What I would have liked to have seen.
• Wall of love: the ability to add locks with engravings, photos and letters
• Send and recieve bouquet/ gifts
• Stroll holding hands/ linking arms
• Unrequited love, with no ability to change their mind (could enable cheats)
Call me a sucker for rom coms, I have been watching Love In The Villa, and have been HEAVILY inspired by the tropes in this film and others. This is my idea based on the previous suggestions.
A new lot trait called "la villa romántica." The build with this lot trait could have three romantic experiences/quest. The sim would only encounter one of the three chance encounters. This lot trait can be used in any world. However, the Hidden Love Letters quest will only be shown in Ciudad Enamorada!
Romantic encounter sims will be based on your sims gender preference. Their age will be the same as the sim you are playing with (young adult+) with the ability to age up in CAS or change overall appearance.
Your sim has finally settled into the villa, when the door flings open and in bounds a sim holding a heavy looking suitcase. Confusion etches on to each of their faces. Each party swears this is their room, only to find out they have been double booked. Both are adamant they will not be leaving and there is no other rooms available. They have the choice to decline or accept the offer to share the villa (similar to Kyle in Growing Together). Hopefully, neither one of them is caught in their towel and the sofa is comfortable enough for one unfortunate guest. Will love blossom or will enemies be carved from this unforgettable experience.
Your sims experience with one another relies on their compatibility. If they are "Not seeing eye to eye" A truce can be made, via a pop-up notification in which you can accept or decline the other. Similarly, you can offer the truce, however the Sim has the autonomy to accept or decline the request.
If you decline, the Sim would leave, you've shunned them from the villa.
If the truce is accepted, their will be a pop-up to make amends. If you accept, you can go on a wide range of activities available to the world you are playing in, for example, wine tasting, a stroll. The activity that you have been asked to join will be selected at random based upon either sims trait, likes/dislikes or the specific activities of that world. This can be declined and replaced by a different activity.
However, you can not go from a bad, non romantic relationship straight to romantic. You would have to build both romantic and friendship up. Once the relationship is built enough, you could go on more intimate dates such as ballroom dancing and the Wall of Love. This could be the craziest story about how you met the love of your life, your new best friend or your enemy.
Think of sunshine and grumpy, enemies to lovers, close proximity tropes.
If the sims were getting on like a house and fire, they wouldn't need damage control and could go on all activities and possibly fall in love. La villa romántica had worked in their favour! Wahoooooo.
This could be love at first sight.
Your sim has stumbled upon true love, captured in time in the form of crinkled edge, ribbon bound love letters. These earnest declarations of love exude mystery as some of the letters seem to be coded and missing information. Your sim has the choice to figure them out. If they accept, letters would be in their inventory, and they would start their quest. They would find themselves looking in several different spots, such as the Plaza Mariposa, Fountain of Dreams, and the Wall of love, uncovering hidden letters and trinkets and needing to seek advice from the locals. This would lead them to two possible suitors of their own (if they so wish, with the option to decline). These two townies would help them to solve the mystery (similar to cottage living) and perhaps steal their heart in the process or become an invaluable friend.
In the end, your sim would discover the letters are between Claire and Samuel, through the letters your sim would learn what truly transpired between them and your sim would have to return the letters to Samuel so that he could mend his broken heart and enter his forever slumber with his beloved. If your sim doesn't return them, they will face bad luck in love, and all romantic interaction would be negative until the letters were returned to their rightful owner. Once returned your sim would receive a golden lock to pop on the wall of love.
If all goes to plan, la villa romántica has done it again!
It has only been a few days at the villa, when your sim hears a sharp knock at the door. It's late. Very late. Confused, they crack the door barely an inch. Instead of a frightening encounter, they are greeted by a gorgeous bouquet of flowers and a note. In the pop-up, the note is one of love (or would you call it lust) written by a secret admirer asking your sim to meet them at the Fpuntaim of Dreams. I mean, it's risky business, but if you're a dare devil, you might just accept the invitation. (Or go about your day as if nothing happened and toss the flowers in the bin.) Once you arrive at the Fountain, you notice another Sim, who seems to be under the same pretense as you, that they are here to meet a mystery admirer and realise this is a romantic set up. You can decline the pop-up to find out who is playing matchmaker and go back to the villa, or you can accept the mystery admirers offer to team up and find cupid. Who knows, you might fall in love along the way or realise you should have gone your seperate ways, because not even friendship is on your two's horizons.
As long as the Fountains of Dreams is placed, this quest can occur in any world.
At the end of these quests/ experiences, your sims traits can change to romantic, fatalistic, cynical, or guarded, depending on their experience. This comes with the option to decline or accept the change. Sims can get sentiments:
• Bonded: It was fate for these sims. Someone or something had written it in the stars, their encounter was no accident - romantically and plantonically
•Enamored: Love at first sight
Pottery classes: available Monday and Sunday evenings. Can place pottery station and use at home/other compatible lots.
•Create vases, cups, bowls, plant pots, teapots and dishes. Greater skill can make functioning items. Mending broken pottery will transform the original item. Items can be gifted, sold and stored in trunks.
Create the "Cup of Lovers". The Cup of Lovers is a renowned story of Adalaida and Elías' love. Each sculpted the other a cup with their initials curved into the pottery. These cups were dorned with paint strokes of azure blue, glittering gold and emeralds jewels, to represent peace, success and abundance. Finally, on their wedding day, the lovers gifted each other the cups and Adalaida filled Elías' cup with wine and in turn he did the same to hers. The deep red colour of the wine representing one another's love and their vow to always fill each others cup and keep it full. To follow in their footsteps of a long and happy marriage, it is said one must gift their love a cup with their own initial. If the cups break prior to their marriage, this is seen as a bad omen and terrible luck, possibly a sign from Adalaida and Elías that their union is cursed. However, if you glue the cups back together, it could be stronger than ever and if you use the cup as a plant pot, new love can blossom.
•Skills will increase quicker when joining a pottery class.
•Inventory will have cute or romanticly posed photos based on sims date and a completed pottery piece. (Romantic dates=think of the movie Ghost, Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore pottery scene!)
•Choose a romantic or platonic date, (this date will be a rabbit hole/option to join). The type of date will affect the type of pop-ups your sims will receive via rabbit hole option. Pop-ups can lead to a good or bad date. Sentiments can be earned.
• Deeply in love- this sim feels very seen and understood by their partner, this date proves their partner truly knows them.
Ballroom dance classes: available Wednesday and Saturday evenings, unless hire a dance teacher in community lot or choose to dance with partner with same level or higher skill as your sim.
•Option to take someone with you or the option to be paired with a stranger, who will be allotted as your sims dance partner. Can request another dance partner.
• Learn to dance the Waltz, Tango, Cha Cha and Rumba. As skill increases, learn more difficult dances and new routines, enter competitions, and win money and trophies. Once reached a high skill level, sims can mentor other sims.
•Skills will increase quicker when taking dance classes over dancing in a group or practicing dance routine.
•Choose as a romantic or platonic date (this can be either a rabbit hole or option to join). The type of date will affect the type of pop-ups your sims will receive if you choose the rabit hole option. Pop-ups can lead to a good or bad date. Sentiments can be earned.
• Bonded- this sims feels closer than ever to their partner/friend ect. The power of dance is not something to second guess.
• Two left feet- this sim feels embarrassed about their dancing abilities and wonders if they will ever get the hang of it.
Cooking classes: Classes have to be booked via the phone or laptop as they are not on set days but can hire cooking instructor at a community lot at anytime.
•Learn to cook romantic new dishes filled with flavour and pizzaz that will impress friends and romantic love interest. Could Marry Me Chicken be in your sim's cards.
•Inventory will have cute and romanticly posed photos based on the sims date, a completed meal, and some new ingredients to try at your own leisure.
•Choose as a romantic or platonic date, (this date will be a rabbit hole/join in). The type of date will affect the type of pop-ups your sims will recieve if you choose the rabit hole option. Pop-ups can lead to a good or bad date. Sentiments can be earned.
• Bonded- Teamwork makes the dream work and doesn't this sim know it. They could not express how much their help means to this sim.
• Bonded- this sim always knew a way to their heart is through their belly. With these dishes, this sim will always be in their life.
•Cooking skill increases faster with classes.
•Career: side job-host cooking class
Wine tasting: can be booked via phone or laptop. Can got to a vineyard and select "wine tasting." New vineyard lot trait.
•Choose as a romantic or platonic date, (this date can be a rabbit hole or option to join). The type of date will affect the type of pop-ups your sims will recieve. Pop-ups can lead to a good or bad date. Sentiments can be earned.
For example: sims will have the option to drink or spit out the wine. If sims drink too much, they have the possibility of
•Oversharing and becoming embarrassed or feeling understood
• Dissapointing experience
•Option to buy wine at the end of the date.
•Inventory will have a bottle of wine and cute or romantically posed photos based on the type of date selected.
Hot air ballon ride: can be booked on the phone or laptop. Can go to the hot air balloon and select "ride hot air ballon"
•Choose as a romantic or platonic date, (this date will be a rabbit hole). The type of date will affect the type of pop-ups your sims will recieve. Pop-ups can lead to a good or bad date. Sentiments can be earned.
• Beautiful views and even better company
•Inventory: cute or romantically posed photos based on the type of date.
Wall of love: add locks with engravings, and hopefully, your love will last forever, even if it is just your own name, the name of your lover, best friend, or family member. Love is celebrated in all and every form. In the terrible event that your love does not stand the test of time, sims can take the locks off. They can be nosey and read others' locks of love. And if a sim's very mischievous, they can "borrow" or break others' locks of love. Be warned, doing so will cause nothing but bad luck for the person who did the bad deed. The only remedy, write a letter expressing deep sorrow and place it on the Fountain of Dreams. Just maybe, your sim will be forgiven and the curse lifted.
Laguna Del Abrazo: the place to go to pop your picture and love letter on another wall of love. Here, you will also find the stalls that sell the Locks of Love and Lovers Cups along with pottery and other romantic ornaments and trinkets.
Love letters: the ability to send and receive love letters, fulfilling the words of affirmation love language. A sim can reject these letters and have negative reactions and emotions to them aswell as positive reactions. These letters can be put on the Wall of Love, kept in a trunk and reminisce over. Love letters can be written by the player. These letters will give sentiments for both the sims recieveing and giving the letter. No writing skill is required but a sim will gain writing skill through writing letters.
Bouquets and gifts: a sim can send and recieve bouquets and gifts. They can be sent and recieved as: Secret Admirer, Just Because, Thinking of You, Get Well Soon, Romantic Love, Platonic Love and Congratulations.
• Sims will randomly recieve Secret Admirer parcels.
• Sims will randomly recieve Just Because Parcels.
• Sims will only recieve Thinking of You parcels when they have lost a family member.
• Sims will only recieve Get Well Soon parcels if they are unwell
• Sims will only recieve Romantic Love parcels from sims they have a romantic connection with.
• Sims will randomly recieve Platonic Love parcels from sims.
• Sims will only recive Congratulation Parcels if they have been promoted, engaged, wedded, pregnant or recently had a child.
•Sims can send parcels to other sims at all times.
All options can be turned off and on separately.
Fountain of dreams: If a sim wishes for a romantic partner, within 48 hours, fate might just intervene. This will be in a form of a pop up, someone accidently texting the wrong number, bumping into someone at the market, meeting someone at the Wall of Love, it's up to the sim to accept or decline this match making offer.
Cross pack compatibility pop-up examples:
Cats and dogs: Your sim walking their pet. Suddenly, they are yanked off their feet as their pet zooms to an unknown target. Before they know it, they and another pet owner are entangled by their fur babies leads. They both apolagies profusely and assure they don't know what has got into their beloved fur babies. Should they walk the incident off together?
Get Together- Your sim is at a coffe shop when someone accidently spils their drink on your sim, could they make it up to them by offering them out as an apology, their treat?
Get famous- Your sim is a famous singer and has been asked to perform at an event, the issue, their ex is the one holding the shindig, is this a possibility for second chance love?
Knifty knitting: Knit blankets and rugs that are believed to have the powerful ability of helping the owner of such item to have luck in love and marriage.
