sims, I'd make more things adjustable. Don't want your day care worker Sim to become famous? Turn off or modify the celebrity settings. Don't want your Sim accumulating dozens of silly memories about visiting community lots? Turn off or modify memories--and I don't mean turn off the notifications. I fervently wish we could tinker with the actual memory settings themselves.

There are obviously brand-new things I'd like as well, but the number-one thing that I would love to see is more control over things like this--without having to use mods. These really are things that ought to be adjustable in the game itself.