We Need To Talk…

First and foremost, I want to thank each and every one of you that gave SimSweep a chance! I know it’s scary installing a program and your antivirus or windows defender is like “Woahhh there, we don’t know this guy, you sure??” . So thank you for trying it out 🤍

Okay let’s talk about why I gathered you all here today. The future of SimSweep. It’s in a really good place right now. Does exactly what I envisioned it to do and it does a pretty good damn job at it. She’s not perfect, but are any of us perfect? 👀 lol The issue is, I keep coming up with all these cool ideas but I keep trying to stuff them into SimSweep and I’m starting to realize that everything doesn’t actually belong inside of SimSweep even if it’s capable of doing it.

Take for example the family tree idea I posted about a couple of days ago. It’s a cool concept right? I had some feedback that people wanted it, but shoving that into a diagnostic tool?? Just doesn’t make sense even if all the tools are already there to use. Now this focused diagnostic tool becomes an amusement park and I don’t want that for SimSweep.

I’m not done improving SimSweep and I’m not done adding features that align with what the tool currently does, but I am ready to start making something else along side SimSweep.

instead of guessing what to work on next I figured I’d reach out to you. I’ll list a few ideas that I’ve thought about over the past couple of days and then you click one or multiple options in the poll. Sound good? Also note, I’m not trying to remake something that’s already being done well. These are the gaps I’ve noticed after extensive research and my own experiences. Some of these are fully thought out and some of these are still in the drawing phase.

Idea #1: Family tree but as a social media.

The app pulls your family tree from your save file automatically, but then you make it yours. Add screenshots, write notes about your sims, tag moments, tell the story of your legacy the way you actually experienced it and then other people can browse it. Click into someone’s legacy, start at the founder, read through the generations, see the drama unfold. Follow legacies you’re into, comment on specific sims, vote on heir reveals. Your stuff doesn’t get buried like it does on Reddit or Tumblr. It has a permanent home and it would be built for exactly this kind of content.

Idea #2: A save file health tool.

A tool that lets you actually see what’s going on inside your save file. Right now if your game starts lagging or your save corrupts you’re just guessing. This would show you what’s bloating your save, strip out orphaned data from mods you removed ages ago, catch problems before they turn into corruption, and keep automatic backups so you can roll back when something goes wrong. Think of it like SimSweep but for your saves instead of your mods folder.

Idea #3: A SimJournal app.

It would watch your save file and automatically track what’s happening across all your households. Every time you save it picks up the changes. Promotions, new relationships, aging, money changes, deaths, all of it logged without you doing anything. So when you rotate back to a household you haven’t played in weeks you can pull up the history and see exactly where you left off instead of trying to remember or scrolling through a spreadsheet you forgot to update.

Idea #4: A visual search engine for CC.

You see a sim wearing something you want, crop the screenshot, drop it in, and it finds the CC for you. Every .package file already has a thumbnail embedded in it and SimSweep already extracts those. So if you’re a SimSweep user and you opt in, your CC thumbnails get added to a shared database automatically. The more people using both tools the bigger the search index gets. No manual tagging, no uploading, it just builds itself from the community.

Let me know if any of these resonate with you and maybe get you a little excited. ☺️ These are all going to be built eventually, just wanted to see where most of my attention should go first. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend 🤍