Survey at Official Site

[Simsbaby]

http://www.insightexpress.com/s/Sims98308?ABC
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The expansion pack ideas are...

Take your Sims on a trip back in time! Drop them in a fantasy neighborhood where they can live like royalty or enjoy the simple things in life. Build a masterful castle and enjoy enormous feasts with your Sims' new friends or work on a small farm and grow crops for the townspeople.

Take a break from your Sims' daily home routine and hit the outdoors for some fun! All-new seasons and weather provide your Sims with a variety of year-round activities including snowball fights, fishing, gardening, sand volleyball, and more. Build your Sims dream home to take advantage of each season from winter cottage to summer hideaway, just beware of unpredictable weather!

Your Sims are celebrating the seasons the entire year! Plan parties for any time of year whether it's fall harvest, first winter snow day, summer picnic barbeque, or spring concert. Watch the neighborhood change as each weather system rolls in and use the all-new party planner to create a variety of celebrations for your Sims to mingle, mix, and party.

There's a new hospital in the neighborhood and your Sims are keeping the neighborhood happy and healthy. Choose a medical specialty including medicine, physical therapy, surgeon, or psychiatry and tend to other Sims who are ill. Heal the patients and determine how the relationships between the doctors, nurses, and patients unfold. The actions your Sims choose may affect the health and happiness of the whole neighborhood!

Something has happened in the neighborhood and it's up to your Sims to solve the mystery! Socialize with other Sims all over the neighborhood to put the different pieces of the puzzle together. Will new clues lead your Sim to new rewards or dead-ends?

Enjoy the best years of your Sims' youth! Dive into the world of your Sims' kids from birthdays, playground antics, and slumber parties to building tree-houses and forts, sports practice, and prom night. Forge special lifetime friendships with the new kids in the neighborhood.

Create the perfect pet for your Sims to train, play and love through life's great moments. Create and breed unique dogs and cats and give them personalities. Your Sims can also train their pets, teach them to do tricks, or get them a career in show business or security.

Your Sims are castaways on a tropical island. Build a new home in the rainforest and work with other Sims to forage, farm, and fish. Design new furnishings for your Sims as you create their new life in paradise.

New feature ideas...

Yearly calendar - mark, plan special events      
Create your own holiday
Frisbee      
Weather and Seasons
Croquet      
Casinos
Pool toys      
Celebrities
Water parks, zoos, amusement parks      
Concert lighting and stages
Health and sickness - doctors and nurses making house calls
Natural Disasters
Prom parties      
Skating, snowboarding, skiing
Cooking materials, food items   
Slot Machines, Roulette, Craps tables
Apartments   
Gardening, growing food
Snowball fight
Fishing
Furniture workbench (create your own furnishings)
Movie Theatre
Camping
Sports and other active events
Hotels
Going shopping
Pets

[KatEnigma]

You also will probably have to lie about your age if you're over 24.  Both kellin and I tried, and got a "thank you" and bumped out until I changed computers and tried 18-24 instead.

[Nick]

That is cold hard discrimination!

[eaglezero]

Take your Sims on a trip back in time! Drop them in a fantasy neighborhood where they can live like royalty or enjoy the simple things in life. Build a masterful castle and enjoy enormous feasts with your Sims' new friends or work on a small farm and grow crops for the townspeople.

Your Sims are castaways on a tropical island. Build a new home in the rainforest and work with other Sims to forage, farm, and fish. Design new furnishings for your Sims as you create their new life in paradise.

Those two sound the best, I think. Hurrah for castles and castaways?

[kellinjar]

Yearly calendar - mark, plan special events     

This makes sense..they only live 100 days.. every 3 generations you can have xmas...

Furniture workbench (create your own furnishings)

These would be interesting if there was some ability to actually create with them..rather than just fire off a few premade options..

Going shopping

uhm... can't we do that already?

[Annette]

I missed the survey, but it sounds much like the previous one. I'd like the season's.....but if they were only letting the teens answer I guess we will get pets   So it will be another ep I'm not interested in  
The hospital and mystery ideas were new, I think they have possibility. Mind you with the success I have figuring out crime shows Jack the Ripper will be running around SimCity for quite some time!

[Simsbaby]

I don't think the mystery idea would work very good, what happens when you solve it? 

[Annette]

I'd never solve the mystery, if my success at figuring out OFB is any guide 

[Onion Girl]

but if they were only letting the teens answer I guess we will get pets 

Hey! I'm a teen and not that interested in pets. Sounds like more pointless tasks and skills to earn and moods to manage to me.

I like the history idea, maybe 19th century stuff will be introduced if they do that one?

[KatEnigma]

We figure that it wasn't that only the teens were allowed to answer, but that by the time I saw it, all the other stay-at-home moms/domestic goddesses   had already fulfilled their quota for the 25-34 crowd, but the kids and college-age weren't home from school yet.  I didn't think to try older.

What gets me is that the idiot teens WILL pick, besides the pets (which we're going to get anyway, I don't know why they bother putting it on the survey, they know it's the most popular) the "Enjoy the best years of your Sims' youth! Dive into the world of your Sims' kids from birthdays, playground antics, and slumber parties to building tree-houses and forts, sports practice, and prom night. Forge special lifetime friendships with the new kids in the neighborhood." Those things might be fun as part of an EP or as an SP, but a whole EP devoted just to that? I might play it a week before I was sick of it.

And please God, I hope no one picked this one: "There's a new hospital in the neighborhood and your Sims are keeping the neighborhood happy and healthy. Choose a medical specialty including medicine, physical therapy, surgeon, or psychiatry and tend to other Sims who are ill. Heal the patients and determine how the relationships between the doctors, nurses, and patients unfold. The actions your Sims choose may affect the health and happiness of the whole neighborhood!" That has the potential to be even more tedious than Uni.

I'm not too crazy about the mystery one, either. If I want an adventure game, I'll play an adventure game (okay, I'll have to dig out the old ones, since they don't really make good adventure games anymore) . And since that one was asked about, all on its own (like the ideas for NL and OFB were, in previous surveys) and THEN mentioned again with the others, it's practically a done deal.
 

I really hope pets is next, though, so all the whining and demands will stop.

[Onion Girl]

Maybe Maxis' should just put ALL of these things in a new EP. Would make quite an interesting one.

[Sagana]

I'd love mystery - if it was set-up right, like a scenario editor or creator or whatlike that would give us the ability to make little scenarios for each other like Motoki was kinda looking for, but not too complicated (most of these on games like Neverwinter Nights are too complex for me.)

Not that I trust Maxis to set things up correctly.

Goodness, does anyone besides me think it's obvious they've got weather somewhat worked out? How many of those had some weather-related dealeo?

[KatEnigma]

Goodness, does anyone besides me think it's obvious they've got weather somewhat worked out? How many of those had some weather-related dealeo?

  Now that I have a computer that will be able to handle it, I'll be happy to see weather put back in. I always did think it was a cool idea. At the least, give me my freaking snow terrain!!! But when they do come out with weather, be prepared for the screams when the sheeple see the new system requirements.  Just in Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, when it starts to rain, the FPS take a major hit, even on my machine.

[Nick]

I really hope pets is next, though, so all the whining and demands will stop.

I agree 100%! Its not that i'm against the pets idea, it may even be interesting, but now every 5 seconds there is a thread that says MAXIS PLZ PUT PATS IN TEH GME1!1!!! I RILLY WANT P3TS IN TEH GMA!!!!11!1!1!1!!

[Ellatrue]

I thought the tropical island one sounded really cool, but after I told them which packs I had bought, it just said "thanks for taking this survey"

Oh well

[KatEnigma]

I thought the tropical island one sounded really cool, but after I told them which packs I had bought, it just said "thanks for taking this survey"

Oh well

You obviously didn't lie about your age like I did 

[jfade]

About half of those ideas don't sound much like the sims to me anymore, and seem like they'd be better suited for an entirely different game. Of those that still sound plausible to me, the Outdoors, Pets, and Kids expansion ideas sound good. The rest of them, meh. Anyhow, I'm betting we'll probably find out more after E3.

[Simlover]

I thought the tropical island one sounded really cool, but after I told them which packs I had bought, it just said "thanks for taking this survey"

Oh well

I got the same thing

[Ellatrue]

Well, I tried it again after clearing out my cookies, and it worked- maybe I clicked the wrong thing, by accident?

[Dea]

I checked 25-34...and I took the whole survey...I think it had more to do with what games and eps you said that you had

[BeckerCheez]

Yeah I had to delete my cookies and make sure I didn't click on any Sims 1 expansion packs.   

[Simlover]

I cleared my cookies but it still didn't work but then i had sims 1 packs ticked as well

[nikita]

I'm glad they're booting people off who click on the TS1 eps.  Hopefully that indicates that they are trying not to repeat ep ideas.  I see too many "bring back Superstar" or "Unleashed 2" ideas floating around.

I took the survey.  I voted for the Mystery one.  That one sounded really cool.

[skandelouslala]

I had to clear my cookies and not tick any Sim 1 stuff to get it to work too.

Some of the ideas just sound painful.

No I don't want my sims going back in time.  Objects are good for people who want to play that way, but I would not purchase a whole EP based around it.

I like the idea of seasons (although the eternal sunshine and clear nights are nice) but don't really want a Vacation type EP

The hospital thing is the most retarded thing I've ever heard of for an EP..wonder where they pulled that idea from.
As is the mystery deal...

I think the sim's youth idea is geared towards the people who have bitched and moaned that children are especially useless and that the teen years are boring.  I can't comment too much on that b/c I have been one of those people.  But a whole EP...I can't really see it  happening.

Sadly I had to click pets on one of my three choices b/c some of the others suck so bad.

 

I'm seriously bored right now so my thoughts on the other stuff:

Yearly calendar--Umm someone explain to me how that would work?
Create your own holiday-- 
Frisbee-- Okay that could be kind of cute
Weather & Seasons-- Well since you taunted us with it before..sure why not
Croquet-- Any activity sounds good to me
Casinos-- Could be cool
Pool toys-- Nah I'm good.  My sims rarely get pools anyways, take up too much room & they don't use them
Celebs-- Is this a superstar type deal, or just random celebrity NPC's roaming the neighborhood?  Celeb NPC=lame
Zoos, amusement parks-- Could be alright..I'd have to think more on that
Concert lighting & stages--- Depends on what the point would be
Health & Sickness-- EP 4:  Your Sims Get Cancer and Die!  hmmmmm
Natural disasters-- Destruction and devastation for sims is always welcomed
Prom parties-- What, another lame party type to throw only the teens arrive in formal wear?
Skating,ect-- Again I'm open to other sim activities
Cooking materials-- I guess the stove and fridge isn't good enough
Casino stuff--- Could be cool
Apartments-- I like the idea but if it was just a glorified dorm type situation just kill me now
Gardening-- Yes, I want this
Snowball Fights & Fishing-- Activities are good
Create your own furnishings-- From a selected amount of crap already made!  Yay!
Movie Theater-- Watch your sims watch movies..more fun as always.  Could be okay for OFB players to run though
Camping-- Umm that's okay..no vacation type crap for me
Sports-- Neutral
Hotels-- They're possible now in a way
Going shopping--  Am I missing something?  Can't they shop now?  What was the point of OFB?
Pets--  I think by now we know how everybody feels about that, one way or another.

Okay I'm done lol

[Simlover]

I'm glad they're booting people off who click on the TS1 eps.  Hopefully that indicates that they are trying not to repeat ep ideas.  I see too many "bring back Superstar" or "Unleashed 2" ideas floating around.

I took the survey.  I voted for the Mystery one.  That one sounded really cool.

Well at least we had them and have an opinion as to whether they truly sucked or not!