Just want to point out first: Please no negativity in this thread. It is just to share our lovely ideas and dreams! You can never dream too big anyway ![<3]( "<3")
[LONG THREAD + PICS] I will type further on other days, cause I can't manage to type it all and I will probably get new ideas![:p]( ":p")
I got some ideas that I would seriously love to see in The sims 5. I have been thinking about it a lot lately and I am getting pretty excited about new chances to create a great game with an amazing base. I always loved the jump from TS1 to the TS2 and I would very much like to get this feeling back the first time I will open The sims 5. Let's therefore start with the:
-soudtrack!-
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I think it would be amazing if they brought back this song first when you open the game. Maybe slightly with some new sounds, but to be honest.. I would prefer the original song. I think it's the best song in the history of The sims!
-Background stories-
One thing I loved was the all the exciting new things to see and read whenever you came to the neighbourhood. It shouldn't be boring and app-like. It should feel like already a thousand possibilities when you open the game. Not confusing, but it should be like you are entering in a real world, with characteristic sims and their (background)stories. Worlds need to stay connected like how we have now in TS4. That was a good change. And of course the ability to choose from different type of worlds with different sims and background stories in it. Also some mysteries would be nice to figure out when you choose to play, interact and ask townies about it. Could be love affairs that you will discover if you befriend certain sims or any kind of dramatic stories. It felt very lazy to me that they took this all out in TS4. It made a pretty bad start when you opened the game and saw 0 life a.ka stories in the world.
-Neighbourhood houses-
I always missed to see these type of houses in the game:
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It makes the neighbourhood more alive instead of living separate on a lot. I also think we should get the opportunity on EVERY lot to rent or either buy it. It should not be restricted to certain buildings or worlds only.
When you live in these row houses, you will also hear more sounds from your neighbours as in apartments in TS4. It would be cool to have many different type of houses like this. You have the cheaper looking ones in a row, but also the fancy or modern looking ones. The world will have districts and similar style houses in that area. It will make it easy for us to decide where to live and what type of houses to build there. Of course we should be able to demolish everything and build whatever we want there. Maybe we could give traits to each district so only certain type of sims (which will be NPC's. We can decide for ourselves with our own Sims) would come and live there. No rich snobby sim wants to get a poor, slobby and asocial neighbour right? It will also improve storytelling more and NPC's won't just randomly move in if they can't afford the neighbourhood or have certain personality traits.
Households should fit in their homes too. Bedrooms will be counted and random NPC household would never move in a house that has too less bedrooms. It's a pretty annoying thing we have now in our game.
Another type of row houses I would like to see are these:
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Maybe for a more fancy neighbourhood?
I think there should be empty buildings or stores under these type of houses available:
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So sims can buy or rent the space and open a business. This way, sims can live above their own store or just go to work right across the street. This idea makes me so excited! Endless possibilities is what i need to feel! Some spaces will already be rented by sims in the neighbourhood or just commutiy lots such as cafes, small newspaper/magazine/drug store stores, 24/7 markets where sims can get late night snacks etc. I will go further into this in 'neighbourhoods community lots'.
households should be able to rent more than just 1 place. Not just for multiple businesses, but also as a second or third home. Maybe for their kids or as a holiday/summer house in another world/district.
-Neighbourhood activity-
An open world would be amazing to get back. I might be able to accept open districts. Not like what we have now, but where ALL the lots in the district are open, so we can at least visit the cafe on the corner of the street or visit a neighbours house. The houses don't have to be actively loaded inside, but at least sims and neighbours should come out sometimes to work in their garden/balcony, clean out the trash, check the mail, if they have kids, they should play in their yard. We need a more vibrant neighbourhood. That has always been killing me from the beginning.
When the weather is nice, sims would play or work outside more, or maybe even just sit on their porch with a drink or magazine/newspaper.
Sims will go more outside and enjoy their garden more when the weather is good. Sims with a nosy trait will always come and visit you when you arrived new in your neighbourhood. As well as knock on your door whenever there is a fight or a party going on.
You should be able to see sims go off to their job/school and do their daily tasks which should also make sense.
Cars should be in the game from the base game and in neighbourhoods like these with houses in a row, there should be parking spots all over the district in front of the houses as shown in the pictures. Sims will park at the nearest open parking spot near the lot they are heading to.
In general, per district, all the houses should have sims go in and out, community lots should be open to visit without a loading screen. Sims will visit these lots and be active on them without you being there. The neighbourhood will be alive! Sims will be walking/biking/jogging/driving all around the neighbourhood just as what we have now in TS4.
A district would contain min. 10 lots. Houses in a row count as 1 lot just as apartments do now even when they have 4 apartments in them. There is no loading screen within the district. It doesn't matter what type of lot you visit. We will need plenty of empty lots too as well as empty under house spaces to rent as a store/office etc.
-Neighbourhood community lots-
Talking about offices. How long have we been asking for the career lawyer? Imagine you could rent an office space and just practise your hobby/open job and get money out of that. As in now, when we have the painting, writing, gardening, social media career. We could have more like that and just rent a space if you need a place of your own, set it up how you like and work from there. It is of course not needed, but some jobs require that extra space that you might not have at home. Think about an art studio or you can also do it for other reasons; to escape the kids, your spouse or whatever![:p]( ":p")
I see a lot of creative ideas coming with this one. You can rent any space and do whatever you desire with it job-wise. With this idea, we will need a lot of open jobs to vary different type of office/studio spaces and not just stores/restaurants/cafe of bakeries. I will go into this subject more on the 'jobs and careers'.
The type of lots I would love to see in a district are those easy lots where sims can just blow off some steam, pick up a thing or two, meet with their friends or just hang and do some time. Such things as a coffeebar to just simply grab a coffee in the morning before going off to work. Without the loading screens, you are more likely to do this and your stories will expand itself by all these possibilities. A local bar, book store (sims can come and do their homework here as well), playground for kids, stores (we need shopping back! Also clothing shopping), drugstore that also sells magazines/newspaper, a 24/7 market that stays open all day and night for sims to buy some plum late night snacks at, regular market for the groceries, a garage for when the car broke down. And the rest can be filled with any type of store you like. With 10 lots this should be doable. If the houses in a row contain out of 5 houses and let's say 3 have stores under them: 2 can be filled already with some on these lists. Like this we just spend 1 lot out of 10. If the sims 3 could manage to load like a 100 lots at the same time, this should work too. And houses won't be loaded on the inside unless you knock the door and the sims are home and let you in. Without the houses being fully loaded, it should be easier.
Not all stores or houses have to be in a row ofcourse, just some parts of a district. Stores, community lots or office spaces could also just be a seperate lot. You can build the town however you like anyway and just choose the lot type when you build.
Ok! that's it for today. Share some of you ideas if you like. Don't forget to incl. pictures and detailed explanation. Let's hope for a great Sims 5 game!
[LONG THREAD + PICS] I will type further on other days, cause I can't manage to type it all and I will probably get new ideas
I got some ideas that I would seriously love to see in The sims 5. I have been thinking about it a lot lately and I am getting pretty excited about new chances to create a great game with an amazing base. I always loved the jump from TS1 to the TS2 and I would very much like to get this feeling back the first time I will open The sims 5. Let's therefore start with the:
-soudtrack!-
I think it would be amazing if they brought back this song first when you open the game. Maybe slightly with some new sounds, but to be honest.. I would prefer the original song. I think it's the best song in the history of The sims!
-Background stories-
One thing I loved was the all the exciting new things to see and read whenever you came to the neighbourhood. It shouldn't be boring and app-like. It should feel like already a thousand possibilities when you open the game. Not confusing, but it should be like you are entering in a real world, with characteristic sims and their (background)stories. Worlds need to stay connected like how we have now in TS4. That was a good change. And of course the ability to choose from different type of worlds with different sims and background stories in it. Also some mysteries would be nice to figure out when you choose to play, interact and ask townies about it. Could be love affairs that you will discover if you befriend certain sims or any kind of dramatic stories. It felt very lazy to me that they took this all out in TS4. It made a pretty bad start when you opened the game and saw 0 life a.ka stories in the world.
-Neighbourhood houses-
I always missed to see these type of houses in the game:
It makes the neighbourhood more alive instead of living separate on a lot. I also think we should get the opportunity on EVERY lot to rent or either buy it. It should not be restricted to certain buildings or worlds only.
When you live in these row houses, you will also hear more sounds from your neighbours as in apartments in TS4. It would be cool to have many different type of houses like this. You have the cheaper looking ones in a row, but also the fancy or modern looking ones. The world will have districts and similar style houses in that area. It will make it easy for us to decide where to live and what type of houses to build there. Of course we should be able to demolish everything and build whatever we want there. Maybe we could give traits to each district so only certain type of sims (which will be NPC's. We can decide for ourselves with our own Sims) would come and live there. No rich snobby sim wants to get a poor, slobby and asocial neighbour right? It will also improve storytelling more and NPC's won't just randomly move in if they can't afford the neighbourhood or have certain personality traits.
Households should fit in their homes too. Bedrooms will be counted and random NPC household would never move in a house that has too less bedrooms. It's a pretty annoying thing we have now in our game.
Another type of row houses I would like to see are these:
Maybe for a more fancy neighbourhood?
I think there should be empty buildings or stores under these type of houses available:
So sims can buy or rent the space and open a business. This way, sims can live above their own store or just go to work right across the street. This idea makes me so excited! Endless possibilities is what i need to feel! Some spaces will already be rented by sims in the neighbourhood or just commutiy lots such as cafes, small newspaper/magazine/drug store stores, 24/7 markets where sims can get late night snacks etc. I will go further into this in 'neighbourhoods community lots'.
households should be able to rent more than just 1 place. Not just for multiple businesses, but also as a second or third home. Maybe for their kids or as a holiday/summer house in another world/district.
-Neighbourhood activity-
An open world would be amazing to get back. I might be able to accept open districts. Not like what we have now, but where ALL the lots in the district are open, so we can at least visit the cafe on the corner of the street or visit a neighbours house. The houses don't have to be actively loaded inside, but at least sims and neighbours should come out sometimes to work in their garden/balcony, clean out the trash, check the mail, if they have kids, they should play in their yard. We need a more vibrant neighbourhood. That has always been killing me from the beginning.
When the weather is nice, sims would play or work outside more, or maybe even just sit on their porch with a drink or magazine/newspaper.
Sims will go more outside and enjoy their garden more when the weather is good. Sims with a nosy trait will always come and visit you when you arrived new in your neighbourhood. As well as knock on your door whenever there is a fight or a party going on.
You should be able to see sims go off to their job/school and do their daily tasks which should also make sense.
Cars should be in the game from the base game and in neighbourhoods like these with houses in a row, there should be parking spots all over the district in front of the houses as shown in the pictures. Sims will park at the nearest open parking spot near the lot they are heading to.
In general, per district, all the houses should have sims go in and out, community lots should be open to visit without a loading screen. Sims will visit these lots and be active on them without you being there. The neighbourhood will be alive! Sims will be walking/biking/jogging/driving all around the neighbourhood just as what we have now in TS4.
A district would contain min. 10 lots. Houses in a row count as 1 lot just as apartments do now even when they have 4 apartments in them. There is no loading screen within the district. It doesn't matter what type of lot you visit. We will need plenty of empty lots too as well as empty under house spaces to rent as a store/office etc.
-Neighbourhood community lots-
Talking about offices. How long have we been asking for the career lawyer? Imagine you could rent an office space and just practise your hobby/open job and get money out of that. As in now, when we have the painting, writing, gardening, social media career. We could have more like that and just rent a space if you need a place of your own, set it up how you like and work from there. It is of course not needed, but some jobs require that extra space that you might not have at home. Think about an art studio or you can also do it for other reasons; to escape the kids, your spouse or whatever
I see a lot of creative ideas coming with this one. You can rent any space and do whatever you desire with it job-wise. With this idea, we will need a lot of open jobs to vary different type of office/studio spaces and not just stores/restaurants/cafe of bakeries. I will go into this subject more on the 'jobs and careers'.The type of lots I would love to see in a district are those easy lots where sims can just blow off some steam, pick up a thing or two, meet with their friends or just hang and do some time. Such things as a coffeebar to just simply grab a coffee in the morning before going off to work. Without the loading screens, you are more likely to do this and your stories will expand itself by all these possibilities. A local bar, book store (sims can come and do their homework here as well), playground for kids, stores (we need shopping back! Also clothing shopping), drugstore that also sells magazines/newspaper, a 24/7 market that stays open all day and night for sims to buy some plum late night snacks at, regular market for the groceries, a garage for when the car broke down. And the rest can be filled with any type of store you like. With 10 lots this should be doable. If the houses in a row contain out of 5 houses and let's say 3 have stores under them: 2 can be filled already with some on these lists. Like this we just spend 1 lot out of 10. If the sims 3 could manage to load like a 100 lots at the same time, this should work too. And houses won't be loaded on the inside unless you knock the door and the sims are home and let you in. Without the houses being fully loaded, it should be easier.
Not all stores or houses have to be in a row ofcourse, just some parts of a district. Stores, community lots or office spaces could also just be a seperate lot. You can build the town however you like anyway and just choose the lot type when you build.
Ok! that's it for today. Share some of you ideas if you like. Don't forget to incl. pictures and detailed explanation. Let's hope for a great Sims 5 game!
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