Well, the English language did steal a bunch of French vocabulary....

And all the French names!

Thought about this.

Taking into account that mods exist for a lot of things (most of them I don't actually use, so...)

And that there are great custom content creators out there

I will settle for:

Less building restrictions (but then, nobody would ooh and aah about the magnificent builds by Zarathurstra and SimsArch (and some others too)

A stuff pack with nice clothing for elders - but then, they are catered for by amazing custom content creators

More things to do in vacation hoods - Now, that would be nice.
The surf mod is cool, though. And if you add a number of simple community lots, like restaurants, clubs, a swimming pool, an art gallery, a skating rink - things often found in local vacation towns here - it gives sims who are too busy to go out often a chance to have some other experiences.
I would like them to be able to fish in the ocean without the object mod - half of the fun fishing is asking others to join after all.

I like fishing with friends, as long as I don't catch anything.
Once I did catch a fish and I panicked immediately. The fish went back to the sea and I went to a tavern to recuperate.

Fine, the tavern is fun too

TS4 doesn't even have cars.

Those boats are brilliant, thanks. If someone can make it so more than one sim can go boating and make it so they can stop anywhere to just sit and talk, then it would be perfect.

"Stuff" like CAS content and plain furniture without any new features can easily be done through CC, so when it comes to what a team working on the game should be adding, I'm always thinking in the direction of how to add new features, new animations, new coding, new possibilities into the game.

There's plenty of "stuff" if you go looking. There's not as many new features, because there's less to work with.

I'd love some sort of "Features" pack where it added a bunch of entirely new things (that modders and CC-makers could build on to make even more fun stuff). I don't care if it wasn't even themed, just filled with good and useful semi-random items.

A lot of these exist as modded items already, but if their animations/coding were integrated into the game, they could probably be more expanded on than they currently can, and the functionality would be much better - usable kitchen appliances (waffle irons, ice cream machines, etc.), travel equipment (boats, bikes, car seats, baby carriers, etc.), horses and other animals (riding, farm animals, birds outside cages, various small animals outside, etc.), Bunk beds, toddler beds, more things to do with toddlers/infants, more activities and toys/outside toys for kids, more toys (in general) with different functionality... and so on. The list is long.

(I actually do like a lot of the features TS3 and TS4 has to offer - the ideas, anyway. The execution of the ideas, not always as much. Mostly down to repetitiveness and lazy handling, especially when the packs pile up, the updates break, and the spaghetti-tower code goes bonkers).

Hmm. Dream Expansion . . .

A Rural Living Expansion, like the Apartment Life Expansion and Downtown Expansion together make for city living.

Yes, we have modders who have made ridable horses and milkable cows and hunting and wild berries and canning and . . . you know, ordinary life stuff, and we can put together the equivalent in custom content and mods, more or less. But that would've been an excellent expansion pack, with all the animations and everything. They could have had a Fair, where Sims could enter competitions and go on rides and eat at new food stands and buy souvenirs, for a new kind of subhood for the pack. It could draw on the Seasons gardens and the Freetime crafts.

(Yes, I probably should be picking sour cherries and chokecherries, but I'm also baking granola and bread, so that's my excuse for playing with the computer midday, and also it's hot out, and I'd rather pick in two hours when it's cooler)

Earlier today I was thinking of another mini-exp "Sims 2: Up to Code", which would be a buildmode exp. New types of walls! Want your sim to live in a run-down shack? Use this special wall tool to build barely-there walls (that look like boards haphazardly nailed together) and a roof that looks like it could collapse at any second! Maybe have a roof-type that has holes in it (not cosmetic) that you can click on to have your sim "Patch Holes" on and that, unless you do, you WILL get rain/snow falling through.

I know someone did it years ago, but another wall tool that is just the wall studs, to make an easier time of planning new rooms, as well as one for historical builds that is the narrow shiplap walls (the ones with no insulation, the kind you see in historic homes), that behave like attic walls, i.e. hot in summer, cold in winter, making the need for fireplaces/heaters/air conditioners NECESSARY.

New foundation tools: various heights, allow for those grand staircases and multi-level/split-level homes to be built

Different depths of pools, so that simple courtyard water features don't have to be built with the one-size-fits-all pool tool

New futuristic wall tools, ones that reduce bills because they're heating/cooling efficient to the nth degree

Perhaps, since the wall tools we have now seem to have wiring and pipes, perhaps in homes built with the shack and shiplap wall tools, there could also be piping and wiring you have to put on the lot that are functional? (And make the ventilation pieces we got in...AL? functional, too)

A dream expansion pack?

I'd be overly pleased if they did a full "Sims Medieval" style one for Sims 2-while there are many tons of CC for those who play medieval style neighborhoods, it's a hit or miss with the CC. It's taken me literal years to fill out my medieval game, and while I think it's perfect the way I made it, I think it would be a great way to fill out what what I think is lacking.

It's a shame they never expanded Sims Medieval beyond the base game. It could have been another entire full blown series. Another opportunity lost by greed and lack of vision by EA:

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sims_Medieval

Thankfully the CC makers have not wasted that opportunity.

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Hey, watch it with that stuff!

My maiden name was LaChaussee (which means "the roadway" or "first floor".)

And in case you're wondering, it IS in French dictionaries, plus there are a few towns named "LaChaussee" in France.

Yes, I have visited one of them.

But as one of my aunts cracked, (much to my father's stern exasperation), "We're descended from streetwalkers!"

Ooh, I''d like a medieval pack too, or perhaps a story type spin off (like Sims 3 Medieval).


Most of the old Anglo-Saxon names are pretty much gone in England now, otherwise we'd all be called Aethelred or AEthelhild or Berhtswith or Wulfstan. We have a few remaining in use (Oswald, Edmund, Edith, Hilda and so on) but common names today date from after 1066, the Norman Invasion. After that time, we had surnames as well as a given name, which were influenced by Norman nobility (Germanic) or celtic names from Brittany. So we had Geoffrey, Richard, Roger, William; and feminine versions of male names such as Paula and Patricia.
My first name is from a place in France, and a friend of mine from this site took some pictures of town signs with that name on them. So perhaps it became popular when a Lord from that region (who would have had "of {town name}" as their surname) owned some land upon which some English peasants had a baby, and they named it after that place to pay hommage to their Lord and show him what nice people they were, and please don't evict us!

I find it really fascinating how English names evolved through the ages; since the Romans arrived, we were really changed culturally so many times, and genetically changed too. And before history, there was the evidence of the Bell Beaker phenomenon which wiped out around 90% of Britain's gene pool. So Britain really is a melting pot!

They did have Pirates and Nobles, but I guess that didn't do well and they decided not to make another expansion.

Superstar for sure! Modelling, Acting Career, Celebrities, Singers! How fun it would've been! Especially since they had it as concept in early stages and the "Fame" Aspiration!

https://youtu.be/Z_gpDeSgkZY?t=46

I guess they replaced Fame with Popularity.

I would love for EA to release the sole magic EP!!! Unfortunately this feature got mashed with apartment life and got kind of undershadowed from apartment features...