I'd like to see the Sims 1 style wall hider. Currently, if your walls are between up and down: the interior walls go down and the exterior walls stay up (when possible):



In Sims 1, this was also the case, however, if you put walls up, then moved them down a notch, only those walls which you hovered over would go down. This allowed you to view the interior walls without having all walls up.
For example:
In Sims 3 that bathroom wall would go down, hiding any lights, paintings, or other decor that were on it.

This right here. I truly missed how much harder it was to make a romantic relationship work in Sims 2. Now it's harder for a woohoo than getting their relationship to the romantic point.

Ok if it's combined with farming then I can deal with Pets being a separate EP. Admittedly, I rarely played around with Pets in TS3. The most my sims have are snakes, birds, and rodents that they find in the wild (and I'll give EA credit for that because that was a REALLY good idea).

I gave up on dogs after my sim with 5 pit bulls experienced a break-in and the dogs literally did nothing despite me telling them to guard the house a few minutes earlier. Thank God for ass kicking skeleton maids or that burglar would have gotten away with some expensive stuff.

I'm not even a cat person IRL so I don't have many in my game. I think I've only made a cat in CAS once

Horses are out of place in every family/lot I play with. And packs of wild horses like to stalk my sims at night.

I say we go back to TS1 days where if we wanted pets, we rounded up four or five neighbors and trapped them in a fence until they all starved to death in a puddle of their own urine :P

What I want is Seasons/Weather to be a base-game feature. I know, I know, EA wants the money. But it's a feature that is just as natural as aging and day/night cycle. You don't see people claiming that those should be Expansion Pack features. (On the other hand, lets not give EA any ideas). If it can't be a feature we get with the base-game, it needs to be released in an Expansion Pack IMMEDIATELY. Like perhaps even they day the game is released. If you're going to make me pay extra for it, at least don't make me wait three years again.

Otherwise, I want height sliders and perhaps gradual aging. Those two seem like the big steps up from The Sims 3. And I want open restaurants and stores to make a return. The Sims 3 never getting those is a major mark against it, in my books.

A minor want but if my Sims have a car then we don't need the carpool to work/school. TS2 got rid of that simply by having your sim claim ownership of a car. Why doesn't TS3 do that? I hate how my Sim is already at their job and the stupid carpool is still outside their house honking away on their horns.

I am so worried about build/buy mode. I REALLY hope they don't make too many changes to both those systems in favor of novices or something. As important as the novices are to the game, I wouldn't want the game to lose all of it's complexity in favor of those who don't want to spend a lot of time making homes. It's that nitty-gritty, meticulousness that builders love.

Of course, I encourage EA to do something with blueprint this time around, but I'd prefer if the rooms were either good looking or just blank shapes without any designs to them. Most of the blueprint in 3 look like there was little to no care put into them and they were thrown together for the sake of calling the tool done.

One of the things I realllllly want for the Sims 4.
Is to be able to change your sim's height!!

I mean, not EVERYONE is the same height.
We kind of need that, it'll add more to our sim's uniqueness.

Wants/Needs:

-Weather in base game (NO MORE SEASONS EXPANSIONS!)
-World editor in game. I HATE the CAW tool!
-No more built in store.
-Better graphics.
-Sims 1/2 style music. No more of that church music.
-Bring back real crumplebottom!
-Console port
-No required online
-Music organizer (be able to disable individual tracks like TS2!)
-Pets in base game (makes it more realistic)
-Cooler cheats
-Teen pregnancy (Yea yea, but its common now days)
-No more curfew!

Not if you have Twallan's Woohooer. You can have virtually anonymous woohoo late at night in the park if you want to, without all that romantic crap. I'm also a believer in my parks having unisex bathrooms equipped with showers, so my sims can get clean while getting dirty. Almost never have to shower at home again, ever.

Hypothetically, of course.

If the sim in question has a car in their inventory or has made a car on the lot their preferred vehicle then the carpool won't come and they are expected to make their own way to work. So we've got it already.

To everyone who hates rabbitholes:
I'm afraid I actually like them. An open restaurant would be good, but a rabbithole kitchen where the chefs work and rabbithole office building and rabbithole school are good for me. I spend all day working in an office - why do I want to watch sims doing the same thing? It would be really boring, and distract me from whatever the other members of the family are doing. So I'd like rabbitholes thanks.

Gradual aging and heights sliders please. Even if there are set values rather than a scale. (It is possible to animate interactions as you go so there aren't issues with height - my brother had a summer job at a company that did - though presumably the computing power required would restrict other stuff for the rest of the game. And maybe EA doesn't have that technology).

Also unequal relationships. Definitely needed.

I think it is reasonable to make Seasons and expansion pack, but weather should really be in the base game. Pets similarly is a reasonable expansion.

What I would really like to be able to do is play say a week with one family, save the progress and 'rewind' back to the beginning of the week to play with a different family - while the first family made all the progress I'd originally given them. But no doubt that's not something that could be done.

I probably won't get TS4 at once, even though my big objection - always online - doesn't seem to be happening. I've got a few games I'm playing with in TS3 and I don't really want to have to start all over again. Maybe in a while I'll move some of them over.

I really want the humor from TS1 and 2 back....the sims in TS3 seem kind of lifeless, even with the traits. Also, I liked how in TS2 the pre-made sims had drama and their own little stories already set up; ex. the Daniel/Mary Sue crumbling marriage, Cassandra getting left at the altar, Bella being missing, Nervous Subject's maybe being the Grim Reaper's son. It was so much FUN. I've enjoyed TS3, but it just seems bland in comparison to the other games.

Agreed! I miss having the option of setting up an entire story for the neighborhood in-game (like in Sims 2). It's hard to dive into and care for sims in a Sims 3 neighborhood because there's no story to read up on in-game. I hope they bring back the silly cartoony charm of previous Sims! Tragic Clown, random phone calls, chance cards, Unsavory Charlatans, hahah!

I made a big post about animations a few months back, and I imagine it will fit in here well. It's even more relevant now that TS4 Sims seem to look more like their TS2 counterparts!

Yes! The story and picture journal from ts2. I almost forgot about that. That and the memory system really brought the characters to life. I hope they bring that stuff back, but much more elegantly than ts3's attempt.

Well said Element! Also, as corny and repetitive as the cut-scenes in Sims2 may have been, I think they added a lot. Even though it was always the same animations and music, seeing it happen to different sims in different places was always exciting! It engulfed the player and made a big deal of big life moments. Little touches like that make these little virtual characters more real, more important, more fun to care for!

The sims 2 is and always will be the best life simulator. I totally agree about the "Stale" feel about TS3. Seriously, ts3 felt like a massive downgrade. Sure, it had better graphics. But imo, graphics dont make a game. Content does, and the sims 2 (with all expansions), is the best, and totally smashes TS1 and TS3 with a giant hammer.

Im hoping TS4 will be to TS3 what TS2 was to TS1.

I'm going to keep it to a concise list. Well, concise for me, at least.

• Real apartments like The Sims 2 in the base game.
• The option to buy or rent residential lots (and apply this feature to apartments, as well).
• Base game weather.
• Buy Mode and Build Mode search functions.
• Lot-to-lot edge snapping to allow for lots to touch. Also, corner snapping for corner lots.
• Coffee houses in the base game (and don't separate them as "coffee house" and "java hut").
• Variable wall height, to allow for things like attached garages to houses with foundations.
• Walk-out basements.
• No Store integration when you opt-out, and allow you to opt-out on the first run of the game
• World Builder tools integrated into the game itself (it doesn't have to be a complete suite, but something more fleshed out than what we got in The Sims 3 game).
• Two-way relationships, with short-term and long-term effects.
• The cell phone as an object that goes into the inventory, not as something that every Sim "just has."
• Employee-only doors for community lots

I think I covered most of it, but I know a good chunk of this stuff won't be in my favor.

Here some ideas to bring something new to TS4, in regards to animations, and adding more AI variety.

How about having Sims be able to move furniture? Like if as creators we don't satisfy the space that our Sims living in the home want, they will be able to move the furniture themselves to set it up the way they want. Sure, we can move the furniture back, but at least the Sims will have the option to change its positions.

This can also enrich any business experience, where a Sim visits a community lot to buy things. Sims can places the things in their home at will, rather than being a meaningless purchasing experience.

Oh, and laundry. Those clothes shouldn't be odour-free when our Sims stink from low hygiene.

Sims 2-style memories, where they remember things like marriage, divorce, etc, and not just getting invited to a party.

Also, I've said it before and I'll say it again: one-sided relationships.

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Another thing that would be good is the ability to control your sims whilst they work, like the Firefighter career.

The heart, soul and the humour that Maxis put in The Sims 2 - Maxis is also making The Sims 4 so im hoping that it will be good.
And I don't want 600 patches or routing problems.

the thing i would worry about is my computer, and the fps rate. i hope the fps capper isn't completely broken like it is in ts3. and i have no idea if i should go get a better graphics card this summer? in case i end up wanting to play it further down the road.

Traits like TS2 pets had where it's like, "Lazy, Neutral, Active," or, "Friendly, Neutral, Aggressive."

Less traits that basically do nothing; eg. the Daredevil trait

Maxis was merely a name change. That is all. Having Maxis "back" mean all of nothing. Even with a good track record for making things of quality, they can still suck. Disney isn't all hits, you know.