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The Sims 4 Go to School Mod Pack: New Version Announcement!

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The Sims 4 Go to School Mod Pack: New Version Announcement!

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(Thanks to TheSimplyNando for the above logo!)

The Sims 4 Go to School Mod Pack allows players with both The Sims 4 and The Sims 4 Get to Work to follow their Child and Teen Sims to school, similar to the three careers added in Get to Work. While the current version provides a simple event with occasional random field trips, the new version aims to provide a whole new gameplay experience and change the way you play with Child and Teen Sims, as well as a brand new career for older Sims!

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  • Sims will now attend an actual class: a Teacher NPC will spawn at a podium and teach the lesson of the day, while other Sims sit and listen. The player’s main goal is to attend the class and ask questions, which can be done by clicking the teacher and selecting an interaction. When the school day starts, NPC Sims will attend class for a random amount of time (1, 2, 3 or 4 Sim hours) before going off to perform activities.
  • The school lot also has other new NPCs: the Principal, the Counsellor, the Caterer and the Janitor. The former two can be assigned to a specific part of the lot using a special rug.
  • There will be a brand new career for older Sims, Education, which includes all the roles available on the school lot. NPCs on the school lot are drawn from this career, so if you switch households, the Sim you have in the career may be the one that actually appears!
  • Classes and activities aren’t the same everyday: there are five subjects (Social Development, Problem Solving, Creative Arts, Physical Education and Science and Technology). In Elementary School, these take place on Monday-Friday respectively. Costume Day still takes place on Wednesday along with the Creative Arts class. The schedule for High School hasn’t been decided yet.
  • You can pick a liked and hated subject for your Sim, by having them perform a social interaction. Sims will get a positive Moodlet on the day of their liked subject and a negative Moodlet on the day of their hated one. Your Sim’s liked subject will effect the special opportunities they receive!
  • Sims have a School Spirit score! Those with high School Spirit will earn a positive Happy Moodlet while attending school, while those with low School Spirit will earn a negative Bored Moodlet. By default, they’ll be assigned a random level in the low range. School Spirit can be increased by talking to the Counsellor NPC.
  • As well as boosting spirit, the Counsellor can also help get a Sim into the Confident, Focused, Inspired and Energized emotions!
  • Sims who use an excessive amount of Mean and Mischief interactions may be assigned a punishment! While a Sim is punished, their school performance will decay drastically slower (this includes attending school inactively). The punishment will be lifted after the Sim earns Gold on a school day. Upon receiving it, they’ll lose a bit of performance and School Spirit as well. There is an upside, though: punished Sims benefit more from talking to the Counsellor, and if properly taken advantage of, it can negate the loss of spirit caused by being punished in the first place!
  • If your Sim becomes friends with the Counsellor, it unlocks the Undeclare Subjects interaction, allowing you to change their liked and disliked subject.
  • Field trips will be at a location specific to the subject of the day, and will have goals specific to that location.
  • As well as field trips, there is also a chance the class will be given a guest speaker from the Doctor, Detective or Scientist career. I am still thinking of ways to improve this feature, but currently Sims will gain special Moodlets from being around them.
  • Becoming friends with the Teacher and/or Principal will unlock special opportunities, which can earn your Sim tokens that can be redeemed for skill-boosting traits! The opportunities your Sim receives depends on their liked subject, but this can be changed using the Undeclare Subjects interaction on the Counsellor. There are also hidden aspirations that can be unlocked, which will give out a lot of tokens!
  • There is a prom event planned for Teen Sims! I am still thinking of features for it, but it’s definitely on the list to add!

And now, get your first look at the new version with this video showing off the revamped first day of school event:

The Sims 4 Dine Out: Clumsy Waiter GIF

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Clumsy Waiter GIF

The Sims Twitter has posted a new GIF from The Sims 4 Dine Out!

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Full Box Art Render (HQ)

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Full Box Art Render (HQ)

EA Germany published the Render from The Sims 4 Dine Out’s box art in transparent, high quality .png format! 😀

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Food Critics and Restaurant Rating System

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Food Critics and Restaurant Rating System

The Sims 4 Dine Out Trailer has shown more than we originally thought there is to this Game Pack!

Under the Trailer section for new Gameplay, the video shows a Sim who appears to be waiting for the Food Critic’s opinion. Yup, that’s definitely a Food Critic writing down his thoughts! But, that’s not all…

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The latest Game.co.uk listing has revealed some of the Key Features of this Game Pack, including the following text: Strive for a five-star rating or build a multi-restaurant empire to rake in the Simoleons!

See that? Restaurants will have their own Ratings System!

This clearly means that Food Critics will determine the Star Rating Level of your Restaurant. We don’t know how exactly is this going to function, but The Sims Team still has 2 weeks to reveal more info about this Game Pack!

The Sims 4 Dine Out: Official Boxart + Key Features (Game.co.uk listing)

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Official Boxart + Key Features (Game.co.uk listing)

Game.co.uk listed The Sims 4 Dine Out on their website, along with the Official Boxart and Key Features of the Game Pack!

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Own a restaurant and take your Sims out to eat with The Sims™ 4 Dine Out*. Create and manage a variety of restaurants, hire staff, and set the perfect menu to earn a profit and expand your business. Dine out with Sims to enjoy all-new experimental cuisine and spend quality time with friends and family.

KEY FEATURES

  •  Create Unique Restaurants – Build a variety of restaurant venues from a classic diner to an upscale Italian bistro, or customise pre-made restaurants using new objects and décor. Personalise your space by adding an outdoor patio, comfy booth seating, or unique signage. The choice is yours!
  •  Become an Owner – You are in control of owning and running a restaurant. Hire and outfit staff, set the menu and prices, and chat up diners to improve customer satisfaction. Strive for a five-star rating or build a multi-restaurant empire to rake in the Simoleons!
  •  Dine Out with Your Sims – Take your Sims out to enjoy a delicious meal with exceptional service. Restaurants are the perfect place to catch up with friends over brunch, spend time with family, or have a romantic date, all without having to do the dishes.
  •  Experiment with New Food – Sims with adventurous tastes can dig into new experimental cuisine that looks almost too good to eat! Serious foodies can snap food selfies to memorialise these edible masterpieces or learn to cook them at home.

The Sims 4 Dine Out: Goth Romance GIF

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Goth Romance GIF

The Sims Social Network accounts have shared a new GIF of The Sims 4 Dine Out!

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Sims Community celebrates 3 years!

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Sims Community celebrates 3 years!

Exactly 3 years ago, on May 21st, 2013, we launched Sims Community!

It’s hard for me to choose the words to express my gratitude towards our readers, Staff and friends, mostly because I feel I’m not thanking you all enough, but I’ll give it a try:

The biggest THANK YOU goes out to our readers who visit our website on a regular basis! This also goes out to those who just recently found out (or will find out) about this website. YOU are the reason we continue to deliver News, Articles and Tutorials regularly. Continue to stay awesome 😀

A Thank You also goes out to Sims4Thoddy who dedicated so much into helping me establish SC Social and Sims Community 4.0. Your continuous support for this website means so much – both to our readers and me. Without your help things just wouldn’t be the same here!

I also want to thank our wonderful Staff who dedicate so much time into writing new content for this website. This website grows with more diverse, unique and creative posts and articles week by week, and it’s all thanks to you!

Thank you EA / Maxis / Firemonkeys for your support and devotion throughout this Sims adventure. It’s been a blast so far!

We’re preparing a few prizes to celebrate this occasion, so stick around for the Anniversary Giveaway next month! We’re also preparing a Dine Out giveaway for our SC Social members, so make sure you join the site!

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Ocean Quigley opens up on why SimCity 2013 failed

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Ocean Quigley opens up on why SimCity 2013 failed

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We now finally know the real truth on what happened with SimCity 2013 and why it launched so badly!

Ocean Quigley, Creative Director of previous SimCity games (including SimCity 2013) opened up to GameInformer’s Ben Hanson on what went wrong with SimCity 2013 and what original plans did the developers have for the game.

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Ben Hanson: Is the push from EA’s always-online requirement just so that players are one step closer to microtransactions or what’s the idea there for pushing so much online?

Ocean Quigley: I think at the time it was how EA saw the future. ”This is how things are going to be’ ‘You’ll have an always online, always connected game world, and let’s get SimCity to push into that glorious vision of the future”

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”EA wanted to make it more of a platform, an ongoing platform, that they’d sort of build and develop on. […] The tech got ahead of itself. We didn’t have the back-end infrastructure to actually pull that off, obviously.” Quigley explaining the whole ‘server meltdown’ situation on the launch of SimCity 2013. ”The back end of it all, sort of, collapsing in flaming server rooms was, well — it feels a little bit like being somebody on a sinking ship, and you’ve done a really nice job on your part of it, but it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if you’ve made all these beautiful things, because the rest of the ship is exploding.”

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Quigley later talked about what SimCity 2013 could’ve originally been but got limited by the always-online feature: ”The eventual vision was that the whole region — the whole vast, 32-kilometer by 32-kilometer region — would be one potential city, and you could build anywhere in it,” said Quigley. He added that while SimCity‘s simulation engine “would have let us scale, eventually, to larger and larger cities,”

For a full interview with Ocean Quigley about SimCity 2013, check out his interview with Game Informer down below!

Sources: GameInformer, Polygon

The Sims 4 Dine Out: Rude Cashier GIF

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: Rude Cashier GIF

The Sims on Twitter has just published a new GIF screen from The Sims 4 Dine Out!

The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Interaction Screenshot

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Interaction Screenshot

SimGuruNinja shared a new screenshot from The Sims 4 Dine Out, showing off the new ‘Post Photo on Simstagram’ interaction and the new ‘Photo Hipster’ Moodlet.

In case you didn’t know, Food Photography is now a thing in The Sims 4 Dine Out!

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Restaurant Video

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Restaurant Video

The Sims Team has released a brand new Video from The Sims 4 Dine Out!

The Sims 4 Gallery: Builds from Films by HattySims

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The Sims 4 Gallery: Builds from Films by HattySims

So you are a movie freak? A bit obsessed with movies? And you also love Sims? Well then keep reading because you might stumble upon a house from a movie that you might love! Let me introduce you to HattySims. She’s a YouTuber and she’s a builder, all her builds are amazing from a simple starter to a castle! But let’s get into the movies!

The Black Pearl

If since 2003 you got addicted with the Pirates of the Caribbean and you’re patiently waiting for 2017 for the next movie then you can ease your desire for more with the Black Pearl!

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Build on a pool you can’t help but admire how cleverly created this ship is! The only drawback is that you can’t sail with it away from your everyday life!

Hogwarts

Continuing, we have a build from the second biggest fan base according to E.W., which is none other than Hogwarts from Harry Potter! -come on Harry Potter fans where were you? We got beat up by Supernatural-

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A clever recreation of Hogwarts since there was no possible way on having it the exact same -Sims 4 limitation-, it’s definitely worth your time!

The Great Gatsby

If you’re still not pleased though she has The Great Gatsby for you! A beloved old classic novel became a movie and you can now (or at least your Sims) live in this humongous mansion!

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Jeez, hope you brought your scooter otherwise you’ll walking forever! If this house doesn’t make you wow I don’t know what will!

Howl’s Moving Castle

Last but not least, you anime fans out there won’t be disappointed and forgotten once more, because she has the Howl’s Moving Castle for you! A pretty cool and creative house that you don’t see everyday I’m sure.

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It’s so weird and so many things are going on with this house that you just can’t take your eyes from it!

So if you want to check her out yourself, here’s the playlist and her Origin Username is HattySims.

The Sims Blog: Get Weird with Experimental Food in The Sims 4 Dine Out Game Pack

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The Sims Blog: Get Weird with Experimental Food in The Sims 4 Dine Out Game Pack

Via TheSims.com

Hi Simmers! The Sims 4 Dine Out Game Pack* is coming on June 7, and includes the ability for your Sims to go out to eat, and own and run their own restaurant. But that’s not all that’s on the menu.

Today we  wanted to talk about some of the new dishes so that we can fully savour the flavour and whet all our appetites for this fantastic game pack. Tired of the food metaphors? Strap in, it’s going to get worse.

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The Sims 4 already has a wide variety of recipes, running the gamut from real-world favorites to Sims classics. We were eager to experiment in a more ambitious culinary realm, so we set them loose to create a huge array of high concept, bizarre, tantalizing, Experimental Food.

The goal behind the experimental food is to wow your Sims. We wanted to create beautiful, avant-garde dishes that seem like they come from a celebrity chef on an amazing cable TV show. The dishes are bright, bold, and beautiful, and full of life with amazing new animations that you might not expect to see on a platter.

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The flowing lava on the Volcano Pasta is gorgeous and amazing. The Jungle Moss Egg with Lavender Wisps looks like something from an alien world. And the savoury Bacon Love Petals look like a dish that I’d gladly spend $19.99 on at a high end restaurant.

The food isn’t just a culinary feast for the eyes and the imagination. Your Sims will benefit from a slew of powerful and fascinating Moodlets that will represent exactly how your Sims feel about the flavours bombarding their digital palettes. If you want, your Sims even have new social options to discuss their food.

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We always try to make our game current with real world trends, and The Sims 4 Dine Out is no exception. Your Sims can eagerly photograph their meals. But, to take it a step further, all of these will turn into beautiful photographs for your Sim’s walls, or even their own restaurants! Your Sims can challenge themselves to complete the Experimental Food collection, which gives them a reason to try every dish in town.

We’re a bit hungry from all this food talk, so we’ll leave you here and find something to eat. Perhaps we’ll snack on Cubed Ahi with Veggie Wasabi Matrix? Yum!

The Sims 4 Dine Out Game Pack will be released on June 7, but there’s still plenty to talk about. The burners are barely lit for what we have to show you. And no, the food puns will never stop.

The Sims 4 Dine Out: SimGuru Twitter Q&A

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: SimGuru Twitter Q&A

UPDATE: We updated this post with new tweets!

SimGurus took their time to answer some of the questions on Twitter about The Sims 4 Dine Out!

On top of all these SimGuru Tweets, there’s a new piece of information shared by The Sims Facebook. They have confirmed that our Sims won’t be able to work as Chefs.

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Recipes GIF

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The Sims 4 Dine Out: New Recipes GIF

The Sims Italia shared a new GIF from The Sims 4 Dine Out, with a small overview of the new recipes!

Do you notice any new objects in the background? That fishtank is definitely new with the pack!

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