First of all, I’d like to say thank you for the work you’ve done. I’ll try to formulate and convey a number of ideas that will help the game become a bit more comfortable and popular. Our game starts with the character creation mode, so I’ll begin my suggestions with this section. These aren’t new ideas, but I’ll voice them again anyway. I’d like more body customization options, more sliders and controls. It would also be wonderful to add a series of presets for face creation. I know Canvas has a huge number of beautiful works, but there could be even more if the creation editor were a bit simpler thanks to the addition of presets for eyes, nose, and lips. Right now, it’s personally easier for me to download a ready-made Zoi than to create one from scratch. I’d also like to expand the amount of clothing available. Yes, we have mods, but most of them don’t work after updates. Learning and creating my own clothing is personally too complex a path for me, as it is for most players. Overall, I personally dream of a life simulator where I practically wouldn’t need additional content.
Moving from character creation mode, I’d like to move to life mode. And start with the autonomy of changing outfits. Yes, you added us a slider. But no matter how much I click and adjust it, they still change their outfit!!! Or it blocks outfit changes completely. Perhaps it’s worth releasing a video tutorial on using this setting. For me right now, this is too complicated))) I used to have a mod that prevented them from changing clothes while not blocking categories. And I myself changed the outfit style that I needed.
Moving from outfits and creation, I’d like to move to life mode. And here I’d like to get a notification settings option. I know there are people who like to follow every step. I myself love being in control of the situation, but now I don’t even read this spam of notifications. And there’s no other way to call it. My Zois have about 100 notifications hanging over them. And in such a mess, it’s incredibly easy to miss something truly important. Such a quantity of notifications, strange calls, especially from Zois I barely know, looks off-putting. I repeat, the game is gorgeous, but right now it lacks coziness. And that’s exactly what most players are missing. We have an open world and characters don’t understand that they’re close to each other. My spouse goes out from the house to the beach, and calls and texts come flying in from their spouse. About how much they miss them!!! When did they manage to miss them, they’ve only been out of the house for 2 minutes?!!! Again, these calls and texts almost drove my new family to divorce. The wife went to meet a friend, one of them autonomously flirted and I spent three real days saving their family!!! Even though the husband was on the other side of the city. This is very discouraging. I’m getting to the point that for some time I could tolerate not having basements in the game and an open school, but dealing with such unfinished basic functions is already harder. And as I wrote before, this repels most people from the project.
From this, the next point follows - autonomy. Even with smart Zoi enabled, uncontrolled characters from my family can’t satisfy their basic needs. I’m talking about family members who I, for example, left at home and went to a club with another family member. Despite the last fix from 29.05.26, they still keep getting food, cooking, placing, or putting it in the inventory, going to cook the next portion and so on infinitely. Cooking and the problem of feeding my Zois is really a sore subject) they don’t want to autonomously take a portion from a large portion of food. If I give a cook command and something happens at that moment and I need to urgently switch control, then I won’t have access to the cooking menu anymore. And the previously selected zoi will cook only for themselves, while the others will go to work hungry. Using the fridge and bags is extremely inconvenient. Give us the ability to do this ourselves, helping the characters a bit. Right now my Zois’ bags are accumulating tons of food and cups, why do I get money for their removal?!!! Do you get money for trash? This looks strange.
Actions in groups. Very often, even free Zois don’t go to meetings, and if they do, joint activities are still very raw. We can’t sit down and have a snack together, no matter how I try. They generally live in a strange way. And yes, I wrote above about the clothing slider. I have a complete ban on other zois interfering in dialogue, but they keep having conversations with us anyway) As a result, at a date the spouse chats with a strange woman, while the wife waits for them to finish talking.
To summarize: presets for creation mode, reduce the number of notifications and spam, refine the system of calls and interactions in groups. Simplify the mode of obtaining food and items from the inventory.