Future Sim Improvement Ideas

[Naga]

You can make shiny [weird] eyes in Sims 3 if you want to.

[TheChronicR]

Naga, won't it be a CC? I've never noticed something like eye shining controller in the Sims 3.

[Naga]

Well, in CAS, when setting the eye color, you can just make it a lighter color. If your graphics (not sure if texture, lighting or sim details) are high enough, it should look shinier. Now, if by "shiny eyes" you meant glowy eyes, like ghostly or something, then I have no idea.

[niuri_cigarete]

An idea has just popped in my mind (tell me if I'm wrong) but is it possible for your sims to like choose the clother they wear randomly? And I don't mean the insane trait, but like every time they change they would choose one set of clothes from the ones you've created. That would be really cool...

[RubyLovesSims]

An idea has just popped in my mind (tell me if I'm wrong) but is it possible for your sims to like choose the clother they wear randomly? And I don't mean the insane trait, but like every time they change they would choose one set of clothes from the ones you've created. That would be really cool...

Like in the same group (Everyday, Formal, etc)?
That would be cool. And highly realistic

[niuri_cigarete]

Like in the same group (Everyday, Formal, etc)?
That would be cool. And highly realistic

Yeah, exactly. Like switch between 3 created outfits in the everyday category. And I really think that this isn't that impossible to do for developers, it's a really simple but nice thing.

[Leto85]

Buying clothes at a store downtown.
It gives girls and woman a really cool moodlet when raiding cloth stores, but it provides the man (who must come with the girls) a huge minus moodlet.
How's that for being extremely realistic?

[TheChronicR]

Leto, that would be cool! Especially the moodlet system. I would like if EA added Open for Business type stores, and not only NPC's but your sims could do shopping in stores belonging to townies. I don't like rabbit-holes and I don't want to see them in Sims 4.

[niuri_cigarete]

How's that for being extremely realistic?

Haha, it sure would be!

Another idea that popped in my head was this: why don't they randomize the names like they do for gnomes, for example. That would save us (the players) loads of trouble when thinking of a name! It's one of the biggest torture for me, since I've been playing the Sims games since 2002. I've just ran out of them and have to find some interesting ones online.

And they could leave a txt file somewhere, in which you could put your own names. Or maybe the game would just remember the names that has been used before. That would be cool

[jeanamariex3]

I personally do. I think it should be called "infants" and they should have the appearnce of Sims 2 babies. They should have the same amount of free will and required care as sims 3 toddlers (only they don't potty train just yet, but have the same free will and require fair care from parents) but have them get out of their own cribs after a certian point (if they're not tired or get lonely, they'll scream and cry the same way, and if a child or older doesn't let the child out after 15 minutes, the infant will crawl out themselves) the babies should be the same as they do now, only they should be allowed to be rocked and fed while the older sim is sitting down, be carried in baskets prams or strollers, instead of older sims carrying them in his/her arms, and even let the child hold his/her baby sibling when sitting down and be called "newborns" "Infants" should have the same interactions as toddlers do now with children (play peek-a-boo, hug, feed on floor), be able to go to lots in strollers (even let the child push babies in strollers and/or prams) and play with toys like toddlers. Toddlers should have more interactions and independence, they should use the potty chair (like now), walk to lots with a child or older (with their hand held), friendly and mean interactions with their peers, and older siblings (child or older), eat solid foods (in smaller portions) sleep in beds (they need toddler beds avalible) still require a babysitter (babysitters should be both teens and elders, teens on nights and weekends, elders during the weekdays, since teens are in school) but are able to stay home alone with and visit lots with children.

[jeanamariex3]

I think child sims should also be able to live in a household without an adult present (under the care of a teen) if the teen and child is left orphaned and should be allowed to use the stove with supervision and help their parents prepare meals to improve cooking skills, and even get tips from their parents and older siblings with high enough cooking skills. (the household statement meaning if Michael and Bella were left orphaned, Bella should not be taken away by the social worker, or adopted by another family, she should be able to stay where she is, under the care of her brother Michael, as long as her social and hunger needs are high enough)

[pallyndrome]

There is a thread for future sim improvements here:

http://www.carls-sims-3-forum.com/index.php/topic,265.0.html

and I thought teens could already care for younger sims on their own? I think you can even make a household with no adults - just teens. Or am I really confused about that?

[RubyLovesSims]

And I thought teens could already care for younger sims on their own? I think you can even make a household with no adults - just teens. Or am I really confused about that?

Yes, they can. When in Create A Family, you must have adults, but you can move them out/kill them off, later as long as there is still a teen around.

[Pam]

Thanks for that link, Pally.  I'm merging this thread into the big one.

[Leto85]

There is a thread for future sim improvements here:

http://www.carls-sims-3-forum.com/index.php/topic,265.0.html

and I thought teens could already care for younger sims on their own? I think you can even make a household with no adults - just teens. Or am I really confused about that?

Hey, you've just succesfully placed a link on page 40 of the topic you where linking too.

But about your teen question, it is true that they can take care of children (although with less options than adults can do as far as I know) but I believe it was CC that made it possible for behaving as a stand alone parent. Therefore I can not continue that subject further.
Please know that you can't create a family with a teen on top. There must be at least one adult, eighter young adult or mature, in the family. Otherwise the game will ask you to create one.
Besides that: I saw that if you want your children sims to live with their grannies and you are planning to do that in CAS, you still need to create the parents also, otherwise you can't make grannie sims in the family tree be their true grannies.