Cant play online
wow, I am able to stream HBO direct to my PS 5I am unable to play college football 25 or grand theft auto auto auto auto auto five I am getting the runaround from Sony and from EA. I did a lot of troubleshooting already. My Internet connection is personally fine and everything was working just yesterday and for the past year and now all of a sudden it’s not.5Views0likes0CommentsIssue with buying UFC 5 PS5
Hi, I used the trial version that lasted through the weekend. I have EA Play. I wanted to buy the game, but it’s not possible. When I enter the game, it displays a message saying that to keep my current progress, I need to buy the game. I click “Buy EA Sports UFC 5” and I get a message saying “You already own this item.” If I try from the PlayStation store, either from the console or the app, I get the message “Something went wrong.” Error code: CE-112987-8. help please39Views1like1CommentOpinion on New Forums
It may just be unpopular opinion, but I find these new forums to be painstakingly difficult to read ,(text is tiny, and colors are blinding), follow thread, my hand hurts from scrolling through hundreds of post I already read since day one to get to current. Newest somehow works but requires a lot waiting of leg work too. Is it just me. Have I been put on a delay? It wont let me post to threads all the time for just no good reason. Notifications are not as clear and prompt as last forum. While I think it may need kinks worked out, I myself may have to take to another forum. I may check in periodically to see if they have improved it, but for now, I can't. Let me know is anyone if experiencing the same or if it's just me.leucosiax2 days agoSeasoned Hotshot2.5KViews71likes101CommentsDoes anyone actually think these forums are an improvement?
I honestly just don't see it, it's a big mess and I have to click many times to even see the newest comments on a thread. It's just a huge downgrade to me compared to the old Sims forums which where so much easier to navigate. It just makes me far less interested to really engage here. It just seems even worse than Discord. Maybe I'm getting old but I honestly feel like social media is often getting less social due to "improvements"thefirsttemplar2 days agoRising Traveler115Views9likes4CommentsNew Sims Forum Feedback
Hi! This is for the team at EA who are hopefully picking up on feedback and looking to constantly improve these new forums. What I’d like to stress, and ask for from all us lovely Simmers, is that this isn’t a place for being overly negative, aggressive or angry towards the team or specific staff. I’ve seen quite a few reactions that are just that and if we want to improve things, while we don’t have to be overly positive either, we need to be constructive at least. Having been a member of the original Sims forums and the newer rendition in recent years, I think it’s fair to say what keeps the forums running is the sense of community. So a few things I think that would help this would be: customisation for profiles - avatars, signatures, adding social media links or blogs/websites so we can find each other elsewhere. Paying specific attention to each rendition of the game, the Sims 3 community is massive and has been around a lot longer. So please consider us when making changes! I can see the sims 4 forum/threads already have plenty more tags and options than ours do as well as sub forums that we haven’t been able to keep. We have a whole community of storytellers that benefitted from the stories and legacies subforum and whether the game is 15 years old or not it deserves to live on. Changes to the formatting of threads and replies. I’ve noticed it is already hiding multiple replies under a “show more” filter which limits conversation. Also nesting replies is confusing, the original board style was much easier to navigate and chat on, which is what these forums are all about. As already highlighted, changing the automatic filtering by likes to newest would make it feel more relevant and conversational as a quick fix in the mean time. I personally miss being able to bookmark threads, especially since the sims 3 forums have lost our sub forums and all the migrated ones are in the franchise discussion (please rectify this!). I can’t navigate to what I want to read and am losing track of what I’ve chatted on unless I get notified. Could we also have a list of the rankings just out of interest? I have no idea what a traveler is but apparently I am one 😂 As always, super grateful to the team for taking feedback on board and looking forward to improvements and developments as they come! Happy Simming! LizzieLizzielilyy3 days agoSeasoned Veteran1.7KViews23likes110CommentsNecroposting not good - so why do the forum advertise 5 years old threads?
When in a thread I get a list of "related posts" to the right. Typically, those posts will be 5 or 7 years old. Recently I commenting in one of them, a thread about graveyards that I thought was highlighted this way due to the new pack. Old thread but very relevant these days thanks to the upcoming Life & Death pack. The result was that the thread got closed because it was considered necroposting. So - WHY do the forum list all those old threads if we can not post on them? My suggestion is that threads that are too old for commenting on, are automatically set to "read only" and NOT advertised as a "hey, come check out this necro-thread". Or, ther could at least be a gravestone/grim or similar symbol indicating the read-only status. I've been on all TS forums for 24(?) years (which is actually a quarter of a century!), but I still do not know what exact age makes a thread too old. A symbol or read-only status would be of great help.Simmerville5 days agoSeasoned Veteran74Views6likes5CommentsNew Forum Oddity
Well, here's a new weirdness I have never seen before... I tried to click Like on a post and instead got a pop up of a brief user profile as if I had hovered over a random user's name or avatar (a random user who, as far as I could tell, had nothing to do with the post I was trying to Like). (I keep saying I'm walking away from these forums, but there are a few people and threads that pull me back.)luciusstorm6 days agoSeasoned Veteran16Views2likes0CommentsShow more button
When I click the Show more button when reading a thread, it reloads the page and then brings me back at the top of the page and then I need to scroll back down and find where I was and continue reading. Can you please make it so it just loads the next batch of posts without reloading the whole page? It's getting very tedious to read this way especially with all the nested replies and no pagination.crocobaura6 days agoSeasoned Ace134Views13likes8CommentsFixing the new forums images
Hi simmers. It is Melanie aka mcrudd here. I have joined the new forums and is looking around. I am very lost at the moment, I can see that a lot of my threads did manage to come over, although the only way I can find them is via my profile page, I am unable to locate them via the new menus. I also noted that all of my images are broken, I am not too bothered about the gameplay screenshots, but all my mods and baby clothes photo's are gone too. It does also not seem to be a clickable link for you guys to click on, so I have no idea how to fix all this. I am postop at home, had surgery 5 days ago so am a little loopy at the moment, but would love to fix and understand the new forums before the release of the new pack so that I can test all my mods and so forth for you guys like I used too. I would appreciate any input, help, advice you have for me on when and how to fix this, and what you guys have managed to figure out and so on. I am a new spectator that joined 16 years ago ;)Solvedmcrudd6 days agoSeasoned Adventurer228Views6likes13CommentsFEEDBACK ON FORUM
On your "Update to the Forums" post it said: Site Performance: In recent weeks we’ve seen site performance is not consistently at the level it should be. "Sometimes pages wouldn’t load, errors like “community not found” and “internal server error” would appear, or folks couldn’t log in"We’ve been working behind the scenes to identify what’s been happening, andwe believe one of the main causes of this has been found and addressed this week. As ever, if you are encountering such issues, please let us know. Well I'm here to let you know that it is most definitely NOT FIXED! I have the Sims 4 Forum bookmarked: This is the Bookmark URL I've saved When I tried to access the forum today using that saved Bookmark, 2 things happened: 1 - It took me to another's profile about their Badges (Lili824 is NOT me!) I feel like that's a breach of privacy when I'm taken to someone else's profile! 2 - When I tried go Log in I got the "Couldn't Authenticate" message AGAIN. I'm, so confused by why this particular website has so many issues and not one single other website has them. I should not be logged out unless I log out myself. This is not a bank/personal information website that would time out due to privacy issues. The other forum never logged me out unless there was an update with the site or my personal PC. So, why does this one have that issue? I should not have to clear my "cache" in order to make YOUR website work. I don't have to do that for any other website. Why should I be inconvenienced by clearing the cache and browsing history from all of my other saved sites just to make YOUR site function correctly? That's NOT acceptable!!Chicklet453687 days agoNew Traveler81Views6likes7CommentsIdea For New Post Alert/View
I'm hoping and wondering if we could get something where we can see on topics when a new post is made in the yellow area I would want it to say, New Post by person name and time passed Also would be cool if the message count indicator was highlighted a color too or something18Views0likes1CommentCan't Post in Stories
I have not been able to post my updates in stories. I keep getting a message I've exceeded my maximum and to try again later. At least the update I was trying to post is there. (if I hit reply on the last published update, that is.) It has been suggested to me, that if I used codes-links at all, that those could be the problem. I used them three times. Twice in What Happened In Your Game Today?, thread, to let other players know I had posted updates to my story, (in Creative Corner and then a third one in WHIYGT? to let them know I had gone back to Creative Corner, since I wasn't able to find my own posts. Oi! My intention was to remove the code-links on those three posts, hoping this would clear the problem. However, I scrolled through the WHIYGT? thread and they appear to be hopelessly buried. I'm at my wit's end. I am now posting over at Sim Creatives. I will pop over here now and again, just to keep in touch, but I'm reallythat unhappy with how these threads work. I can't even bring myself to call them forums. More like random Post-it notes in which you're entirely lucky should you stumble across one of your own. Yes, I understand that this site is still undergoing construction, but a simple pardon our dust, won't cut it for me. They are unusable as things stand. My updates are stacking up and only being allowed to post one a day, will take a bit of time. And that's when I'm able to publish! So, unless this matter can be cleaned up, I have no other choice when it comes to sharing my stories.GalacticGal16 days agoSeasoned Ace37Views1like2Comments- catloverplayer17 days agoSeasoned Veteran25Views0likes1Comment
Start a Discussion Issue
Well, hopefully this works...lol! I tried to start a new discussion over in The Sims 4 Creative Corner area of the new forums to get a "You've exceeded the maximum number of posts you can publish. Try again later." pop-up. Tried each day since the new forums was live and received that message. Not sure what I am doing wrong, if I am doing anything wrong. Also screen capped it and added it as an attachment. :) Appreciate any help.Solved127Views0likes11Comments[Sims 3 forum] Cannot make post, then gets told limit is reached.
So I tried to make a post in a thread in the Sims 3 forum, and the post wasn't made. So, of course, I tried to post it again, only to get this message. It is now the second time I encounter this error when trying to make a lengthy post. Now listen, the Sims community is in large part made up of people who use the game for storytelling purposes, and as such we will often make lengthy posts. I don't know if its the lenghty posts themselves that make this happen or what it is, but it just looks like this forum was created without in the slightest bit taking the Sims community into account.... In particular the Sims 3 community, you couldn't even give us sub-forums.... (holds up picket sign, shouts angrily) Edit: The health of these forums is clearly not good. I have tried several times now to make the post, and it won't let me. Yet, the post is stored so I don't have to rewrite it, which is good. Also, when logged out sometimes it fails to recognize my user, and I've had a few instances where the forum itself just won't load, getting a couple of different versions of a "This page can't be found error". as well as threads not loading and only giving me top blue bar and then a white page. Maybe it will be better tomorrow....Sprottenham20 days agoSeasoned Adventurer62Views1like4CommentsDisappearing pictures
So, new feedback... over the last couple of days I've noticed that the icons for the various forum sections have been disappearing. Today, the pictures in my story post disappeared for about thirty minutes. Oddly, they didn't show the little "broken picture like" icon. They just weren't there at all... and then they came back. So that's... odd.luciusstorm20 days agoSeasoned Veteran23Views1like1CommentSims 4 general discussion is at the bottom of the list?
Since a few days the sims 4 general discussion subforum is appearing at the bottom of the list with subforums? Is this by design or a glitch? It is tedious to always have to scroll to the bottom. I assumed general discussion was the main section of the forum. Or is the main purpose of this forum to report technical issues and not to talk about the game?atreya3321 days agoSeasoned Veteran87Views3likes4CommentsI like the page view for boards!
I’ve been quite negative about various aspects of the forum design so far, but I just wanted to provide some positive feedback and say that I really like the page view for boards, where you click on the bolded number of posts at the top of the board! It’s so much less cluttered, and you can see many more discussions at once by scrolling down the page. And then more discussions by clicking on the next page. I think it would be a great improvement if this page view could be set to be the default for each board. And also if each thread could be displayed in the same way. Might that be possible one day (soon)?FreddyFox123423 days agoSeasoned Hotshot17Views2likes0CommentsText gets highlighted and deleted while typing
Every so often when I'm typing in a reply, the last several words I typed will be suddenly highlighted then immediately deleted. "Undo" doesn't replace the deleted text. When I try to re-type the text I deleted, sometimes the same thing happens again after the same letter of the same word, and sometimes not. It could be that it's being triggered by some particular combination of letters or words, so if I don't use exactly the same wording it doesn't happen? not sure about that. This happens once or twice in every forum browsing session (twice in the last 15 minutes). This doesn't happen on any other site I visit, or in word processing or other software, so I know it isn't just user error. What's going on? Is it some sort of filter detection? Using Safari on a Macbook Promightyspritesims23 days agoNew Hotshot19Views0likes2CommentsForums
Who's with me when I say that I wish EACG would go back to the old forums? This new format is a pain in the **bleep** as far as I'm concerned and should NOT be active. The old forums were easy to get to and easier to read and find what you wanted.Player_6s4tr9m724 days agoSeasoned Novice32Views1like0CommentsThe Sims Community is Different
Okay, I’m not going to post about the glitches, missing features, and other problems in the forum itself. We all know what those are. I would just like to amplify something that maybe needs to be taken more seriously by those who decide these things, and that is this: the Sims game is completely different from the others here, and so is the Sims gaming community. I took some time to look at the boards for the other EA games on the forum, and we simmers are definitely having the most difficulty with the switch. My perspective is that forum interaction and community is directly related to the way the game is played, and the Sims is not like the others. This type of forum is fine when gameplay and community are centered around gaining levels, adding in-game allies or friends, getting performance tips, or raising gameplay related questions. Those types of interactions are the basis of the community for those types of games, because the game has structure. There’s only so much to discuss. A sandbox game like The Sims doesn’t fit in that box. The game itself is open ended. It can be anything we want it to be, and one person’s game is not like anyone else’s. That kind of player directed, open ended game requires a community format that is also open ended and user directed. It needs a loose structure that allows players to share the wide range of possibilities the game gives us. This forum cannot do this. Big, continuous topics with multiple people sharing stories and screenshots are a staple of the Sims community, and after a matter of only weeks, this forum is breaking under the weight of those long threads. On the old forum, we had topics that were years old, still going strong. Conversational topics, idea threads, creative threads and social threads are being buried under long loads, “see more” scrolling and nested replies that don’t allow a natural flow of ideas and communication. My own “Blue Moon” thread is becoming difficult to maintain because I can’t even tell where the new responses are, in order to respond back. While this forum seems to suit games like Star Wars, it is not functional for a game like the Sims and the community that plays it. The Sims is not Star Wars, and it requires a community format that recognizes the difference.cyncie25 days agoSeasoned Veteran639Views30likes22CommentsCan we have an updates on the forum-feedback?
This forum has been live for a while now, and at least from the Sims-community, the forum has gotten som harsh, but fair and well deserved, feedback by users. So my question is if we could get some updates about where we stand on those issues and when we can expect some improvements? Primarily I'd like updates on the following: Forum performance. What is being done to address the massive performance issues on the site? Pages not loading correctly, or at all, loading being slow, images not displaying as they should, the constant log outs and difficulty logging in... where do we stand on those issues? (Seriously EA cannot possibly be content with the performance) Personal avatars for all users. One of the major wishes from the community was personal avatars, to express our personality and recognise each other. Where do we stand on this? Page loading vs. pages - is there anyway to get pages back instead of infinit loading more on larger threads? Customisable feed so the thread starts in a logical way, and ways for the forum to remember where I left off instead of me having to start over each time I get back into a thread. This needs to be prioritized, longer threads are more or less unreadable at the moment. Spoiler tags on comments so to simplify loading times.JesLet4026 days agoSeasoned Ace328Views19likes13CommentsIncorrect redirect
Starting yesterday the link to my Community Builds post has been redirecting to a Sims 4 post instead. The link is copied correctly... but redirects incorrectly. My post (added in a space after https so you can see the actual text)... https ://forums.ea.com/discussions/the-sims-3-en/soocoolsims-showcase-%E2%9A%9C%EF%B8%8F/1568017/replies/1568019 goes here... Post the last screenshot you took in The Sims 4 | EA Forums - 831274109Views2likes8CommentsBecoming a hero
So...I guess some of you guys know, I have multiple disabilities. Apparently this is because of something that happened to me when I was an infant, we discovered, that caused all of these ill effects in my life. So I have quite a bit of executive dysfunction that goes along with various disabilities, and the smallest things can be insurmountable and so, so stressful - and stress can exacerbate my disabilities so, that's not good. In any case. I read about how to be a hero, on the forums. I would love a personal profile picture, as everyone would! But honestly I do not have the ability mentally or emotionally to do what it takes to be a hero. In any sense, in real life or on the forums. Tbh I'm crying a bit lol. It really has highlighted my deficits. I'm not saying that the system should be changed for me. But I do think that maybe there are others with similar issues, and it's an accessibility issue. Because with certain disabilities, we do not have the ability to do the thing, we do not have access to the thing. So maybe certain things could be thought of in different terms as far as what can be available for everyone. I didn't really know where to post this. I hope it's ok.SolvedLaunchSneezes28 days agoSeasoned Hotshot361Views7likes13Commentsproblems with these pages /forums?
Is anyone else having technical issues using these forums? I have the sims 4 page bookmarked, but it's consistently taking me to the star wars pages! Just now I navigated back to the sims4 forum, clicked to log in, and landed back at a star wars page! It's nutso. LOL! Please tell me I'm not alone and not losing my mind! I've deleted and re-bookmarked several times with the same results. aaaaaaa :)SimplyTamaria29 days agoSeasoned Rookie49Views0likes2CommentsOld EA Forum Link Directs To A Random User
This is the link I have bookmarked since EA Forums launched. This is the same link included in the old The Sims Forums. This is the link: Forums.EA.com The link address to this looks like this: https://forums.ea.com/category/the-sims-en Yet every time I click on it, it directs me to groovester user page. Am I alone in this or are other people having the same problem? And is anyone getting a different result when clicking on the old link or is groovester the famous user now?EgonVM31 days agoSeasoned Ace43Views0likes5CommentsSorting by newest doesn't work in some discussions
Trying to sort Favorite Screenshot (2.0) discussion to newest causes the page to reload and show most liked. Even picking sort by oldest, causes it to show most liked. For me, it's one of the few discussions where that happens. Other discussion work fine and even checking it on mobile it has the same issue.BlueSeaWaves2 months agoSeasoned Ace17Views0likes0CommentsNew forum log in badges not unlocking
I have logged in to the new forums quite a few times but for some reason the forums must not be recognizing my log ins. The badge for just logging in once is not even unlocked. Has anybody else's been unlocked? I know the badges are working since I have 40 unlocked, but I just find it strange that a simple one like logging in to the forums are not working. also has anyone noticed that the forums always opens on a random page of the Simpsons? I have it bookmarked on the sims 4 page but it never opens the way I bookmarked it.Solvedmcrudd2 months agoSeasoned Adventurer89Views0likes5CommentsForum Feedback on seeing replies
This is a copy and paste from MasterSeedy post in Swgoh discussions and thought I would post it here for better visibility as I agree with everything said there "This is, in part, just a function of how navigation works in general on these forums, but I thought the people still working on the forum programming should take note of the fact that when I get an alert that someone has replied to a discussion in which I've taken part, that's not inherently bad. But if I click on that notification, I expect to be taken to the new replies. Instead, the person clicking is taking to the default page for that discussion which, if popular, won't include any of the most recent replies. And if you scroll tot he bottom and click on "more replies," the interface does add new replies --- but in the process of adding them, it automatically scrolls you right back up to the top again. Nor is there a button for revealing ALL replies. instead you scroll to the bottom, click more replies, get autoscrolled to the top, scroll back down to the bottom, click more replies again, and get returned to the top again, repeating several times for longer discussions. This is tedious and is exactly the opposite of what people reading a forum want. You hit more replies to see the new stuff, not to be shoved back into the heart of the old stuff. And you hit the notification button to go to the thread in the first place to see the new stuff, not the old stuff. Both the notification button and the "more replies" button should reveal all the newest replies, and take your browser to those new replies automatically. The entire point of hiding replies is to make navigation easier, but with this set up it does not. I would rather have to scroll past hundreds of messages once than scroll past the first 20, then return to the top, then scroll past the first 40, then return to the top, and so on. Eventually I'm going to have to scroll past all those hundreds of messages to get to the new ones anyway. The current interface just makes it so that I have to do so over and over and over again. Targeted links from your notification page, a "reveal all replies" button, and the ability to maintain one's place on the page while revealing new replies are all necessary here. Pagination rather than hiding replies would also be much preferable to the current system, though with the other 3 options implemented pagination could be considered optional. "Solvedpackerfan78892 months agoSeasoned Novice70Views2likes1CommentTiberium Alliances Forums
WHERE ARE THEY? When I click on anything related, there's 11 month old stuff. When I click on Forums on the game it says Community does not exist. If you were TRYING to kill support for the game you couldn't do a better job.x1984x2 months agoSeasoned Newcomer51Views1like1CommentSpoiler Tag Issues
Hello! I really love using spoiler tags as make longer posts shorter to read by removing all the info not relevant to the reader right now. One thing I really love here that you can customize the header for the spoiler. Yet... When trying it out in one of my post, I ran into an issue which I further complained about in this reply. Basically, I included three spoilers in this post so that each different aspect of the idea could be explained better. The first two were longer while the last one was the shortest. Then I hit the Publish and noticed an issue. The third spoiler copied the entire content of the second spoiler, causing it to repeat twice. I then edited and published it. It all looked fine again, but then I opened the first spoiler and noticed half of the content gone. Again back to editing, finishing up the first spoiler again. But oh no, because my scroll bar left out the third spoiler, it copied the second spoiler again. Eventually, I have had it and just left out the third spoiler. Basically then, we have two issues here. If you have multiple spoiler tags and some of these are out of the screen due to the scroll bar, it copies the content and header of the spoiler tags on the screen. Sometimes half of the content under a spoiler tag is deleted. I suspect here that it also applies to those spoiler tags outside the screen. Let's try to replicate these issues here. If you see the spoilers with the header of "Custom Spoiler Header to Hide Some Complaints!", then the issue has occurred here again. Meet the spoiler contestants! Test Spoiler 1 Hi! I'm Test Spoiler 1. I like Island music and long walks on beaches. Test Spoiler 2 Hi! I'm Test Spoiler 2. I like the prank calls in The Sims 4. In fact, I even have them memorized! I saw what you did last week. I was there. I saweverything. You're in big trouble, Mister/Missy. Do you canoe? We're fixing your phone line. Don't pick it up the next time someone calls. You have been chosen. They will come soon. The number 6 will be very important to you in the next 24 hours. The drop off has been made. Don't be late. They're coming soon. Maybe you should think twice about opening the door. Test Spoiler 3 Um... Hi? I'm Test Spoiler 3. I don't know what to say, it's all so sudden... Well... Let me read one post then, is it ok? Ahem... Please add sims.age_up (that was the title. Let's continue...) Hello! I wish this cheat added back to unmodded game. Anyone wondering what this cheat is, it simply forces sims to age up. If used on an elder, it causes death by old age. You can add simID after it to target other than active sim, like pets. This cheat won't work with aging off... Right now it requires all-cheats mod. I simply wish this simple cheat to return. Thanks! Aren't they great? Now let them square off in the spoiler contest! They have to repeat the same message they repeated here. Whose message gets replaced? But whose get's halved? Let's see! Your turn, Test Spoiler 1! Your turn, Test Spoiler 2! Your turn, Test Spoiler 3! The gameshow antics aside now, if won't edit the post again after publishing. If you see some repeated message or halved messages, remember that when making this post, I put exactly what I wrote in the quotes above the test. If all remain intact, great. I hope that means that it's fixed. If not, well... I hope it gets fixed. Thank you for reading the post.EgonVM2 months agoSeasoned Ace62Views1like3CommentsThe new forum
As someone who has been active on the old forums I would like to share my feedback on this one. My first encounter with this forum was on my mobile because I was on holiday during the switch from the old to the new forum so I wanted to wait for a week or two before making this post. No avatars: this really hurts. Avatars gave us all faces on the old forum. With the limited selection I now have to share my picture with several others. This leads to confusion because I something think 'there is a reply I made' only to realise it was made by someone else. Not having a unique avatar also makes me feel anonymous. How are other simmers ever going to easily recognise me? On the old forum you had to promote from new member to member to get an avatar and I get that. I don't mind if it is tied to a rank, but that has to be a rank that everyone can reach. Currently only heroes are allowed an avatar, and thus the privilege to build up their own personality on the forum. But the info page about hero ranks also say not everyone can become a hero (which makes sense). But the combination of not everyone being able to become a hero and only heroes getting their own avatar means that some users of this forum will never get access to something that should be a basic feature. The heavy focus on 'most liked' posts makes this forum feel like a popularity contest. It is difficult to sort posts for long threads. Some discussions have been going for years with hundreds of posts. On the old forum we would automatically be taken to the last unread post and then see the subsequent posts in chronological order. This new forum however sorts by likes on default. You can switch to sort by oldest but can't set it to default. However for long threads setting it to oldest means I have to click 'load more' way too many times. Sorting by newest means I am reading backwards and on an active thread this can also mean clicking 'load more' The above point makes this forum not suitable for sharing long stories which is something me and other simmers love to do The extensive rank list is confusing. Every single level has new, rising and seasoned added to the title. For the higher ranks adding the word 'new' kind of takes away from the higher ranks. You already have to go searching for the ranks on this forum before you realise a new adventurer is higher than a seasoned traveler. Most users on this forum don't know that list by heart. Adding the word 'new' to high ranks feels confusing and not very intuitive. Sharing a forum with other games: we used to have a forum exclusively for sims and now we are just a small part of a forum for other games. That does take some time to get used to. But why do I get links to other game in 'related posts' when I am on the sims part of the forum. I accidentally stumbled into another game forum. Is it possible to restrict the related posts to the sub forum (game) we are currently browsing When creating a new discussion we can select different tags. I miss a tag for discussion (sometimes the purpose of a thread is just talking about the game) and a tag for speculation. The version of the site on my mobile doesn't shot a button to add a picture. I sometimes don't get a chance to post a picture when I am on my laptop. I upload them to a photo sharing website and then post them a few hours later. But this forum only shows the add photo option in the desktop version. I have a feeling that this forum was mainly created for short conversations with very few posts where chronology of posts is unimportant. It also feels more like a popularity contest with the heavy focus on getting likes for your posts, a competition on it's own which distracts from the topic itself. I want to give this forum a try and really want to make best of it. But the difficulty to read threads chronologically really makes it difficult. That's the part of this forum that needs improvement more than any others.atreya332 months agoSeasoned Veteran183Views9likes4CommentsMigrated Sims 3 thread not publishing edits...
Hello. I have a few issues regarding my Sims 3 Showcase thread that was migrated over from the old forums, and is currently located in the franchise discussion section. I have tried editing my thread multiple times, however, the changes do not display after publishing. When I go back into edit mode, I do see the edits that I made, but just can't get the edits to show up. Is it perhaps blocked from publishing due to the fact of where the thread is located? Can my thread be moved out of the Franchise Discussion Section and into the Sims 3 category? I *AM* able to edit this post, that's not located in the Sims 3 Franchise Section, so it does seem like it's related to my thread's location that's prohibiting the edits. Note: Someone was able to comment on my thread 3 days ago, so at least that's working. 🙂 In the meantime, I've tried getting rid of old links that went to the old forum pages that were mostly found in my first two posts, as I've heard that could be the reason that it's being blocked from publishing. But I have not gone through the entire thread, since it's quite a large thread and rather daunting. My thread: ♥ SANDRAELLE'S SHOWCASE ♥ | EA Forums - 1624606 Thank you for any help you can provide.Sandraelle2 months agoRising Adventurer55Views0likes5CommentsNew forums don't work on Safari on Mac
I've just stumbled onto the new The Sims forums via the old forums. I use a Mac and the safari browser. The new forum briefly flashes in the browser window and then ends up with a blank white pages that just says "Application error: a clieant-side exception has occured" in the grey bar of the safari window. I'm writing this post on Chrome on my Mac. Safari is my default and preferred browser. I really hope these forums will support that as well.ImSands2 months agoNew Scout83Views0likes9CommentsFeedback on new Sims forum
I want to offer some feedback... I've tried. I really have, but I don't think I can use these forums. They are cluttered, from the "sidebar" that occupies almost a third of the screen to the "preview" text, to the choice of glaringly bright colors. With so much being shoved at me at once, it becomes physically painful for me to try to read or post. I'm getting headaches trying to use them forums. They do not appear to be designed to support discussion, but rather tech support style question-and-answer posts. The way replies are sorted, and nested, and the lack of "page numbers" in favor of "show more" all combine to make it extremely difficult to follow a chronological progression of comments in a thread. I genuinely feel that these forums are the wrong tool for the job... they're like using a hammer to cut wood. You can do it, but you shouldn't.luciusstorm2 months agoSeasoned Veteran556Views27likes24CommentsPosting to the new forums doesn't work?
Hey EA! Trying to do a post in the SWGOH General Discussion forum and get the not-so-helpful response of "Something went wrong" so I try again after editing and get the same error and then try again and eventually get the "maximum number of posts" error even though I've not successfully posted anything. Feedback: make the errors let us know why the posts don't work so we can fix it? Request: help me out, folks, I just want to post! It's got a couple links to non EA sites and a screenshot, is that the problem? It doesn't say any swears, so I don't think that's it. Actually, I wonder if this post will even work... Let's see!Solved52Views1like3CommentsGet help on AHQ for College Football, FC, other games and non-English support
Hello everyone! I understand that many of you have questions regarding information and issues for College Football, FC, and other EA games. However, at the moment this forum is only for testing and only supports a few games, such as the Sims, Command and Conquer, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. If you're having issues with any other game, please go to AHQ and post your queries there. If you're having issues with College Football 25, you can follow this link. For questions regarding accounts and games, please contact EA Support. The EA Forums are currently only supporting the English language. If you speak a different language, please go to the specific language forums on AHQ and post there. At the moment, the following languages are supported on Answers HQ: English Deutsch Español Français Русский форум Português Jezyk polski Italian Nederlands Thank you for your time and your reports.EA_Pythia2 months agoCommunity Manager393Views4likes0CommentsThe new EA Sims Forum
I am a member of the soon to be Sims Forum. I have also raised my concern in the Forum and will repeat it here. Perhaps this debate has already started somewhere else, but forgive me for not seeing where. That is exactly the problem. I think everything new requires getting used to and I will probably spend some time getting to know the new EA Forum. However, there is one thing that immediately catches my eye and surprises me. How is it that almost everything is sorted by 'The most' such as Most Recent, Most Viewed, Most Replies, Most Likes. It is of course very nice for those who already have a lot of followers and likes, but for someone else it seems like a killer. On a forum like X, you're practically invisible and dead if you don't have a whole bunch of followers. I'm afraid the same thing is going to happen here. As I said, it may be because I can't find my way around yet, but I need to voice my concern out loud and hopefully become wiser. The best thing about the old Sims Forum is that it didn't try to look like a social media like any other social media where it's about scoring the highest rank and number of followers to get benefits. This applies in particular to the right to costume a personal avatar. I really hope the idea of earning enough rank to get a personal avatar is rethought. The existing Forum has been a sanctuary where you have been able to cultivate the special interest you have in the game with other Simmers regardless of their rank and general popularity. The entire structure of the forum has made it easy to navigate. I don't know how to navigate the EA Forum when it focuses on highlighting the most popular lore at the moment. This cultivation of elitism leaves me with a feeling of loneliness. For me it's a killer because I don't want to be in a Forum where I have to be confirmed daily that I'm invisible and therefore unimportant.MonaSolstraale2 months agoSeasoned Veteran1.1KViews35likes41CommentsHard to Navigate
Can we please get subforums for The Sims 3 and other forums with similar issues? I can't find anything with the current format as everything has been included on one page and isn't even broken up into reasonable-length pages. From what I can tell, to find what you are looking for, you have to scroll endlessly through posts you are not interested in to locate the post you want to read. If the one you want isn't replied to often enough, it will be WAY down the list. If we have subforums we can at least have less to scroll through. And breaking posts into pages would make it so much easier to navigate larger posts. With the "What happened in your Sims 3 game today?" post, which was migrated from the old forums, there were 110,597 replies at the time of this post. That's a lot of scrolling to find the latest posts you haven't read. And there are no filtering options, especially Most Recent available at the top of posts, only the forum page itself. I'm not even sure if my computer could handle a web page with 110k posts and I'm pretty sure if you were on your phone, you wouldn't get to the bottom of it without exploding. LOL The Sims community would appreciate any improvements of this nature. Thanks for listening to our concerns. Please address them to the best of your ability. Thank you! ~texansky~texansky2 months agoSeasoned Traveler20Views1like0CommentsForums post aren't updating when you post.
So I started a thread and whenever I go and add a comment it's not saving and the thread hasn't moved to the top of the page. I have to hit reply cause publish has for some reason stop showing. I think the name of the thread is Show Me Your Island Living Builds (2.0)catloverplayer2 months agoSeasoned Veteran43Views0likes1CommentUploading Images
Hi, I'm trying to use an image for a post, but the image never appears. This needs to be improved to allow images.Solveddosman22332 months agoRising Scout54Views0likes2CommentsA Way to Block/Hide Posts by User
I believe there was a way to hide posts from certain members on the old Sims forum by blocking or muting them. I think it was referred to as an "Ignored Users" list. Is that function available on these new forums, or planned to be?SolvedQuaintToyVice2 months agoRising Rookie51Views1like2Comments