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I love the Butterfly/Moth Habitat so much—I want a version for Frogs/Insects!
I love the butterfly/moth habitat—it looks so good with the butterflies/moths displayed! But now all I can think of is having something like this for frogs, and insects. The normal containers are not the most attractive (besides Death Frog) for all of these—Sims 3 did it better. But if collection habitats/displays were available for these it would be amazing :) It would also be nice if we could place overflow (aka duplicates) of butterflies/moths in there too, so they all can be stored there.
Gallery profanity filter should allow NZ word "nīkau/nikau" [AA palms]
As a kiwi, I was so excited to see Adventure Awaits' New Zealand-inspired trees in Gibbi Point. But when I tried to share the debug palm trees on the gallery with a little local knowledge, I was disheartened to find the tree's name (nīkau palm) was a disallowed word. The nīkau palm (pronounced "nee-ko" / "nee-kow") is a native tree of Aotearoa New Zealand, and it’s the name that all New Zealanders use, not just Māori. But the Gallery treats “nīkau” as if it were an offensive term. That’s upsetting, because it means the game can take icons from my country, like our nīkau palm, but I can’t even type its name. There's also the element where, for Māori, our language was suppressed for generations. It’s part of why many of us grew up disconnected from our heritage. Seeing the system flag an innocuous Māori word as profanity is jarring and echoes that silencing in a space that's otherwise inclusive in so many ways. I know this isn’t intentional, and the profanity filter wasn't built with indigenous or New Zealand context in mind. But I’d really appreciate it if EA could review this and allow culturally significant, completely appropriate words like nīkau / nikau that relate directly to content in the latest EP. The profanity filter feedback survey has a broken link, I hope this is the right place to post EA_Cade EA_Solaire
Outfits
Can we maybe add the ability to customize the colors and patterns on the clothes for if the color scheme we want for our sims isn't in the choices? I loved that about sims 3 and while I love the clothing choices a little better on 4, and the color schemes on the clothes are usually great, I miss the ability to make customized colors and patterns. I miss this for the makeup, hair and eyes too.
[LS] Romance Consultant: Degree not helping
The July 1 patch added the following: Getting a Degree at University now helps the Romance Consultant Career. I enrolled my Sim in Foxbury to earn a distinguished degree in psychology for the romance consultant career. The Sim later graduated with honors and a 4.0 GPA. When finding a job, there was the text for gaining a signing bonus and a higher starting level. However, when my Sim started working, she started at Level 3 and her charisma and romance skill levels didn't count toward a promotion. She also did not get a signing bonus.
Ideas for less notifications
These are some ideas to make the notifications less overwhelming, intrusive and uncomfortable for us players: • Festivals: Toggle off / Get rid of it / Keep it to the calendar; • Skill acquirement: Toggle off / Transfer it to tutorials; • Played sim trait discovery: Toggle off / Transfer it to tutorials; • Work/School event/challenge: Toggle off; • Discovery about other sims (traits/career/likes/etc.): Toggle off / Transfer info to the notebook/profile.
[HSY] Too frequent ThrifTea notifications (daily, with no option to disable)
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.90.375.1020 What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything up to and including High School Years Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play any household for a couple of days What happens when the bug occurs? Each sim-day, at 07:00 AM the current household gets a notification about ThrifTea. This is annoying and unnecessary, especially if you don't care about ThrifTea. What do you expect to see? A way to disable this notification either through gameplay, options or the passage of time. Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them. Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No ThifTea notifications happen every day, for every household, regardless of living in Copperdale or not.Incoherent/unpractical things
Here's a list of things that doesn't make sense in the game to me anymore, given the content we've been receiving lately, it's clear that those things turns the game icoherent and sometimes give us no freedom, even breaking immersion. • Life state slot it's hidden for human sims and we can't switch the traits in a alredy created occult sim. ✅ • Can't create ghosts (and skeletons) in CAS even knowing that all we need is a death cause trait. (Base) ✅ • Can't wear female swimsuit as tops like the Pride and Realm Of Magic ones. (Base) • Masculine clothes only earns a breast shadow in feminine frames, but female clothes keeps it in masculine frames. (Base) • Having to check the door for visitors/services everytime, cause we don't have a notification for their arrival. (Base) • Invited sims entering our house without permission or house key. (Base) • "Welcome wagon" starts without our consentiment, the neighbors don't even know if someone's home. (Base) • Fear interactions and running scared being so overreactive and not stricted to "Terrified" emotion. (Base) • Social events don't have a "free entry" option. (Base) • Sims can't refuse a promotion. (Base) • Some level descriptions of entertainer career makes it look more about comedy than general entertainment. (Base) • Piano skill not included in entertainer career's promotion tasks. (Base) • Pools increasing hygiene. (Base) • Parents unable to invite their child's friends to their birthday party, because they don't know them. (Base) • Aunt, uncle, cousin and grandparents options not available for selection in CAS. (Base) • Sims do not react with animations when getting moodlets. (Base) • Human mixed skin color not shared with aliens and vice versa. (Get to Work) • Can't delete or link alien's disguise. (Get to Work) • Can't go to the Hospital as patient like NPCs in the medical career. (Get to Work) • Unable to send a sim alone to club meetings. (Get Together) • Cancel holidays and getting a sad moodlet. (Seasons) • No "turn off" option for surprise holiday generation. (Seasons) • No notifications for Sulani festivals. (Island Living) • Skeletons unable to wear clothes like Bonehilda and face paint/hair/wigs like mexican skeletons do. (Jungle Adventures) • Spellcasters being occults but not having an occult form. (Realm of Magic) • Collectible pets/familiars not having interactions like rodents does. (Base, Get to Work, Outdoor Retreat, Realm of Magic) • Occults using disguise while being ghosts. (Get to Work, Vampires, Island Living, Werewolves) • Ghosts, Aliens, Merfolk and Werewolves unable to access Vampires' details, like spellcasters do. (Get to Work, Vampires, Island Living & Werewolves) ✅ Do you guys have any other complaint like these?[CCSP] Career Outfits Won't Keep Jewelry On
PC, mods disabled/removed "Wear with All Outfits" does not include Career (unless wearing Career Outfit), and when wearing a Career Outfit and selecting "Wear with All Outfits" it only lasts till next time they change back into Career again (from another outfit). So constantly having to reapply or change into another outfit to get the moodlets back, but as this Sims is mostly in Career or Sleep the moodlets just are always dropping/removed. Edit By Crinrict: adjusted pack tag to fit conventions of the forum.
When are you guys going to add to the game Sims 4 swimming pool woohoo
I would really like to see the ability in my Sims 4 game to be able to woohoo with my partner in the swimming pool I think that would be a great idea for the game You've already got the shower done and installed and the closet woohooing in the bed no I think it's time for woohooing in the swimming pool write me back and tell me what you think
Annoying phone calls and invites
Could it be possible to add a feature to disable all the annoying phones calls our sims receive? Could there also be a feature to block certain sims from calling you all the time? Or sims calling to congratulate my sim for becoming friends with another sim? Also can you put in some form of a check to make sure my sims infant or toddler is not calling my sim to go to the magic realm to duel? I have no idea who this sim is that is impersonating my sims children because the infant and toddler is usually with my sim when they call. So something weird is happening in the magic realm that should be investigated. However please keep the offers of simoleans, I love those. :) Thank you for all you do for us Simmers and Content creators! Love you!
The Phone Addiction
I was thinking about the phone problem and I wondered if the cell phone could be added to likes and dislikes or maybe an Off button (and a low and high use level) on the phone interface that could allow players to adjust the interest/obsession levels of sims and their phone interaction. Folks who play historical stories or off the grid stories would dearly love the Off feature and some of the rest of us would like less phone use but not entirely Off and def not phone obsessed (except for the that one teen).[NCQE] Not getting all consumable awards with ended event
So, have finished the event, but cannot claim the very last 'reward' as do not have enough points. No more quests, says thanks for playing. Guess since do not have all dlcs, did not 'earn' enough by doing all supposedly optional quests. If these quests are optional, then NOTHING should be locked behind them. Edit By Crinrict: Added Tag to Title, Adjusted Title to better reflect the issue.
Game Add ons
Functional campers, tricks to go with said campers. Travel trailer style, fifth wheel style, new designs similar to the destination line you can buy in life. actual livable, useable campers, not just click and sleep but where you can go in them. Or at least the pieces to build them because you could still use walls and everything similar to it Tiny homes but it have more options then we currently have as well as the outside would have to have some updates. i know we have the vehicles we can use now and upsize but it be cool to have it in bundles. Like a one bedroom, a bedroom and a bunk house, a bedroom and “toy hauler” option. As stated above, the destination trailers which are basically smaller single wides can be made fairly easy right now but having more small furniture by an awesome kit. More farm animals and harvestable food that actually works to make the in game recipes without mods. Better clothes options, even with all the extras it isn’t enough for each personality, i feel like a lot are very similar. Again mods have this available but for someone who doesn’t like mods. Also fix the hospital and vets where the doctors actually help you instead of just waiting around and nothing happens. update so birthdays are always shown in the calendar and when on the 28 day cycle you can see the year in full as an option.
Curtains snapping to windows need to be optional
We need to talk about curtain snapping, placement and why it exists. In all of the years I've been playing The Sims 4 I don't think I've ever heard anyone who likes curtains snapping automatically to windows, but I can see why it exists in the first place. I assume when the game first launched, due its much more robust B&B system compared to previous games, curtains snapping automatically to windows was probably done in order to help builders find a good position for the curtains faster. I can see that happening. However it's clear to anyone who builds that curtains snapping don't always find good placements. This is actually true for a lot of the automatic features of B&B (like automatic window placement for example). It may be helpful for beginners, but it's not a feature that's widely enjoyed by many of the players. The biggest issue with the snapping is that it often defaults snap placement incorrectly, or undesirably to say the least. As shown above there's no reason for that curtain to sit that high above the window that I placed. The window was placed without move.objects on or alt-placement, to make it clear. But moving it slightly under moves the curtain straight on the window instead of slightly above it. I don't want the curtain rod to be fixed to the window glass, rather it should be slightly above it. This is not to mention other issues like having two windows close together for example. If there's one thing I often see being brought up in TS4 build communities is asking how to stop this. For example, this post with several comments/replies giving examples of how to avoid snapping. Whenever I see posts where people talk about or ask others what their favorite mods is, Ravasheen's No Curtain Snapping is often brought up. Which is great for those who use mods, and I shouldn't have to. I know devs don't like to remove features from the game, that's fair. But there should be at least an option in the settings for those of us who are tired of curtains snapping. It really makes building a lot more annoying for no reason. There's absolutely no reason as to why curtain snapping should still be mandatory in 2025, it should be an option instead.
[AA] Formative Moments don’t show up if suggestions are filled
If the aspirations panel has filled up formative moment suggestions( I think the max that shows is 5 or 6), if a new one is triggered by doing something a pop up will say that a new formative moment will show up in the suggested section in the aspiration panel. However if that panel is showing the max suggestions then it doesn’t show up. I’ve missed quite a few because of this.
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