SimGurus answered some of the questions about The Sims 4 on Twitter.

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Question:  Can you say something about the pregnancy?  —EneaSichovich
A:  When Sims woohoo they have a chance to get pregnant? 🙂 —Sarah Holding
A:  But seriously, you can have triplets in The Sims 4! —Sarah Holding

Question: Tell us about pregnancy and families, please!  What will the babies look like? —Renata Alba Camilo
A:  They have legs 😉 —Sarah Holding

Question:  Will Sims be able to woohoo in more than one place in the basegame? —lauren
A:  Yes!  Sims can woohoo in more than one place in The Sims 4 Base Game. —Sarah Holding

Question: In The Sims 4 we can have more than 8 Sims? —pastor_chan
A: You can control up to 8 Sims in The Sims 4, just like in The Sims 3. —Sarah Holding

Question:  What will be the requirements of The Sims 4? —High Life
A: We are working on making the game accessible as possible.  So once the specs are locked that info will be given. =) —SimGuruRusskii

So, what’s new?

No doubt, Kim-Jong Un has a thing or two to teach us all about setting packs of wild dogs on disobedient family members. But today I am inclined towards tickling the ivories, and so Elton gets down to the business of augmenting me as a piano player.

This is The Sims 4, a fantasy world of personalities and desires, a simulation of the endlessly improvable self. Since the series came into this world 14 years ago, it has been tweaked and updated by Maxis and Electronic Arts, moving from a basic game of fulfilling human needs, to something that seeks to make a play-thing of our emotions.

Many games are called “sandbox,” meaning that they supply the toys and the environment, and all the player to do the rest, but few take this doctrine quite so seriously as The Sims 4.

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Simplification is a key word for Sims 4, letting you create and play with less fuss. But that doesn’t mean that the game is dumbed down any – it’s just streamlined and smarter.

Previously EA talked about how the Sims 4 makes they physical side of character creation easier with better tools, no sliders, and more choices. After that, picking an aspiration sets up a long-term personality goal for your sim (these are based off of archetypes like nature, food, athletic, etc), and each aspiration comes with an appropriately paired trait (such as the Computer Whiz aspiration that’s paired with the Quick Learner trait). Your aspiration can be changed at any time, but if you complete the aspiration’s goal you’ll be rewarded.

Selecting a handful of traits (hobbies, lifestyle, social, emotions) fills out your sim’s personality, and these interplay with your sim’s emotions to influence what you can do in the world. For instance, the emotional state of an angry sim can be mitigated by utilizing one of your traits. If one of your traits is that you like to hang out with friends, then doing so can lighten your mood. Your emotional state dictates your options when socializing or interfacing with the world. Developer Maxis says that it doesn’t want sims’ emotions to be too schizophrenic, so it bares watching how the game balances this powerful feature.

Another new tool to enhance your sim’s personality is mentorship. This allows a sim with a higher skill level to boost the skill level of a lower sim faster. For example, you could learn to play piano quicker with a mentor.

Ease of use also extends to building your home in the world. The game’s Integrated Gallery takes the Exchange and moves it into Sims 4. You no longer have to go to an outside browser when you want to upload a new mansion or piece of furniture. You can also share themed rooms and move around them around complete with all their objects. Speaking of moving things, in Sims 4 you can now move your sim over to a new world without having to start everything over.

Sims 4 comes out for the PC this fall.

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Rachael Franklin confirmed at E3’s presentation that The Sims 4 will release September 2nd, 2014 (USA) ! It’ll release on 4th of September in Europe and 5th of September in UK!

Here’s a sneak peak from the dress rehearsal. 1 hour to go. #thesims4#EAE3#excited

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