An EP that meets all of our baby/toddler/child needs. These 3 age groups are too limited. There is not enough to do with them during their time frame during this age group and we need to get EA to fix this. The only EP that really fixed the problems with these age groups was TS2: Freetime because of all it provided. These are all the ideas that I\'ve come up/ones that I\'ve seen on boards before.
\r\nBabies
\r\nStrollers, to allow elders, parents, and teens to push around babies/toddlers. Children can also push the cart with assistance from a teen or older. This can help bring the relationship up between child and whoever pushes it.
\r\nPlaymat: A little mat that babies lay on their backs and little toys dangle above them that they can bat and play with. They can sleep on it or play with it.
\r\nSwing: A baby swing that you sit the child in and they can play with toys that are in front of them. Child can also fall asleep in this or play with it.
\r\nBaby clothes: little one piece outfits that come in different colors and styles that can be selected when a teen/adult/elder customizes it at the dresser.
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Toddlers:
Toddlers can use the stroller, but they can now play in a gated play structure. All the toys and teddy bears and play tables can be placed inside and it\'s a little bit bigger than a playpen where children can play and relax. It keeps them out of the way but they can play and be safe.
\r\nNew interactions: Toddlers can also hug each other, talk to each other, share toys, and fight over toys.
\r\nNew community lots for toddlers/babies:
\r\nDaycare center: Parents/teens can drop off babies/toddlers off at this community lot (Rabbit hole). You pay a $200 daily fee where you can leave your child for up to 12 sim hours. The daycare center is open from 6 am to 9 pm at night. Anyone can pick them up/anyone can drop them off as long as they are a part of the family.
\r\nChildren:
\r\nChildren should be able to have the ability to have crushes (which comes with new interactions such as give peck on a cheek, and confess first crush to a friend/family member).
\r\nNew types of community lots:
\r\nTutoring Centers: Children with C or D grades can attend the tutoring center 2x a week to help them improve their grades. It\'s a $100 fee per time.
\r\nAfter school program: Children can go afterschool by bus to the after school program for $75 per day fee where they will be fed, assisted with homework, and provided a safe place to stay.
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New types of Jobs:
Working in the Daycare Center: skills include cooking and cleaning. You start off at the bottom as a Teacher\'s Aid, then assistant teacher, teacher, head teacher, site supervisor, district director, etc. They would go to the daycare center each day. They make low wages, and even at the top they only get a little bit of money. They get a discount on childcare for their children. Daycare centers only go up to toddlers, that\'s it.
\r\nTutor: a part time job where teens and above who have high logic skills can tutor children at the after school learning center.
\r\nAfter School Program: Children are transported from school straight to the program, they are kept from 3 pm to as late as 8 pm for a $75 fee per day needed. Teens/Adults/Elders who are charismatic can do it.
\r\nTeenagers
\r\nNew community Lots:
\r\nTeen club: A community lot where only teenagers can hang out, use electronics, and meet other teens for free at this one location. It has a restaurant area, gaming area.
\r\nMore job options like a tutor, working at the afterschool program, or in the teen club.
\r\nAdults
\r\nMore pregnancy options like when you go to the hospital, you can find out what gender the baby is, or how the pregnancy is going, home many kids are going to be born, etc.
\r\nBeing able to wed on a community lot, new wedding arches, new wedding cakes, new wedding dresses.
\r\nThe ability to have dates, something like a matchmaker that puts you together based on traits.
\r\nElders
\r\nNew community lots:
\r\nRetirement homes: Elders who are retired can come live in big house with private bedrooms and bathrooms. 7 elders and 1 adult live in this one house. It\'s considered a community lot because the one adult is a worker that is responsible for the cleaning, cooking, and maintainance of the house.
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New types of parties:
Anniversary Parties: Sim Couples who are married for at least 14 sim days can throw an anniversary party.
\r\nRetirement party: Sims who have worked on a job and want to retire can throw a retirement party with friends, family, and co-workers.
I never played TS1 but I have heard great things about it and I wanted to share some ideas about it.
\r\nBring back all the magical creatures from TS2:
\r\nPlant Sims: Green sims who have 3 life stages (toddler, teen, adult) and get all their energy and hunger needs met from being in the sunlight. They do not require sleep in a bed or regular food because they are plants. They naturally have the same 2 traits (Green Thumb and Loves the Outdoors) but the other ones are up to the simmer. Plant Sims are asexual so all they do to get pregnant is \"pollunate themselves\". They have a normal pregnancy except for the fact that they must be out in the sun for energy and hunger needs.
\r\nVampires: Sims with pale skin who bite others to turn them into bats. They have children by regular try for baby. They cannot go in the sun, sleep in a coffin, etc. They can purchase a magic potion from the magic store to allow them to temporarily go into the sun without being burnt or dying for up to 8 sim hours.
\r\nServo: can be built by handy sims or created by magical sims. They have the following traits: Natural Cook, Neat, workaholic, green thumb, and one trait may be selected by the simmer. Can be male or female, cannot reproduce, can marry.
\r\nWitches/Warlocks: Males and Females with magical powers who can control the behaviors of other sims, create foods, summon magical pets, create potions, and create servos. They can attend magic schools at nights, teaches them to fly on a plane, and how to create potions faster, etc.
\r\nWerewolves: Have to be bitten by a magical creature, turns them into a hairy monsters at night. They can be cured by a magical potion.
\r\nMagic School can teach special potions, special spells, how to fly, etc.
Well I never played TS1 but from what I\'ve heard, one of the best Expansion packs is Superstar. So I think that it should be remade with a bit of new element too.
\r\nNew items:
\r\nElevators (just like the ones from OFB from TS2) that can be put into the houses and community lots.
\r\nNew types of lots:
\r\nApartments:1 to 3 bedroom apartments where you pay weekly rent, get a roommate, and deal with the drama of neighbors (Like Apartment Life) New interactions like: Argue with neighbor over noise, bang on wall, place ad online for roommate, greet roommate, complain about late rent payments, seduce landlord, ask for extention on rent payment, You should also be able to be friends/romantic interests with the landlord and get a discount on your rent because of that. Apartments can be fancy (furnished, tons of space, lots of bedrooms) or plain (1bedroom, tiny, small, unfurnished, etc). Each apartment has a lobby, a community garden, community park, community garage, and community pool/bbq area. That way everyone can have some basic features at home.
\r\nTrailer Homes: Cheaper than an apartment, a bunch of little homes on wheels in a circle with up to 6 families living together. Same type of interactions like the Apartment except they\'ll all pretty much look the same in their decorations and stuff. Each trailer home area has community garden, community playground, community garage, and community bbq area for everyone to use.
\r\nCondos: Small 2 to 3 bedroom luxury homes with areas that overlook the beach (sea), a little more pricey than apartments but it\'s a place you own (not just pay rent) so there\'s no landlord or roommate options. C
\r\nStudios: 1 to 2 bedroom studios that are in a high apartment tower, you may be on one of many floors. Similar to the Apartments.
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2 new career tracks
\r\nStar: a new building with 10 levels. Slowly they come up from being an assistant for a star (which requires them to be on call even on days off) to be a star themselves. As they raise up the stardom, they gain new interactions such as fend off population, pose for paparazzi, sign autographs, throw raving party. They can make endless amounts of money because they can go around having press conferences, going to celebrity parties, throwing celebrity parties, signing autographs, etc.
\r\nPaparazzi: also a new building with 10 levels. Slowly a sim makes their way up from a flunkie (who runs around outside taking random photos of celebrities outside in town, to owner of a celebrity expose website (something like the owner of TMZ or Celebrity Enquire). They make a lot of money, but can make more and move up the career ladder by taking more photos of celebrities. New interactions like crash a celebrity party, snap photo of celebrity, stalk celebrity, visit a celebrity\'s house, etc.
Now that the Sims 3 Ambitions is a possibility, I have a few ideas to add onto it since it\'s suppose to be about careers and stuff.
\r\nNew types of schools (For Young Adults only)
\r\nMedical School (cost $10,000)
Gives Young Adults who are either in the Medical field or want to be, a chance to get a boost in skills and friends for the medical career. You can attend day or night classes at the medical school or online classes.
Law School (cost $10,000)
Gives Young Adults who are in the law enforcement field or want to be, can attend the school for a chance to boost skills and friends for the law school. You can attend day or night classes at the law school or online classes.
Medical and Law Schools are new community lots. Day classes are offered from 10 am to 1 pm, 1 pm to 4 pm, 4 pm to 7 pm, 7 pm to 10 pm. You can go everly couple of hours and you must attend at least 2 days a week.
\r\nOnline classes have to be done three times a week online for 2 hour periods.
\r\nGraduation option is available for online and day/night classes after 8 days (day/night classes) or 9 days of classes (for online classes). Grads are able to now get a 2-3 job level boost, relationships with the bosses for each level on the medical field, and the skills for all of field.
\r\nNew interaction: Sims who graduate from Medical school can provide medical or diagnose symptoms of sims. Also you can call in sick, play hooky, call child(ren) in sick. Parents can call in their children sick from school. Teens can \"play hooky\" by calling school pretending to be their parents saying they\'re sick.
\r\nNew sicknesses:
\r\nCold: Can be contracted from school/work, sick sims, or from bad food, sick for 3-5 days. Medicine can be purchased from hospital or from sims who graduated from medical school. Low energy, low hygiene, possible cough, hunger decays slower.
Flu: Can be contracted from school/work, sick sims, or from bad food, sick for 2-3 days. Medicine can be purchased from hospital or from sims who graduated from medical school. Vomiting, low energy, cough, hunger decays slower, possible cough.
Stomach Bug: contracted from bad food/spoiled food and lasts for 24 hours. Vomiting, low energy, and hunger decays slower.
Cough: Usually come: s with cold or flu, can last up to a week (even after cold/flu is over), gives sim a low hygiene, low energy.
Seduce landlord, beg for extension on rent, pay rent, place ad for roommate, throw baby shower, call wedding planner, tell child to clean room, give allowance, tell child to do chores, plan honeymoon (Simmers that have World Adventures can throw a honeymoon that starts after the wedding).
Dealing with the different types of relationships:
Allowances: child and teen children can receive allowances (no longer can they use the family funds) which can be given by the parents for doing chores. As teens/children keep their room clean, get good grades, do homework, and do chores, they can get a weekly or daily allowance.
A popup should come up allowing a sim parent to choose the chores for each child, set the date they must be done with, and come up with the allowance that they\'ll pay for the chores being completed on time. The popup will also allow you to decide if they pay at all for chores/homework/grades or not.
Child Support: If a child lives with one parent, and not both, then the parent that does have the child pays a percent of their daily wages (only the days they work) to the parent that is housing the child. If the sims are retired, then half of what is on the paying scale of the retirement wages are paid.
Paying Scale: Example of Simmy sim who earns 2080 retired and 9360 working full time
Babies 3% of working sim\'s wages, and 1.5% of retired and part time working sims so working wage: $280, retired wage: $31
Toddlers 7% of working sim\'s wage and 3.5% of retired/part time: working wage: $656, and retired wage: $73
Children: 7% of working sim\'s wage and 3.5% retired/part time: $656 for working wage, $73 for retired
Teens: 3% of working sim\'s wage and 1.5% of retired/part time:
$280 for working wages, $31 of part time wage.
Children get the most and teens get the least. The reason why babies and teens are the least expensive is because they are both ages where they don\'t need a lot. All babies need are a crib, and because mothers have maternity leave, they do not need money for babysitters. Teens can work, and do not require a babysitter either so they get low wages. Children and toddlers get the most because they do require a babysitter, new bed, new toys, and they start having wishes and stuff which can become expensive. Child support ends after the teen has their birthday and becomes an adult.
Child support only affects sims with jobs (unemployed sims, or sims who make money thru selling paintings or writing novels, will not be affected). Child support bills will be paid weekly if a sim chooses to pay that bill. IF a sim does not pay the bill they will suffer consequences. One example of consequences is not receiving any new opportunites (for work or skills) until child support is paid.
Child support is only subtracted if the couple that had the kids were married, engaged, or boyfriend/girlfriend at the time the child was born. If the baby is born and the parents are not in any type of romantic relationships (for example, they were just friends or romantic interests), then child support will have to be fought over in Court.
New interactions like: Demand child support, demand to see child, talk to children about divorce, go to divorce court, etc.
I feel Child Support is necessary because many single sims have a hard time paying for babysitting, buying new beds, toys, etc to give to their children. Although child support is not much, it definitely covers the basics.
It will focus on the Adults/Young Adults/Elders in this EP.
There will be new types of housing:
Apartments:1 to 3 bedroom apartments where you pay weekly rent, get a roommate, and deal with the drama of neighbors (Like Apartment Life) New interactions like: Argue with neighbor over noise, bang on wall, place ad online for roommate, greet roommate, complain about late rent payments, seduce landlord, ask for extention on rent payment, You should also be able to be friends/romantic interests with the landlord and get a discount on your rent because of that. Apartments can be fancy (furnished, tons of space, lots of bedrooms) or plain (1bedroom, tiny, small, unfurnished, etc). Each apartment has a lobby, a community garden, community park, community garage, and community pool/bbq area. That way everyone can have some basic features at home.
Trailer Homes: Cheaper than an apartment, a bunch of little homes on wheels in a circle with up to 6 families living together. Same type of interactions like the Apartment except they\'ll all pretty much look the same in their decorations and stuff. Each trailer home area has community garden, community playground, community garage, and community bbq area for everyone to use.
Condos: Small 2 to 3 bedroom luxury homes with areas that overlook the beach (sea), a little more pricey than apartments but it\'s a place you own (not just pay rent) so there\'s no landlord or roommate options. C
Studios: 1 to 2 bedroom studios that are in a high apartment tower, you may be on one of many floors. Similar to the Apartments.
New types of Community Lots:
Court: Couples (married or dating) can pay a fee to \"break up\" (divorce) their significant other. It doesn\'t matter what the relationship is between the two sims, just pay the fee and you can be free. Couples can also fight over child support. If a couple fights over child support, then the most that parent can get is 5% of the other parent\'s wages, depending on the relationship between the parents. Sims can also go to court for late/missing child support payments which can make a sim lose a lot of money and get in huge trouble. Sims that refuse to pay court ordered child support can lose their job, have their car repossessed, or lose funiture by the repo man.
Wedding Chapel: Want to get married but not just have a party at home? come to the wedding chapel to have a spectular wedding. Your sim can call or use the internet to set up your wedding party. A wedding planner will ask you the date, time, dress code, and theme of your wedding (Similar to the World Adventures Traveling). You pay for your wedding up front, it\'s non refundable and you get married. New items include wedding cakes and wedding arches. Your sim can wear whatever, or buy a new dress from the chapel to wear for their special day. Once your sim arrives on the lot, they will automatically move to the arch at the proper time, where all the visiting friends can clap and watch, while the player takes pictures of this joyous moment (allows simmers to take picture and videos while on the lot). If you have World Adventures, you can also plan a honeymoon using the travel option from World Adventures.
New types of Parties:
Baby Shower: Pregnant Sims (who have the showing stomachs) can invite 2-10 friends, family members, etc to a baby shower. Baby showers works similar to the campaign donation parties. At the end of the party, the guests give money or gifts to the pregnant sim for their unborn child.
Anniversary Party: Works for any couples (married, or dating) who have been together for at least 14 days in game time. Couples can invite over friends and family members to celebrate their anniversary.
Reunion (family or otherwise): Reunions let you invite old friends, best friends, and good friends only to come over and hang out. Works the same way as a regular party. Family reunions work where you invite over family (any type of relationship including half siblings, and step children) over to all hang out.
Happy Hour: A party where you invite co-workers over to have fun and build a relationship with them or your boss.
New types of clothing:
Under formal wear will be elaborate white wedding dresses that you can recolor or wear the way they are for weddings.
New Maternity section (only is available when you click on the dresser and your sim is pregnant). Stylish maternity outfits for your sim\'s pregnancies/baby showers
