I don't see the point in making trillion little threads for expansion packs, so I'll make one for now and then another down the road later when this gets too big. I'll update the upcoming packs with key info here and a series of links below on this page for ease of access to past packs.

Who's ready to spend some money!?

Upcoming Pack(s):

Get Together

Description

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Expansion Packs:

March 2015 - Get to Work
December 2015 - Get Together

IT'S OFFICIAL! Let the games begin. This gonna be one hell of a roller coaster.

Is there a source on this 'work' expansion? I've seen nothing about this.

Check LB's thread on the second page there's a slowmo version of leaked video with english subtitles.

This pack is similar to:
Open For Business
Ambitions
Into The Future
A Base Game

This world is similar to:
Bluewater Village

Gameplay:
-Sims can now be controlled while doing several everyday jobs.
-Doctors can examine and treat patients, perform surgery and deliver babies.
-Detectives can give tickets, investigate crime scenes, interrogate Sims and arrest criminals.
-A Scientist can collect unique specimens and create crazy inventions.
-Aliens can be sought out and an Alien dimension can be discovered.
-Sims can now own and operate retail businesses, opening up the opportunity for new and unique shops.
-Sims can create custom clothing to sell to others at a boutique.

-Doctors can make house calls.

-Sims can learn photography.
-Sims can learn baking.

*Sims can now dine outside of home
*Sims can knit scarves, and maybe create other garments.
*Sims can customize employee outfits.
*Sims can get sick, and contract illness from other Sims. Medicine can be orders from home.
*Sims can give birth at the hospital lot.

Create-a-Sim:
Male:

Female:

Aspiration

Traits:

Buy:
-Simple Metal Bed
-Simple Arm Chair
-Leather Arm Chair
-Contemporary Armless Chair
-Curved Armless Chair
-Circular Contemporary Chair
-Leather Bar Stool
-Simple Metal Desk Chair
-Simple Rolling Desk Chair
-Plastic Rolling Desk Chair
-Curved Sofa
-Bench
-Simple Couch
-Simple Metal Ottoman Bench

-Counter Island
-Designer Dining Table (??)
-Simple Metal Side Table
-Contemporary Side Table
-Designer Side Table
-Tech End Table
-Simple End Table
-Industrial End Table
-Contemporary Coffee Table
-Designer Coffee Table, Wide
-Designer Coffee Table, Thin
-Rolling End Table
-Simple Desk
-Metal Desk
-Work Desk
-Designer Desk
-Tech Desk
-File Cabinet, Large
-File Cabinet, Small
-File Cabinet, Very Small
-Industrial Shelf
-Wide Industrial Shelf
-Shelf
-Industrial Shelving
-Shop Pedestal - Tall, Thin
-Shop Pedestal - Tall, Wide
-Shop Pedestal - Short, Thin
-Shop Pedestal - Short, Wide
-Shop Pedestal - Not-So-Short, Wide
-Shop Pedestal - Not-So-Short A-Base, Wide
-Shop Pedestal - Stepped
-Shop Pedestal - Display Case
-Shop Pedestal - Glass Shelf, Straight
-Shop Pedestal - Glass Shelf, Corner
-Aquatic Display Case (??)

-Fountain Pedestal Sink
-Industrial Toilet
-Industrial Shower

-Chemical Analyzer
-Chemistry Table
-Cheap Camera
-Moderate Camera
-Expensive Camera
-Photography Studio
-Prison Door - Normal, Tall, Very Tall
-Prison Bars - Normal, Tall, Very Tall
-Mannequin Adult - Male
-Mannequin Adult - Female
-Mannequin Child - Male
-Mannequin Child - Female

-Wall Plant
-Floor Plant
-Large Urban Planter

-Calender
-Large Cartoon Wall Stickers
-A Collection of advertisement posters for various things
-Plumbob Artwork
-Wall File Rack
-Hanging Wall Sign
-Soap Dispenser
-Fire Extinguisher Case
-Paper Tower Dispenser
-Wall Guard
-Exit Sign
-Eye Chart
-College Degree I
-College Degree II
-Award Plaque
-Wall Art
-Plaque of Names
-X-Ray Chart
-Police Emblem
-Mirror

-Modern Lamp
-Traditional Desk Lamp
-Surgical Floor Lamp
-Designer Ceiling Lamp
-Simple Ceiling Lamp
-Industrial Ceiling Lamp
-Wide Industrial Ceiling Lamp
-Ceiling Lamp
-Gallery Track Lighting
-Contemporary Ceiling Lamp
-Industrial Caged Wall Lamp
-Security Wall Lamp
-Cheap Wall Bulb Lamp
-Designer Lamp
-Industrial Wall Lamp
-Vanity Mirror Lamp
-European Lamp

Build:
-Wall Pattern

-Floor Pattern I
-Floor Pattern II
-Floor Pattern III
-Floor Pattern IV
-Floor Pattern V

-Industrial Single Door
-Industrial Double Door
-High Security Door
-Simple Shop Door
-Double Doors
-European Shop Door
-European Shop Double Door
-Tall Faded Hospital Double Door
-Tall Fade Police Station Double Door
-Tall Ornate Double Door

-Industrial Privacy Window
-European Privacy Window
-Simple Arched Window
-Two-Way Window
-Faded Police Station Window, Short
-Tall Ornate Window
-Tall European Shop Window, Thin
-Tall European Shop Window, Wide
-Tall European Shop Window, Very Wide
-Tall Faded Police Station Window, Tall
-Tall Faded Hospital Window

-Trim Fencing
-Queue Fencing
-Industrial Fencing + Stair Railing
-Chain Link Fence + Gate
-Security Fencing + Gate

-Simple Column
-European Column
-Industrial Column

-Plant I
-Plant II

How do we know it will be control in the sense you can control them at home, rather than modes like the TS3 career rabbitholes plus a series of opportunity popups?

Was hoping for an EP to flesh out families but this is netherless a step in the right direction. It's about bloody time we got businesses back but i'm still skeptical of its implementation, especially after whatever that train wreck was in the Sims 3 store. It better be like the Sims 2.

We don't, but we have no reason to have a hospital or police station otherwise.

I'm not really a Sims entrepeneur, but I would fully support more options and venues in the public places.

AFAIK the rumors are based on these:
* The (in)famous survey (But keep in mind that half the survey stuff for Sims 3 never made it, even to the store) : http://www.simsglobe.com/2014/10/si...n-packs-survey/. Specially: 1/ Active Careers 2/ Business Owner
* The guru tweet: http://simsvip.com/wp-content/uploa.../12/tweet-1.png which corresponds to the description of the active career of scientist in the survey
* The new pic of Sims Brasil - now well known to leak upcoming imminent announcements. i.e. all their leaks were true, IIRC. Leak shown here: http://simsvip.com/2015/02/03/the-s...olicemen-hints/ The pic shows a sim cop, a hospital patient, donuts and diplomas on the wall.

I would be thrilled with this EP if I weren't so disappointed about it not being a family-oriented type of pack that would add back toddlers. OFB was my second favorite Sims 2 EP (Seasons was my favorite) so I'm happy to see a similar EP for TS4, but I just feel like toddlers should be a higher priority at this point. Unless they're planning on adding toddlers in a GP instead of an EP. Then I'm fine with this being the first EP.

We had a hospital and medical career in TS3, and we could tell our medical sims how to work while inside *in general terms* and they also had some stuff they could do outside the hospital. Same applied to police station. So there is no particular reason to believe we can actually go into those buildings and see sims working in a police station or hospital in TS4

It's looking good. I would rather to see the base game expanded upon its own features, but this is fine too.

I really don't care about going to work but the "open for business" bit interested me a lot. The trailer shows a bakery, an electronic store, a clothing store and a toy store.

I wonder if they are all staged or if they are actually functional! Would love to be able to shop again with proper people working in there! Not here for TS3 mechanics though.

Tbh, the fact that it mixes those two EPs make me believe that it's a bad sign for the OFB mechanics they are going to use...

The trailer released earlier suggests that we can go inside of these buildings and work in them. Unless they completely staged the interiors (which will cause a Massive outrage on release...) then you can go inside of these buildings.

Now, to what extent we can go inside. Is it like you say, you get an opportunity and that is only when you can go inside. Could be, we really don't know much of it yet outside of what the trailer revealed.

Was that your disagree up there or does someone else want to argue the point? :D

There are some Sims being treated with medical equipment, and being patted down/locked up at the police station (we'll not speak of the "gameplay" we saw at the boutique - looked more like talking if anything) - that suggests that there is gameplay to be had at these places. Lots of medical equipement being thrown about and I imagine we'll watch a mother give birth behind a giant blur.

The science career, I don't know what's happening there.

Hey it has 3 disagrees! I did disagree with it only because the video suggests that we can go to work and do stuff there. To what depth though...I mean that's a good point that will only be answered with more information.

I mean maybe it is a rabbit hole that can only be accessed at certain times and once or twice a week a pop-up comes up that says...

"Your sim has a surgery to perform! Would you like to go perform this surgery?"
"Your sim has an interrogation to perform! Would you like to go?"

etc etc

Or maybe they are fully functioning buildings with loads of gameplay opportunities.

Well mentioning a disagree is a sure recipe for attracting others, but if someone has seen screenplay of a sim IN a hospital doing stuff, then I can't argue. I mean we totally had TS2 toddlers spinning round from ceiling fans, like in the screenshots, didn't we?

This is a gameplay trailers. Things are often presented in a way to make the presentation more so than what it is, but when you break down the elements, it's clear that there's gameplay available for Sims who work in hospitals (like a giant surgical machine and a Sim sitting on one of those medical beds - not to mention Sims with various illnesses), etc.

All we need to know how connected it all is and how it's all tied together, but I don't doubt an open hospital in an expansion pack about working.

The hospital should be easy enough. What I'm curious about his how this new legal system is gonna work. Especially jails. That worked fine as a Rabbit hole in TS3 but I can't imagine how it'll be now.

At least we can say there has never been a sims game without a jail. Fortunately this time I won't have to make it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinBmBen2Iw

The video is back up it looks like and in english.

Loved this comment:

"uhmm how am i supposed to start a business when they're no more vacant lots to build it on !"

XD

Did you get the official page announcement, Matrix?
http://www.thesims.com/en_GB/news/get-to-work

Probably a hub town like Bluewater Village from OFB.