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Please Unhide All The New 'Enchanted By Nature Plants & Trees' From Debug
So many new beautiful plants and trees came with the new 'Enchanted by Nature' expansion, but they are all hidden away in DEBUG. It's a shame that an expansion about Nature has hidden the new plants/trees from Build Buy Mode. Please unlock all the new plants and trees from 'Enchanted by Nature' that are Hidden in Debug so we can more easily access them in regular Build/Buy Mode. Many Thanks in Advance. :)
Redo/Improve the Simology Menu, Please! We can't take this mess anymore.
Please, The Sims Team, remake the Simology menu in the game. We can't stand the way it is right now, filled with tabs. It's a messy mix of different systems all crammed into one place, and it's leaving all of us confused and very frustrated. Right now, we have modders like Simmatically who have done an incredible job redesigning the menu in a way that makes everything much more organized. And to make things even better, we’re about to get a mod that categorizes personality traits — something that’s also VERY important, considering how traits are currently cluttered even within their own category. There are situational and temporary traits all mixed together, making it hard to navigate and understand what’s actually relevant to our Sims. Please bring something like this to us players, we really need more organization!
can i please get the old menu background back
Ive been a devout player of this game with over +2000 hours in the game. I would really appreciate if you guys could please give me back the old background in the menu its a little unappealing Thank you in advance may you all be blessed with more mods thank you.Soulmates Not Actually Soulmating
Howdy! Something that I've noticed recently in the Sims 4 is that my two Sims who have achieved "soulmate" status with each other aren't actually acting as soulmates. What I mean by this is that the sims who are soulmates will still have the "Flirt" feature pop up (the suggested ones that are outside of the "Friendly", "Romance", etc. categories) when talking to other sims or, if left to their own devices, will flirt with a different sim that is not their soulmate. I feel as though (as a monogamous person) if you've achieved a soulmate status yourself, that it wouldn't even dawn on you to flirt or hit on another person, and I think that this should be replicated in the Sims. I don't recall this happening in the Sims years back, even with the same two sims and they've got maxed-out friendship and romance. This is just a suggestion, something that's been bothering me in the Sims, and I hope that I'm not the only person who feels this way! Thank you for your time!Hear Me Out: World Kits
I, personally, don't like kits. I have gotten the free ones that pop up occasionally and I acknowledge some are fun/niche content but I am not in the population that wants CAS/Build buy bad enough to pay that "premium" price. (Meaning it's more expensive per asset.) HOWEVER, I, personally, would be so stoked to have more worlds. Especially those cool worlds that folks always talk about. The Serengeti or India or Antarctica. Insert cool worlds idea here! I want it. I have thought about how cool it would be to get "World Kits" and what might be feasible: Empty Lots. No builds. Like, 4 or 5 lots per World Kit. The size of Magnolia Promenade. Just Little Guys. Most of the kits have 20-30 assets (plus multiple swatches). This is enough for a few trees, some foliage, a couple terrain paints. This would be for a niche player, but I believe it fulfills the stated purpose of the kits. To give life to ideas that aren't "big enough" for a full pack. ______________________________ Example asset count... I'm using Magnolia Promenade as an example, only because it's the smallest world I have access to. (I think it's the smallest world in the game.) The icon art The map art About 4 terrain paints Maybe 6 types of trees Maybe 5 types of foliage A water swatch About 8 Shells (for set dressing) The actual construction of the virtual space So, a rough total of assets used in Magnolia Promenade's world (ignoring if the assets are reused from the Base Game, which is common): 26 assets, and the construction. That's within the realm of other kits' asset count.Advanced Roof Pitches
Why doesn’t EA have a way to access advanced roof pitches for console??? It’s absolutely ridiculous that i have to place a house that has the advanced roofs unlocked just for me to use it. I mean, every other control+c command is accessible for console, so why isn’t this one??? I have to plug in a keyboard to use a feature in the game? Why???Is it predatory to not have a pack rating system?
Am I missing something, or is there NO way to leave ratings on every pack? No way to warn future players about the mistakes I made. Am I to believe that the only way to leave a rating is through xbox? Is everyone supposed to rely on youtubers who are in the creator's network? They have a clear conflict of interests. That leads me to believe that EA doesn't have an individual pack review system... ON PURPOSE.
[EBN] Enchanted by Nature is the first EP I've truly regretted purchasing.
Playing with a brand new Save in a brand new The Sims 4 folder. No mods. No CC. It's a beautiful World .... but: My game has crashed 4 times in 2 days. I rarely have a game crash. I can't repair my game because "We've paused the download because you don't own this title." The Balance and Luck systems overwhelms all other gameplay. The method for monitoring Balance and Luck is buried in the Simology tab. Making it difficult to keep tabs on whilst playing. Especially when playing with multiple Sims. Balance and Luck change dramatically, suddenly and inexplicably. E.G. My Sim is fine. Needs are fine. Suddenly he's not caught a fish and his luck is bad? His Balance has plummeted? And now he has some ailment he can't afford to cure so he has to abandon all else to go off in search of a cure. And my Sim hasn't even made it to becoming a Fairy. Sheesh. Back to my regular game. Looking to relax so I open up the household of my nice elderly retired Sim. Of course she's cooking. Of course she catches on fire. Plum. Bad Luck. Out of Balance. Argh. Turned it all off. I am not enchanted.Bonus content items should be put on base game
I just think that it seems more fair for simmers to get these items without being tied to a Expansion Pack, like, paying a buch on pre-orde just to get 3 items which are mainly for decoration? They did it with the Cottage Living ones, why not the rest of packs? My personal favorites are the one from Lovestruck and Life n Death, and its a shame that we cannot get these anymore, also because i fear my game would overlode for so many packs installed (With the bunch of bugs we had on the last weeks, this could be at least a compensation🤔)
Harassment in the Gallery
Hi All! Recently, I noticed artwork in the gallery that was stolen from a creator. I commented on the stolen post simply to give credit to the original creator. This player then went and commented on every single one of my gallery posts, calling me "mean girl" and "bad girl" amongst other names. Is it worth trying to contact EA to have these comments removed? I just recently got into building and didn't mean to start this drama war on my profile. They've followed my account, so now they can see every time I post. They also called me out on one of my posts for only having 3 followers. I didn't expect to ever face this kind of treatment when playing a game, especially The Sims. This post is kinda just to vent, but also what can I do besides report their comments in the gallery? I don't even have the option to remove them from following me.About Enchanted by Nature CAS lights...
In my opinion, the mushroom lights Luminous Mycena Lantern and Forest Soirée Fungi Chandelier should have been on the Off the grid category! Like, come on, theres mushrooms types that glow in the dark (Like the mysterious and nightly one from Cottage Living) I been playing a lot "off the land" recently, and this is dissapointing, such a missed opportunity... :(
🏙️ Big city world #2
Hi, I really like San Myshuno and Night City (Cyberpunk 2077), it would be nice to get another big city. Some ideas of neighborhood : Shore front / Beach Industrial area : Warehouses, factories and loft apartments Downtown : Mega residential building with Venues included Neon city : Nightlife activities (Dance club, bar, ...)
Seriously need a Who the F are you option for all these random calls
Starting to get real sick of all these random calls asking if they should date random people, What am i a marriage counseling? i have literally no relations with you what so ever so why the heck are you calling me, and how do you even know my name? i just meet you over this phone call.
Who is in favor of Sims/pets NOT losing relationships uploaded to your library?
Reason for this post: 1. saved characters in library lose all friendships and family-levels 2. The "Nature Is Calling" Patch introduced horrible "pitch black" bug and ruined all the save files! 3. restore unrecoverable, lost pets textures 4. swapping/replacing the affected families with saved families in library 1. if you save Sim characters to your library and then put them back into the game, ALL friendships are lost and also the family relationship level to each other. This should be changed urgently! 2. The "Nature Is Calling" Patch ruined all the save files for Simmers with customized pets in it. with the last "Nature Is Calling" patch, all of our Sims that had either painted tattoos (feature came with Business & Hobbies) or animals and werewolves that had custom fur, created with the in CAS paint tool, were lost and all affected characters appeared pitch black after said patch. It was not possible for the developers to restore already lost textures. Sims that had painted tattoos could be "repaired" by removing the painted tattoos, BUT with animals it was not so easy and to remove the custom, painted texture NO solution. If you removed the painted texture by clicking on the X, they were no longer black but then appeared in standard status and of course Simmers who havecustomized pets/fur did not want that., incl. me. It was a lot of effort and work to edit your animals with the CAS paint tool. I'm sure everyone who loves animals has families WITH pets and more, maybe not all customized with the paint tool, but for most. Lots of Simmers created their RL pets with the CAS Paint Tool as good as they could. Some of us even contacted the Creator "pugowned" who has the astonishing talent to create very realistic pets, simply WITH THE CAS PAINT-TOOL, to have her create our in RL beloved and deceased pets. It was a punch in the face for me to see my beloved pets appear pitch black now after said patch and to read that the lost textures can not be restored. The "hotfix" patch did NOT change that because already lost textures created by the "Nature Is Calling" patch could not be restored, as stated by EA_Cade, the latest "hotfix" patch was not retroactive and the customized textures on pets/horses/werewolves already impacted will stay that way. Their painted textures are forever lost and cannot be fixed. So all our current save files are ruined because of this Nature patch and we were now left on our own to "fix" the issue. - Yes, in every game bugs can accure, but I'm sure that IF this patch were really play-tested BEFORE the rollout, something like this wouldn't have happened. I mean, how can a patch ruin ALL our save files and not being able to fix it and act like "oh well, sorry guys, already lost textures, caused by our "Nature Is Calling" patch, can not be restored" - unbelievable! 3. to get around all the loss of unrecoverable textures, you can try to swap your BACKUP save files that were made BEFORE the big "Nature Is Calling" patch with the current destroyed save files and the pets will appear normal again. - I have done this with success! My pets appear "normal" again, BUT I'm done playing this game for now, just in case... Of course, if you didn't have a backup BEFORE the patch, you are left out in the cold because the suggested attempts to restore an older save file are unsuccessful, as ALL save files in the game are and were affected by this disastrous destruction. In my case, the only thing that helped was replacing the current game files with my 2-month-old backup. Although the game and progress of Sims were lost, but the animals appeared normal again, which was more important to me personally. Yeah sure, some can live with the texture loss of their pets but some of us don't want to accept it so easily and just keep quiet. We have the right to express our displeasure over this because, after all, we paid a lot of money for a game we love. 4. there was also the option given of swapping/replacing the families saved in your own library with the current ones, that is IF they didn't already appear there in "pitch black", which brings me back to topic 1. Even if you were lucky to replace a Sim or pet, all relationships would still be lost and you would have to recreate them MANUALLY. This is NOT a good solution and is also very time-consuming. So you are better off, replacing your save files with a backup and not loosing ALL relationships. Final: Since this said patch has destroyed all our current save files, I think something urgently needs to be done about the way our sim characters get saved into our libraries. If the developers are no longer able to correct their own fatal mistakes and just leave it to the player to deal with the "rescue" on our own, then they should at least change the way our families get saved and unharmed into the library so that when families need to be replaced, to NOT also lose all their connections. That would at least be a good start.
No more special venues please
please cause i justaanna build over the von hault museum and make it a cool germanic castle and i cant because it's a special venue and nobody can live there!!!! same with the san myshuno park to be honest :( its so sad because these are the venues which have the most beautiful outside of the build space... and its a museum too... who goes to a museum in the sims 4??????? theyre so under decorated and have nothing to do there so please remove this special venue shinanagan so we can have fun building!!!!
EA, if you use a terrain paint, it should be available to us as well
My sims are living in one of the premade lots in the new world of Innisgreen and I can't even move any of the shrubbery to give myself more space for things because there's dark dirt terrain paint under all of the shrubbery. I can't paint over it because you didn't give us any of the grass textures used in the world of Innisgreen. This is incredibly frustrating and has been for years across every world. If you use it, it should be for us to use as well. Not sure why this hasn't been understood over the years.Gnomes comes to my garden to die???
With the Gnome lure allment they keep on coming to my garden to die, Because the gnome enchantment that turns them alive is only temporary which means that they die off in my garden since they constantly have to be re-enchanted with fairy dust, which ruins the fun of turning them alive. Seriously what's up with all the temporarily nonsense, it's not balanced, nor fun.
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